Getting rid of Tata Photon’s browser start page hijack
I’ve been using the Tata Photon Plus for a while now. In spite of my rant on its TV services some time back, I’ve found its mobile broadband and customer service more or less reliable and polite relative to my long experiences and dealings with Reliance. However, one of their “features” has rubbed me the [...]
Installing the HP 1020,1022 printers on Windows 7
It is annoying when you spend your money on a good quality product expecting it to provide useful service for a long time and your purchase turns its back on you. It is worse if you took good care of it and it is still in working condition and yet you cannot use it.
Solved: Attachments sent from Outlook or Entourage show as .dat files
I’ve had this problem reported to me sporadically for quite a while now and I thought it best to do a post on it so that I can point users to this page rather than trying to explain this to an unending list of individual users. Trying a few experiments and deliberately emailing a few [...]
Setting up Thunderbird or Spicebird on many machines
…What added to the frustration, were the attempts of the software developers at the Mozilla foundation at smartening Thunderbird -probably after a beer too many with their dumb and downright stupid wizard that automagically tries to setup your email account for you .
Plantain leaf stalk oil applicator
How to oil your griddle using a plantain leaf stalk when preparing Dosas.
Recovering from a broken array : Ubuntu Software RAID
Rebuilding your software RAID 1 array after replacing a failed disk
Webhosting and your MYSQL data
I’ve always wanted to setup my own hosting server. This however will have to wait for a few more years. In the meantime I need to host my blog somewhere and also my business site. I started off with hosting on Indian servers. A few bad experiences down the line, and I switched to godaddy’s [...]
Installing the Tata Photon plus on ubuntu 10
This post has been pending for quite awhile. I had been using Windows 7 both on my home Desktop and Notebook for work related reasons and was not able to put my Photon + to the test on Ubuntu. The Tata Photon Plus USB mobile broadband modem supports TV, works well on Windows and the [...]
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