Tuesday 16 February 2010

Google Buzz or Privacy Play

Hi Friends , m back

Recently launched google buzz is having a lot of media cover not for good reasons but all for bad reasons. Is it a new application or is google conquering the privacy controls of individual users. Their experimentation has caused lot of problems for people. They are working on it. But it seems google is taking the privacy of users very lightly.

One wrong step can bring the gaint's popularity to their knees. So the powerful company has to play safe.

Three cheers for google's new innovation called buzz and affections from heart to people who's privacy was leaked without their own fault.

Friday 29 January 2010

Installing Ubuntu Remix

Hi,

M back.
Yesterday i decided to install ubuntu remix. I wanted to test the new operating system. The installation is pretty cool and easy. I think ubuntu is improving at a very fast rate. Now a days when i see ubuntu , I feel peace of mind. If at all you will ask me in my sleep, about what OS i am experimenting with, i would say the word Ubuntu.

You have to just click on next button and the installation will be fine. Only step that can be confusing is when it ask you to install completely on the hard disk or let it install with the other OS. I selected it to be installed with other os. My other os was also Ubuntu. It installed nicely , but when i rebooted the system, the grub loader did not recognised my previous os and displayed some error on the screen, I still have to correct the problem. But i think Ubuntu remix has some flaw in it , as it overwrote my grub and messed with it.

I further booted ubuntu remix. Nice fast boot and very nice interface.



The ubuntu remix is a very mature OS with all the basic functions that you want. But a stripped down version of Ubuntu 9.10.

I checked with it, it used very minimum ram and is very cleverly designed by not including the menu system in it. It detected my all system devices properly. No problem in using wireless lan and also i think it is using less of my laptop's battery.


I am still experimenting with it, more updates after i complete my experiments.

Bye for now.

Friday 22 January 2010

Installing 32 bit Adobe Reader 9 to a 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04

Hi,

M Back again.

I wanted to install the Abode acrobat on my ubuntu 9.04. Checked the site, it had only i386 version of Acrobat in the Deb format. It is really bad on their behalf.

So tried to install the i386 version on to my 64 bit machine and it displayed many errors.

So had to use a proper option with the dpkg command to install the 32 bit version.

dpkg -i --force-architecture AdbeRdr9.2-1_i386linux_enu.deb

And it installed properly.

I do not understand one thing ,linux community wants it to be more fexible than windows, then why differentiate between 32bit and 64bit binaries and create a problem for the users who want to install the 32 bit programs on the 64 bit machine.

They have to find a solution for this. Comman man can not use linux unless such problems are removed or handled properly.

Bye for now, I will be back again some day.

Enabling a Microphone on Ubuntu

i am back again after many days.

i installed ubuntu jaunty on my laptop and was tryin to configure the microphone but it failed to work. so after 2 days of search , i finally meet with a solution.

Carried out following things to enable the microphone settings.

1. Open the “Volume Control” panel.
2. In the “Volume Control” panel: “Edit” → “Preferences”.
3. In the “Volume Control Preferences” panel: tick “Microphone”, “Capture”, and “Capture 1”.
4. Close the “Volume Control Preferences” panel.
5. In the “Volume Control” panel, “Playback” tab: unmute the microphone.
6. In the “Volume Control” panel, “Recording” tab: enable audio recording from capture.

finally i was able to test sucessfuly the skype account. Hope this thing will help u.

Bye for now.

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Hya asha rimzhimi jhirmir paus dhara,
tan man phulaun jati

oo hya rimzhimi jhirmir paus dhara,
tan man phulaun jati

shwaas tuzha madhumass phulacha,
rang sukhacha haati

ha dhund gaar wara, ha kowala shahara
ujalun rang aahe, swachand pritiche

Chimb bhijalele, rup sajalele
barasuni aale rang pritiche.

kon jaage raat sari, antari sukhauni
sapt rangi pakharu he , endradhanu banu aale

laat hi , waadali, mohuni gaate
hi mithi ladaki mogara hote.

padasaad bhawananche, re bandh na kunache
daahi dishat gaane , be dhund pritiche
Chimb bhijalele, rup sajalele,
barasuni aale rang pritiche.

Running a syntax check on /etc/my.cnf

To verify the my.cnf parameter changes

/usr/libexec/mysqld –help –verbose

Finding out versions of java, apache , php and mysql

Hi,

Use the following to find out the version info

java -version
java version “1.6.0_03″
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_03-b05)
Java HotSpot(TM) Server VM (build 1.6.0_03-b05, mixed mode)

php -v
PHP 4.3.9 (cgi) (built: Apr 17 2009 19:13:06)
Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group

mysql -V
mysql Ver 14.7 Distrib 4.1.22, for redhat-linux-gnu (i686) using readline 4.3

httpd -v
Server version: Apache/2.0.52

Hope this will help you to determine the versions of the softwares.


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