Archive for May, 2003
Friday, May 30th, 2003
Salam to Kalam!
In a recent speach which Sir APJ Abdul Kalam, President of India, gave while inaugurating International Institute of Information Technology, in Pune. He said: “Think different I would like to narrate an event that took place in Rashtrapati Bhavan a few months back when I met Bill Gates, the CEO of Microsoft. While walking in […]
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Friday, May 23rd, 2003
A relatively unknown History of Bombay
Bombay, now know as Mumbai, was a cluster of 7 Islands more than a 150 years ago. Then Mumbai was not beyond Mahim and neither was the western surburbs, where most of the population (including me) lives today. There was no bridge to connect Mahim with Sion. The cost of building this was estimated to […]
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
Happy Birthday Ethernet
Exactly 30 years ago on this day, Ethernet Was born and 31 years ago I was. Thank you Bob Metcalfe for giving us this wonderful technology which connect most of us today. Ethernet was inferior to other technologies such as Token Ring at that time but became sucessful because it was an open standard. Bob […]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2003
Don’t let your life be ruled by Microsoft
Microsoft has developed an Operating System which powers the BMW Cars. And this is what happens when you drive cars powered by Microsoft Software. Govt. Official Trapped in Car After Computer Fails Mon May 12, 2003 07:08 AM ET BANGKOK (Reuters) – Security guards smashed their way into an official limousine with sledgehammers on Monday […]
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Saturday, May 17th, 2003
Maid just lost her job?
I ready today on Slashdot about the Electrolux Robot Vacuum Cleaner. This is a cordless battery powered device that goes around and vacuum cleans the house. If its battery gets discharged, then it finds the charger and charges itself and resumes the cleaning. Sounds like a pretty good idea and despite its limitations someday it […]
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Friday, May 16th, 2003
Interesting Facts
A duck’s quack doesn’t echo, and no one knows why. Elephants are the only animals that can’t jump. It’s possible to lead a cow upstairs … but not downstairs. Women blink nearly twice as much as men. It’s physically impossible for you to lick your elbow. The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an […]
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2003
AMD Vs. Intel
Some interesting numbers from the processor market. ” In the past 16 years, AMD has had eight profitable years and eight in the red. Total net earnings since the end of 1986, including acquisitions and sell-offs, comes to around $350 million, about the same as Intel earns in six weeks.” Read the Full article on […]
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Monday, May 12th, 2003
SPAM – The Killer Application
Spam is the killer application since it kills your mail box by flooding it. If you publish your email address then you get so many unsolicited emails that you won’t be able to distinquish your geniune emails from junk. If you don’t publish, then people won’t know how to contact you. One of my mail […]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2003
Knoppix: My current Linux Distribution
I have been using Knoppix as my primary Linux distribution since a month now. I think its the best distribution I have used and highly recommended for a newbie since it can be run from a CD as well installed on the hard disk. I also wrote an article on Knoppix installation tips. This covers […]
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Tuesday, May 6th, 2003
Mark Twain’s quote
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain Mark Twain on India Mark Twain’s Quote on […]
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Monday, May 5th, 2003
SCO is trying to derail Linux
Recently SCO has been accusing Unix code being copied into Linux. AT&T has the license to Unix, which was acquired by Novell and transformed into UnixWare, which was then acquired by SCO and then SCO was aquired by Caldera (a Linux vendor) which was later renamed back as SCO. NOw it appears that people are […]
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Monday, May 5th, 2003
Computers get a Hindi face
From Express Computer article: Prakash Advani, co-founder of IndLinux.org said that the organisation has been working on localising the GNU/Linux operating system to Hindi for the last three years. Localisation involves changing the menus and other elements of the graphic user interface from English to Hindi. “Hindi is the third largest language in the world, […]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2003
AMD’s 64-Bit strategy
Soon after the worldwide launch, AMD Opteron was Launched in India on April 30, 2003. I was invited for that. After attending the presentations, I think AMD has a solid 64-Bit strategy. They plan to launch Athlon-64 in September which would the the first 64-Bit processor for the desktop. Opteron outperformed all the 32-Bit as […]
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Saturday, May 3rd, 2003
My first Blog entry
I finally I have a blog 🙂 Lots of friends, colleagues and business contacts have been asking if I have a blog and I have been saying NO! Finally I decided to have a blog! Wish me Happy Blogging!!
