I’ve developed my own libraries for rapid development of PHP applications. Email library is one area which I didn’t feel like developing a library for. Just then, I remembered how simple and robust CodeIgniter’s Email class was. I decided to try it on my own script. It was not at all difficult to get it… Continue reading Using CodeIgniter’s Email library separately
[How-To] Move your Ubuntu Installation to new hard-drive
I had some hard-drive free space constraints and bought a new 500GB one. Now I wanted to transfer/migrate my current installation to the new hard-drive. Here’s how to do it. First we need to copy the complete filesystem to the new drive. Connect both the drives to your computer and boot using ubuntu live cd.… Continue reading [How-To] Move your Ubuntu Installation to new hard-drive
Recovering GRUB2 after hard-drive upgrade
I upgraded to a 500GB hard-drive and installed windows 7 on it. I then moved my current ubuntu installation from the older HDD to the newer one on another partition, but of course there was no bootloader to load it. I had GRUB2 on older hard drive. I googled about how to recover GRUB2 but… Continue reading Recovering GRUB2 after hard-drive upgrade
[Solved] Ath5k wifi module not working in Karmic Koala
I noticed was my wifi (Atheros AR5001/5007EG) stopped working after I upgraded to Karmic Koala. I searched endlessly on Google without any answer. Then, I remembered that Karmic comes with newer kernel 2.6.31. And ath5k kernel module hasn’t been loaded yet into this newer kernel. So, I simply executed modprobe ath5k in the terminal. And… Continue reading [Solved] Ath5k wifi module not working in Karmic Koala
Recovering from corrupt upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic
I was excited for the Karmic Koala (v. 9.10) which came out yesterday and I happily started the download and kept the computer switched on overnight for the download to complete. When I woke up, surely the download was completed and I went on to install the downloaded packages. Which the installation was taking place,… Continue reading Recovering from corrupt upgrade from Jaunty to Karmic
Killing Xorg, when things get out of control
Today I experienced a rather strange problem in Ubuntu. It crashed. Actually it wasn’t completely crashed, the mouse clicks weren’t working, I couldn’t switch using Alt+Tab, I could only use the program which was on the screen. The panels weren’t working, though the shortcut keys were. Fortunately enough, I had assigned shortcut key to open… Continue reading Killing Xorg, when things get out of control
[Solved] Synaptics touchpad horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu
My laptop has a synaptic touchpad and its horizontal scroll was not working ever since I moved to Ubuntu. I didn’t pay attention to it in the beginning as it was not much of a use. But later on it started bugging me so I finally decided to resolve this problem. Well, installing gsynaptics and… Continue reading [Solved] Synaptics touchpad horizontal scrolling in Ubuntu
[How-To] Change default application installation location on windows xp
So, you just want to keep a partition for Windows XP and another partition for all your applications that you install. You can change it in all the installations manually but changing the default location is a much better idea. And there are also some applications which don’t let you change the default path. XP… Continue reading [How-To] Change default application installation location on windows xp
Killing applications in Ubuntu
Well all OSes have bad programs, Linux has it too. Some times they stop responding and unlike windows, they don’t make the whole OS unresponsive. The application alone is unresponsive but you can still use other applications normally. Killing an unresponsive application is fairly easy job in Ubuntu. Bring the unresponsive application to the front,… Continue reading Killing applications in Ubuntu
Installing a web server package for PHP development
So, you thought you would make a web application but didn’t know where to start? This is the place to start. You need a web server installed on your computer before you start any kind of web programming be it PHP, ASP .Net, ColdFusion, JSP. For developing in PHP, you would have to install an… Continue reading Installing a web server package for PHP development