Krishnan's Blog

My dog has now crossed the age of 5. 5 years in a dog's life cycle is like 50years in human life cycle. It recently all of a stopped eating food. I took it to the doctor and the doctor informed that there is a mild infection and gave some antibiotics. We also performed deworming. She still did not eat even some of her favorite food. I started worrying because this kind of a behavior will only make her a lot more week. After further analyzing the situation the doctor confirmed that she is becoming old and is getting bored with her regular food. She needs more variety in her daily food. Well after much trial and error I derived at the best food plan that my dog will enjoy eating. The list is mentioned below. Morning: 50gm pedigree with chicken flavor Mid day snack: Chew bone Afternoon: Chicken rice / Beaf rice Evening snack: Beaf flavored chew sticks Dinner: 100gm to 150gm of Pedigree mixed with beaf liver and eggs. With all this food I can see my dog's health picking up...

Linux operating systems come in different flavors and size. Every linux distro that is available or comes out into the market are unique and are accepted by a wide variety of people. I basically love Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is robust and at the same time is light and easy to use. It is also a very stable operating system and doesn't crash or hang. In the past I have used Fedora 2 and Knoppix 3.2. I felt that Fedora is a very very heavy operating system. Knoppix was a revolution as it brought the live CD concept into the market. Still it was not up to the mark for me. It has been years since I have started using Ubuntu. Recently I came into a situation where I had to have windows on my laptop to test windows based softwares. But I wanted to have Linux as my operating system. The only option was to have a live USB stick. Hence I did a google search to see which Linux OS would be suitable for me. I came across, DSL(Damn Small Linux), Puppy Linux and a few more. Some time in the past I ha...

I was placed in one of the leading MNCs in India and I was totally excited. I was told that I would have to undergo a two month training (damn the boring part of work). The training hall had a big auditorium kind of a setup and it could easily accommodate 100+ plus people. As usual I chose to sit at the last, a habit I had right from my school days. After settling myself down I had a look around and I noticed a very energetic girl towards the extreme right side of the hall. She had occupied the first row. I thought boy she must be really some egoistic nerdy girl. Please do not ask me why I thought so, but if you are a person who falls into my category then you might understand. The training started. We all were immersed in it. Some slept, some listened, some acted as they listened. This girl that I previously noticed was indeed listening. She was also actively participating in all the question and answering session. This went on for a couple of days in a row. By th...

When I was kid, summers lasted forever. After school ended, we had days and days, weeks and weeks, whole long stretches of time to play kickball, pick wildflowers, or just lie on the grass staring at the clouds. Everyday, my mother took us to the local used book store and bought some books and made it compulsory that we read it. I at times hated that. :) But reading these books was much more fun than reading the school prescribed books. In the evenings we played all the time, and those days were filled with cricket, police and thief and sitting by the campfire. “How come summers go by so much faster now?” I complained to my close friend one night. He took my question seriously. “I think it’s because as adults we have too much awareness of time,” he said. “I mean, when you were a kid, you didn't know it was the beginning of July. You just lived for the moment, enjoyed everyday, and then suddenly, your mother would take you to the store to buy school shoes, and you’d find o...

I have found my long lost love. It is nothing but Linux. I have again started to work completely on Linux and I am enjoying every bit of it. I also want to post a lot of stuff on Linux over here, but I then felt that it would affect my personal space. People coming to this blog would be confused on what the is the theme of this blog. So I made up my mind to start a separate blog for Linux. Though at times I feel that it is difficult to maintain two blogs, still I wanted to keep two blogs for few reasons. First my personal blog should always remain my personal blog. Though has and will have some technology related stuff, it will not be a full fledged tech blog or to be precise it will not be a full fledged Linux blog. My new Linux blog will be called Linux Jockey and can be found at  http://linuxjockey.blogspot.com/ . I will update a lot of stuff about Linux that I have worked on. - Krishnan urf Linux Jockey !

I have used Ubuntu 10.10 to install virtual box and to write this tutorial. Copy paste the below mentioned command in the Linux shell command prompt. echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick non-free #VirtualBox" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - The above command would have modified the /etc/apt-get/sources.list file. To install virtual box type the below mentioned commands. # sudo apt-get update # sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.2 Related Screenshots: (please refer the below highlighted lines)