I was teaching a Linux system administration course last week at College of Engineering Chengannur. While  I was demonstrating openssh one of the participants logged on the my demo machine remotely and  ejected the cdrom drive with eject. He then asked me how to close the drive from command line. I said i don’t know.… Continue reading Eject and the autamated cat feeder.

One of my students brought a BSNL WLL phone saying that it is not getting recognized on Ubuntu 8.04. The model of the phone was HTL Clarity ( I suspect it to be some Chinese phone). I plugged it into my ubuntu system and fonund out the usb id via the lsusb command. The id… Continue reading Internet via BSNL WLL phone on Ubuntu

I have been provided with a new Lenovo ThinkCentre  M series machine  at my office. The machine has decent specs like Pentium dual core. 1GB RAM and 160GB  hdd.  It came preloaded with windows vista. As I use Linux , I partitioned the hard disk and installed  ubuntu8.04.  Unfortunately  sound is not working under Ubuntu.… Continue reading Installing OSS4 on Ubuntu 8.04