Samsung Galaxy S2 not recognized on Mac

I  had trouble in connecting Samsung Galaxy S2 in Mac as it was not detected as USB device. The phone was detected fine in Windows 7 but not in Mac.  If you are exeriencing the same problem here is the solution for you:

• On your Samasung Galaxy S2 phone, go to Application->Settings
• Go to Wirelessand Network and select USB Utilities
• Click on Connect Storage to PC
• A message should pop up: Connect USB cable to use mass storage (Please note that you have to connect the cable to your mac when the pop up come not before that)

      Now connect the USB cable to computer

• A green android robot should be on display with an option of “Connect USB storage“, click on it
• The green robot turns orange now and now you can access the files on the SD card of your phone

  

Network manager in disabled state for Ubuntu 10.04.3

Suddenly if your network manger has gone to disabled state in your Ubuntu 10.04.3 and you are not able to enable it or make any changes even after restarting, you can do the following to fix the problem:

rm -fv /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

service network-manager start

reboot

This will re-enable network manger.

trouble Installing pidgin-guifications

If you are getting the following error while you are trying to installl gulifcation on pidgin:

--
checking for PIDGIN... configure: error: Package requirements (pidgin purple) were not met:

No package 'pidgin' found
No package 'purple' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PIDGIN_CFLAGS
and PIDGIN_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

--

You cal solve this by installing pidgin devel.

yum install pidgin-devel

Will solve the problem.

How to disable Windows Update Restart Pop Up

1. You are in between some work and windows automatic update reboot prompt is bugging you always?

Even if you press reboot later option, the prompt will come after sometime and there is every chance that you click on reboot now button accidentally and end up in losing all your work. To stop this prompt till your next reboot do the following:

Login to command prompt and type

sc stop wuauserv

You are done!!

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Downland manager for Ubuntu

The best download manager that can be used in any Linux OS is wget. If you are downloading a big file just use the option -c so that the download will resume from where it ended incase of any connection interuption.

wget -c file.tar.zg.

If you still need a GUI to manage your downloads you can either use kget or gwget. Installation of both is simple.

sudo apt-get install kget

or

sudo apt-get install gwget

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umount -l /nfsbackup Cannot create link /etc/mtab~ Perhaps there is a stale lock file?

Getting the following error while trying to umount a NFS mount?

root@# umount -l /nfsbackup

Cannot create link /etc/mtab~

Perhaps there is a stale lock file?

Please check whether there is temp files with the name /etc/mtab.tmp and /etc/mtab~ . Deleting these files will solve the problem. These files are either left over from a reboot or created accidentally.

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Cannot login as root in FreeBSD

In FreeBSD servers direct ssh root login is disabled by default settings. You need to enable the root access manually by doing the following.

# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Find out the following parameter :

PermitRootLogin no

Change it to :

PermitRootLogin yes

After you do the changes, save and exit. Then restart sshd.

# /etc/rc.d/sshd restart


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