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An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

A lot of statistics show Mozilla Firefox is ramping up while Microsoft IE is ramping down in the past one year. Here is a blog entry about this. Nice to hear...


Sun Microsystems will create an open-source project around its Solaris 10 operating system by the end of the year, company executives said Monday. Also, Jonathan Schwartz showed 32-Way UltraSPARC chip that runs Solaris 10.

Courtesy: OSNews


Colin Charles released a PDF, showing us what's new in Fedora Core 3.


To fix the crashing problem at level 26, I tried out the following.

  • Download and install the latest nVidia drivers.
  • Download and install DirectX 9.0c.
  • Download and apply NFSU lastest patch from EA games.

Nothing have solved the problem. Still the game crashes at level 26. I need a ...


I was playing Need for Speed Underground this weekend. I was able to advance upto level 25. But in the 25th level, the application crashes. I suspected the graphics driver (nVidia GeForce2 IGP) and upgraded it. No luck. Now I downloaded DirectX 9c (I have 9b) and also the latest ...


Today I found out the reason for the wierd behaviour of IE6. There was an adware called 180Search was installed on my computer. I am not sure how this one got in. I have removed it completely (Courtesy: Norton Antivirus).


Today I noticed in my IE6 that non-existing sites and other errors are taking me to a site titled "Internet optimizer". I looked into my installed programs and I was quite surprized to see a program called "Internet optimizer" installed. I am puzzled because I never installed this and also ...


Now the redirection of myriad-zero.net works fine.

http://myriad-zero.net is redirected to http://puggy.symonds.net/~praveen
http://blog.myriad-zero.net is redirected to http://myriad-zero.blogspot.com

Also the mails to the new domain are redirected to my personal account.


Today I am encountering a strange problem with IE6. When I search for something in Google's site, IE hangs abrubtly. I don't know the exact reason for this. I am working out to find the same.


After enough amount of googling, I admitted that today is the b'day of Linux. Shame on my side for not knowing this so far(I am using Linux since 1999). Anyway, better late than never.

Here is a brief history of Linux from Li.org.

http://www.li.org ...