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Writing telugu(transliteration) using ibus in ubuntu 12.10

noreply@blogger.com (ravi) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:37:00 +0000

Ubuntu 12.10 uses ibus by default and scim is having some problems for telugu-rts(phonetic,transliteration typing). Other Indic scripts(Hindi, Tamil etc.) might have the same problem. For idiosyncrasies of working with indic transliteration, see this explanation. The following procedure works for telugu-rts.

$ sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n m17n-contrib
$ im-switch

Select ibus in the available input methods.
Logout and login. ibus daemon should to be started(ps xa | grep ibus).

$ ibus-setup
In "Input Method" tab, tick "Customize active input methods"
In "Select an input method" drop-down, select Telegu -> rts(m17n)
In some app(gedit etc. ), press ctrl+space(to select ibus) and start typing...

పండగ చేశుకో మరి
paMDaga chESukO mari

tixati: what uTorrent should have been

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:20:00 +0000

tixati is a cross platform (Linux, windows) torrent client with some good features. I am especially impressed with it's automatic bandwidth limiter (uTP). Also allows you to categorize torrents and manage transfers efficiently. It also provides deb packages and standalone executables and can run in portable mode. It lacks few features like remote control API and WebUI. But these things are in development queue. It looks promising and could become de facto BitTorrent client.

Download tixati from following link.

http://www.tixati.com/download/

apt-fast: Speedup ubuntu package downloads

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 21:03:00 +0000

apt-fast is a tool that allows you to download multiple packages at the same time. This speeds up installing/upgrading the packages. Execute following commands to add apt-fast ppa repository and install dependencies.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:apt-fast/stable
sudo apt-get -y update
sudo apt-get -y install apt-fast axel aria2

During installation choose either axel/aria2 for download manager and accept remaining defaults.

From now on use apt-fast in place of apt-get in package management commands.

Kernel with 200 line patch to improve responsiveness

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 07:40:00 +0000

Use following command to get new kernel version 2.6.37-8 with autogroup scheduler enabled.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.37-8 linux-headers-2.6.37-8-generic linux-image-2.6.37-8-generic

Source

Repo for installing latest version of nvidia drivers

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 07:07:00 +0000

Execute following commands to get latest version of nvidia drivers and have them automatically updaed.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-updates
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nvidia-current

Install Firefox 4 beta

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:26:00 +0000

Execute following commands to install firefox 4 beta.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install firefox-4.0

New features offered by Firefox 4

New Tab Location - Tabs are given top visual priority for more efficient and intuitive browsing.
Switch to Tab - Navigate more easily by switching to open tabs from your Awesome Bar.
Firefox Button - All your menu items are in a single button for easy access and reduced clutter.
Apps Tab - Take sites you always keep open—like Web mail--off your tab bar and give them a permanent home in your browser.

One of the fix to speed up firefox response time

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 09:20:00 +0000

Get rid of YSlow addon. Atleast run it in another profile so that it won't interfere with your regular browsing.

AcetoneISO - Daemon tools for ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:30:00 +0000

AcetoneISO allows you to mount/convert/extract NRG, ISO, DAA, BIN/CUE, DAT images.

Install AcetoneISO

Download loki game installers

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:09:00 +0000

Available games

enemy territory: quake wars

freespace

glest

heavy metal: fakk2

heroes of might and magic 3

unreal tournament 2003

unreal tournament 2004

vegastrike

Get lock installers for games.

Lucid Lynx Release Schedule

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:08:00 +0000

	Event Date:	Event Title:
	12/10/2009	Alpha 1
	01/14/2010	Alpha 2
	02/25/2010	Alpha 3
	03/18/2010	Beta 1
	04/08/2010	Beta 2
	04/22/2010	ReleaseCandidate
	04/29/2010	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

bisigi project - excellent ubuntu themes site.

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:16:00 +0000

Execute following command to setup bisigi ppa repo and install themes.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bisigi
sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install bisigi-themes

Get ubuntu themes at besigi project

Redshift xflux alternative

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 08:28:00 +0000

Get redshift.

Shortcut to add ppa repository

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:52:00 +0000

There is an easy command line way to add PPA repository and fetch GPG keys automatically.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:<repository-name>

Replace repository name with relavent PPA repository. For example if you want to add and setup gpg keys for kubuntu-experimental execute following command.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-experimental

F.lux - Save your eyes

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:51:00 +0000

F.lux allows you to auto adjust lightening of you monitor to ease strain on your eyes.

Download Linux version of F.lux.

Usage

xflux {-L <Latitue> | -z <zipcode>}

Source: F.lux

moovida - A media center solution that won't allow you to watch movies.

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:52:00 +0000

I am not really a fan of media center software but I wanted to organize all of my media in one location and play them as I pleased. I installed elisa as I once tried beta version of it with it's impressive user interface animation capabilities. Weird but I don't see Elisa entry any where in Ubuntu menu. Package info showed it only contains documentation files and README revealed some off-world creature called moovida.

