TMNET restoration complete

I did see some inprovement in my internation access speed but nothin to go “WOW” about. Full article at TMNET: RESTORATION OF SERVICES <span class="smalltextgrey"></span><span class="fonttmnet"></p> [1]: /techblog/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/tmnet-logo.png)

2007-02-04 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Vista not working with DHCP

Even with all the above I still prefer my openSUSE 10.2 with XGL and [Beryl][2], It makes Vista look like a kitten. What did they put into all the source code? Personally I feel that Vista ain’t as user friendly as I expected it to be or as they claimed it to be. It’s hard to find what you need when you need it. Hit my first bug when I got back. My Intel pro 2200 BG wireless connection was not getting DHCP lease from my [IPCOP][3] server. The weird thing was that my LAN card was fine and my wireless connection worked fine if I used a static IP. Spent a whole night trying to feagure out the problem.Good news is I manged to fix it with some help from [MS knowledgebase][4] and a few registry tweaks. It seems to be a problem with the BROADCAST flag in DHCP discovery packets. In XP it’s off and in Vista it’s on. Non Microsoft DHCP servers don’t like this. See the fix on the next page; ...

2007-02-04 · 2 min · Danesh Manoharan

Mr. Dell back in as the CEO

Read the original announcement here. My thoughts; Personally I don’t know what to look forward to in the coming days bit for sure Michael will be moving the company in a forward motion with some good ideas up his sleeve.

2007-02-02 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Tattoos Becoming More Accepted At Work

Research found that 23% of college students have 1-3 tats,51% are pierced beyond the woman’s ears and 36% of 18-29 year olds have tats today. WOW!! My favourite quote from the article read “Because you don’t like it or it offends you or you’re conservative in the workplace, I think you’ll miss a whole talent pool of people who are very bright well educated, smart and free thinking.It’s a shame. You never want to do that. You have to evolve.” ...

2007-01-31 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan

Inter-generational tattoos

Awesome picture. The photograph was taken by photographer Bruce Osborn during an interview about inter-generational tattoos. “Her parents were tattooists and the girl got a huge shock when she entered a sent?, a public bath, for the first time. Until that event it was in her mind that all the adults must have tattoos. Everybody around the house had some and it was a very natural thing for her.” words from Bruce. ...

2007-01-30 · 1 min · Danesh Manoharan