I ran into an issue where I replaced a network card in a computer and the Ubuntu installation would not  display the new network card when running the command ‘ifconfig’.  Running ifconfig would only display the loopback interface ‘lo’.  I found that the network card had been recognized by Ubuntu but that my interface configuration
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Today on the Ubuntu One blog it was posted that they have opened the mobile contact sync to a public alpha release.  Their posts states that it “supports many phones”, when I tried to check it out I was locked out of my account.  I have not heard any word of an outage but I
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Ever been working on your laptop and needed something that you left at home on your desktop? I do it all the time. I think I have found my solution. Dropbox is a internet “cloud” service that allows you to set a folder on your workstation as your “dropbox”. Anything in that folder will sync
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