Windows is no longer my master. nor a fixer.

I was a software pirate till now.. Had to use Windows till today morning..Now that i had crashes today morning while tryin to install vista x64 i just thought why shuold i keep it again.
To dust bin. Loss = a few dvd’s and some happy hrs of download..
Gain = Freedom..Style..Life..

Laid hands on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS beta..
wow simply WoW.. the windows WoW is just a  windows WoW
lot of new features.
*firefox 3 beta.
*a new cd/dvd burner “brasero dvd burner”
*and a cool facility the unlock. a kinda graphical sudo.(Policykit)
*and in the recovery console.. i just saw a xserver recovery option..
i wish i had that long ago.. coz i had many xserver crashes on 7.04 till when i had to figure out how the nvidia driver is linked to the os..

*the Gnome 2.22 is cool and smooth.. i kinda liked it and goin to stick on it rather than kde..

*the default torrent client is also change… it’s now

This is a small tutorial to setup the bluetooth device to handle the obex file transfer system on gutsy.
Plug in/switch on the bluetooth adapter. Now the os pops in a bluetooth applet at the notification area. If not open terminal and key in

bluetooth-applet

Then right click at the bluetooth notification icon and select preferences and set the desired settings like name of the system, the discovery settings, and even pair the peripherals.

Now when you need to browse a blutooth device filesystem right click on the icon and select browse device.

The much awaited KDE4 has been launched. 11th January 2008 was the day when they had a stable release. To have a small detail about it visit the homepage.

An easy way to install the enviroment is descibed below

1. vlc for playing divx

multimedia player and streamer
VLC is the VideoLAN project’s media player. It plays MPEG, MPEG2, MPEG4,
DivX, MOV, WMV, QuickTime, mp3, Ogg/Vorbis files, DVDs, VCDs, and multimedia
streams from various network sources.

VLC can also be used as a streaming server that duplicates the stream it
reads and multicasts them through the network to other clients, or serves
them through HTTP.

VLC has support for on-the-fly transcoding of audio and video formats, either
for broadcasting purposes or for movie format transformations. Support for
most output methods is provided by this package, but features can be added
by installing additional

There are many cases where you lose the grub and you cannot get back in to you world..
just like windows reinstallation… partitioning the HDD.. etc .

here is a very simple way to reach you world easily.

* pop in the ubuntu live cd

* mount ur linux partition
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda8 /mnt/tmp
considering that sda8 is the partition where linux is installed

* install grub

grub-install --root-directory=/mnt/tmp /dev/sda

* restart the computer and you will see the Grub back

sda is basically for sata drives..

for older drives it should be hda, hdb etc.. and for special devices it should be sdb i guess..

thanks to Jain johny for the clue.

Vista had introduced a 3D desktop environment called Aero last year just a flip of windows…
You need newer gfx card with shader model 2 and a video memory of 128mb for that stuff to work..

But long ago before vista was in scene

If you have an Airtel connection and GPRS activated(mobile office) and you want to connect to the net just do these steps to connect to the net… (Thanks to max_knr for helping me with this)

1. Install wvdial.
2. Open terminal and type wvdialconf. This searches for the modem and writes a config file to the /etc/wvdial.conf.
3. fire up kate /etc/wvdial.conf and paste the following code replacing the orginal code.

First when you hear the word Linux you think Windows.
this means you are a slave or just a passenger.
Linux is a world rather than an OS.
It is a way of living rather than computing environment.
It is the place where you control things.

Windows give you things but….. you should understand you are a slave..
Eat what you get.. do what you are told to… piss when you are told to piss… sleep when you are told to sleep…

Windows Sucks