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Life without internet
The weekend was hectic. I finally settled down on the new flat. I am still waiting to get the new telephone line, which may take upto 10 days. Till then I won’t be able to update this blog often.
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Moving to a new place
One of the toughest tasks in life is finding a place to rent in London. I have been trying to let a flat for the last two months and atlast found a studio flat that is very near to my work place. Will be moving to the new flat later today. I am happy that…
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Server Downtime
The technicians in my ISP should have had a horrible day today. The server on which this was hosted went down at around 8:30 in the morning due to a defective hard disk. The technicians showed excellent commitment in installing a new hard disk and restoring all the data from the backups. Great work guys.…
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Bolly Mug
Click here to check out the Bolly Mug listed there. I’ll better buy all the mugs from them before my mates and ex-colleagues see this one. I checked the manufacturer’s site of this mug. Thank god! They don’t outsource from India. 🙂
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Problem connecting to Google
At this moment there is no connection to google.com and google.co.uk from my workplace. I am not sure if this is another DNS outage like the one that happened last week. Let me wait for a few minutes to see if there is a problem with my servers. I have already users calling me to…
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Father’s Day
Lot of people will never miss an opportunity to wish others. They are very happy to seize the opportunity of events like “Father’s Day”, “Mother’s Day”, “Valentine’s Day” and bestow their loved ones with gifts and wishes. But I have always sighed away from these things. Just when I thought that this year on the…
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Hunter or the Hunted?
This incident that happened last week in Hong Kong is a classic example of an irony in real life. What else can you say when someone steals from a security company. Especially, if they are victimised in trade show where they came to show their security products. At the “Asia Securitex 2004 ” a trade…
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Suse Linux Personal Edition – Free Download
German based SUSE which normally does not provide free downloads of its distribution has now anounced a free edition of its personal Linux edition. SUSE Linux 9.1 personal is now available for download from SUSE’s FTP server and also from its mirrors. I have always rated SUSE higher than other major distributions for a personal…
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Time to upgrade
Last week has been a very busy week in the open source community with many major open source software projects releasing new versions of their software.
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Openoffice.org releases new version
Openoffice.org has anounced the availability of version 1.1.2 of its open source office suite openoffice.org. The new version for the first time comes with the FontOOo Autopilot, which downloads and installs fonts. Openoffice.org’s release announcement also claims that a lot of bugs have been fixed through this new release. The software is available for free…