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I've been tinkering with computers for well over 15 years now - and since 2007 I've been using laptops almost exclusively - prime reason being space(or the lack of it) since I moved away from my home, to a new city. Staying in a PG meant there was no space. Since the past year and half I've...

Hey folks, I'm building a desktop for myself (after a *long* time ~8+ years I think) so I'm kinda lost here. My Core i5 3470 was delivered today, albeit in shoddy condition from Flipkart When I opened the half eaten box, I noticed that one of the heatsink pillars was "stuck" in a...

SQUARE ENIX Game Development Contest India 2012

I'm thinking of adding some extra RAM to my Envy 14. It currently has 2x2GB modules and since the laptop has got only 2 slots, I'll have to replace them completely & considering 2x4GB Any suggestions for the RAM? I'm not sure what the prices for laptop RAM are - I'm in Bangalore & will buy it...

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Well I'm on this week's YAPodcast, where I discuss on Linux for beginners, moving to Linux, substitutes for common Windows apps. If you could listen and give me feedback it'd be great, as I would be having more podcasts on Linux. here's the Link...

Before I get into my problem, a little background, have a Dell 1520, 160GB HDD, of which 130 GB is allocated as NTFS in 2 drives, 115GB as C, and rest as E.(D is for DVD RW) the remaining 18GB is allocated to openSUSE, with 2GB swap, and rest 16 GB as a LVM, with /boot, / and /home as the LV's...

hey there, I shifted to openSUSE 11 & KDE 4.1 recently, while till yesterday everything was working fine. Now all of a sudden, on booting, I get a console login. The system *does* goto run level 5, though. after logging in, I've to issue a startx for KDE to start. Now the here it gets weirder...

Just caught up this news: Satyam gets sued for $1 billion for fraud and intellectual property infringement, by UPAID SYSTEMS, American based mobile and online payment specialist, regarding "development of the idea of converting any phone into a de facto pay phone through the use of a pre paid...

Something I found while tracking India on twitter Possibly India's biggest gaming championship *www.vixture.com Games: Crysis(PC) ProStreet(X360) Fight Night Round 3(PS3) Cricket07(PS2) FIFA08(X360) Prizes: 4lakh each, Runner up team: 10lakh, Winning team: 20lakh

First up, this probably the best and most comprehensive review I've ever written. Posted on my Blog, Sathya Says >> My World More often than than, a Sony Ericsson phone is generally equated to be a music enthusiast’s phone, with their immensely popular Walkman series of phones. Sony...

After few months of server downtime, Ubuntu Live Stats is operational again! The main idea behind this project is to reflect the enormous activity Ubuntu has on all fronts. Simply put, Ubuntu Live Stats gathers data from every source they think is interesting - ie, from forum, both English as...

Source: Sun's Press Release Sun Microsystems is on a major Open Source Acquistion spree. First it was it’s MySQL acquisition, now it’s moved on to acquire innotek. For those who’re still wondering who or what innotek is, innotek is the developer of the hugely popular Virtualizer, VirtualBox...

From Download Squad and Sathya Says For all those people who miss Amarok badly while on Windows, well fear not, your dream has come true….almost. With the release of KDE4.0 which uses Qt4 framework, which has been GPL’d and available for Windows and MacOSX, a lot of effort has been put in to...

From my blog, Sathya Says Yesterday, Mozilla announced that the 3rd beta of the next version of their immensely popular web browser, Mozilla Firefox would be available for download. I’d posted earlier on the impressive changes between Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 Beta 2. So what does the third Beta...

Overclocking an 8600m GT Requirements :arrow: Latest nVidia drivers :arrow: ATiTool 0.26/RivaTuner 2.06 :arrow: A bit of patience 1. Getting the latest drivers. Unfortunately, the drivers from nvidia's site won't work for a laptop, as they don't recognize the mobile versions. What you...

Hey folks! I'm running a blog dedicated to Linux and openSource over at *sathyasays.com/ Would love to hear some feedback/comments/criticism from you all. And yes, I'm a noob when it comes to Web Tech, so any guidance would be really helpful! Thanks & Cheers! Sathya

*blogs.mysql.com/kaj/sun-acquires-mysql.html/ The subject says it all. More infor on the blog. I'm mobile atm so that's all I can post now

While browsing through TuxMachine's articles, I read this article. Reminded me of the Custom-distro thread over here. Must read! One of the core principles of open source development is “freedom”. As such, there are few limitations for developers and end users to take the work of others and...

Found this piece of info while reading VMWare's Online Manual: To enable a virtual machine for accelerated 3-D 1. Choose a virtual machine with Windows 2000 or XP guest operating system. Note: Do not enable Direct3D on a virtual machine that is powered on or suspended. 2...