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Comment on Use Chrome As A [VERY Barebones] Music Player by Soumyaranjan Dash

Soumyaranjan Dash — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:40:52 +0000

wow! didn’t know before!! obviously, this is a cool feature.

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Keith Ellertson — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:43:08 +0000

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Comment on 3 BIG Papercuts That Need Fixing in Ubuntu by Gouthaman

Gouthaman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:34:31 +0000

Nice Article. One of the best ones I’ve read in a long time.
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Comment on CD/DVD/Blu-Ray Disc Burners by Disc Burner

Disc Burner — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 22:50:13 +0000

I would suggest Nero as the program with easiest user interface, but with many options, and disc formats supported. Unfortunately, Nero is not cheap program(about 70USD). Nero also have free version, but it is very basic version, and I am not sure if it have support for blu-ray.
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Comment on 3 BIG Papercuts That Need Fixing in Ubuntu by Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:39:03 +0000

@Pallab
I’m not against a 6-month release cycle myself, but I think Canonical always has to push too hard to pop up new Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu and Gobuntu versions every 6 months. This results in more bugs that you’d want a mainstream product to have.
Anyway, thanks for the comment.

Comment on 3 BIG Papercuts That Need Fixing in Ubuntu by Pallab

Pallab — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:48:16 +0000

I think the 6 months release cycle is a good thing since Ubuntu is a free software.
As far as aversion to change is concerned, Ubuntu LL should have a spruced up Gnome panel. But yeah, those password prompts can be annoying. Whay do I need admin priviledges to mount my NTFS partitions? They need to come up with permanent priviledges for basic tasks like mounting. Once given to an user account, it stays with it (even after restart).

Comment on 3 BIG Papercuts That Need Fixing in Ubuntu by Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:59:04 +0000

@Robomaster @ CoolAppSite
I’m really excited about Chrome OS myself, but with the state of Internet here in India, there isn’t much you can do with it.

Comment on 3 BIG Papercuts That Need Fixing in Ubuntu by Robomaster @ CoolAppSite

Robomaster @ CoolAppSite — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 18:22:03 +0000

Amazing post! These are exactly the complaints I had when I installed karmic. The password prompts get really annoying, and the lack in change of GUI also tends to drive away people who never took the time to check out Compiz.

But, to tell the truth, with Chrome OS coming out next year, I probably won’t go back to Ubuntu unless they give me a very, very good reason to do so. (I downloaded the beta, and while it’s nothing unexpected, it looks very promising to someone like me who uses the web 99% of the time. I could easily imagine dual-booting Chrome OS and 7)
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Comment on Sumatra PDF – The Leanest PDF Reader For Windows by Online Episodes

Online Episodes — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 01:58:48 +0000

fantastic articles & Nice site.

Comment on If Ever Linux Rules…. by Phineas

Phineas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:35:16 +0000

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Comment on Restore your computer to an earlier date by Ashutosh

Ashutosh — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:41:08 +0000

@ kristen
This probably means that all the System Restore points on your system have been removed. These take up a lot of space, and are periodically removed by Windows once they hit an upper space limit.

Anyway, this is a totally outdated post and is applicable only to Windows XP. You should search for and read some other article that’s more thorough.

Here are some articles you should read –

Windows XP : http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/getstarted/ballew_03may19.mspx

Windows Vista / 7 : http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/700-system-restore.html

Comment on A Glance at Internet in NIT, Rourkela by Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:34 +0000

@ Prasad
Yeah 30-35K is not that bad, but it’s not like we always get this. The speed gets down around 15K in the evening, when lots of students are logged in. And I’d rather have a slower connection and be able to access websites I want. There are loads of websites that are blocked here – Digg, Reddit… I could actually make a Bible if I went on. Every other link shared on Twitter is blocked – you’ll know how frustrating it is when you’ve a taste of it.

Of course, your condition doesn’t look all that great. :[ Maybe you should opt for the BSNL 500 plan – you get upto 2 mbps bandwidth, 2.5 GB download / upload limit, and unrestricted downloads from 2 – 8 am.
Ashutosh Mishra´s last blog ..A Glance at Internet in NIT, Rourkela

Comment on Restore your computer to an earlier date by kristen

kristen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:14:00 +0000

My laptop has no date that I can possibly restore to. It will not let me scroll back to previous dates. What can I do?

Comment on A Glance at Internet in NIT, Rourkela by Prasad

Prasad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:33:49 +0000

Dude, 30-35 KBPs is Godspeed, when you are having it for free.
I am paying almost 1/10th of my salary for a whomping “27 KBPS” and I ‘effing’ hate it.

Comment on A Glance at Internet in NIT, Rourkela by GhostLyrics

GhostLyrics — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:37:06 +0000

O man… And I thought that I was penalized to stay with a GSM Connection wherever I go, until I’ve just recently been able to log into our uni’s wifi. (I live in Austria, btw.)
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Comment on Troubleshoot Memory Problems While Updating WordPress by Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:47:06 +0000

What surprises me is that this blog is actually pretty small at the moment.

Comment on Troubleshoot Memory Problems While Updating WordPress by Taranfx

Taranfx — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:26:01 +0000

Yeah, this happens when your database goes large.
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Comment on 4 Google Wave Invites Available by Ashutosh Mishra

Ashutosh Mishra — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:43:39 +0000

From where did you get 100 invites? :O

I think giving away these invites was good for me, because

> most of my contacts don’t know about Wave yet (the normal PC users)
> it’s always good to help others, and more so when you’ve got surplus of something

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Comment on 4 Google Wave Invites Available by Taranfx

Taranfx — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:52:25 +0000

I recently gave away 100 Invites (few left)
We all have to keep on giving
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Comment on 4 Google Wave Invites Available by Bruno

Bruno — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:19:50 +0000

@Bruno Great thank you PC Tonic !