July 3rd, 2007
This post is my experience, good and not-so-good, on my first stab into triple booting on a laptop.
Ok, I started with WinXP obviously since the OS always overwrites the MBR entirely and hence a bad choice as a second or third OS. I created one system partition for WinXP OS+apps and one user partition for what we care most about. Both are NTFS. Also, I don’t have any plans to move to Vista in the shorter term also.
Next, I choose to install RHEL5. The reason is that, RHEL5 is a more mature and slow-moving linux distribution and has typical life-cycle of about 2 years between major releases. Compared with this, Ubuntu’s objective is to bring to the end-user latest, greatest software every 6 months. Since I normally move to the latest Ubuntu version by default, I thought having RHEL in first as second OS is a good decision.
So, I installed RHEL with a /boot, /, /home, swap partitions and checked that everything was in order with the root and a normal user accounts. So far, so good…
Now, my first question…
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July 2nd, 2007
I know all of you are just recovering from the iPhone launch and desperately waiting for the iPhone to be available near you. For me, I waiting when it will be available in Asia in general and Singapore in particular….
I have started using Mac OS X Tiger recently as a second system and I am mesmerized with the graphics, stability and user friendliness. Now, I wish for something more in OS XI and I have a reasoning why it might be possible as well. Let us first recall some history
1. OS X moved away from a proprieratory kernel to FreeBSD 5.0.
2. iPod entered and revolutionised the then crowded mp3 player market.
3. Apple recently moved its MacBook line from IBM processors to Intel processors.
Now, what could be a ultimate marriage of technologies… and this is my wish as well.
Will apple fork or move its Mac OS to a linux kernel ? and if it does, think about it… the power of the lastest greatest software and the most beautiful and intuitive user interface even built. Now the question is, why didn’t apple choose linux kernel in the first place when they choose FreeBSD5 as their base ?
Could it be GPL ? I don’t think so since apple is currently publishing the modified version of BSD used in Mac OSX as garwin.
So, what is the probability that Apple will do this ? They certainly are capable of doing so as they have demostrated recently through their hardware, software switch in Macbook. I lay my wish here.
What do you think ? do drop some comments below
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April 1st, 2007
Just bumped into the TiSP(BETA) program from Google. TiSP apparently stands for Toilet Internet Service Provider. The idea is to run, or rather flush, fiber optic cable (with a sinker) through your toilet and when it reaches the nearest TiSP access node, Plumbing Hardware Dispatchers (PHDs) will remove the sinker and plug the line into Google’s global data networking system.
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March 31st, 2007
I have been living in Singapore for nearly 8 years now. I started going around the asean region as tourist a few years ago and started noticing that there were multiple time zones in the region. I am inquisitive by nature, and therefore began asking why so many time zones ?
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March 24th, 2007
In times when we hear only negative news from many countries, in particular developing nations once a blue moon rises a website that has a mission of carrying only good news.
I would like to thank and introduce in my blog goodnewsindia . This website is dedicated to carrying only good news from India. It is published by D V Sridharan. Click the link to read more good news from India, about Indians etc
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March 24th, 2007
Indian PM is probably the most qualified PM in the entire world currently. I received the following from a friend in email. I am posting this in my website in the hope that the info will not be lost in forwarded emails. Please click the link to know the view Dr. Manmohan Singh’s resume.
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September 24th, 2006
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February 15th, 2006
Here is my experience building libjingle* in my ubuntu-linux 5.10. I spent nearly a day building it (including many u-turns). I am writing this how-to in the hope you will spend much less time. YMMV.
Contents:
* Hardware tried on:
* Installion
** Download
** Installing dependies using
*** Synaptic package manager
*** Direct compilation
* Installing lilbjingle
* Future Goodies
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