Archive for June, 2006
Thursday, June 29th, 2006
Less than 2 percent of India’s developers contribute to open-source projects
From an Infoworld article. If Indian developers get more involved in open-source projects, they could do wonders for the country and the open-source community at large, according to Advani, of IndLinux.org. For now, however, the Indian developer is concerned with earning his “bread and butter,” he said. “They can only start thinking of making free […]
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Wednesday, June 28th, 2006
Open Source and India
Larry Augustin is the founder of VA Linux, one of the early Linux companies.. Here is his view on India’s contribution to Open Source. From the Article Perhaps his most interesting statements concerned the “threat” of competition from India and China. If they want traction in the software market they, too, need to give a […]
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Saturday, June 17th, 2006
TiddlyWiki – Personal Wiki tool
Wiki is a great way for multiple people to collaborate and work on documents. TiddlyWiki is a personal Wiki and is very easy to use. Here are some good features. – Doesn’t require any setup to be done. – Doesn’t require any hosting, anyone with a browser can use it. – Supports most of the […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Thursday, June 15th, 2006
Linux partitioning
People often ask me what is the best way to partition a PC used for a laptop/ home desktop or professional workstation for Linux. Here are some ideas on how you should do it. If you plan to dual boot, the first primary partition can be Windows – Fat 32, this makes the partition read-write […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Microsoft can’t clean its own Windows?
As per this article a windows PC was so badly infected with virues and spyware that Mr. Steve Ballmer and Microsoft’s top engineers couldn’t clean it!
