Miscellaneous
Last month,I upgraded one of my PCs from Ubuntu 8.10 to Ubuntu 9.04 and everything went rather smoothly. Since my main PC is running Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS) and there is no option to upgrade to 9.04 directly without going through…
OK, I admit I was not quite prepared for the traffic I got for my previous post on MS-DEBUG as my website has been overwhelmed by the flood of requests coming in. Yes, I got Slashdotted!
Earlier this week (May 5) Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate was released to the general public and like many technology enthusiasts I downloaded a copy early in the morning hours on Tuesday, shortly after Microsoft made it available on its…
I had set up my apt-get source to use latest SVN build of Code::Blocks. Everything has been running pretty smoothly until a couple of days ago when Code::Blocks was updated to SVN 5534.
After I upgraded to the latest SyntaxHighliger (2.0.296) I noticed that the font size of the code section is a little bit too small to my taste. But there is not an UI option to change it.
It was almost one year ago when I switched my main home computer to Linux. Since then, I have been using my Ubuntu 8.04 installation daily and have not found the need to boot up Windows at all.
Linus is famous for making radical and controversial statements. While a lot of these quotes sound harsh, they are profoundly true nevertheless.
I had been using a modified version of Kaushal Sheth‘s (it seems that his web site is currently being redesigned.) Indigo for a couple of years and really enjoyed the theme’s clean design.
I stumbled upon this Linus video about the origin of Linux on YouTube the other day. I think this is such an excellent video that you should definitely take a look, whether you are a Linux fan or not and…
I created this short Perl script to tally the number of unique IPs from the Apache server log.
I installed Windows 7 Beta (64 bit) under VMWare 6.5.1 (Linux version) a couple of weeks ago, and my main objective was to compare its user interface and functionality with that of Windows Vista.
When talking about designing the perfect user interface, different people sometimes have very different ideas. It is more of a religious thing then being simply right or wrong.
I just downloaded Microsoft’s latest OS beta — Windows 7 64bit, which was released to the general public two days ago.
I got a P3 Kill A Watt as Christmas present. Besides being able to measure voltage, current and kilo-watt-hours, it can measure power factor as well.
You have probably heard the Zune fiasco at the turn of the new year. Or if you have one with 30GB hard drive, you probably have experienced it yourself.