Tag Archives: Ubuntu Hardy

Use Your Bluetooth Phone To Access The Internet

Posted on June 6, 2009 by SoCRaT

This is really cool! I could finally access the internet over a bluetooth personal area network (PAN) on my Ubuntu Hardy, here are the steps: Install the following packages: bluez-utils, bluetooth, bluez-gnome, bluez-hcidump you will need to enable the BlueTooth … Continue reading →

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Force Empty Trash

Posted on May 17, 2009 by SoCRaT

Sometimes you might face a problem where you can’t delete files in the Trash (due to permission issues), I solved this problem by doing the following: Go to directory “.local/share/Trash/” by typing “cd .local/share/Trash” Execute this command: “sudo rm -rf … Continue reading →

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Getting (compiling) the latest version of Beagle Indexing Service on Ubuntu Hardy

Posted on March 7, 2009 by SoCRaT

I couldn’t find pre-compiled packages (.deb) for the latest version of Beagle (0.3.9), so I thought about compiling it myself, I did the following: Downloaded the new source files from http://beagle-project.org/Main_Page (beagle and libbeagle) and extracted the files. Opened a … Continue reading →

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