Finally, I am able to access Internet, courtesy Airtel. It’s just been installed in my premises after a tough fight with the dodos who had very specious arguments about “ports” and “pairs”. I literally had to throw a fit time and again to make it work out; all’s well that ends well. Despite the screw up in the final legs of installation, I must appreciate their professional approach to their new connection. There was a seperate team to collect cash on my doorstep, seperate team to install the wiring, another team to activate the voice line and finally an “engineer” to set up the modem.
I shudder to think of the time being spent in the dingy waiting hall of MTNL (I moved to New Delhi recently- thats a seperate story). Or wait for the lineman to appear at my doorstep. It was all over in a jiffy and I am online. It took 72 hours to connect me to the infobahn highway; minus the 36 hours it took me in the hospital doing my night duties.
I still have not been able to install my favourite Ubuntu on my new Lenovo laptop due to some quirk in not recognising the trackpad. I am at my wits end because the last time I had used it, it was absolutely flawless. I am forced to use Windows Vista which I am very keen to get rid off like an itch in my ass.
I shall get with the regular updates as and when I am able to have some iota of time at my disposal. Cheers and stick around for some exciting bitching of the first order!!
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wireless networking on ubuntu? :D good luck on that!
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