Moving from FC 4 to 5
March 31, 2006
Fedora Core installation is as annoying as it has always been. Upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to 4 was no different. The first problem occured when the installer attempted to mount /usr. This is mirrored on two different hard drives...
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FC5 DVD
March 30, 2006
It's exactly a week since I downloaded the Fedora Core 5 DVD image. DIdn't get a chance to burn a DVD with cause because of my trip to Thailand. Finally today i attempted it but it didn't meet with much...
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FC5 torrent
March 23, 2006
Finally completed the download for FC5 DVD image. It took little less than 2 days. Though the upload started off very slowly, the speed graudually increased during the evening. Evening coincides with the start of the day in Europe and...
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Fedora Core 5
March 21, 2006
Well the long awaited Fedora core 5 is finally available for downloaded. And I think millions are downloading the DVD image at this moment cause the download speed is astonishingly slow. I am not a regular torrent user so before...
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JSObject and JSExceptions
March 20, 2006
If you tried out read my article on java and javascript interaction and then tried out the demo you will probably see the expected result. The sample code provided is compatible with IE, Firefox and Safari. However if you tried...
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D70S battery.
March 15, 2006
I am about to reluctantly charge the battery on my Nikon D70S. The battery is not completely dead yet, but I need to go out of town in a few hours. It's unlikely that I will have a chance to...
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Uploading Silver Bullets
March 13, 2006
Rad Upload is a feature rich file uploader. But it's not a silver bullet. Occaisionally we have people downloading Rad Upload without a proper understanding of what's needed to make use of it. They always seem to seem to think...
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Firefox extensions.
March 12, 2006
I needed a few Firefox extensions to be installed but Firefox just refused to add them. Refused? yes. When you try to install an extension, if the versions match, you should recieve a message saying the extension will be available...
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Wiki Hunting.
March 11, 2006
Wikka is not a name that inspires confidence but a rose by any other name smells just as sweet. (No i haven't read the bluffer's guide to shakespeare). I really didn't like the message produced by the installer about the...
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Blink and you miss it.
March 9, 2006
We blinked and we missed it. What? The third anniversary of Rad Inks. The software company that I founded is now three years old. The anniversary was completely forgotten cause there was a lot happening at that time. The cash...
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Google contradicts itself.
March 7, 2006
The following is an extract from an email recieved from google adwords staff. Thank you for your patience. Our technical team has reviewed your account, the data from your log files, and the site www.sedoparking.com. Our technical team has confirmed...
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Another quest for the perfect wiki
March 5, 2006
After using it for quite sometimes, I am convinced now that mediawiki is not the software to power to this site's wiki. So I am looking for a new one. The first victim of was TPWiki it's advertised as a...
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Godaddy (accidentally?) drops my domain.
March 4, 2006
Here is another one of the horror stories from last week. This domain (raditha.com stopped resolving all of a sudden. After some investigation, I tracked this down to a problem at godaddy. The dns record had apparently been deleted (as...
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Three busted hard drives.
March 3, 2006
What's worse than having a hard disk failure? Having two hard disk failures of course. Then what can you say about having three failed hard drives in one month? Just a couple of days after one of my HDs started...
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What a week.
March 1, 2006
It has been an unimaginable week. Trouble began on Wednesday the 22 when we had a problem with the Radinks.com domain name, as a result the was that the web server was inaccessible and mails started to bounce. It took...
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