Feb 2, 2015 | Events, Free Software, Gnu/Linux, Hacking, Kannada, OpenSource, Sanchaya, Technical, technology
81th Akhila Bharata Kannada Sahitya Sammelana (Jan 31st – 3rd Feb) happening here in Shravana Belagola, Hasana District, Karnataka. I was fortunate to have got invited to talk about Information technology for Language chaired by Dr. Chidananda Gowda. Dr. U.B...
Dec 26, 2014 | Free Software, Kannada, Sanchaya, Technical, technology
Presentation on https://vachana.sanchaya.net to digitize and build linguistic research tool for Kannada. Presented at Swatantra 2014 – Fifth International Free Software Conference, Kerala on 19th December 2014. Event Page:...
Mar 20, 2014 | Gnu/Linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu, Virtualization
Vmware Workstation breaks if you try using upcoming Linux kernel release’s and at the same time, VMWare community moves fast to push a quick patches to applied for those who dare to use cutting edge beta OS on their machines. WoodyZ on...
May 11, 2013 | Gnu/Linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu, Virtualization
You might get to see the above error while booting your VM’s on VMWare Workstation 9.x on Ubuntu. This issue might get sorted by adding the following line to .vmx line of the VM. mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE Read the further discussion on this topic at...
May 10, 2013 | Gnu/Linux, Technical, Virtualization
If you’re unable to enter the license key for VMWare workstation version 8 or 9 on your Debian/Ubuntu based machines try the following command: sudo /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware-vmx –new-sn Note: Replace with the serial number. This should fix the issue....
Apr 9, 2013 | Gnu/Linux, Infrastructure Management, Technical
RAID1 Drives allow you to have a redundant solution to bring back system with a mirrored drive during disk failures. Let us look at a disk failure in one of the linux machines. Run cat /proc/mdstat This will show the current raid statistics as as follows: server1:~#...
Apr 6, 2013 | Gnu/Linux, QuickFix, Technical
Use the following command to copy the partition table from sda to sdb. sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk -f /dev/sdb sfdisk -d dumps the partition table on to stdout. This is being piped to sfdisk /dev/sdb with the –force to write it on /dev/sdb. You can use dd to...
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