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Linux is straightforward.

Posted On Friday, October 24th, 2008 By Ravi

I have switched to gOS from Ubuntu about a month ago, and I am extremely happy with the eye candy. It looks just like mac, and the color schemes are all so good, that I do not thing think that I would ever get back to ubuntu again. Well, gOS is based on ubuntu. I am still using the soul of Ubuntu, suing the same repositories and i9nstalling the same debian packages made for ubuntu. Only the eye candy is different to throw some maxim lighting over it. Well, I have been having one big problem. I am unable to get into the user management area of ubuntu. Unable to unlock it with the sudo password or the userpassword. I need to add the vboxuser to my group if I want to run virutal box. For those of you who dont know virtual box is my favorite virtualization tool that I use to run Windows inside Linux. 80% of the desktops are unfortunately dependent on windows, and certain software makes me dependent on windows too. Though I have found that I have never needed windows to do anything straightforward. I downloaded a bulk mailer recently to send regular mails to Continue Reading

The Royal Enfield Bullet

Posted On Monday, September 1st, 2008 By Ravi

A motorcycle that was designed over a hundred years ago, has served for the British Army, has served the Indian Army, comes with 350 CC of raw power, and the basic design hasn’t changed one bit in all these years. Thats the Bullet, and I am buying one of those. It is in production in India, and most of the vehicles that are manufactured are exported, and only a very few is bding sold in India, and there is absolutely no advertisments. I am interested in the model called the Thunderbird, and I would be going for it some time next month. It is a 500 CC motor cycle and has got a top speed of 180 Km per hour, that means you could reach Chennai from Pondicherry is a little over an hour, provided you have a good eyesight and a bit of luck that you dont hit any of the bulls or stray dogs that cross the ECR.