This tutorial is created for Multimedia University(MMU) Students in Cyberjaya who is using any distribution of Linux and wants to connect to the ‘MMU’ wifi server. I was using Ubuntu to create this tutorial.

Recently, after installing Ubuntu on my netbook I seem to have trouble connecting to the internet in campus because of the ‘wonderful’ IT facility provided by MMU Cyberjaya. I contacted a guy from the Network and Telecommunication Unit(NTU) to get the settings to connect but he didn’t even understand what I was asking and asking me to connect to the VPN and also refer to http://access.mmu.edu.my, but there is no Linux settings to connect to the ‘MMU’ server. Finally, I just went to the library, cracked my head and tried various combination’s of the settings one by one and got it to work.

I assume that you are able to connect to the ‘Public’ server in MMU. Sometimes the ‘Public’ server doesn’t seem to work, so I use to connect to the ‘MMU’ server so that I can surf the net. In Windows we can use SecureW2 and connect to the server but SecureW2 refuses to port this program to Linux. Good news is that Linux supports WPA/WPA2 without the need of SecureW2 which makes it easier for us to connect to the ‘MMU’ server.
OK, lets move on to the tutorial.

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Ubuntu, pronouced as ‘oo-boon-too’ is a linux operating system which many might have heard, but never tried. In this semester, my subjects require me to play around with linux systems. As you guys know, I am an Ubuntu supporter and have been using it on my desktop for a few years.  Ubuntu has a consistent release for their distribution, and as far as I’m concern, they keep improving so much from day to day. The only problem they experience is the hardware part, since most of the hardware and its drivers are meant for Windows or Mac. Hardware developers are reluctant to give support for Linux drivers, but I guess the Linux community never gives up and tries their best to create drivers for almost any PC hardware.

Recently, there was this new distribution called Ubuntu Netbook Remix(UNR) introduced and I was eager to try it but I didn’t have a netbook to try it. And if you have read my previous posts, you would know that I got a HP Mini 210 netbook from Streamyx. I didn’t immediately try the UNR since I had to get used to the netbook with Windows 7 itself. After getting to know that I need to be using Linux for this semester’s subjects, I thought of giving it a try. The latest version is 10.04, Lucid Lynx and they changed the name from UNR to Ubuntu Netbook Edition(UNE).

I was a little worried because UNR didn’t have support for Wubi(a software which allows you to install Ubuntu without the need of changing the file system) but I just found out that it was included in 10.04 so it made my life easier. I installed it and here you go, this is an image of my main/desktop screen.

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Facebook is a wonderful tool which enables us to connect to practically anyone we know through the internet. We do add many people through Facebook and keep in touch with them. The chat system in it enables us to chat with anyone who is currently online and browsing through Facebook. I never liked their chat system previously because of the bugs it had. It gives me a sound and pauses my firefox for a few seconds.

Recently Facebook has implemented a new chat system which uses the same protocol as GoogleTalk which is XMPP protocol. Its just a protocol to enable real time communication technology. This means we are actually using this technology when we are chatting through Facebook. OK, lets not get down to much to the technical side and get moving to how to use this technology.
Now we can actually access this XMPP protocol by using any XMPP clients available.
A list of clients can be found at this site : http://xmpp.org/software/clients.shtml

I personally prefer Pidgin, because if supports Windows & Linux plus its quite stable and its light weight. Now lets begin with the tutorial.

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Finally Drewbuzz Radio hits Facebook.

Don’t forget to download and enjoy the radio.

Starting today discussions, suggestions and any other Drewbuzz related stuff will be on the official Drewbuzz Radio Facebook page

Finally Yahoo is out with their new version of messenger.
Not much of a difference than the previous version but they have added a few cool features to this version.

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First would be the video chat function which was improved from their previous version.
Secondly a status update which is similar to twitter updates.

So go download it and give it a try..