Pulse audio no sound in fedora 10

I made a very common user error here. My music files weren't playing in fedora 10. I thought probably pulseaudio wasnt working. So i went to shell and type pulseaudio &. But it said pulseaudio was already running

So after fiddling everywhere, i went to Multimedia -> Volume Control. The front left and front right sliders were upto 25 percent. I slided them to 100 percent and lo! I started hearing music.

Just a pointer for people who have the same problems. The slider in 25 percent gives me no sound at all (though i set the volume to max in my headphones). Make it 100 percent and try out if it works

Thanks,
Shyam

Extracting RAR Files in Fedora

I just downloaded compilation of enigma songs in the form of a RAR file. I wanted to extract the same. I guess i googled it and Yo! i got the tool

The tool is called unrar.

First add the Freshrpms repository (in case you hadn't) by clicking below...
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/9/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

Next open the Terminal and type the following

yum -y install unrar

remember to become a superuser or a root user by typing the su command followed by the root password

Lo! and done. Just go to the directory which contains the RAR file and type the following command

unrar x [filename.rar]

A folder will be created with the files extracted. Type...
man unrar
... to learn what more can be done with this tool

Cheerio!
Shyam

Welcome to Linux Beauty Blog

Just got set up Linux (Fedora Core v9) on my PC. I have worked on many distributions, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu, RedHat. This is the first time that i decided to shift my development environment completely to Linux for obvious reasons. I am a student and can't afford Development tools. And most importantly, i want to learn programming, not Windows Registry / COM / LPSTR... Yeah you guessed it, windows development is hell. Because the OS itself doesn't have a foundation of proper APIs.

In any case i wanted web based development, so i thought Apache/PHP or Python would be better. I intend to use this blog to document some problems i faced in linux with steps to overcome the same so that it can help people facing similar problems.

If you come accross a better solution, add them as comment to this.

Welcome!

Shyam