Archive for September, 2003
Friday, September 26th, 2003
My Dream PC
A friend recently asked me what would be my Dream PC, so here are some thoughts. – All hardware should be Linux compatible. – CPU should be preferable AMD Athlon 64 (64-Bit) or Intel P4 Hyper Threading. – 800 FSB along with DDR 400 Memory. – Display card should be Nvidia high end graphic card. […]
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003
Broad Band
I recently got a Hathway Cable Internet at home. Its 64 K, definitely faster than the Dial-up that I used to use before but not very fast. I get a maximum download speed of 7 K. Incidentally it works faster on Linux, I wonder why but its good 🙂
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Monday, September 22nd, 2003
Email Attachments – Did you ever forget to attach?
I often find, people (including me) forget to attach files in their emails. This happens if you think you will first finish writing the email and then attach at the end. Invariably you forget to do do that before you hit the send button. Your reflex action is trained to hit the send button after […]
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Thursday, September 18th, 2003
My article in Economic Times today
My article titled ‘Better features, and cheaper too’ got published in Economic Times today. The article is to urge people to move to Open Office and Mozilla on Windows as the first step. The next step of course is to replace the underlying OS with Linux 🙂
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2003
How rich are you?
www.globalrichlist.com is a site where you input your annual income in US$ and it tells you how rich you as compared to the rest of the world. After seeing the results, I have less reasons to crib 🙂
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Saturday, September 13th, 2003
Proud of being an Indian
A friend of mine, sent me this. The number of companies listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange, at more than 6,000, is second only to NYSE. Four out of 10 Silicon Valley startups are run by Indians. With 800 movies per year, India’s film industry overshadows Hollywood. The organised lottery market in India is US$7bn […]
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Monday, September 1st, 2003
Interview with Morphix founder
I enjoyed playing with Knoppix and now I have installed it on my hard disk. Its my desktop now both at home and office. I also liked Morphix since it offers more flexibility to build your own Knoppix like CD. I recently interviewed the founder of Morphix for Newsforge.
