Archive for May, 2008
A mouse fable
A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package… “What food might this contain?” The mouse wondered – he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is [...]
Install java jdk jre in Ubuntu(linux)
Just when i installed UBUNTU in my virtual machine i looked for my development applications. And the prime need was JAVA, the language in which i talk these days :p So people like me, who are LINUX aspirant, and want to lean more about it, start by using java. A simple command in the console [...]
Disable System Beep in UBUNTU
Hiya guys, I know its annoying when UBUNTU makes system beep. Well you can disable it using a simple command. sudo rmmod pcspkr And now if you want to enable it use the command: sudo modprobe pcspk Cheerss !!
The plastic pearl necklace
Here is a short sweet story that will help people to move on in your life. Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace and when she asked [...]
Microsoft’s answer to Google Sky
(13 May 2008, 1057 hrs IST,REUTERS) SEATTLE: Any Star Trek fan knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make traveling the “final frontier” as simple as turning on your computer. The world’s largest software maker launched a free software application called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that allows everyone from [...]
Who is realin? Meaning of Realin ? What is Realin ?
Hiya All, This post will have very few readers, cause those who know me will only read it. People always ask me who is realin or what does the word “Realin” mean in literal sense. Well it ofcourse is not a dictionary word, in lieu it is a word which i generated as a code [...]
Disable Vista System Beep
Hiya, Just a small tweak wanted to share with you guys, i will tell you how to mute/stop that shrill System beep in Windows vista, that you sometimes get to hear when working with MS DOS :p 1) Open Device Manager (Shortcut key windows key+break) 2) Goto view and click “show hidden devices “ 3) [...]
