Debian

Often we find that our time zone is not what we expect to be in our Ubuntu/Debian boxes soon after installation. Specifically in Debian these days during installation we don't have fine grained control to choose our timezone like 'Asia/Kolkatta', instead we choose 'Eastern' and later decide to change it. In order to change the timezone in command line use the following command in your Ubuntu/Debian boxes,

# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

The above brings up an ncurses based interface where you can have fine grained control of your timezone selection.

I was reading through this post and thought I can share my recipe for the same problem. In the past (3 years back) I had the same difficulty of instructing emacs to goto a line. Each time I want to do that I need to "M-x" and type "goto-line" (tab completion is there). But this is annoying since I may need to do this 'n' number of times while writing code.

If you see Java Runtime Environement (JRE) plugin not available in your Iceweasel or Firefox system and auto installation fail, asking you to do a manual install, then install the following package which will automatically put the JRE plugin in place in Debian/Ubuntu based systems.

# aptitude install icedtea6-plugin

I ve started this new year 2010 with lots of energy, thats what my friends have described so far. I have a lot of plans queued to accomplish this new year. Those may be due to the side effects of the books I ve read in the past few days.

I started the new year in office with a new operating system Debian squeeze in my laptop, Cleared all my email queue in multiple accounts. I admire my desktop (in my laptop) with its new wallpaper, thanks to cmpilato

What next? Working...

Its been more than 3 years since I got my own domain name to host my website ie., www.stylesen.org Since I started my website it was hosted by one of my ex-colleague in his shared server (CentOS?).

Today I moved www.stylesen.org to a new server (Debian Lenny) which has lots of space and unlimited bandwidth for me.

Lets see how it goes! should closely watch the differences on this move.