Upgrading Ubuntu to 9.10 karmic Koala

If you are looking for upgrading your ubuntu to the latest release – Karmic Koala then this you could use this document as a reference.

Prequisites:

  • Ubuntu follows step by step up-gradation means you can only upgrade to 9.10 from 9.04 and if you have 8.10 and you want to upgrade to 9.10 then you need to first upgrade to

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Google Public DNS – Secure faster internet

Google introduced public DNS, where users can point DNS server IP to Google public DNS IP, which helps to surf the internet faster and secure.
Google Public DNS service is similar to OpenDNS which helps to surf the web faster.

  • Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers (or)
  • Read configuration

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Block gmail chat/gtalk using squid proxy

This document presumes that you have SQUID PROXY server installed, configured and running.

Google Talk or Gtalk can work in 2 ways on a system (thats i know, till now).

First, web-based i.e whenever we open GMAIL in browser.
Secondly, by Installing GTALK (or any third party application) on a system.
Both works in different ways.

Case 1:

In my …

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Custom Transitioning Background for Gnome

I had already explained how to rotate your wallpapers with the help of drapes on ubuntu, but i got few replies from my friends that they need some solution which should be OS flavor independent and some wanted to do their work manually, instead of getting it done by a software. So, i was just searching something for them …

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Rotating background/wallpaper in ubuntu using Drapes

Everyone of us must be having a big collection of wallpapers and would like to use it on your desktop/laptop. but how can you make sure that you can use all your wallpapers.

Here is what i did when i installed ubuntu and tried to work it out.

Drapes is the package which we will use to achieve our goal.…

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