Comments on: Fiendish Operating System: 1 – Sidin Sunny Vadukut: 1

By: sidin

sidin — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:09:55 +0000

Thanks Abdul. Since then I've moved to an iMac which worked
immediately out of the box. It was awesome indeed. Still mighty
surprised you took the trouble of leaving a comment. Gracias.

By: ubuntu

ubuntu — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:46:16 +0000

I have found out what I belive the source of the bug. Something happened to the rp-pppoe.so module in the latest versions, as seen in Dapper (and btw in ArchLinux), so that now NIC names are specified without any kind of prefix in /etc/ppp/peers/ files.
That is, if my network interface is defined as nic-tap0 in Breezy's /etc/ppp/peers/dsl-provider file, I have to edit it by hand in Dapper to read tap0. The problem is that pppoeconf generates the nic- prefix.

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Why Ubuntu? – 2 – wnwek.org | Vivek Sonny Abraham — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 15:41:23 +0000

[...] But one fateful day, Sidin announced that he had installed Ubuntu on his computer, as a dual-boot. [...]

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By: sameera

sameera — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 17:26:38 +0000

really good stuff
i dont want to bother going back and commenting nd citing bits nd pieces but u basically rock!

By: Priya

Priya — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:49:03 +0000

4 yrs at NITT, I never set foot in the Unix Lab at Octa.. never. So good for you, that you tried.

By: Sandeep

Sandeep — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:20:35 +0000

Rule #1 – never use ppoe . Get the ethernet thinggy for your DSL modem, set ur username and password in the web-based configuration itself and be in internet nirvana (call up ur DSL support dudes, they’ll help you do this. If Airtel, actually tell them ur using linux and want to put ur modem in ethernet/lan mode)

Question – kobolds?? World of Warcraft or Dungeons and Dragons by any chance

By: Ajith

Ajith — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:38:19 +0000

After college, I havnt gone near this linux installation thing..Even though , its great as a learning OS, it makes things really difficult if u want to do some practical work from it..Unless ofcourse if u know the nitty-gritty and ‘fingering’ issues

Ajith

By: Krishna

Krishna — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 11:07:10 +0000

Reliving the old days… During my days in NITT, a Linux User Group (LUGT) was started, and there were mass fingering sessions on new moon nights and human sacrifices on full moon nights (I remained away from them, conservative me)

Recently, recommended by a friend I installed ubuntu ‘edgy’ on my laptop.. It pushed me over the edge.. By the time I got the wifi working, I felt morbid… like i have lost all happiness in my life and am still not fully recovered (my laptop neither)…

Good for you that you bore it afterall. maybe i should try fiesty and throw a party…

By: Chetna

Chetna — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:33:26 +0000

I so relate to this FatCat!!! Just picked up the MacBook and now have a dual OS on it….chuck the hi-funda hassles you’ve been facing..i just die swinging the cursor from right to left coz the minimizing and closing options are on opposite ends in both systems!!! talk about being different for the heck of it!! my poor lil cursor is gonna pop out of the screen, ell its guts out and refuse to budge however much i might move the mouse!!