http://www.fslog.com Free Software Blog Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:23:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en For almost one week I have been setting up Blogial Networks and have played around with Wordpress mu. I decided to use WPMU after trying out MovableType. I created a MT blog for FSLog and imported all the contents into it. With just about 350 posts, it created so many ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/07/24/wordpress-mu-vs-movabletype/ I am happy to announce that FSLog is now part of Blogial networks - a small blog network started by me and Sudarsan. We decided to start this blog network so that we can have a platform where people can cross post across various blogs thus creating good quality content. If ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/07/20/fslog-now-a-part-of-blogial-networks/ Yesterday I decided to try out the live cd of Opensolaris 2008.05 and decided to install it on my laptop after playing around with it for some time. The install process was painfully slow, but was very easy. If you already had Ubuntu (or any other OS for that matter), ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/07/13/opensolaris-and-ubuntu-dual-boot/ Yesterday we noticed in our windows samba share machine that it was infected with virus. This is the kind of virus which became common 2 years back which created an executable file with the name same as the current directory name. In a windows machine, the icon was set in ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/07/12/clean-windows-virus-from-linux/ Today I found this excellent firefox addon called feedly - which calls itself as a more social and magazine-like start page for firefox. I see this as a great RSS feed reader which is integrated with Google reader, twitter and other social thingies. This is very well integrated with Google reader ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/06/27/feedly-social-magazine-like-start-page-for-firefox/ Skribit is a product I found out today in news.YC. I think this is one tool which is essential for bloggers like me who can't find interesting topics to blog about. This product will help solve the problem of writer's block by engaging the community into the blog's content. People can ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/06/23/skribit-suggest-topics-to-write-about/ Yesterday I moved this blog over to NearlyFreeSpeech.net hosting, which I think has a great hosting plan for almost everyone. You only pay for what you use. The disk space is a bit costly than others ($0.01 per MB), but that cost is due to the numerous backups they take. ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/05/11/setup-wordpress-on-nearly-free-speech/ Atlast I got wireless working in my Acer Aspire 5050's Atheros 5006 under the newly released Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron with the madwifi drivers. (BTW the upgrade to 8.04 from 7.10 screwed up my X server and I reinstalled from scratch). Previously I was using the ndiswrapper drivers and they ... http://www.fslog.com/2008/05/03/acer-aspire-5050-atheros-ar5006eg-wireless-in-ubuntu-804/ Whenever you type in a website, the domain name is converted to the IP address and sends the request to the machine. You can have a DNS cache which will speed up the domain name resolving time. I get a boost up of almost 250ms. You just have to install a ... http://www.fslog.com/2007/12/15/setting-up-a-local-dns-cache/ Now I can post to my twitter account from emacs (my favorite editor). Just install twit.el and you are ready to post to twitter, check recent tweets, etc. Download the twit.el file to some directory in your home dir (I have it in my .emacs.d directory) and then add the ... http://www.fslog.com/2007/11/27/twitel-tweet-from-emacs/