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Avro OmicronLab is one of the best software to write Bengali using phonetic key board. Previously avro was not available for ibus (now default input method for Ubuntu) in Linux, But recently they made it available for ibus which is known as ibus-avro . It was working fine with Ubuntu 12.04, but due to some dependency problem it has stopped working with Ubuntu 12.10. Also reinstalling from .deb file or form official repository is not possible because of the same dependency problem. When trying to install from deb file or from repo, the following error message I was getting: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: ibus-avro : Depends: gir1.2-gjsdbus-1.0 but it is not instal

If you are behind proxy which is protected by firewall and want to use git clone using git:// protocol there is a huge chance that it will not work. But the beautiful thing is you can use http:// protocol instead. Which will work behind most of the proxy. So for example, suppose you want to clone ibus-avro from github.com/sarim. So normally you will run the following command: git clone git://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro.git Now if cloning fails, that means your proxy firewall is blocking it, you can run the following command instead. git clone http://github.com/sarim/ibus-avro.git Which will also clone the content of ibus-avro. Hope this will help. Cheers A.Paul

In one of my previous blog I have described how to configure Ubuntu 12.04 to use Micromax 352g Usb modem. But unfortunately this method is not working Ubuntu 12.10. But I have found another way to make same usb modem work in Ubuntu 12.10. First open terminal and run the following command: lsusb The out put will look something like this. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0c45:63ea Microdia Bus 002 Device 002: ID 05e3:0608 Genesys Logic, Inc. USB-2.0 4-Port HUB Bus 002 Device 008: ID 1c9e:9605 OMEGA TECHNOLOGY Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:4500 Broadcom Corp. BCM2046B1 USB 2.0 Hub (part of BCM2046 Bluetooth) Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Noter here the device ID for your modem. For my case it is 1c9e:9605 from OMEGA TECHNOLOGY . Now create a configuration file with above vendor and product id using following command: sudo gedit /etc/usb_modeswitch.d/1c9e:9605 And add the following

Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the best email client available for Windows, Linux and Mac. Here I will tell how to send email in background in Thunderbird, so that when you send any mail that irritating "sending email" popup will not come out in front of you. First go to Preferences window: In windows: tools>options In linux: Edit>preferences Now go to Advance tab > General   and click on Config Editor Button, When asked click on I'll be careful, I promise button.  Then search for mailnews.sendinBackground and then select it. Then right click and toggle it to true. Now Thunderbird should send your email in background. You may need to restart the Thunderbird. Cheers A.Paul