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	<title>With the Left and the Right &#187; Linux</title>
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		<title>Dual booting Multiple OS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hosting more that one OS on your hard disk can be a pain if you&#8217;re not really sure on configuring the boot loader. I&#8217;ll confine the scope of this post to parenting only Debian based Linux OS ( Ubuntu ) and WIndoze. Because for the most part of it, I&#8217;ve only worked on them. Why would you have to Install / reconfigure Grub in the first case? 1) You had to install Windows after you installed Ubuntu/Linux which led to the Grub ( Previously installed by Ubuntu ) to be over written by the Windows Boot loader. 2) You screwed up an installation right at the wrong spot and now you can boot neither Windows nor Linux. Installing Grub through a Live CD: Insert the Ubuntu Live CD into the tray and restart your system Once you&#8217;re at the Live CD Desktop, Navigate to the terminal ( Applications&#62;Accessories&#62;Terminal) Type sudo fdisk -l /* This would list all the OS installations and drives that you have. Make note in which drive Ubuntu has been installed &#8211; Let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s hda3*/ Next we&#8217;ll have to enter the Grub shell. Fot that type sudo grub In the grub menu type find /boot/grub/stage1 . This would return a listing of the drives in which the OS&#8217;s/ boot records are installed. Identify where Ubuntu&#8217;s Grub is on, by relating the output from step 3 and the above output.Now to let the Grub shell know what grub files are to be used, type root (hd0, 3)....]]></description>
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		<title>Passwords and Security</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just ten minutes before I was supposed to leave for work yesterday,  I had this remote urge to get back Hardy running on my desktop. I had it installed but because of a windows re-install, the GRUB boot menu was overwritten. So all that I had to do was to re-install Grub!  Powered the CPU , inserted Gutsy&#8217;s Live CD, logged into the desktop and fired a few commands in the terminal. The shell gave in a success message and I quickly rebooted to check if the Grub was installed. And boy, it did get installed right in the first go ! I had to catch the 10:45 service so I powered the CPU off and ran my might to reach in time. Post work when I get back home and turn on the Desktop to check back on sweet old Ubuntu, I&#8217;m in for a surprise &#8211; I didn&#8217;t remember the Password for my Admin acccount ! Even before my instincts to re-install the OS took control, I rebooted and logged into Windoze. Googling a bit had even more surprises in store &#8211; A few posts in the Ubuntu Forum stated a minutes walk to Glory - You could override the admin&#8217;s password by a few quick commands! And till date, I was thinking Linux gave me all the security in the world. How wrong I was ! Or was I ? This only made me think if Linux had a backgate entry, Bill&#8217;s Windoze should as well. Again thanks to Sergey and Larry, I....]]></description>
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		<title>The Heron&#8217;s up there in the Servers!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/04/the-herons-up-there-in-the-servers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Ubuntu family has now doled out their latest OS &#8211; Ubuntu 8.04 code named &#8211; Hardy Heron. This release is more than different when compared to it&#8217;s previous releases. Majorly because it&#8217;s got a Wubi installer which facilitates installation directly from a Windows platform. The OS gets installed on the same partition just like any other software application, thus relieving a linux noobie from all the hassles of partitioning a drive. It can also be uninstalled just like any other app. through the Add/ Remove programs. Hardy Heron is a Long term Support ( LTS ) version. The Ubuntu community release LTS versions once in every two years and I belive this version is going to be supported till 2011 ! For server editions the support is for Five years! Hardy comes in with the Firefox 3 ( Still in the Late stages of Beta ), Open Office 2.40 and the GIMP (2.4.5) . Early reviews suggest the OS is pretty stable and gels with a breeze in Windows.  Ubuntu 7.04 ( Gutsy Gibbon ) literally smirked at Vista. Wonder what Hardy has in store! Any reasons why you shouldn&#8217;t be giving this  a shot? Rush and download it from here !  ]]></description>
