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In Windows and Ubuntu dual boot machine you may some time find that the time are different. This is because windows treat BIOS clock time as local time while Ubuntu treat BIOS clock time as GMT. So Windows display same time as BIOS clock but Ubuntu add/subtract time difference from GMT and show. For example Indian standard time is +5:30 hour ahead of GMT. Ubuntu will add 5:30 hour with BIOS clock and show. So there will be always difference in Windows time and Ubuntu time. To solve it just run the following command  sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS and find the portion which says "UTC=yes" and chance it to "UTC=no"  (Without quotes)   Hope this will solve the problem.   Cheers APaul Source: http://ubuntuguide.net/fix-different-time-clock-between-windows-and-ubuntu

Google chrome is one of the most popular web browser. It is very good and have lot of very good options. It is highly configurable and have lots of add-on. But one thing that I found is irritating is it starts up at the starting of windows in background. Though I have installed Google Chrome but mostly I use Firefox, so I don't want Google Chrome to run at start-up. Because it uses some of resources. Click on the taskbar icon of Google Chrome and Un-select the option "Allow to run in background". It will stop running in background again on start-up.  Cheers A.Paul.

Secure Shell (SSH) is a network protocol to secure data communication between two computer connected via network. You can access remote shell, execute command. Also using Secure file transfer protocol (sftp) you can transfer data from one computer to another. For this you need one ssh server software and one ssh client. If you are using linux then you are probably aware about that ssh client is, by default, installed. For windows user, there are lots of ssh client software for windows, you can download them and install on your computer. For example, you can use this software link, SSH Secure Shell or PuTTY .   You can install ssh server very easily in Ubuntu. Just search for "openssh-server" or "ssh server" in your package manager and install it. Also form terminal you can run the command sudo apt-get install openssh-server . Now you can access your computer remotely and securely. Installing ssh server in windows xp is also very easy. For windows xp there is a very ...

Ext-4 (fourth extended filesystem) is the default file system of the modern linux distro. And NTFS (New Technology File System) is the default file system for windows system now. If you format your disk you can view the files on linux because linux support both file system. But you can’t open ext 4 (or any ext version ) formatted file system with windows. Fortunately there are some driver which can be used to access ext 4 file system on windows. ext2fsd is one of the best of them. I have used it and it is working fine. It does not support ext4 natively.So first download and install the ext2fsd from here and install it. Now download the patch from here and extract the zip file. There is read me file, follow the instruction given in the read me file and you can read the ext4 file system from windows now. You have both option either you can mount the filesystem on read only mode or read write mode. cheers APaul

Those people who are working in office and are student and use internet from there campus they frequently need to setup LAN connection to there computer to access internet. Here I am explaining how to set up LAN connection in windows 7. First go to control panel > network and Internet > network and sharing center > connect to a network   if you don't see the icon there please check that local area network is enabled in adepter setting. To check  network and sharing center and go to change adapter setting. and right click on the local area connection icon and enable it.  Now come to "connect to a network" and  click on the lan icon and then go to properties and then choose ipv6 or ipv4 as applicable (at iisc ipv4) and then click properties > set ip address of your computer in ip address field and fillup subnet mask , default gateway and DNS server  . cheers A Paul

Now a days bluetooth is one of the most common device that people use to listen music, or even talk with some one in phone or in laptop. Most of the recent laptop comes with build in bluetooth adopter. It is pretty easy to connect bluetooth device with head set. It is also very easy to connect bluetooth device with laptop having OS windows XP or Windows vista. But in windows 7 and in any version of Ubuntu it is very difficult. Actually it is not very difficult to pairing this device with either in Windows 7 or in Ubuntu. But in Windows 7 there is no option to connect the device. So it is bit automatic kind of thing depending on the last connection. if it is not connecting to windows 7 you have to pair it again with the laptop and then you can listen sound through it. But in Ubuntu the problem is you can pair it and even connect it but you will not listen any audio through your headset. That is because Ubuntu can not redirect audio to your head set. You can solve this problem using fo...

There are many people who use dual booting and use two operating system together. Specially Linux and Windows. Most of the Linux user use Ubuntu. Ubuntu is very easy to use with very good interface. For dual booting with Ubuntu there is grubloader which loaded first and give you option which operating system you want to use. But some time you may destroy your grubloader. This generally happen when you repair your Windows os or reinstall the Window. In that case  You have to repair your grubloader again to get back your grubloader.

Mozilla Thunderbird is a cross platform desktop email client which support both IMAP and POP protocol. This is a free open-source software. You can install the English version of software from this site,  http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/ . There are other language version also. Actually I have four email account in different provider, like Gmail, Yahoo and my Departmental email. So to check all email I have to open the different account.  Which is very boring and time consuming. So I use Desktop email client and check all mail together. Why I have chosen Mozilla thunder bird? There are other client like Outlook in window and Evolution Mail in Ubuntu (which is actually default client in Ubuntu). Actually I feel that the interface of TB is more easy and attracting Outlook and Evolution Mail. More easy to configure and most interesting is that its selection the conversation in conversation view is better than other two rival. It's a product from Mozilla so t...

There are many people who use dual booting and use two operating system together. Specially Linux and Windows. Most of the Linux user use Ubuntu. Ubuntu is very easy to use with very good interface. For dual booting with Ubuntu there is grubloader which loaded first and give you option which operating system you want to use. But some time you may destroy your grubloader. This generally happen when you repair your Windows os or reinstall the Window. In that case  You have to repair your grubloader again to get back your grubloader.

Error code 633 is a network connectivity problem in windows machine. This may be due to either the network is not enable or there is an error in this file. You can do the following two step to solve the problem.

I have tried to install Real Player in Ubuntu 9.10. I found a package in Real site and downloaded the .deb file as I will install it in Ubuntu. When I install the player, the installation process goes smoothly. But the problem is that when I was trying to play any kind of media it is showing that the player is not able to play back the media.