Prakash Advani's Blog

This is something that I have been saying for a while “Kodak isn’t going anywhere”. I read an article on Wired which re-iterates that. Recently when I bought a digital camera, I didn’t even consider a Kodak. My older Film camera also gives me better results with a Fuji Film.

Being an old economy company, its too focused on Film Roll where they have a near monopoly, they need to re-invent itself as a digital camera company by producing better cameras. Or they should focus on providing Digital Camera related accessories such as Memory, prints, web site, etc.

This Site has a nice list of Linux equivalents for common Windows applications. The only problem is for each Windows application there are average 5 Linux applications to choose from!

How do you expect a newbie to decide which one he/she should choose?

Express computer has quoted me in this Article

Says Prakash Advani, senior vice president, Netcore Solutions, “Novell has a strong presence in the Indian market. Many top organisations are still using Novell NetWare somewhere in the organisation. Since Novell already has a foot in the door (a server in the organisation) running these services, the company can not only offer a migration path but also other services that they were not providing earlier.”

Finally I have a Spam free (nearly) mailbox. I tried this utility DisSpam. What this does is as follows.

- It connects to a pop mailbox.
- Checks for spam emails by comparing with Spam Assassin (the best spam control tool).
- Deletes the spam mail from the server.
- Then you start your mail client and download only the clean messages.

To increase the effectiveness you can also train spamassassin in case it didn’t identified some mails as spam.

I also use another tool: popcheck which shows all your email header and lets you delete directly from the server.

I came across this article – Why Bother with a Digital Camera?

I had similar thinking while deciding on buying a Digital Camera and I am still not completely convinces about the costs.

The cost of buying a new digital camera is more than my photography bill for 10 years! So cost isn’t really a good argument, yes convenience is, specially if you need to publish the photos on a Web site quickly or need to email them.

I have been screaming that since a long time but finally there is a good article that explains this well.

I recently purchased a Canon Digital Camera SD100 online. It was really simple, here are some links which others may find useful.

Site to check prices:

Pricegrabber.com
Cnet-Shopper
Pricewatch.com

some of these sites have reviews too, the end customer reviewers very quite helpful and accurate.

Happy Shopping