Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

It was a real good news that Airtel has doubled the speed of my plan for the same cost. I was using 128 kbps unlimited plan for INR. 999. Now for the same cost, I am getting 256 kbps unlimited. All that I had to do was call up Airtel ...


I was trying to post a comment in one of my friends blog in LJ using the OpenID. But based on my ISP (at office), LJ didn't allow me to post the comment as the IP pool is in the spammers list! What could I say? But Sify technical ...


Here is the screenshot of my latest Gnome desktop.

Gnome Desktop

All the setup in my server side is over and the migration was almost peaceful except the fact that I have lost some of the mails in my Inbox. Now the DNS entry is updated and the site is working full fledged as before. Thanks for your patience, if anyone ...


It was one hell a task this weekend to search for VOIP adapters in Bangalore market. I have roamed over entire SP Road (the hardware portal of Bangalore) in hunt for a CISCO ATA136, Linksys PAP2 or D-Link DVG-1402S. Most of the people here didn't know what it was ...


After long time since I planned, I have done a VOIP setup at home for receiving and making voice calls. Here are my contact information.

sip:692923@fwd.pulver.com
sip:kprav33n@iptel.org
sip:8599999@fonosip.com

I have also registered and setup my US and UK PSTN numbers ...


The updated version of IP to Country database's MySQL dump, which is used for the IP2Country plugin is now available.


Atlast, I have successfully moved my Wordpress setup to a new server without facing much problems. My previous host dicontinued more sooner than expected and things are not yet settled with my new host. I have been assigned disk space and MySQL database which helped me in finalizing the migration ...


Due to some reasons, I need to migrate to a new server. I am in the process of restoring the existing contents in the new server. I hope this would be over by this weekend. Till then no more new posts. Also some of the comments after this point may ...


The traditional way of installing the software on *NIX is from source. To install any software, you should download the sources, compile them and install them. But with the introduction of the package management systems from different Linux and other UNIX variant distributors, the source install method is almost deprecated ...