Motorola S9 Bluetooth Headset
Posted on February 12, 2009
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So my friend game me a cute little birthday present, a Motorola S9 Bluetooth Headset.
Making it work under Linux was not very difficult but still has to catch-up in terms of utils.
To make the headset work, I just had to run a scan on the Linux host, and get the hw address and specify it in .asoundrc.
pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth {
address = xx.xx.xx.xx.xx
description “Motorola S9 Bluetooth Headset”
[Read More]Operation Modes in a [Linux] Distribution
Posted on February 11, 2009
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IMO, Linux Distributors should seriously think about Role Based Operations for their distributions.
Every linux user is going to be using his copy of the distribution in a different way. But from the distributor’s point of view, it should boil down to:
Desktop Users
Laptop Users
Server Users
Currently, some of the distributions apply this thought only to packages. For example, Ubuntu rolls out a desktop flavor and a server (generic) flavor of its kernel package.
[Read More]The Taxi Wallah's Dream
Posted on January 21, 2009
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It was about 2 AM , some day in June 2008 , when I caught the taxi from Chinatown, Boston, MA to head to my hotel room in Waltham, MA.
It was the same day Celtics went victorious over Lakers in the Basketball match. I was lucky to see the people cheering and celebrating the victory. Everyone was shaking hands with others. I didn’t feel that I was a visitor there.
[Read More]pypt-offline goodness
Posted on December 29, 2008
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I created pypt-offline with the hope that it’d be useful for people who don’t have an internet connection but would still like to enjoy Debian. Enjoying Debian is about enjoying its Package Manager, APT. I don’t have any data to show if pypt-offline is in use by anybody. I too, use it rarely, when at my hometown. But I hope people who use it, find it useful.
At my hometown, I use internet service from my friend’s ISP.
[Read More]Laptop - Microsoft Windows - Installer - License
Posted on December 11, 2008
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Most people who’ve bought laptops, would see a pre-installed version of Windows, for which they’d have already paid. Recently things have changed but still for the majority of the laptop models available, Windows is the most commonly used option.
I own a Dell XPS M1210 which too came pre-installed with Microsoft Windows XP. Since the machine was low on hard-drive space, I had to eventually knock-off all Non-Linux partitions to make more space.
[Read More]SELinux in Debian
Posted on December 11, 2008
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Thanks to Pierre Chifflier , Debian now has setroubleshoot packaged. The good thing about setroubleshoot is that it gives you a very user friendly message about the SELinux violations that occur on your box while you were doing something.
Now that something is very difficult to define (at least for Debian). My day job requires me to work on the RHELdistribution which has very good SELinux policy defined (Same is the case with Fedora).
[Read More]Designed for Linux
Posted on November 25, 2008
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A couple of years back (or maybe still), it was difficult to find Device
Support in Linux from the Hardware Vendor.
Recently I was at home on a small vacation. There something surprised me. I
bought a device which had a logo saying, “Designend for Linux”. Cheers!
Temple of Lord Mahadev, Bangalore
Posted on November 25, 2008
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Having been in Bangalore for more than 4+ years, it was a regret when I
visited the temple of Lord Mahadev, that why didn’t I visit it earlier.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to be there with my parents and I must
say, it is awesome. You need to be there.
Mysterious Girl
Posted on November 5, 2008
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SVN Ignore
Posted on October 31, 2008
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Ignoring files in subversion during checkout.
You can’t directly ignore folders on a checkout, but you can use sparse
checkouts in svn 1.5. For example:
$ svn co http://subversion/project/trunk my_checkout –depth immediates
This will check files and directories from your project trunk into
‘my_checkout’, but not recurse into those directories. Eg:
$ cd my_checkout && ls
bar/ baz foo xyzzy/
Then to get the contents of ‘bar’ down:
$ cd bar && svn update –set-depth infinity