TechFiz on October 31st, 2008

Out of memory? Did you upgrade your OS recently? Then carefully have a look at ps -auwx output for memory consumption.
Today I found that initscripts package owned minilogd was eating up almost 70% of the server resources on a VPS running on OpenVZ virtualization. After reading a bit about it on the internet I found [...]

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TechFiz on October 31st, 2008

It’s really cute to see the new face of gparted on Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex. No issues with NTFS resize. In turn it’s quite fast when compared to earlier resizes which I had done on dozens of laptops.
Above is the picture of Ubuntu Installation wizard paritioning stage. That also has been made colorful.

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TechFiz on October 31st, 2008

Ambika soni Officially declared Kannada to be classical language on the eve of Kannada Rajyothsava.
It’s time to celebrate and think why it really took so much time for us to get this status for our language.

Other news sources:

BREAKING NEWS: Kannada Identified as Classical Language
Deccan Herald Covers the Story here

Happy Karnataka Rajyotsava

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TechFiz on October 31st, 2008

Looks like its taking a while to load my webpages. I have decided to go ahead and optimize my server. Half of the work is done. You might see some interruptions in the service. My apologies for the same. You will be happy to see the website loading faster once I’m done with this.

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TechFiz on October 31st, 2008

If you’re running out of RAM, swap and if there is no more room to create a new swap partition, you’re still left with one more option. Create a swapfile. Here are the steps to follow.

Determine the size of the new swap file and multiple by 1024 to determine the block size. For [...]

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TechFiz on October 31st, 2008

(image 1) taken at 8:00 am IST from a height of 9,000 km shows the Northern coast of Australia.

-> (image 2) taken at 12:30 pm from a height of 70,000 km shows Australia’s Southern Coast.
ISRO Receives first Image from Chandrayaan Space craft on the way to Moon. First imagery was received by the Indian Deep [...]

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