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“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

-Albert Einstein

The much awaited Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy is finally released. Go ahead and download using your favourate bittorrent client.

Torrent links for Ubuntu.

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Now first thank you Hyundai for launching the i10 first in India. In fact the car is also completely designed in India and manufactured too. What this means is that the customer in India gets a world class product.

Whats good:

Looks good, better than most hatchbacks in the same category.

Its a 1.1 engine which it shares with the Santro and the Getz Prime 1.1.

It has tubeless tyres. Now its easy to get tubeless types repaired and they are convenient so you don’t get stuck in the middle of the highway with a flat tyre.

Option of sunroof, not much use when its hot, but some people fancy it.

Motor Driven Power Steering, better than Santros Hydraulic Power Steering.

Tilt Steering: You can adjust the steering wheel. A boon for tall/well built people.

Good driver legroom.

High scores on safety:

Option for ABS and airbags.

Whats Not good:
Front seat headrests are not adjustable.

No high seating like the Santro, which is a boon to people with knee problems.

Safety features: Airbags and ABS are optional, why not make them standard?

Now the car didn’t take away all the awards just like that? It was the Car of the Year of most of the Auto magazines in India. Its likely to replace the Santro at some point of time but Santro buyers/users need not worry. From what I have heard, the sales of Santro is very good today and is not likely to be discontinued anytime soon.

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After hitting the 500 million download milestone, here is another feather in the cap for Firefox.

Mozilla Firefox’s share of the enterprise desktop market has reached 18 percent, according to a new Forrester report.

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Interesting quote from Michael Dell in his book Direct from Dell.

“Sometimes it better not to ask-or to listen-when people tell you something can’t be done. I didn’t ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.”

India is soon going to be the second largest mobile market in the world ahead of the United States.

Currently India has 250 million mobile subscribers as per last count and will be 300 million by end of April 2008.

US has 260 million and China is at 550 million.

Way to go!

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