- Halfway through while trying to install it from the alternate cd, my monitor went into sleep mode and I could not do anything. This means I did not know what was happening as there was no display. There was continuous cd and hdd activity to warrant that the installation was in process. I tried to reboot from the keyboard and tried everything but in vain. Finally I had to reset the pc. Assuming something went wrong during install I installed it again, this time deciding to be careful to press only the ENTER key and not reboot. The same problem was faced and it was a blind install in the last leg of install.
- This caused some errors like on first boot the human.xml theme could not be loaded. The login screen also was not activated by default i.e I had to press the buttons Enter to enable the username and password screen.
- one solution to (2) I found that the standard Gnome greeting screen worked correctly.
- Need to investigate the screen blanking problem as nobody has faced this issue when I posted into lists
Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Finally installed Ubuntu-with some errors
Ubuntu has been topping almost every linux site and therefore I had to install anyways. I faced some problems though.
Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Installing Ubuntu Dapper drake
Downloaded the Ubuntu 6.06 iso. It has become a sleek product. But after booting to the desktop and clicking on install the problems started. My pc hung when the installation asked for time zone.
I restarted it and tried to install again and this time it was taking infinity to proceed to the next screen and there was continuous disk activity of both the hdd and the cd rom drive.
A post to the lists gave an answer that this install is buggy and with RAM<300mb it does not work
My pc has 256mb of RAM.
The solution was another cd named alternate cd which had the old debian style installer.
Now i need to download this which means another day.
Ubuntu is topping all distro sites and hence I wanted to try it. I already have installed 5.10 but not used it much.
I restarted it and tried to install again and this time it was taking infinity to proceed to the next screen and there was continuous disk activity of both the hdd and the cd rom drive.
A post to the lists gave an answer that this install is buggy and with RAM<300mb it does not work
My pc has 256mb of RAM.
The solution was another cd named alternate cd which had the old debian style installer.
Now i need to download this which means another day.
Ubuntu is topping all distro sites and hence I wanted to try it. I already have installed 5.10 but not used it much.
irc logs for freenode channels,Lisp,emacs etc
I remembered once I had seen a page with irc logs for Ubuntu. I had not paid much attention then.
After the release of Dapper 6.06 of Ubuntu I wanted to view these logs and could not recollect the url. A search on google went in vain, maybe i did not enter the proper search words. Finally I found it. I searched if there were logs available for all other channels but only some channels are logged.
In turn i found this cool site which keeps logs some of the irc channels.
Also these
Ubuntu/Edubuntu/Kubuntu/Ubuntu-dev------>http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/
Selected channels------------------------------->http://www.irclogs.net
Irc logs can be useful as a searchable faq and also may provide answers to many questions.
Recently Lisp and Emacs have been the flavor of the month for me and I browse through the lisp irc logs frequently, although I do not use both.
After the release of Dapper 6.06 of Ubuntu I wanted to view these logs and could not recollect the url. A search on google went in vain, maybe i did not enter the proper search words. Finally I found it. I searched if there were logs available for all other channels but only some channels are logged.
In turn i found this cool site which keeps logs some of the irc channels.
Also these
Ubuntu/Edubuntu/Kubuntu/Ubuntu-dev------>http://people.ubuntu.com/~fabbione/irclogs/
Selected channels------------------------------->http://www.irclogs.net
Irc logs can be useful as a searchable faq and also may provide answers to many questions.
Recently Lisp and Emacs have been the flavor of the month for me and I browse through the lisp irc logs frequently, although I do not use both.
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Gnuradio
Found a link to gnuradio. Radio through software and i never knew such a thing existed. Would surely like to try it out when I have time.
Have started reading "Learning Python" in earnest. Have read very little, not even upto chapter 1. I had started earlier with python and had almost read 3 chapters but had left it due to lack of time. Now I am not worrying about time. I have decided on a target of 1 chapter per week, and even if this is not achievable consistently then "read whenever I have time".
Installed SUSE 10.1 from the LFY magazine cd. Did not have much time to work on it but the installation screens are superb.
Playing games with my kid from old CHIP CD's. All are demo versions. Played Superbike 2001,
NFS Hot pursuit, Road rash. Trying to run NFS porsche unleashed on XP.
Have started reading "Learning Python" in earnest. Have read very little, not even upto chapter 1. I had started earlier with python and had almost read 3 chapters but had left it due to lack of time. Now I am not worrying about time. I have decided on a target of 1 chapter per week, and even if this is not achievable consistently then "read whenever I have time".
Installed SUSE 10.1 from the LFY magazine cd. Did not have much time to work on it but the installation screens are superb.
Playing games with my kid from old CHIP CD's. All are demo versions. Played Superbike 2001,
NFS Hot pursuit, Road rash. Trying to run NFS porsche unleashed on XP.
