In case your mouse click have stopped working (not very unsual in Ubuntu), you can try to use the workarounds suggested here.
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How to install support for Flash and other multimedia on Ubuntu
Posted on October 31, 2009 by Dude
This guy has a neat tutorial for installing support for Flash and other multimedia on Ubuntu. Give it a try.
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Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”
Posted on October 28, 2009 by Dude
Only 1 day is left until the release of the new version of Ubuntu, Karmic Koala. Wanna know how to upgrade to Koala? Give this link or this link a shot.
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Ubuntu- How to add a path to your path list in terminal (.bashrc file)
Posted on May 11, 2009 by Dude
Suppose you would like to have access to a particular path from within terminal. For example, if you have your executables in a folder called ~/my_program/bin you may want to have access to the executables from everywhere within terminal. One way to achieve this is to add that particular path to your path list in [...]
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Ubuntu- Geany: a good C++ IDE for Ubuntu (Linux)
Posted on May 10, 2009 by Dude
In case you have been looking for a good C++ IDE for Linux, I have a very good suggestion: Geany Here is the description of Geany from its official website (http://www.geany.org/): Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small [...]
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Ubuntu- get rid of blank screen in MATLAB installed within Ubuntu
Posted on May 9, 2009 by Dude
There is sometimes a problem with the MATLAB in Ubuntu. The problem is that after installing MATLAB, you might get just a blank screen (blank GUI window) without any option menu, command line, etc. To solve this problem, find the file “environment” (the path is: /etc/environment). Add the following line to the file and try [...]
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Ubuntu- How to unrar rar files with ubuntu?
Posted on May 8, 2009 by Dude
If you have got a rar file (or other file formats not naively supported by Ubuntu’s archive manager- such as arj, 7zip, etc), you need to install extra packages so that Archive Manager can handle these file formats. For example, if you would like to unrar a file in Ubuntu, you need to install the [...]
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Ubuntu- Quickly opening a shell terminal in any given place
Posted on May 7, 2009 by Dude
I have been always wondering why this feature is not pre-loaded into Ubuntu. Often times, one is in a particular location (path) within the file system (while using GUI file browser) and would like to open a terminal with the path defaulted to that particular location. I have been always thinking that this should have [...]
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The challenge of bringing Open Source to the masses
Posted on May 5, 2008 by Dude
One of the most important aims of the Open Source movement has always been to involve the masses in the movement. Until very recently, this aim has been too much like wishful-thinking. These days, however, there are some reasons to believe that we are close to reach, at least partially, this aim. In this post, [...]
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Open Source and Linux events in 2008
Posted on October 14, 2007 by Dude
This is meant to be a reference post. You can always find this post in the left sidebar under the title “Reference Posts”. I will keep updating this post to cover as many Open Source events as possible. An RSS feed with possibility of importing the events as ICAL and VCAL is available. But, please [...]
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