Archive for October, 2004
Wednesday, October 27th, 2004
Freedom from Ads
I have been using Mozilla Firefox for a while now, its a great browser and blocks all the unwanted popups. I now don’t even see any of the ads, most of them are distracting and also consume bandwidth. Once you have Firefox, install the adblocking code and see the difference.
2 Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Tuesday, October 26th, 2004
Cornell University has a study comparing LCD Monitors vs. CRT. The productivity of a person is higher when using LCD monitors.
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Monday, October 25th, 2004
How Microsoft Screwed-up
In an interview with Check Point’s CEO. Why do you think it’s been so challenging for Microsoft to get its arms around security? My view, as a technologist, is very simple. Go back 20 years or so, in terms of the operating system. There were Unix and VMS. Unix was extremely simple, extremely powerful and […]
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Friday, October 15th, 2004
Using Linux to build a home Security System
I have been thinking of how to put Linux to more use at home. Currently its been used as a Desktop and does everything that a typical Desktop is suppose to do but can it do more? It can be used for home security too. Here is an article which explains how to do that. […]
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Thursday, October 7th, 2004
Clayton Christensen on Disruptive Innovation
Dr. Clayton Christensen, a Harvard Business School professor in an Interview: A disruptive innovation brings to market a product not as good as the products in the current market, and so it cannot be sold to the mainstream customers. But it is simple and it is more affordable. It takes root in an undemanding portion […]
