Archive for March, 2004
Tuesday, March 16th, 2004
Checking for devices supported under Linux
Before buying any USB device you can check if your device is supported on Linux. Found this site quite useful and information is nicely classified.
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Friday, March 12th, 2004
Corruption: the root causes
Striking the roots of Corruption is important. – There is no Accountability. If a person’s car or a citizen gets hurt because the road are not proper, no one is held responsible. If the citizen walking on th road who is being affected or the car owner who has paid road tax, can hold the […]
No Comments » - Posted in General,India by Prakash
Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
OPEN SOURCE SOLUTIONS: Opportunities Abound
From DQ Channels India: The experts in this domain suggest the best way to begin offering solutions on Linux is to take up edge-of-network projects. These include setting up mail, proxy or web server, putting up firewall and intrusion detection systems in place. “That’s how we started and today we have evolved to a stage […]
No Comments » - Posted in In the News by Prakash
Wednesday, March 10th, 2004
10% of PC costs goes towards Windows
Wall Street Journal had an interesting article. It says: Excluding labor and shipping, and leaving out the costs of a monitor, keyboard or mouse, the typical desktop PC these days costs the Dells or the H-Ps of the world roughly $437 in parts. The biggest portion of that — 30%, or $134 — goes to […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Monday, March 1st, 2004
Microsoft releases Office 2003 Hindi
From Computer Reseller News: Prakash Advani, senior VP, Netcore Consulting, and Venkatesh Hariharan, both co-founders of Indlinux.Org, an Indian language GNU/Linux initiative, said, “This is an endorsement of the large market which exists for local language solutions. We believe major customer for this product will be those government and public sector units, which have bilingual […]
