Archive for February, 2009
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Is patents leading to innovations?
Patents were designed to protect the innovator. But deals in the recent past prove otherwise. They are primarly used by the Big Boys to get money from the small guys or make them do things which actually prevents innovations. Read this article to get an understanding. This time, the lucky donor of cash for secrets […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
Thomas Edison said: Let there be light
Thomas Edison’s teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything.” He was fired from his first two jobs for being “non productive.” As an inventor, Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb. When a reporter asked, “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. […]
4 Comments » - Posted in Quotes by Prakash
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Fighter jet grounded due to Windows virus
French fighter planes were unable to take off after military computers which were running Windows were infected by a computer virus. France is a big user of Linux. The French police and the French Parliament is already using it, so now the military should also switch.
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Ubuntu vs Vista vs Windows 7
This is an interesting article comparing various features of Ubuntu with Vista and Windows 7. It covers the following: How long does each operating system take to install? How much disk space was used in the standard install? How long does boot up and shutdown take? How long does it take to copy files from […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, February 7th, 2009
IE lossing market share to Firefox
Internet Explorer has been loosing market share to Firefox. This is now old news but we now have stats to prove. Internet Explorer has lost more than 7% market share, it has gone from 74.80% to 67.55% market share. Note to Indian websites, can you now please make your web site work on Firefox? You […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General by Prakash
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Ext4 filesystem is here
Ext4 is here and it rocks! It a faster file system and expect it to show up in upcoming distros such as Ubuntu 9;04. Finally we have a file system that gives faster performance and is widely accepted. ReiserFS had good performance and I have used it in the past, but today is not been […]
2 Comments » - Posted in General,Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
Korea to Get 1Gbps broadband by 2012
While we are still struggling with a few Kbps speeds, which we call Broadband in India. Korea is already rolling out 1Gbps broadband by investing US$24 Billion. Most of the internet plans available in India, have a download limits of 1GB and speeds are 256/512Mbps.This defeats the whole purpose of having high speed internet when […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General,India by Prakash
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Review of LG Dynamite KP 199 mobile phone
LG has recently launched this mobile phone in India with a claimed battery life on 1 month (standby). I have been playing around with this phone and here is my take. This is a basic phone with a street price of Rs. 4175/- (US$ 85 Approx) Specifications LG KP199 Network GSMÂ Tri band (900/1800/1900) Form […]
7 Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
Seagate users, please read this
If your hard drive is seagate, then you may need to update the hardrive firmware. A firmware issue has been identified that affects a small number of Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 hard drive models which may result in data becoming inaccessible after a power-off/on operation. The affected products are Barracuda 7200.11, Barracuda ES.2 SATA, and DiamondMax […]
