Bluetooth support has always been shaky in Gnome. The default bluetooth manager lacks ubuntu users guide, is very basic and unintuitive. Things like using ubuntu server tools, connecting to an audio or input device and Connecting to 3G/EDGE/GPRS via
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It all started after I installed beta version of ubuntu server admin tools, everything was going smooth, wireless worked out of the box, (unlike 10.10 where I had to install some freedom hating broadcom driver) Big Brovar had the awesome kde 4.6.
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Best Ubuntu Tweaks for New Computer available on bigbrovar.aoizora.org I got my self a new laptop recently. The old one was well getting old and starting to lose it, so when I got an offer I could not refuse, I sold it and didn’t look back. I settle
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Ever since I got my HP ProBook 4420s, I have been on a search for the Touchpad (or Clickpad as it is called) Nirvana. Out of the box, the clickpad was useless, right click and middle click did not work. Thankfully though, a work around helped get the
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Our team at Big Brovar sometimes find what we are looking for while searching for something completely different. This happened to me recently. I was searching for a way to fix some graphic performance issues being experienced on kubuntu, when I stu
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If you are on U|K|Xubuntu 11.04 there is a better workaround were both right / middle click and multitouch works and works way better than this. Although I don’t know if same would work on Ubuntu 10.10. One thing admire about Macbooks is their Mul
Read MoreSo Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex turned out to be a bad experience on my dell m1330. Many things that worked out of the box with Hardy heron got broken on Ibex. Things like Finger print reader, bluetooth, Graphic Display, Audio, all had one problem or the oth
Read MoreIntroduction Scilab is a scientific software package for numerical computations providing a powerful open computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Scilab is an open source software. Since 1994 it has been distributed
Read MoreSGeMS is a software for 3D geostatistical modeling. It implements many of the classical geostatistics algorithms, as well as new developments made at the SCRF lab, Stanford University. SGeMS relies on the Geostatistics Template Library (GsTL) to imp
Read MoreI wrote a guide earlier on how to share your internet connection on ubuntu. But the guide was for non wireless sharing . well here is an updated version that allows you to share your internet connection wirelessly to other wireless devices in your
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