How to Install Windows Programs in Ubuntu

To Install Windows Programs in Ubuntu you need application called Wine. If you don't have installed this application on your system, here are also explanation how to do it.Wine will let you to run Windows software on Ubuntu. It's worth to mention that not every program works yet, but however there are a lot of people that are using this application to run their software. With Wine, you'll will be able to install and run Windows applications just like you would in Windows OS.

Steps

1. 
   Go to Applications > Ubuntu Software Center which is located in Main menu.
     
2. 
   
   
   When you open Ubuntu Software Center you will need to type 'wine' in search function which are located on the right upper corner of the window and hit Enter. 
3. 
   
   
   Choose 'Wine Microsoft Windows Compatibility Layer' package.
4. 
   
   
   Click on the 'Install' button, after that when it asks you for password, type the password and click on 'Authenticate' button or just hit Enter.
5. 
   
   
   While you installing this application, somewhere in the middle, you will be asked to confirm EULA license terms. To do that, mark that little white box and click on 'Forward' button.
6. 
   
   
   Now when Wine is installed, go to Applications > Wine, where is Wine located and and try to explore a little, to see options that this application have.
7. 
   
   
   Now first what you need to do is to locate your setup.exe. where is located and then right click with your mouse on that file.
8. 
   
   
   Now click on 'Permissions' option and then mark that little box beside 'Allow executing file as program' option. After that click on 'Close' button.
9. 
   
   
   Now when you click with left mouse button on the setup.exe, file will start run. 

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Access Google Voice over SIP (globally)

In the past I recommended using Sipgate with Google Voice if you wanted to gain access to your Google Voice number through a soft-phone on your Mac computer. This provided international access to Google Voice, and made it possible to call the USA and Canada free from anywhere in the world (anywhere you have Internet access). Sipgate is closing their service on October 31st, 2013, so I went looking for a Sipgate alternative. In this article I share the best Sipgate alternative I found, and how to set this up with Google Voice.

Background

Google Voice provides users with a free US phone number. That number has to forward to another US number to be of any use. Normally this would be your US mobile number, or a US home number, or any other US number. If you live or travel outside the USA it becomes impossible or very expensive to receive your Google Voice calls. The way around this issue is to use a soft-phone. That’s a phone you run (as software) on your computer (or on your smart phone, tablet, iPad, etc.). So long as the device has Internet access, you can receive your Google Voice calls with it.
A soft-phone utilises what is called SIP VOIP (session initiated protocol, voice over Internet protocol). But Google Voice does not offer SIP access to their service. So the answer is to get another free US number that does provide SIP/VOIP access. Sipgate was a great company providing exactly that. As mentioned, on October 31st 2013 they are closing up shop. We need a Sipgate alternative.

CallCentric – the Sipgate Alternative

After much research online, I found CallCentric to be the best alternative to Sipgate. Unlike Sipgate, CallCentric only provides free incoming numbers in New York. But that’s fine, because you will never give this number out, and no one will call it.

Setting it all up

These instructions are for setting up your Mac computer to receive Google Voice calls. If you want to set up on Android, iOS, or Windows, the steps will be similar except you will use a different application or app as the SIP/VOIP soft-phone.
1. Go to www.callcentric.com and sign up for a free New York number.
2. If you don’t already have a soft-phone installed, download and install a soft-phone.
There are many options. Here is a small list of the soft-phones I have used and can recommend:

• Telephone – find it in the App Store
• Jitsi – found here.
• iSoftPhone – found here.
• Blink – found here.

There are various commercial phones. The pro version of iSoftPhone is good, as is Bria. There is also a pro version of Blink.
3. CallCentric give you a CallCentric “extension” number. This is different from the DID (phone) number they issue you. It is the extension number you will use as your SIP username. Access the CallCentric Dashboard (on their web site, after you login) to see your CallCentric Extension #.
4. In the soft-phone add a new account. Use the CallCentric Extension # as the username. Use the password your set up with your CallCentric account. Use callcentric.com as the domain name.
CallCentric also provides instructions on how to download and set-up a soft-phone on various devices.
5. Your soft-phone should indicate it is connected. It might do this with a “status” that says “online” or “available”, etc. Now you need to instruct Google Voice to forward to your new CallCentric number
6. Log into your Google Voice account. Go to your account settings.  Add a new forwarding number, using the New York number CallCentric issued you. This is NOT the 1777… number (your Extensions #), but the actual phone number they gave you.
7. Google Voice will make a call to your CallCentric number. You will answer this call on your soft-phone. Enter in the code Google Voice provides you with.
You now have Google Voice set up to forward calls to your soft-phone.

