Well two months back I bought my first laptop. A Compaq V3155AU with following configuration:
AMD Turion64 (single core) 2.0Ghz
Hyper Threading support
512MB DDR2 system memory (I upgraded that to 1GB)
nVidia 6150 graphics chip-set with shared memory
14.1" display
60GB SATA hard disk drive
DVD/CD R+RW
Bluetooth
Ethernet
Wireless Lan
At sub Rs. 40,000 (sub US$ 900) this was a great deal. I was using Fedora Core 6 (64bit edition) on it but was not using it much since I still love my desktop and do not have enough work to justify simultaneous usage of two computers. Recently my friend planned to join me on web development work and I thought this was a good time to use it regularly. So I had to first make sure the Wireless Lan worked since I Fedora had not done that automatically. I read:
"Compaq Presario V3000 with Ubuntu 6.06" and it helped a lot. Actually I got the Wireless Lan running in no time. It was very easy. If after a shutdown or restart you need to connect just use the usual commands (iwconfig, iwlist, dhclient to scan for network, connect, etc.).
I setup up my usual structure for web projects. PHP was already there, so was Apache. A few needed PHP modules were added (APC, MagickWand for ImageMagick) and I had a working local web server !!!
Things are really that easy if you are using the right software :) and there is always Google to help you when need it.
Hello! I am Sumit, a nomad, trying entrepreneur and software engineer. I blog about mental issues, personal journey, software and product development.
This is my personal space and my views might seem contradictory to yours. That is OK, my views are not set in stone. This is a place where I share my learning as a human.
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Thursday, March 08, 2007
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Problems with installing Yum on Fedora Core 4
"There is a problem importing one of the Python modules" : ever faced this error after installing an running yum. Well I faced that. And searched on Google for it. But in vain. Most results suggested the usual missing packages:
libxml2-python, python-sqlite, or python-elementtree
I tried installing all of them and no use. Then did lot of finding around and finally i tried to install other package managers. Finally I cam across a yum rpm package at rpmfind.net and while installing I got the dependency error for urlgrabber (http://linux.duke.edu/projects/urlgrabber/).
Installed that and all was fine !!!
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