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Install Wireless driver For Broadcom BCM4322 in Ubuntu / Mint 22

Jan

5

2013

When I installed Linux Mint 14 on my Dell E6400 Latitude laptop, the Wireless driver was not installed by default. It seems lot of devices with Broadcom chipsets have this problem in linux. On Mint 14, I tried mintwifi , but that did not work as expected. I had the option to connect to internet ...

Niagara Ax: How to programmatically get a module version

Jun

12

2012

Here’s the code snippet to programmatically get a module’s version. Sys.getRegistry().getModule("moduleName") .getVendorVersion().toString(); Or if your class has a TYPE field Sys.getRegistry().getModule(TYPE.getModule().getModuleName()) .getVendorVersion().toString(); This returns the vendorVersion value written in the module’s build.xml as shown below. <module bajaVersion="3.4" description="Niagara Ax Module" edition="j2se-5.0" name="NiagaraModule" preferredSymbol="nm" vendor="Tridium Inc" vendorVersion="1.3.1" > Disclaimer: Niagara Ax tips in this website are ...

Niagara Ax: How to increase workbench client request timeout 1

Jun

8

2012

When a Niagara workbench is connected to a remote supervisor, chances are there when client makes a request to the server, requests will be timed out after 1 minute or 60 seconds, because the server was taking more than 60 seconds to service the request. Although Tridium will not encourage this, but we can increase ...

Niagara Ax : Copy a BComponent to a bog file. 3

Jun

6

2012

In Niagara Ax, a bog file is nothing but a zipped xml. Whenever we need to serialize a BComponent as a file in the station files structure, we can use the below code to achieve the same. /** Copy a BComponent to a bogFile @param comp : The source component @param bogFile : The bogfile ...

Ubuntu 12.04 : Fix for Adobe Flash crashing while playing videos 4

Jun

2

2012

When adobe stopped support for its flash player in linux, it was not just bad news, it was a terrible news as the version then had some serious bugs. One of the common one being the people in the youtube or flash videos appearing in blue color. The blue tint was making everyone in the ...

WordPress.org: How to add new posts to different pages ?

Jun

2

2012

Well, am sorry I do not have a solution for this problem yet. I am posting this here, because if any of your good self lands up here looking for a similar solution and has solved it later on, please please kindly drop a link or line or two regarding the solution . What I ...

Ubuntu : Fix for Unable to start the settings manager ‘mate-settings-daemon’. 12

May

30

2012

Well, its no surprise after Ubuntu 12.04 came out, many wanted the old gnome2 like interface back. Some would have tried the gnome classic option in 12.04, or some like me would have tried installing mate – the original fork of gnome2 project. Chances are there with multiple WMs running, your Mate will have problems ...

The Great Indian Developer Summit (GIDS) 2012

Apr

25

2012

Exactly 4 years ago I had attended the first Great Indian Developer Summit ever. And I was glad I had the opportunity again this year and this time, I had my colleagues for company. We had chosen the last 2 days of the summit, which includes the JAVA day and workshop day. The venue, IISc ...

Setup Tata Photon (+) Plus on Ubuntu. 1

Mar

26

2012

When you attach the tata photon+ dongle, you might notice that this was identified as a mass storage device instead of a usb modem. Well, the reason for this is explained in this blog post here. Several new USB devices have their proprietary Windows drivers onboard, especially WAN dongles. When plugged in for the first ...

Ubuntu: Fix for Picasa missing titlebar on fullscreen. 2

Aug

10

2011

On Ubuntu you may have noticed that when running Picasa in fullscreen mode and returning you would notice the titlebar will be missing on the picasa. Normally this can be fixed after closing and re-opening picasa again. But there’s a simple fix for that, Simply Unmaximize picasa. This can be done by right clicking on ...