It’s (not) Alright

WHOA… All the Tennis lovers around the world who watched the Wimbledon 2008 Men’s Singles Final on Sunday the 7th of July 2008 will agree that the match was a stunner. Nadal might have won the championship BUT, having said that, one must remember the way Federer was fighting back all the time.

The longest final ever in Wimbledon history and a title for a Spaniard after 42 LONG years. wow. It simply cannot get better than this. With the scores of 6-4, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-7(9), 9-7, Rafael Nadal became only the second Spaniard to win the Wimbledon title. The match lasted for almost 4 hours and 50 minutes.

Along with some spectacular play, there was some drama added in the match due to 3 rain interruptions. The first came before the match, second came during set 3 and last in set 5. And then there was wind. A lot of wind. Really, no words can describe the match. Simply Brilliant. I am very happy to have witnessed one of the greatest tennis matches ever.

With whatevr knowledge I have about tennis, there were some things I noticed. One was, for the first time I saw that Nadal was making a lot of use of the drop shot and some spinning volleys. It was good to see some touch of elegance along with the power play. Also the second server top spins of Nadal have improved a lot.

Now about Federer. The one thing I noticed about him today. He was looking a little anxious. Or little excited maybe. I don’t know why, but I have never seen Federer not being able to return the serves of his opponents for 30-35 odd times. The nerve he showed was brilliant. He literally saved the match for some 20 occasions and that includes 3 championship points too. The way he came back. Awesome.

Really, I am sure that this match will be remembered for a long time, not only by Nadal’s supporters but of Federer’s too. It was a day when the game, the level of play was above all the rest. I have nothing else to say cause I am stunned by what I have seen…

Aditya

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openSUSE 11.1 is the next community release that incorporates new features from both the community and internal development. It will be done for the x86, x86-64 and ppc platforms.

Major areas of interest:

• GNOME 2.24
• KDE: KDE 4.1.1 (optionally also KDE 3.5.10)
• Continued improvement in the software update stack
• Linux kernel 2.6.27 (or later)

The most important dates of the currently planned schedule are:

• Thu, Jul 24: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha1
• Thu, Aug 21: openSUSE 11.1 Alpha2
• Thu, Sep 18: openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 02: openSUSE 11.1 Beta2 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 16: openSUSE 11.1 Beta3 - snapshot release
• Thu, Oct 30: openSUSE 11.1 Beta4 - snapshot release
• Thu, Nov 13: openSUSE 11.1 RC1 - snapshot release
• Thu, Nov 27: openSUSE 11.1 RC2 - snapshot release
• Thu, Dec 4: openSUSE 11.1 GM - final release
• Thu, Dec 18: openSUSE 11.1 public release

More information will be available later. Once it is, I will be ready to post.

Aditya

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This is the second post about remote access to your PC. I installed the application Webmin yesterday. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

In short, it is the administrator control panel for your linux PC. Now, I can access the PC from anywhere. Now is the time to show off

Aditya

\\ tags: Internet, Linux, Remote Access, System Configuration, Tools

Hey, long time no post I know. I have been busy with something for 2 days now. I have been trying to use SSH. SSH means Secure Shell. Some of you might know about the free UNIX shells some services provide to you. They have a Linux running on the server and they give you an account with a limited set of command and a limited disk space. You can save your files and do your work and so on.

I had an account on one such shell. I seldom used it and it was deleted later. About a week ago, a friend of mine, Kalpik jumped on arch Linux. He went all the crap about how arch is good and all. What it did was all the people at #think-digit on irc.freenode.net (almost all) went on to install it. Some like me installed it as a VirtualOS. The other one was Mehul.

Couple of days ago, Mehul was trying to access the virtual machine from the host OS. He did a lot of things that I am mostly unaware of, and somehow, got the 2 to access via ssh. He then sent me the port, URL and the user/pass for the virtual OS on his PC to me and I logged in to it. This incident brought back the shell in my mind. I thought about giving it a try and maybe, have my system configured for SSH and use it anywhere. Continue reading »

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