BSNL misery
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...
Force fsck on boot with /forcefsck
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) reboot...
Slumdog Millionaire crowned at Golden Globe
It grabs 4 awards in a single day. I’m bit late in blogging this new update but this movie is on my must watch list. Planning to catch a glimpse soon after my exams. A.R Rahman is the first Indian to grab Golden Globe award. This movie is now trying to test its...
Sankranthi – Celebrating harvest season
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...
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...
Setting up server over DSL Internet connection
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...
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...
Script to regenerate /etc/vmail files for cPanel
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...
LXDE – lightning desktop experience
From few days, I was bugged with the same old Gnome and its sluggish speed on Ubuntu. Wanted something faster or fastest X11Desktop Environment. As Linmaya and others commented in our habba discussions, LXDE has been great so far today. Its easy to install on Ubuntu...
Little hearts
One of my favorite! I think this product from Britannia started looking at the younger generation for revenues . I had totally forgotten about this project till last month until I found it in office once again. Kaathe kaathe hame be kahi pyaar na ho jaaye
Ready to discuss some of your thoughts and give it a space in digital world?
Services
- Digitization
- IT Infra Consultancy
- Product Ideation & Development
Resources
- Blog
- About
- How it Works
- Contact