Now time for Netbook. India based MNC Simmtronics Semiconductors has launched SimmBook with Pre-installed Ubuntu.

Also, SimmBook will come with Pre-installed Ubuntu + IBM Client For Smart Work On Ubuntu. This includes Lotus Symphony office productivity software which is made available at no charge to SimmBook customers.
Please find this news bulletin for more information.

Also Canonical offers dedicated support program for Lotus Symphony, the core component of IBM Client for Smart Work on Ubuntu. Here is another news bulletin for more information.

Complete Press release of Canonical + IBM + Simmtronics Semicondutors offerings on IBM Site. The best thing about this combination is that it will help Enterprise Customers to lower down their TCO.

In simple word, if you are on ppp connection (Say Reliance NetConnect Broadband+),  empathy would not connect. It will give connection error. Here is quick workaround:

Launch Gnome Configuration Editor (gconf Editor) :: ALT + F2 -> gconf-editor

Search for “Empathy” :: Ctrl + F -> “Empathy”

In List of search result, look for “/apps/empathy”

In List of  keys, look for “use_conn”

Uncheck checkbox of “use_conn” value and close it

Now connect Empathy over your ppp connection.  Now i can say great workaround comes with another great workaround

Just now, Hardik has realized that he has joined Canonical 1 year back on 5th January, 2009. That means, He had completed one year!!! Hurray!!!  He told me that he could define this one year journey in just one word AWESOME!!!.

Wow!!! That’s great. Continue… I am wishing him great and exciting new year, Many More To Come…. Here is quote from Hardik on this occasion…

“It’s great to be part of this very unique company. I am still learning. Everyday is coming with new challenges and excitement. Working from home is very unique experience i learned from this company. Proud to be part of Canonical ”

I have to test  Pre-released Netbook with Ubuntu Netbook Remix (9.04), Now it’s known as Ubuntu Netbook Edition, that’s different story. So in hurry i started my download in Firefox. It was fine for me. But suddenly my friend called me to go for 3 Idiots, So i opened www.bookmyshow.com to book the ticket, but found very slow speed due to UNR download.  So i stopped it, booked ticket for 3 idiots, Bingo!!!

But, i have to also resume my old UNR download. Opps!!! When i pressed “Resume” button on Firefox Download Manager, It has thrown some error, i was not bothered about it, because it’s common for me. But this time i was more excited about to solve that problem. Just got the access of /bin/bash in mood of some hacking / shacking .

Here is  my  code snap shot”

person@CANONICAL-DESK:~/Downloads$ ls -ltr
total 1462988

…

-rw——- 1 person person         0 2009-12-27 12:38 ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img
-rw——- 1 person person 249075955 2009-12-27 13:05 ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img.part
person@CANONICAL-DESK:~/Downloads$ mv ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img.part ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img
person@CANONICAL-DESK:~/Downloads$ wget http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img -c
–2009-12-27 13:11:04–  http://releases.ubuntu.com/jaunty/ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img
Resolving releases.ubuntu.com… 91.189.88.32, 2001:6b0:e:2018::173, 2001:7b8:3:37::21:1
Connecting to releases.ubuntu.com|91.189.88.32|:80… connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response… 206 Partial Content
Length: 992837632 (947M), 743761677 (709M) remaining [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img’

100%[+++++++++=========>] 99,28,37,632 88.2K/s   in 55m 13s

2009-12-27 14:06:19 (219 KB/s) – `ubuntu-9.04-netbook-remix-i386.img’ saved [992837632/992837632]

person@CANONICAL-DESK:~/Downloads$ ^C

I hope you would  have got my so called “Hack / Shack”.  That was so straight, not more then 10 seconds . Anybody can test it for me, if we restart the machine? Are we able to start the download with same hack? Next lesson for you…

Now, time for 3 Idiots

:wq
–
Hardik Dalwadi

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) & Open SuSE 11.2 Launch Party Invitation:

* When: 14th November 2009, 5 pm onwards
* Where: B.C.A. Dept., Faculty of Science, The M.S.University of Baroda, India Map
* Agenda: openSUSE 11.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) launch party, check out two of the most popular Linux distributions while having a party, bring laptops, USB sticks or your computer box for installation.
* RSVP here (The Attendee would be part of Luck Draw for Open SuSE / Ubuntu goodies. So register it. go ahead for more details)

As i am heading for UDS (Ubuntu Developer Summit) Lucid Lynx, i am feeling sorry that i would not be part of the India’s  biggest OpenSuSE / Ubuntu launch party . Though, I have handed over some cool Ubuntu stuff for the event. And yes we also got good coverage about future event in The Times Of India.

Big Thanks To:

Mr. Jigish Gohil for co-ordination and organizing event

Mr. Kartik Mistry for taking initiative for Ubuntu (Karmic Koala) 9.10 Presentation

Don’t miss the action. This is going to be unique Launch Party. It happens only in India

Yes, you can say that i am guy with big mouth.

Update:

Event  Report By Mr. Jigish

Event Report By Kartik Mistry (LANG=GU)

I have missed the fun