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Hmmm. This one has been on the stove for a long time. But I just didn't have the time. Finally though this week I got some free time to perform some much needed system maintenance and so I downloaded Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS 64-bit ISO, used Usb-creator to create a bootable USB and installed it on a partition holding 10.04.1 Ubuntu. Right now I'm installing all the required programs, servers and what not. I think it will be a week by the time I fully shift to this 64-bit Ubuntu. Update 21 10 2012: I have ended up with a botched install of Elementary Daily Build; small relief is that the desktop is working but remastersys is unable to create proper ISO's. I think the nvidia driver is to blame, but I'll try to work through this. If it works then fine else I'll have to restart with a stock daily build. (Groans!!!!) Update 2 23 10 2012: Okay, finally I have readied the new system last night. And I think it's running beautifully. So I'll test it for a week or s...

Sync has become a popular word these days. oh, yeah. I have not forgotten about the elementary Luna review. Just working on that. Sent from my Windows Phone

I have been using Elementary OS Luna for about a fortnight and I think elementary has reached a stage where I can safely review it. I had refrained from this because like they say "it ain't done yet and sou should wait for the pickle to get ready or it won't taste the best." So with elementary the pickle is yet to get prime, but whatever stage I have in my hands is good enough that I'm going to be telling you about it. On a side note, this is going to be a OS review from me in quite some time. The reason being I am quite exhausted these days thanks to the Six Day week I have to bear at my current organization. Well, that as it may be, still I find elementary enough exciting that I'll be putting aside some energy for this task. Adios! Update 23 10 2012: Due to some problems persisting with 64-bit Luna Live CD and partly my stupidity I have managed to lose the screen caps and half the review I had written. Luckily the system is up now. So I think I'l...

Recently I was working on some maintenance stuff for some crystal reports. And I stumbled upon a peculiar problem. The report had 4 sub reports in it and it was running out of available login sessions in about 10 runs. The problem was I'm at average level when it comes to .net and a newbie to crystal reports. So I'm just discovering things and half the time I don't know where I'm going. That of course sucks but I can't help it. The workload is more than enough that every day I go to my rented place completely exhausted and badly in need of sleep. Anyway that's beside the point. The thing is that I didn't even know what is causing the "no more login sessions available" error. So after some discovering on the internet I learned some things about Oracle logins and login sessions. The solution seemed very simple - increase maximum number of login sessions in oracle. But I knew I have to fix the root cause of this. And the root cause is in the repo...

Link to Original Article: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/burning-down-critical-bugs I have copied the article instead of just providing the link because just in case the article is lost (maybe deleted from original source or link changed... ) it's still available here. I have been analysing Launchpad's critical bugs to track the Purple squad's progress while on Launchpad maintenance duty. In January of 2011, the Cloud Engineering team né Launchpad Engineering team was reorganised into squads, where one or more squads would maintain Launchpad while other squads work on features. This change also aligned with a new found effort to enforce the zero-oops policy. The two maintenance squads had more than 332 critical bugs to close before we could consider adding features that the stakeholders and community wanted. By July 2011, the count dropped to its lowest point, 250 known critical bugs. Why did the count stop falling for fifteen months? Why is the cou...

For last one week I have been plagued with intermittent cellular connection issues. I have switched to Uninor 2G and the plan is 6 GB data for 90 INR ( that's about $1.7 ) Its really cheap when considered to Airtel which gave only 1GB 2G data for INR 98. Anyway tye problem is that the connection has not been consistent. Sometimes it would work great giving me a speed of 15-20KBps which is commendable for 2G. But then sometimes I start losing data packets and so everything starts crawling. The drop is sometimes as high as 50%. This I found out using ping. So I'm going to see for next couple of weeks if they get their S••• Together or I'll have to find another provider. I wish I had a 500 - 700 INR budget for internet but I don't have much use for internet beyond mails and some news. Everything else comes under pastime. So I don't want to spend so much money on pastime. I would rather go to a walk when I'm bored. Or go to a nearby temple for that matter. :) ...