Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

I recieved a mail (forward) a few minutes back from Rekha, titled "Happy b'day Linux". It also claimed that on Aug 25th 1991, the first public announcement about Linux came from Linus. Find below the mail (supposed to be) from Linus Torvalds.

Hello everybody out there using minix-

I ...


Yesterday I bought my APC UPS from RM Computers at Ritchie street. The price was INR. 2700. The UPS has 3 battery powered outlets and one surge protected outlet. I installed the UPS and booted into Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional. The software given with the UPS, "PowerChute" worked fine on ...


Atlast after considering a lot of names, I settled for myriad-zero.net. I registered this domain for two years. The fee was INR. 700. Have to look out for a good deal of hosting. If anyone have a good Linux host in mind, please let me know. At present, this ...


Just now created my blog account here. The term "myriad-zero" is a conjoining contradictory term. "Myriad" meaning infinite and "Zero" meaning nothing. I already had my journal at Live Journal. As I am a hard core Google fan, I decided to move to Blogger.


I upgraded most of the components of my PC. So, I think about mentioning the configuration here...

  • AMD Athlon 2000+ XP (256MB L2 Cache) (Gotta move for 2400+ 512MB L2 Cache)
  • nVidia nForce 2 chipset (MSI)
  • 512MB DDR RAM (266MHz)
  • nVidia GeForce MX IGP (32MB Shared memory)
  • nVidia MCP sound ...

Today I tried to burn my first DVD disk under Linux and it was painless. KIIIB is too good. It detected my TDK DVD burner straight away (was using Fedora Core 2; no scsi emulation). I copied the Matrix all in one DVD which took around 42 minutes (7.3 ...


Yesterday I bought a new Pinnacle PCTV Pro card for my computer from Ritchie street. I came around Rs.2700 with one year warranty. Pinnacle PCTV Pro has BT878 chipset with FM tuner which is Rs.500 more than the PCTV Stereo model which has no FM tuner (that is ...


Registered with Live Journal a.k.a. LJ. Thanks to Suraj for introducing this. I didn't have time to experiment more with LJ. Will do it later (may be this weekend)! Some of the recent photos that I shot are here.