Prakash Advani's Blog

I have been using Mozilla Firefox for a while now, its a great browser and blocks all the unwanted popups.

I now don’t even see any of the ads, most of them are distracting and also consume bandwidth.

Once you have Firefox, install the adblocking code and see the difference.

Cornell University has a study comparing LCD Monitors vs. CRT.

The productivity of a person is higher when using LCD monitors.

In an interview with Check Point’s CEO.

Why do you think it’s been so challenging for Microsoft to get its arms around security?

My view, as a technologist, is very simple. Go back 20 years or so, in terms of the operating system. There were Unix and VMS. Unix was extremely simple, extremely powerful and easy to master. You could have gone to the Unix kernel and made changes and introduced new applications. Every Unix programmer knew all the APIs (application user interfaces), because they were very simple.

The VMS approach was the opposite. Everything you wanted to do was available there. It was very, very powerful but extremely complicated. Everything was a big bureaucracy. For everything you wanted to do, you needed to read 50 pages or 100 pages of manuals to learn how to do it. Microsoft historically picked the VMS approach. It actually hired the same guy who was in charge of VMS development.

I have been thinking of how to put Linux to more use at home. Currently its been used as a Desktop and does everything that a typical Desktop is suppose to do but can it do more?

It can be used for home security too. Here is an article which explains how to do that.

I wonder if it would be possible to do this much cheaper using cheaper Non-IP based cameras.

Dr. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor in an Interview:
A disruptive innovation brings to market a product not as good as the products in the current market, and so it cannot be sold to the mainstream customers. But it is simple and it is more affordable. It takes root in an undemanding portion of the market, then improves from that simple beginning to intercept with the needs of customers in the mainstream later.