Ubuntu Karmic and Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller

I am using Ubuntu for almost two years both at home and office. My office setup quit complex in this regard as we have nVidia GeForce cards with dual LCD monitors on our disposal. And at home, I am using my HP system which has Intel 82915G/GV/910GL Integrated Graphics Controller. I had some issues regarding resolutions but I almost totally forgot about them and upgrades after upgrades, all worked fine.

But things changed after the Ubuntu Karmic, I was stuck to only 2 resolutions: 640×480 and 800×600 both at 60Hz while my chipset and my monitor are both far more capable then this. In this post, I would try to list how I solved this problem for myself. I am no Linux geek and have a pure Windows background so you know who to blame if something seems odd.

Why we’ve not grown?

The problem what I’ve been thinking about. Why we’ve not out grown to a visible stage? Why dont we have large and huge business empires? Why is it so that most of our bussinessmen are confined to the same country and not beyond?

Honesty

Yes that’s the factor. Even in our private business, our managers would favour those with who are their favourates and not the talented people around. One of my friend in a large Telecom and Internet provider company, told me of such things as of how low calliber people get raised up just because they’e got links.

In a software company, I’ve even heard of that and as result all the talented started to move away and out. Definately that affects the business then.

You might be interested in knowing why one prefers dull people over shine? Mostly fear. Fear of being superseded that would force them to make “safe and smart” choices. But think of it what gets sorted out as result of this “bubble” sort?

So am I asserting that all the managers and those responsible in organizations are dishonest? Then how the hell these businesses are going after all? No, they are not dishonest. They use “selective honesty” which in turn haunts explosive growth as you’ve not let the best to be the next.

So this algorithm being executed in all the organizations of the whole state yields dull bodies and overall we’re a failed state.

Think about it. If you’ve got your own business, or intend to initiate one, beware of the managers who are “slightly” dishonest and even do not do it yourself if you’re at decision making. If managed to do so, then that’s for sure that you’re going to flourish to the maximum. No doubts about it.

The Questions I have been wondering about

From time to time, I’ve been wondering about many questions in different phases of life. Here are some:

• What is power? How it comes? Why they bow to someone and not to the other?
• How human race continued to grow in different domains even being unaware of the other areas being developed and dug by fellow human? Where do they overlap?
• Introverts are also inventors? How?
• How large business empires work? What keeps them tied and focus on the goal? What the top level is getting?

I’d keep it updating as I come across more.

The Anne Frank

I just got a book on my cell phone and kept reading as long as I could: The Diary of a young girl. Yet not in the middle even, I got curious to know if the diary is for real? Reasons for the doubt were the style of writing and the observation that girls makes about herself and the others not seem to be from a 13 years old girl.

I’ll update about it as I got along.

A mimimal JavaScript Logger

For one of my internal projects, I do not wanted to rely any of the JavaScript frameworks out there and do all on my own. On Linux with Firefox and Firebug installed, I was writing some information to firebug console. When the application ran on another browser without Firebug, it simply did not work at all.I made it working by commenting out the logging calls for the moment but that was not the solution.

The Choice of JavaScript

For one of my internal private pet research projects pertaining to natural language processing, I ended up in implementing it with JavaScript. The factors that contributed to this was the fact that I needed someone non-programmer to review the process and validate. My choices were being platform independence. I wished to built it as a Ruby on Rails application but setting up and running a Rails application for a naive user is not an easy task.

Books that I love

There are literally thousands of books on computer science But fewer are that have hit me so deep that I refer to them as near to Bible on those subjects.

• Turbo C++ by Robert Lafore
• Object Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov
• Object Oriented C (its a free book)

There are many more on my wish list that I want to read but dont have time for like Code Complete, Patterns of Enterprise Architecture. I’ll keep sharing my thoughts on this.

REST API: My experience and intents

The current happening in my life is that of REST. I’ve been building a REST API for Dedomenon. Dedomenon is an online structured data storage engine. I was asked to build REST API on top of it. Though I’ve done the job very well as I far as I think but still I’d say that designing and API can never be complete until you put it to real use.