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.
Freedomwalk is a novel initiative for popularizing Free Software in Kerala. The freedom walkers reached our college yesterday. We organized a small function welcoming the walkers. Here are some snaps of the function.
When ever I recommend Ubuntu as an alternate desktop to my students and colleagues, they say that it is not possible to read Malayalam news papers on internet with it. Most of the (silly) Malayalam news papers use Indic scripts with proprietary encoding. They will render only if you install the fonts properly. This post… Continue reading Padma: A Transformer for Indic Scripts
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
We run our college lab on LTSP built on Debian Etch. Today, one of our students inadvertently ran a fork bomb and the entire lab was stuck. We had to reboot the system. On examining the code , it was found that he put fork system call in an infinite loop. A fork bomb is… Continue reading Fork bomb