Setting up appliances - the new way
Posted on February 20, 2017
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I own a Fitbit Surge. But Fitibit chose to remain exclusive in terms of interoperability. Which means to make any sense out of the data that the watch gathers, you need to stick with what Fitbit mandates. Fair enough in today’s trends. It also is part of their business model to restrict useful aspects of the report to **Premium Membership. **Again, fair enough in today’s business' trends.
But a nice human chose to write a bridge; to extract Fitbit data and feed into Google Fit.
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Linux Tablet-Mode Usability
Posted on January 17, 2017
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| 1167 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
In my ongoing quest to get Tablet-Mode working on my Hybrid machine, here’s how I’ve been living with it so far. My intent is to continue using Free Software for both use cases. My wishful thought is to use the same software under both use cases.
Browser: On the browser front, things are pretty decent. Chromium has good support for Touchscreen input. Most of the Touchscreen use cases work well with Chromium.
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Laptop Mode Tools 1.71
Posted on January 12, 2017
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| 359 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am pleased to announce the 1.71 release of Laptop Mode Tools. This release includes some new modules, some bug fixes, and there are some efficiency improvements too. Many thanks to our users; most changes in this release are contributions from our users.
A filtered list of changes in mentioned below. For the full log, please refer to the git repository.
Source tarball, Feodra/SUSE RPM Packages available at:
https://github.com/rickysarraf/laptop-mode-tools/releases
Debian packages will be available soon in Unstable.
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LIO -fb in Debian
Posted on November 24, 2016
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
LIO -fb is the new SCSI Target for Debian. Previously, we maintained the LIO tools from the pre-fork upstream branch. But, with good reasons, we’ve now moved to the newer -fb (Free Branch).
As the maintainer for those pacakges, I have a local LIO setup. Overy the years, I’ve been tuning and using this setup with a bunch of SCSI clients. Now with the new -fb packages it was worrisome for me, on how to migrate (Note: migration is not supported by the Debian packages) my old setup to the new one.
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SAN Updates for Debian Stretch
Posted on November 24, 2016
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Now that we prepare for the next Debian Stable release (Stretch), it is time to provide some updates on what the current state of some of the (storage related) packages in Debian is. This is not an update on the complete list of packages related to storage, but it does cover some of them.
REMOVALS
iscsitarget - The iscsitarget stood as a great SCSI target for the Linux kernel. It seems to have had a good user base not just in Linux but also with VMWare users.
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apt-offline 1.7.2 released
Posted on November 10, 2016
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am happy to announce the release of apt-offline 1.7.2. This has turned out in time for the next release of Debian, i.e. Debian Stretch.
A long standing cosmetic issue in CLI of the progress bar total item count has been fixed. There are also a bunch of other bug fixes, for which the specifics are present in the git logs.
Also, in this release, we’ve tried to catch-up on the Graphical Interface, adding the GUI equivalent of the features, that were added to apt-offline in the recent past.
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RESEARCHUT IT Consultancy
Posted on October 20, 2016
(Last modified on December 3, 2016)
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am available as a Freelancer providing Consultancy and AMCs. Support offering
includes specialization in Free Software , GNU/Linux, and other Unix
like operating system based solutions, providing customized consulting to
small and medium size businesses.
- Integration and Interoperability with foreign products
- Network Solutions: Web, Client/Server
- Security Audit and Assessment
- Server Maintenance
- Long Term Support - Maintenance and Upgradation
- Custom Solution
GNOME Shell Extensions and Chromium
Posted on October 1, 2016
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| 233 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Most GNOME users may be using one or more extensions for the GNOME Shell. These extensions allow extending functionality for the shell, or modify default behavior, to suit the taste of many users, who may want more than the default. Having flexibility to customize the desktop to ones personal need is a great feature, and the extensions help achieve them.
The GNOME Shell Extensions distribution mechanism is primarily through the web.
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Laptop Mode Tools 1.70
Posted on September 24, 2016
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| 232 words
| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I’m pleased to announce the release of Laptop Mode Tools, version 1.70. This release adds support for AHCI Runtime PM, introduced in Linux 4.6. It also includes many important bug fixes, mostly related to invocation and determination of power states.
Changelog:
1.70 - Sat Sep 24 16:51:02 IST 2016
* Deal harder with broken battery states
* On machines with 2+ batteries, determine states from all batteries
* Limit status message logging frequency.
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apt-offline 1.7.1 released
Posted on September 12, 2016
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| Ritesh Raj Sarraf
I am happy to mention the release of apt-offline, version 1.7.1.
This release includes many bug fixes, code cleanups and better integration.
Integration with PolicyKit Better integration with apt gpg keyring Resilient to failures when a sub-task errors out New Feature: Changelog This release adds the ability to deal with package changelogs (’ set ’ command option: --generate-changelog ) based on what is installed, extract changelog (Currently support with python-apt only) from downloaded packages and display them during installation (’ install ’ command opiton: --skip-changelog , if you want to skip display of changelog) New Option: --apt-backend Users can now opt to choose an apt backend of their choice.
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