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Due to very strange Windows XP errors my uncle ended up installing Linux. He installed Ubuntu Ultimate Edition. He was able to do that fine but called me when his Sprint Aircard didn’t work. Read the rest of this entry »

Over at the Ubuntu forums they’re trying to make a big push for visitors to adopt Jabber. If you don’t know, Jabber is an free and open instant messaging standard. The benefits would be similar to how email operates now. You could use any client, have any address as your username, etc. If you have a Gmail account then you already have a Jabber name. You could use Google Talk or add it to your current IM client. If you don’t have one and would rather not use Google to get one, just go to Jabber.org to find various Jabber servers.

From: Detyabozhye’s thread.
Note: these steps do not apply to the mx700 keyboard bundle. Check out the original thread for that.

1.sudo aptitude install xserver-xorg-input-evdev
2.sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/19-local.rules (change gedit to editor of your choice)
3.Paste KERNEL=="event[0-9]*", SYSFS{../name}=="Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse", NAME="input/event9"
4.Back up xorg settings. sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.bak
5.Open up xorg.conf sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
6.Replace mouse section with

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "evdev"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Name" "Logitech USB Receiver"
EndSection

6.Restart X, ctrl+alt+backspace