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 [...]
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For some time now Begum, Anwar and I have been trying to install Kubuntu 8.04 (a smart and sexy OS) on a laptop where the CD-ROM is not working. We’ve tried many things like booting from a usb CD - did not work, from a usb floppy with Smart Boot Manager and then the usb [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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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Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged Linux, Mac OS, OS, Vista on December 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sometime back, the only Operating System that could be used by “commoners” was Windows and MacOS if you had a Mac - now that Apple has open its architecture, Windows (and Linux) can be installed as well. Unix was absolutely impossible to use and Linux despite the best effort of the open-source community still required [...]
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Posted in Linux, tagged ext3, Linux, linux partitions, windows on December 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’ll be echoing something I saw on the Linux and Open Souce Blog here: Linux Reader - Get access to Linux files from Windows
Usually it’s the reverse that we attempt to do; i.e., we try to see our NTFS and FAT32 drives from Linux but being able to do the reverse is quite nice as [...]
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Posted in Linux, tagged Hardy Heron, Ubuntu LTS on October 14, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron has for some sometime now been announced and it will be released in April 2008 and what’s really nice is that it’s going to be the next Long Term Support provided by the Ubuntu team.
Ubuntu is a really amazing Linux distribution: it’s east to use, lots of software are [...]
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Posted in Computing, Linux, tagged Fotmat, Kubuntu, USB Drive on September 26, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I lent my Usb Pen drive to a friend who needed to create a bootable usb disk. On getting it back, I formatted it on Windows but… it would then only work in Windows!!! Not on my beloved Kubuntu!
I tried several utilities, software,… and it only ended up in manking my pen drive useless (impossible [...]
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Posted in Computing, Linux on April 11, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You must have heard of it. Paul Graham recently wrote an article on microsoft entitled “Microsoft is dead“. But is it?
On the web, Microsoft is inexistant, apart from My Space (don’t remember it’s name exactly), it’s invisible and all the major breakthroughs are now done through the internet with Web 2.0. Yet, the beast is [...]
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