Monthly Archives: January 2009

Bangalore Cycling Inclusive Planning Workshop

Join hands with CriticalMass if you want Cycling infrastructure to be built inside your city.

maximus – forcing full screen on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

I found that maximus forces all the windows to full screen on Ubuntu Jaunty. I found this very irritating. Here is a simple solution. Remove it from System -> Preferences -> Sessions and logout and login back.

Gnu/Linux Habba-3 Final Countdown

Here we start the final countdown for Gnu/Linux Habba – v3 @ Nitte. Not yet registered? Do it now…. Visit: http://habba.in Support us: Use the countdown script provided by Aravinda on your blogs.

Nvidia G72M [GeForce Go 7400] works on Ubuntu Jaunty(9.04) Alpha

I found that they released nouveau (Experimental) drivers for Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha Release. Installed it and enabled it in xorg.conf to make my Nvidia G72M [GeForce Go 7400] card work beautifully. xserver-xorg-video-nouveau   – X.Org X server — Nouveau display driver (experimental) In place of Nvidia proprietary driver nvidia, I need to enable nouveau in xorg.conf [...]

Gnu/Linux Habba – v3 @ NMAMIT,Nitte

Sampada team is back on track with Gnu/Linux Habba. We will be at NMAMIT, Nitte on February 7th, 2009.  We have started the event preparations. Join your hands with us! Event update: http://sampada.net/article/15970 Wiki: http://dev.sampada.net/GNU_Linux_Habba_v3.0 Event website and blog: http://habba.in Twitter: http://twitter.com/techsampada Date: February 7th, 2009.

Nagios: Host not reachable

After setting up Nagios server and Client you might find to see some funny status messages. One of which is, “Host not reachable” and you will see all the Nagios clients showing up in RED status though other services are fine in status page. This can happen due to multiple reasons. First one is obviously [...]