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Emacs and lisp week
The perennial dilemma of "which editor" vi/vim or emacs finally got resolved atleast for me.
Emacs came out as the winner. Both of them have their merits and demerits but I thought emacs has that geek feeling as an all in one customisable and extensible editor. One reason for some amount of bias is that I have bought the Learning Gnu Emacs -OReilly book. This inspite of reading on O'Reilly itself that they sell the vi book twice as much as emacs. Actually I have found emacs very difficult to learn with all the odd key combinations instead of the regular ones which we are used to.
The turning point for my decision was the number of new information resources I could find on the internet. It all began when I started a search for IRC in google. This was just for the heck of it, just wanted to follow the links in the search result of google. This lead me to a number of links related to IRC and to other information. For e.g the developer of MIRC a IRC client's homepage listed some physics and virtual life links. Normally I only see the first 5 pages of the google listing. This time I thought to delve deeper and went beyond page 20 and found a link to the Emacswiki with the EmacsIRC client.
To my astonishment Emacs could also be used as an irc client. I also am an avid LISP follower i.e I am fascinated by Lisp although know nothing about it except that it is a language very few use. I got a link to the Road to LISP survey and this consisted of simple questions of how lisp users came to use lisp and what have they learned so far, what do they feel about lisp in general etc. The answers were mind boggling and I came to know that Lisp can be used for hardcore programming and each one had had a great learning experience and were still learning. I knew all the way that Emacs has been programmed in Elisp a Lisp dialect. Many of the users in the survey said that they had encountered Lisp through Emacs/Elisp. For the whole week and more thereafter I was engrossed in reading the survey and anything and everything about emacs and lisp. I knew that I had to learn emacs atleast.
Also I found that the emacs mailing list was also very active and development was still on. Many users were using emacs as a PIM also.
I also came to know a lot of other terms and books about lisp from the RTL survey which I was not aware of. I had read Eric Raymonds "How to become a hacker" and he mentions that you should know all the 5 languages (C,C++,Java,Python and Lisp). He says learning Lisp will give profound enlightenment even though one may not use it practically. I am ready to be enlightened.
Having written all this I have not even started at anything. The usual reasons of lack of time due to work pressures(not currently) and meeting social obligations(family and friends).
Lets see atleast I am not letting my blog die.
Emacs came out as the winner. Both of them have their merits and demerits but I thought emacs has that geek feeling as an all in one customisable and extensible editor. One reason for some amount of bias is that I have bought the Learning Gnu Emacs -OReilly book. This inspite of reading on O'Reilly itself that they sell the vi book twice as much as emacs. Actually I have found emacs very difficult to learn with all the odd key combinations instead of the regular ones which we are used to.
The turning point for my decision was the number of new information resources I could find on the internet. It all began when I started a search for IRC in google. This was just for the heck of it, just wanted to follow the links in the search result of google. This lead me to a number of links related to IRC and to other information. For e.g the developer of MIRC a IRC client's homepage listed some physics and virtual life links. Normally I only see the first 5 pages of the google listing. This time I thought to delve deeper and went beyond page 20 and found a link to the Emacswiki with the EmacsIRC client.
To my astonishment Emacs could also be used as an irc client. I also am an avid LISP follower i.e I am fascinated by Lisp although know nothing about it except that it is a language very few use. I got a link to the Road to LISP survey and this consisted of simple questions of how lisp users came to use lisp and what have they learned so far, what do they feel about lisp in general etc. The answers were mind boggling and I came to know that Lisp can be used for hardcore programming and each one had had a great learning experience and were still learning. I knew all the way that Emacs has been programmed in Elisp a Lisp dialect. Many of the users in the survey said that they had encountered Lisp through Emacs/Elisp. For the whole week and more thereafter I was engrossed in reading the survey and anything and everything about emacs and lisp. I knew that I had to learn emacs atleast.
Also I found that the emacs mailing list was also very active and development was still on. Many users were using emacs as a PIM also.
I also came to know a lot of other terms and books about lisp from the RTL survey which I was not aware of. I had read Eric Raymonds "How to become a hacker" and he mentions that you should know all the 5 languages (C,C++,Java,Python and Lisp). He says learning Lisp will give profound enlightenment even though one may not use it practically. I am ready to be enlightened.
Having written all this I have not even started at anything. The usual reasons of lack of time due to work pressures(not currently) and meeting social obligations(family and friends).
Lets see atleast I am not letting my blog die.
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
I will not let my blog die
Well, It has become boring to write a blog to keep it active. But I wont let it die. I will still update it as and when I get time. The latest resolve I have made i snot to buy any new books (techie) but to read it after downloading it from the net and yes all of them are available is some format or other.
Currently my pc has been plagued with adware and pop-sites which come very often. I have tried several of the free spyware programs but to no avail.
