Submitted by shantanu on Tue, 19/04/2011 - 23:34
I recently upgraded my ThinkPad to 4GB RAM. However to my surprise I learnt that 32-bit OSes can only access 3GB of the RAM. Sad, isn't it? But, here's how to get happy -
Submitted by shantanu on Tue, 21/09/2010 - 18:48
This is the Nokia N900, the day you think that you've had enough of the features, you end up with finding that you're wrong.
Ok, so the scenario is that I have two phones, a Nokia 6630 and a Nokia N900 having Airtel 2G and BSNL 3G SIMs respectively.
Right now, my N900 is mainly put on tablet mode (offline mode + WiFi + Bluetooth) because I don't use the 3G Internet (too costly right now). My N900 connects to the Internet using an Ad-Hoc network I create using my laptop.
Submitted by shantanu on Thu, 14/01/2010 - 18:28
Another fine example of how non-free software can create nuisance is the Sify Broadband GNU/Linux client. It was my mistake that I was happy the moment I found out that they have a GNU/Linux client.
If you're using the client, you know how stripped down the software is as compared to the Windows client. And that comes with its own problems-
Submitted by shantanu on Wed, 25/11/2009 - 16:26
I regularly connect to my father's Ubuntu PC using ssh to help or to transfer files through scp. I have been using ssh keys to make these logins password-less and I thought the method needs a blog post :)
Generally a user can have two keys - a private key and a public key which we generate using the following process and then copy the public key to the remote machine. Remember, don't give anyone your private key.
