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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

Hi This blog is for those people who actually getting bore using same interface from gnome in ubuntu. In that case kde can give you some fresh wind. Though the ubuntu distro with kde environment is kubuntu but still you can use kde in your ubuntu. It will actually install kde enviroment side by side. Just go to System > Administration > Synaptic Package. Now search for Kde desktop and install it. It will istall some required package and some kde default package together. Now when you start your system and your login screen is coming then at the button of the screen there is some option. From session option choose kde from dropdown menu. Then you will redirect to the kde environment. If you want to go back to the gnome environment then just logout and then select the "ubuntu desktop" session from dropdown menu of session option. You will now logon to the gnome environment. Now since gnome desktop environment use gdm (gnome desktop manager) for desktop management and kde ...

Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distro now. This is really simple to use and at the same time highly customizable. There is a very strong community support behind you. Lots of theme and software to use with it. Still you some time fill bad. Here I am telling some trick to enhance your experience. Menu: Ubuntu menu is one of the thing that most of the people don't like. And there are lots of menu to use like gnome main menu, gno menu and so on. But the menu that I like most is cardapio menu. It is very much like windows menu. Check some screen shots here . It has native gtk interface. There are lots of plugin. You can search file, application from the menu window. You can even do google and wikipedia search right from the menu window. To install it add the ppa ppa:cardapio-team/unstable (how to add ppa? see other blog). And then you can install it directly from the package manager. Avant Windows Nevigator: Avant Window Nevigator (AWN) is a dock bar for linux. This i...

New version of Ubuntu comes on every 6 month with most recent version of software and with, up to some extend, new look. If we don't want to continue with the old version of software and if bored with same look we want install the new version. If you want to upgrade your system then it is ok. But if you want a clean installation then you have to install all your required software and you have to do all setting ones again. This is very tedious job. Here are some tricks to simplify the job. First you can generate the list of installed software by using this command, dpkg --get-selections > installed-software This command will create a text file name installed-software. You can edit this file and if you want remove some software by simply deleting the line containing the name of the software. Now when you are installing Ubuntu do not format the home folder. This folder actually contain all the settings of the software. And when you re install the software, in most cases, you w...

In linux if you want to view document created by MS office as it exactly it should look like you have to install Microsoft core font. This font was first hosted by Microsoft in there website and any one can get it for free and can re distribute it. But now they have removed it but you can get it lot of third party software. In ubuntu you can install it from ttf-mscorefonts-installer using this command sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer But there is some bug with it which will stop it in middle and you will face same kind of problem as people faced trying to install flash plugin in Ubuntu. I guess this problem happens for those who are working under proxy. After this problem appear you can cancel installation and restart your computer. And then run this command in terminal. sudo dpkg --configure -a Still you will see some error massage as before. Wait for some time. Then cancel it using ctrl+c and then run the command sudo dpkg-reconfigure ttf-mscorefonts-installer ...

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...