If you happen to be using alsa, and sound stopped working suddenly after an upgrade (even though you have added yourself to the audio group), it could be because the Headphone Jack Sense and Line Jack Sense are set to [on] in the mixer settings. They need to be turned off. The [on] should be [off] in these two amixer output sections:

Simple ( Read more... )

I keep moving between various work/home locations and [sub-]networks where I use wired or wireless access ( Read more... )

People, look what dilwin has been doing! unannounced visits! And the reason he hasn't been rambling on is out. To A. M. of our class, he says, There's nothing like the unstoppable desire to actually be with someone for the rest of your life. As corny (and disgusting to some) as this may sound, when it hits - you'll know :-)Congratulations dude, we're ( Read more... )

Meld is this awesome diff and merge tool that earns plenty of coolness points for all the amazing features that it provides [three way merges, directory diffs, tabs for multiple simultaneous diffs, syntax highlighting, user defined editor, cvs/svn plugins, all those pretty curves in the diffs ;) etc.]. It is by far the best diff and merge tool ( Read more... )

First Monday, a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet devoted to the Internet is one of my favorite websites and publishes on a wide range of issues. This month they have a special issue on free software that picks from contributions that have appeared in Past Mondays (Special Issue #2: Open Source - 3 October 2005). Awesome collection, must read ( Read more... )

This is one among the very important reasons why I like free software.

I use IMAPFilter to filter my email on a remote IMAP server. Turns out the recent glibc versions detect double frees and memory corruptions, and IMAPFilter was crashing with a "*** glibc detected *** corrupted double-linked list: 0xc001babe ***" error, rendering it useless. ( Read more... )

Debian has a concept of alternatives, where a capability is given a name, like X Terminal Emulator would be x-terminal-emulator and there may be several programs (like gnome-terminal, konsole, xterm, rxvt, aterm etc.) that provide the X Terminal Emulator capability. Each of these programs indicates that it Provides: x-terminal-emulator. In the ( Read more... )

Pleased :-), with

1. The weather and the rain right now.
2. The drive back home with Metallica playing.
3. The traffic police who have been doing an awesome job.
4. The music on the radio at the moment.
5. The dinner waiting for me.

6. And oh, with the helmet rule for 2 wheelers that would be in force.

I'm off to chennai early tomorrow morning, and I' ( Read more... )

Phew! Finally. I am now able to use the mutt IMAP header caching functionality. strace revealed that it was some problem with file locking.

stat64("/home/appaji/.muttcache", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 ( Read more... )

Apparently, some of the people who got a BSNL DataOne ADSL subscription have been struggling with PPPoE on Linux. I use the built-in PPPoE client of the Huawei SmartAX MT800 ADSL router (the router that BSNL gives out in Bangalore) and wrote a short document explaining how to use the router. You would have to read only the initial parts of the ( Read more... )