Archive for October 2010
Installing Maverick
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 22/10/2010
My 3-year old laptop’s DVD drive no longer works correctly, so I had to find an alternative method to install the fresh out of the oven Maverick Meerkat. So it’s USB. First I tried unetbootin but it seemed not installing the bootloader properly. Since I’m not familiar with GRUB2 it would’ve been extra workaround for [...]
I’m back!
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 01/10/2010
- In: blogging | internet | lifestyle
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September was of course not a good time for me. After finishing my internship I was expecting to write some damn good blog articles, but fate was against me this time. Early in the last month our home router seemed to be malfunctioning. We handed it over to claim the warranties, and till then no [...]
Javascript, Chrome and Firefox
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 01/10/2010
As you may have already experienced, Javascript on Chrome works faster than on Firefox. But today I’ve experienced the other way when using them on a virtual machine. It was a virtual machine (VirtualBox) running Windows XP and on that Firefox seemed to be working faster and smootly than Chrome. Especially when browsing sites that [...]
Meerkat
Posted by: ශාකුන්තල | Shaakunthala on: 01/10/2010
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It’s cool to see that Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat is scheduled to release on 2010.10.10. In every 6 months a new Ubuntu is born. Usually it’s April and October. This time it’s three tens in a row. Yes, it’s 10.10 and I can’t even wait for the experience! Tomorrow I’ll be downloading the RC from SchoolNet. Till [...]
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