Monthly Archives for 2008 11

Fedora 10 Glitches.

2008 Nov 30 at 02:16 » Tagged as: wiki , bootstrap , x11
The Fedora 10 Live Update trials I did earlier with my virtual machines went smoothly. That was in s...

Fedora 10 Gold

2008 Nov 29 at 08:35 » Tagged as: rcs , bootstrap , green , x11
The final release of Fedora 10 was made available a couple of days ago. There was the early delivery...

Old dogs can learn new tricks

2008 Nov 29 at 01:57 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
Yep, you live and you learn. For years I thought you can invoke fdisk only on a physical hard drive....

Religion

2008 Nov 28 at 14:46 » Tagged as: python , religion
You might have noticed that I have an item named religion in my tag cloud. Does that mean I have sud...

Virtual Box on My Media Server

2008 Nov 27 at 13:33 » Tagged as: wiki , virtualization
After using VirtualBox on my desktop for a while I wanted to try it out on my file server. The deskt...

Kernel Error After VirtualBox Wakes up

2008 Nov 26 at 15:51 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
Things go haywire with VirtualBox when the host system wakes up from sleep. ...

Bell WiMax Blazing Speed of 24kbps

2008 Nov 25 at 15:21 » Tagged as: wiki , broadband
Lanka Bell is now Blazing along at 24kbps via satellites. This is a major improvement on what we had...

Yet another lanka bell service outage.

2008 Nov 25 at 12:12 » Tagged as: wiki , broadband
A week does not pass by without Lanka Bell WiMax suffering a massive breakdown. Late last night the ...

Four Crashes in a Day

2008 Nov 23 at 16:19 » Tagged as: wiki , bootstrap , green , virtualization , x11
The last time my computer crashed (that is totally froze up) was back in May. Today I have had four ...

Why is every version of Fedora worse than the one before?

2008 Nov 23 at 09:43 » Tagged as: wiki , religion
Fedora 9 was so bad, I got totally fed up with it and switched to debian. Only to find that Debian i...

Samba SWAT

2008 Nov 23 at 02:38 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
I have mentioned here and there that I am using usmb to mount remote folders. It was only after a li...

Fedora 10 and Plymouth

2008 Nov 22 at 01:46 » Tagged as: wiki , bootstrap
My Fedora 10 installation is now booting up with Plymouth. ...

Google SearchWiki new Feature Or WTF?

2008 Nov 21 at 06:43 » Tagged as: wiki , web 0.8 , weird
Just five minutes ago, I did a search and got the same old same old Google UI. Just now I did a sear...

could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9b5 and 1.9b5

2008 Nov 21 at 03:31 » Tagged as: python , x11
Earlier, I blogged about upgrading from Fedora 9 to 10 with Yum. Then I mentioned that it didn't go ...

Fedora 10 Live Update vs Jigdo Download.

2008 Nov 20 at 15:14 » Tagged as: wiki , broadband , virtualization
The other day, I spoke about upgrading from Fedora 9 to 10 using YUM. The reason that I chose this a...

Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 (with Yum)

2008 Nov 18 at 00:53 » Tagged as: python , virtualization , x11
The last time I tried to use Yum to upgrade from one version of Fedora to another it didn't exactly ...

From Qemu to VirtualBox?

2008 Nov 17 at 10:36 » Tagged as: python , bootstrap , virtualization , x11
While trying out VirtualBox I wanted to use the existing Qemu images to save me the trouble of havin...

VirtualBox.

2008 Nov 17 at 02:40 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
After having a spot of bother with Qemu and on the recommendation of a fellow geek, I considered swi...

Qemu and Lost Mouse Pointers

2008 Nov 16 at 09:49 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
Recently, I installed DSL - Damned Small Linux on as a guest operating system under Qemu and found t...

Netbeans 6.5 and PHP

2008 Nov 16 at 01:05 » Tagged as: python , netbeans
Been waiting for a long time for PHP support to be added into Netbeans. Decided that I can wait no l...

And More Lanka Bell Service Disruptions

2008 Nov 15 at 02:58 » Tagged as: python , broadband
Lanka Bell is really outdoing itself. The connection was dropped just after midnight (so says syslog...

Boot Up Time and Overclocking.

2008 Nov 14 at 01:05 » Tagged as: python , bootstrap , virtualization
In my opinion overclocking is just a waste of time and a sure way of reducing the life time of your ...

No internet for a whole day.

2008 Nov 13 at 07:53 » Tagged as: python , broadband
Just a few minutes after I posted a message yesterday about my Lanka Bell Broadband connection dying...

Lanka Bell times out again.

2008 Nov 12 at 10:09 » Tagged as: python , broadband
Lankabell broadband is going downhill. Pretty soon they will be worse than dialog broadband. Come to...

Improving Fedora boot up time

2008 Nov 11 at 14:35 » Tagged as: python , bootstrap , virtualization
Looking at the boot up time of my Fedora 9 Desktop, I found it to be a rather disappointing 59 secon...

Treatment for ego problems

2008 Nov 11 at 01:27 » Tagged as: python , web 0.8
When I get too many visitors to my website, my ego get's effected. One way to cure it is to identify...

Good Bye Adbrite

2008 Nov 9 at 16:54 » Tagged as: python , web 0.8
Last year, I was so disapointed with Adsense that I thought of moving away from it and did. I ended ...

NTFS on Linux

2008 Nov 9 at 03:06 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
It's been a long long time since I last created an NTFS partition.  Just created one - but windows i...

Fedora Lame Virtualization?

2008 Nov 8 at 01:36 » Tagged as: python , virtualization
First time I used virtualization was long long ago when I was in fact on windows and booted linux in...

Misdirected Packets

2008 Nov 6 at 02:10 » Tagged as: python , broadband , security
Couple of months ago, I wrote about JoPPP - Junk over PPP. That is seeing a lot of packets on my ext...

Twitter and Plurk.

2008 Nov 5 at 11:23 » Tagged as: python , web 0.8
I didn't have an assbook facebook account until very recently and didn't have a Hi5 account either (...

Python or Ratsnake?

2008 Nov 3 at 21:19 » Tagged as: python , religion , weird
So is this language a Python or a Ratsnake? Actually Rat snakes are very harmless species of non ven...

PHProjekt

2008 Nov 3 at 06:56 » Tagged as: python , collaboration
I first ran Into PHProjekt around 8-9 years ago when I myself was working for a groupware and messag...

Rretro Tagging ?

2008 Nov 2 at 04:54 » Tagged as: python , wordpress
When I first started blogging more than 4 years ago, it was with blogger.com, Then I looked at a few...