I am trying other alternatives.
Another problem has arisen because my ISP has changed some settings and I connect in WinXp through a dial-up icon but through my network card. On observation I found out that the winxp dial up setup states connect using ISDN channel of network card.
Now how do I do this in Linux???????????
After all the dilemma of which text editor emacs or vim I have finally decided to use emacs. It is surely criticised a lot but it has fabulous things which can be done. Now I have just decide but havent had the time to use it.
I hope I do not let my blog die. Will post soon or rather daily
Currently my pc has been plagued with adware and pop-sites which come very often. I have tried several of the free spyware programs but to no avail.
I am trying other alternatives.
Another problem has arisen because my ISP has changed some settings and I connect in WinXp through a dial-up icon but through my network card. On observation I found out that the winxp dial up setup states connect using ISDN channel of network card.
Now how do I do this in Linux???????????
After all the dilemma of which text editor emacs or vim I have finally decided to use emacs. It is surely criticised a lot but it has fabulous things which can be done. Now I have just decide but havent had the time to use it.
I hope I do not let my blog die. Will post soon or rather daily
Monday, January 30, 2006
Nothing much
Its the end of the 1st month of the new year. Nothing new to write. I was very much busy on my job at office. Implementation was in full swing. Had good exposure on Fixed Assets and FSG reports on Oracle.
Started to write a daily journal in Oo writer on FC3
Configured my ADSL connection on slack 10.2, FC3 (already working and stable) and Ubuntu
Found that Ubuntu was a bit sluggish and was suprised how I was addicted to Slackware console with mc as the file explorer.
Wrote programs in c in emacs,vim, kate on gui and vi on console.
I found vi/vim more popular and also more easier and convenient to learn. Emacs has a steep learning curve.
I have bought "Learning Gnu Emacs" last year.
Searched google for vi vs. emacs links and got some whopping 39000+ links.
Yum is giving some problems and stops in between.
I want to download Oracle 10gexpress database on linux.
Windows XP has started giving errors. Applications like Firefox and Azureus are giving errors when I open them although they run smoothly thereafter.
Win Xp shows the filesystem as RAW and I cannot run chkdsk on RAW filesystem.
Could not get any plausible solution to this problem.
I need to format my C drive and reinstall Win XP and also Office 2000.
Do not have much time as lot of household work needs to be done as my brother is getting married in March 06.
I think I will take up this project of writing a journal/diary as I wish for 2006.
Another project is appearing for OCA and OCP examinations in 2006.
Started to write a daily journal in Oo writer on FC3
Configured my ADSL connection on slack 10.2, FC3 (already working and stable) and Ubuntu
Found that Ubuntu was a bit sluggish and was suprised how I was addicted to Slackware console with mc as the file explorer.
Wrote programs in c in emacs,vim, kate on gui and vi on console.
I found vi/vim more popular and also more easier and convenient to learn. Emacs has a steep learning curve.
I have bought "Learning Gnu Emacs" last year.
Searched google for vi vs. emacs links and got some whopping 39000+ links.
Yum is giving some problems and stops in between.
I want to download Oracle 10gexpress database on linux.
Windows XP has started giving errors. Applications like Firefox and Azureus are giving errors when I open them although they run smoothly thereafter.
Win Xp shows the filesystem as RAW and I cannot run chkdsk on RAW filesystem.
Could not get any plausible solution to this problem.
I need to format my C drive and reinstall Win XP and also Office 2000.
Do not have much time as lot of household work needs to be done as my brother is getting married in March 06.
I think I will take up this project of writing a journal/diary as I wish for 2006.
Another project is appearing for OCA and OCP examinations in 2006.
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Wikipedia-Fund raising appeal
A post on slashdot describes Wikipedia founder making a personal appeal for donations.
Wikipedia is a very useful source of information and is of course free. I always search google for any specific term and many times the first link is Wikipedia. It is unending, bottomless free information.
I go not know whether wikipedia needs these funds to be online, but surely hope that it does not shutdown or go into oblivion remaining unupdated.
Maybe some big companies like google,yahoo,IBM donate a huge amount andd keep it alive. Cannot imagine internet without wikipedia.
Is there any other encyclopedia equivalent to wikipedia?
Wish I could donate in Rupees.
Off topic
Suddenly I wondered that if blogspot(this site)or del.icio.usor any other site became non free and started charging money or shutdown due to unavoidable circumstances, where would I blog, where will my blog posts till today go. Thinking of this I have started to search for a tool that will archive all my blog posts from all blogs to my HDD.
Wikipedia is a very useful source of information and is of course free. I always search google for any specific term and many times the first link is Wikipedia. It is unending, bottomless free information.
I go not know whether wikipedia needs these funds to be online, but surely hope that it does not shutdown or go into oblivion remaining unupdated.
