Prakash Advani's Blog

A friend was looking at buying a 24″ LCD. After some reserch, I suggested to him to go for 22″LCD since that was half the price and just 2″ less. Here are some good deals

You can get an Acer for US$ 300 while a Viewsonic sells for US$350.

Specs are similar:

• Screen Size: 22″ WSXGA
• Resolution: 1680 x 1050
• Response time: 5ms

Someone recommended thats its worth spending the extra $50 and getting the viewsonic!

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* AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology ml-34 processor (1.8GHz)
* Genuine Windows XP Media Center
* 512MB DDR SDRAM
* 80GB hard drive
* Double-layer DVD?R/RW Super Multi drive with LightScribe
* 17″ WXGA+ high-definition widescreen display (BrightView)
* ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics
* 54g 802.11b/g wireless LAN
* 6-in-1 digital media card reader
* Remote, headphones
* ExpressCard/54 slot
* QuickPlay buttons
* Windows Vista Capable
* One-year limited warranty

Go get it!

Buy.com is offering Iomega Limited Edition 320GB USB 2.0 External Hard Drive for only US$109. This is a good deal.

Shipping is free.

You can also search for Buy.com coupons through google and save additional US$5.

Deal ends September 29, 2006.

Note: I had difficulty in getting buy.com to accept my international visa credit card and deliver to a US address.

Cons: This doesn’t have eSATA.

The new external drives have eSATA (external SATA) port which is 3 times faster than USB 2.0 provided your PC has a eSATA port, which is a simple connector with cable that connects to the SATA port on the motherboard.

My friend Harsh suggested that since I track lots of gadgets and their prices, I should put them up. So here I start this section.

If you thought that good games were only available for Windows, think again. Not only there are some great games for Linux but they are completely free at no cost and with the source code!.

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Top 10 Free Linux Games

Have fun.

For those who are still struggling with Windows Here is a list of 46 Freeware Utilitites to make your life simple.

Interesting article about digg.com:

Cheatsheet: What is Digg?

I have been following slashdot.org for a while and recently came across digg. I find digg to be having more articles of interest to me.

From an article in The Telegraph about the launch of SUSE Linux Enteprise Desktop 10

“We are confident that with Desktop 10, we will give Microsoft a run for its money,” averred Prakash Advani, Novell’s practice head for the subcontinent.

From the article on Eweek, open source tools are on the top. Some open source ones in the list.

PHP
Perl
Ruby and Ruby on Rails
Python

Happy coding

Often people have doubt if Linux can manage mission critical applications. Beoing is going to run their Aircraft Networking equipment! Now what could be more mission critical?

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And in another related news: NASA testing Linux robots which is going to explore the surface of Moon and Mars!

Nice Article .

Interesting blog post.

Linux has always been better than Windows is many ways.. one of them being that Linux doesn’t need to be defragged.

Read this excellent article to know why.

I am tempted to write an article on 101 reasons why Linux is better If I get enough inputs for this.. I would go ahead and write this.

From Network World article.:

All these companies business model is to open source their software and charge for services.

Open Source companies to watch:

Cleversafe – Grid file system.

Digium – Open Source PBX – Asterix.

Hyperic – Platform for managing heterogeneous IT environments.

Optaros – Helping enterprises choose open source solutions.

Qlusters – System management platform.

rPath – Preconfigured, pretested application appliances that can be downloaded and deployed by enterprise users in minutes.

WSO2 – Tungsten, an Apache-based open source application server built from the ground up to handle Web services.

Sahana – Sri Lanka-based nonprofit committed to promoting open source software development.

Zenoss – Network and systems-monitoring software.

Zmanda – AMANDA backup utility software.