Yes, it is related to the latest release of Ubuntu. Called Lucid Lynx.
This Long Term Release (meaning it will be supported for a longer duration), was very promising.
But I faced lot of problems initially. The problems were because Ubuntu isn’t very cool with proprietary drivers, and I have Nvidia cards on my Compaq.
Also though on most other computers like Dell and Acer, the boot up and shut down time been shaved, but on Compaq it takes close to 1 minute. 
It takes about 20 seconds for Grub to show up!!!
My woes didn’t end there. Wireless didn’t work out of the box. And after installing Graphics drivers, boot splash screens became low resolution.
Hash Mismatch!
So I thought, I’ll reinstall and after that when I try to update, it complains about Hash Mismatch. First I thought it was because of my internet connection which through a proxy and behind a villainous firewall. But soon I discovered that there were some serious issues with the repository servers and that the Netherlands server didn’t have any problems.
Switching my server in System > Administration > Software Sources to a Netherlands connection saved me from more trouble. Phew! (By the time I found this out, I had done about 6 reinstalls, jumping between 32 and 64 bits thinking sometimes that the CD was corrupt!)
Thanks to Netherlands server, All iz Well now!
Now busy with new customizations. OMG! Docky has become so cool! 
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History is a wonderful way to keep track of what we did or where we went. Sometimes, we aren’t interested in having the history logged so that we can maintain some sort of secret activity. But trust me, at times it is very very useful.
But what use is history without the time when the activity took place! Time and Place play very important role. In bash history, the Time can be of great use to know, when a particular command was run.
This get extremely handy, when on a server and you need to find out when a particular command was run.
I guess you have figured out what I am getting to! Yes, time stamps in Bash History.
In shell set this environment variable
$ HISTTIMEFORMAT=”$d-%m-%y %T “
and then run history!
$ history
You will get the time stamp of when the command in your history was run!
Cool huh?
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First, let me tell you what let me to find this out. About what this is, you’ll soon know.
My friend borrowed my laptop, to try out OS codes for her OS lab examination. When she returned the laptop after a couple of days, I noticed that, my Desktop had moved! Yes, instead of the normal /home/jithinkr/Desktop/ it was now pointing to /home/jithinkr/Codes/Desktop/!
I tried moving the Desktop back to where it was supposed to be, but in my attempts, I ended up deleting all the files I had on my Desktop! Well, that indeed was a big loss, because I had forgotten what all files were there on my desktop. (Though the shell and the locate command came in handy to remind me what those files where. Wish I knew some way to recover them. ).
Now my Desktop was pointing to /home/jithinkr and hence all the Documents, Pictures and Videos folders were being displayed on the Desktop.
read more…
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Howdy!
So am back after a really long time, dusting my blog out of the dust. Glad to see, there have been visitors to Open Thoughts, even though I wasn’t updating. Well, can’t be lazy anymore, and I am back. Yeah, I know what you are thinking. Every now and then I post something like this saying that this blog has returned, and then I go back to hibernation. So something solid this time.
I was seeking something new to blog about, something I am doing actively. I wasn’t blogging very active, nor was I keeping up with Online developments and news. Blogging about stuff I wasn’t sure about is a bad idea.
So I come now, with Python, which I find really a cool way to learn programing. It is just easy, like Plain English! (Python is a programming language like C/C++)
And django. For web developing fanatics, Django saves time. For the curious, Django is a web development framework, that lets you develop apps really fast!
See ya around!
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