My personal laptop is now loaded with Ubuntu 9.04. I know I know..am late. I was always weary of running dual OSes on a system. But looking at the ease with which you can load a whole new OS, I could not stop myself. All good things don’t come free ? Not true. Ubuntu is [...]
February 21, 2009
Your laptop/pc has only one ethernet interface. But when you want to connect to two different networks, one port is not enough. You need two. So how do you extend ?Buy an ethernet USB adapter. Cool eh ? Picked this one at Akhihabara electronics market of Tokyo. For 19$.
December 31, 2007
It’s nearly 10 years I started using the internet. But for few years in between I was going no where, you have the this access to the web, but browse what ?! You need some pointer to start somewhere.Search few keywords and visit those pages…..mmm ?! Cliche.. I discovered this only today.Stumbleupon.com My browsers never [...]
August 31, 2007
I know am late. But I have arrived. With Firefox. I installed it on my machine this morning and migrated all my bookmarks and cookies to the new browser.Having used IE7 for few months now, I felt there’s no new learning required to use FF. Their look-n-feel are somewhat similar. Since Firefox has a much [...]
August 3, 2007
It’s frustrating. I had downloaded the trial version of Microsoft’s onecare, the anti-virus, when I purchased my laptop. I wanted to stick with Microsoft. So today, I thought of converting the free to paid version. But Activate clicks from the client lead me nowhere. Wasted three hours just to figure out how to make a [...]
June 5, 2007
With sify broadband connection at home, I wanted to set up wifi at home with netgear wgr614v7 wireless router. It took me almost 10 hours in continuous sitting to get it working. It was not until late 3 in the morning that I found out that you need sify’s support to have wifi. If you [...]
October 27, 2006
October 13, 2006
If I have to describe my job, this is the top down hierarchy. Engineering > Telecom > Wireless broadband > CDMA > 1xevdo > Rev-A > Rel 5.0 > Testing > Logging framework and MEID enhancements. How extreme is the niche of work we do. Have you looked at yourself from the top ?
July 10, 2006
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July 22, 2009
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