Scattered Thoughts » housekeeping http://www.kunaal84.com/blog where you go when not looking for the answer to life, the universe and everything Fri, 01 Jul 2011 01:07:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Back in India after over a year! http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2011/02/23/back-in-india-after-over-a-year/ http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/2011/02/23/back-in-india-after-over-a-year/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:29:06 +0000 Kunaal Ramchandani http://www.kunaal84.com/blog/?p=118 Landed on the 19th, and everyone at the airport was really hapy to see me (it might also have had something to do with Indias convincing win against Bangladesh in the Cricket World Cup..but lets just say everyone was happy to see me)

Spent the night in Mumbai and then headed early next morning home to Pune. This time I’m pretty sure the family was happy to see me (note it might still have had something to do with the cricket win, we do take our cricket pretty seriously after all)

Spent the last few days relaxing and getting over the jet lag and getting re-acquainted with Indian television (I love the ads)

The shopping and meeting people will start soon, but till then its cricket, food, sleep (in that order)….ah, I love holidays :)

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Now, however, since most of the hard work is out of the way, I can get down to relaxing in my own place and setting up my things exactly how I want :) .

The thing that I have been spending most of my time over the past couple of days has been the comp (naturally). I have been setting up a dual boot system that uses the pre installed Windows Vista and Linux flavour of the month, ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron. (This post incidentally, has been made using Firefox 3 running on Ubuntu).

Installing Ubuntu was a breeze and this is the first time that I have installed a version of Linux and not had any (major) issues with drivers. It recognised and correctly configured most of them right out of the box (the open source ones), and its easy installer found non open source ones like for my Nvidia graphics card. I am still getting the comp set up the way I like, tweaking things here and there, but I must say that so far Ubuntu has not disappointed.
There are a LOT of sites out there with easy to follow information on how to do almost anything in Ubuntu, starting off with the Ubuntu Team Wiki. Oh well, enough of a break, back to setting up :)

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There was only a minor issue of the sites CSS breaking when this plugin would fetch all the photos, but after commenting out about 6 small lines of code, it seems to be all fixed!

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