Kalpik Nigam
Hi! Many of you might be wondering why i was hardly online since the past few days. The reason was this 
I was setting up 3 IBM Series x3455 servers for my company CSC. These are blade servers which are supposed to run Sourceforge Enterprise Edition have the following configuration:
Ubuntu Feisty Beta hits the servers! From Official Announcement:
The Ubuntu team is proud to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 7.04.
Ubuntu 7.04 is the most user-friendly Ubuntu to date and includes a ground-breaking Windows migration assistant, excellent wireless networking support and improved multimedia support.
Ubuntu 7.04 server edition adds support for hardware facilities that speed up the use of virtual machines as well as other improved hardware support, making it an excellent choice as a web, database, file and print server, the fastest growing area of Linux server use.
Taken from Mehul’s Blog.
I had almost given up blogging but came across this nice incident so had to post it.
This is a true incident that happened with my friend rahul, who’s been looking to try linux but he’s a dumbhead when it comes to technology.
This dude, Utsav came on digit forum and announced that he was selling linux 10 cd’s for Rs. 1500 each. But that thread was locked by the Admin before he could get to talk with the fellow
So, next day he decided to add this fellow to my yahoo list and have a good deal with him there.
What follows hereon is the log of what transpired in the deal between them
Everyone who has used openSuSE 10.2 must have come across the animated boot screen. But the problem is that its not permanent. It comes sometimes, and doesnt come at other times. Im writing this tutorial for all you penguin lovers who would like to see the animated boot everytime!
1. In the terminal (from your home folder) type mkdir new
2. Type cp /boot/message new
3. Now type cd new
4. Type cpio -i < message
5. Dont close the terminal, and open the folder new in your home folder (from konqueror or nautilus) and edit “gfxboot.cfg” file in kwrite/gedit
6. Change “penguin=-1″ to “penguin=100″ and save the file
7. Now delete the message file in the new directory by typing rm message
8. Now type ls . | cpio -o > message
9. Now type sudo cp message /boot, enter your root password if required.
That’s it! Reboot and check.. You should have the animated boot permanently enabled!
EDIT: Please backup your original /boot/message file before trying this!
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