Today I purchased a domain www.saivin.com and a linux hosting plan from ZnetIndia.
I created a subdomain, glogs.saivin.com and have transferred all the posts of my wordpress blog saivin.wordpress.com to here.
The process is very simple. In the Dashboard, we should go to Tools. Select Export. Here we can create a Wordpress Xtended RSS or WXR as WordPress calls it. We need to save it to our harddrive. Next, we should login to the blog where we want to import these posts, categories and other settings. There again go to Tools in the Dashboard. Choose to upload the xml file and once uploaded it asks us to create a new user who can edit those posts or map(permitting) an existing user to do so. Since both were my own blogs I selected Map option. Bingo… all my posts are under my new blogsite…!
Happy glogging… 
December 24th, 2008 in
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Man, JWM is cool………………………….
All we need to start rocking with jwm is to install jwm and edit the jwm configuration file .jwmrc.
If a newbie like me can hack my desktop just by reading the .jwmrc file and making changes here and there, imagine what the real hacks can do with it…
Man, this is the power of open source…
Joe, I love you…!
I wanted to include the screenshots of my hacks. But I don’t know how to get the menus-submenus with the GNOME screenshot tool. The X screenshot tool is more difficult to use. Let me see, once I learn how to get screenshots I will share them with all.
This is all I could manage for the time being…
First JWM Screenshot
December 23rd, 2008 in
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Sidux has released 2008-04. Although sidux is not as famous as its brother Ubuntu (both are from the same parent, Debian), it appeals to the geeks nevertheless. It is touted as Debian Hot & Spicy! Its a distro that is based on the development branch ‘Sid’ of Debian. So its like having a bleeding edge Debian. Ofcourse we can achieve the same amount of updatedness by tweaking Debian. But when somebody does this job for us, why bother?
I haven’t tried sidux yet. Will try to use it. esp the Xfce version. I don’t want to stress my modest box with bloated kde…
We Indians love spicy food. Let me check out how much tasty Sidux truely is…
December 23rd, 2008 in
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I had installed PC BSD few days back. Did not get to work with much.
Today removed the initial user account I had created and then created a new user account. The process of managing accounts is diffrent in pcbsd. For ex: The command for creating a user account just is adduser not adduser <username>. Once we run ‘adduser’ A series of questions are asked including the username. One irritating question which I felt was whether to lock out account immediately after creation. Ofcourse the default was ‘no’. But why have it? I don’t understand the logic behind it.
To remove the command is not deluser<username> or userdel <username>. Its rmuser <username>.
Ok, now everything looked fine with the default setup untill I happened to open the ‘Terminal’. For some reason the application kept crashing. Wanted to ask in the pcbsd forums. But the account was not yet activated. Am expecting the mail regarding the same. My net connection is slow today.
December 21st, 2008 in
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Mostly when we navigate to a page containing Kannada (or indeed any indic) fonts the fonts are illegible. To have legible fonts esp please visit the kannada wikipedia page at: http://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%B5%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%95%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AA%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%A1%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%AF:Kannada_Support
The illegibe stuff above is actually the word ‘wikipedia’ in Kannada font!
The better would be to do a google search.
According to the above mentioned wikipedia all I did was to install ttf-kannada-fonts. i.e. at the terminal execute:
sudo apt-get install ttf-kannada-fonts
Once installation is done. Log out and log back in (Restarting firefox may work, I don’t know)…
Enjoy viewing Kannada in Ubuntu…
I was in ‘linuxquestions.org’ forums and happened to stumble upon a post related to AcerOne and Linpus Linux… this led me into discovering a new (?) desktop environment…the LXDE-Leight Weight X11 Desktop Environment…
I got curious and just googled for their site. Once in there I moved to their wiki and got to know that a lot of distros ship this DE. I wonder how I have not heard about it. I had heard about most of them, openbox, fluxbox, blackbox,…not lxde!?
