Arbit Scratchpad

Finished 1984 by George Orwell (The complete book is available here ; All of Orwell's novels , and other works ) Removed FC4 - it is buggy Installed MandrakeLinux 10.1 Community . Browsing from it ... Mandrake ( now Mandriva ) is a more user friendly linux distro. Could connect using modem setup and kppp. Got the OSS sound drivers Video playback using Kaffeine

Man - protecting or trangressing Earth ? (GIMP 2.2 on FC4 Linux) Some more snaps from Fedora Core 4

Independence Day Greetings . Shifted completely From pirated OS to Open Source freedom (XP to FC4) FC4 is a bit buggy and a memory hog - often freezes. Bought Combo drive and External modem -> for Linux How to make an external modem work KPPP and Internet Config Wizard were useless and reported 'No Modem' However wvdial saved the day after some googling ofcourse. Steps to set up an external modem using wvdial: 1) Keeping the modem on, run 'wvdialconf' to create the default entries into /etc/wvdial.conf It should detect the presence of the modem on the serial port. (/dev/ttyS0 for COM1, /dev/ttyS1 for COM2 - ttyS 'S' in caps) 2) 'man wvdial' - see the sample file and copy it into /etc/wvdial.conf 3) Connection details including Baud, Phone, Username, Password etc needs to be updated. Add Init2 = ATX3 to ignore detecting dialtone while dialing. 4) Update /etc/resolve.conf - this is for allowing DNS resolutions by browser and other apps. 4 a) Run '...

Review of Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco (Translated from the original in Italian) The novel said to be a thinking man's 'Da Vinci Code' and written in 1988, is dense (500+ pages) in historical references and is almost like an encyclopaedia of European and Jewish religious and occult history. It has all the ingredients of the Templars - the knights of the Christian holy order, the crusades, the Jewish symbology related to the universe and the hidden facts, philosophy and theological wisdom and cabalistic secrets that are coming on since ages, preserved by secret societies and rituals all over the world. This novel depicts the intellectual game of three editors of an Italian publishing firm which specializes in all studies of historical importance. The book is a roller coaster ride into the minds of those engrossed in the history of mystical and occult sciences. To read it once may not suffice as the author puts in so much detail that at times it may be difficult to ...