Several friends have asked me to explain the procedure and formalities of becoming a ham radio operator in India. Unlike many of the western countries , the active population of amateur radio operators in India is very minuscule. The major reason for this is the cumbersome procedure and the lack of interest from concerned authorities.… Continue reading How to become a HAM radio operator in India
I was away from home for a week and returned back yesterday evening. As I had a weeks emails pending, the first thing I did after reaching home was to access gmail. To my horror, google was telling me that I am providing a wrong password. Then, I tried to log in to my blog.… Continue reading Hacked by Bader2010
The notification system in the newly released ubuntu 9.04 ( Jaunty) uses the notify-osd framework. This system provides a standard way of doing passive pop up notification on the desktop.The notifications are semi transparent click through bubbles. These pop ups will disappear after a short period of time. Some times these bubbles can be irritating.… Continue reading Disabling the new notification system in Ubuntu 9.04
Installing LTSP and enabling thin clients to boot from your ubuntu 9.04 machine is very easy. I did the following steps. a) Install ubuntu 9.04 ( aka Jaunty) desktop with a static IP. ( A static IP is needed as your ubuntu box is going to act as a server. My IP is… Continue reading Installing LTSP on Ubuntu 9.04
Today I was playing with ubuntu 9.04 . I tried to install wwwoffle the off-line proxy server. At the end of installation it failed with a ” Sub process /usr/bin/dpkg failed ” message. There was some thing wrong. Fixing the system required removal of the package. I tried the following in succession in vain. #… Continue reading Brute force removal of a deb package in Ubuntu