Fix : No sound on Ubuntu (16.04) after a Bluetooth audio device power off.
Problem : After Bluetooth speakers were abruptly switched off, Ubuntu 16.04 on Alienware (17 R2) stopped producing sounds on its analog sound card. Reason : Dou...
Author: Kj
Kj [/.] Sreekumar programs computers as a hobby and profession. Into programming from his school days, Sree uses Codemarvels to key in facts and fixes he finds interesting while working on different projects. Some of the articles here give away a few shades of his philosophical leanings too.
Add Desktop Shortcut in Ubuntu
Here’s how to create a desktop shortcut in Ubuntu – Go to the location of the file you want to access from Desktop (using the file explorer)....
Number system in Treta Yuga
These interesting slokas from Ramayana, gives an understanding of the number system used during Thretha yuga शतम् शतसहस्राणाम् कोटिमाहुर्मनीषिणः || शतम् कोटिसहस...
Installing Ubuntu on Alienware 17 R2
Heres how I could get my Alienware 17 working on Ubuntu – Connect the machine to Internet using a LAN cable. Change these after entering BIOS setup...
Ravana – that decent guy. really ?
The real reason why Ravana did not use force on Sita devi. Taken from conversation between Ravana and his step brother Mahaparshva – महापार्श्व निब...
Inducing intention into passive consciousness
धर्मात्मा सत्यसन्धश्च रामो दाशरथिर्यदि पौरुषे च अप्रतिद्वन्द: शरैनं जहि रावणिं प्रत्यक्ष गद्यार्थ = हे शर: यदि दाशरथि: राम: धर्मात्मा सत्यसन्ध: च पौरुषे अप्र...
SreeVidya Sanskrit transliterator, a powerful tool for the bilingual Indians
I’m writing this article to introduce an interesting new tool – SreeVidya. What is SreeVidya ? SreeVidya is a software tool originally written to t...
Why are Indians good in software ?
I’m prompted to write this article, after I read this piece of information from a blog – Once the founder of Infosys, NarayanaMurthy was asked this ...
Ant-apt-repo : An ant task to create apt repository from .deb files
This is a simple Ant task (hosted here) to create an apt repository from within an Ant project. It is ported from the maven plugin – theoweiss/apt-repo. T...
How to use old an android phone as a wireless speaker ?
I recently converted an otherwise useless old android phone into wireless speakers (complementing an old wired 2.1 speaker-set I had). The setup needs two phone...