chatting with your friends when all chat sites are blocked.

2009-11-15 1 min read Linux

You can use, <a href="http://chat.aka-photo.com/">http://chat.aka-photo.com/.
I just installed it to keep my self connected with the other friends of mine. Does not store the data for long and no need to create a username if you dont want to .. just enter any name in the username and press enter. Ask the other person to join the same room and that’s it.

Oh, BTW, I bought this domain to lauch another <a href="http://eshop.aka-photos.com">e-shop or at <a href="http://shop.aka-photos.com">shop. Aha, do let me know which one looks better.

No sound on Fedora 11 Leonidas – resolved.

2009-11-12 1 min read Fedora

I have been trying to get the sound working on the F11 install that I had. Searched all the sites and blogs I could find. Nothing seemed to be working.

Finally I did a

alsactl init

and WOW, I have got my sound. Worht a try if you too are having issues with sound.

Access the disk image created by Qemu using guestfish in Fedora.

2009-11-11 1 min read Fedora

If you are used to using Qemu for doing some experiments with different distro’s then you would also understand the problem of having to do ftp/ssh to copy the files from virtual machine to local machine. Also you have to run the machine to do that. How would you like to have a application that can help you copy the files to and from the image without having to run the VM. That’s exactly what the guestfish does. How to do it, quick demo here:

5 Good Image Search Engines Apart From Google Image Search

2009-11-10 1 min read Uncategorized

Even if you are using Deeperweb for firefox, sometimes google isn’t just getting you to the right page and picture. You start hunting for more picture search engines, so here’s the list of best for you.

When the right picture is everything, you need to go deep into the web and comb through the millions that are out there. Image search is just like normal search and similarly painstaking.

Google wave invite, get one for yourself.

2009-11-09 1 min read Uncategorized

<img src="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/500x_wave-invites.jpg" alt="" width="500" align="bottom" />Earlier this week, Wave re-upped invitations in many users’ Wave inboxes. I chatted with a few folks via Twitter, and we’ve got several readers willing to donate some Wave invites. Now pay attention, because we’re only going to explain this once.

How a live distro can save you.

2009-11-08 1 min read Linux

Some time back I wrote about <a href="http://blog.amit-agarwal.co.in/2009/03/07/" target="_blank">how to use a live distro without CD or VM. Today that experiment saved my day.

My RAM went bad couple of days without my knowledge and I kept using the system finally causing the ”/usr” to be completed unusable. And that is when I was able to still login to the system, as I still had that Nimble X installed on the HDD without actually installing it. Now I need to re-install the OS but at least for the time being I am able to use my system. 🙂

Introducing Amit Agarwal\’s Photography Site.

2009-11-08 1 min read Uncategorized

It it immense pleasure to announce to you the arrival of <a href="http://aka-photo.com">http://aka-photo.com

Right now I am nurturing the idea of having this site dedicated to Photography with links to various sites and other such things. If you have any suggestions, drop me a message.

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