Maybe some big companies like google,yahoo,IBM donate a huge amount andd keep it alive. Cannot imagine internet without wikipedia.
Is there any other encyclopedia equivalent to wikipedia?
Wish I could donate in Rupees.
Off topic
Suddenly I wondered that if blogspot(this site)or del.icio.usor any other site became non free and started charging money or shutdown due to unavoidable circumstances, where would I blog, where will my blog posts till today go. Thinking of this I have started to search for a tool that will archive all my blog posts from all blogs to my HDD.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Synopsis 2005
My first post for 2006
2005-Adieu
2005-Adieu
- Concentrated more on Linux and opensource in general
- Installed additional Hdd in my pc and this is devoted for free os.
- Remained faithful with at least 1 distro FC3. I think I used this more than any other distro.
- Lost a little bit of faith in Slack but cannot give up. this was because of the elimination of Gnome from slack 10.2
- My hdd read somewhat like this as on 31/12/05
- hda (Win XP,Slack 10.1,10.2, FC3)
- hdb(Ubuntu and Kanotix and balance is empty)
- Try as many distros as possible.
- Do geeky things like using the old pc lying idle in a very imaginative way
- LFS and gentoo are 2 projects for me in 2006 should try them
- OpenSolaris and FreeBSD install them together with linux
- Concentrate on one programmimg language, be it c,python, lisp anything and continue that for the whole year. Keep in mind that you can only learn 1 topic at a time.
- Do some open source writing just for the satisfaction it gives and maybe try to get it published in the magazines or on the net
- Try to think of something innovative taking inspiration from distrowatch
- Do some ethical hacking at home only.
- Do some preofessional course (OCA/OCP/CISA/ISA) etc
- continue blogging even though my blog is ranked above 10lacs in technorati.
- Do not lose heart and concentrate and focus.
- Try to contibute to some project/distro anything (although difficult for non programmer like me).
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
Status quo
Nothing new. It is status quo on every front. I was busy with work official and personal. I keep browsing and surfing the net,finding new links but never ever concentrate or focus on one. Last month I was just learning Oracl Apps(drink Oracle,eat Oracle,sleep oracle).
Again the same dilemma,From where to start? I decided on Python and now I am trying to learn C because I am finding learning C more interesting than python.
I have updated my blog after almost 2 months.
will keep updating I hope or it will die like another diary.
Again the same dilemma,From where to start? I decided on Python and now I am trying to learn C because I am finding learning C more interesting than python.
I have updated my blog after almost 2 months.
will keep updating I hope or it will die like another diary.
Friday, October 21, 2005
Ubuntu 5.10 Breezy Badger installed
Today I installed Ubuntu 5.10 breezy badger on my home PC.
I did not fiddle around with it much. One observation I made was that the menu was slightly modified. I wanted to setup pppoeconfig to browse the net and I could not find the menu item for Terminal. It was in the accessories menu. Maybe this change is universal due to Gnome 2.10.1.
I was happy that all the drives were mounted by default and I could open a powerpoint presentation by just double clicking on the file in Linux.
I was not even aware that Oo could import the Powerpoint presentation in Impress.
Surely linux has come a long way. However I could not play a .wmv file in Totem.
Things to to do on Ubuntu
Play mp3 in XMMS (mp3 are not supported and are non free)
Play movies in totem and any other movie player
Open .rar files
Install Aureus
Run DOS emulation to play DOS games like (Digger,Paratruper,pacman etc)
play Games without emulation on linux
News
Flock the social browser has been launched. It integrates RSS and delicious into it.
Still in the beta stage I will download and try it
I did not fiddle around with it much. One observation I made was that the menu was slightly modified. I wanted to setup pppoeconfig to browse the net and I could not find the menu item for Terminal. It was in the accessories menu. Maybe this change is universal due to Gnome 2.10.1.
I was happy that all the drives were mounted by default and I could open a powerpoint presentation by just double clicking on the file in Linux.
I was not even aware that Oo could import the Powerpoint presentation in Impress.
Surely linux has come a long way. However I could not play a .wmv file in Totem.
Things to to do on Ubuntu
Play mp3 in XMMS (mp3 are not supported and are non free)
Play movies in totem and any other movie player
Open .rar files
Install Aureus
Run DOS emulation to play DOS games like (Digger,Paratruper,pacman etc)
play Games without emulation on linux
News
Flock the social browser has been launched. It integrates RSS and delicious into it.
Still in the beta stage I will download and try it
Sunday, October 16, 2005
XP up and running again
The problem i faced as mentioned in my earlier post did not need any research although I went about searching google and got loads of info.
It was just simple. I had tried the PC-BSD cd which I got with a magazine
It changed the partition type of /dev/hda1 (where windows is installed) to freebsd type. I logged into slack 10.1 and ran cfdisk which showd me this problem.
