September, 2006 - Archive

Cathedral and Bazaar – Quotes

Today I read the Cathedral and Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond. It has nice quotes especially for open source programmers but equally holds true for closed source programmers also. Here are the quotes: 1. Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch. 2. Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse). 3. If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you. 4. When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is t...
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Review: Zenwalk 3.0

The time I spend on distro watching (various linux distributions) has come down a lot after working on Ubuntu for last one year. But I use to revise my soft corner with Ubuntu by testing some other distro also. I am not a linux server guy. I am a programmer who needs good stable home pc with programming environments, a lot of packages, multimedia features, personal management suites and internet applications with reasonably latest release also. Ubuntu fulfills this to good extent. Now I have leg...
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Windows Media Center theme for Windows XP

If you are bored with Windows XP Luna theme (Blue/Silver/Olive), here is a nice looking theme available for download. Actually it is meant for Windows Media Center edition. But it looks awesome in Windows XP. Download here Install the downloaded theme. Then go to Desktop and right click for properties. In Themes tab, select "Royale" in Themes drop down box. Apply and Enjoy! Here is the screenshot of my Royale theme.
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ES620 IrDA dongle with Nokia 6610

I have MA620 compatible ES620 IrDA adapter with Nokia 6610 GPRS enabled mobile phone. Here is a smal HOW-TO on connecting to internet with this setup. 1. Ensure that the following modules available and loaded. a. uhci_hcd b. ircomm-tty c. pl2303 d. ma600-sir e. irda f. irtty-sir 3. make as script called IrDA_Start.sh with the following content: #!/bin/sh # # Minimal stuff required to get the MA620 USB IrDA dongle recognised by # the kernel. Version 1 -- works with unpatched kernel, but only at...
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