Monthly Archives for 2008 11
Fedora 10 Glitches.
The Fedora 10 Live Update trials I did earlier with my virtual machines went smoothly. That was in s...
Fedora 10 Gold
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
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.
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Bell WiMax Blazing Speed of 24kbps
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.
A week does not pass by without Lanka Bell WiMax suffering a massive breakdown. Late last night the ...
Four Crashes in a Day
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?
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
My Fedora 10 installation is now booting up with Plymouth.
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Google SearchWiki new Feature Or WTF?
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
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.
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)
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?
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
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
Lanka Bell is really outdoing itself. The connection was dropped just after midnight (so says syslog...
Boot Up Time and Overclocking.
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.
Just a few minutes after I posted a message yesterday about my Lanka Bell Broadband connection dying...
Lanka Bell times out again.
Lankabell broadband is going downhill. Pretty soon they will be worse than dialog broadband. Come to...
Improving Fedora boot up time
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
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
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
Couple of months ago, I wrote about JoPPP - Junk over PPP. That is seeing a lot of packets on my ext...
Twitter and Plurk.
I didn't have an assbook facebook account until very recently and didn't have a Hi5 account either (...
Python or Ratsnake?
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 ?
When I first started blogging more than 4 years ago, it was with blogger.com, Then I looked at a few...