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

By: Why Ubuntu? - 2 « City Lights

Why Ubuntu? - 2 « City Lights — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:37:44 +0000

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

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!!

By: Gammafunction

Gammafunction — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:12:12 +0000

Awesome post! Took me back to those ‘preparation for recruitment’ days,even B-grade colleges dont care abt Infy,TCS,wipro these days….. Tanenbaum is actually a great(funny-one of the few readable ) book and the port-finger thing!! LMAO!!!

By: veejnas

veejnas — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:29:55 +0000

“The threat loomed large that I would have to give GRE and then do an MS and PhD because I couldn’t get a job.”

Very true. I am one of those losers.

By: TMaYaD

TMaYaD — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:36:19 +0000

ROFLOL,
Nice one, though I might be one of those GNU/Linux geeks. My PC is dual boot as well, though it has Gentoo Linux(primary OS) and Mac OSX(just for the heck of it). and I use BSNL data one without a hick up. hint: Configure the modem to auto connect; doesn’t hurt if you have unlimited plan or you have to switch it on and off on your powersupply as required instead of using connect and disconnect on your lapi.

wifi is a hell though. But ultimately I got it running (and then forgot how)
sound is a cinch, if thats the word I’m looking for if you get the net working first.

Do ping me if you need any help. Would be glad to pay back for your regular dose of comedy.