Ubuntu 12.04 named Precise Pangolin

Posted by Deepak Mittal on Oct 6, 2011 in Linux | 1 comment

Scheduled to release on 13th October, 2011, Oneiric Ocelot is just around the corner. Mark Shuttleworth just named the Ubuntu 12.04 on his blog; it's called Precise Pangolin.

[Solved] “fedora-release conflicts with epel-release-5-4.noarch” on Fedora 15

Posted by Deepak Mittal on Sep 2, 2011 in Linux | 4 comments

I encountered the error "fedora-release conflicts with epel-release-5-4.noarch" on Fedora 15 when trying to add and enable EPEL repository.

You can fix the error by manually extracting the rpm file and copying files in corresponding directories. Click on "Read More" for full instructions.

[HowTo] Install latest node.js on Ubuntu

Posted by Deepak Mittal on Aug 29, 2011 in Linux, Programming & Web Development | 0 comments

Node.js is an implementation of javascript engine which can be run on server side.

The nodejs package offered by default Ubuntu PPAs is quite old. To install latest nodejs on Ubuntu, go through the following steps:

[HowTo] Use SSHFS to mount remote directories via SSH

Posted by Deepak Mittal on Aug 21, 2011 in Linux | 0 comments

Using SCP to copy files and folders to a remote server is often not very convenient. I feel copying and pasting something is best done by mouse. SSHFS is one such utility. It mounts a remote server's filesystem over SSH.

To install SSHFS on Ubuntu, do the following:

[Solved] Unable to enumerate USB device (Disabling ehci_hcd)

Posted by Deepak Mittal on Apr 18, 2010 in Linux | 41 comments

Some hardware just don’t work with ehci_hcd on Karmic Koala. My memory stick from transcend refused to work no matter what I did....

[Solved] Unable to boot due to GNOME Power Manager error

Posted by Deepak Mittal on Apr 13, 2010 in Linux | 113 comments

The error "The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact your computer administrator." occurs after you've entered your password in login screen on GNOME.

This is a very common problem and has been known to occur because of no free space on root drive.