tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65535562011-11-22T03:23:04.958-05:00Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.Bharathhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10943849632136905617noreply@blogger.comBlogger111100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6553556.post-1139154908403173032006-02-05T10:54:00.000-05:002006-10-11T16:26:57.920-05:00

I own a Plantronics Voyager™ 510 Bluetooth® Headset and I have been wanting to get it working on Linux for a quite sometime. I finally had some free time which utilizeded to get my headset working on Linux. The Bluetooth-alsa project provides support for Bluetooth headsets in Linux.Requirements:Alsa support compiled either into the kernel or separately using the alsa-driver package.Make sure that

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I decided to write up the experiences that I had installing Gentoo Linux on my Dell Inspiron 9300. I decided that I should submit it to Linux-on-Laptop, which I did. With the update to Linux-on-Laptops on 11th November, 2005, my article on how to install Gentoo Linux on Dell Inspiron 9300 has been included. If anyone has any questions or suggestions please feel free to contact me. You can also

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I recently became the owner of a Dell Inspiron 9300. This was a replacement laptop for my old Dell Inspiron 8600. Inspiron 9300 is a great desktop replacement laptop with a huge 17 inch display. Its slightly on the heavier side, that is something you have to make do with for the 17 inch display. I am running a dual boot of Windows XP and Gentoo Linux on this laptop. In this post I will try to

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I recently bought a Creative WebCam Live!, its a really nice camera for the price that you pay. Only drawback with this camera is that is USB 1.0 camera and not USB 2.0. Guess you can't get everything you want when you have price barrier. This camera works great on windows. I am avid Linux user. Whenever I buy hardware the most important thing that I look for is Linux support. When I was buying

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This is probably the first time I have posted a new entry in my blog in such a short interval. I am a big fan of Debian and Gentoo. I personally feel that these two are the best distributions that I have seen. Debian does a lot of things right, at the same time Gentoo does things as well as Debian. I would say the best distribution would a be mixture of Debian and Gentoo and should be called

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Linus today announce the release of 2.6.12 version of the Linux kernel in this post. With this release my name is included in the Linux kernel for bug fix. You can look at the ChangeLog-2.6.12 and search for my name in it you will notice that I submitted the following[PATCH] ASYNC IO using signals other than SIGIOI am part of history now!!!How cool is that!!!

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We use RAID 5 using 3ware Escalade 8506-8 for a file server in our lab. RAID appears to be great as long as it works. But it can also turn out to be a nightmare when things go bad. We had drives crash in our RAID server. Since we are using RAID 5 we have 6 drives in the array and 2 hot spare drives. Here we have 2 spare drives and we had one drive that had already crashed and well since the

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Summer... when is it going to be around. Seems like summer is going to be here finally. Enough of waiting for the sun to shine on the face of the earth. Whats the best part of summer is slacking, I love slacking. Life is so simple during summer, only while you are still at school. You dont need to get up early, you can wait till the sun has reached its zenith. Take your own sweet time to get to

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I was trying to use iframes in my website to display my photo album. Now the problem with iframes is that if u don't specify any height and width it uses the default height and width, which are extremely small. To specify the height and width you need to set the iframe properties dynamically using javascripts. I was using the onload property to call my script to set the size. I was setting the

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Finally, the storage server is up and running again. After spending the entire morning and the afternoon trying to figure out was wrong. Finally managed to rebuild the entire array with the available hard drives. There is still one drive with some bad sectors but I just hope that it doesn't show up in the next few days. Now that the storage server is up and running, I can now concentrate on my

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This is my first real post to my blog since the time I actually created an account on blogspot. Well and the best way to start is with news from my lab at Virginia Tech, Computer Systems Research Lab. Second day since the second crash of the raid storage server in the lab. We have one spare hard drive before we run out of all hot spares. We are waiting on two replacement drives. Currently drive

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