Webhosting
Finally figured out how to host a website using my PC. Had a bit of trouble with port forwarding as my ISP blocks port 80 and my glassfish server had to be installed in port 8080. This is the link for a testpage that I put up there…
Month: November 2010
Trouble with Wireless in Ubuntu
As I mentioned in my previous post about Ubuntu, the wireless was working fine without any rfkill unblocks. But things changed when I did an online update using the Ubuntu update manager. After the update was completed and after the reboot, my wireless stopped working as it showed…
Windows Activation is Funny
I just finished installing and activating my Windows XP in my virtualbox. Heres the funny thing that it made me think about. I have two genuine Windows OS discs. Ones the Windows XP Home Edition that I purchased many years ago and the other one is the Windows…
Kindle on Linux?
The one software thats keeping me from installing Windows (even inside virtualbox) right now is the Kindle for PC. Since Amazon doesn’t ship the Kindle to India(I mean the good ones; only the classic kindle is being shipped), I can’t or rather don’t want to get the Kindle…
Back to Ubuntu
I’ve moved back to Ubuntu as I find that GNOME is a much easier interface to work with than KDE. So, installed Ubuntu Maverick and this time, I selected the option to download updates and "the 3rd party software" during installation itself. The change that I found is…
My tweets
Tue, 15:48: Just installed Kubuntu 10.10 in my laptop. Plasma looks good so far 🙂 Tue, 15:54: KDE now reminds of the vista start menu 😉 Tue, 15:55: Compared to the last release of Kubuntu, I see better UI response. 🙂 Tue, 16:43: This is really wierd. I…
Trouble with Totem
I had installed the totem player in Kubuntu 10.10 today a few mins ago. The reason why I did that is basically because I found the dragon player quite tedious in terms of random access of the media files. Moving the progress scroller in dragon doesn’t work most…