Synopsis: The culprit is the username and password. Just use “internet” as both the username and password for connecting A few days ago, I was looking around for a wireless internet connection. I searched for various options and ended up choosing Tata Indicom as my service provider. I already had my hands on Reliance and BSNL. So I chose Tata. When I went to the Tata Indicom Centre near my place, they had a modem kept for demo. So, to [...]
Today morning as I was walking to the college, I was remembering those days when DOS games like Dangerous Dave and Prince were the best in town (They still are in my opinion). I still remember booting MSDOS from floppy, black screen no mouse or speakers and playing games like Dave was a bliss! Looking back, I think Dave was the first game that I played. Suddenly after many years, I was reminded of those cute games – Dave and [...]
Do you want to automatically log into ubuntu or any other GNU/Linux desktop and still have the screen locked for safety? May be to speed up the login in a way? Or so that you don’t have to wait until the desktop is setup? Here is what you can Do: 1. Go to System > Preferences > Startup Applications and add the following: Name: Lock Screen Command: gnome-screensaver-command -l 2. Go to System > Administration > Login Screen and Have [...]
This is a very common question that I come across. Yesterday, I had to change my MAC address temporarily to get internet access on my laptop (More details cannot be disclosed) I really do not have much idea on how to change a MAC address on window. May be you can google, download a tool for the same. You are really not sure if the software you downloaded is a trojan, virus or some kind of a malware! If you [...]
A few days back, I installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx and had this strange problem which i never faced before! When i opened the terminal to install a few softwares like vlc and ubuntu-restricted-extras, like always I typed: sudo apt-g<TAB> But to my surprise, the auto complete option did not work at all! On pressing the TAB button once, i should have got: sudo apt-get Now I had to check the issue because the auto completion is important to me! [...]
