Use MusicBrainz Picard ? Don’t update to KDE 4.4 RC (yet)
I love MusicBrainz Picard. It keeps my music collection organized, tags and renames them, and heck even fetches the cover art for (almost) all songs. Picard is just brilliant.
And the icing on the cake – its FOSS & cross platform. And it was working fine – till couple of days ago.
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A collection of Linus’ speeches
I’ve become mesmerized by Linus’ speeches. I’m currently scoping out on the speeches done by him (Interviews, maybe OK but I’m looking for his epic speeches in particular ). If you know of any, please drop a comment so that I can add them.
Mission: Get Bluetooth Stereo Headset Working in Linux. Current Status: EPIC FAIL
I’ve owned a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 for nearly 2 years now, and I use it pretty often with my previous phone ( the Sony Ericsson P1i ), and my current iPhone 3G. I also use it occasionally on my laptop. It has worked fine in Windows XP, Vista & Windows 7. Getting it to work with Linux, however has been an EPIC FAIL. The last time I tried it was probably a year ago, and I just gave up in frustration and continued to use my EP-630 as the earphone.
Changing the GNOME Menu panel in openSUSE GNOME back to Gnome defaults
Seems like lot of openSUSE Gnome users don’t like the new Gnome panel, which is radically different interface from the traditional Menu bar with Applications/Places/System entries. Personally I prefer the new style, perhaps because I’m used to the openSUSE Kickoff panel, and I really dig the search feature
Guess the icons and Win!
OK, OK You don’t exactly win anything, but just for fun – can you identify the icons ? Really, shouldn’t be that much difficult 
ArchLinux Install & Setup Guide – Part 1 – The actual install
Been a while since I posted For some strange reason, recently I got an urge to try out ArchLinux. After much deliberation finally decided to try out ArchLinux again, in VirtualBox. My little install guide I compiled as I was reading through the Official ArchLinux Install Guide + Beginner’s Guide.
Please note: This is highly customized according to *my* requirements and nowhere as thorough /generalized as the official guides. Still, it might help you. Here we go -
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Fixing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala boot drops to grub shell without showing boot options
I had this problem with a wubi install. Ubuntu would highly pester me and drop to command shell (that of grub) without showing the boot options (Why and who knows??). I every time will have to boot by manually entering boot options (really painful). So I did this.
I entered the boot command of the “recovery console” manually by finding it out from grub.cfg through the Live CD. After getting to the repair option I selected the option “Update GRUB”. Then the system did something I dont know. Then after returning to the options I selected the option similar to Boot Normally (whatever the exact wording was). Now, that was a miraculous finding. I restarted and boot worked like it should.
P.S-Something or the other helps me huh??
“Kernel-panic – not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(X,X)” error in Ubuntu
This one seems to be a really famous problem for most folks in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. So I had it too. The problem was on the initrd file. It is a kernel related file needed for booting. So i did a simple thing.
I replaced initrd.img file of my kernel version with “initrd.lz” file from the Ubuntu LiveCD and edited my grub.cfg file (equivalent of menu.lst in older Ubuntu releases), to boot using initrd.lz
In other words, wherever there is an entry like initrd.img.2.24-16 or similar just replace it with initrd.lz and in my case I also copied over the vmlinuz file and made necessary entries (just in case). Now, am back in action with Ubuntu. 
Mounting file system created by Wubi in other Linux distros
I wasn’t aware of this tiny little thing - the filesystem in the file created by a Wubi install can be easily mounted as a loop device.
[How-to] Make nVidia settings persistent and retain the settings in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
Nvidia Proprietary Drivers need nvidia-settings to set screen resolution and change other settings. In previous versions of Ubuntu and in other distros to make them permanent (used in every session) you click the “Save to X configuration file”. From Karmic on there is no xorg.conf by default!
As a result, nvidia-settings is not able to save the settings and every time I logged in I had to change the resolution (Phew!!!). Then Sathya helped me. He gave me a link from Ubuntu Forums. Then I did the following to fix the problem:
