Jan 14, 2009 | Current Affairs, General, Technical
I’m having serious trouble with BSNL broadband connection from last 10 days. Unable to browse the internet without breaks. I have no idea how many IM alerts I have missed so far. As i’m still in recovering face I thought of working from home but BSNL...
Jan 14, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
If you want to run fsck on the system for file system check during next reboot,its very simple. Nope, you need not boot your system in recovery mode or via live cd. All you need to do is this: login as root #su – Type the following command #touch /forcefsck c)...
Jan 14, 2009 | Product Info, Technical
It was faily quick to install Windows7 on VirtualBox after mounting the ISO directly instead of using DVD. I was not expecting to be able to work with Windows7 on VirtualBox but it took me by surprise as it’s better than Vista and not sluggish at all. On top of...
Jan 14, 2009 | linux, Product Info, QuickFix, Technical
Let’s try setting up a server at home using existing broadband connection. This requires access to DSL modem provided. In this example, I’m using ZyXEL (MROTECK) DSL modem provided by Airtel. First, access the DSL modem control panel. It’s accessible...
Jan 13, 2009 | linux, Product Info, Technical, Ubuntu
Installing Windows 7 beta on to VirtualBox 2.1 running on my Ubuntu laptop. I was not expecting the installation to be so smooth. Will write more about my experience with Windows 7 soon. I can see windows fans prasing Windows 7 after such a PITA with Vista. If you...
Jan 13, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
If you want to be able to install the packages from DVD or CDROM available with you try the following instructions. First take the backup of /etc/yum.repos.d, remove those old repo files and add a new file called local.repo with the following lines: [local] name=Local...
Jan 13, 2009 | linux, Technical
I tried adding an NIS client installed with Fedora 10 today and found that it was not able to authenticate the users via NIS. I found some hints on this link before I solved the problem. The issue as caused due to NetworkManager entires added into...
Jan 12, 2009 | linux, QuickFix, Technical
If you’re using cPanel 11.24+ you might find that the files under /etc/vmail folder vanishes at times. Horde and other webmail authentication issues are caused due to this bug. This folder content is required even for email account verification. I wrote a small...
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