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openSUSE 13.2: Day-1 troubles and troubleshooting - VLC, wireless etcetera

Spent a considerable amount of time yesterday, configuring the system to my liking. Installed Virtualbox and VirtualBox Extension Pack to run the various virtual machines I have. Installed VLC hoping to watch a couple of movies during the weekend. Had a wonderful time installing wireless Broadcom BCM43228 driver. Wireless troubled

openSUSE 13.2 and Broadcom BCM43228 wireless: Driver woes in the Linux world

openSUSE 13.2 arrived in the beginning of November 2014. I was a bit too busy to try it. I found some free time yesterday and utilized it to install openSUSE on my workstation. My workstation is a Dell Optiplex 9020 with i7-4770 CPU, 32 GB RAM and Broadcom BCM43228

Text boot : Getting rid of bootsplash/Plymouth in Manjaro or Arch Linux

I like seeing my kernel spewing messages on my terminal when I boot my PC. I like the transparency, the openness. Having kernel messages visible can also help in understanding certain boot issues. This is how to get a completely GUI free/bootsplash free/plymouth free, fully terminal or text

The USING keyword in C#: How to clean unnecessary using directives in Visual Studio

using KEYWORD IN C# There are two ways of using the using keyword in C#: 1. As a statement 2. As a directive using KEYWORD AS A STATEMENT MSDN says the using keyword Provides a convenient syntax that ensures the correct use of IDisposable objects. This is also a way

Accessing USB devices from Virtualbox Windows guest on Linux host

This is one issue that had troubled me for long but was not important enough for me to put any effort into soving it. All this changed when I had to upgrade my BIOS on my Dell Optiplex 9020 machine. The problems are: * One cannot upgrade BIOS from a Linux

Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) and Logical Volume Manager (LVM) adventures: How upgrading to UEFI resulted in this epic post

This is a work-in-progress… It all started when I found my backup plan lacking in all ways imaginable. To be really honest, I never had one. This is not because I am digitally retarded or lazy (this is debatable) or lack resources. I did not have much to back up.

Conic Sections and the Double-Napped Cone: Apollonius of Perga, Rene Descarte, History of Mathematics etc.

I always thought Co-Ordinate Geometry had something to do with the Conic Sections’ being defined based on the Double-Napped cone. I believed Rene Descarte was the one who made that decision. I thought he did this to keep the definition symmetric about the origin of the [x, y, z] space.

Wordpress local installation on Arch Linux

Matthew Charles “Matt” Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984 in Houston, Texas) is an American online social mediaentrepreneur, web developer and musician living in San Francisco, California. He is best known for developing the free and open source web software WordPress, now managed by The WordPress Foundation. I thank you and

How mapping custom domain to Wordpress broke Zoho Mail

I started blogging on WordPress. A **wordpress.com **free blog gives the user a .wordpress.com address. Nothing wrong in that but to look more professional I decided to purchase a domain and map it to my WordPress blog. Everything worked beautifully or so I thought. I am working on

SUSE Studio: Create a custom Linux distribution with an openSUSE core

INTRODUCTION openSUSE is one of the most robust and thus respected Linux distributions. It is a very polished and professional distro. There are many options available when it comes to downloading openSUSE, but the most exciting feature that is available to the user is the ability to create a custom

Install FreeBSD 10.0 using memstick IMG file on Virtualbox

When FreeBSD 10.0 arrived, I headed straight to the FreeBSD website and downloaded the FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img file. I usually do not burn DVDs. It is just not flexible enough. Writing the installation media on to a USB is easiest thing to do when you are addicted to installing

Manjaro Linux on a Western Digital USB hardrive with sleep disorder ;)

This is a problem that had me baffled for a long time. I had, very long back, during the very initial days of Manjaro Linux, installed it on my Western Digital(WD) My Passport HD. WD My Passport is a 160GB yellow colored cute little thing. Everything worked great. Manjaro

Virtualbox on OpenSUSE 13.1: vboxdrv troubles and troubleshooting

I installed Virtualbox on my openSUSE 13.1 system using the following command sudo zypper in virtualbox I created a Windows 7 VM. Everything worked. I updated the system later and found Virtualbox reluctant to start. It simply said Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)” AND WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel

Virtualbox Guest Additions for Debian sid guest

The whole process is very simple: * Login as root or do a su root or better do a sudo * Update APT database with apt-get update * Update the system with apt-get dist-upgrade Note: The next step is needed the first time only * Install the following packages apt-get install build-essential module-assistant * On

Virtualbox Guest Additions for FreeBSD Guest

I had to test something on FreeBSD. I was not sure how the test would turn out. Virtual machines help a lot in this regard. Virtualbox is one of the best tools available that helps in creating virtual machines. I can easily create virtual machines on Virtualbox and test to

Manjaro Linux: So stable that it is boring!

How I got Manjaro: Arch Linux installation is a terrible pain in the butt. It was designed to be like that. Geeks and power users would not want it to be any different. Minimal and fully adhering to the KISS philosophy. I love Arch Linux and have it installed on