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I am ill for two days...only fever though! I am on holiday and my university will not open until 12th of November. By the way, I have got a comment on the last post. It's great feeling. For it is the first time I got any comment on any post. Of course, I never blogged as seriously as this! In my long holidays I try to learn new things by myself. This time I am working with php and web server. After setting up the web server I tried if I can access the computer from outside, I mean from another computer over the internet. I learned that the port on which the web server is running is to be forwarded. I did so in the router (GLB-502T) and 'lo and behold' the homepage is displayed when I typed the ip-address followed by the port number. My ISP does not give static ip-address, so the ip-address changes each time I connect to the internet. The page also opens on my mobile web browser through gprs. Yesterday, I was trying to upload files to server(my computer!) using PHP. I found ...

For several days I was trying to install PHP on some web server. First I tried with IIS and later Apache. Though both servers were running properly, I could not configure PHP right for them. Now, they are working! both of them! I believe the problem was with PHP (particularly with the php.ini file). Well, I must say this tutorial (http://www.php-mysql-tutorial.com/install-apache-php-mysql.php) (though it is for older versions) helped me to some extent. Now I am able to run phpMyAdmin (a gui environment for mysql) on Windows. After all, that was the main reason I got interested in setting up a web server on my computer!

I want to share with you this little piece of software I am using for a while (if you do not heard of it already, of course), with which you can control everything on Windows from your bluetooth enabled mobile phone. PuppetMaster - with it you can assign keys for any application you want to control remotely. There are some inbuilt with the software like controlling media player, vlc, itunes, adobe reader, browsing and opening files, turning off computer among many others. The most important feature is, you can see the computer screen on the mobile device and move the mouse and click! For more information and downloads click here

Yesterday, I downloaded and installed the latest ubuntu 7.10 on my desktop. It installed quite easily and quickly like it's predecessor. And of course, it is working smoothly. There are not much visible changes in it other than the wallpaper. I noticed it has default read and write support for external hard disks. I installed some other softwares like VLC, Google Desktop, Wine etc immediately. I also installed Apache2 web server along with PHP and MySQL. For some days, I was trying to install PHP on Windows XP. But though the IIS web server was working, PHP won't work. Now with linux I found it quite easy to have PHP working. The only problem I was facing with linux is that I cannot watch TV, couldn't find a software that can be configured properly for my TV tuner card.

Today is "Maha Nabami", 3rd day of "Durga Puja". Now only one day left. It will end tomorrow. Last two days, I was just hopping around the city seeing pandals and 'pratima'-s, and taking lots of photos with my newly bought mobile. Here are some samples. For all photos, you can view Slideshow or view my album http://picasaweb.google.com/samiksaha88/DurgaPuja2007Burdwan

I am earnestly waiting for the latest Ubuntu version to release tomorrow. I liked the previous Ubuntu distro 7.04 very much. I virtually stopped using windows for some weeks. It was the best linux distribution I think. Tomorrow is also "Maha Saptami", the great "Durga Puja" of Bengal starts on that day and continues for the next four days.

Hello everyone! Yet another blog… I was using Blogger for a long time. I had created a lot of blogs here. But I couldn’t find what to write. Everytime I wanted to write a new post I ended up creating a new blog. Now, I am serious about this blog, let's see how far can I go. Actually I read a blog of a guy today, he writes regularly and so beautifully that it inspired me to start blogging seriously(though I don’t know if I can continue).