Saturday, 28 August 2004
Sunday, 22 August 2004
The most Linuxy Linux post *ever*
No wonder the Linux movement occasionally fails to gather mainstream steam...
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From: Raja Subramanian
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Debian's new installer - A walkthrough.
Hi,
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Praveen wrote:
> >FYI, http://www.linuxbeta.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=59&slide=1
>
> damn, the installation is starting to look more slackware-ish
Being an old debian hand, I find this installer annoying. Too much
chatter. The installer's job is to bootstrap your machine with a
self-sufficient stand-alone distro as easily as possible. The second
stage installer 'base-config' can be as smart as it wants.
The potato installer was the best, as simple as a knife and fork. All
you need to get the potato installer going was a kernel, a rootfs and
the live fs tarball. You could easily get it going on extremely tricky
hardware - no fdd, cdrom, etc.
Infact installing potato was so easy that you did not even need the
installer! Just untar the live fs tar ball into a dir and chroot.
Minor configuration and presto! Instant potato installation inside a
chroot!
With potato even cross-installation was feasible. Say you had a Arm
board on which you needed to install potato. You could untar the live
fs tar ball into a dir on your PC and nfs export it. Then just boot the
Arm machine with an appropriate kernel and mount root over nfs.
That's it.
All this was possible because the first stage installer did a simple
job. Woody was still manageable, but sarge looks bad. Maybe with time
we'll get used to the beast.
> the last time i saw debian was years back .. dselect endless loop made
> me rather allergic to it.
I'm sure you realise that you don't have to use dselect if you don't
like it. Tasksel and apt can be run anytime later.
- Raja
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From: Raja Subramanian
Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Debian's new installer - A walkthrough.
Hi,
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> Praveen wrote:
> >FYI, http://www.linuxbeta.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=59&slide=1
>
> damn, the installation is starting to look more slackware-ish
Being an old debian hand, I find this installer annoying. Too much
chatter. The installer's job is to bootstrap your machine with a
self-sufficient stand-alone distro as easily as possible. The second
stage installer 'base-config' can be as smart as it wants.
The potato installer was the best, as simple as a knife and fork. All
you need to get the potato installer going was a kernel, a rootfs and
the live fs tarball. You could easily get it going on extremely tricky
hardware - no fdd, cdrom, etc.
Infact installing potato was so easy that you did not even need the
installer! Just untar the live fs tar ball into a dir and chroot.
Minor configuration and presto! Instant potato installation inside a
chroot!
With potato even cross-installation was feasible. Say you had a Arm
board on which you needed to install potato. You could untar the live
fs tar ball into a dir on your PC and nfs export it. Then just boot the
Arm machine with an appropriate kernel and mount root over nfs.
That's it.
All this was possible because the first stage installer did a simple
job. Woody was still manageable, but sarge looks bad. Maybe with time
we'll get used to the beast.
> the last time i saw debian was years back .. dselect endless loop made
> me rather allergic to it.
I'm sure you realise that you don't have to use dselect if you don't
like it. Tasksel and apt can be run anytime later.
- Raja
General stuph
And life goes on...
Still juggling a lot of things, though. Especially this final year project thingy, which is getting to be a major pain in the posterior.
Bah.
Still juggling a lot of things, though. Especially this final year project thingy, which is getting to be a major pain in the posterior.
Bah.
Wednesday, 18 August 2004
The new and improved mokkai song!
I'm a Michael Jackson,
I'm a Jackie Chan.
I'm a Ricky Martin,
I'm a Virtusan!
Heartstoppingly, for me i.e, I came to know this only with the last alphabet mentioned by the H.R fellow.
Anyways, now no one can ask me, "Kaam dhanda nahin hai kya?".
I'm a Jackie Chan.
I'm a Ricky Martin,
I'm a Virtusan!
Heartstoppingly, for me i.e, I came to know this only with the last alphabet mentioned by the H.R fellow.
Anyways, now no one can ask me, "Kaam dhanda nahin hai kya?".
Saturday, 14 August 2004
Woohoo!
I've got Internet access at home! Wahoo!
Yesterday, I was so psyched to hear about the connection that I ran around the house yodeling with delight, and ended up slipping on a patch of water and sliding about 5 feet and ramming into the doorframe. Which resulted in two huge welts across my legs, but what the hell!
As Droopy would say, "I'm happy."
Yesterday, I was so psyched to hear about the connection that I ran around the house yodeling with delight, and ended up slipping on a patch of water and sliding about 5 feet and ramming into the doorframe. Which resulted in two huge welts across my legs, but what the hell!
As Droopy would say, "I'm happy."
Monday, 2 August 2004
Wednesday, 14 July 2004
MSN bug
Interesting bug in Hotmail.
Apparently, you can't keep your last name as part of your password. Which is fine, except, I've set my last name in the profile thingy to just 'N'.
Which now implies that I can't have any password with the letter 'n' in it. Actually, not just an implication, I've actually tried, and it wouldn't accept.
"Your last name cannot be a part of your password."
[or something to that effect]
Now is that a good thing, or bad?
Personally, I think the 'poor password' culture is way overrated..
Apparently, you can't keep your last name as part of your password. Which is fine, except, I've set my last name in the profile thingy to just 'N'.
Which now implies that I can't have any password with the letter 'n' in it. Actually, not just an implication, I've actually tried, and it wouldn't accept.
"Your last name cannot be a part of your password."
[or something to that effect]
Now is that a good thing, or bad?
Personally, I think the 'poor password' culture is way overrated..
Sunday, 4 July 2004
The Don is dead
Any movie watcher will agree that the small byline in yesterday's The Hindu that announced the death of Marlon Brando was more startling than any of the headlines.
His portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in 'The Godfather' has to be my all-time favourite movie role. He was truly able to bring out the richness of Mario Puzo's character, and even add some facets of his own.
Don Corleone. Life is so beautiful.
His portrayal of Don Vito Corleone in 'The Godfather' has to be my all-time favourite movie role. He was truly able to bring out the richness of Mario Puzo's character, and even add some facets of his own.
Don Corleone. Life is so beautiful.
Thursday, 1 July 2004
Now then, ya'll outside the country...
Finally. After a harrowing last 5 days, I've managed to get myself registered for the GRE. And managed to do it within a good time ('nalla neram') too! Even after the absolute ASS of a Tata Indicom cybercafe's porn-filter wouldn't let me open the Prometric website. In spite of repeated entreaties that it refers to a perfectly non-porn website. Thanks to Satyam iWays though! Woohoo!
Oh ya, and I've also applied for a cable internet connection at home, so who knows? One day I might be updating more frequently!
p.s; Arch! Thanks a million!
Oh ya, and I've also applied for a cable internet connection at home, so who knows? One day I might be updating more frequently!
p.s; Arch! Thanks a million!
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