Journals

Finally got my wireless to work with Ubuntu at home too. Since Linux does not support my wireless iball usb adapter, I brought a netgear adapter from office. I’ll possibly drop down to Chandni and buy one for myself. It’s strange that iball isn’t Linux compatible. In fact It’s more expensive that netgear adapters. Anyways […]

I have started using Ubuntu and it’s beautiful. The installation was pretty easy, however configuring the wireless network took quite some time. Still got the office network following some online help. I am still not able to configure the wireless at my home. Maybe it’s due to my iBall hardware. I should have bought Netgear. […]

I just finished playing Crysis today.. and it was awesome. Though some times it tended to be monotonous during the early chapters.. it still was amazing graphics and gameplay. I enjoyed the whole game except for one level in the middle where I am inside the alien ship. That level was pretty irritating. I only […]

Finally, the switch to WordPress is complete. It was very difficult emotionally replacing my earlier blog but it had to go. Created in 2005 using ColdFusion, it wasn’t suited to the web 2.0 environment and it was only a matter of time before I moved. Sigh… I still remember all the long nights I have […]

Q-Dir makes your files and folders easy to manage. Fast and easy access, with an amazing Quadro-View technique. You don´t have to renounce the usual, Drag and Drop, all Views, and other functions of your system. No! Q-Dir gives you other nice functions, that make you happy. One can save many hand moves and also […]

There are many ways to avoid success in life, but lets see if I can put together a sureshot way to achieve it. You may be thinking that one has to do little to ensure failure, but the truth is you have to really work hard at being a “successful” failure. 10. Procrastination: The most […]

If you’re not familiar with the concept of mouse gestures, it’s simple: by holding down the right-click button and dragging your mouse in a pre-defined fashion, you can execute a user-defined command or action. For example, you could set up a global mouse gesture that launches Opera any time you trace ‘O’ on your screen. […]

Opera is still not a household name like Internet Explorer or Firefox however the beta 1 release of the Opera 9 browser is much more innovative than Firefox 1.5 or the latest release of IE7. Since November 2005, the current version, Opera has been free to download. There are tons of features in Opera which […]

I just bought my second USB flash drive last week and boy was I impressed. The Kingston’s U3 DataTraveler smart drive offers more than just portable storage. It can also store and run software programs that you can download from U3.com. U3 DataTraveler is ideal for users who move between different locations that have PCs, […]