Category Archives: Techie Related

Trying out #!Crunchbang

Posted on Saturday, October 16, 2010 by Mad

I recently started trying out various linux distributions that will work on my mother’s netbook. The Acer Aspire One came bundled with WinXP, which has recently started becoming really slow. So, I started experimenting with lightweight distributions installed on my … Continue reading →

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WP 3.0

Posted on Friday, June 18, 2010 by Mad

I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious”. It includes a load of new features, bug fixes and a shiny new theme “Twenty Ten”. A picture is worth a thousand words, but a video is probably worth a million, so

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An Year of Arch

Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 by Mad

The first line from my /var/log head -n1 /var/log/pacman.log [2009-04-14 19:24] installed filesystem (2009.01-1) Woohoo! For those who didn’t understand,  not going into much detail, It says that my current Arch Linux installation dates from 14 April 2009. But I … Continue reading →

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Switched To Musca

Posted on Friday, March 5, 2010 by Mad

Recently, About 3 weeks ago, I switched to Musca. Musca is a fairly new Tiling Window Manager, which tiles manually, just like Ratpoison. Musca was inspired by Ratpoison and dwm. Though it derives a lot of ideas from those two, … Continue reading →

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Presenting, Simply Grey & Aquamarine.

Posted on Wednesday, January 13, 2010 by Mad

Simply Grey, is a simple 1 column wordpress theme made by me, it focuses on readability and a clean presentation. It’s quite light on bandwidth too. And, Aquamarine too has a 1 column layout. They both are based on the famous … Continue reading →

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