2008 Nov 30 at 02:16 » Tagged as: bootstrap, x11, wiki

The Fedora 10 Live Update trials I did earlier with my virtual machines went smoothly. That was in s...

2008 Nov 29 at 08:35 » Tagged as: green, bootstrap, x11, rcs

The final release of Fedora 10 was made available a couple of days ago. There was the early delivery...

2008 Nov 29 at 01:57 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

Yep, you live and you learn. For years I thought you can invoke fdisk only on a physical hard drive....

2008 Nov 28 at 14:46 » Tagged as: religion, python

You might have noticed that I have an item named religion in my tag cloud. Does that mean I have sud...

2008 Nov 27 at 13:33 » Tagged as: virtualization, wiki

After using VirtualBox on my desktop for a while I wanted to try it out on my file server. The deskt...

2008 Nov 26 at 15:51 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

Things go haywire with VirtualBox when the host system wakes up from sleep. ...

2008 Nov 25 at 15:21 » Tagged as: broadband, wiki

Lanka Bell is now Blazing along at 24kbps via satellites. This is a major improvement on what we had...

2008 Nov 25 at 12:12 » Tagged as: broadband, wiki

A week does not pass by without Lanka Bell WiMax suffering a massive breakdown. Late last night the ...

2008 Nov 24 at 11:29

I have already mentioned that Samba is the network protocol that I settled on for file sharing on my...

2008 Nov 24 at 00:41

Anyone would be concerned by an error message like the one above. Not me. I've been there done it an...

2008 Nov 23 at 16:19 » Tagged as: virtualization, green, bootstrap, x11, wiki

The last time my computer crashed (that is totally froze up) was back in May. Today I have had four ...

2008 Nov 23 at 09:43 » Tagged as: religion, wiki

Fedora 9 was so bad, I got totally fed up with it and switched to debian. Only to find that Debian i...

2008 Nov 23 at 02:38 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

I have mentioned here and there that I am using usmb to mount remote folders. It was only after a li...

2008 Nov 22 at 01:46 » Tagged as: bootstrap, wiki

My Fedora 10 installation is now booting up with Plymouth. ...

2008 Nov 21 at 06:43 » Tagged as: web 0.8, weird, wiki

Just five minutes ago, I did a search and got the same old same old Google UI. Just now I did a sear...

2008 Nov 21 at 03:31 » Tagged as: x11, python

Earlier, I blogged about upgrading from Fedora 9 to 10 with Yum. Then I mentioned that it didn't go ...

2008 Nov 20 at 15:14 » Tagged as: virtualization, broadband, wiki

The other day, I spoke about upgrading from Fedora 9 to 10 using YUM. The reason that I chose this a...

2008 Nov 20 at 00:57

Once upon a long ago, Rad Inks was an elance service provider. Now I am back at Elance as a buyer. D...

2008 Nov 19 at 03:12

I was asking myself if there is a way to mount FTP folders the way you can mount remote folders usin...

2008 Nov 18 at 16:17

I have never had much need for OCR but when an error popped with VirtualBox the other day and virtua...

2008 Nov 18 at 00:53 » Tagged as: virtualization, x11, python

The last time I tried to use Yum to upgrade from one version of Fedora to another it didn't exactly ...

2008 Nov 17 at 10:36 » Tagged as: virtualization, bootstrap, x11, python

While trying out VirtualBox I wanted to use the existing Qemu images to save me the trouble of havin...

2008 Nov 17 at 02:40 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

After having a spot of bother with Qemu and on the recommendation of a fellow geek, I considered swi...

2008 Nov 16 at 09:49 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

Recently, I installed DSL - Damned Small Linux on as a guest operating system under Qemu and found t...

2008 Nov 16 at 01:05 » Tagged as: netbeans, python

Been waiting for a long time for PHP support to be added into Netbeans. Decided that I can wait no l...

2008 Nov 15 at 02:58 » Tagged as: broadband, python

Lanka Bell is really outdoing itself. The connection was dropped just after midnight (so says syslog...

2008 Nov 14 at 01:05 » Tagged as: virtualization, bootstrap, python

In my opinion overclocking is just a waste of time and a sure way of reducing the life time of your ...

2008 Nov 13 at 07:53 » Tagged as: broadband, python

Just a few minutes after I posted a message yesterday about my Lanka Bell Broadband connection dying...

2008 Nov 12 at 10:09 » Tagged as: broadband, python

Lankabell broadband is going downhill. Pretty soon they will be worse than dialog broadband. Come to...

2008 Nov 11 at 14:35 » Tagged as: virtualization, bootstrap, python

Looking at the boot up time of my Fedora 9 Desktop, I found it to be a rather disappointing 59 secon...

2008 Nov 11 at 01:27 » Tagged as: web 0.8, python

When I get too many visitors to my website, my ego get's effected. One way to cure it is to identify...

2008 Nov 10 at 09:22

Since my house is wired for gigabit Ethernet with cat 6 cable at great cost, it seems a crime to use...

2008 Nov 9 at 16:54 » Tagged as: web 0.8, python

Last year, I was so disapointed with Adsense that I thought of moving away from it and did. I ended ...

2008 Nov 9 at 03:06 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

It's been a long long time since I last created an NTFS partition.  Just created one - but windows i...

2008 Nov 8 at 01:36 » Tagged as: virtualization, python

First time I used virtualization was long long ago when I was in fact on windows and booted linux in...

2008 Nov 7 at 08:08

I just found out that  'mount -t smbfs' no longer works with Fedora. Turns out that it has been depr...

2008 Nov 7 at 08:08

I just found out that  'mount -t smbfs' no longer works with Fedora. Turns out that it has been depr...

2008 Nov 6 at 02:10 » Tagged as: broadband, security, python

Couple of months ago, I wrote about JoPPP - Junk over PPP. That is seeing a lot of packets on my ext...

2008 Nov 5 at 11:23 » Tagged as: web 0.8, python

I didn't have an assbook facebook account until very recently and didn't have a Hi5 account either (...

2008 Nov 5 at 06:19

I have always believed that whether a computer is fast or slow depends primarily on how much RAM you...

2008 Nov 3 at 21:19 » Tagged as: weird, religion, python

So is this language a Python or a Ratsnake? Actually Rat snakes are very harmless species of non ven...

2008 Nov 3 at 06:56 » Tagged as: collaboration, python

I first ran Into PHProjekt around 8-9 years ago when I myself was working for a groupware and messag...

2008 Nov 2 at 04:54 » Tagged as: wordpress, python

When I first started blogging more than 4 years ago, it was with blogger.com, Then I looked at a few...

2008 Nov 2 at 00:58

Suppose you have  directory tree o and you want to copy all the files in that directory tree into an...