The Lost Dragon

Finally back to technical stuff. Dual boot is very common these days with people having Linux and windows both at the same time unleashing the power of both the OS at the same time. If something goes wrong with Linux, then its pretty straight forward. Re-installation does the work automatically. But when the windows goes wrong, then is something problematic. So, how to preserve the linux when windows is re-installed? To know how to do this, you need to first understand whats happening with your system during the whole process. When Linux is installed as a dual boot on windows, some boot loader is installed to support both the operating systems. So, the Master Boot Record(MBR) is re-written to point to the linux boot loader(LILO or GRUB) when the Linux is installed on top of windows. Windows is booted as chainloading process. Now, when you re-install the windows, the MBR is written by windows to directly boot the windows. So, despite that you have all the settings preserved for linux bo

This is just wonderful... I would have done the same.....hehehehhehehe

राह देखी थी इस दिन की कबसे, आगे से सपने सजा रखे थे नाजाने कब से। बड़े उतावले थे यहाँ से जाने को, ज़िन्दगी का अगला पड़ाव पाने को... पर न जाने क्यों...दिल में आज कुछ और आता है, वक़्त को रोकने का जी चाहता है। जिन बातों को लेकर रोते थे आज उन पर हंसी आती है, न जाने क्यों आज उन पलों की याद बहुत आती है, कहा करते थे...बड़ी मुश्किल से तीन साल सह गए, पर आज क्यों लगता है की कुछ पीछे रह गया। न भूलने वाली कुछ यादें रह गयी, यादें जो अब जीने का सहारा बन गयी। मेरी टांग अब कौन खींचा करेगा, सिर्फ मेरा सर खाने कौन मेरा पीछा करेगा। जहाँ २००० का हिसाब नहीं वहां २ रूपए के लिए कौन लडेगा, कौन रात भर साथ जग कर पढ़ेगा, कौन मेरी चीजें मुझसे पूछे बिना लेजाएगा, कौन मेरी नए नए नाम बनाएगा, मैं अब बिना मतलब किस से लडूंगी, बिना topic के किससे फालतू बात करूंगी। कौन fail होने पर दिलासा देगा, कौन गलती से number आने पर गालियाँ सुनाएगा... टपरी में चाय किस के साथ पीयूंगी, वो हसीं पल अब किस के साथ जियूंगी, ऐसे दोस्त कहाँ मिलेंगे जो खाई में भी धक्का दे आयें, पर फिर तुम्हे बचाने खुद भी कूद जायें। मेरे गानों से परेशान कौन होगा, क

Well what shall I say. Its been a very busy time these days. I hardly remember last time when I went out with my friends for lunch or dinner. But I am liking the new job stuff. With GD and Jabal next to me, I am really enjoying it. The training is tough. I must say. Not able to get time even to think at times. I dont exactly remember what we ate in the lunch yesterday. That much busy things are. And trying to concentrate in training is at times pretty difficult. At those times, a small cup of tea round about, talking and discussing that specific piece of code that didn't work out or discussing on some concept that was as fresh as the tea that we were holding in our hands. It could have not been better anywhere. I always knew Java is not my coffee, but I am liking it. Not because I have to as I would be working on it, but because it proved itself better for a piece of code that took around 1 hour and 51 minutes for python to execute. May be I didn't write the python code efficie

Here is a nice workout if you want to upgrade your firefox. This post is inspired by the fact that a lot linux distrubutions required online update for this upgrade. So here is workaround if you want to upgrade your firefox installation to a higher version or to the latest version. Step 1: Getting the installation package. The first and foremost thing is to get the installation package for your system. I have a Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) which came with default Firefox 3.0 version. So, you need to go to the Firefox hompage to get the desired installation package. Try to get the tar.bz2 or tar.gz package. This is a general package for most of the linux distributions. Step 2: Extract the tarball and move it to a particular location of desired choice Next, untar the archive using following command. $tar -xzvf firefoxtarball.tar.gz firefoxtarball.tar.gz or firefoxtarball.tar.bz2 as per your archive name. Now, move the extracted folder to some special place where you have all your install

Well, this thing is something very new for me. Bazaar is a Distributed Revision Control System for tracking and managing the code that we usually write for various applications. And its not uncommon for people like us to find ourselves in serious trouble when accidentally we have deleted a file or a piece of code that made the whole system work. But now its not there. I remember that night when me and Samarendra were at Appi's place in baner. I had stayed back to work with Samar for our final year project appi . We had setup my 8GB with Ubuntu 8.10 on it. So it was a moving Ibex on our stick. We had our repository at Google Code. And thankfully we had thought about it. But that night, suddenly the pen drive mal functioned and whole of our code got lost. Just because we had some part of it revisioned at Google Code, we were able to get the most of the lost things. So if you are working on some project which means a lot to you, do have it re-visioned some where using tools like Bazaa

Well, I have created this blog for my friends. It will be basically for technical stuff...you never know...the nights have a lot of things to say and i might write some random content here. Don't worry Mr. Knight, I will keep stuff for your pseudorandomcontent. Hope you have fun.