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Recently Amazon launched Kindle Touch 3G but as of now it is shipped only in the US. However I located a seller on ebay (with 99.6% credibility) who is shipping the thing in India. Can someone please guide me on whether I should wait for Amazon to make things available or go ahead and buy it...

I have fedora 12 , firefox 3.5.4 and flash 10 ( the latest one I could get my hands on) Note: .avi files are playing fine on vlc media player so there is no mute checkbox ticked. The problem is that when I try to stream a video from web, youtube or facebook or someother site ( flash) the video...

SGD ( Super Grub Disk -> *www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CBYQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supergrubdisk.org%2F&ei=_VLlS5XgK4O5rAfRvYnYAg&usg=AFQjCNE6Cppza1p-syBdMslU2n7PLypyJw&sig2=yMJ5NxnTH1ld94hclt6wiw ) I was under the impression that my Wipro laptop is not capable...

Hi digitians I need to submit something as my in-house project (second year, comp engg). I was thinking about creating a basic distro .. using the guidelines available on internet especially linuxfromscratch.com .. but that seems to be a time taking process. Can any digitian suggest me...

well... yesterday mum asked me to look for a good flashlight. Last few LED torches (one branded and others off the local Chinese market) were not efficient enough... And the incandescent ones are really a mess. Can someone suggest me a good one .. for around 500 bucks? Another thought i was...

I know there is no one stopping me from installing the copy of Win 7 that I obtained along with my new Dell Studio 1450 laptop on any number of computers as I want. But what I am interested in knowing is does EULA consider that illegal? ( sorry I am being lazy i don't want to read the 6' long...

windows 7 is acting as a complete screw up jealous OS and is wiping off grub every time it boots from my openSUSE + win7 dual boot on Dell Studio 14. can somebody please suggest me how to go about teaching it to coexist??

I had correctly configured Tata Photon Plus on Mandriva and openSUSE but when it came to using ubuntu the steps that I was using to configure the modem failed. here are the steps I use modprobe usbserial vendor=0xXXXX 0xXXXX where XXXX are the vendor id and product id obtained from the output of...

I am currently in my 2nd year of B.Tech in Computer Science from Amity University, Noida. Thanks to digit, I gathered some basic skills on Linux after which I wondered whether I could convert these into a certificate or not. A superficial search on the internet revealed that there are 4...

the DVD RW drive of my laptop has been very irritating. I have got it replaced 4 times since I got it one year ago ... and again now, barely a month after the last replacement its denying to boot from a CD. I wrote ISO of archlinux on a disk at 4x and tried in vain to boot my laptop with it...

the DVD RW drive of my laptop has been very irritating. I have got it replaced 4 times since I got it one year ago ... and again now, barely a month of last replacement its denying to boot from a CD. I wrote iso of archlinux on a disk at 4x and tried in vain to boot my laptop with it. however...

Hi folks!!! my external hdd has developed some bad sectors. Although I repaired using the tool in XP. I am already aware of the fact that it just set the OS to ignore the bad sectors and want to know whether the drive would behave normally even if I connect it to anther system (eg my linux...

I am gonna buy a camera ... my limit is 7000/-. I had used canon powershot A570 (bought after reading digit's review about it) for a while .. that seemed to be a good camera. I saw kodak C190 on ebay .. it seems to be a good one ... Digitians !! I need your help please fill me in with its +ve...

Hi guys there is a bit of problem. gcc is required for installing softwares. And its not there in my installation of Mandirva presently. I know that I can install it from the setup disk, but I dont have access to it untill next week. So how do I go about installing it? I downloaded gcc source...

My father had bought an LML Vespa NV way back in 1991, and it performed well enough till date. But since last few years it has started drinking fuel like anything. I guess our maruti 800 gives more mileage than this machine. So daddy needs a new two-wheeler. Please suggest some. Budget :-...

I have a 2 yr old 945 motherboard supposedly from ACER. The problem is that its having a version of Award bios which does not show any option for booting from USB devices.. I am thinking of upgrading the bios. Will this help? and can someone please guide me through the process?

my ups does not work under inverter... i.e when I try to run the computer using the inverter (in case of power failure) the UPS does not go to standby state .... (there is regular noise of relay switch and its characteristic beep) so I am not able to run my computer using the inverter. yesterday...

I installed ubuntu 9.04 two days ago... (people suggested it was best to begin with .. i have been using others flavours occasionally in past few months) got connected to internet via ethernet. while I was trying to update ubuntu using update manager or download amarok using package...

Okay lemme make it clear that I am new to linux. I have been trying to move from XP to linux since last one and a half year but have not been successful till date. Reason - Internet. Earlier I didnt have one (one year ago) and tried to install and work on distros that came along with magazines...

I have been using the airtel's GPRS connection @ 250 per month (unlimited downloads) although the speed was less but acceptable (10 - 15 KB/s when downloading stuff). Now that airtel has removed its unlimited scheme and has raised its rate to 30paise per 50 KB i.e 6Rs per MB. Its will be...