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.

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.

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.