This is the reason Win XP was not able to read from the partition and gave an error.
I immediately changed it back to FAT32 wrote it to the disk and XP booted normally.
I am writing this from Ubuntu Hoary in mozilla firefox.
My plan is instead of downloading the Breezy iso from Win Xp I would like to do it from Hoary after doing all configs installing azureus etc..............
This will also be a good exposure to linux
It was just simple. I had tried the PC-BSD cd which I got with a magazine
It changed the partition type of /dev/hda1 (where windows is installed) to freebsd type. I logged into slack 10.1 and ran cfdisk which showd me this problem.
This is the reason Win XP was not able to read from the partition and gave an error.
I immediately changed it back to FAT32 wrote it to the disk and XP booted normally.
I am writing this from Ubuntu Hoary in mozilla firefox.
My plan is instead of downloading the Breezy iso from Win Xp I would like to do it from Hoary after doing all configs installing azureus etc..............
This will also be a good exposure to linux
Friday, October 14, 2005
Win XP halted, Researching problem
Today morning as usual I logged into my quadruple boot PC in Win XP.
(Oh to be open source truly. When will I log on to linux by default instead of Win XP for my daily activities???).
My son wanted to hear his songs (a daily ritual) for which I always go to Win XP and start winamp and play those randomly. He has 16 film songs in his own playlist mede by me. Well ran the same for an hour or so and shut it down.
When I was free for some time I again connected to the net thru Win XP browsed my usual sites
(e-mail,trading some porn) etc and then thought of tring out PC-BSD CD which came with the monthly Linux magazine. PC-BSD is still in beta stage. I just wanted to boot from the CD and see how it looked like and quit when asked for installation.
I found that PC-BSD was not perfect and the mouse seem to disappear. Clicking cancel on some dialog boxes did not have the desired effect and the dialog box remained on the screen.
So I quit and wanted to check my bank account online which I had forgotten before.
I rebooted and lo and behold after the initial Windows logo the blue screen with a message came up on the screen.
STOP:c000021a {Fatal system error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000003a
Now I can boot into all other Linux distros but not in to XP. Yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Google my friend listed some 689 results for this error but really no solution to the problem.
Everyone explains a different solution based on the error codes. So I am left to research on my own and to find a solution.
Even a boot into the safe mode gave a different STOP error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Researching..............
(Oh to be open source truly. When will I log on to linux by default instead of Win XP for my daily activities???).
My son wanted to hear his songs (a daily ritual) for which I always go to Win XP and start winamp and play those randomly. He has 16 film songs in his own playlist mede by me. Well ran the same for an hour or so and shut it down.
When I was free for some time I again connected to the net thru Win XP browsed my usual sites
(e-mail,trading some porn) etc and then thought of tring out PC-BSD CD which came with the monthly Linux magazine. PC-BSD is still in beta stage. I just wanted to boot from the CD and see how it looked like and quit when asked for installation.
I found that PC-BSD was not perfect and the mouse seem to disappear. Clicking cancel on some dialog boxes did not have the desired effect and the dialog box remained on the screen.
So I quit and wanted to check my bank account online which I had forgotten before.
I rebooted and lo and behold after the initial Windows logo the blue screen with a message came up on the screen.
STOP:c000021a {Fatal system error} The session manager initialization system process terminated unexpectedly with a status of 0xc0000003a
Now I can boot into all other Linux distros but not in to XP. Yeh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Google my friend listed some 689 results for this error but really no solution to the problem.
Everyone explains a different solution based on the error codes. So I am left to research on my own and to find a solution.
Even a boot into the safe mode gave a different STOP error IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL
Researching..............
Monday, October 10, 2005
Slackware 10.2 installed
Downloaded Slackware 10.2 and installed it on the partition which had Debian earlier.
I made it a full install. Slackware has abandoned Gnome so I have to use KDE.
Not experimented with it much.
Instead of Debian I thought of using Ubuntu which is a direct variant of Debian.
I have already installed Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 on /dev/hdb5. Also downloaded a cool Slack wallpaper.
Waiting for the Ubuntu Breezy Badger release on 13/10/05. The same is already available as RC1 candidate.
Thinking of trying out Open SUSE.
Ubuntu seems to have clear directions and great support and also a great community.
So I have 2 distros (one with KDE only and one with Gnome only) -a unique combination.
I made it a full install. Slackware has abandoned Gnome so I have to use KDE.
Not experimented with it much.
Instead of Debian I thought of using Ubuntu which is a direct variant of Debian.
I have already installed Ubuntu Hoary Hedgehog 5.04 on /dev/hdb5. Also downloaded a cool Slack wallpaper.
Waiting for the Ubuntu Breezy Badger release on 13/10/05. The same is already available as RC1 candidate.
Thinking of trying out Open SUSE.
