Today I had to provide an excel spreadsheet to some users with transaction information in it. Since they were not aware of the System, I wanted to highlight similar rows so that its easier for them to understand. Now I had around 30K rows for example and there were 5000 entities. This meant that for [...]

Its not always possible to purchase costly software which we use day to day on our PC’s. Reason I am saying so is there are so many free to use and opensource alternatives, that there is no such need to purchase the copyrighted ones In this post I will list down the ones which I [...]

How many times have you seen that a chkdisk operation runs and all of a sudden some of your most important folders with important files in it, got converted to a 32Kb file. I had such an experience where our marriage photographs contained in a folder were all gone! This was just unacceptable. So I [...]

As with everyone, I had tough time playing .mt2s files generated by my Sony handycam. Below solution helped me to play these files without problem. First install the latest version of VLC ( ref here Then install few restricted packages on Ubuntu ( ref here ) Now open VLC player and make few setting changes [...]

Last night started installing Vista 32bit on my Dell Inspiron 1525 and got the error “Windows is unable to find a system volume that meets its criteria for installation.”. It was quite strange, as installing windows it not rocket science I have Ubuntu installed on other partitions (/boot, /opt, / and swap ). Initially when [...]

While running VLC media player in Ubuntu 9.10 it may crash with the below error : VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x1043e78] main interface error: no interface module matched “globalhotkeys,none” [0x1043e78] main interface error: no suitable interface module [0xf48888] main libvlc error: interface “globalhotkeys,none” initialization failed [0xf48888] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. [...]

Totem does not play the avi/divx codec movies out of the box. There is a workaround. Even if trying to install missing plugins, it fails. Solution : Add rpmfusion free and non-free repositories from here Once its done, install VLC player (Don’t criticize me yet, there is more ). For some reason after you open [...]

Dell does not provide supported drivers for Vista 64 bit. For the Graphics card 965, when you select 32bit to download and install, it does not work The resolution is simple. Go to the Intel support site here and check the compatible driver for your install and you are done!!! PS : User internet explorer [...]

Comment the below lines in /etc/rc.sysinit if [ ! -d /proc/bus/usb ]; then modprobe usbcore >/dev/null 2>&1 && mount -n -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb else mount -n -t usbfs /proc/bus/usb /proc/bus/usb fi Restart the PC and you are done. I now happily access my Nokia E61i through Nokia PC Suite! -Abhi

Initialize the Front volume to 0dB with $alsactl init One that is done, reset the master volume to 100 (using arrow keys) $alsamixer -c0 Ref:Click here