While I am away to China for a few weeks. My girlfriend laptop has spoilt and she will using my Linux desktop to complete her daily task, let see what is her feedback for Linux.

Here are some comments from her:

• “How to open *.mht files?”

Only years ago, I first time came across this file type. It is weird that how come my girlfriend uses this file type? However, I googled it and the solution is that  she can install an extension from Firefox and open it with Firefox.

• “Only have Skype? I want to use MSN Messenger.”

I have Pidgin installed on my desktop, or she can access it through web based instant messenger such as Meebo.

• “Where is Words, Excel and the rest Office Tools?”

I have OpenOffice installed on my desktop, but I bet she didn’t click them yet.

One feature that most of the Linux Skype users are waiting for is the video calls. And now it will be on Linux Skype 2.0. If you used Windows Skype before, you will find that there are quite a numbers of missing features on the Linux version. The Linux version is just terribly a plain version comes with only chatting and voice call functions.

On version 2.0, you not only can experience the great sound quality of Skype, you also set up video call with anyone in your contact list. However, you will need to have video card driver with Xv support.

Download Skype 2.0 Beta here.

Sometimes it is just very annoying, the system does not allow you to name your partition volume label yourself, it just assigned them as Disk, Disk1, Disk2. Why can’t they make it as friendly as Windows?

So, overcome this. I do searching, below is what I have learned today.

First create a desire folder name in media folder. For example “NewDriveA“

mkdir /media/NewDriveA

You need the UUID of your drive to proceed the next step. Just in case you don’t know how use this command to get the partition.

ls /dev/disk/by-uuid -alh

You might want to ask how I know which one is the corresponding one, since you have so many hard disks. There are more than one way to find it either through GParted or using fdisk.

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