Archive for December, 2006:
filed in Movies on Dec.31, 2006
Today I went to watch Night at the Museum and to my surprise I found Dick Van Dyke in that, was really happy to see him in a movie after a long time and he really did dance like how he danced in Mary Poppins (1964) in the end of the movie. He is also [...]
Tags: Actors, Entertainment, Film, Fun, Movies, Music, People
filed in Linux, firefox on Dec.29, 2006
It’s become a common question right now that why FireFox 2 is not available on the Fedora Core 6 default package repositories? The answer seems to be on the FireFox 2 page of the Fedora Project Wiki. A small quote from this page:
For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox [...]
Tags: Fedora Core 6, firefox, internet, Linux, Redhat, rpms, Yum
filed in Uncategorized on Dec.25, 2006
How do I change my Bluetooth ID of my Moto phone, how do I sync data using SyncML, how do I increase the loudspeaker volume beyond the default maximun, how do I flash my phone with latest/custom made firmware, how do I telnet to my Linux Moto Phone, how do I telnet/ssh from my phone, [...]
Tags: Flashing Firmware, foss, Fun, Gadgets, mobile phones, motoming, motorola, Motorola A1200, OpenSource, Technical
filed in Uncategorized on Dec.18, 2006
After giving some respite to Orkut I am back on it again, hope the scrappy thingi is not so crappy anymore. Really missed the connections with my oldies-goldies and couldn’t resist coming back.
Tags: Alumni, Blogs, College, girls, google, internet, orkut, People
filed in Linux on Dec.10, 2006
Today I installed FC6 on my Compaq Presario V2000, had to do some tweaks to get the WiFi running. Here is what I did:
1) Install Livna RPM Repository information:
$ rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
2) Install ipw2200 firmware:
$ yum install ipw2200-firmware
3) Add following to /etc/modprobe.conf:
options ipw2200 hwcrypto=1 associate=0
4) Add ESSID and CHANNEL in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1:
ESSID=
CHANNEL=
5) Add the KEY [...]
Tags: Compaq Presario V2000, Fedora Core 6, Gadgets, ipw2200, Linux, OpenSource, Redhat, rpms, Technical, wifi, Yum
filed in Movies, Yahoo on Dec.07, 2006
That’s me in YEP 2006, thanks to Sujoy for this photograph. Everything in the tag list of this post was there . Really an Awesome Party.
Tags: Adventure, Bangalore, Cameras, Festivals, Fun, Games, girls, India, mobile phones, Movies, Music, party, People, sports, Travel, TShirts, wifi, Yahoo