Hi guys,

I installed ubuntu 9.10 and windows 7 in my fedora machine through Sun’s virtualbox.I run both the operating systems simultaneously and i made a screenshot. It is just amazing.Have a look over here…

OS Gallery

 

cheers,

Balachandar.K.M <LOVE WITH LINUX>

A Weird Bug

Hi friends,
When i m working with my fedora 11 i found out this weird bug.I tested it twice and i m sure it is a bug.

BUG :
1.Log in to your gnome desktop environment.
2.Mute your volume ( through the volume manager placed on the right top of your desktop panel ).
3.Now logout and login to the KDE desktop environment.
4.Now Ummute your volume ( through the same app said above.Here you can find in the bottom panel).
5.Even after unmuting you cant hear any sound.

Temporary FIX :
1.Logout from KDE and login to your GNOME session.
2.Now unmute your volume ( If i unmute volume in kde then it is not reflected in gnome.But the vice versa is false ).
3.Logout from gnome and login to KDE.Now you can hear your audios and videos.

ah..wow.I found a temporary fix for a bug.lol

Really a strange bug.Isn’t it??

I tested it in HP Pavilion dv6000.If you have a different system then check this out and comment me.

Hi friends,
     If you have a bsnl nic card then this post is for you.When i bought my nic card ( almost a year ago ) , i need to do several steps to configure it to use it in my ubuntu 8.04.Then i followed the same instructions in other distributions too.In fedora 10 i can configure it in the same way ,even wvdial shows the primary and secondary ip addresses but i coudnt send are receive any data packets( ping didnt work ).I recently installed fedora 11 and it works fine with my wi-fi.So i doesnt care about my NIC card.Last week my wi-fi sucks and i just gave a try to my NIC card.Wow !!! i just configured my Network Manager applet’s mobile broadband connection option to add a new connection.( Just enter your name,password and number to dial thats all bingo!! ) .The NIC card works fine.The connection is shown when you click the applet and just a click on the connection name will connect the NIC card.No need to follow any steps anywhere. So cool..isnt it ?

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Hi guys,
     I installed virtualbox 3 in my new fedora leonidas. It works well for my default kernel.But after upgrading to newer kernel it doesnt work and shows some error message the the kernel modules are not installed and asked me to setup my virtualbox kernel.
 
                 It also hints me to run the following command to install the new virtualbox kernel.
                                         /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

                 But it doesnt solve my problem and gave the error that your kernel source not found in the /lib/modules/ folder.I am puzzled and went through google for almost half an hour.Then i fixed it ..
  
                  Yep.Installing kernel-devel modules will fix this issue.
 
                  Command : yum install kernel-devel
 
 Cheers,
    Balachandar.K.MTechnorati Tags: kernel source not found virtualbox, rc = 1098, virtualbox kernel upgrade

Hi guys,
I m an extreme ubuntu lover for the past two years.But now i felt that it is not enough for my works.So i decided to switch over to fedora.I love its rock solid performance and the bluish look.The solid player from redhat.I tried it long back and find it difficult to get drivers and codecs and ubuntu really rocks in those things.But i am inferred that rpm fusion enables fedora to get the resticted codecs and drivers with ease.So i decided to give a try.My brother gave me a HP Pavilion dv 6000 laptop to me and our college provide the free wi-fi spots at the right time.So one fine friday evening i sat with my lap and the rocking fedora 11 DVD ( Source : LFY Magazine ).The installation is smoother than the butter.I installed most of the packages.I got KDE ( Just to have a look) as well as Gnome( The one i prefer always).My endeavours with fedora will be posted shortly.

Hi guys,
Dont be puzzled by reading the heading.Let me tell you some scenarios.Then you will come to know whether you need an antivirus for linux or not.

Situation 1:
You are having a dual boot system with Windoze and Linux.You copied some files from your friend’s pendrive ,You didnt checked it and made a blind copy because you have linux and what the hell the virus can do( You thought in your mind ).Now you are logged into your windows operating system.All the sleeping viruses will woke up and start eating your system.What will you do????

Situation 2:
I have a system with one and only operating system and that is linux.But somehow you copied some viruses into your system and not aware of it.You sent a mail with an attachment( assume it contains some viruses and you are not aware of it ) to your friend who is using windoze.What will happen ????Bang!!!
Even you gave some data to your friend via pendrive or some other medium.If it contains some viruses then what will happen?? Bang again !!!

Solution :
Dont think that linux has no antivirus software.Even kasperski is providing one for linux.But it is proprietary and we need to spend some money.Regular updates ,regular patches,regular license
upgrades,painful ( pay money again ) version upgrades.So it is BLACKLISTED from our list.Then is there any FOSS ( Free and open source software ) for this pursose ??
Yes it is .CLAMAV.You can just install it with yum ( for
redhat,fedora) or apt-get ( Debian,ubuntu ).Install the following packages.
1.CLAMAV ( Engine)
2.CLAMAV-UPDATE ( Updater)
3.CLAMTK ( GUI )

Some useful commands to work with clamav:
1.clamscan
2.clamdscan
3.freshclam ( Update )
4.clamtk ( To start GUI )

HINT : You can clean your windows system from linux using clamav This is so cool isnt it ??

Just give a try instead of finding kasp keys dude.Worth to use

Hi guys,
I m a great fan of pidgin once.It works great provides many features.Just replaced my google talk.But in recent days pidgin didn’t connect to net.At most it works for a month after a fresh
installation.So i m frustrated and searched for a good alternative.I hate kopete as it is an KDE app and doesn’t look cool in gnome. Then i came to know about yuuguu and just gave a try.Its a desktop sharing application with a built-in chat manager.I loved it.It is developed using Java.It lacks in user interface.Works very slowly sometimes.And it is not made for chatting.
At last i came to know that empathy is cool enough for chat ( Source : Ravi jaya’s post in ilugc mailing list ).I installed it using my yum.No tweaks,just the yum install empathy command did the work for me.Then i configured my google account.Bingo!!! it is so cool.Let me update how it works after a month .( Hope it wont go mad like pidgin ).
EMPATHY SITE : http://live.gnome.org/Empathy

cheers,
Balachandar.K.M. – LOVE WITH LINUX -

Hi guys,
  Today i installed ns2 on my friends laptop.The installation procedure is very
easy.Just boom the install file and it ll compile all code pieces for you.Then you
need to set the path for the libraries and bin of ns( To set path refer my
previous posts).
  I just made a simple program ( foo.tcl ).Then compile it using nm.It produces
out.nam file.Then i run the out.nam file using nam(network animator).I saw the
nodes just i created minutes before in the tcl script.Thats really cool.

Hi guys,
I saw that many beginners are cursing mailing lists and forums as they are scold for their unformal question with insufficient data.Am one among those beginner and got some criticisms as well.I found the following link is very much useful for them.

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

cheers..

Hi guys,
These days almost all coleges are conducting various exhibitions and students are supposed to put demo stalls.But students should really follow the guide lines given below before making any demo stalls.
I made these instructions just by my experience.Anyone having conflicts with me can post their comments here.
I want you to add more guidelines via the comments.If it is best i will add it.
#———————————————————————-
Executing Hello world programs is enough to give a start up.But
Clearly state the following things,
1.What is that?
2.Why we need that?
3.How it came to existance?
4.How to competes with its competitors ?
5.Basics ( syntax etc.)
6.What are all the tools available.
7.real time scenarios and your simple codes.
8.Make a good deal of resource materials,website links,ebooks to
give to the viewers if they are interested.
#———————————————————————–

cheers..

Balachandar.