Friday, April 29, 2011

SHUT DOWN mISSING?

Oh Gnome 3
It is as they say the next generation desktop.
But there is many flaws in it. Like the release of Kde 4 this also have many bugs.

when logged in there is no Shutdown button.
I think they hide it.But why?
I never used suspend, but now in 3, the suspend is default.
So to easily shut down I made the action for "When power button is pressed" to shut down. Now its easy.

But still I for got that setting to shutdown it by pressing.

Alt key
then the suspend option will change to
Power off


Happy codding.

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Missed Sudo?

It is often we miss to add "sudo" and end in messages like "Permission denied" or "only root can do that"...
here is  simple tip for that

just run

sudo !!

eg:
abhisheklal@abhisheklal-System-Product-Name:~$ umount -a
umount: only root can do that
abhisheklal@abhisheklal-System-Product-Name:~$
sudo !!
sudo umount -a
umount: /home/abhisheklal/Music: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
umount: /var/run: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
umount: /dev/shm: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
umount: /dev: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
umount: /: device is busy.
(In some cases useful info about processes that use
the device is found by lsof(8) or fuser(1))
abhisheklal@abhisheklal-System-Product-Name:~$

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Mint KDE 10 wifi problem

I just installed linux mint kde on my toshi but there is a problem while trying to install the wifi driver using the synaptic. the installation fails and ask me to refer the jokey.log
i tried the hard ware driver installer also

but after some googling i foud some thing use full
there it says the problem can be fixed by making the audio louder

do as follows

sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-alsa-maverick-generic 
sudo kate /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf

add this line to the bottom of the file

options snd-hda-intel model=basic

sudo reboot


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| Toshiba L650-10m | Inter i3 | ATI 512mb | 2gb ddr3 | 320gb | Linux Mint 10 |

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Sakshat, the $35 Indian tablet launch by Jan 10, 2011 courtesy HCL Tech.

The much talked about Indian tablet costing as low as $35 is taking shape and soon will be seen in the market. The tablet is now officially called Sakshat and will be launched by January 10th of next year. The low cost laptop will be manufactured buy HCL technologies and the Indian government has already allocated $6.5 million or Rs. 300 million for the project. HCL has earlier worked on a similar ‘low cost project’ when it partnered with Microsoft to produce world’s cheapest Windows laptops, the Classmate PC in 2008.

Earlier in July the Indian Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal showed off the prototype touch screen computer which the government hopes to roll out to students with the end cost to further get down to $20 or even $10 after subsidy. The device will come with a color display and can performer functions like web browsing, email, word; processing and can even display YouTube videos. The device will have a solar charging option and will run the open source Linux OS.



The low cost laptop named Sakshat is also expected to include other features and specification like a 2GB of RAM, USB ports, integrated Wi-Fi connectivity. Sakshat will support web conferencing, video, media player, Internet Browser, PDF reader, Open Office and unzip utilities. The Sakshat will be a 9-inch tablet with camera and surprisingly low power requirement. It will need just two watts of power.

The tablet will be introduced to higher education institutions next year. Sakshat will be tested by Indian Institute of Technology in Rajasthan ‘in intensive laboratory and fields tests across the country.’ The manufacturer of the tablet Sakshat, HCL has contracted with the Indian government to manufacture 100,000 units in the first phase of production. The government plans to purchase these 100,000 units after testing and distribute to university students in second half of the year.