It seems GNU/Linux will never be treated with dignity under UEFI. The sorrow adds up when vendors fail to maintain uniformity in UEFI implementation.
Coming to the post, I recently came across Acer Aspire ES 11(ES1-132-C5UF) laptop, surprisingly, all peripherals seems to work with Kubuntu 16.04 Live USB.
Yes, I used to index videos on a text file. My intelligent high-tech solution, however ancient, well helped me to a great extent.
Recently, I found Moments Tracker plugin in VLC media player. I felt embarrassed for not searching this earlier.
To install simply download this lua file and copy to
sudo cp 168031-moments_tracker_V1.lua /usr/share/vlc/lua/extensions/
Restart your VLC and navigate to view -> moments tracker.
The Linux Multimedia Studio(LMMS) is one of the widely used synthesizers in the free world. The default installation is straightforward, however, I noticed on my Ubuntu 14.04 64bit machine, the VeSTige plugin(VST) wasn’t loading at all!
The support for 64bit version was luckily found in PPA by IRIE Shinsuke.
There have been various attempts to port Python on microcontrollers. The power of interpreted language cannot be kept in darkness.
Projects like Pymite, WiPy, micropython have demonstrated the concept on real microcontrollers. Among the mentioned projects micropython offers port for most affordable hardware, esp8266.
The esp8266 family can be programmed in lua, AT, C as well. In fact, Python implementation is under rapid development.
Have you ever used web-based grammar tool? There are plenty, they help you learn from your mistakes.
Being a vim user, I couldn’t resist myself to explore various such tools for my
life. Sadly, there were few. In fact, only worth mentioning, LanguageTool.
NS3 is a discrete event network simulator, which is widely use for the research in the network domain. The advantage of using NS3 instead of NS2 is that we can code using c++, while the prior one is based on TCL. In this post we will cover the installation of this on Ubuntu 14.04.
Xmpp stands for eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, Its a widely used communication protocol. In this blog I will use Openfire an opensource xmpp server.
Asterisk is opensource telephony switching exchange service for linux. In this blog I am using FreePBX install on centos 6.5.
In this blog I assume that user has already install openfire and asterisk server on linux machines. So I will start with creating a user in openfire and intregate my opefire server with asterisk server and in finally we will able to call from sip phone to xmpp client.
Most embedded filesystems(rootfs) are build with debootstrap or Linaro. Let’s explore a third possibility with core-ubuntu filesystems. Continue Reading…
In a recent encounter with a third party deb package, I ran into a dependency issue. The only way to come out was to edit the list of dependencies and try my luck.
Let’s download a sample deb package which is no longer supported in Ubuntu-14.04 (may be even earlier releases too). Continue Reading…
Some of the applications has the dependency of python2.6 and for the ubuntu12.04 which has python2.7 we need to perform following steps. To run those application with python2.6 Continue Reading…
