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Sampada Samvaada

Sampada Samvaada

Just came back from “Sampada Samvaada” meet arranged by sampada.net. Wonderful talking to all those who blog at this blog space along with me. There have been lots of talks today with many like minded people around sampada. Credit goes to Aravind, Nagaraj...

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)...
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...
LXDE – lightning desktop experience

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...