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Wow..!!! I am stunned after spending a whole day on Fedora core 6 installation on my Dell Inspiron 630m. I download the torrent DVD image and burnt it and started the fun. I have decided this time no Windows and and only Linux. Installation was smooth like silk and it rebooted the system. The system booted up and to my surprise booth display and sound was detected properly which saved a lot of time for me. Thanks to fedora team for doing great job.

Next step I installed some missing software to play video and music files. Please follow this site which gives you in depth to setup all the above in few commands.

Fedora core 6 Review

Should I say YUM is kick ass tool in fedora. If you want anything just yum it and it does the job for you. I was not able to configure my wifi. But my card is detected properly. In few days I will figure it out .

Just enable Desktop Effects then comes the real fun. I cannot explain the same please install and experience for yourself.

Linux

It was nice fun yesterday in the desert partying with my friend Sajid Rehman. It is a long story so I cannot write much. Lot of adventure driving the wrangler jeep in the desert.

Moral of the trip : For American vehicles press clutch to start it. We learnt that in hard way after coming back from party.

Dubai, Personal

I was really surprised and happy to see both of my plugin in wordpress podcast under the title Dealing with splogs, posting by e-mail and more. I am really happy to see many people using my plugins for their blogs. Have some news regarding organizer plugin and I will update soon

Programming

It has been another busy week for me. Busy with eid celebration and I was exploring some stuff with wordpress, linux and seo. I got really annoyed with using windows on my laptop so I wanted to install some linux for a change. I started with Ubuntu by downloading the latest version from their website. My luck was really bad it keep saying unable to read media. So i tried different dvd burner software and nothing gave me a good bootable cd. From that I found the iso they gave is a bad one.

The next step was to download openSUSE. This time I wanted to perform direct web install using yast. I was sucessfull in loading the iso and making it run. Wow it ran for 3 hrs saying reading packages information and made my system non responsive. So I dropped the idea of continuing with SUSE.

The next was my fav distro Fedora. I used the torrent to download the dvd iso and successfully installed the same on my Dell inspiron 630m laptop. Everything looked fine except for my sound and wifi. I solved the sound issue by updating to the latest kernel. I tried installing intel drivers to make my wifi work and no use nothing worked out.

Today I found Fedora core 6 is out. No chance to wait. Downloading the torrent . Some cool features being Kernel 2.18, Gnome.16 and much more. Shall update my fun on FC6 soon.

Linux

Today I have upgraded my blog to 2.0.5-RC1. Upgrade was simple as usual. I was checking everything on my blog and it was smooth. I don’t think there is any new features but lot of bug and changes has been done.

http://trac.wordpress.org/query?status=closed&milestone=2.0.5 

One issue I came across was the default category was not getting selected after I made the upgrade. I have mailed the list and waiting for a reply .

Programming

18th October 2006, Dubai (UAE): Following in the footsteps of CEO Martin Diessner and Group Creative Director & Founder Dinesh Lalvani, Arvind Krishnan has flipped to join the team at Flip Media as Creative Director.

Earlier this year, Flip Media took an innovative approach in their agency structuring by appointing multiple creative directors. “We think differently to other agencies and if we can flip a traditional idea or concept, we will, knowing that we’ll come up with a better approach” said Dinesh at the time. “Put simply, by having multiple creative directors means that the creative teams challenge each other and this raises the whole agency’s standards of creativity.”

As Creative Director, Arvind will head up his own team within the agency. He brings significant knowledge and skills to the team at Flip Media with over 10 years experience in advertising and design at various advertising agencies in Bangalore, India and the Middle East. Beginning his career as a Graphics and Animation Designer, Arvind graduated to become a Senior Visual Designer, and progressed over the years to hold positions as Consultant Art Director and then Creative Director.

Arvind is described by the one of the Flippers as being “still waters that run deep’ another commented “He’s the kind of guy that sure doesn’t say much, but don’t underestimate him as you can see the cogs are working overtime.” And they certainly are. Arvind has been the creative force behind award winning campaigns for many leading international brands and clients including; Barclays International, Hewlett Packard, Hilton, Jumeirah, Pepsi, and Showtime.

Arvind joins Flip Media from Impact Proximity Dubai where he previously worked as Creative Group Head for the last three years. He has built a solid reputation based on his originality, inventiveness in design and outstanding attention to detail in the execution of integrated print and online advertising campaigns.

“Arvind has a natural flair for creativity and he is dedicated to creative excellence. He has the ability to engage with clients on a one to one basis and this results in his work being crafted with great creativity and thought. Arvind will play an active role in the success of Flip Media and are absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to work together again.” Added Dinesh.

For further information about Flip Media please visit: www.flipcorp.com

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