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It was 7 years ago today – Oct 20 (2004) – when the first ever Ubuntu was released into the wild. Dubbed as “The Warty Warthog Release”. === Announcing Ubuntu 4.10 “The Warty Warthog Release” === The warm-hearted Warthogs of the Warty Team are proud to present the very first release of Ubuntu! Ubuntu is…
On August 25, 1991, Linus Torvalds – the creator of Linux in case you didn’t know – posted THE message on the comp.os.minix newsgroup. Those famous few lines (among the computer geeks and linux zealots at least) sent via email that started it all. Hello everybody out there using minix – I’m doing a (free)…
The 1st beta of the new and upcoming major version release of our beloved web browser – Mozilla Firefox – is already out.  Head on over to the Mozilla Firefox beta page if you want to take it out for a spin. Firefox 4 beta is deemed stable for day to day use. Do take…
Wondering why MySQL server stubbornly kept on starting itself on boot although you turned it off on BUM (BootUp-Manager) or chkconfig? Well, stop wondering now! The file that controls MySQL to start on boot is located in the /etc/init directory in a file aptly named mysql.conf. In order to stop the service from running again…
What is with this Hello World? A lot of people are probably wondering why a fresh WordPress install comes with the familiar Hello World! post. For the non-techies, non-programmers and also for the non-WordPress developers/contributors it might be a mystery. Since I am a programmer I look at it as something to do with the…