Monthly Archives: April 2009

Karmic open for development

As the Ubuntu user community celebrates the release of Jaunty Jackalope (Ubuntu 9.04), developers fasten their belts to get on with Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10). Mark Shuttleworth want to over take Apple’s Mac. To learn more about Ubuntu future plans read Marks interview. Martin Pitt announces Karmic to be open for development and its release [...]

Weather Report on Jaunty

Does it look good? Have you ever tried this before on Ubuntu? If you’re connected to net, you can even findout how hot it is outside here in Delhi. No extra plugins needed.

Hibernate and Suspend works fine on Jaunty

Hibernate and Suspend functions are working just fine on my Ubuntu Jaunty installation. Till  this afternoon had trouble dump my programs onto ram/disk and turn off the laptop. Here are some hibernate points on my today’s power history.

New Books on shelf

Few new Kannada books are on my shelf. More details in individual posts. D. V. Gundappa‘s -> Manku Thimmana Kagga Dr. B.G.L Swamy‘s -> * Americadalli Naanu * Daurgandikaapaharana * Mysore Diary * Panchakalasha Gopura * Tamilu talegaLa Naduve

BackTrack is now on my 2GB SanDisk

It took only few minutes for me to create a LiveUSB of Security Distribution BackTrack using UNetbootin. Read more about: BackTrack4

WordPress: Automatic upgrade fails with time-out

While upgrading WordPress and its plug-ins using Automatic Upgrade plug-in, many times we might get the following time-out errors. Error: Download failed.: Connection time-out There are two reasons for this error to bail-out: First one is a DNS issue. Check the resolver of your server and ensure that the first dns server listed there is [...]