Posted in Computing, tagged windows xp, mac os x, parallels, virtualization on July 11, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Given that I would sometimes need to run Windows on Mac, I very quickly decided that I’ll install Windows XP through boot camp. It seemed like a good idea until I had to restart my mac to run windows just coz I needed to run a small application for 10 mins. Despite having only 1GB [...]
Posted in Computing, tagged add-ons, browsers, Firefo, IE on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve seen lengthy discussions on the web why we should go for firefox but I think it can be summarized in 3 points:
1. Firefox is faster
Firefox starts faster and it seems (to me) that pages load faster as well
2. There are loads (loads loads loads) of add-ons available for a variety of features
Firefox allows [...]
Posted in Computing, tagged Linux, windows, Mac OS, msdos, operating systems on July 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The story of my computing life told in terms of Operating Systems (OS)
The genesis: MS-DOS & Windows 3.1
I started using PCs at the age of 14 in secondary school. At that time, you would boot a computer to get a black screen (and that was MS-DOS). I would then navigate to the Windows forder and [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius, tagged Mauritius, Facebook, wikipedia, proxy on June 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
For some time now I’ve been unable to access Wikipedia both at home (using MyT) and at work (I suppose they use ADSL from MT or Orange now).
The solution is to use proxies and a good one is Anonymouse.org available at: http://anonymouse.org/anonwww.html
Proxies seem to be essential in Mauritius to:
check whether a site is really down [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, Mauritius, tagged firefox, map, Mauritius, pledge on June 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Firefox 3 is out and for sometime now there has been a campaign launched to help set a world record for the greatest number of downloads of one software in one day.
However, if you look beyond that, I think that this map (available at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord) gives a fair idea of the use of Internet and [...]
Posted in Computing, Mauritius, tagged OLPC, XO-2 on May 22, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The original OLPC laptop is great; it’s a small device that’s very robust but the XO-2 laptop is another story: it’s awesome!!! I saw that today and my immediate reaction was “I want one”. It’s supposed to cost $75 but I don’t mind participating in the programme buy two and donate one to a child [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged kde, kde 3, kde 4, kubuntu lts on May 21, 2008 | 6 Comments »
As I’ve said before, one of the reasons I’m using Linux is because of it’s increadible stability and laziness on my part (can’t be bothered to fight spyware, virusses, updates from Microsoft that break your system,… 
and unfortunately Kunbuntu 8.04 with KDE 4 is not giving me that stability!
The “worrying part” about that is I’m [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged 8.04, Hardy Heron, kde 4, Kubuntu on May 8, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This must be one of the rare times that I’ll have a review which features negative comments on Linux! Like many KDE fans around, I was pretty much excited by announcement of KDE 4 and the promise of a better looking interface that’s lighter than KDE 3. So when Hardy Heron was released, of course [...]
Posted in Computing, tagged database, forms, php, phpmaker5 on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
So you want an easy life; you want to make PHP forms as if you are working with access? It’s possible. There are loads of such programs available but the best I’ve seen is PHPmaker5.
How it works
To start with, you need to have your database ready (in MySQL for example). PHPMaker5 will connect to your [...]
Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged Kubuntu, Linux, qt, interface, trolltech on April 8, 2008 | No Comments »
Yesterday I decided to investigate Qt from Trolltech and get something working with it.
Very briefly, Qt is a library that allows you to create interfaces. Lots of programs use it (a lot of KDE programs do) and i’ve heard a lot of good things about it but alway thought naaa, this is too complicated. So [...]
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