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How to watch Satellite TV channels on Computer?

I want to watch satellite TV programs on my pc, does anyone know any good ways to watch satellite TV on computer?
—–Tom

Often heard in forums that people have this demand, but have no idea on how to achieve it? Actually, only need satellite TV services, you may feel convenient to watch satellite TV channels on your PC. There are three optional ways, we’ll explore on this page, you can choose the most suitable way for yourself.

• Option 1: Connect a satellite dish directly to your PC
• Option 2: Connect your satellite box to a PC
• Option 3: Watch satellite TV channels over the Internet

Option 1: Direct connection to Satellite dish

With a satellite dish, a satellite receiver, a cable, you can watch satellite tv shows on your pc. It effectively replaces the set-top box with higher quality and flexibility. The signal will be more stable and you can have more initiative.
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You can see the picture on the right, plug one end into a PC,
the other end to your dish, and use the supplied
software to access the free-to-view satellite TV channels.
You won’t be able to get the subscription channels, as you won’t be able to plug in a Sky subscription card.
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With it, user can simultaneously receive dual DVB-S2/S TV channels, this enables the user to watch one channel from one transponder/satellite while recording another channel from a second transponder/satellite. Alternatively the user can use one channel for data download while watching TV on another channel at the same time. TBS series products are fully supported under 32bit/64bit Windows 2000 / XP / Vista / 7 and Linux. The user can use TBS products for high speed satellite internet or data download if such service is provided by service providers.


Option 2: Connect Satellite TV set-top box to your PC

The option is to connect an output from your satellite TV box into a TV receiver on a PC.
First of all, you will need a PC TV receiver. There are a number of different makers and models in the market. Here we’ll look into the types that plug into a USB socket on your computer:
These small boxes plug into your PC or laptop’s USB port, and let you watch TV via a TV aerial connector.
To be able to watch satellite TV on computer, you need a TV adapter that supports analogue. The best method is to get a TV adapter that supports both analogue and digital. .
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Once you have a PC TV receiver, you need a way of connecting the output of your satellite receiver to the input of your PC TV receiver.

Option 3: Watch Satellite TV Channels over Internet
 
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6. ABC (Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias etc online)
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8. PPlive (a popular service for watching many foreign channels)
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17i Teardown

SK17i Guide aint found anywhere on the www, so i figured i'd make one for the kind ppl, whom has provided some great guiden for me trough the repairs i've made :) Please enjoy, and comment.

Tools

• Phillips #0 Screwdriver
• Plastic Opening Tools
• Spudger

• Formats:
• XML
• Embed

Step 1 — Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro SK17i Teardown

• Turn Off the phone :), Remove back cover, battery and simcard + sd card from the phone!
  

Step 2

• Behind the battery, you will have to remove the CE sticker!
  
• Remove from Sim-tray and down, it wont break.
  

Step 3

• Remove 7 bolts.
  
• Release clickholders, 5 pcs (green). The back should lift up from the surround.
  
• Release from the bottom up.
  
• Be careful around the camera, as theres a Flex cable right under it, attatched to the logicboard.
  

Step 4

• Release the Flex cable by lifting the lower end off the logic board, and lift off the back assembly.
  

Step 5

• Remove the logic/motherboard.
  
• Push the motherboard from the keypad side, it should pop out
  
• Be careful with:
  
  • the small clips...
    
  • ...and the rubber USB port plug :)
    
• Start loosening the board from the end with the 2 red circles.
  

Step 6

• Release Screen flexcable + lift off of adhesive under flexcable!
  
• Remove 7 bolts (black ones), holding the slide/screen in place.
  

Step 7

• Remove 3 bolts, top right one is covered, look carefully
  
• The Green line, shows where to flick the slide off of the screen assembly!
  
• Easiest way: is to flick it at the top, where you removed 2 bolts. It will come off, pretty easy.
  

Step 8

• Once slide is removed, you got access to LCD and touch assembly. Easily remove the small flexcable from touch to LCD and take off LCD.
  
• Only the Touch screen is left -> next.
  

Step 9

• The LCD and the Touch glass CAN NOT be separated!!!!!!!!
  
• Go to step 10!
  

