Merry Christmas

Hi all,

Wish you a merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Ho ho ho... family time. ;)

- Cheers

Accident

I met with an accident while I was working at a lab of EMPA, Switzerland.
Two of my fingers were squeezed between the cover of a kneader, accidentally loosing the grip of the cover.
So I will be out of work until 5th Jan 2009. Sad about that. Will be alone at home. :(

Projects

Hey,

Currently working on 2 projects.

1. Synthesis of a materials of high strength low weight to mix with cement.
2. Synthesis of micro/nano tubes of ceramic/polymer composite for textile use.

Really interesting projects.

-cheers

An interesting night of snow...

I really loved to see snow... Yes that dream became true... :)
It's cold but it's exciting...

In Switzerland

Hey folks,

I am now in Switzerland doing my university internship at EMPA, Switzerland.
This is a really nice experience.

Having fun. :)

-cheers

Upgraded to Intrepid Ibex

I was using Ubuntu 8.04 or Hardy Heron. Suddenly I got an enthusiasm to upgrade the system to the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) although it not still stable. So now I'm on it (upgraded)

I love the NewHuman theme it has. Since it is still not the final release it has some shortcomings.

-cheers

Remove Wine Entries From Menu (Ubuntu)

1. Locate the folder ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs

2. Locate the program entry you want to remove.

3. Remove the *.desktop file

Have Fun
-Cheers

Colored Gold

White gold and yellow gold are the most common types of gold colors used in jewelry making. But did you know that, various other colors of gold are also available and some of these colors may surprise you.

For example, have you heard of purple gold, or black gold and even blue gold? It is quite likely that you might have never heard of these gold colors. Here are the details of the various gold colors used in gold jewelry production in recent times.

However these attractive gold colors have some disadvantages over normal carat gold alloys. Read this complete report before you make any decision on ordering colored gold jewels.

Remove Blogger Navigation Bar

http://blogger-templates.blogspot.com/2005/01/remove-navbar.html

This is a great tutorial for removing the navigation bar, which appears on the top of a blog. Blogger is really great and really flexible. :-)

Ubuntu-restrcited-extra

in ubuntu-restricted-extras installation I get an error from msttcorefonts.

I used "sudo dpkg --configure -a"

the problem was solved.

Pleasing Appearance for Gnome Apps on KDE 4.1

1. Install gtk-qt-engine-kde4
2. Go to System-Settings -> Appearance -> GTK Styles and Fonts
3. Select Use my KDE style in GTK applications option
4. Apply, log off and log on to KDE.

Parent link:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/07/30/install-kde-41-in-ubuntu-and-make-gtk-applications-look-good/

KDE 4.1 - Add a Desired Application to the Panel

There was a very very very little argument with a friend of mine (Gav) :), how to add a desired launcher to the panel. At that time as he and I felt there is no a simple way to do that. I admitted at that time. But not now. :) simply because I found a very simple way to add such a launcher to the panel. I wonder why it didn't come into my mind earlier.

How to do it...

1. Get the Menu editor (by right clicking on the application launcher)
2. Then select the desired place that you want to add the launcher. (Say -- Development)
3. Click "New Item" on menu bar and put the desired name for your launcher.
4. Then do all the configurations you want. (Name, Command, Icon, etc...)
5. Save and exit the KDE Menu Editor.
6. Now click on desktop or on panel and Unlock widgets.
7. Then click on application launcher, go to Applications then find the launcher you newly added. (in my case its under Development sub category)
8. Right click on the launcher of your desire and select "Add to Panel" to add that launcher to the Panel.

That's all...Enjoy... Hope you have any comments... :)

How to Enable Desktop Cube on KDE.

Some days ago, I was discussing with Thilanka(one of my best friends), how to enable 4 desktops(or desktop cube) on KDE. because he dad a problem with compiz. only 2 desktops were working. :) cube couldn't be activated.

Then when I moved to KDE 4.1 from Gnome, I got the same problem. So I search a bit and observed that number of tools to configure compiz including the default one desktop-effects-kde, which is called Desktop Effects on the menu.

How I resolved the problem...
1. I installed simple-ccsm which is called Simple CompizConfig Settings Manager.
2. From simple-ccsm, I selected Medium Effects from profile. Then applied.
(Now compiz is working, but only 2 desktop are enabled. So then what...?)
2. Go to Desktops tab on simple-ccsm, then do following
- Appearance
Desktop cube
- Desktop columns
scroll it to 4
- Desktop rows
scroll it to 1

So now on Desktop preview you can see four desktops. Now it should finely work.

There may be other easier methods to do this. But I hope this would be helpful for someone. I prefer to know, how to do that manually. Anyone knows?

Disabling Textured Video Flickering

One way I've found to resolve the "flickering 3D windows" is to enabled the "Extra WM actions" and bind "toggle redirect" (I use R). When the app starts then you can toggle redirect and it'll run fine.

Proxy configuration in Kubuntu

Open up the terminal so we can edit a couple of files. Kate is just a text editor, use whatever you like, gedit, vim, whatever. This command will open apt.conf file in Kate as root.

$ sudo kate /etc/apt/apt.conf

Comment # out what is already there and add your proxy. Should look like below with your auth info:

#Acquire { http { Proxy 'false'; }; };
Acquire::http::Proxy "http://usern: passwd@proxy.domain.com:port_num";

Links

http://tuxenclave.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/how-to-install-gfx-grub-in-ubuntu/

Useful Links

Configure ATI open source driver

FOSS - "Free Speech, not Beer"

Creating startup scripts 1
Creating startup scripts 2

How to install Enlightenment 17 on ubuntu

tor and vidalia

Back again

Hey...
I am back now after a long time...Configuring and examining features of Hardy Heron(Ubuntu) these days. And too preparing for the mentoring program in the university.

More posts with useful links will be posted here.

- have a nice day
- cheers