Fix : Touchpad not working in Ubuntu
Could fix the touch-pad of my Ubuntu system which went off due to an unknown reason with these commands – Sreekumar KjSreekumar (KJ) has been a hobby prog...
Author: Sreekumar Kj
Sreekumar (KJ) has been a hobby programmer from school days. Codemarvels is his personal blog from the year 2010, where he writes about technology, philosophy, society and a bit about physics.
He now runs a conversational AI company - DheeYantra - focusing his efforts to help businesses improve operational efficiency using digital employees powered by AI.
Gnome : Bring back the maximize and minimize buttons
On terminal run : gnome-tweak-tool In the dialog that pops up – Select Windows tab from the left panel. In the right panel under Tilebar buttons section – Set M...
Ubuntu: Load a disk on startup – the GUI way
On terminal run sudo gnome-disks In the dialog box that opens, choose the disk to mount from the left panel. In the right panel click on the gears icon In the p...
Take care of this when you buy a new laptop bag..
Just thought of sharing this. If you buy a new laptop bag, you have to be careful to remove the small sachets that contain small silica balls (or whatever they ...
Spring boot + Websockets : Connection getting closed by itself.
Problem : Getting the message “Websocket already in CLOSED or CLOSING state” from browser console after sending the first message. Reason: The packet size is la...
UTF-8 breaks on Ubuntu (minimal install) server applications
Problem : UTF-8 content is displayed and treated as garbage (eg: DL4J vector search misses all the time) Reason: User’s default encoding not set to UTF-8. Fix: ...
Fixed : “Json Array should begin with [” error on UTF-8 or UTF-16 files
Problem : JSON file which store top level JSON arrays just wouldn’t parse (using org.json library), and gives out an error message like – “Json Array should beg...
Bash on VNC session – Tabs do not auto complete
Problem : Pressing Tab keys not auto-completing when using Bash within a VNC session (to guest VM running on Ubuntu and XFCE.) Reason : Unknown, possibly tabs a...
Fix: Unable to connect to RabbitMQ server from remote clients
Problem : When connected from a remote client, this error is thrown (at client) – An unexpected connection driver error occured (Exception message: Socket close...
Increase Zuul timeouts for backend BOSH or Comet servers
This is how I could make Spring Zuul work with my backend XMPP (over BOSH) server which had a hanging post of 5 mins. Please find the relevant settings in appli...