http://pheonixgodas.com There Are No Secrets,Only Ignorant People Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:56:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Pidgin is a great multi-protocol IM. One thing i found mising in that was Skype. I searched for Skype plugin for pidgin and to install  u need to download a package file.Just follow the below commands wget http://eion.robbmob.com/skype4pidgin.deb sudo dpkg -i skype4pidigin.deb Above thing will do the job and u will be able ... http://pheonixgodas.com/2008/11/25/skype-and-pidgin/ FINGER PRINT READER Next thing was to protect my system from unauthorized user , m1530 has a got a finger print reader .To use it in ubuntu u can there is a package called thinkfinger Install thinkfinger-tools and libpam-thinkfinger: sudo apt-get install thinkfinger-tools libpam-thinkfinger now acquire the finger print with this command sudo tf-tool --acquire to ... http://pheonixgodas.com/2008/11/09/ubuntu-804-and-dell-xps-m1530-part-2/ Our college is know for  open source software support.There are few geeks out there who like to play with Linux and open source software's . Once durin our OS and Networking Lab , a friend of mine typed LS command ( ls is a ... http://pheonixgodas.com/2008/11/08/typed-ls-and-system-crashed/ I got a Dell XPS M1530 with Following specification Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T7250 Graphics: nVidia GeForce Go 8600M GT with 256 MB video memory Screen: 15.4-inch widescreen, 1680 x 1050 CCFL (LG) with 2.0 Mpixel webcam ... http://pheonixgodas.com/2008/11/08/ubuntu-804-and-dell-xps-m1530/