Feb 13, 2010

Found at http://digg.com/d31IdVu

Oct 9, 2009

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1. Try to find an answer by searching the archives of the forum / groups.

2. Try to find an answer by searching the Web.

3. Try to find an answer by reading the manual.

4. Try to find an answer by reading a FAQ.

5. Try to find an answer by inspection or experimentation.

6. Try to find an answer by asking a skilled friend.

7. If you’re a programmer, try to find an answer by reading the source code.

Jul 31, 2009

This is gonna be on my next customised Tshirt…

Found at here….

Jul 27, 2009

If you haven’t read about my DELL studio 15, read it here…

After installing Ubuntu, i felt it very annoying to work with the touch pad, so i decied to enable my DELL bluetooth traveller mouse with it. Its really handy to work with that. I tried to default method to add BT devices but it failed. At the bottom of the mouse they specify the pin as ‘0000’, but its of no use. After googling i found out the way how to do it. Well i cant explain the stuff since i’m a newbie with this. I commands i typed in the Terminal as given in bold italics red…

root@niju-dell:~# hcitool scan
Scanning …
    00:07:61:EF:4B:49    Dell BT Travel Mouse
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool cc 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool auth 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
Not connected.
root@niju-dell:~# hcitool info 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
Requesting information …
    BD Address:  00:07:61:EF:4B:49
    Device Name: Dell BT Travel Mouse
    LMP Version: 2.0 (0×3) LMP Subversion: 0×229
    Manufacturer: Broadcom Corporation (15)
    Features: 0xbc 0×02 0×04 0×38 0×08 0×00 0×00 0×00
        <encryption> <slot offset> <timing accuracy> <role switch>
        <sniff mode> <RSSI> <power control> <enhanced iscan>
        <interlaced iscan> <interlaced pscan> <AFH cap. slave>
root@niju-dell:~# hidd –connect 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
The program ‘hidd’ is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
apt-get install bluez-compat
bash: hidd: command not found
root@niju-dell:~# apt-get install bluez-compat
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  bluez-compat
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 170 not upgraded.
Need to get 53.2kB of archives.
After this operation, 193kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty-updates/universe bluez-compat 4.32-0ubuntu4.1 [53.2kB]
Fetched 53.2kB in 2s (24.6kB/s)     
Selecting previously deselected package bluez-compat.
(Reading database … 124034 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking bluez-compat (from …/bluez-compat_4.32-0ubuntu4.1_i386.deb) …
Processing triggers for man-db …
Setting up bluez-compat (4.32-0ubuntu4.1) …
root@niju-dell:~# hidd –connect 00:07:61:EF:4B:49
root@niju-dell:~#

Done…

I found an interesting blog post by Neena Nair on Ubuntu