My 3-year old laptop’s DVD drive no longer works correctly, so I had to find an alternative method to install the fresh out of the oven Maverick Meerkat. So it’s USB. First I tried unetbootin but it seemed not installing the bootloader properly. Since I’m not familiar with GRUB2 it would’ve been extra workaround for me. Fortunately there was a ...
September was of course not a good time for me. After finishing my internship I was expecting to write some damn good blog articles, but fate was against me this time. :( Early in the last month our home router seemed to be malfunctioning. We handed it over to claim the warranties, and till then no Internet… I almost felt ...
As you may have already experienced, Javascript on Chrome works faster than on Firefox. But today I’ve experienced the other way when using them on a virtual machine. It was a virtual machine (VirtualBox) running Windows XP and on that Firefox seemed to be working faster and smootly than Chrome. Especially when browsing sites that have rich Javascript content Chrome ...
Today, I encountered a problem when the edits I made to ‘/etc/hosts’ file on a Linux box didn’t work as expected. In the /etc/hosts file I added the following line, 192.168.50.2 shaakunthala.com And to test, issued the following command, $ ping shaakunthala.com And the result was, PING shaakunthala.com (184.168.221.17) 56(84) bytes of data. That’s not the IP address I wanted ...