http://www.sharma-home.net/blog Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:10:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Number of "Arun Sharma"s on facebook? Felt a bit bored this morning and clicked through the list. Final tally: 290+. No wonder I get so much spam in my inbox (firstname.lastname@gmail.com). Many of them are just cases of mistaken identity or phishing in the name of some bank that does ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/general/arun-sharma-trivia Getting X right with various chipsets continues to be a challenge to open source challengers to the desktop crown. Installed Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex this morning. Everything goes fine - except for graphics. The bug seems to have been reported for both Fedora and Ubuntu The workaround that worked for me: Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/open-source/intel-chipsets-and-recent-xorg-drivers I had to use the following in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to get acceptable performance on a old PC with Ubuntu 8.04 installed. Section "Device" Identifier "Configured Video Device" Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "AGPMode" "4" Option ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/open-source/old-ati-radeon-7500-misbehaving ೨೯೯ ಅಮೇರಿಕನ್ ಡಾಲರ್ (೧೨೦೦೦ ರುಪಾಯಿ) ಕೊಡಿ ಮತ್ತು ಕೊಳ್ಳಿರಿ ಚಿಕ್ಕದೊಂದು ಲ್ಯಾಪ್-ಟಾಪ್. ಕೆಲವು ವರ್ಷಗಳ ಮುಂಚೆ ಸಿಂಪ್ಯೂಟರ್ ಅಂತ ಹೆಸರಿನ ಒಂದು ಕಂಪನಿಯ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಹಲವಾರು ಪತ್ರಿಕೆಗಳು ಮೇಲೆ ಮೇಲೆ ಲೇಖನಗಳನ್ನು ಪ್ರಕಟಿಸಿದ್ದು ನಿಮಗೆ ನೆನಪಿರಬಹುದು. ಹೊಸಾ ಪೀಳಿಗೆಯ ಈ ಯಂತ್ರಗಳು ನಮ್ಮ ಜನರಿಗೆ ಹೇಳಿ ಮಾಡಿಸಿದಂಥ ಸಾಧನ. ಆದರೆ ಯಾರೂ ಇದರ ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಬರೆದಿದ್ದು ಕಾಣಲ್ಲಾ. ಹಲೋ? http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/india/%e0%b2%9a%e0%b3%88%e0%b2%a8%e0%b3%80%e0%b2%b8%e0%b3%8d-%e0%b2%b8%e0%b2%bf%e0%b2%82%e0%b2%aa%e0%b3%82%e0%b3%8d%e0%b2%af%e0%b2%9f%e0%b2%b0%e0%b3%8d Tom Friedman writes in NY Times about how US should sustain high oil prices to force research in alternative and domestic sources of energy. This was disputed by Henry C.K. Liu of Asia Times in a lengthy four page article, full of interesting data and analysis, but rambling at times and ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/politics/understanding-oil-economics I'm still alive. I survived a nearly 24 hour email blackout. You don't believe it? Here's a tip for other people attempting this stunt. Read lots of news. After you're done, search for more news. Then some gadget blogs, followed by message boards. Don't forget to drink lots of water. It ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/general/new-isp-better-upload-speeds AP article: There are several examples like that, that we have to address without worrying about the fundamentalism in some of the open-source community," he said. "One can be an open-source advocate without being an open-source fundamentalist. -- John Negroponte, Founder, OLPC project http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/politics/open-source-and-business-viability http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/india/indian-banks-and-security Best buy, Netflix and now Walmart -- all claim that they have heard from consumers that they should dump HD-DVD for Blu-ray. However a cursory glance of player sales data at top retailers will tell you that they're lying through their teeth. On the other hand it's more likely that ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/gadgets/more-good-vs-evil Netflix and best buy made announcements today, which they had no business of doing. I don't particularly care about the best buy announcement. If you took their advice, you'll be paying $$$ for extended warranty anyway. But the netflix one really bothers me. I sent them a mail making it clear ... http://www.sharma-home.net/blog/gadgets/support-hd-dvd