I am getting tired of compiling and recompiling lots of packages over and over to keep my system up-to-date. Because there are no binary packages (except for openoffice, mozilla and a few others) in Gentoo with every update you end up compiling the whole thing again and again. The compiling and installing of packages is…
I have used various Linuxes for my home server. This home server hosts my bapat.net web site, my @bapat.net mail server and our intranet (yes! I have 5 computers at home, 6 if you count the office laptop) file server. I have almost always stuck with RedHat (and now a days Fedora) with the exception…
I assembled a new PC last weekend. Surprise! Surprise!! It’s doesn’t have Intel processor. I chose AMD Athlon XP 2600+. Because I didn’t want to spend a bundle on a Pentium 4. I was looking for a processor under $100, to keep cost of my PC down. The idea was to buy a motherboard with…
I recently heard about Gmail. A new email service from google.com. But since the news was out on April 1st I was a little skeptical in the beginning. But it looks like the rumours are true. There indeed is a gmail in beta at the gmail.com. The mail service seems to be promising. With 1GB of…
I found a very cool application for viewing images. It’s name is XnView viewer & CLOE raytracing. Try it out!
I bought a new PDA this week. This my first ever PDA. It is HP iPAQ 2215. What I liked about it was it has both CF and SD slots, 57MB RAM for use and Windows Mobile 2003. I have not received it yet, but today or tomorrow I should have it. One more toy for…