Archive for December, 2006:

Night at the Museum: Saw Dick Van Dyke after a long time

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 [...]

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FireFox 2 and Fedora Core 6

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 [...]

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motorolafans.com

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, [...]

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Back on Orkut

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.

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Fedora Core 6 on Compaq Presario V2000: Running WiFi (ipw2200)

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 [...]

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YEP 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.

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