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First look at Windows7

First look at Windows7

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...
Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

Installing Windows 7 on VirtualBox

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...

Adding cdrom to yum as repo

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...

NIS Authentication issue on Fedora 10

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...