Disable Nuffnang Polls

Nuffnang recently launched it’s smart poll feature which enabled polls to be shown together with your campaign ads. Since it’s launch I’ve only seen one poll across all blogs and sites running Nuffnang ads. It’s a cool idea to run polls but till the poll questions increase I’d rather have the polls feature turned off since it’s taking up too much real estate. If you’re in the same boat with then the screen shots below might help....

2008-05-18 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Fedora 9 “Sulphur” Screenshots

Here are some screen shots to support my previous post about [Fedora 9 “Sulphur”][2]. GNUMAN.org [The Coding Studio][3] ...

2008-05-17 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Fedora 9 “Sulphur” released

Good news to all [Fedora][2] fans. Fedora 9 codenamed “[Sulphur][3]” is out. The new release comes with quite a few new features. To start off. Fedora 9 runs on the latest 2.6.25 kernel. There’s a new package management system included called “Packgeit” which uses Yum for it’s backend. Gnome Desktop 2.22 and KDE 4.03 are the desktop managers to choose from. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is the browser of choice this time and to top it all the new opensource version of Java “OpenJDK” is part of the new features....

2008-05-16 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

My Streamyx is screwed again

My Streamyx is screwed again. Actually it’s been like that for a month now. The speed is nominal in the mornings but after 8pm the speed drops to 1/4 the normal. My last bandwidth test came up with 104.4 Kbits/download and 290Kbits/upload. Looks like someone’s overselling bandwidth again, you think so? Or could it be a simple port overload? I reported the case last week and was assigned a case and an engineer....

2008-05-14 · 2 min · Danesh Manoharan

Clearing out your tray

This the third time this week. I love McDonald burgers, explains the few pounds I’ve gained but that’s besides the point. I’ve been going there for lunch for the past 3 days. I’m attending an Oracle training and McD’s the closest fast food joint available. I have a habit of clearing out my tray into the designated bins after my meals. But somehow I tend to receive weird looks and the ocasional laugh from the patrons there....

2008-05-14 · 2 min · Danesh Manoharan