Debian PS3 Installation
Posted on December 31, 2009
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It is holiday time and so finally time to installing Debian onto the Sony PS3 box. The installation was smooth as most of the stuff is already documented. The Debian Installer has all the support needed, to install onto the Sony PS3. As of now the only thing not working perfectly is the boot loader. It seems to be taking default is the kernel that was booted last. Even if I change the default in /etc/kboot.
[Read More]Horror
Posted on November 22, 2009
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Paranormal Activity
It is a Gem in the Horror genre.
If you are not much used to horror movies, don’t watch it. It will scare the
shit out of you.
OTOH, if you enjoy horror and would like to see it, please not alone. I did
that mistake.
apt-offline
Posted on October 14, 2009
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It all started long back when I worked for a giant computer manufacturing
company. Certain IT policies led fo the need for an Offline APT Package
Manager
While I got it working for a long time, I didn’t have the aggression to polish
and push it for general usage. Thanks to my friend appaji, [apt-offline](http
://apt-offline.alioth.debian.org) (a.k.a pypt-offilne) is now part of Debian.
Father
Posted on September 15, 2009
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" Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly
as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in
thy innocent glee." -- Margaret Courtney
I miss you Dad.
New GPG Key
Posted on August 6, 2009
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Given the recent switch to a stronger key by everyone, here’s mine.
The old key that I’ll still keep using till I get the new key signed by a good amount of people.
pub 1024D/04F130BC 2003-08-18
Key fingerprint = CF0F EDEF 1052 83D2 62A4 0549 E118 62EA 04F1 30BC
uid Ritesh Raj Sarraf rrs@researchut.com
uid Ritesh Raj Sarraf riteshsarraf@users.sourceforge.net
uid Ritesh Raj Sarraf (NetApp) rsarraf@netapp.com
uid [jpeg image of size 52128]
[Read More]Evolution Newsgroup UI
Posted on May 29, 2009
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I’ve been using KDE for a while now, probably 9yrs. I’ve also been an early adopter of KDE 4.x. While KDE 4 is still far way behind in proving its worth of the radical core changes it made (take for example: Nepomuk, Strigi, Phonon, Decibel - I still wonder when they are going to be ready for the user), I still find KDE apps far far ahead of GNOME.
Probably, many would disagree.
[Read More]Compressing Backups
Posted on April 4, 2009
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Once upon a time CPU power was low. In those days, what we have today, was termed to be Super Computers.
Thanks to tough competition and great engineering, we now have CPU in the range of Gigahertz and multiple cores. But on Destkops/Laptops, do we really have applications that utilize the ability of these processors ?
So I thought about making these powerful CPUs to do some work.
There are different views about Backups.
[Read More]Crab Mania
Posted on April 1, 2009
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Do you like crabs ?
Have you bitten one ?
Or been bitten by one. That’d be the case if they weren’t tied.
Backups && Recovery
Posted on March 4, 2009
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Backups
Most of the users using computers have a very high dependency on it. Day-by- Day, our data is getting digitized. Everything is getting into electronic formats ( Movies/Pictures/Music et cetera). If you are one, you know how important it is to have a backup.
Lately, I haven’t been using Microsoft Windows on a daily basis. So I’ll comment on Linux here.
The definition of Backup can be different. People like backing-up only the Important data.
[Read More]Another Debian Merit
Posted on February 19, 2009
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So there was a recent thread on the Destop Architect’s forum, where Dan Kegel discussed the idea of silent upgrades (for Security, at least).
I for one, am not very fond of the idea. Updates/Upgrades (Security or Features) are something which should be done with some Human Intervention. But still it is not an idea to be completely ruled out. Free Software is about choice. There definitely are use cases where Silent Updates look a good choice.
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