N97 Maps?

The post at guardian claims that maps from Nokia don't work. I have an E90 and have been using maps for quite some time. They keep getting better with every new upgrade to phone OS. Though, I miss a couple of features from good old initial days in maps (easiness to mark a landmark on map is no longer there) but the quality and accuracy of these maps is awesome, even in India. Perhaps the author didn't know how to load maps using Nokia Map Loader...

I have use the maps, GPS navigation and voice guidance in USA as well as India on E90 and it has worked extremely well. The fact that maps are stored on phone memory (or in SD card, in my case) means that it is much faster to load (about 1 sec). GPS has worked very well and latest release has added location positioning from telcos towers while GPS signal is still being acquired to give a better initial experience.

Not to say that there isn't room for improvement, but I find it much better than various other options I have seen for its size.

I wish there was a video out on E90...

Fairytale...

Kamran Khan story is very interesting and shows that if you have got dedication, you can overcome the odds. It shows that there are always opportunities, even in a country like India, for a dedicated sportsman. Wish him further rise and would like to see him play in national team.

I also think, apart from auction of players, there should be a performance linked pay which is same for all players. It was disheartening to see Kamran getting 16,000 GBP while Flintoff went for 1.5 million USD.

Videsh: Heaven on Earth: Torture

This is one movie that I regret watching... pure waste of time... It is not in imdb yet otherwise I would have voted it 1/10.

Fedora 10 Basic Up and Running

I was able to install Fedora 10 using USB boot and it has been successfully update to include latest updates as well as openoffice... next step, testing out hardware compatibilities for my use...

My Tryst with Windows Vista

Well, today, my tryst with windows vista ends, for now...

Finally, I have managed to corrupt the partition table of my HP laptop's hard disk (that's what it looks like to me). The recovery option on boot up (F11) is not working. HP does not give recovery CDs so that means that I have reached the point of no return...

It all started with I bought this laptop about 10 months back. Vista didn't impress me at all. Given that I had successfully managed to install x86_64 on my earlier laptop that was perhaps first to be shipped with Anthlon-64 way back in 2004, I decided to give this laptop dual boot the day I bought it :). I like linux enough to start on this route... anyway, that meant shrinking windows partition and as someone who tried shinking partitions on vista would know already, windows does not give up space as easily. It kept occupying huge space unreasonably that could otherwise be freed. Anyway, I managed a near perfect install of Fedora 9 and got everything working including my TV and my Music System from it... but it was too good to last...

Vista never worked without problems, occasional freezing issues that became too frequent and its refusal to upgrade to SP1. Finally I upgraded to SP1 that lasted for few good days and problems came back... Today, I decided, enough is enough and decided to delete vista partition from hard disk and recreated a smaller one and thought that HP recovery partition would reinstall in that... but that was not to be...

So, today, I'm downloading Fedora 10 now and with a complete reformat of HDD, going one way... I have forgetten some tweaks so I thought let's use blog to keep track... so here is an effort...