Turning on your computer one not-so-fine day just to discover an entire partition (drive on harddisk) gone is nothing short of a nightmare potent enough to give you a mild heart attack. Unfortunately, exactly that happened to me yesterday. An ardent distro hopper that I am, I recently installed (K)Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop. Things […]
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Google network’s performance on BSNL EVDO in Linux
Posted on under Coding & Tech — 1 Commenthas been annoyingly sluggish ever since. Pinging Google sites via command-line shows heavy packet losses. I use the same browsers in Linux (Chrome & Firefox), and the same browsers in Windows. Still, performance of all Google (and related) sites is very poor in Linux (but OK in case of Windows) due to an arcane reason […]
Here comes GNOME 3
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 1 CommentGNOME 3 is finally here, and it looks so darn beautiful in the screenshots. I admit, being a KDE fanboy, I was not as excited about this release as I was about KDE 4, but going by the looks, GNOME 3 looks elegant, modern, and [most importantly] stable. Cannot wait to put my hands on […]
BSNL EVDO in Linux – The Easy Way
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Tutorials — 17 CommentsSo you just bought yourself a swanky new BSNL EV-DO broadband Internet device. It works happily on your Windows, fine, as they provide a Windows-friendly CD along with the device that installs the required software and drivers easily. But what about if you want to use your EV-DO in Linux, if you have it? Due […]
Why Switch? Dual-boot!
Posted on under Coding & Tech, Open-Source — 2 CommentsI keep hearing people say, “I am happy with my Windows; don’t want to switch to an alien OS such as Linux.” And, “Hey, this Linux thing looks cool. But I do not want to switch over to it suddenly (or at all) because my Windows just works.” Even, “I would really like to switch […]