  Step 10

• Use a thin tool to wiggle the touch screen from the metal+plastic frame, and then throw the lcd + touch screen into the BIN (ONLY IF U NEED TO REPLACE LCD OR TOUCH SCREEN)
  
• I hope this 10 step guide helps some of you guys out there!
  
• AGAIN:
  
• THE LCD + TOUCH GLASS CANNOT BE SEPARATED! BUY NEW ASSEMBLY!
  

Step 11

• Please scan, and "like".
  
• And comment on my guide if you want :)
  
• Thanks for watching!
  
• <-- #BadNews... This is what happens if you try removing the touch glass from the LCD
  
  
  
  

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Seeking the secrets of a satellite receiver

The D11-500

  Main board with access card inserted.


Main board without access card.


Back-panel connections.


Main board with tuner daughterboard flipped over.


Interchangeable cosmetic front panel.


Front of unit with front panel removed, showing IR receiver (right) and light pipe (left).

My wife and I are currently enjoying two concurrent six-month free subscriptions to DirecTV, including hardware, the outcome of a "spam fax" class action lawsuit filed against the company several years ago (and a reflection of the two fax lines at my residence that got spammed). A DirecTV D11-500 satellite receiver currently sits on our living room's home-theater cabinet, but I've dissected its predecessor, a , for your voyeuristic enjoyment. What's inside the svelte, silver, satellite-satiated case?

The multimedia processing heart of the D11-100, whose system-board topside I've snapped in both 

and     

variants, is a Broadcom BCM7312 single-chip satellite set-top decoder IC, which the company publicly unveiled in late November 2004. This device single-handedly offers a lengthy list of functions:

• An integrated RF tuner, supporting 950- to 2150-MHz inputs
• An all-digital 15- to 20-Mbaud variable-rate receiver with integrated 7-bit ADCs and a FEC (forward error correction) decoder
• A DirecTV- and MPEG-compliant data-transport processor with DirecTV A/V security capabilities
• MPEG-ATSC compliant audio/video decoders, supporting MPEG Layer 1 and 2, Dolby AC-3 and compressed PCM audio, and MP@ML (main profile at main level) MPEG-2 video.
• A 2-D graphics engine that supports multiple rendering layers, also handles video scaling, and includes a PAL/NTSC/SECAM encoder, and
• Coordinating the whole show, a 266-MHz MIPS32 CPU core capable of running MIPS16e Application-Specific Extension compressed code and including MMU and EJTAG support.

Note that since the D11-100 is a standard-definition satellite receiver, it offers no MPEG-4-decoding capabilities.

The memory subsystem includes both volatile and nonvolatile flavors; a Hynix 2.5V, 150 MHz 256 Mbit DDR SDRAM (16-bit data interface, TSOP packaging) and a cryptically-marked, BGA-packaged device with a "FW603" firmware code and handwritten "FT" ("firmware tested"?) initials on its topside. A "M^T" logo in one corner suggests that this latter device may come from Micron Technology and, because DirecTV set-top boxes are over-the-air reprogrammable, I presume this device is at a minimum a single-die flash memory. Without tearing the BGA package apart, I don't know for sure, but I suspect it may include dual flash memory die (one for the current firmware image, the other for the upgrade image, with redundancy to ensure a failsafe upgrade methodology). Complementary SRAM and flash-memory die are another possibility.

Other notable ICs inside the D11-100 include a Broadcom BCM3430 CMOS tuner, the source of the transport streams that the BCM7312 subsequently decodes, and an STMicroelectronics LNBH21 LNB (low-noise-blocker) power supply and control chip.

As is typical with systems intended for high-volume, consumer-electronics applications, the digital portions of the design consume a notably small percentage of the overall board area, thanks to Moore's Law. Discrete transistors and regulators; passive capacitors, inductors, and resistors (some quite large in size); transformers; and other analog and power components are scattered across the board, so numerous in part because the D11-100 handles AC-to-DC conversion within the enclosure versus in a "wall wart" or other external converter.

The access-card connector is another significant inhabitant on the system board, whose backside (not shown) is predominantly consumed by traces and through-hole solder points, although a few small passive components are also present.

include an RF coax satellite input; dual two-channel audio outputs; and RF coax, S-Video, and dual composite-video outputs. Why are there two sets of audio and composite video outputs? I'm frankly baffled as to why DirecTV shouldered the additional hardware cost burden here (and the user manual and installer guide are of no help). After all, the two output sets are incapable of carrying different channels' information, since there's only one tuner and decoder in the D11-100. Perhaps the redundancy is so that a user can, in parallel, connect a VCR (for recording) and TV (for display), although there are other and simpler ways of accomplishing this same objective. Or perhaps it's so that two TVs in two (nearby) rooms can both display the same channel content coming from the D11-100.

