Pardus Kurulan 2008 is a cool Linux distribution from Turkey. It differs from conventional Linux distributions in several ways. This was pointed out to me by Sarath. Last night I installed Pardus on a Virtual Box virtual machine to explore this distro. I will share some of the screen shots and observations that I made… Continue reading Exploring Pardus Linux
I have been provided with a new Lenovo ThinkCentre M series machine at my office. The machine has decent specs like Pentium dual core. 1GB RAM and 160GB hdd. It came preloaded with windows vista. As I use Linux , I partitioned the hard disk and installed ubuntu8.04. Unfortunately sound is not working under Ubuntu.… Continue reading Installing OSS4 on Ubuntu 8.04
The 10 MHz crystal filter is one of the most important modules of bitx transceiver. Bitx uses an IF of 10 MHz. 10 MHz crystal filters are available at approximately Rs10 ( 1 US$ = Rs40 approximately) in the Indian market. I bought 10 crystals from a local electronics shop. The first thing I did… Continue reading Building Bitx part 2- The crystal filter.
My friend, Ramakrishnan VU2KUC, has been asking me to install necessary drivers for his Option Technology Globe Trotter PCMCA card on Debian Linux. I think he has made at least 20 phone calls for same. This morning he brought his Compaq laptop to my home and asked me to fix it. I had no other… Continue reading Option Technology Globe Trotter PCMCA card on Debian GNU/Linux
I havent burned cds on linux for ages now. Today I was trying to make one. It seems you no longer needs scsi emulation on 2.6 kernels. I had some trouble with cdrecord on my sarge box at home. cdrecord -scanbus said. cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.12.3 cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and… Continue reading cdrecord on sarge