Making Frets On Fire Work With Pulse Aludio – pasuspender
I recently got hold of a Guitar Hero controller for my PS3 but the game still had some time to come so I tried it out on my laptop with Frets on Fire (rather FoFix). But when I started it, it was...
View Articlegrub and knetworkmanager problems in Kubuntu Karmic
I generally move from LTS to LTS releases of Ubuntu but reluctantly had to update my system to Karmic when my old HDD gave in. I also thought of trying out Kubuntu (KDE based) this time as I had heard...
View ArticleContinuous Monitoring With Tail Fails
If you can’t get tail command to continuously monitor a file, then read on. I was working on a script yesterday, a part of which depended on continuous monitoring of a text file. I had used our trusty...
View ArticleAutomatic Login For Beam Cable
This article will tell you a simple way to login automatically to beam cable (Beam-Telecom) internet connection instead of using the web login manually. Not only that, I’ll also tell you how to do this...
View ArticleMute (or Answer) Skype Calls with BT Headset Button in Linux
Skype on linux works great but the problem that I faced was that it does not handle the buttons on the bluetooth headsets. My wife uses skype to call into her work related conference calls and was...
View ArticleClearing the FUD around Ubuntu Application Review Process
An application review process was announced today for getting your apps into Ubuntu “extras” repository. But like most other announcements of new things, this one was met as well with as much criticism...
View ArticleWhat does caret (^) in an apt-get command mean?
If you have come across a tutorial or just someone on a forum who tells you to install something in Debian/Ubuntu that involves using apt-get, it is ok for you but when they tell you that you need to...
View ArticleUbuntu Maverick uinput Problem Solved
I’ve been playing around with linux uinput infrastructure for one of my ideas (Details coming soon ). “uinput” is basically a mechanism in linux that allows user space applications to inject input...
View ArticleRemote Bandwidth Stats
This post is about my open source remote bandwidth usage stats logger project. I’ve been wanting to log the internet bandwidth usage at my home for quite some time since I don’t really find the stats...
View ArticleBugs: What you see is not always what it is
Came across a neat nugget of historical information today that yet again proves that the software/hardware bug behavior that you may see on the surface might imply something totally opposite to what...
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