Category Archives: Happenings
Open source 3D Printing soon for layman
Today’s The Hindu report on IT Trends talks about 3D Printing. You can make 3D plastic objects at home as per your design. This printer makes you to capture the existing object like cell phone casing, boxes, plastic casing for … Continue reading
Amazing Microsoft Surface
Today it happened to look at http://www.microsoft.com/surface. It is a innovative next generation user interface for day to day. Microsoft says about this in their press release: The launch of Microsoft Surface marks the beginning of a new technology category … Continue reading
Come on, GNOME based Pardus Linux!
Some times back I had written a small review on Pardus Linux 2007. I had mentioned that I did not use it for long time, but it is worth to watch this innovative and good performing distro. My production system … Continue reading
My customization on Ubuntu 7.04
I am sure everyone who read this blog regularly knows that I am running Ubuntu on my production system. Ubuntu’s performance, features, and all blah.. blah.. all every one in this tux world knows. So I want to present here … Continue reading
My Home PC RAM upgraded
I have upgraded the RAM of my home PC from 192MB to 448MB by plugging in a PC133 256MB RAM. It costs Rs.1200 (US$ 26) Here is my hardware configuration now. Motherboard: Intel 815EEA CPU: Intel PIII 800MHz RAM: 448MB … Continue reading
Distrowatch in Tamil
I have translated the static data of Distrowatch in Tamil. So now you can read your favourite Distrowatch in Tamil also. Already Hindi and Bengali versions available. Thank you, Ladislav Bodnar (Distrowatch maintainer) for accepting my translation. This translation has … Continue reading
Ulteo – Distro, worth to watch!
Currently hundreds of Linux distributions available. But only a very few has its own unique feature. Recent arrival Ulteo seems to be promising distribution, if they keep up their promises given below as quoted by their site. Ulteo projects itself … Continue reading
Eye candy gnome + adesklets
Here is my Arch Linux desktop with gnome + adesklets. gdesklets is very slow, my system is not able to run the same. adesklets is a wonderful light weight desktop widget tool.
Windows CE 6.0 Kernel source opened
The Microsoft has released Windows CE 6.0 version yesterday. The most exciting feature for me is the share kernel source (Since I don’t do any active platform building nowadays, I don’t bother much about other features in this shiny new … Continue reading
Debian – The King of Linux Distros
My current Home PC (PIII/192MB) is installed with Debian sid. I have this setup for last one month and found stable. Actually I installed Debian Sarge through DVD. It was just base install. After first phase of installation, the installation … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora and Debian Comparison
I have installed the following OS on my PC of following configuration. Hardware: PIII-800MHz/192MB/20GB/Intel 82815 Video OS: Ubuntu 6.06 / Suse 10.1 / Fedora 5 / Debian 3.1 I have installed all these OS, with mostly same configuration (2.6 kernel/ … Continue reading
Intel Core Duo outperforms AMD 64 X2
A few weeks back, after analysing various internet resources I came to conclusion that AMD 64 X2 Processors performs better than Intel Dual Core D Series Processors. But suddenly things have changed upright down. Intel has pre-released Core Duo Processors. … Continue reading
got a legacy machine!!!
I have got a used Intel PIII machine for my home, thanks to my guru ManiVS and Mr.Mukunthan. Though it is bit old configuration, I don’t feel so, when I loaded Mepis 3.4.1 and Gentoo 2005 Linux on that. I … Continue reading
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