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I’ve to say that now I’m quite familiar with OS X. I mean I know where to find what . Let me start with few things I found different in Apple.

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After monkeying enough with the new MacBook Pro; Installing Win XP and opening it to take out the stuck DVD, we’ve finally settled with Boot Camp (not sure for how long ). Actually I really wanted to try the Mac OS X but due to the MacOnXp and Boot Camp thing the MacBook Pro was hanging around with me and my boss like a pendulum. So, now we’ve settled down and I’ll have one week of uninterrupted Mac OS X environment. I will not use any Windows for a week to see whether I can live without it. If I find it worth I’ll buy a MacBook Pro for myself and will join the club of switchers. BTW, this switcher’s blog is very interesting and I’ll also share my Mac experience here.

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Curfew has been imposed in many different parts of Nepal to suppress the demonstrations against the Royal regime of King Gyanendra. The mobile telephone network is brought down to disrupt communications but the normal people are defying curfew orders and coming out to protest. Hundreds have been arrested and 3 are known to have died from police/army bullets.

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Recently I’m getting pretty obsessive with apple. Reading all forms of news and apple related blogs. For the past few weeks most of my Internet reading is related to apple. After my first encounter with macbook pro, then Installing XP on Mac and now with the release of Boot Camp, it looks like Apple is everywhere…
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I’m in Guangzhou, China today to reinstall one of our Linux SMTP Server. I’ve installed CentOS 3.x with software mirroring. It’s pretty straight forward to make the Linux Software Raid partition during the installation but by default the system will boot only with the first hard disk (id0). This means if the first hard disk (id0) fails then the second hard disk (id1) will not be able to boot alone.

In order to make sure that the server can boot from each of the mirrored hard disk in case the other one fails, you need to run grub and install onto all other drives that are part of raid that the /boot partitions are on.

• #grub
  grub>
  grub>find /grub/stage1
  This will give list out where all the grub setup files are located:
  (hd0,0)
  (hd1,0)

sda=hd0 sdb=hd1 for scsi and hda=hd0 and hdb=hd1 for ide

After knowing that hd0 already has grub in mbr, we run:

• Grub>device (hd0) /dev/sdb (/dev/hdb for ide)
  Grub>root (hd0,0) and then:
  Grub>setup (hd0)

With above we’ve succeeded putting bootable mbr on the second drive and now both hard disks should be able to boot individually.

Apple has released a software called Boot Camp to allow Intel Mac users to let dual boot between Windows XP and Mac OSX. The software is in public beta and doesn’t come with official support but I think this is a very clever, bold and timely action taken by Apple. Now it will become irresistible for users like me to buy Intel Mac.

More and more people are buying and loving Macs. To make this choice simply irresistible, Apple will include technology in the next major release of Mac OS X, Leopard, that lets you install and run the Windows XP operating system on your Mac. Called Boot Camp (for now), you can download a public beta today.

The Boot Camp helps to burn a CD with drivers for Windows which includes:
- graphics
- networking
- audio
- AirPort wireless
- Bluetooth
- the Eject key (on Apple keyboards)
- brightness control for built-in displays

I’ll definitely try this as soon as I get the replaced macbook pro. You can download Boot Camp and the Installation & Setup Guide before starting your own installation.

I have noticed few issues with MacBook Pro and seems like I’m not the only one. Some of the problems that I’ve noticed are:

1. It’s too hot to handle. The heat on back side makes it impossible to put it on your lap and the upper left corner gets heated even when the notebook is idle.
2. The whining noise of cpu or fan comes and goes on it’s own and doesn’t depend on whether you’re running some application or not.
3. The mouse is lost and appears magically every once a while.

tuaw.com confirms the heat and noise problem. It looks like Apple knew about the problem from the very beginning and is finally fixing it.

We’re sending our MacBook Pro to Apple for repair or replacement. If the replacement looks good I’ll buy one for myself too otherwise I’ll wait for second revision of the MacBook Pro.

Microsoft to release Vista with a Linux kernel

After years of delays and months of rewriting code the Microsoft Corporation has taken a new direction with Windows Vista.  Microsoft will release Vista with a Linux kernel.  At the press conference Bill Gates had this to say "We are very excited at the new direction of Windows Vista.  With help from Novell and IBM we have leveraged the Linux kernel and have built our GUI as a Window Manager on top of X.org.

Microsoft Buys OpenOffice

For an undisclosed sum but reputed to be in the billions, Microsoft’s Bill Gates has personally bought the leading open-source desktop project. Saying he "was sick and tired of open-source eating away at his profits," the world’s richest man decided to put an end to the nuisance and simply buy OpenOffice.org.

Pin All Your Romantic Hopes on Google

With Google Romance, you can:

• Upload your profile – tell the world who you are, or, more to the point, who you’d like to think you are, or, even more to the point, who you want others to think you are.
• Search for love in all (or at least a statistically significant majority of) the right places with Soulmate Search, our eerily effective psychographic matchmaking software.
• Endure, via our Contextual Dating option, thematically appropriate multimedia advertising throughout the entirety of your free date.

China Buys Google

The People’s Republic of China has acquired a controlling stake in the United States’ fastest growing technology company, Google.

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It’s very difficult to stay safe online today without understanding the security jargons.

Phishing is one of the most popular techniques used by criminals to fool the users (even quite experienced ones) in giving in their personal information.

Phishing - Fraudulent emails and pop-ups designed to fool you into revealing personal information, such as passwords, credit card details, and account numbers, for criminal gain.

Some of the latest phishing attacks in News:

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