Seeing how this year's GNOME & KDE Desktop Summit was held in Berlin, we didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to go and meet some of the people behind the great software we use every day. The Desktop Summit is a huge event for GNOME, KDE and free software communities in general, and is sponsored by some big names in the tech industry, such as Intel, Canonical, Google and Red Hat. We met with Emily Chen, organiser and founder of GNOME.Asia and the Beijing GNOME User Group to talk to her about the state of GNOME and open source software in Asia... continue reading
Seeing how this year's GNOME & KDE Desktop Summit was held in Berlin, we didn't want to miss out on the opportunity to go and meet some of the people behind the great software we use every day. The Desktop Summit is a huge event for GNOME, KDE and free software communities in general, and is sponsored by some big names in the tech industry, such as Intel, Canonical, Google and Red Hat. We met with Emily Chen, organiser and founder of GNOME.Asia and the Beijing GNOME User Group to talk to her about the state of GNOME and open source software in Asia... continue reading
Though we have covered installing Asian CJK language support for Android in an earier post, installing a Japanese IME for Android can still be a bit of a pain, since the semi-official OpenWnn IME included with Japanese Android systems is not available on the Android Market and its alternatives all require full internet access. If you feel uncomfortable with the thought of transmitting everything you type to a third party, this tutorial is for you. We will show you how to download and install the Android SDK and get the standard OpenWnn input method from there... continue reading
When I recently tried to open my favourite Java webcam applet in Firefox on Ubuntu Natty 11.04, I was surprised to find it wasn't working. It turned out that, even though I had Sun Java installed, Firefox still defaulted to the open source IcedTea plugin. Here is how you switch your Firefox Java plugin to Sun Java... continue reading
After a two-week long battle trying to get Realtek's RTL8188CE network card, a PCI Express Mini WiFi card commonly found in Lenovo ThinkPad Edge laptops in Asia, to work on Ubuntu Natty 11.04, we have finally managed to beat the devil and get our system to establish a stable connection. We figured we'd share our findings with the world and save other users some trouble... continue reading
Many mobile phones in Japan still come equipped with IrDA ports which allow for data transfer with other IrDA enabled devices. It's a cheap and easy way to send contact details from one phone to another, or to transfer content from your phone to your computer, and it's a lot easier to set up on Linux than I had expected. In fact, I finished backing up my phone data so quickly that I had some spare time left and decided to write this short tutorial on how to set up IrDA on Ubuntu... continue reading
"It's a meee, Mario!" it was blurting out of computer speakers in 1999, more than a decade ago, when UltraHLE was released, the first emulator for x86 systems that was capable of emulating real games of the then only 3-year-old Nintendo 64 system. Since then, emulation software has become a multi-million-dollar business and even found its way into modern console systems. Today we present an overview of the most popular emulators of Nintendo systems for Linux, specifically Ubuntu.... continue reading
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