Saturday, March 31, 2007

Back to DRUPAL!

Yeah! Yeah! I know! I kinda gave it up. IT has been a long time since I have been trying to squeeze in some time to update my website. But, I am damn too busy for anything. Moreover, 250 MB of webspace left unused is bad, bad for the cyber world. I went through the drupal forum once more and was really impressed. Drupal has come a long way .
The other day I was browsing the official target forum, I kinda found the layout similar to that of Drupal. Later on, while I was registering I figured out that indeed it was Drupal!

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Cracking Vista!

As long as Microsoft lives with monopoly, Its got the whole world against them. In fact the method by which Vista was cracked sounds real funny. Vista has been designed
in such a way that It shrinks to a blank version once the trial is
over. Basically once the trial period ends all themes are disabled, most of
the apps are also disabled.iexplore will connect only to Microsoft
website only. Basically you won't be left with any choice than to buy the
licence or kiss goodbye to all that precious data you have in there.
Seems like M$ have tried the same stunt with XP as well, but failed as there were a lot of problems faced by genuine users.
The hacker's world definitely
didn't stay quiet. They came up with a smart ass work around. The crack
basically edits the BIOS time settings. What do you have? A vista with
an infinite trial period. Lovely! Well! While in Vista your clock will
always display the correct time, not sure how they achieved this
though. Any ways, Who cares! It works!

Experience with Vista!

I was on Vista for a few days, but as expected, gave it up. It seemed
too bulky to me. The looks are awesome, it also had a media center
incorporated. The one I had Installed in mylappy was the Vista Ultimate version. Trust me, It took 11GB flat! I thought for my 60GB HD it was not worth it. Moreover the number of background processes were just too many, My lappy was red hot always. Finally I settled with a bare Win XP and Ubuntu on my lappy. Much! Much! Better!

Ubuntu on Acer 5000 lappy

I have tried desperately trying to load Ubuntu on my lappy since a long time but always futile. I went through tons of forums, lot of users usually having the ATI
graphics card face this issue. Basically the installation starts, the
status messages start dropping, suddenly whoosh, the screen goes blank
forever. Initially I too believed the problem was with the ATI card, in fact ATI
has even accepted this issue officially and have created a work around
for the same. As a final try, before installation I hit the F1 help
button, there was a choice to disable the frame buffer, not sure what
it does though, continued the installation and then bingo! It
succeeded. Its simply lovely to have Ubuntu Breezy Badger back.
Hail Linux!