Monday, May 14, 2012

Photos into BIG posters!


Go to www.blockposters.com
  • Proceed Step 1 by uploading your photo and click the continue button.
  • Next you can adjust how large you want your poster by adjusting the page width, then click continue.
  • Now you can download your photo as a PDF file.
  • Take print of your pages.
You are done!

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Wireless connection in Ubuntu


For this you need to click on Network-manager applet and see if you can see you
wireless there. If not, enable wireless driver from System > Administration > Hardware drivers.
Now coming to your modem settings, best solution is to configure it for "pppoe" mode.
( You can do it through Windows too, if you wish to )
1. Connect the modem with your computer with the LAN cable and turn it on.
2. Open your Browser ( Firefox ) and type 192.168.1.1 in the address bar. Type the username and password as “admin”.
3. After logging in, click Advance Setup on L.H.S. menu.
4. A table appears, check the checkbox in the first row showing "pvc 0" under the head remove, then click Remove button at the bottom.
5. Click Add, ensure the "vci" value as 35 , click Next.
6. Select the connection type as "PPPOE" , click Next.
7. Type your broadband username, password provided by your ISP and service name as multiplay, click Next.
8. Click next to reach the last page, click Apply/Save. 
9. Save and Reboot at the bottom of the table, wait for approx. 3 min. to automatically reboot the modem. After the modem reboots, confirm the stability of DSL light, after it becomes stable, you can start using your internet connection.

sudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
nm-system-settings.conf tab will open:
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
no-auto-default=00:13:a9:61:9d:9d,
[ifupdown]
managed=false
Change this "false" to true.
Save, exit.
Then restart Networking.
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Sunday, October 9, 2011

initramfs ERROR!

Your PC starts and shows boot screen like:

intramfs:


Some reasons:
  1. Maybe you play around with your drives.
  2. Maybe with some other OS.
  3. Maybe there was an abnormal shutdown.

How to solve it:
  1. Boot with any live cd.
  2. Run >  sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda1 (if sda1 is your main partition; where your linux is installed)
    It will show the output regarding your sda1 drive.
    If you want to identify which is your primary partition
    Run > sudo fdisk -l
  3. Run > sudo fsck -yV /dev/sda1
fsck - file system check; you can read more about it by man fsck in terminal.

After that, restart your computer.
Your file system is repaired.