Got a laptop atlast..!

It was my dream to have a laptop. I wanted to build a home network, with my laptop as regular computer for day-to-day cores and the desktop acting as a home server. It took almost two years for me to fulfill my dream. Now, I’m a proud owner of Dell Vostro 1400.

The configuration is more than enough for me. It has:
1. Intel Core2Duo 1.4 GHz processor,
2. 2GB DDR2 RAM at 667MHz,
3. Intel X3100 graphics card,
4. DVD writer,
5. Built-in webcam, bluetooth module…

Since, I’m not much into gaming or heavy graphics, the X3100 card is more than sufficient for me. I’ve not gone for Home Premium or any higher version of Vista with ‘Aero’ experience

I’m now googling around to see how I can dual boot my laptop with Vista and Linux side-by-side. I would have gone for a full install of Linux, but for proprietary office related softwares. Anyway, co-existing with windowz is not a new thing for me and anyway isn’t tolerance a virtue?  

PC-BSD: Personal Computing served BSD style..!

PC BSD as the name states is a BSD operating system compiled to be used specifically for everyday desktop use.

Today I installed it and wow I should say its wonderful. Why did not I came across it before? Everything, except support for local (read Indian) fonts, works out-of-the-box. Linux seems way behind in this regard, frankly. This is what I call ‘just works’.

Nerd Type

Test v2.0 of Nerdiness: The type of the nerd

My Nerdiness

My Nerdiness level

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Kannada Rajyotsava

November 1st is celebrated in Karnataka (a state in India) as Kannada Rajyotsava or Kannada language day. Kannada is the state language of Karnataka. I’m from Karnataka and I really love the language, its culture, the people and probably everything about it. But I’m not fanatical about it. I equally love and respect other languages especially languages of neighbouring states irrespective of the regional politiks.

I’m also a FOSS fan and its my desire to bring both the spirit as well as products of FOSS to Kannada language. I’m also interested in localization project. That is because, I believe the vast treasure of knowledge available on the internet can reach and benifit the people living in the remote corners of the state only if it is available in their local language. Instead of making the whole population learn a foreign language in order to gain from the knowledge revolution the knowledge should be made available readily to them in the language they are most comfortable with. Our brothers in the neighbouring states and elsewhere in India have succeeded to a great degree in this regard. If they can achieve it we too can!