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[How-to] Solve Partitions not detected during Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat Install

November 30, 2010Bharath4 Comments

It has been quite a while since I wrote here. Did not find time nor issues to write about. I tried to install Ubuntu 10.10. The Partition Manager did not detect my partitions. It listed my entire hard disk as one “Unallocated Free Space”. I was puzzled. Everything was fine under Windows XP. Or so…

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Unity v/s Gnome Shell v/s OS X Launchpad

November 16, 2010Sathya16 Comments

Unity Gnome Shell OS X Launchpad Manish‘s tweet about Gnome shell being usable resulted in this impromptu conversation and comparison. I know all three are in development – but this how it looks currently. Gnome-shell looks way too cluttered, Unity’s icons seem to be too big while Launchpad seems to have gotten the right balance.

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find command examples

November 14, 2010Sathya1 Comment

I’ve used find extensively and always wanted to writeup a nice post on this, but the linked post trumps my effort! Copy pasted from his blog, as the person’s allowed to do so. Also, as a general note – before using exec with the actual command, do preview it! —————————————————————————————— remove empty directories —————————————————————————————— # find…

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Ubuntu Natty to skip changelogs

November 9, 2010Sathya3 Comments

Due to the continuous demand for downsizing both our installation media, as well as the install footprint, we looked for packages which we should eliminate  […], but also for stuff that users generally don’t need and won’t miss. IMO package changelogs very much fall into the latter category, so they were very high on the “first against the wall”…

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Gain couple of Gigabytes of free space on Linux

October 9, 2010Sathya1 Comment

Block size of my partition is 4096 (it can be checked using dumpe2fs command). So reserved space on my partition is about 6,3 Gb and equal missing size from hd command. How to change Reserved Block Count Reserved Block Count for given partition can be changed using tune2fs command sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sda3 where…

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Linux Power Management

September 23, 2010Sathya2 Comments

We tested every major release of Fedora from Fedora 10 “Cambridge” through the most recent Fedora 14 “Laughlin” Alpha build. […] Up for testing was a Lenovo ThinkPad R52, Lenovo ThinkPad T60, and a Lenovo ThinkPad T61. After 4 pages and a bunch of graphs which make no sense From these battery power consumption results…

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File meta data and location of notes saved in notes tab of Nautilus

September 22, 2010Sathya7 Comments

I spend quite a lot of time on Super User( my rep is a testament to that I guess ;) ) – both on the site as well as the mindblowingly awesome chat (if you haven’t been here, you *must* drop by). Today a user dropped by and asked a very nice question – which went like –…

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Videos of Richard M Stallman’s Lecture in IIT-Bombay

September 13, 2010September 14, 2010Sathya4 Comments

Richard M Stallman was in Bombay recently, as I found when Aditya Sengupta tweeted if anyone had questions for him. I asked Sengupta if there any plans to record the sessions and upload them, Sengupta said he’d have to check and come back. Few days after the event, Sengupta sent me an @reply saying that the videos had…

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Ubuntu Bug #625193 “We can’t fix it because your description didn’t include enough information”

September 5, 2010September 5, 2010Sathya9 Comments

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. This picture speaks for itself. Yes, its fugly. What the heck are those 3 bloody orbs ?

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HOWTO: Starcraft 2 on Linux with Wine

September 2, 2010September 2, 2010Sathya3 Comments

Starcraft 2 [runs] under my Linux install with no issues. Since the game’s official release a few days ago I have been getting a good bit of traffic on those two pages – so I figured I would put together a quick HOWTO for getting Starcraft 2 working on your Linux distro of choice. The…

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