Ubuntu seems to have clear directions and great support and also a great community.
So I have 2 distros (one with KDE only and one with Gnome only) -a unique combination.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
No progress on the programming front
Slackware 10.2 has been released. I downloaded the disk1 through torrent and currently am downloading the 2nd.
In my last post I had thought finally on concentrating on one topic of interest rather than flirting with multiple topics and zeroed in on Python. There is no progress after that.
Trying to find the ever evasive time. Although I get some time(2-3 hours daily) I have to utilise the same in household activities which are of utmost importance. Also those activities cannot be skipped permanently. Remaining time is spent with my kid who is just 2 years old.
Will try my level best to progress on this.
I am still writing this on Win Xp through Firefox 1.0.6 with the Noia theme and listening to Music on Winamp. Oh!! to be open source and use Linux.
I had an opportunity to use the laptop for a week in my office. It is a pretty old laptop but ran very well. Dell Lattitude C500 (800mhz,256mb RAM etc). I transferred images from my Nokia 3200 to the laptop through the infrared port and I was amazed at how fast it worked.
Dream of owning my own laptop running free os. It is a dream a laptops are very expensive in India than in any other country.
I observed that the top 10 distros listed of distrowatch based on the number of hits per day remain the same only changing positions and Ubuntu is the top distro overtaking Mandriva for a long time. The 10 distros are
Ubuntu,Mandriva,Suse,Debian,Slackware,Damn Small,Fedora,Koppix, Gentoo and Mepis
Links I frequent as of today
slashdot - really gives some great comments and news
del.icio.us
distrowatch
ubuntu forums -more recently
I have also subscribed to Ubuntu/Fedora/ Mumbai lug and Pune Lug in my Gmail for the past 6 months and sometimes there are interesting discussions aand also sometimes a question by me registers more than 25 replies.
Finally for a link to post on my blog Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu has clarified many aspects of Ubuntu and yes Breezy Badger will be released by 15th October.
Ubuntu status and clarifications
Adios Amigos
In my last post I had thought finally on concentrating on one topic of interest rather than flirting with multiple topics and zeroed in on Python. There is no progress after that.
Trying to find the ever evasive time. Although I get some time(2-3 hours daily) I have to utilise the same in household activities which are of utmost importance. Also those activities cannot be skipped permanently. Remaining time is spent with my kid who is just 2 years old.
Will try my level best to progress on this.
I am still writing this on Win Xp through Firefox 1.0.6 with the Noia theme and listening to Music on Winamp. Oh!! to be open source and use Linux.
I had an opportunity to use the laptop for a week in my office. It is a pretty old laptop but ran very well. Dell Lattitude C500 (800mhz,256mb RAM etc). I transferred images from my Nokia 3200 to the laptop through the infrared port and I was amazed at how fast it worked.
Dream of owning my own laptop running free os. It is a dream a laptops are very expensive in India than in any other country.
I observed that the top 10 distros listed of distrowatch based on the number of hits per day remain the same only changing positions and Ubuntu is the top distro overtaking Mandriva for a long time. The 10 distros are
Ubuntu,Mandriva,Suse,Debian,Slackware,Damn Small,Fedora,Koppix, Gentoo and Mepis
Links I frequent as of today
slashdot - really gives some great comments and news
del.icio.us
distrowatch
ubuntu forums -more recently
I have also subscribed to Ubuntu/Fedora/ Mumbai lug and Pune Lug in my Gmail for the past 6 months and sometimes there are interesting discussions aand also sometimes a question by me registers more than 25 replies.
Finally for a link to post on my blog Mark Shuttleworth of Ubuntu has clarified many aspects of Ubuntu and yes Breezy Badger will be released by 15th October.
Ubuntu status and clarifications
Adios Amigos
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
Nth attempt to learn programming
I am making the 'nth' (dont know how many times I started and left it in between due to various circumstances viz lack of time, social and family obligations) attempt to learn programming seriously. After buying many books of various programming languages and also after reading many mailing list posts discussing which language first I have zeroed on Python.
After all this I havent started yet so to speak.
Meanwhile I took a debian quiz
I answered only 14 out of the 42 questions correctly, not bad for a non techie like me I feel.
Another link
What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum
echoed my thoughts about education curriculum and the practical scenario. I hardly use the technicalities learnt while I was studying for my Chartered Accountancy course. It is just a degree for entering the job market. What we study is pure theory and book knowledge and the actual scenario while working is different.
After all this I havent started yet so to speak.
Meanwhile I took a debian quiz
I answered only 14 out of the 42 questions correctly, not bad for a non techie like me I feel.
Another link
What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum
echoed my thoughts about education curriculum and the practical scenario. I hardly use the technicalities learnt while I was studying for my Chartered Accountancy course. It is just a degree for entering the job market. What we study is pure theory and book knowledge and the actual scenario while working is different.
