Archive for December, 2008

Amarok-Music Tracker for pidgin

There is a music tracker plugin that comes along with the pidgin 30 plugins.. but that doesn’t work good for me and i use only amarok for music. So i decided to write myself a music tracker. A file in .purple/status.track in the home folder is used to keep track of the available and away [ READ MORE ]

Coding gets simple

Yeah.. Coding gets simple with the amazing language ruby.. my new love.. Thanks to Yukihiro Matsumoto for creating it and Titty sir (My project guide at college) to introducing me to it. Sounds like an affair? For me who often forget syntaxes this one is an awesome one.. 10.times do |x| puts x end It [ READ MORE ]

Anniversary Post

Ahh.. actually there is nothing to post.. this is just a post to mark 1year of this blog[ READ MORE ]

Finally stickers for the laptop..

I got a laptop from my aunt in US in the begining of november.. But since the university exams were going on i never had time to really juice it.. Here is the config of the laptop: * 15.4″-diagonal widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) UltraBright™ LCD screen * Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5750 operating [ READ MORE ]

Correcting the brightness of gateway m6827

On ubuntu the brightness keys don’t work out of the box. So you will need to edit the video_brightnessup and video_brightnessdown on /etc/acpi Change the files to the following /etc/acpi/video_brightnessup.sh CURRENT=`cat /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness` case "$CURRENT" in 7) echo -n 7 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness; ;; 6) echo -n 7 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness; ;; 5) echo -n 6 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness; [ READ MORE ]

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Cyriac Thomas

A GNU/Linux enthusiast, Amateur Photographer, Design enthusiast who loves simplicity. An active tweeter @cyriacthomas.

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