December 24th, 2007
Using Intel D102GGC with Linux
I happened to have the Intel D102GGC board since last year (with a SATA hard drive) and was unable to successfully install any Linux distribution including RHEL and SuSe 10 on it and I had practically give up the hope of using Linux under this motherboard and had turned to using Vmware for experimenting and learning Linux.
Yesterday I gave one last try by upgrading my BOIS to the latest version available at the Intel website for D102GGC board, it turned out that the version I had running that was dated back to 2005 and there were many updates available to it.
After upgrading the BIOS I one again tried to install RHEL 4 and this time everything worked out flawlessly and finally RHEL is now running fine on my system.
Please note that I also had to pass acpi=off parameter to kernel to successfully boot, other than this it was just click and forward
the imax | 6:15 am | Linux/Unix | No Comments
December 22nd, 2007
How to Stop non root users from shutting down Linux
If your users have KDE to logon to the system and you want to disable the visual buttons of shutdown and restart for non root users than use the following steps
Go to start menu > control center >system administration > login manager > shutdown
and select allow shutdown local to root only, this will prevent other non root users from messing around and shutting down your system.
Users may also open a terminal and bring the system down from the shutdown command (or many
of its alias like reboot/halt)so you may also need to adjust the execute permissions on these files.
the imax | 6:13 am | Linux/Unix | No Comments
December 21st, 2007
Bye Bye IE 7
While I believe that a vast majority of Windows users are still with IE6 , Microsoft has been giving clues about the launch of IE8 in early 2008, so there appears to be very short life left for IE 7. There were very high hopes and expectations from IE 7 however it turned out to be a disappointing offer from Microsoft and failed to impress the critics. Let us now pinup our hopes to the new IE and observe its offerings.
the imax | 7:36 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
December 19th, 2007
Passed LPI Level 1 Certification
A few months (or more than just a few ) back in February I had posted about passing the LPI 101 exam, which is the 1st exam that you need to pass in order to obtain the LPI Level 1 certification. The second exam required for LPI Level 1 cert is exam 102. A few days back I also passed this exam, so I am now a proud LPI certificated professional.
I will now look for going ahead and gaining the LPIC level 2 certification , unfortunately is appears that there is not enough study books or material available to specifically prepare for the LPI 2 certification. The only Book available is O Reilly LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell , which I have not found to be very useful . The best book was LPIC I Exam Cram 2 by Que Publishing but there isn’t any LPIC 2 book in this series.
For anyone looking to prepare for the level 1 certification I will strongly recommend the Exam Cram book from Que or if you are already a advanced user of Linux than the O Reilly LPI Linux Certification book is fine as it will quickly get you through all the objectives and important commands used in the exam without emphasizing much on the underlying concepts .
the imax | 7:02 am | Linux/Unix | No Comments
December 15th, 2007
How to delete protected vista files from XP
by booting to windows XP I was trying to free disk space from expired Vista installation and getting errors of access is denied on trying to delete the vista files
The solution is simple,
1) just go to My Computer>Tools > Folder Options > View and uncheck the last option of use simple file sharing
2) Reboot to safe mode and right click on the folder/file you want to delete and go the sharing and security > Security > Advanced and make yourself the owner of all directory and give full permissions and you are all set for deletion of the folder/file
EDIT: I just checked again and booting to safe mode is not necessary , these steps can also be taken while running XP in normal mode
the imax | 1:20 am | Uncategorized | Comment (1)
December 15th, 2007
Packet data not available when call is active Nokia
Far last many days I faced the error of packet data not available when call is active when trying to connect to the internet from my S60 Nokia phone, After a lot of troubleshooting and upgrading my firmware to the latest version the problem still persisted and as I had also given a few nasty droops to the mobile recently so I was thinking that most likely it is some glitch with the handset causing the problem but I failed to reach to any solution so I canted my operator with their intervention the problem is thankfully resolved 
the problem was with the settings defined at the operator side.
the imax | 1:06 am | Uncategorized | No Comments
September 16th, 2007
SuSE Live DVD and VMware
Continuing my experiments with SusE and vmware , I downloaded SuSe 10.2 live DVD to play it via VMware, however it was not working and whenever I selected to boot Gnome or KDE it gave and error that “at least 512MB is required”
I turned out that the Vmware virtual machine that I create for Suse had allocated 256MB of RAM whereas 512MB is required for the Live CD, I increased the RAM size from 256 to 512 and the live version started working properly , though too slow at times.
the imax | 6:04 pm | Linux/Unix | No Comments
September 12th, 2007
Asterisk and VMware disk detection problem
I have downloaded asterisk (trixbox) CD and have tried installing it via VMware on my Windows XP but asterisk is failing to detect the virtual drive of Vmware and installation is not successful , I wonder if someone has successfully installed asterisk on vmware in Windows?
EDIT: It is working now, you just need to select IDE drive instead of SCSI in the virtual machine, this parameter is not modifiable so you will need to create a new virtual machine having IDE option for disk drive.
the imax | 5:04 pm | Linux/Unix | No Comments
August 1st, 2007
Again Zoom adsl modem troubles
It appears that my zoom x4 adsl modem has breathed its last, it won’t power up, there isn’t any indication on its LED’s. There might be a problem with its power adapter so I will check it out with a new one!
the imax | 5:54 pm | Uncategorized | No Comments
July 11th, 2007
Outlook Express is incorrectly configured please re-install
I had earlier talked about this problem here http://www.wapopia.com/blog/2007/06/20/outlook-express-corrupted/
This exact message that I was getting was
Address Book failed to load. Outlook Express is incorrectly configured, please re-install.
Anyway I found a solution for this at MS website according to which I followed the setps
1. Click Start, point to Search, and then click For Files or Folders.
2. In the Search for files named box, type: *.wab
3. Set the Look In box to include your local drives and click Find Now.
4. Click the .wab file that you find. On the File menu, click Properties.
5. In the Properties dialog box, under Attributes, clear the Read-only check box.
6. Click Apply, and then click OK.
But the file wab file already had the read-only check box cleared and this exercise didn’t provide any results
As I had no contacts in my address book so I tried by deleting the present *wab file and miraculously after that my outlook started functionally properly, it created another wab file for itself and now all functions are working correctly.
Conclusion : If your outlook is corrupted and you have tried the methods listed here http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269777 than try by deleting your address book file ( it isn’t working anyway ) , my be your problem will be resolved