Getting the bluetooth working with Gutsy Gibbon

This is a small tutorial to setup the bluetooth device to handle the obex file transfer system on gutsy.
Plug in/switch on the bluetooth adapter. Now the os pops in a bluetooth applet at the notification area. If not open terminal and key in

bluetooth-applet

Then right click at the bluetooth notification icon and select preferences and set the desired settings like name of the system, the discovery settings, and even pair the peripherals.

Now when you need to browse a blutooth device filesystem right click on the icon and select browse device.

KDE 4 on ubuntu gutsy – The easy way

The much awaited KDE4 has been launched. 11th January 2008 was the day when they had a stable release. To have a small detail about it visit the homepage.

An easy way to install the enviroment is descibed below

List of Must Install packages in Linux

1. vlc for playing divx

multimedia player and streamer
VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4,
DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia
streams from various network sources.

VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it
reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves
them through HTTP.

VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either
for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for
most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added
by installing additional