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		<title>OpenSolaris Installation</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/02/opensolaris-installation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d ordered the Solaris 10 DVD from a third party agent a few days back. It did avoid the hassle of downloading the code from the website and burning it on to a ROM and the service by Rainbow Computech was pretty good. I got the DVD delivered to my home in three days with regular updates from them regarding the shipment. Wish the install was as easy as this!  First things first. I&#8217;m a quasi noobie    when it comes to installing Operating systems. So my experience would tell you what not to do when installing an OS    .If you are still contemplating on installing solaris with XP as a dual boot, be forewarned, you&#8217;re entering lukewarm waters. It&#8217;s real sad that I sound so very negative but I&#8217;m really frustrated with how things have turned up. Just Imagine! You have that cutie pie OS right in your System but still can&#8217;t use it. The worst part being that you still don&#8217;t know what to look for where and Google ain&#8217;t helping a bit. Thankfully this time I backed up vital data on my disk before I ventured into the forest. I honked the DVD drive out and forked in the DVD. Rebooted my system and initiated the DVD boot.  Quite expectantly, the installers GUI failed and I had to navigate through text mode installation. Thanks to my 17&#8243; Extra Wide LCD monitor, I had to keep altering the image display to have a look at the command....]]></description>
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		<title>Who says Wine ain&#8217;t smooth!!!</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2008/01/who-says-wine-aint-smooth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just installed WIne on Ubuntu a few minutes back. Installed a couple of other windows based softwares too! Now they really work . Haggard installations are now things of the past. Probably it&#8217;s time I move over to something more challenging.]]></description>
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		<title>Gutsy Gibbon 7.1O &#8211; Ubuntu</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2007/12/gutsy-gibbon-71o-ubuntu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally, Installed Gutsy on my system today! After failed attempts to install it last weekend, I was a bit apprehensive this time. But today, two minutes into the install I realized where I was faltering. I&#8217;d created four partitions on my Hard disk of 30 Gigs each for Windows. Fiesty was running on the remaining 40Gigs. Last week during the installation I&#8217;d configured the setup to create a Primary ext3 partition instead of making it a logical one.That was what was leading the setup to freeze! Surprisingly I was never warned during the initial stages. Anyways, I fortunately happened to notice the goof up this time and then the rest of the Installation was a breeze! Flat 10 minutes and I had Gutsy live and kicking! The first thing I&#8217;d looked for after logging in was to check out the classy desktop effects that Gutsy comes bundled with. But to my dismay the OS threw up messages telling me Advanced Desktop effects could not be configured. It didn&#8217;t even specify the cause. A bit of Googling brought out the hidden mite &#8211; My Hardware settings were blacklisted since it couldn&#8217;t support both video rendering and classy desktop effects at the same time. But then I just wanted to find a workaround to get things working. Finally I happened to find one in the Ubuntu Forums itself. All I had to do was to deactivate the Hardware config. check that Compiz by default does when initiated. This could be done by....]]></description>
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		<title>Transition&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks and counting! I&#8217;ve got Ubuntu and Microsoft Xp installed on my system with dual boot configured. Still I haven&#8217;t logged into Windows for two weeks! The moment I&#8217;m in front of my desktop once I&#8217;m back from office, It&#8217;s Grub&#62; modprobe&#62; Ubuntu. I care a damn about windows now. Last year connectivity and mouse issues held me up from shifting to Linux . Everything&#8217;s resolved now. Xp actually looks cheap dirt after two weeks of Ubuntu .I&#8217;ve got Fiesty fawn for now and soon it&#8217;s gonna be Gutsy Gibbon! From a layman&#8217;s point of view, I&#8217;d say Fiesty is somewhere midway between XP and Vista. I&#8217;ve Heard exceptional reviews on Gutsy Gibbon. So i think it&#8217;s high time I say Good Bye to Windows! A few snapshots of my desktop.. Why should you purchase something when you can get a better one for free? Why should you pay or use a pirated copy when you can get the equivalent features without paying a dime? Help yourselves! Shift to Open Source. Guys stop getting pirated copies! Help Microsoft!]]></description>
