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Ubuntu 9.04 on Acer Aspire 4937G
I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 4937G, laptop. The configuration is as below.
ntel Core2 Duo T7450 2.13GHz
4GB DDR3 Ram
Nvidia G105M Graphics Adapter
14″ Glossy Display
320GB Harddisk (Though the usable portion is around 270GB)
This laptop comes branded as a Multimedia Laptop which is supposed to have built in DVD player application (embeded), But I couldn’t yet discover [...]
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After about a years construction and refurbishment work finally got my workshop to a ‘almost complete’ stage. The only problem now is from the huge amount of dust and the rats. Got to find a workaround for those 2 problems as well.
Here are the pics.
Courier IMAP Login Failed Issue – Fixed
Recently while configuring a courier-imap I came across a frustrating error where I couldnot login using the correct username and password. I was using authpam module and the server logs just stated Login Failed, and then Logout.
Enabling debug level 2 didn’t help much, but then figured out that I had set DEFDOMAIN in the imapd [...]
Converting .vmdk to a .vdi image.
Recently I came across a situation where I needed to convert a .vmdk (VMware 6) disk image to a .vdi (VirtualBox) image.
I tried the method in http://thedarkmaster.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/vmware-virtual-machine-to-virtual-box-conversion-how-to/ but it didn’t seem to work for me. The vdi image was not bootable. The VirtualBox VM gave a fatal error saying that no bootable media were found.
The [...]
Smell Recording?
A set of Japanese scientists have developed a hand held device which can record various smells in to a set of microchips. Also, the recording can be played back, using 96 man made chemicals.
So may be in another few years time, your computer will refuse to boot up if you haven’t had a bath [...]
Torrents can fix bad parts?
This guy Ben Hay says that he was able to repair a corrupted ISO using a torrent.
Check out the original article by Ben Hay in his blog
Java calls out for open sourcers!
Exact quote from 2006 JAVA ONE Conference wrap up.
Back to the Real World
Finally, every JavaOne conference has a set of Calls to Action for the community after the show. Here are this year's:
Join JCP: http://www.jcp.org
Join SDN: http://developers.sun.com/global/join_sdn.html
Download NetBeans and join the NetBeans community: http://www.netbeans.org
Join java.net, and join the projects now open sourced, such as Sun [...]
Programmer’s Life!
A PROGRAMMER'S LIFE……
Is not an easy one…. He has to code long long programs…..
HAM – CODES
How many times have you used the terms "MAYDAY", "ROGER"…… Did you ever bother to find out wht these words mean?
This idea just stuck my mind while i was having a chat with shafraz today.
According to AC6V
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