Monday, September 12, 2005
Who am I?
Which character do I represent
I am John Sheridan
John is a character in the Babylon 5 universe. You can read his biography at the Worlds of JMS fansite
I am John Sheridan
John is a character in the Babylon 5 universe. You can read his biography at the Worlds of JMS fansite
Monday, August 29, 2005
Kanotix update,broadband connection thru linux
I did proceed with the kanotix install on HDD. It was a smooth install. Also was able to login tried connecting to the internet through the same but failed. I was searching for some information on the same but could not any relevant info.
Actually setting up the broad band connection is very easy and I did it on FC3 and slackware.
Y0u have to run the following commands
adsl-setup-----------------To setup
adsl-start------------------To start the connection
adsl-stop-------------------To stop the connection
If your distro does not contain these commands you may need to install these from the roaring penguin site.
Here give the username and password and enter thePrimary& alternate DNS ip addresses and everything works fine.
Only problem was that I could do it only as root.
Now I could try out yum for updating packages. First I updated Firefox to 1.06 and then installed the XMMS Mp3 plugin.
I was not much impressed at what I saw in Kanotix.
I dont know, but I do not like KDE much because of its bloat and also since I have used command line and Slackware only from the time I got hooked to linux.
I got an errorin Kanotix and the KDE desktop crashed and it partially worked when I logged in as a normal user.
I have Slackware 10.1 installed without KDE/GNOME but only Xfce and it seems to look great.
Need to do some research on blogs and how to add other's blog links to my blog etc....
I have added a counter on my blog and blocked my home ip and office ip (the only places from where I will update/post) so that visits from these ip's get excluded.
The counter has not moved since then and is at 7 which includes 6 visits by me (till the time I dicovered how to block IP's) and 1 outside visitor.
It seems that the first distro you ever use always retains you back as is in my case.
I have used slackware since 8.0 and I still prefer Slackware with its default CLI login.
Actually setting up the broad band connection is very easy and I did it on FC3 and slackware.
Y0u have to run the following commands
adsl-setup-----------------To setup
adsl-start------------------To start the connection
adsl-stop-------------------To stop the connection
If your distro does not contain these commands you may need to install these from the roaring penguin site.
Here give the username and password and enter thePrimary& alternate DNS ip addresses and everything works fine.
Only problem was that I could do it only as root.
Now I could try out yum for updating packages. First I updated Firefox to 1.06 and then installed the XMMS Mp3 plugin.
I was not much impressed at what I saw in Kanotix.
I dont know, but I do not like KDE much because of its bloat and also since I have used command line and Slackware only from the time I got hooked to linux.
I got an errorin Kanotix and the KDE desktop crashed and it partially worked when I logged in as a normal user.
I have Slackware 10.1 installed without KDE/GNOME but only Xfce and it seems to look great.
Need to do some research on blogs and how to add other's blog links to my blog etc....
I have added a counter on my blog and blocked my home ip and office ip (the only places from where I will update/post) so that visits from these ip's get excluded.
The counter has not moved since then and is at 7 which includes 6 visits by me (till the time I dicovered how to block IP's) and 1 outside visitor.
It seems that the first distro you ever use always retains you back as is in my case.
I have used slackware since 8.0 and I still prefer Slackware with its default CLI login.
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Broadband internet !!!!!! Uh oh --Hi-speed internet & Kanotix
Finally I got a so called Broadband connection(correctly speaking it is a hi-speed connection) on my home PC. This was after trying my local cable operator 2 times without any response and even Sify who responded after 12 days. I got a connection from Exatt (through a local dealer). The speed is good. I was connected on 11/8/05.
Well the first thing I wanted to do was surf to check the surfing speed and download some large file to check the download speed. I surfed some random sites and I was getting a good speed the same which I get at my workplace and also very very fast than dial-up.
I tried to some files(3-4mb) and I could download at an average of 9 to 10KBps. This was very good. On an average I am getting a speed of 15-16KBps
I downloaded Mozilla Firefox and Azureus the Bittorrent client and downloaded the Kanotix Distro iso file. Now I browse with firefox.
It took me at least 4-5 days with 4hrs of continuous downloading (2hrs each in the morning and evening). I also wrote the ISO to a cd.
I downloaded this based on some reviews. I need to freeze on one Distro as my default os another step towards being truly open source.
I tried the live cd and it worked great but i need to try the HD Install
Some links to Kanotix
KANOTIX - Putting the Pizzazz on Debian
My workstation OS-Kanotix
Will update soon with my Kanotix experience
Well the first thing I wanted to do was surf to check the surfing speed and download some large file to check the download speed. I surfed some random sites and I was getting a good speed the same which I get at my workplace and also very very fast than dial-up.
