Archive for November, 2007

My Laptop Chronicles: It’s here!

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Yup! Finally my laptop is here, delivered to my office at OMR, Chennai! After all those hassles(read this and this post to know more!)  I received it 12 days after my order was registered(ie, the day the amount was realized). In case you're wondering, my Laptop is a Dell Inspiron ...

Torvalds on where Linux is heading in 2008

Monday, November 26th, 2007

In an interview with the IT news magazine, InformationWeek Linus Torvalds speaks on where Linux is heading in 2008. He says that he is very gung-ho about solid-state drives, expects progress in graphics and wireless networking, and says the operating system is strong in virtualization despite his personal lack of ...

NVIDIA 169.04 Driver Brings Improvements

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Phoronix reports that NVIDIA's 169.04 driver brings out a lot of improvements over its predecessor. This X.Org driver contained a number of GeForce 8 fixes, initial support for the GeForce 8800GT graphics card, monitoring of PowerMizer state information, and other changes.  What Phoronix had not tested, however, at that time was ...

10 Reasons why Command Line is better than GUI

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

"Penguin Pete" gives 10 reasons as to why the command line is far better than GUI. And yeah, I do agree with him. Something as simple as installing as application is a lot easier! I mean c'mon tell me, which is better, telling someone to type "sudo apt-get install xxx" or ...

You’ve gotta give it to windows

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Whacko : lets pay a tribute to the worlds best software windows Geek : Yeah! Right! Whacko :At present its the most used Operating system in the world Geek :Not to mention the worst. Whacko :Hey Windows XP and Windows Vista are the best. Geek : Its more like Windows letsPee and Windows it's-Stuck Whacko : ...

DirectX 9.0c in Linux using WINE

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

I found this blog giving a step-by-step tutorial on how to get Direct 9.0c installed on your Linux box. Worthy of a look I say! Excerpts: About DirectX Microsoft DirectX is a collection of application programming interfaces for handling tasks related to multimedia, especially game programming and video, on Microsoft platforms. Originally, the ...

Must Try Linux Distro’s

Friday, November 23rd, 2007

This for all those guys who don't know which linux to try. These are the ones that had us awed at their usability and features. Aditya's Picks: Ubuntu Xubuntu Puppy My Picks: openSuSE Kubuntu DreamLinux SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Must Try Linux Distro’s", url: "http://sathyasays.com/2007/11/23/must-try-linux-distros/" });

[Combat]The Right Desktop Operating System

Monday, November 19th, 2007

Windows vs Linux in a friendly fight to be choosen as the right OS for basic everyday use. How we ranked Installation Installation shouldnot be too messy and should be user friendly. A GUI is preffered and faster installation obviously scores well.Live Cd's/DVD's score plus points. Default Software The operating system must come ...

NVIDIA 169.04 (beta) Drivers for Linux

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

NVIDIA has released new BETA drivers for x86 and x64 (AMD64/EM64T). This new driver is now off of their latest 169 code line and will possibly net some performance benefit on top of the long release highlights list: Added support for GeForce 8800 GT. Improved modesetting support on Quadro/GeForce 8 series ...

Trivia: Why Penguin is Linux Logo?

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Penguin as logo/mascot for Linux was discussed first in early 1996 by several people in the linux-kernel mailing list. The idea of such mascot came from Alan Cox first. Among many other suggestions made by different people there were parodies of other operating system logos, sharks or even eagles. At some ...