For Facebook 1.   Open Pidgin and select add account. 2.   In basic tab set       Protocol:  XMPP       Username :facebook username (not email address)        Resource : Pidgin         Domain: chat.facebook.com       password : facebook pa ssword        Local Ali as: sa me a s name in face book 3.   In Advanced        Connection security : Use encryption if available       untick allow  pl ain text auth over unencrypt ed streams       Connect port : 443       C onnect S erver: chat.facebook.com       File Transfer Proxy and Bosh url must be emp ty 4.  If you are behind a proxy serv er the go to proxy tab and select HTTP and enter proxy server details 5.  Then save settings. This will con...

 For Gtalk  1.   Open Pidgin and select add account. 2.   In basic tab enter your user name, domain as gmail.com and also your password. 3.   In Advanced select Use old-style SSL, connect port 443 and connect server talk.google.com 4.  In proxy tab set Use Environmental Settings 5.  Then save settings. This will connect you to the gtalk. For this to work /etc/environment should have the proxy settings. If not available then add the proxy settings to /etc/environment. It will look like this http_proxy="http://144.16.192.218:8080/" https_proxy="https://144.16.192.218:8080/" ftp_proxy="ftp://144.16.192.218:8080/" socks_proxy="socks://144.16.192.218:8080/" HTTP_PROXY="http://144.16.192.218:8080/" HTTPS_PROXY="https://144.16.192.218:8080/" FTP_PROXY="ftp://144.16.192.218:8080/" SOCKS_PROXY="socks://144.16.192.218:8080/"

To use onion routing in Ubuntu 12.04 you can use either of the following methods:  Method 1 The first option is to download tor browser bundle and extract  it. Tor can be launched by running start-tor-browser script in extracted directory. If permission is denied then run "chmod -R +x * in a terminal to add executable bit to the files. During first run, Stop tor, Set the proxy in vidalia settings and Start tor again. Once the connection is established tor browser will come automatically. This is a tweaked version of firefox. By default, add-ons and other extensions are disabled. The proxy settings and port of privoxy can be found from Edit-> Preferences->Advanced->Network->Settings. You can copy the proxy and port to any application's proxy settings to make it work behind tor. Method 2 1. Vidalia can be installed from the command line or synaptic or USC. I prefer to use the terminal for installation. If privoxy is already installed in the system the...

1. Installing dropbox in Ubuntu 12.04                    Dropbox installation is not as easy for users behind a proxy. Two major problems seen during dropbox installation are: (i) If dropbox is installed from repositories using apt-get or synaptic or usc, usually a screen appears asking for permission everytime we launch dropbox and most of the times it doesnt launch. (ii)Drobox deamon fails to download and install automatically after dropbox installation.                        The dropbox installation can be easily done as follows. Instead of installing dropbox available in repositories go to dropbox website . Download dropbox for ubuntu 64 bit or 32 bit .Now install this by opening in ubuntu software center or using the following commands: sudo dpkg -i sudo apt-get -f install While launching dropbox...

I have successfully installed Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 12.04.  I installed on both 32 bit and 64 bit machine. The steps are little different for the different architecture.The instruction for installing MS Office in 12.04 has a slight difference from that I earlier explained for Ubuntu 11.10 . Update: This method works in Ubuntu 12.10 as well. This works on Mint 14, XUbuntu 12.04, XUbuntu 12.10, etc also. This method is expected to work on 13.04 and 13.10 but is not tested. Please inform through comment if it works fine in later versions of Ubuntu/Mint. [Note: Click here for Installation of Microsoft Office 2010 in Ubuntu 12.10/13.04/13.10 ] 1. First step was to install wine1.4, winetricks,  wine-gecko1.4. If winbind is not installed install it also. sudo apt-get install wine1.4 winetricks wine-gecko1.4   2. Secondly install Microsoft Core fonts sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts   If you have any problem with the installation then downloa...

Microsoft Office is my favourite office application. The default LibreOffice in Ubuntu 11.10 lacks a lot of Features in MS Office. To install microsoft office in Ubuntu 11.10 I followed the following steps. I first installed on 32 bit Ubuntu and later on 64 bit machine. The steps are little different for the different architecture. Note:  Click here for Installation of Microsoft Office 2010 in Ubuntu 12.10/13.04/13.10 Note:  Click here for Installation of Microsoft Office 2007 in Ubuntu 12.04/12.10 1. First step was to install wine1.3, winetricks, wine1.3-gecko. If winbind is not installed install it also. sudo apt-get install wine1.3 winetricks wine1.3-gecko   2. Secondly install Microsoft Core fonts sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts   If you have any problem with the installation then download the offline installer and do the setup as follows: wget http://imaginux.com/repos/pool/renzo/msttcorefonts-offline_1.0-0ubuntu1_all.deb sudo dpkg -i mstt...

O ne of my friend had a battery  problem in HP Laptop. This is the interesting chat he had with the support personal. Due to Privacy concern all the personal data has be removed from the chat. Sir,  Recently my battery is showing some abnormal behavior 1.Battery is not getting  fully charged.It  gets only charged to 98%or 99%. After being 99 or 98 %  charged its not getting fully charged even though i plug in for 8-10hrs. 2.System  often gets shut down all of a sudden when the battery status is about 30%.After getting switched off so, i was able to start the system  only by plugging in. [Saturday, March 24, 2012 4:26 PM] -- Automatically generated message: Your support request has been submitted and is in queue. We are experiencing high support volumes on this queue and longer wait times. Please wait momentarily while the system connects you with the next available support specialist. ...