Yesterday, I upgraded my Ubuntu 9.10 to Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 (Lucid Lynx). Lucid comes with Thunderbird 3. After upgrading, using Thunderbird 3 once and rebooting, Thunderbird started up with empty profile and showed the account creation window. When I looked into the home directory, I noticed that my .thunderbird is moved to .thunderbird.upstream and [...]
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I have a triple boot system with OpenSolaris, Ubuntu 9.10 and Microsoft Windows XP. I upgraded my Ubuntu 9.10 GRUB to GRUB 2 today. GRUB2 automatically added an entry for Microsoft Windows XP. However, it didn’t detect the OpenSolaris that was installed. I had to manually configure OpenSolaris chainloading in GRUB 2. If you are [...] I have an Apple TV and I run XBMC and Boxee on my Apple TV using Patchstick. Apple introduced Apple TV 3.0 Software last week. Somehow, the software just got upgraded automatically causing me to lose XBMC and Boxee. Patchstick isn’t available for Apple TV 3.0 yet. So, I had to downgrade it using another [...] Since I updated to OpenSolaris update snv_124, I am facing issues with Indic fonts rendering. I have created a bug describing the problem. The root cause of the problem isn’t diagonized yet. If someone knows what could be wrong, please let me know. I keep hearing a lot about Haskell lately and wanted to get introduced [...] My (ex-)manager David Carlton has decided to leave us to join Playdom. I learned a lot in the past two years working with him. We are going to miss him a lot! Playdom is fortunate to have such a talented individual on board. I am sure he will be bringing a multitude of perspectives into [...] OpenSolaris 2009.06 was announced yesterday. You can download the live CD image (ISO) from here. Here is the set of instructions to create a live USB stick from the live CD that you have downloaded. Step 1. Install distro-construct. $ pfexec pkg install SUNWdistro-const Step 2. Generate the USB image from CD image. $ pfexec usbgen osol-0906-x86.iso osol-0906-x86-usb.img /tmp/osol Step [...] This morning there was an official announcement that Oracle has offered to buy Sun Microsystems for $9.50 per stock, and Sun’s board agreed. The market rumors surrounding Sun for the last few weeks suggested that something was looming. But, Oracle was a surprise to me. It looks like closing the deal typically takes from 3 [...] Recently I found myself in a situation where I felt that I have more things to do than the time available in hand. The number of unread e-mails and pending tasks were growing in a faster rate day by day. I missed to act upon a few important e-mails. This new situation had increased my [...] My employer (Sun Microsystems, Inc.) has announced another round of layoffs, which will eliminate as much as 18% of Sun’s workforce (around 6000 jobs), will save the company $700 million to $800 million. We have also announced the departure of the head of Software Group, Rich Green. With this we are restructuring the Software Group [...] For a while now, I was not happy with the speed my Debian GNU/Linux booted. It was taking approximately 1:10 minutes to drop me in the GDM prompt. Today, I decided that I will try to probe into what exactly is happening. I have already heard of bootchart a few years ago. However I never [...] |
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