Harsh J

As always, sans the text.

The same, as always.

Makes some calm knowing its still the same Windows they’ve always been using.

Results for all odd semesters B.E. and B.Tech (Engineering Degrees, for IT, CSE, ECE, EEE, ME, E&I, etc.) (3rd, 5th, 7th) will be out in the first week of February, as Anna University has officially announced. These are for the exams that stretched from end November, via December 2008 into early January 2009.

Update: For 2010 8th Semester April May Results of Anna University B.E./B.Tech, click here.

Here’s a list of websites you can check for your results. Add in the comments if you know some other ones!

(I shall keep updating the links once results out out)

1. Anna University Official Website (Results Page) for 2008-2009 Odd Semester (B.E./B.Tech)
2. Anna University Official Website Links (Site I, II)
3. Webdunia Anna University results for UG 2008-2009
4. Deepdig Anna University results for UG 2008-2009
5. Chennai Online Results for Anna University UG 08-09
6. WinEntrance Online Results for Anna University UG 08-09
7. India Results results page for Anna University UG 08-09
8. WorldColleges results page for Anna Univ. UG 2008-2009
9. Sivaji TV results for Anna Univ UG 2008-2009

More will be added once results get out.

You might find that some keyboard shortcuts for the VMware Remote Console Firefox browser plugin don’t work in Ubuntu as they do on other Linux distributions (Ubuntu version 8.10, the Intrepid Ibex).

After hours of irritation, of not being able to release the input by pressing the default Ctrl + Alt buttons, I finally found a solution to it. Thanks to this website for it, though its problem seemed slightly different, it did the work for me.

The trick is to put this line into the ~/.vmware/config file.

Create it if it does not exist and add the following line:
xkeymap.nokeycodeMap = true

That should do the trick, and all the keys should work fine now! Even escaping or releasing the input and thus, no messy reboots to save yourself.

Google's displayed logo

Notice those weird lines below Google’s logo while you search? Like this first example.

It only appears on the web search for me, the image search’s logo appears fine.

Its only cause the actual complete logo, the one you get when you dig into it, is this one.

Google's full logo image

Smart cause it reduces the number of image requests sent to the server, assuming Google’s chopping this one out for use all over the search result pages. But this could also be a small browser FAIL.

Maybe its been there for quite a while before, but I never noticed it until now, when Flock started displaying those odd lines below the logo. I think its done ever since SearchWiki got implemented. I’ve yet to put that feature to use, cause I got this liking for vanilla google results. I never miss getting what I’m searching for. Google’s far better in its relevancy than Yahoo, or even Live if we are allowed to compare.

It just won’t work. You know that after messing around for over 2 hours.

Update: You can also get rid of PulseAudio completely and shift to OSSv4, a much better sound system with equivalent features, by following the guide at this link.

This guide (or something like it) is for you if your MPD’s errors.log (/var/log/mpd/errors.log) has these lines, and if you are an Ubuntu user (8.10, the Intrepid Ibex):

Jan 08 16:30 : Cannot connect to server in PulseAudio output "Pulse Device" (attempt 1): Connection refused

Officially, as per the MPD Wiki, the fix is pretty straightforward, to add the ‘mpd’ user to the pulse group. By doing the following:

sudo usermod -a -G pulse mpd
sudo usermod -a -G pulse-access mpd
sudo usermod -a -G pulse-rt mpd

Additionally change the related part of your /etc/mpd.conf to look like:

audio_output {
type "pulse"
name "My Pulse Device"
}

Also edit /etc/pulse/default.pa and add the following line at its end:

load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-anonymous=1

This should usually fix it, but if not there’s another way. Load up paprefs and select the options that say:

Enable network access to local sound devices
Don't require authentication

Still not fixed? Well, its time to give up and get back to ALSA. Yes, the good old ALSA that respects you. To do this, change your Sound configuration (Found at System > Preferences > Sound) to look like this:

Set all to ALSA.

Once done, reset your /etc/mpd.conf back to reflect the following:

audio_output {
type "alsa"
driver "esd"
name "My ALSA Device"
}

Restart MPD after each change to /etc/mpd.conf of course.

That _must_ work. But I have no idea what else it might render useless, which I hope does not happen.