Microsoft Wireless Mouse
Posted on November 12, 2007
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Today I also bought a Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse
3000.
She is small, sleek and sexy.
And the good thing is that she Just Mates with Linux.
Here’s what she speaks to her buddy:
input: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse� 1.00 as
/class/input/input14
input: USB HID v1.11 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Mouse�
1.00] on usb-0000:00:1d.7-2.1
Sound...................
Posted on November 12, 2007
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Today I, for the first time in my life, bought extra speakers for my machine.
While I’m not a music fanatic I thought of buying extra speakers to bring some
change to my boring life. I finally settled down on [Altec Lansing
ATP3](http://reviews.cnet.com/pc-speakers/altec-lansing-
atp3/4505-3179_7-1587363.html) PC Multimedia Speakers.
I must admit; The bitch is awesome. She rocks. And she blows me off good.
Mobiking Revisited
Posted on October 19, 2007
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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It has been around 5 yrs when I suffered a broken collar bone in a road accident on my bike.
My take since then had been to avoid biking in Indian City Roads. But I finally gave up on it because I realised how much I really missed avoiding it.
So here I am, back to biking.
I wanted to start up again with a bike which would be:
Steady on the roads.
[Read More]Linux Power Management
Posted on August 15, 2007
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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I must admit, Linux Power Management is Fuckin’ Pathetic.
On a Dell XPS M1210 Laptop with a 6 Cell battery, I get a shitty 15 mins of power backup compared to 2 hrs on Microsoft Windows XP.
And woo, On my IBM T43 running Microsoft Windows XP, I watched a full movie on battery, and it still survived.
The Linux running laptop had no sound enabled.
Yes, Yes Yes!!! As many would say
[Read More]ANSI Color Codes
Posted on August 10, 2007
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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So in the search of finding a simple solution for printing colored text in python, it took me some time to dig up. Most solutions people have done were using curses or some modules. My ultimate intention has always been to cut down on the dependency on the 3rd party modules.
I think the ANSI Color Codes would be good enough for my requirements to print colored text on an ANSI compliant terminal.
[Read More]Networking in KVM/QEMU
Posted on August 4, 2007
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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In my previous blog entry, I mentioned about not being able to simply configured networking for the Guest VMs. I feel that area is still unimplemented properly by the GUI wrappers available for KVM/QEMU.
There is a good utility VDE2, which can work great for all your networking needs for the Guest VMs. But unfortunately none of the GUI wrappers (Qemulator, QtEmu, Qlauncher) are handling it.
The simplicity of vde is amazing.
[Read More]Linux Virtualization Richness
Posted on July 29, 2007
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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So Yesterday, I was finally confident enough to uninstall VMWare from my laptop.
Thanks to the richness of virtualization technologies which are present in Linux (2.6.22) now.
I’ve always liked to explore different operating systems (not distributions really) to see what interesting features they implement differently. BSDs being one, Solaris being the other. But sometimes it really was difficult for me to try them out.
Reason:
The current machine that I have apart from my laptop is a very old box with 64Mb of RAM and a 750 Mhz Intel Processor This box is primarily used for building my cusotmized kernels to run on my laptop.
[Read More]rm \- "-" ??
Posted on July 1, 2007
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Does anyone know when really did coreutils get patched for this behavior ?
rrs@learner:~$ rm -foo
rm: invalid option – o
Try rm ./-foo' to remove the file -foo’.
Try `rm –help’ for more information.
This feature really wasn’t earlier and if you ever ended up with files starting with characters like “-”, it was not a straight task to remove it.
Earlier (when I wasn’t aware of this patch), the workaround was to write a small 1 liner and not use getopt at all.
[Read More]NetworkManager Firewall
Posted on May 30, 2007
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Currently, there’s no simple framework in NetworkManager for Firewalling support.
Here’s one way you can provide a simple and minimal firewall setup for your box controlled by NM.
Create the following files:
rrs@learner:~$ cat /etc/network/if-up.d/firewall
#!/bin/bash
if [ $IFACE == “lo” ]; then
echo;
else
/sbin/iptables -A INPUT -i $IFACE -m state –state NEW,INVALID -j DROP;
fi
rrs@learner:~$ cat /etc/network/if-down.d/firewall
#!/bin/bash
if [ $IFACE == “lo” ]; then
echo;
else
[Read More]NetworkManager Debian Network Interfaces
Posted on May 30, 2007
(Last modified on January 22, 2011)
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So many of you might be aware of NetworkManager. The big new tool from RedHat does simplify Network Configuration on your Linux box.
But there lies a small problem with NetworkManager. It is very picky about what it is going to touch and what not.
Here’s a paragraph from the README.Debian file:
Configuration of wireless and ethernet interfaces
Only devices that are *not* listed in /etc/network/interfaces or which have been configured "auto" and "dhcp" (with no other options) are managed by NM.
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