Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 25, 2007
Well sadly I cannot post anymore for a year, but I will come back eventually.
See you in May 2008
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 13, 2007
Since switching to Ubuntu I had this one gripe. Whenever a program became unresponsive I pressed Crtl+Alt+Del but no task manager was launched.Then I came across “Force Quit” which when I added to the panel I could easily click on it and click on the window of the misbehaving application to close it. However sometimes [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 7, 2007
7
Today being the 7-day, here are the 7 reasons why I have chosen Ubuntu over Windows:
(1) Performance and Stability
Ubuntu is a much faster performing OS. My PC is only a Pentium III with 256 MB of RAM but with Ubuntu is significantly faster than Windows on the same configuration and having OpenOffice, as well [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 7, 2007
7
Well guess what the date of authoring of this post : SEVEN (7). As I am delightfully writing up my post on a date of 07/07/07, I realise that I use Ubuntu 7(.04). Hang on there’s more, today’s the date when the new 7 wonders of the world list is to be announced. Hang on! [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 5, 2007
In many of the schools all over the world and especially in India, most of the beginner courses on C++ are based on Turbo C++. For those who do not know Turbo C++ was a protected mode compiler for MS/PC DOS systems.
Thus, when I switched to Ubuntu, what I needed to run Turbo C++. But [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 3, 2007
Having a limited internet connection has its own shortcomings. For me this is always the case throughout the month as I have to be concious to bandwidth as well. Having used Kubuntu 6.10 which was not quite up to the mark as I’ve discussed here, I was forced to restrain myself to download KDE in [...]
Posted by: Anurag Panda on: July 2, 2007
Unlike Ubuntu Edgy and LTS Dapper, Ubuntu Feisty does neither mount nor does it automatically run VCD. I know Video CDs are not preffered due to advent of DVD and the future is with HD-DVD and Blue Ray disks. However VCDs are still in and though have lower quality, they are still used everywhere. Whenever [...]
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