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VirtualBox Boot Error - "NET: Registered protocol family 2"

2012-11-16T21:30:00.000+05:30

I was trying to install Ubuntu 6.10 in VirtualBox 4.1.22 and it would get stuck during boot at the following stage,

"NET: Registered protocol family 2"

Enabling 'IO APIC' as mentioned at Cloudera VirtualBox boot error NET: Registered protocol family 2 did the trick. Thanks Deepak.

Install Windows 8 from USB drive

2011-09-15T15:18:00.000+05:30

Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool can be used to prepare a USB drive with the Windows 8 setup.

The complete guide is available here.
Microsoft’s Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool is available @ CodePlex

Dual Booting Windows 7 and Windows 8

2011-09-15T14:45:00.000+05:30

Lifehacker has a good article on dual booting Windows 7 and Windows 8. Check it out here

How i cleaned my Blackberry's trackball

2009-08-04T21:20:00.006+05:30

oday morning, i woke up to realize that my blackberry's trackball didn't register scrolls to the left. It would roll to the left but, won't let me move to select any of the applications. After googling for some time, came upon this very useful guide @ BlackBerryInsight on cleaning the blackberry's trackball.

Had to remove the trackball fixture and take it apart to clean it. After putting everything together, it worked like a charm.

P.S: Take pictures if you are disassembling the trackball fixture. Otherwise putting everything back together can be pretty confusing.

Why Should I Care

2008-04-19T15:11:00.002+05:30

Was there something more I could have done?
Or was I not meant to be the one?
Where's the life I thought we would share?
And should I care?

And will someone else get more of you?
Will she go to sleep more sure of you?
Will she wake up knowing you're still there?
And why should I care?

There's always one to turn and walk away
And one who just wants to stay
But who said that love is always fair?
And why should I care?

Should I leave you alone here in the dark?
Holding my broken heart
While a promise still hangs in the air
Why should I care?

-- Diana Krall

The Witness

2008-04-12T23:17:00.003+05:30

"[with] All these promises that we make and we break.
Why is it, do you think, that people get married ?"

"Because we need a witness to our lives ???"

There's a billion people on the planet.
I mean, what does any one life really mean?

But in a marriage, you're promising to care about everything -
the good things, the bad things, the terrible things, the mundane things...
All of it. All the time, every day.

You're saying, "Your life will not go unnoticed, because I will notice it.
"Your life will not go unwitnessed, because I will be your witness."

-- Shall We Dance (2004)

Adblock Plus & Greasemonkey for Firefox 3 beta 5

2008-04-10T19:13:00.003+05:30

If your Adblock Plus n Greasemonkey addons have stopped working after an upgrade to Firefox 3 beta 5, try the following:

Adblock Plus: Install version 0.7.5.4 from here. It supports Fx 3 beta 5. The dev builds are available here.
Greasemonkey: Install the latest dev builds from here. [greasemonkey-0.8.20080408.1.xpi was the one at the time of writing this post...]

Hamilton Crashes... Bahrain 2k8

2008-04-05T00:47:00.003+05:30

Alternatives to DNSstuff.com

2008-03-29T18:43:00.004+05:30

Here are a few alternatives that i found useful

http://network-tools.com/ - the NsLookup tool is really good here.
http://www.freednsinfo.com/
http://www.iptools.com/
http://www.digwebinterface.com/

*Updated

simone pointed me to http://www.dnsqueries.com/

Pain

2008-03-25T12:18:00.007+05:30

"I do believe... in the rights of victims. I do believe... that they deserve recompense. No matter how significant or insignificant it may be... in comparison to the loss suffered. I've suffered such a loss. And like some of you here... I've spent those sleepless nights... trying desperately to... squelch down that bilish instinct for revenge. And I have wondered... If this pain will... ever abate. I've learnt... that time does not heal the wound. It will though, in its most... merciful way... blunt the edge... ever so slightly." -- 88 Minutes (2007)

Juno

2008-03-21T23:49:00.002+05:30

"The best thing you can do is find a person
who loves you for exactly what you are.

Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty,
handsome, what have you,

the right person is still gonna
think the sun shines out of your ass.

That’s the kind of person
that’s worth sticking with."

-- Juno (2007)

Frivolities it is...

2007-11-24T18:26:00.000+05:30

Your postponement of deeds till the time when you are free is one of the frivolities of the ego. [Ibn Ataillah]

One has to learn from history!!!

