Jan 14, 2009 | Events, Festival, General
Farmers of Indian Sub-Continent are celebrating Makara Sankranthi festival today. This festival is also known as Uttarayana or Pongal. Check out this song which is on my lips from couple of days from “Halli Mestru” movie in which Crazy Star...
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...
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