Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

Jonathan has written in his blog about the open letter from Scott to Mark Hurd. Can you guess the tone of this mail? :-)


Avalon towers at Peninsula is a heaven of internet.

praveen@aphrodite:/home$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade...Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
cron debianutils flac gnome-about gnome-desktop-data info libaudio2 libflac7 libgnome-desktop-2 liboggflac3   openssh-client openssh-server reiserfsprogs ssh texinfo
15 upgraded, 0 ...

If you have cups installed on your Debian and facing issues in printing from Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and Acrobat Reader, you might want to try installing cupsys-bsd.


It is a long time since the last post. A lot of things happened since the last post. Just a quick update on how things are moving.

  • I have successfuly installed Debian GNU/Linux SID on my Toshiba Satellite A80 laptop and configured almost all essential applications. I will put ...

I am literally breaking my head for the last two days on installing Debian on my new Toshiba A80-P4321 laptop. I hope I will make some progress tonight. I will write a a new post on the installation.


The gentlemen Dutch, English, Painter, and Writer are all teachers at the same secondary school. Each teacher teaches two different subjects.

Furthermore:

  • Three teachers teach Dutch language
  • There is only one math teacher
  • There are two teachers for chemistry
  • Two teachers, Simon and mister English, teach history
  • Peter doesn't ...

Brian L. Clark, a new Gizmodo writer has a written a nice small article about the fast growing IPTV segment.


I have got the B1 visa for visiting US yesterday. This is my first international visa on the passport. I am very happy about it. I think that mostly it would be a 10 year, multiple entry visa. Have to wait and see. If all goes well, I should leave ...


What is the smallest number of red balls that must be moved to transform the red triangle into the green triangle?


Finally the long time pending task of bringing my gallery to production and unifying (to certain extent) the look of my journal and gallery is complete. I am happy that this weekend has been somewhat useful! Need to do some Google analytics and adsense work still. Also need to upload ...