2007-11-24T18:02:00.000+05:30

Those who were destroyed before you were destroyed due to three traits — excess in speech, excess in food, and excess in sleep. [Ibrahim al Nakhai]

Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD

2007-10-10T16:39:00.000+05:30

A race in which rain got the best out of Hamilton... I missed the live action... so here it is for everyone who couldn't catch the action online... courtesy of ORENJi...

http://rapidshare.com/files/61533098/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.001 http://rapidshare.com/files/61538458/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.002 http://rapidshare.com/files/61542221/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.003 http://rapidshare.com/files/61546808/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.004 http://rapidshare.com/files/61550932/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.005 http://rapidshare.com/files/61554535/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.006 http://rapidshare.com/files/61558370/Formula1.2007.Chinese.Grand.Prix.WS.XviD.7z.007
passwd: c0r3

Hamilton certainly has professionalism... he has the presence of mind to thank everyone in the pit garage even after suffering his first retirement of the season... reminds me of schumi... he didn't dump the blame on the team, stating that the decision was a collective one to push the already slick tyres a little bit more...

2007-09-19T16:32:00.000+05:30

"When one teaches, two learn" - Robert Half

2007-09-18T14:15:00.000+05:30

"A friend is one before whom i may think aloud" - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Glitch in Formula1.com

2007-06-25T21:39:00.001+05:30

Strange that 77% = 15% on the graph...

They revamped the website recently... I liked the older version better... it had everything in a single screen... Now only 1/3 of the page appears in a browser window.. that too with the header taking up almost half of the screen...

u have to scroll down all the way to even see main information area of the page...

Hats off to Google Developers

2007-06-25T11:21:00.000+05:30

I use Google spreadsheets a lot... n often exhaust the number of rows available[100 by default] very soon. There was no straightforward way to add a large number of rows in one shot. One could use the workaround given in their Help Center. But it provided no control over the number of rows added. Or you could add a row from the context menu on the margins, add one more, then select those two rows and add two more n so on...

Google added a new option, a + at the bottom left corner of the spreadsheet just above the Add Sheet button. Clicking on it pops up a dialog... enter the number of rows.. click OK and u r done... It has one quirk though.. it will add rows to the end of the spreadsheet only.

But don't worry... Google developers must have seen this coming... they added a new option to the context menu on the margin... select the number of rows u want to add just above the place where u want the rows to be added and select insert from the menu.

It's nice that Google pays attention to such minute details... Life is much easier now... :-)

Finally...

2007-06-24T02:06:00.000+05:30

Sudoku... it's definitely addictive... I've been trying to crack the HARD Sudoku that comes in The Hindu for quite some time now... The EASY n MEDIUM levels pose no threat to me, but always get stuck half way through with the HARD level. Had just come back from a late night movie... Ocean's Thirteen... was in a "happy" mood... the movie and the drive back, were pleasant... maybe that acted as a catalyst... i took at it against the backdrop of a peaceful night.. finished it in about 45mins... can u believe it!!! i was ecstatic... wooooowww... felt like i had conquered the world... ;-)

A day i will never forget

2007-04-23T21:12:00.000+05:30

...

Very true...

2007-03-23T16:52:00.001+05:30

It's really true that you don't know what you know until you try to explain it to someone else!!!

Nostalgic

2007-03-21T17:11:00.000+05:30

a lot has changed since...

2007-02-05T19:21:00.000+05:30

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere -- Agnes Repplier

:-|

2007-02-03T17:39:00.000+05:30

i get angry at everything n anything these days.. n thatz costing me my friends and a lot of good things in life.. lifez not at all jusT in its ways... n /me as stupid as always..

Great day...

2007-01-27T19:14:00.000+05:30

Today was a good day.. i got up early in the morning.. had coffee n breakfast[n thatz a rare thing in my life now a days].. I took my friend's bike and went to office... watched Deja Vu... had lunch at Kairali[a malayali restaurant here.. they have nice food at reasonable prices...] came back.. finished the movie.. then i went to the gym[after a looong break]... came back n surfed the net for some time.. had dinner at kairali itself[puttu n meen curry.. that was just too good].. went home n watched another movie, The Prestige n slept while watching it..

The day was special not because something special happened.. but a lot of things that should happen.. that normally don't happen.. was present.. :D