Enable / Waking Devices from Sleep ( like ethernet and usb )

Does your ethernet become disabled when you remove your laptop from power (Win XP),

windows does this to save power .

First put back power> got to that devices property >configure>Power Management> Deselect “Allow Computer to turn off this device to save power”

Then go to run>type cmd>powercfg /DEVICEQUERY ALL_DEVICES

(Actually wake_programmable is all u need)

see the name of the device

then

powercfg /DEVICEENABLEWAKE <name>

Thats ALL !!!!

(PS if you are using vista open cmd in administrator mode /UAC mode)

Making VLC play in Fedora 9

Well I installed VLC ( formerly called Video Lan Client) today on my installation of fedora 9 and like any other video player it 2 was not working, so here are the settings that worked for me:

1) Go to Settings>Preferences>Check Advanced Options
2)Audio>Output Modules>Select ALSA Audio output >ALSA>Refresh List>Select Device
3)Video>Output modules>Select X11 Video Output

Well Thats about it

Enjoy!!!

Gmail Hacks 1

Gmail supports plus-addressing, affording you some rather powerful email-handling, routing, and filtering functionality.

eg. if your email address is xyz@gmail.com you can use plus addressing as xyz+fedora@gmail.com

and go on as xyz+fedora+ambassador@gmail.com
So you can make up an unlimited number of arbitrary email addresses to use when signing up for something, making a purchase online, or tracking a conversation and mailing lists.

Set up a filter check
here

Cure Kaffeine and Real player problems so they don’t Crash

Well for my Laptop 6515b , Fedora 9 proved to be more troublesome than Fedora 8 including kaffeine

The problem itself is not in kaffeine but in xine engine parameters

Go to Settings>Xine Engine Parameters>Video>Beginners Options xine in Auto mode was using xv causing entire system Hang whenever i played anything.So change it to xshm.Thats all!!!!!

In Real Player go to Tools>Preferences>Hardware

Disable XVideo, For me Alsa couldn’t be initialized. HenceĀ  RealPlayer 11 can be used on OSS.

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