Category Archives: Hardware

Nokia E-63 on Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: November 14, 2009
Recently I bought a Nokia E-63 Symbian Series 60 3rd edition smartphone. It looks similar to the Blackberry smartphones. It has got QWERTY keypad, WiFi, 2MP Camera, 3G and Bluetooth. I have been using Nokia 6300 for a long time; and a month ago it fell down and the panel got broken. After the fall [...]
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Reliance NetConnect on Ubuntu 9.04

By Sreejith K | Published: October 17, 2009
Today one of my friend came to me asking for help in connecting to internet with his Reliance Netconnect USB Modem. As I had done this before for BSNL EVDO connections, I knew the steps to follow. But when I tried to load the usbserial module on Ubuntu using modprobe command, I got this sree@jaunty$ sudo [...]
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Jaunty on my new Toshiba Satellite !!!

By Sreejith K | Published: June 6, 2009
I bought a new Toshiba Satellite L310 Notebook last week. It is my first laptop and I’m happy that I bought it with my own money (from my salary). Weeks before I took the Tosh, I had been looking for a good laptop which would be a nice pickup taking into account the price, configuration [...]
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HP Pavilion DV6000 Notebook and Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: January 5, 2009
Today I got a chance to put my hand on the beautiful HP Pavilion DV6000 Notebook which my uncle bought from Kuwait. It was pre-installed with Windows Vista , and he already complainted about Vista that it runs awesomely slow. It runs too slow eventhough it had a Dualcore processor and 2GB of RAM. [...]
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