I tried to some files(3-4mb) and I could download at an average of 9 to 10KBps. This was very good. On an average I am getting a speed of 15-16KBps
I downloaded Mozilla Firefox and Azureus the Bittorrent client and downloaded the Kanotix Distro iso file. Now I browse with firefox.
It took me at least 4-5 days with 4hrs of continuous downloading (2hrs each in the morning and evening). I also wrote the ISO to a cd.
I downloaded this based on some reviews. I need to freeze on one Distro as my default os another step towards being truly open source.
I tried the live cd and it worked great but i need to try the HD Install
Some links to Kanotix
KANOTIX - Putting the Pizzazz on Debian
My workstation OS-Kanotix
Will update soon with my Kanotix experience
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
/dev/hda and /dev/hdb on new PC
I had bought a 40g HDD and installed it on my old PC a IBM PC300gl Celeron 500 64mb RAM
I wanted to try out networking. This requires lot of time and also lot of experimenting. Also the old PC does not support booting from CD and there lay the problem. I have to disconnect the drive connect it to my mew pc install what I want and again install it back in the old pc.
This was not happenning. So i decided to remove the HD from the old pc and attach it to the new pc as primary slave.
I was partly successful. Bios detected the HD but after 2 tries. It was detecting as 32 gb instead of 40gb. After lot of fiddling and changing the jumper settings and finally removing all jumpers except one I got what I wanted. Still I am unclear on the jumper settings and what I did to make it work.
There is a hidden burning desire in me to try those first 50 or maybe 100 distros mentioned on distrowatch for e.g.ike Kanotix/DSL and of course freebsd and LFS even though the principles are the same.(based on RH/Deb/Slack) This desire erupted one fine day and I made the above changes.
Now I have 80g and with 20g gone for Win XP and assuming I keep 2 to 3 gb free space and on an average 4.5g for each distro(it may vary) I can have 12 distros on my PC(this may include one bsd). Wow!!!!!!
Now I have FC3(full)/Debian 3.1(25/04/05)-only base and mc,Slackware without KDE and Gnome on /dev/hda and Ubuntu on /dev/hdb
Worst part is my landline is dead for the past 1 month and hence no net connection
I am searching for a broadband(so called) subscription and no one is appraoching me. Finally I will have to rely on MTNL's ADSL.
Need to seriously devote some time in learning open source programming, well it could be any thing maybe just learning bash/emacs/vim anything.
I forgot my Debian root password and have messed up trying to recover it. I think i will have to reinstall it again.
Suse has become opensuse. I was never attracted to try SUSE basically because it was preconfigured and there was not effort required and yes it was not free. But many people in the world use SUSE and now I am getting interested in trying it also.
Some of the Distros I wish to use but do not have copies
DSL(have an old one),Kanotix,Slax,Minislack,Arch,Scientific
Will write about my progress on programming etc
I wanted to try out networking. This requires lot of time and also lot of experimenting. Also the old PC does not support booting from CD and there lay the problem. I have to disconnect the drive connect it to my mew pc install what I want and again install it back in the old pc.
This was not happenning. So i decided to remove the HD from the old pc and attach it to the new pc as primary slave.
I was partly successful. Bios detected the HD but after 2 tries. It was detecting as 32 gb instead of 40gb. After lot of fiddling and changing the jumper settings and finally removing all jumpers except one I got what I wanted. Still I am unclear on the jumper settings and what I did to make it work.
There is a hidden burning desire in me to try those first 50 or maybe 100 distros mentioned on distrowatch for e.g.ike Kanotix/DSL and of course freebsd and LFS even though the principles are the same.(based on RH/Deb/Slack) This desire erupted one fine day and I made the above changes.
Now I have 80g and with 20g gone for Win XP and assuming I keep 2 to 3 gb free space and on an average 4.5g for each distro(it may vary) I can have 12 distros on my PC(this may include one bsd). Wow!!!!!!
Now I have FC3(full)/Debian 3.1(25/04/05)-only base and mc,Slackware without KDE and Gnome on /dev/hda and Ubuntu on /dev/hdb
Worst part is my landline is dead for the past 1 month and hence no net connection
I am searching for a broadband(so called) subscription and no one is appraoching me. Finally I will have to rely on MTNL's ADSL.
Need to seriously devote some time in learning open source programming, well it could be any thing maybe just learning bash/emacs/vim anything.
I forgot my Debian root password and have messed up trying to recover it. I think i will have to reinstall it again.
Suse has become opensuse. I was never attracted to try SUSE basically because it was preconfigured and there was not effort required and yes it was not free. But many people in the world use SUSE and now I am getting interested in trying it also.
Some of the Distros I wish to use but do not have copies
DSL(have an old one),Kanotix,Slax,Minislack,Arch,Scientific
Will write about my progress on programming etc
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