Today is the day I never expected to come. I have decided to shift to WordPress.com after lots of considering and reconsidering. Blogger is looking too weak for me to use. I want more pages, but I am not able to get them. I need to organise my content better and provide more features. But blogger can’t do much unless and until I edit css, while I am a css n00b. Hence, I decided to shift to wordpress atlast.
Introduction
I think it will be safe for me to get slightly personal in this little post of mine. Here I am going to describe how my life, as a geek and power user, goes on everyday with this computer of mine, which means anything but power. All this because I was never really a geek once, I was just a semi-backward guy who turned geek out of his own actions.
Wondered how different systems would look if they were human ?
If you did, here they are – all of them.
This is my version of the old I am a mac I am a PC thing, but since all are PCs anyway, I called it collectively as I am a PC
Many of us are at a loss as to what to buy, when we are hunting for a new PC. To solve some of those problems, I am presenting here a tutorial to build a mainstream, i.e. average level PC, which should fit quite well for most people. I am going to describe here in this tutorial how you can build the perfect Value PC, which has all the features needed by a mainstream PC, and still keeps its price under the hood. Overclocking is an excellent way to get more juice out of your PC, so I shall recommend thee a good overclocker system, i.e. – a PC which can be overclocked to much more power. The machine I am designing will definitely qualify as a mainstream PC, so no eXtreme budget parts.
The PC will be of an Intel based platform, because sadly, AMD is no longer living up to its expectations as far as cheap and good quality processors are concerned. All of its processors, perhaps with the exception of the extremely rare and elusive Athlon 64 X2 5000+ Black Edition are far below similarly priced processors from Intel.
Edit: With Recent release of its 780G platform and new Triple Core Phenoms, AMD is back in business. And it might even be better than Intel for people with a little different needs. But this is still an Intel based Guide, and for AMD based guide, just replace the CPU, Motherboard and GPU with suggestions shown IN THIS POST (click on link to visit). 
The PC is intended to be as future proof and upgradable as possible, so that you need not suffer later by having extremely outdated parts. Expansion slots, ability to overclock, usability of some parts later in future, etc are given due importance. I won’t blindly suggest a rig here and you are expected to read the contents fully and only then, make a purchase after deciding what you need and what you don’t.
Important Note: Since I am publishing this now on wordpress.com, this becomes an internationally viewable site. But this post is mainly intended for an Indian audience. So please bear in mind that a small part of what I said here might NOT be applicable to you if you are not in India.
So lets get down to business and do the dirty work shall we ?
Introduction:
Before starting this post, let me give you a flashback of my current situation so that the lazier among my readers here can get a gist of the story without any clicks. Ubuntu Linux was my first Distro, but its most recent version was just too hot for my computer to handle. It was a disaster on my PC. Then I tried out Debian Lenny. It would have been good before, but now was the time its development period was about to end. And it was a bit too vague in many respects. So I had to say goodbye to it too.
You have seen two stages of my review of Debian Sidux GNU/Linux, about my installation of Sidux and my experiences with its first update. After a round of updates and installing software, and also customising, I can now consider Sidux to be almost family to me. Let me enter my third (and hopefully last) stage of my sidux review – the experience of Sidux now that everything has settled down(sort of).
Sidux – impressions and updating experience
Hi there and welcome to yet another of my tutorials. Here I am going to describe you how you can enable DHCP, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, in your standard BSNL broadband modem.
Are you the kind of person who does OS hopping and/or lots of reinstalls of Operating Systems ? Have you ever been pissed off by the fact that you always need to reconfigure the internet connection for the OS ? Do you use Live CDs often, and find it troublesome to reconfigure internet again and again ? Well, then worry no longer, as I am going to describe you how you can configure your modem, so that the OS uses internet directly, without being bothered with IP Address, Gateway Address, DNS Servers, etc…
You remember my previous post about my Sidux install, right ? Well, a good lot has happened since then.
I installed sidux thrice, yes THRICE, after that. All that for a simple net connection/router problem. And because I wanted ReiserFS, the filesystem of my root partition, to be replaced with ext3 again. Anyway, I had lots left to read in Linux For You, and the internet was still there, so I could amuse myself with something while sidux installed. Luckily, I have a seperate /home partition. This ensured that I don’t have to recustomise Sidux all over again. Anyway, once all my trouble seemed over, new trouble started…
I have finally replaced Debian “Lenny” (Testing) with Debian “Sid” (Unstable) based Sidux, due to the reasons mentioned here. Anyway, I installed the 2008.1 DVD. As first time impressions can be misleading, I usually avoid them, but now I HAVE to say it feels great. Its doccumentation is detailed and indepth. It gives lots and lots of advice to the user.
This is my set of notes I jotted down while I was playing with Debian Lenny. Not formatted, and often vague, but it will do. I am posting it here to just show how good/bad lenny experience can be to someone.
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