New host, New look

Posted on May 28, 2011 by unni

If you are seeing this post then the DNS cache of your ISP is already updated and you are started to accessing mutexes from my new host. I was hosting this site in one of my friends server. He is very helpful and he gave me the hosting account along with jail shell access. But I decided to move on and host it with a professional hosting company, so that I don’t need to worry about any down time. All the technical issues will become the head ache of their support person. Hope you noticed, I changed the look and feel of the site. It now runs on WordPress default theme with some customization. It is simple and good looking. I liked it, hope the same with you.

I was not doing much or, can say no work on this blog for a long time. My shift schedules are not giving me much free/convenient time to write blog posts. But I decided to get some time and add new technical posts, so that readers will be benefited. You will for sure start to see new technical stuff here in near future.  Thats for now. Enjoy your life and opensource :-)

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IMDB movie fetcher

Posted on February 26, 2011 by unni

I didn’t write any post for long time because I was busy with many other work. I am using most of my free time for reading, writing scripts and sleeping :-) nowadays . I have released the 3rd version of the IMDB fetcher application today. I thought I will put that in the beta state because there are many no-critical bugs I can see in that. Those bugs will not pop up in 99% of cases but still I feel it is not complete. I want to put that in beta and later I will make it stable when I feel that the script look perfect.

The fist release of IMDB-MF was on 14th feb 2011. That was a small script with less features and accuracy. But the version 2 that released on 17th feb, just after 3 days fixed lot of problem with accuracy and added more features and formatting. The version 3 adds the Director, Cast and genres fields to the result, also it comes with an easy to use installer. I hope the users will like the latest release. Continue reading →

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High Availability::How To Best Manage and Provide

Posted on September 24, 2010 by unni

“High Availability” is the term coined with uptime. This is a method designed to increase the availability of services to the client, and thus provides more reliable servers/services for critical applications.

There are many enterprise grade open-source free applications available for implementing the high availability concept. The cluster suite provided with RHEL, CentOS is packed with bunch of kernel level and user level tools to implement high availability, also there are many other popular tools like heartbeat, pacemaker, drbd etc which helps to get reliable nodes and services.

The complexity of high availability tools makes it slightly difficult to understand and implement the technology. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of cluster/high availability applications. This will help you figure out the challenging task of how to best manage and provide high availability! Continue reading →

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Fedora 14 will use upstart instead of systemd

Posted on September 22, 2010 by unni

Fedora engineering steering committee decided to use upstart instead of systemd after the prolonged IRC discussion on systemd test day. The main developer of systemd, Lennart Poettering, didn’t contribute to the discussion and wasn’t too pleased about the decision. Systemd which is an alternative to sysV and upstart system initialization released on late April.

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How to configure TechCom-SSD-TV-675 tv tuner card in Arch linux

Posted on September 21, 2010 by unni

About TechCom SSD-TV-675 INTERNAL TV TUNER

The TechCom SSD-TV-675 INTERNAL TV TUNER is a cheap tuner card available in India. It uses the PHILIPS 7130 chipset and QSD-MT-S73 RF tuner. The full specification of this card is available at http://www.techcomindia.com/ website.

About the driver

My arch Linux system detected the device and loaded the driver saa7134. But the system failed to find the exact card and tuner type. After many trial and error methods I found that the driver option : Continue reading →

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