May 10, 2010 | Events, Gnu/Linux, Travel, Weekend
It has been a relaxing weekend… have spent much of my time away from the laptop, though I have my little digital toy in my hand through out this weekend along with my brand new Camera. Yes, I haven’t written much about it here so far. I bought a Canon EOS...
Mar 30, 2010 | Gnu/Linux, linux, QuickFix, Virtualization, XEN
Linux: In general tab of VM in XenCenter, you get an option to install the tools. Another way is to select VM Menu -> Install Xen Server Tools option. Issue: When you try installing XenServer Tools on to Linux VMs you might find that the virtual cd device won’t...
Mar 30, 2010 | Gnu/Linux, QuickFix, Technical, Virtualization, XEN
By default CentOS base repositories won’t be configured on XenServer. To compile and install nagios/bacula or any other app on server you might end up searching for compiler tools like gcc etc. Here is a simple way to enable base repo and install gcc on your...
Mar 17, 2010 | Gnu/Linux, linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
For security reasons root login has been disabled in Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Here are the quick steps to enable root access to KDE 1. Edit kdmrc file in /etc/kde4/kdm and change AllowRootLogin=false to AllowRootLogin=true Use the following command line option to achieve this:...
Mar 14, 2010 | Gnu/Linux, linux, QuickFix, Technical, Ubuntu
Long back I had changed my theme to MacOS theme on my Ubuntu. Since then, my metacity theme retained the windows controls on left hand side and it never changed for any theme since then. I did try looking for an easy option to revert that change but found none in...
Dec 10, 2009 | Bug Fix, Gnu/Linux, QuickFix, Technical, Virtualization, Webhosting
Virtual Ethernet devices of the OpenVZ VM’s inside ProxMox is connected to a bridge. After installing ProxMox and creating virtual nodes, I found that public ips allocated inside VM’s were not reachable to world. A quick fix for this issue is to ensure...
Dec 7, 2009 | Gnu/Linux, Product Info, Technical, technology
My new gadget HTC Tattoo powered by Android OS and HTC Sense technology. Costs around INR 17,000. Comes with all that I need to stay connected with all social media like flickr, picasa, facebook, twitter etc. GPS works well with Google Maps, trying to work with...
Nov 26, 2009 | Gnu/Linux, QuickFix, Technical
To reset the password of postgres user follow the instructions given below. First change the password of system user postgres: # passwd postgres Changing password for user postgres. New UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: all authentication tokens updated...
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