Santhosh’s Blog

It’s been almost two months since I started using Ubuntu on day-to-day basis. Though I had Ubuntu 6.x installed on my computer from early 2007, I just never used to boot into it, but just used to upgrade to the latest version.

But, from the past two months, I have started using Ubuntu everyday and I’m pretty happy with it’s performance. But I still continue using Windows XP everyday because windows is my productivity corner which I use to design themes and templates with Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3. I tried to use those two softwares in Ubuntu via Wine, but had no good luck and they didn’t run like in windows. Also, I still use windows to play games whilst I am free.

Now, myself I’ve considered Ubuntu as my learning curve. I would have not started using Ubuntu if 8.04 would’ve not supported my ZTE EVDO modem properly. In the earlier version of Ubuntu, like 7.04 and 7.10, I had to modprobe my device once in everytime I boot into Ubuntu and it was not comfortable for me. And also, the device was soon unrecognized and my internet connection was terminating with no good reasons. It was totally bad for me, who always stay online whenever I switch on my PC. And also, the earlier version didn’t allow me to connect my ZTE EVDO to an USB hub, which was another reason.

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Sorry for not posting lately. I was quite busy with my real life rituals.

Anyway, I bought a new wireless combo for my desktop today and thought of blogging it. I am not interested in writing any reviews for this thing, coz there are already enough reviews available on this particular model. But yet, I like to post my user experience as of now. This is entry level wireless combo that most people can afford easily. In fact, it’s much more than a entry level combo. There are plenty of features that will sure impress you.

I bought this combo for 1,850 Rs (including tax) here in Bangalore at S.P Road.

So far so good, I am having a good experience. The ergonomics is really good. The mouse is bit large compared to my old Wired 500. It is large coz it houses two AA batteries inside it. It’s also heavy coz of the same reason, but you won’t find any issues with the weight, because it is large and fits in your palm very comfortably.

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I started to feel a strange kinda pain at the back of my head from yesterday night. A soft pain at the right side of my back head. Just beside my right ear. Yesterday night, I thought it could be some small problem and will be alright when I wake up in the morning. And it was kinda okay in the morning. But after sometime, the pain appeared once again. The pain isn’t hurting me too much, but it makes me not to do anything for a long time in a same gesture. It keeps paining.. Softly.. Weird.

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Err.. I had a bad Sunday today. Everyday, as soon as I wake up, I check for new mails on the bed from my Opera Mini. I did the same today and was excited to see a new mail regarding the release of myBB 1.4 Bulletin Board Software. I was waiting for the release from past 8 months. Well yes it’s the major release. And was also excited to upgrade my BSNL EVDO CLUB Forum.

As soon as I completed all my daily morning rituals, I started the FileZilla FTP Client and connected to the server. All set… Read the documents…. And finally started the upload process. It was 750+ Files and 6 MB upload. Just after few minutes, my ISP went down. Almost 2 MB (150+) files were uploaded. After 30 minutes, ISP was up, and resumed the upload process. My net connection was really bad at that moment, yet it was pretty good. Have a look at the below screenshot. My ZTE EVDO app is highlighted in the screenshot, notice: it has no signal bars!

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