Praveen's Blog

An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement

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 ...


Most of us know that Hydrogen is difficult to produce and store. The most common way of producing Hydrogen was from water. A new startup is venturing a new way of producing Hydrogen with more efficiency!


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 ...


My freaking harddisk which had Linux crashed again. Yesterday, I got a replacement for that one. I had to install Linux back again. After a long thought of choice between Debian and Ubuntu, I have decided to go for Ubuntu. I installed Hoary from CD and upgraded to Breezy. I ...


Slashdot talks about Guitar playing robots! No wonder that there is nothing impossible before science. Just write the notes and throw it to your robot to play it on Guitar.