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Fix: Realtek SD card reader not working with Ubuntu

July 17, 2013July 17, 2013 by Vidyut

I have a RTS5209 Realtek SD card reader on my laptop, which was not reading any card inserted. The following instructions are likely to work for other versions like RTS5229 or RTS5289 as well. Turns out I needed to install the driver. Realtek offers drivers on its website for Ubuntu/Linux. Download the driver and unpack … Read more

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Chromium starts about:blank tabs on typing into dashboard in Ubuntu

July 2, 2013 by Vidyut

This is a strange and inexplicable error. Typing into the Ubuntu dashboard spawns new tabs in Chromium. This happens even if Chromium is not running it simply launches and spawns one or more tabs. Sometimes this also happened when software updater started. I had Chromium as the default browser earlier and made Firefox the default … Read more

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How to retrieve your passwords saved in Google Chrome or Chromium on ubuntu linux

May 23, 2013May 23, 2013 by Vidyut

This post explains how you can export unencrypted, readable, usable passwords saved in Google Chrome as a spreadsheet table.

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