1. First install acpi-call-tools

sudo apt-get install acpi-call-tools

2.

 sudo modprobe -v acpi_call

3.

sudo echo “\_SB.PCI0.PEG0.GFX0.DOFF” > /proc/acpi/call

Note : I had to face permission denied when I did sudo as well. This quick fix solved that as well.

sudo chmod 777 /proc/acpi/call

sudo apt-get install wicd

sudo apt-get purge network-manager

And then configure your network with Wicd Network Manager.

1. First make a rough calculation about the screen dimension (width and height). In my case I presumed it to be 1450 and 815.
2. I was presented with

nitesh@nitesh-N53SV:~$ cvt 1450 815
# 1456×815 59.91 Hz (CVT) hsync: 50.68 kHz; pclk: 96.50 MHz
Modeline “1456x815_60.00″   96.50  1456 1536 1680 1904  815 818 828 846 -hsync +vsync

3. As I was presented with the Modeline, the following commands should follow :

xrandr –newmode “1456x815_60.00″   96.50  1456 1536 1680 1904  815 818 828 846 -hsync +vsync

xrandr –addmode LVDS1 “1456x815_60.00″

xrandr –output LVDS1 –mode “1456x815_60.00″

These commands on succession does the trick. If you want to make it default and have it run on startup, you have to add these lines to /etc/gdm/Init/Default. Hope it helps

The mysqli extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration. <a href=”Documentation.html#faqmysql” target=”documentation”><img src=”./themes/pmahomme/img/b_help.png” width=”11″ height=”11″ alt=”Documentation” title=”Documentation” /></a>

The solution to this is simple, though I had to scratch my head for sometime. You need to restart apache server before navigating to phpmyadmin page. How do you do that? Easy!

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And you are done!

Requirements :

1. ISP that provides Dynamic IP address upon connect.

2. A domain name(even a subdomain would do) and access to manage its nameservers.

3. Ubuntu with Webserver up and running.

Steps :

1. Create a free account at http://freedns.afraid.org

2. Change the nameservers of your domain to ns1 through ns4.afraid.org through your domain control panel. Like for example I have set up a domain nitesh.info and its nameservers as :

Nameserver Setup on 1and1

3. Login to your account at FreeDNS and add a new domain. Then navigate to Dynamic DNS. And then download the wget batch script for windows.

Dynamic DNS Script from afraid.org

4. When you open .bat file you shall see a wget url like http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?<identifier>. Copy that. You shall need it for setting up cron job.

5. In terminal, type

crontab -e

crontab -e

6.  If you are asked to setup cronjob for the very first time, select second option as a editor. Then enter the following. Replace identifier matching identifier you receive from freedns batch script.

*/5 * * * *  wget -q –read-timeout=0.0 –waitretry=5 –tries=400 http://freedns.afraid.org/dynamic/update.php?<identifier> > /dev/null

Cron Job

What it does is, it updates the A record of your domain to the current ip of your computer every 5 minutes

7. I presume, you have already set up your webserver with Apache. Next thing we do is edit httpd.conf to serve the request to your domain name. Enter following command to the terminal:

sudo gedit /etc/apache2/httpd.conf

Add following lines to your httpd.conf file

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /path/to/your/resource
ServerName yourdomain.com
<Directory “/path/to/your/resource”>
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Httpd Config

8. Now next thing you do is setup port forwarding in your router if you access internet behind router. Forward port 80 (external) to port 80 internal of your pc ip. I have forwarded port 8080 (external) to port 80(private) because my ISP has blocked port 80 traffic. as for example :

Dlink Port Forwarding

9. Now you are done. Access your domain and it should point to your webserver. As easy as that. If you have any queries, drop a comment. I will love to answer your queries.

Related Article :

http://www.nitesh.com.np/website-maintenance/configuring-virtualhost-and-host-alias/

Install ftpd (FTP daemon) via terminal

sudo apt-get install ftpd

and when asked for ftp login details, provide your ubuntu login credentials and set server as 127.0.0.1 (i.e. local loopback address). That should solve your problem.

To enable GPRS on your number, type VGPRS and send it to 1400. (doesn’t seem functional)

I have Nokia 5300, so basically,  number of Nokia sets would behave the same for what I am gonna describe here.

Now, getting to the main thing, I browse the web via Opera Mini (Latest Version),  when I am done with browsing and want to close the session, I would rather search for a number “202000000″(nine digits) and when the search result is presented, you can click on the number to call the number without having to close the Opera Mini. The IVR shall tell you that “You cannot make call to this number ” and shall end your call by itself.  When you call, for some 3-4 times to the same number repeatedly, the gprs connection that had been kept on hold will be closed by the network itself. So you are not billed for the data usage from your cellphone.

Try it urself, and comments are welcome.

[I have to disable comments on this post, because of unnecessary comments pouring in. This trick worked when I first tried this, and now I abandon to use any such tricks, my time is more valuable to me that those small pennies these days! ]

First I edited httpd.conf located at /etc/apache2/ (Location of httpd.conf may vary. Please figure out the the path to httpd.conf for your system configuration)

I added following lines to httpd.conf file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName projectname.local
DocumentRoot /path/to/your/project/root
<Directory /path/to/your/project/root >
AllowOverride All
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Next I edited /etc/hosts file and added the following line to it.

127.0.0.1       projectname.local

Now I restarted the apache server by executing

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And now, I could navigate to http://projectname.local/

Note : You should check if you are behind proxy to browse the internet. If your proxy is configured, u should make it sure, requests to projectname.local is served directly by putting projectname.local to ignored hosts list.

Related Article :

http://www.nitesh.com.np/linux/how-to-setup-your-own-linux-home-server-on-ubuntu-with-custom-domain/