Users of Alliance or similar broadband services might have noticed that their network connection would sometimes get dropped while on Ubuntu or the network speed is somewhat less than what is advertised. The solution for this is that you need to change the duplex setting of your network connection. Don't freak out yet, it's not as hard as you might think. Follow the below simple steps:

1. Get the desired duplex settings from your service provider. In this case, we will assume that it's "10 duplex half". Replace it with the appropriate speed in your case.

I upgraded my Ubuntu from 12.04. Eclipse 3.7 with Subclipse 1.6 was installed in 12.04. Now after upgrading to 13.04, after I start Eclipse and synchronize my project with the repository, it throws the error message: "Incompatible JavaHL library loaded. 1.6.x or later required."

Possible reason: libsvn-java is needed to be installed in Ubuntu in order to make SVN work in Eclipse. The installed version in Ubuntu 12.04 was 1.6 as far as I remember. But after upgrading to 13.04, the libsvn-java version was also upgraded to 1.7. But the version of Subclipse that is compatible with libsvn-java 1.7 is Subclipse 1.8.

I have been an Ubuntu user (Linux in General) for long enough time. When I was in college, I would live boot different distributions of Linux just for trying out, eager to see what new desktop effects they might have added, what the defaults applications were. But after I graduated from college and joined work, I would get little time to do all those stuffs. So I settled for just one and also I needed a stable environment. Currently I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and today after getting back from work, I felt like I got bored with Ubuntu. So I thought, what the hell, I should try out KDE and if I like then I might even replace Ubuntu. So I downloaded Kubuntu and ran it on a USB stick. I installed it in one of my spare partition also, to give it a fair chance to impress me. And it really did impress me. I liked the desktop environment, I liked the KDE default application set. They were designed very carefully. The applications launched way faster than they would in Ubuntu. But I don't know why, my eyes were still searching for the same fonts and the same look they were used to see on Ubuntu. Also I missed all those keyboard shortcuts that I enjoy using while on Ubuntu. So I rebooted back to Ubuntu. I fixed the Grub2 which was replaced by Kubuntu Grub2 with the grey screen. But I could not re-enable the auto-hiding of Grub2 while booting. I guess I will find some way to do that. But now I am feeling quite sleepy.