• Asus EeePC 900a WiFi Button in Lucid 10.04

    Asus EeePC 900a WiFi Button in Lucid 10.04

    With the WiFi/Wireless key on the keyboard I was able to switch the wireless off but when switching it on I had to restart the computer before I was able to reconnect to the wireless network. All I had to do was pass the following parameters to the kernel command line

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  • Two GUI’s for ClamAV

    ClamAV is the most popular free anti virus program for Linux environment. However, clam is a command line utility and you need some skills for manipulating is properly. There are several graphical front ends for clam av which can make your life easy.

    Clamtk
    Clakmtk uses Perl-tk  for GUI. It is available for several distributions. On ubuntu you can install it as

    $ sudo apt-get install clamtk

    On Karmic it showed up as virus scanner under Applications ->system tools.

    On launching it , the following screen pops up


    You can select for  single user settings or system wide settings and then click save. The main window of clamtk will pop . You can choose  either your home folder  , a file or a specific directory for scanning.


      When the scan is completed a list of detected  viruses will be shown. You can select individual  infections and right click on them to delete or quarantine.

      ( My usb stick had nearly 100 infections. I wanted to select them all for deletion  . How ever I could not find such  an option.)

    Klamav
      Klamav is a KDE  based front end to clamav. You can install it with
    $ sudo apt-get install klamav
    It showed up as Applications->System tools ->klamav. On launching it, I
    got the following screens.


                         Press Next

    You can configure  clamav command line and Quarantine location.

    You will get the above  screen. You can check the folders to be scanned.


                Scanning in progress.


                Final result of scan.

    You can select all infections and quarantine them.



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  • Install RSSOwl 2.0.1 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic

    RSSOwl is a feature-rich RSS feed reader written in Java. To install the latest release in Ubuntu 9.10, follow the instructions below: RSSOwl 2.0.1 running in Ubuntu Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list And add the following line: deb http://packages.rssowl.org/ubuntu [...]

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  • Install Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

    Adobe Flash Player 10.1 Beta 2 was released earlier this year, on December 17 at the Adobe MAX 2009. This release comes with several new features and numerous bug fixes.

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