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This is my second international trip. Everything remained the same as the first trip. A Saturday early morning British Airways flight to San Francisco departing from Bangalore (international?) airport. But this time, the trip was not as smooth as the last one. Three of us (me, Manoj and Partha) were ...


I have a server that is running Fedora Core 3. I was trying to setup SSH X forwarding to work on this server. The server had only a minimal set of required packages installed. I have added the line X11Forwarding yes to the file /etc/ssh/sshd_config and restarted the ...


Sun Microsystems yesterday (officially) announced about making Java platform free. Now Java is available under GNU GPLv2. This is one of the most revolutionary move made by Sun. Initially Sun was about to use CDDL for licensing the open source Java platform. But the choice of GPL is a great ...


I came across this one at Comedy Central today.

If they say they're John Doe from XYZ Company, ask them to spell their name. Then ask them to spell the company name. Then ask them where it is located, how long it has been in business, how many people ...

I have just come across Google code search. I am not sure when this one is launched. This service is awesome. You can search for a code snippet and get the results from archived files, svn, cvs, etc. You also get the information about the programming language, license and more ...


Since yesterday, I am encountering some strange issues with my laptop. My desktop would go unresponsive all of a sudden. Nothing works after that and I have to force reboot using the power switch. I am seeing this problem with both Windows and Linux. I was almost sure that there ...


I have installed Ubuntu 6.10 beta today. After installing emacs21 and emacs-snapshot-gtk, I saw that the font faces are totally messed up. After some search on the Internet, I have found that they have changed the font path in edgy from /usr/share/X11/fonts to /usr/share/fonts ...


<praveen@aphrodite> (Fri Sep 29 21:11:28) [/store/ubuntu]
$ axel -a -n 64 http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
Initializing download: http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/6.10/ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
File size: 716517376 bytes
Opening output file ubuntu-6.10-beta-desktop-i386.iso
Starting download

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