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Google decided to stop supporting Picasa running on Linux. They have taken down the download link for the deb install package for Ubuntu Linux OS. I need the deb install package as a pre-requisite to install any latest version of Picasa (Windows installation file) on my Ubuntu Linux OS. If you are not sure what I meant by installing the latest version of Picasa on Ubuntu Linux, please refer to this post for the steps . Luckily I was able to find the deb install package file in the internet and save it for my future re-installation of Picasa on my Ubuntu Linux OS. Here is the download link: picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb

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Samsung Galaxy Nexus USB computer connection settings Trying to connect and  transfer files between my Ubuntu desktop and my Samsung Galaxy Nexus was a pain in the ass. It seems that my Samsung Galaxy Nexus is unable to mount to my Ubuntu desktop at all. After a long search in the internet, i found a customized solution to this problem. When an Android is connected to Ubuntu Linux through Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), Ubuntu will try to mount the Android using gvfs through gphoto2 but because gvfs does not have native support for MTP yet, it doesn't always work properly. You will probably see this error whenever you try to browse the Android device (that seems like it mounted) from Nautilus: "Sorry, could not display all the contents of "Android": Timeout was reached" When it did work, it work very sluggishly and unreliably. An alternative is to use mtpfs but that too has been reported unstable lately. Because of this, a Google employee created his own mtpfs ca...

Using UUID is a better way for a Linux system to identify a harddisk partition for mounting compare to using block names (/dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1). This is because UUID is a unique identification of each partition of the harddisk. UUID will guarantee the partition to mount to it's designated mount point even if the harddisk had been connected at different SATA connectors in your PC system. Here is how you can find out your UUID of your harddisk partition: Run this command without sudo: blkid Or you can run this "ls" command to get the UUID: ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid