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[SOLVED] TERM environment variable not set in Guake

After upgrading to Maverick Meerkat yesterday, my Guake terminal started giving the following error on executing top: TERM environment variable not set. You can fix the error by doing exactly what error says – set the TERM variable. To do that execute the following in terminal: echo -e “TERM=xterm\nexport TERM” >> ~/.bashrc Kill the guake terminal… Continue reading [SOLVED] TERM environment variable not set in Guake

[SOLVED] UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME upon booting in Windows 7

I was fixing my friend’s computer hard drive whose partition structure had gone corrupt. I restored the partition structure using testdisk. However, on booting through this hard drive, BSOD appeared. It said UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME. The hard drive was perfectly healthy, so the error looked a bit out of place. I looked into google and found that… Continue reading [SOLVED] UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME upon booting in Windows 7

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[SOLVED] ‘Unknown’ filesystem in gparted

I had a primary NTFS partition with windows 7 installed on it. Somehow, its bootloader went corrupt so I used install-mbr in ubuntu to fix that but it only made the problem worse. Now my system didn’t recognise the partition as NTFS partition and I couldn’t access the partition. I modified the partition ID using… Continue reading [SOLVED] ‘Unknown’ filesystem in gparted

[Solved] Subtitles not being displayed in VLC in Ubuntu

I had this problem where subtitles were not being shown in VLC. No matter what I did, it just wouldn’t display. I reinstalled VLC but still it had problems. So I removed all the vlc config files to reset the settings and fix the problem. rm -rf ~/.config/vlc That fixed it. Cheers!

[HOWTO] Delete all unstarred emails from Inbox or Label in GMail

Its easy to delete all mails from a label/folder or inbox, but sometimes we’d like to save our starred mails and delete all the rest. The search box in gmail comes in handy in such situations. Its really a very powerful tool with various operators to make the search more efficient. The gmail search really… Continue reading [HOWTO] Delete all unstarred emails from Inbox or Label in GMail

[HOWTO] Fix Twitter clients (or PHP scripts) which use basic authentication.

As you probably know, Twitter completely ditched basic authentication method on August 31st, 2010. It now supports only OAuth method of authentication which complicates the coding process multiple folds. Scripts which were previously 20 lines long now span several files. While there are numerous advantage of Oauth like client doesn’t need to know your password,… Continue reading [HOWTO] Fix Twitter clients (or PHP scripts) which use basic authentication.

[SOLVED] “Ignoring file ‘.distUpgrade’ / ‘.save’ in directory ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’ as it has an invalid filename extension” on Ubuntu 10.10

Recently apt-get update started throwing notices which read: Ignoring file ‘opera.list.distUpgrade’ in directory ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’ as it has an invalid filename extension Ignoring file ‘opera.list.save’ in directory ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’ as it has an invalid filename extension It occured because sources.list.d directory isn’t supposed to contain files with .distupgrade and .save extensions, but since I upgraded my distribution from 10.04,… Continue reading [SOLVED] “Ignoring file ‘.distUpgrade’ / ‘.save’ in directory ‘/etc/apt/sources.list.d/’ as it has an invalid filename extension” on Ubuntu 10.10

[SOLVED] No sound in tuxguitar

Tuxguitar stopped working after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 Alpha. Many people seem to be having this problem after a distribution upgrade. The fix is simple. Install timidity and tuxguitar-jsa package. sudo apt-get install timidity tuxguitar-jsa After the install, run tuxguitar and play a file. You should hear the sound. If you still cannot hear it… Continue reading [SOLVED] No sound in tuxguitar

Ubuntu 11.04 named ‘Natty Narwhal’

Ubuntu 11.04, which is to be released in April 2011, has been named Natty Narwhal as mentioned on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog. Check out the entire blog post here. Seems reasonable, as weird sounding as all previous names. Ubuntu, you never disappoint me!