Monthly Archives: January 2009

Exams finally round the corner!

Finally, the long awaited exams… the ICSE boys of St. Mary’s High School, Mt. Abu retreat back to the campus early on the the 6th day of the glorified month February for the teachers give final instructions and refine the students in their knowledge… Then follows the Board Exam on 2nd March, 2009. The exams end on 30th March and I am free from the ill air of the exam Continue reading →

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FaunOS Shadow

Snowing FaunOS

It’s a distribution based totally on Arch Linux… specialized for USB Portable installs and can also be used as primary OS has over 600 packages pre-installed (I know… it reminds you of Fedora and me too!). So that’s to say that it comes with definitely all the packages you would ever want along with several drivers(except the Broadcom WiFi one…). And what’s more? It has compiz-fusion which works like a Continue reading →

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noatime System Boost

Is your system slow? Do you have to wait 6.2 seconds to start Firefox and other heavy applications?

Well, what you need is the “noatime” filesystem mount option! What exactly happens when system files are read? They are written too! The system writes access times to the files causing unnecessary IO traffic between you and your HDD.

To avoid this, you can mount all your partitions with the noatime option. Simply Continue reading →

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Gentoo on a USB Pendrive

Installing Gentoo Linux on a USB Drive is very easy… But it’s consequences are even greater! In fact, it is the same with any OS installed on solid-state drives. When any circumstances occur, favoring the unpleasant direct reboot of your machine, the inodes get screwed big time, or sometimes, not. That all depends on luck. I have experienced this the hard way. “Experience is a soft teacher when you learn from other’s mistakes, but it is a hard teacher when you learn it from yourself.” Continue reading →

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Happy New Year

New Year

Seasons change as time passes by. What’s more? It’s now 2009 years A.D.! People are joyful, partying all night long. May peace thrive the hearts of men and women as they set out on this new year! Peace to all and a Happy New Year to you and your Family! Continue reading →

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