Enter Crush/Crash

Hi All,

What happens the day - your enter key on your laptop or on your desktop keyboard stops working!!!!!!

No worries.... For most critical things like even logging to a box could be done with your tab key.

Try it out.

Enjoy...

Thanks,
Ananth Gouri

Knoppix 6.0 / Adriane 1.1

Hi All,

I wanted to try the new Knoppix 6.0. I had downloaded it and I went to Virtual-run-it.

Oh my...I had a very hard time... - the reason, I had downloaded the German Version of Knoppix. Thanks to my experience with Linux Tweaks...Only this helped me and my 5% knowledge of German Language too.

Knoppix... Truly German!!!!

Thanks,
Ananth Gouri

Then Fedora...Now Debian....

Hi All,

This is a nostalgic post....

I started my Linux Career with Fedora Core 1. Yes..the first release of present Fedora. Thanks to my lecturer - who gave me the 4 CDs of FC1.

From then on, there is no looking back. But unfortunately after I got the taste of Debian Etch (Debian 4.0), I never felt like going back to Fedora.

Does not the Debian OS rock? What you say???

But nevertheless, I am very grateful to both Fedora and Debian, without which I would not have got this kind of twist in life....

Long live Fedora and Debian.... :)

Thanks,
Ananth Gouri

Adaptive Multi-Rate, aka AMR

Hi All,

I am observing that I have been writing only once a week. Sorry for that.

Coming to the point, this post explains as to how to deal with .amr files in Linux.

AMR is the acronym for Adaptive Multi Rate. Please read the wikipedia for more info.

The best way to make people familarise with this format is - if you record any sound or any voice in your Sony Ericsson or in your Nokia phones - it is saved as a .amr file.

But what if you may want to play that file in your computer?

Linux way:

1. Install ffmpeg with libopencore-amrnb support.
2. After install, convert the amr file to mp3 and listen in any player that plays mp3.

AMR to MP3 Conversion command:

ffmpeg -i filename.amr -ar 22050 filemp3.mp3

The Windows way:

1. Download either of these freewares from a. www.amrplayer.com or b. www.amrtomp3coconverter.com
2. Install the downloaded files and convert the files to mp3 and enjoy.

Hope you folks enjoyed this post.

Thanks,
Ananth Gouri

Ananth says sorry

Hi All,

Sorry for not posting a blog post till July 7th (IST).

These days I am getting busier and busier. I am leading a project for my entire business unit - which is also equivalent of leading it to the Sabre worldwide. So you may understand how busy and hectic I am these days.

Also I wont write during the weekends as I travel to my hometown and I dont want to write anything there or do anything - except to talk with my parents all time.

But all these do not mean that I will stop blogging or anything like that. Keep reading and I will write whenever time permits me to write.

The Asia's first Linux Magazine - Linux For you Editor, Mr. Rahul Chopra too requested me to write for his newly created site and also for the magazine. Even to him and to all those other folks who want me to help them on Linux Stuff - I have told them all that I can work only in my free time and not anytime else.

I also plan to create a new site all together - by paying for a domain and et al. If you folks have any ideas or thoughts - let me know.

Also I plan to start a forum for this blog in particular. If anyone knows as to how to integrate a forum to a blogger - do let me know.

Thanks in advance to those folks.

You can write to me at ananth.gouri@gmail.com.

I will help you folks to as much as possible.

Thanks once again for visiting this blog and keeping it alive till now.

Take care and good night,
Ananth Gouri

Signatures and Certificates

Hi All,

This post lets you know as to how to add Certificates[vCards] and Signatures for your Thunderbird / Icedove.

After you have a working Icedove a/c, adding Signatures and Certificates to your outgoing mails is pretty simple.

Follow these:

1. Go to Edit -> Account Settings.
2. Click onto your A/C.
3. Check the Add vCard checkbox and Edit the card and add your info.
4. For a signature, after you check the checkbox, browse to the image that you may want to add.

Isn't it simple?????


Thanks,
Ananth Gouri

fstab

Hi All,

This post teaches you as to how to auto-mount your Windows partitions to your Linux machine.

Follow these steps:

1. sudo through and cd to /media/ via your konsole.
2. Create folders using mkdir command and create the total number of Windows partitions as your folders.
3. If you have C drive, D drive and E drive, create 3 folders inside /media/ as C:, D: and E:
4. Edit the fstab command and type the following into it:

/dev/sda1 /media/C: fat32 rw,auto,user 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/D: fat32 rw,auto,user 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/E: fat32 rw,auto,user 0 0

Notes:

1. If you are having an old computer with IDE harddisks, sda* will be replaced with hda*
2. You can mount your drives to any folders. Not required that you have to do it to /media/
3. This script works for Windows installed in Fat32 format only.
4. I suggest you not to mount your C drives. Usage and its circumstances are left to the user.
5. If you can observe the "user" word in the lines, this gives permissions to the user group of Linux.

After finishing editing the file, save it and then issue the command "mount -a", for 'mount all'

Thanks,
Ananth Gouri