Network Configuration

Today again I went with my boyfriend to the training centre. There I learnt to configure network on Windows. My boyfriend showed me for one computer and I configured the remaining ones. I assigned static IP address.
NetGear drivers weren’t installed in two of the computers, so I installed it . There were two computers which weren’t detecting PCI cards, which aren’t on network yet. We sent ping request from one computer to another. It worked except one – Linux server.
And also I downloaded three dosbox games (puzzle games).

Windows XP on VirtualBox

My exams are approaching, I’ve computer exams this time. So, today I installed VirtualBox on my blackcutie (PC). And then installed Windows XP on it. The configuration of this is 512MB RAM and virtual hard drive image (created only c drive) 7.97GB.
It took me about 30minutes to complete the installation. But MS-Office didn’t come by default in windows as Open Office came in Linux. Now who will give me Ms-Office?

Windows installation

Today I accompanied my boyfriend on a project for a new training centre to help as well as to learn windows installation.
There we connected brand new Dell LCD monitors (I wish I had one of it) and peripherals and then installed Windows XP home edition. Always I had a fear to connect PS/2 keyboard and mouse to its sockets as its pins are delicate and prone to bending. But he taught me how to connect it. And now I feel its one of the easiest parts to connect. Today I had a new problem i.e; with monitor power socket. As it was LCD monitor (that too not mine) and have to be very careful while handling it. So, I wasn’t able to see the pins. I connected only three monitors, I dont know how I did that (may be due to fear of my boyfriend).
Also I learned to add new NetGear Wi-Fi card in PCI slot and installed the drivers. But I missed doing Ghost copy from hard disk to hard disk. Thats ok coz I learnt other things and I am very much satisfied. Waiting for Monday to learn Ghosting.

Inkscape Drawings

I have started learning Inkscape from ‘Inkscape: Guide to a Vector Drawing Program’. Now I am practising Chapter 2 – Quick Start.

This is my first drawing. At present I am drawing ‘A Can of Soup – A Three-Dimension Drawing with Gradient’. Drew one side of the can and facing problem with the second one as I am having trouble joining two nodes on the left side. So stuck with that one.
Having little difficulties while drawing, might be coz am new to this. Before this I have never tried such things i.e. drawing coz nothing strikes my mind. Thats why after completing drawing (even if its simple) I feel as if I am on the top of the world and of course proud of myself.

NVIDIA drivers troubles me

At last I got Kubuntu7.10 64-bit cd. Installed it & partitioned the same way as I did while installing Kubuntu7.04cd.
I like Mario type games so downloaded SuperTux game. I eagerly waited for completion so that I can open and start playing SuperTux game, at the time of downloading. Downloading was successfully done. I opened the game and went to options and clicked OpenGL and started the game. The game was very slow, so installed NVIDIA graphics drivers. After installation I went back to the game and to my shock it wasn’t opening.
Then I tried to start through terminal and it was showing an error supertux: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory. I opened Adept Manager and installed libGL1-mesa-dev and reinstalled libGL1-mesa-dri & libGL1-mesa-glx. But of no use. Reinstalled the game and it was showing the same error.
I lost my game and not even played a single game.