The D11-100 also offers the ability to tune in an OTA (over-the-air) NTSC broadcast or other UHF-or-VHF-packaged analog video source. A Samsung RMVC10005AE "can" tuner (also stamped BEC1403B) handles this function, along with the broadcast of outgoing RF video on user-selectable VHF channel 3 or 4. The Samsung device is on a 

, suggesting that lower-cost proliferations of the base hardware design might not include one or both features (the RF video input is likely what gets dropped first).

Also on a separate daughtercard is the analog-modem hardware, which probably interacts with soft-modem functionality built into the BCM7312. The analog modem is the means by which the D11-100 periodically "dials home" to download program guide information, firmware, and other updates. That these data streams still come in over POTS is a quaint antiquity in an increasingly broadband-connected LAN and WAN world.

Other back-panel connections include the 27W AC input and a USB port, the latter intended for various remote-control functions. Recent firmware updates have bedeviled traditional COM-to-USB port adapters and their companion software, but clever accessories resurrect other devices' abilities to switch the D11-100 on and change its channel.

Turning your attention to the front of the unit, you'll encounter modularity here as well, likely intended to allow a common base hardware design to serve multiple markets' 

. Particularly notice, on the 

, the IR receiver and, on the left, the clever "light pipe" (also visible in the lower left corner of 

 

that routes the "power on" illumination from an LED on the system board to the front panel.

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Are you one of those who have spent so much money browsing the Internet in the cyber cafes or recharging your Internet USB Modem or paying your Wireless Network Monthly Subscription?

Or have you been searching for a FREE or cost Effective Way(s) of Browsing the Internet?

Then, settle down and read everything in this Blog, as I am about to reveal to you a very simple way of browsing the Internet for FREE. Yes, I mean 100 percent FREE.

Instead of spending hours online in Internet cyber cafes or using expensive and ineffective Internet connection from the different networks, you can actually browse the Internet for hours (24 X 7) on end in any computer or laptop completely FREE and very Efficient!

You see, we are in the information age and technology has now advanced so much that most of the things we still pay money for presently can be done completely FREE... but you have to learn how this is done from those who know how it is done.

I have been in your shoes too. I spent thousands of Naira in Internet cafes, when there was no Glo or the MTN and the Multilink. 

And when the GSM and CDMA came, I bought the first modem, then the second and the third in search of efficient and cost effective connection.

Yet they all appeared to be the same. Looking back now, I wish this method of browsing the Internet for free existed then, It would have saved me so much money.

I believe you will agree on that. Perhaps you are reading this in a cyber cafe right now and your Internet time and money is running out, and you are in a hurry to get so much done within a short time. It doesn't have to be so.

I can teach you how to browse the Internet right inside your home or office on your computer or laptop COMPLETELY FREE, with the aid of the satellite installation.

This whole arrangement is so simple and effective, that you will celebrate.

Now, let’s go……..

When you subscribe to any of the Satellite TV Providers (HITV, DSTV, MYTV, SPACE, CTL, DAARSAT), they will sell to you their Decoder, Dish, LNB, Coaxial Cable and other connecting devices. 

Once the installation is done completely, you then start enjoying the satellite TV channels and radio stations on offer by the particular provider you subscribed to.

Unknown to you and a lot of people, you can connect that same decoder to your computer and you will be browsing the internet 100 percent FREE. That is what I refer to as a two edged sword.

You only pay the monthly subscription to watch the satellite channels, now you browse 24 Hours Every Day with the same installation with no added fee. 

What that means is that the Decoder now acts as a modem with other devices through a process known as Modulation and Demodulation.
 
How does it work?

1.     A cable connection is created between your Computer and your Cable Decoder with other devices

2.     A Connection is made to the satellite signal derived from the dish with the help of a cable Modem (a device that delivers high-speed Internet connectivity through your satellite system. In which case your satellite company becomes your FREE internet service provider (ISP).

 This connection does not interfere with your satellite television viewing at all, as there is so much bandwidth to handle both the TV and Internet signals.

Which Decoders can it work with?

HITV Decoder

Any Strong Decoder

DSTV Decoder
MYTV (Strong) Decoder

 SPACE Decoder
CTL Decoder
DAARSAT Decoder

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