A talk by Linus Trovalds in TED FEB 2016

Linus torvalds here talks much about himself, how he is to other people what was he like in his childhood, things that led to the development of  Linux and git(yes he was behind it too a version control system used in the development of software). In the talk about how he felt about Google and other companies making millions by the kernel developed by him he just said he is good with that.The very thought of his when Linux was introduced to the open world that his creation might be taken advantage is what has happened.When asked whether he was a visionary he said no and added he was more of like a Thomas Edison type of person whom people disliked a lot yet had done a lot of things and would like to find solution to the problems that we face at hand rather than dream for a better world.



 https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux



EPILOUGE

I have seen him from the very time when i was introduced to the world of computers. The man who made the computer world a better place which might have been just like the supermarket in our real world environment, compelling us to take what they give and paying the price that they ask. Many of the readers  might not understand it what is it to do with the super market and Linus Trovalds i am living in a "developing " country but with options. Back in time there were too many options too many competition it was just the matter of survival not business.People provided and people got what they provided for it was simple and was nearly sufficient for survival.But with the introduction of the monopolization we are beginning to get out of options even though they make us think that they are providing more options than any in the wide world.

ASUS P450L problem with the trackpad after stadby in ubuntu

Whenever my laptop used to go to standby mode on waking up my curser would be in a frozen condition.

It is a bug that unfortunately has not been solved and tend to have a lot of discussion in forums.

A shortcut method for not loosing your present work and a sudden resume back to where you was would be to go to hibernation.The restarting of some package while hibernating enables the track-pad to come back.Type the following command in terminal as the hibernate option is not present in the poweroff menu

sudo pm-hibernate

 

" cgroup: new mount options do not match the existing superblock, will be ignored" error in ubuntu 15.10

This was an error occured  in my laptop after the installation that took nearly 90 seconds to boot and it was causing a hell lot of time for loading up.

So in order to fix the problem you need to check the /etc/fstab which contains the UUID and check them whether they match or not using the command :sudo blkid

Another easy method is to substitute the whole UUID="9898xxx-xxx-xxx" with the corresponding path will be given above just replace the path instead of UUID things will become fast.

Installing java 8 in ubuntu

For the installation of java 8 in ubuntu there are two options:
1)Open JDK
2)Oracle JDK

For most of the applications that need java for working inside ubuntu you could use Open JDK because it is available in your Ubuntu Software Center and if you want to install using terminal then execute the following command

sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk

If you are more of developers then it is sometimes suitable for using Oracle. Eg: in android it sometimes specifically ask for Oracle java.Then the most easy method is to install using terminal.

Follow the commands line by line:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
apt-get install oracle-java8-installer

even though java 9 is available at this time but the repository warns and asks us to download only if we need java 9 itself or else prefer the java8 for installation.