Prakash Advani's Blog

Want to move up in life quicker? Linux is the answer.

Read this article:  Leveraging Linux to sell yourself.

I have always found Mark Twains quote highly motivating.. and this one is a nice one.

The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.

- Mark Twain

Happy Reading.

Mark Twain on India

Mark Twain’s quote

Meditation is the art of silencing the mind. When the mind is silent, concentration is increased and we experience inner peace in the midst of worldly turmoil. This elusive inner peace is what attracts so many people to meditation and is a quality everyone can benefit from.

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Meditation in the Work Space

Microsoft Windows Vista is collecting all kinds of data from your computer and sending it to back Microsoft. Is anyone concern about their privacy? Read this article.

What common between high traffic Web 2.0 sites such as: Digg, Flickr, YouTube and Wikipedia? They all run Linux.

Read more and get the script if you want to verify this on your own.

Want an Pen Drive, SD Card, Mini SD, Micro SD? All in one. Ideal for people wanting to switch memory between cameras/cellphones and other devices that adheres to the SD standard.

Buy at Amazon.

Whats lacking in the $600 iPhone, which even a $50 phone has?

1. MMS.
2. Video recording.
3. Custom ringtones.
4. Mass storage.
5. Fully functioning Bluetooth with stereo audio streaming.
6. Voice dialing when you’re using a car kit.
7. Sending contact info to other people.
8. Instant messaging.
9. Sending an SMS to more than one recipient at a time.

Read more on why wait to buy the iPhone.

iPhone Review

I have been using RSS Feeds for a long time now to collate all the news that I like to read. If you are still trying to figure out what RSS means, read this wonderful article. Once you start using RSS to read your daily dose of news and articles, I am can bet you will get hooked on.

My favorite RSS reader is bloglines.com , check it out.

If you want to know when my blog is update, here is the link for my Blogs RSS feed. (You need to add this to your RSS reader)

http://cityblogger.com/feed

15 Great open source project to watch.

10. Nokia 8800

9. Helio Ocean

8. Sony Ericsson W880i

7. Motorola MOTOROKR Z6

6. KDDI au Media Skin

5. Helio Kickflip

4. LG Shine

3. KDDI Penck

2. LG Prada

And number one.. is .. no prizes for guessing this one!

1. Apple iPhone

Read More at Fosfor.

Linux is already running on cellphones, laptops, desktops, servers, mainframes and even super computers! And Now  …

NASA  tests Linux for spacecraft control

Way to go!

OpenMoko is an Linux based phone which is like iPhone but half the cost. This is expected to be launched in October and is going to be fully open. In fact its also going to come with a screw driver!

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Pentax has announced an upgrade to it popular K100D, the K100D Super. This is a good feature rich, inexpensive SLR.

Apart from the usual bells and whistles of the K100D, it also has:

• ISO sensitivity up to 3200
• SDM (Supersonic Drive Motor) lens support
• Dust Removal system borrowed from the K10D

Read more at DPReview.

Expected Price US$600

Express Computer article has covered my presentation at Technology Sabha 2007.

Research carried out across web sites shows Linux/Apache has less downtime and yields faster websites than Microsoft/IIS. Something we always knew and the reason why Linux is the Number 1 operating system for the Web but now data to support that.

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MovableType (also know as just MT) used to be the leading blogging software. It was very good, source code was available but wasn’t in an open source license.

When I wanted to setup a blog, everyone said use MovableType. I asked if there was anything that was under Open Source, and my friend told me there is WordPress, not as good but under GPL.

At that time the difference between WordPress and MovableType was huge. MovableType was this hugely popular blogging tool, while WordPress didn’t even had 10% of the features.

I decided to go with WordPress, even thought it didn’t have everything that I needed. I had a belief that the very fact that its open source, people will improve it and it will get better over time.

Today WordPress is hugely popular and considered to be the best and hardly anyone talks about MovableType anymore. This has now compelled Movable Type to go open source. Is that too late? Better late than never! Lets see how this goes, but for now I think WordPress rules and will continue to do so for a long time to come.