When you try to start Songbird(in my case version 1.1.2) on Ubuntu 8.10 and if you have libvsual-0.4-plugins installed in you system it will pop-up you a crash reporting component saying that Songbird start-up failed. And if you start Songbird from the terminal you will see following lines has printed on the console.
*** glibc detected [...]
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How To Fix Songbird 1.1.2 Crash At Start On Ubuntu 8.10
June 3rd, 2009 · 3 Comments · linux, linux tips, ubuntu
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How To Improve Ubuntu Desktop Performance
April 29th, 2009 · No Comments · linux, linux tips, ubuntu
I think most of us who use Firefox on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) had bad performance experiences when we run it with other applications. Ubuntu 8.10 desktop freeze randomly when running Firefox. Some times, I can’t even switch to another application if Firefox freezes and only thing that respond is mouse pointer. Today I [...]
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Quickly Share Your Files Over The Network in Linux
March 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · linux, linux tips
The Python Way
Open the Terminal
Go to directory you that you want share
Then run the command ‘python -m SimpleHTTPServer’
Now you can access your directory from any remote computer using any web browser by navigating to http://<your ID>:8000/
The thttpd [...]
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Meld: The Visual Diff Tool for Linux
March 26th, 2009 · No Comments · linux, programming
These days I am working on WSO2 BPS next release which will based on Apache ODE 2.0. Apache ODE 2.0 will be released from the ODE’s subversion repository trunk and still they are maintaining ealier version of ODE code in separate branch. So I switch WSO2 BPS to use custom build from Apache ODE trunk and it’ll [...]
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Use ‘wicd’ As Your Network Manager To Get Rid Of Network Problems in Ubuntu 8.10
January 7th, 2009 · 3 Comments · linux, ubuntu
Couple of days ago I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my Dell Latitude D830 laptop and network management applet worked well with my home wireless network where there are no security. But when I was back to office default network management applet comes with Ubuntu began to connect and disconnet my wireless connection time to time(after [...]
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GCC Compiler Extensions Used in Linux Kernel
November 21st, 2008 · No Comments · c programming, linux
GCC and Linux are a great pair. Although they are independent pieces of software, Linux is totally dependent on GCC to enable it on new architectures. Linux further exploits features in GCC, called extensions, for greater functionality and optimization.
Read this article from IBM Developer Works to find out more…
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Linux Directory to an ISO
November 14th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, linux tips
If you want to backup any of your directories in Linux file system, you can use following command. Replace LABEL and directory to suit your needs.
mkisofs -V LABEL -r directory | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz
In Ubuntu 8.04 mkisofs command is just a symbolic link to genisoimage, the fork of mkisofs. It provides a mkisofs symlink to [...]
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PulseAudio Flooding LAN with Multicast Packets
November 14th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, linux tips
If you enable Multicast/RTP Sender and set the option ’send audio from local speakers’ in above PulseAudio configuration window, it will flood the network with multicast packets when you play music in your computer. This problem has mentioned in this thread in ubuntuforums.org. Yesterday this has happened to me and it took 3 hours to [...]
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Getting Started with libusb on Ubuntu
November 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized, linux
What is libusb?
libusb is a library which user level applications can used to access USB devices without worrying about the underlying operating system. Or we can see it as a high-level API which wraps low-level kernel interactions with USB modules and provide developer with the facility to implement device driver for a USB device from [...]
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Linux boots in 2.97 seconds
November 12th, 2008 · No Comments · linux, news
Japanese embedded Linux house Lineo has announced a quick-start technology that it claims can boot Linux in 2.97 seconds on a low-powered system. The technology appears similar to but much faster than Linux’s existing “suspend-to-disk” capability.
Read more from linuxdevices.com…
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