Reading their wiki told me that I can have LXDE just by running: sudo apt-get install lxde
I could hardly resist the temptation and installed LXDE. It uses GDM and all we need to do is to click on Select Session and choose LXDE from the list. The look and feel is almost like Vista. Even there is a text editor called ‘LeafPad’ which looks more like an enhanced version of ‘Notepad’! So much similarity.
But I must admit all the programs loaded in a zip…Will anyway test it and come back with some of my reviews
December 20th, 2008 in
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I tried to play video files. There are codecs and they play but while playing there is a greenish tint… Don’t know why it is so. Need to ask in the forums or irc.
Anyway I wanted to install my favourite VLC player. I went to the site and was redirected to alien bob’s slack build for VLC 0.8.6i. I did not know how to use it so I downloaded vlc*tgz but when I untared it found a script file, vlc Slackbuild… I ran that file and got to know it requires YASM… don’t know what it is… searched net and found it. Installed it and tried to run the install script again. This time it started workig but it took ages…about 35 m to compile after about 20 m to download the dependencies… total of about 55 m…wtf…? Even the Slack’s installation had not taken this long. Was there anything wrong with what I did? If it was successful I was supposed to get a pkg and a txt file in the /tmp directory. Nothing I got… they was an error msg but could not copy it.
Anyway will again try to run the script next time when I have enough time… I _want_ to install VLC this way…
December 20th, 2008 in
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Today I installed Slackware 12.1 in my desktop. It was a pretty simple affair (atleast it is so if you keep to the defaults). Tweaking the system to one’s needs may require some experience but the defaults are just effective. Whenever there are choices, they are explained in a fluid manner so that making right choices (or sticking to the defaults) will not be all that difficult.
The installation went smooth but I had not choosen to install lilo. I prefer my Debian’s Grub for booting. So, no matter what distro I install, I always edit my Debian’s menu.lst file and boot from it. But in most distros we are not taken to root prompt after the installation (atleast in the distros I have worked). In Slack we are. In my earlier installation (Slackware 11) I had rebooted, logged into Debian, mounted Slack partition to know the lettering for vmlinuz and initrd and then had edited the menu.lst. This time however I mounted my Debian partition while in Slack’s root prompt and edited menu.lst to include Slack details and rebooted. It worked! Easier way…Good…!
Once installed I had problem with my sound server. I got an error message…
I opened a terminal and looked into my /etc/group (earlier I had a similar problem with Fedora). My user account was not part of the group ‘audio’. So I added my account to this group and logged out and logged back in. The sound started working.
Since the Slack comes with mp3 codecs, I could enjoy my mp3 collection as soon as this sound server problem was solved.
However the video does not play properly. It plays but has greenish display. Wanted to check whats wrong with it in the net. When I tried to connect to intenet I got to know that my network is not setup properly and I am not able to connect to net.
Again, opened the terminal and executed ‘ifconfig’. Found there was no entry for my ethernet card. Did ‘ifconfig eth0 up’. It detected my card but still the ip was not taken. Then did Looked into man page for ifconfig, dhcp, dhclient. For a good measure ran ‘netconfig’ setup DHCP. But still it did not seem to connect to internet. Then tried ‘dhclient’. Rebooted the system and lo… my net connection was up and running… Dont’t know if rebooting after ‘netconfig’ itself would have solved the problem…
It is my personal opinion that Slack is certainly not an out-of-the-box linux distribution. It is not very kind to a novice. But at the same time, it gives ample opportunity to learn about the system. In order to get my internet connection get going I opened man pages for many commands and by reading them came to know a lot of things. At the end of the day I not only got what I wanted but also learned a lot about the system.
Slack demands time and attention, but in return gives linux knowledge…hmmm…not a bad bargain afterall…
December 20th, 2008 in
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Hello World! This is Sai Vinoba here… This blog (or glog as I prefer to say) exits to satisfy by geek urge… Its an expression of my geek personality…
To know more about me visit Who am I? page.
December 20th, 2008 in
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