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.

First you need to make sure that you are within the range of the ‘MMU’ server.
Then just click on it and you will see this :

Fill in the details as in the image.

1. Select Tunneled TLS.
2. Type ‘anonymous’ in the Anonymous Identity row.
3. Change the Inner authentication to PAP
4. Replace the xxxxxxxxxx with your student ID and don’t forget the ‘@student’ which is the domain.
5. Your webmail password. NOT YOUR ICEMS PASSWORD. (If you cannot remember your password, don’t worry, you can easily change it using your icems password. You can only change your password within the campus.)

And then click connect and you will be prompted with this screen.

Just click ignore.

That’s it !! You’re done !!
You will be able to see this in a few seconds.

It’s as easy as that ?
Who said Linux is not user friendly ??

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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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Default browser firefox with google homepage

Skype running on Ubuntu

Empathy Messenger, chat with your MSN, Yahoo, Google Talk, and
even your Facebook friends. All in just one messenger.

Audacity is an audio editing and mixing tool.
Its a very simple and easy software to edit or record your audio.

Now this is the part where you will be amazed. This is running on my simple netbook without any sophisticated graphic card. There are many more amazing stuffs but it’s a little hard to capture it as an image. So my suggestion is, try it out yourself and you may get to experience this ->

Multiple desktops running at one time. You can switch to any desktops you want at anytime.

How about this ? – >

Desktop Cube, to simply show off that you have a cool netbook.

Ubuntu Software Center, all the software you need is right here.
There is no need to go around the net to find for software’s anymore.
If you download through this, your software’s will be updated automatically when there is any updates through the Update Manager.

This is a screen where many don’t like to see.
It’s the terminal or we call it command promt in Windows.
It’s usually black and white or some static colors.
But just look at this, it has my image in it !! It’s transparent !!

Its just a simple review of what I have been testing for the past few days. I seem to like it and I guess I’m going to continue using it on my netbook.
Why don’t you guys give it a try too ?? Have fun !!

Just visit their official website and download it :
www.ubuntu.com

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.

First you need to access www.pidgin.im to download Pidgin.
Once you have downloaded it, follow the instruction’s in the installer and install the program.

After installing, run the program and you will see this. If you miss this screen or you want to add other Facebook accounts later on, click on accounts on the menu bar and select manage accounts and you will see this screen.

Click on the add button and on the next screen select XMPP and fill up the details.

Fill up the details required.

Username : Your profile name or your profile id
( e.g. http://www.facebook.com/andrewraj ) – Then ‘andrewraj’ is my username.

Domain : chat.facebook.com

Resource : Pidgin

Password : Your facebook password

Take a look of an example :

Then click on the ‘Advanced’ tab and adjust these details.

1. Untick the Require SSl/TLS checkbox.

Connect Port : 5222

Connect Server : chat.facebook.com

Don’t change the value of File transfer proxies.

Thats it !! You’re done !!
In a few seconds you will be able to see your contacts appear in Pidgin just like this.

Of course some might not like having your facebook chat at all time. Don’t worry since this thing doesn’t bug you as much the facebook chat does. You can disable the notifications and chat whenever you like to.

Its as simple as this. Have fun !!

Resource : Facebook Chat

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

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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..

Today I have added an icon to their database. This is an image on how it looks like :

You can get RocketDock at :

www.rocketdock.com

and the icon for Drewbuzz Alarm at their official site :

http://www.rocketdock.com/addon/icons/15217

This video is a tutorial on how to install Windows Vista in 2 min…



So I guess you would have found a way to install Windows Vista in 2 min or even less ?
Please do try it at home. And by the way, if you still prefer the long installation type. You can try this :

You can get this from : www.ubuntu.com

Haha… Give a try on Ubuntu guys !! Don’t depend on Windows alone..

The signature sound function has also been removed from this version.
Although that function is cool, its annoying at times. No more personal signing in sound.
When contact’s sign in, the notification looks more nicer as it has transparent effect.
Live Messenger’s icon also has been changed in this version.
The rest, find out yourself !!

You can download it from here :

Download

This is a screenshot of my Live messenger after installing :

Live Messenger Version 2009