I got up early at 3:55 AM in the morning today. It took me around 20 mins to get out of the bed. You know when you open your eyes in the morning the time you take to get out of the bed is inversly propotional to thing you achieve. The more time you take, less you achieve. May not be true for everyone but certainly true for me. Getting out of comfort to take new challenges is certainly not an easy task and I feel tempted to stay in bed and enjoy every bit of dreams I could.

After waking up I sat on my computer and collected all the company documents for annual tax filling purpose, yeah I hate to do all this but you can't really escape from it. You have to do mundane tasks. Good that I did that in the morning. Remember eating the frog :), doing the most difficult thing first thing in the morning, so you feel charged up for rest of the day.

[Wife]: I need a Solo Microwave!!
[me]: Ok, le ayenge.
[Wife]: Mera phone bhi theek karwao
[me]: Aj hi jakar karwata hoon

back to work..

Yeah, so after collecting all the company documents, I did biceps today then took the bath.

Then I fixed my old computer, took me some time to figure what is wrong. I cleaned RAM, removed every connection and finally it was the loose power supply connection. Not sure but it worked!!

Now I am trying to install Fedora 14 in it. First the computer didnt recognized the DVD drive, I removed the drive from another computer and it worked. When I tried to install F14, it asked me to choose installation source, I think it booted the installation but didnt recognize the DVD ROM during the installation. I think the old mobo doesnt support DVD, even in the BIOS it is mention CD ROM everywhere. Not sure but at least the F14 DVD boots!

I am now copying the F14 iso to another HDD and I will boot F14 DVD and install Fedora from that HDD. I hope it works! It should work I have done it in past. Let me try it!

Chal Jayio yaar!

Oh btw Good Morning!

Damn I inserted SIM wrongly in my mobile, thanks Vinod for reminding me that my phone is off!!!!

Just repaired another pc and I will install fedora in it. Also upgraded the RAM!! Cool!
Ravi Sagar
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Yesterday I watched the social network at Fun Cinemas with my wife. Overall the movie was nice, I would say it was good actually. My wife got bored totally and kept asking me questions like what is Napster? What is Monetizing the site? and are these characters real or fake? Most of my time in the movie was spent explaining her that yes these characters are for real and the story too I guess.

Good thing is that before the start of the movie ate chicken momos with spicy sauce and my cough and blocked noses got cleared and I was able to hear everything clearly after that :) (so chicken momos with chilli sauce is cold killer)

Two weeks backs I installed Fedora 11 on my Compaq Laptop. I last installed Fedora 8 in May last year when I bought my laptop and ever since I was using it. In the past one year F9 and F10 also came but I was too lazy to install them. Anyways I finally managed to installed F11 and I m glad I did.

Good things
1. My Wifi card was detected automatically. In F8 I had to install madwifi to use wifi on my laptop
2. It boots in seconds!! believe me you will get the login screen in just 20 sec
3. It looks good. I am a KDE fan and I am happy to see major change in KDE after a long time.
4. Laptop keys for sound control works in KDE
5. Package Manager works well.

Bad things
1. Laptop Keys for brightness control does not work in KDE, it works on GNOME though. I am still finding a way to enable those keys. I found an alternative to directly reduce the LCD brightness. Just issue this command as root

2. There is no progress bar in the package Manager.

My friend Nikhil finally installed Fedora on his system. I am glad that he installed fedora.

Check out the below link to install the most common softwares required for daily use and to make Fedora more user friendly.

http://www.howtoforge.com/installation-guide-fedora8-desktop

This is an awesome Guide!

Procedure to password protect your grub menu is simple. Steps are mentioned below.

1. Use the command grub-md5-crypt to generate an encrypted password in MD5 (Message Digest Algorithm 5) format.

2. Open your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and copy the encrypted password.

Enter the password --md5 ENCRYPTED-PASSWORD line just before the title line.

3. Restart your computer and to modify the GRUB menu first enter p and then enter the password that you encrypted.

4. Now your GRUB is MD5 password protected.

If you want to know all about the CPU(s) on your system, then check the /proc/cpuinfo file.

This will give you the following output.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 3
model name      : Pentium II (Klamath)
stepping        : 3
cpu MHz         : 1729.327
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic pge 
                  cmov pat mmx fxsr sse sse2 up pni
bogomips        : 3527.30
clflush size    : 32

This file has important information about the CPU.

Finally after almost an year of registering linuxindya.com domain name, I have launched this website.

Site Motto

• To promote Linux in India. Especially in Schools and Homes
• Generate awareness among people to use linux
• Showcase the excellent Linux softwares which can replace windows counterparts
• Reviews on Linux distros and application
• Site is targeted for Non-Geeks user, People who can't afford windows or use pirated version of windows

Welcome to my site or weblog or whatever you want to call it. I don't know why I created this site. I guess I like flaunting. I made this site hoping to write blogs and update it regularly. I don't get much time to write blog rather I would say that I am too lazy person. I do write about Open Source technologies and other things. Hope you find something useful on my site. Even if you don't just drop me a line. I would love to know more about you.

You can check the photos that I clicked randomly here http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravisagar

I am also an Admin for Linux Indya, site to promote Linux and a community site for Guru Gobind Indraprastha University.