The fun starts

Started moovida and it showed some vertical areas divided into movies, videos, music, etc. Now all I have to do is add my USB drive to moovida so that it will show some play lists but I couldn't find any option. Instead it scanned some random locations and added some random videos to "Unclassified Videos" in Videos section and I throughly verified whether they are by mistake "Area-51 alien interrogation videos". I couldn't find any option that said add a folder or add file or anything that remotely implied "import your sxxx". At this point of time I was really pissed and started googling how to add videos and it didn't give any results ever after adding f word.

After some googling...

Found it's the section called "Devices & Shares" where you add your media. After digging thorough it and losing all my patience I just started installing "XBMC" hoping it will let me add my media and give me feedback on what it's doing.

Fix unresponsive widgets in eclipse on ubuntu karmic

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:47:00 +0000

Execute following command before running eclipse. This bug affects wizards, button clicks, etc...

export GDK_NATIVE_WINDOWS=1

apt-cacher-ng - chache deb packages and sources.

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:42:00 +0000

To this date installing apt-cacher-ng is the most simple way to setup apt proxy in ubuntu.

Install apt-cacher-ng

sudo apt-get -y install apt-cacher-ng

Lets call the system which has apt-cacher-ng as server and other systems that are going to use this cache as client.

After installing the apt-cacher-ng on the server you have to make sure server it self uses this apt-proxy. You can do this by creating a file called /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy and enter following line and save the file.

Acquire::http { Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3142"; };

Now open terminal in client systems and create the same /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy file and enter the following code and save the file.

Acquire::http { Proxy "http://<server ip address>:3142"; };

Replace "< server ip address >" with real server ip address.

That's it all your apt fetch and updates will go through your apt proxy and you will save tons of bandwidth if you have multiple systems at work or home.

nethogs - Monitoring per application bandwidth usage on ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:38:00 +0000

nethogs allows you to see which application is consuming your network bandwidth. It has conventional interface like top command so lot of details about each process is displayed in tabular format. nethogs is available in ubuntu universe so no need of adding extra repo lines.

Install nethogs

sudo apt-get -y install nethogs

Usage

sudo nethogs <network interface name for eg: eth1>

SmarterFox : Imporove your browsing experience

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:30:00 +0000

SmarterFox learns site pagination systems and allows you to view other pages without even a single click.

These are the features offered by SmarterFox.

SmarterFox makes your address bar smarter by integrating Google search with awesome bar(address bar).
Save flash based content.
There is a quick launcher which allows you to open your favorite sites.
Search selected text in Google, Wikipedia and other sites.

Vim key bindings for gedit

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:34:00 +0000

There is a plugin called vigedit which provides vi emulation for gedit.

First execute following command to checkout the source from bazaar repo.

bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tristil/vigedit/main-method

Now go inside main-method folder and execute following command.

python install.py

Now open your gedit and goto Edit > Preferences > Plugins and check vigedit. Your gedit will turn into basic vi editor.

PySide : Nokia's offical python bindings for QT

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:31:00 +0000

Nokia started working on providing official python bindings for QT after talks with PyQt creators riverbank failed.

The new API is called PySide and it's available under LGPL license and going to maintain API compatibility with PyQt thus ensuing porting of existing PyQt applications with minimal or no changes. Nokia is going to provide pyside as an alternative option to develop mobile applications for next Maemeo 5 devices.

Get pyside

Getting KDE 4.3 on Ubuntu Jaunty

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:42:00 +0000

Add following two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports/ubuntu jaunty main
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/staging/ubuntu jaunty main

Execute following command to setup GPG keys and to update your apt package meta data.

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 8AC93F7A
sudo apt-get update

If you already have previous version of KDE execute following command.

sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade

If you don't have any KDE version already installed then execute following command.

sudo apt-get -y install kubuntu-desktop

Android apps site is LIVE.

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 06:57:00 +0000

Visit droidmill .

Unknown Horizons - RTS Game

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:10:00 +0000

Unknown Horizons is a RTS game focused on building your city and its economy, commerce.

Install Unknown Horizon

Add following source to your /etc/apt/sources.list file.

deb http://deb.unknown-horizons.org/ release main

Install GPG keys of the repo to confirm package authenticity.

wget http://deb.unknown-horizons.org/key && sudo apt-key add key

Now update your apt cache to fetch info about new packages and install Unknwn Horizons game.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y install unknown-horizons

State of netbook offerings and politics

noreply@blogger.com (Vamsee) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:03:00 +0000

We are seeing an invasion of netbook offerings from lot of vendors Acer,dell,hp,Intel, the list goes on with the impressive battery backup times. But everything boils down to either Intel atom processor with Intel chip set or ARM processor package.

State of Intel offerings

Many of Intel partners are competing against Intel using Intels own hardware. So to neutralize this threat and to make Intel offerings look much more attractive Intel is supplying hardware locked at lower frequency to its partners.

If you own an Atom based netbook with Intel hardware you may try GMABooster to remove these limitations.

Get GMABooster

State of Intel graphics

Every chip-set of Intel works well on Linux except chip-sets that use PowerVR based graphics acceleration. Since PowerVR doesn't have any track record of releasing open source video drivers, GMA 500 has very primitive driver support in Linux.

These are the things that I am able to uncover about Intels offering of netbooks. If you have more info on either Atom or ARM based netbooks please discuss here.