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		<title>Ubuntu: BSNL Broadband Connection</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2007/08/ubuntu-bsnl-broadband-connection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holla&#8230; My first post typed in from Ubuntu with it hooked to the net!!! Just managed to configure the Broadband connection in Ubuntu!! Am on cloud nine, given the fact that I&#8217;d been struggling in vain for the past few months to get a few Linux flavours hooked on to the net. Believe me, There couldn&#8217;t be anything else that&#8217;s as simple as this!! Here&#8217;s the trick ( if at all it could be called that!) for those novices ( obviously like me! ) who haven&#8217;t yet had luck configuring their systems. 1&#62; Switch off your modem 2&#62;Open the Network settings Dialog box ( System&#62; Administration&#62; Network) 3&#62;Select &#8216;Wired Connection&#8217; and click on the Properties. 4&#62; In the &#8216;Connection Settings&#8217; Menu select &#8216;Static IP &#8216; type in the following values and save: IP Address : 192.168.1.2 /* Assigning the Ethernet Card an IP different from that of the modem*/ Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 /* No idea why this value is always this */ Gateway address: 192.168.1.1 /* The Modem is being made the default gateway*/ 5&#62;Switch on the Modem and wait for a few minutes for the values to get recorded. 6&#62;In the Terminal ( Applications&#62;Accessories&#62; Terminal) type &#8216;sudo pppoeconf&#8217; 6&#62;A window pops with a blue screen notifying that an ethernet device has been found. Just follow the on screen instructions till you reach the screen which asks you for your BSNL UID and PASS. Ping in the values (after deleting the text Username from the line) and you&#8217;re done!! I&#8217;ve....]]></description>
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		<title>Fedora 7</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2007/07/fedora-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The OSS and Red Hat community have launched their latest OS. Parting from their age old nomenclature, they now prefer to call it Fedora 7 and not Fedora Core 7. It&#8217;s available for download here. For those of you people with access to snail paced connectivity to the internet, there&#8217;s a provision to request for a free DVD. The Community releases only 200 free DVD&#8217;s a month in a given region. So if you&#8217;re pretty much interested in having a DVD for yourself, act fast here.The request form purportedly, is going to be available only at around 1pm July 2nd PST, so that&#8217;s around 1:30 am July 3rd IST. Unlike other free distributions, the package will be posted to your address from India, so it should reach you in a couple of days . Eagerly looking forward to lay my hands on it !]]></description>
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		<title>Feisty Fawn &#8211; Ubuntu 7.04</title>
		<link>http://srikanthperinkulam.com/blog/2007/06/feisty-fawn-ubuntu-704/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Srikanth Perinkulam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve tried installing almost all flavours of Linux on my old system. Starting from Red Hat and going all the way till Ubuntu. Each installation came along with its appended troubles, thanks to my ignorance then. One main constriction I had was the hardware configuration of my machine. It was a pentium celeron running on 128mb Ram and a 20Gb hard disk. I had several issues with the mouse and configuring my internet connection. With passage of days I realised my mouse was designed to work with windows and finding device drivers for it in Linux was a big time pain. On the whole I had to restrain myself to low end operating systems. Last week I upgraded my Hardware config. From then, installing Linux has never been a problem. Installation gets done extremely fast but for a few glitches here and there. Tried installing Solaris 10 but for some reason the video device wasn&#8217;t identified (I&#8217;m still hooked with a 14&#8221; LG monitor ) and I had quite a problem running a graphic installation. Realising there was no point going in for a non graphical interface setup , I put in bay the Solaris installation. I had a FC4 DVD and I tried installing that . You wont believe me! The whole installation got done in just over 10 minutes!  :-) The main reason for installing FC4 was that I direly needed a net connection in the OS and my ISP gives me a provision for installation only though....]]></description>
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