How to root Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray ST18i on Gingerbread

Note: The writer (or owner of this blog) would not be held responsible for any kind of damage to your device or anything related to it. This method has been tested to work in following scenarios: If you are on GB firmware version 4.0.2.A.0.62 or 4.0.2.A.0.42 If you are on …

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How To Disinfect Your Computer From Flame Malware

28th May 2012 witnessed the discovery of one of the most lethal malwares in the history of computers. The malware termed Flame (also know as Flamer, sKyWIper, Skywiper and Flamer.A), has been making a lot of news around the world and has infected approximately 1000 machines (as suggested by Kaspersky …

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Using Subclipse behind a proxy server in Windows

This is a small tutorial to show how to make Subclipse work behind a proxy server. If you are trying to commit, checkout or update your project in eclipse and you are getting ‘connection refused’ or ‘connection’ related issues, then you are probably connected to the internet behind a proxy …

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Resetting Unity In Ubuntu

Many of you have encountered some weird issues with the latest shell interface for the GNOME desktop environment, Unity. As far as my experience goes, Unity has several conflicts with the CompizConfig Settings Manager. I have experienced several crashes of Unity while playing with settings in the CompizConfig Settings Manager. …

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How to resolve Internal Error, wampserver.

I just installed wampserver 2 and found that whenever I tried to put it online message box pops up saying “ Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action: the service has not been started.” I went through many different posts at last found one …

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PowerTop – Saving Power On Ubuntu

Ubuntu has turned out to be one of the most successful and popular Linux distros out there for normal desktop users as well as in professional environments in the recent years. This OS offers many built-in features that are comparable to some of the most popular Operating Systems out there …

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Auto Mount Windows Partition in Ubuntu

Many of you have gone through the procedure of manually mounting your Windows partition to access your files every time you have booted Ubuntu. This may not seem a tedious job in anyway, but why bother mounting those partitions when the system can do it by itself. All you have …

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Installing uTorrent Server in Ubuntu

There are many BitTorrent clients freely available for Ubuntu such as Transmission client, KTorrent and QTransmission to name a few. However, some of you who have used uTorrent on Windows may want the same good old client in their Linux distro also. So here is a brief guide to setting …

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Installing VLC Media Player 1.1.11 in Ubuntu Natty Narwhal

The default VLC media player that is included with Ubuntu Natty Narwhal is VLC 1.1.9 which is quite old for now as two versions have already been released after that. However, the problem is that people at Ubuntu have not pushed the latest version of the player on Ubuntu Software …

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Finding Out Package Information In Ubuntu

When you compile from sourcecode that are usually available in tarballs, there maybe many libraries or packages on which the sourcecode will depend on compiling. All these dependencies are usually mentioned from where you are downloading the sourcecode from. However, you may have already got those libraries installed on your …

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