Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Knee pain in young IT Professionals

One of the common complaints, I encounter in my clinic is the knee joint pain in young individuals. Mind you most of my patients are IT Professionals, who sit in front of the computer and work, on an average of up to 10hrs a day.

Knee pain in young individuals is a common condition, esp in individuals involved in sports, prolonged sitting or standing jobs, industrial jobs and even office jobs.

Most of these patients have

  • anterior knee pain, which is a dull aching pain: 
  • aggravated by activities like prolonged standing or sitting, going up and down the stairs, jogging or doing sports. 
  • Some of them can get grating sensation on moving the knee. 
  • There is no swelling or redness of the joint
  • and there is no history of any previous knee injury.

So if you are having these symptoms, you could be suffering from one of these conditions:

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Conky config for my conky showing date, time, stats, calendar, mail and weather

Update: Conky weather no longer works, so i have used yahoo weather to get the same effect in my new config. Look here for details.

Since some of you are asking for the conky config for the conky i posted in my previous post, here you go. This is a single instance of conky on my ubuntu maverick, displaying stats, date, time, calendar, gmail and weather.


You will need a lot of fonts and few scripts to run this successfully. 
Fonts used: 
  1. Radio Space

Friday, November 5, 2010

My Ubuntu Desktop with single instance of conky displaying clock, calendar, stats, gmail and weather

Hi this is my Ubuntu Desktop showing conky. I have setup my conky to utilize the full real estate on the desktop. It is a single instance of conky showing : Date and time, stats, Google calendar, weather and Gmail. Pl ask if you want the conkyrc, will upload. Thanx..

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Finally suspend works on Sony Vaio CS running Ubuntu 10.04

Yes finally got suspend to work on my Sony Vaio CS, running Ubuntu 10.04 64 bit edition.

  • sudo gedit /etc/default/grub. Look for the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash atkbd.reset". Save it.
  • sudo update-grub.
  • Reboot.
  • Now when you want to suspend, if you have a SD Card mounted, unmount it first.
  • Suspend should work now. cheers.