Kernel ata exception — found workaround.

2010-07-20 2 min read Fedora Linux

I have been getting the below errors in my system for quite sometime now, I think since F9 or before that. The offending hardware is CD drive. I looked all around the net for a solution but did not find anything. Will keep looking to solve the problem. I found various solutions being suggested like adding noirq or nobiosirq or noacpi and such. None of this helped. So for now I am happy with turning off the haldaemon as soon as the system comes up. Problem: it takes lot of time to go down 🙁

autoten- install nvidia, gnome color chooser and many others in one click on Fedora.

2010-07-18 1 min read Fedora

There is a application/GUI called autoten from Dangermouse, find <a href="http://dnmouse.org/autoten-2-12.fc10.noarch.rpm ">here, which will help you install these.

designed to help get basics up and running fast
dvdplayback plus other codecs needed
parental controls
flash plugin
video card drivers
wireless drivers
set up sudo
java 6u7
realplayer
googleearth
frostwire
Limewire
lightscribe
compiz-fusion
skype
parental controls
plus many others

I tried it to install couple of things and it was a breeze. Here is a screenshot of the application.

Try a live Distro without burning on CD or running in VM

2010-07-18 2 min read Fedora Linux

I keep trying a lot of distributions and mostly I try them once and get the configurations and put them on my box :), this works best for me so that I dont have to keep re-configuring my system again and again. So, burning the disc for one time use is overhead and wastes a lot of time for me.

Why burn a disc when GRUB is there to help. So today we will try to use the installed grub run a extracted iso image. Lets go step by step:

Right click menu in Gnome desktop with user entries.

2010-07-18 2 min read Fedora Linux

I, along with couple of others I think, have been looking for this for quite some time. What I wanted is that when I right click on the desktop with GNome, I should see my entries in the default menu. I did quite some search on this but no luck. Finally today, I did it and that too in two ways.

Lets do it the Gnome way first:

Install nautilus-actions using the command

Bashstyle rpm for Fedora 11 – Style up your bash prompt.

2010-07-15 1 min read Fedora

For those of you who like to show off your desktop or want your bash prompt to be colorful and useful at the same time.

Lets start the day with a cartoon.

[[danscartoon]]

There is a nifty application called bashstyle at the sourceforge. The application helps you create a new bash prompt or select from the existing ones like the below ones:

Hotmail login from Linux machine using Firefox.

2010-07-15 1 min read Fedora Linux

Today I learnt two things. One is that Hotmail has changed the look of the email on the web. Quite good change. Looks good.

Second is that when loggin in to the hotmail using my Fedora box with Firefox, I was always getting the annoying, you are not on supported browser and saw the fix on <a href="http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/hotmail-problems-683894/?posted=1#post3345089" target="_blank">this link. The solution is as simple as changing the ”general.useragent.vendor” for firefox. The way to do this is :

concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

2010-07-15 1 min read Bash Fedora Linux

<span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Command-line-fu/~3/iwFUyltYgjM/concatenate-compressed-and-uncompressed-logs">concatenate compressed and uncompressed logs

$ find /var/log/apache2 -name 'access.loggz' -exec <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000001abd9" title="Gzip" rel="homepage" href="http://www.gzip.org/">zcat {} ; -or -name 'access.log' -exec cat {} ; This command allows you to stream your log files, including gziped files, into one stream which can be piped to <a class="zem_slink freebase/guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000000584b" title="AWK" rel="homepage" href="http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/awkbook/index.html">awk or some other command for analysis.

Note: if your version of ’find’ supports it, use:

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