In the Belgian GP today, surprisingly it was not Michael Schumacher but the young Finn Kimi Raikkonen who finished on the top spot of the podium. Mclaren looked unbeatable right from start and despite the deployment of safety car more than once Kimi seemed to have it all in control. Good news for F1 that Ferrari has a competition.
Montoya was again involved in a controversial whhel to wheel instance, this time with Renault Driver Jaro Trulli. I think he was a bit too aggressive and should have backed off on the particular turn as he did not have enough speed carried through the turn to get passed Jarno.
Rubens was lucky and gained positions as safety car was introduced twice and finally finished third. Schumacher drove brilliantly again to finish second. He could not clinch one more driver's championship in this race though as Rubens finished third. Probably he will do that in front of all Ferrari crew and fans in Monza.
A good race all in all and more importantly a different result this time. Hope everybody continues to give difficult time to Ferrari.
Monday 30 August, 2004
Monday 23 August, 2004
Why am I writing this in vi?
A few days ago I got my hands on Fedora core 1 installation CDs. As per the tradition I installed the brand new Linux system and started working on it. The first thing that I always have to do after installing Linux is adding my windows drives to automount by edition /etc/fstab. I wonder why has Red Hat not come up with something that automates this procedure as only a fool will install Linux onto the PC without any windows version (Only Mandrake 7.1, I guess...., does this identification and auto mounting of windows partitions for you.). After completing my traditional installation configuration which cannot afford to include luxuries like KDE as my system runs on a 64 MB RAM chip and with onboard 16 MB video memory, I happily logged onto my brand new Linux FC1 machine. It is always nice to listen to some music when you are really happy. What the heck!!! Xmms does not support mpeg anymore due to some licensing problems blah blah blah..... This did not surprise me though, as after every fresh Linux install I always wait for something shocking (In some earlier version they completely forgot to include xmms.....). The real fun comes after this.....
I needed text browser for some reason a few days later. I had to install it using add/remove applications in the control panel as it was not included in the basic installation schema. I also thought of adding a few more applications like mysql which is surprisingly not included in basic database support by default, etc. I selected approximately 25 new apps. to install and 5 apps. to remove. Now before you read next part I want to first give you a few tips and tell you about a few mistakes that people always do and then later curse innocent Linux developing team.
Always see to it that you have plenty of time to do any system changes or installing Linux for that matter as some unforeseen situations may arise which even linuxers (this term a references those people who claim to have a very satisfactory working experience with Linux) cannot explain. It took me 4 iterations and 3 days to install a basic Linux configuration on a PC in my college (Ah college PCs.....Always problematic. Isn't it?). Every time some a new error message would flash on screen (that too after 25/30 minutes when the installation is almost complete) informing me that I am a fool and don't know even the basics of installing an OS and that perhaps I should read a few reference books before trying something as adventurous as this. In an other incidence the installation simply refused to detect the extended secondary memory on my friend's computer. The poor fellow did not upgrade his BIOS and so his BIOS could not detect the newly added 40 GB HDD. Windows though did not even complain of such a problem(Ah, these windows guys......I donÂ’t know how do they manage to be that over smart). Apart from these minor things Linux installation is fairly simple and even a novice could manage it.
Take a few hours' rest before attempting to upgrade a Linux system. I will explain this later...but probably this is the most important tip as otherwise you may end up losing your beloved PC or have a nervous breakdown.
Forward this to everybody you know and ask them to please reply to me if anyone has any answers.
Now the rest thing. I selected all add/remove applications, put FC1 CD in my CDROM drive and decided to spend next half an hour watching Indianapolis GP as system was being upgraded. As this thought struck my mind my CDROM drive ejected and a message flashed on my screen indication to put the 2nd FC1 CD to continue installation. I was amazed at the speed of upgrade and thought of first completing the upgrade (as I thought it would take 5 minutes more at this speed) and then watching schumi. I was correct I guess, in less that 15 seconds my CDROM drive ejected out again and a message informing me to put in FC1 3rd CD into the CDROM drive to continue installation. Frankly speaking I was impressed by this upgrade speed. I put in the CD for upgradation to finish and again the same thing happened. My CDROM drive ejected out and a message informing me to put in FC1 1st CD flashed again. Believe me people this fun continued for next 20 minutes and involved at least 12 ejections and reinsertions. I have nothing more to say....Have Fun. the only question to be asked here is "Why am I writing all this in vi?".
Prasad R. Shahane.
Email: prasadshahane@yahoo.com
URL: http://www.prasadshahane.co.nr/
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