http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog Sun, 20 Dec 2009 09:57:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought I would test Windows 7 on my old Toshiba M105 laptop but I was surprised to find out that Windows 7 did not install my audio driver automatically. The motherboard contains a Realtek ALC861 chip and so I started to look for the drivers. It turns out that Toshiba ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2009/12/20/toshiba-m105-realtek-audio-driver-for-windows-7/ The Jgroups manual describes the procedure for using application level multicast at http://www.jgroups.org/manual/html/user-advanced.htmlHowever, after banging my head against it for a couple of days, I still could not get the nodes to detect the gossipRouter. After inspecting it with wireshark, I realized that the nodes were not even sending the ping ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2009/11/16/jgroups-28x-and-gossiprouter/ Ever since I set up my other laptop with ubuntu 9.10, things have been kinda weird with it. My initial work was to get started with some testing work on JGroups and so I set up eclipse and got started on the project. To my surprise, eclipse was behaving really ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2009/11/16/eclipse-and-ubuntu-910/ Astronomically, Black Holes are heavenly bodies with mass so high, that they are capable of creating a gravitational field so strong that even light cannot escape it. Thus it is very difficult to observe black holes coz anything that goes towards them, is sucked into them forever. In my life, I ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/06/19/the-concept-of-black-holes/ This is the first of the multi-part article series describing the various options available for every module required in developing your own Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. The article is not for beginners, therefore, commonly used terms are not explained in the text. The article aims are intermediate to expert level designers looking for ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/05/04/making-your-own-uav-part-1-inertial-management-units/ The technical and the economic world is buzzing with the news of Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo! at $31/share amounting to a total of $44.6 billion. The following was the letter sent by Steve Ballmer  January 31, 2008                Board of Directors         Yahoo! Inc.         701 First ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/02/02/yahoo-and-microsoft-or-microhoo/ Until a few weeks ago, I was under the impression that 80.11n standard is currently in draft when a friend of mine pointed out that his MacBook supports 802.11n. This got me thinking over 802.11n and how can a device be available for supporting a standard that is not finalized. ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/01/17/80211n-the-standard/ Here are some of the sites that I would recommend for any information regarding CSS The W3C writes the code we use. W3C Site Guide CSS1 CSS1 errata CSS2 CSS2 errata XHTML 1.0 XHTML 1.0 errata How To Read W3C Specs SelectORacle translates CSS2 and CSS3 Mailing List CSS-Discuss Others to be mentioned A List Apart Evolt Digital-Web CodeBitch WaSP Validation W3C Markup Validator W3C Link Checker W3C CSS Validator W3C CSS Validator ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/01/14/css-link-repository-i/ If you put up some photos of paintings or certificates or any personal stuff on the internet, at some point someone is going to use those photos without your permission. You may feel that your stuff is 'stolen', but there isnt much that you can do in order to protect ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/01/12/protecing-your-images-on-the-web/ A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network of mobile routers (and associated hosts) connected by wireless links—the union of which form an arbitrary topology. The routers are free to move randomly and organize themselves arbitrarily; thus, the network's wireless topology may change rapidly and unpredictably. MANETs are usually ... http://ankurkhetrapal.com/blog/2008/01/05/mobile-ad-hoc-networks-manets/