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Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Olympus E-P1 vs the Panasonic GH1
Olympus just released its Micro Four Thirds camera the Olympus E-P1. It was Panasonic which introduced this concept by doing away with the Prism, thereby reducing the size of the camera and now Olympus is following suit. Enough of technology, what does all this mean? This means that you can have a small camera with […]
8 Comments » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009
Amazon Kindle source code released
Amazon has released the source code for its e-book reader Kindle. And guess what it runs Linux. Have a look if you are interested in the source. Way to go Amazon!
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Routine check of drives
When I boot up my Ubuntu system, it often says Routine check of drives and takes forever to boot up. This is because the routine check is set to a number which is not very high if you don’t reboot often Which may be the case in a server but for a Desktop its an […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
Safe Browsing with Firefox and Netcraft Toolbar
I recently received a phishing email which was suppose to do all kinds of funny things. When I clicked on it, it got blocked and this is the message I got, thanks to the Netcraft Toolbar on Firefox.
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
Sixth Sense technology is coming
MIT Media labs is working on a Sixth Sense technology, amazing stuff. Check out this video.
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope download links
Jackalope is finally released in the wild. The best way to get it by torrent as the download mirrors are going to be busy. Torrent Link for CD releases: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope i386 (32-Bit). Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope AMD64 (64-Bit). Rest of the torrents if you are looking for other releases. Download Link. Please […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Wednesday, April 15th, 2009
Tired of spam SMSes ?
Whenever you avail of any service which sends you an SMS alert, be aware, there is nothing which prevents the service provide from using your number to spam you. They keep spamming you with all their new offerings even if you haven’t asked for it. This in in spite of subscribing for DND services. I […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Thursday, April 9th, 2009
Tata Indicom Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ on Ubuntu
Its been raining high speed internet in India. Tata, Reliance and BSNL have started offering 3G USB Data Cards which offer high speed internet. Tata and Reliance claim 3.1 MBps speeds while BSNL claims 7.2 Mbps. I have tested both Tata Indicom Photon+ and Reliance NetConnect Broadband+ on Ubuntu 8.10. I didn’t get much time […]
38 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Saturday, March 28th, 2009
Infosys to contribute to Open Source
The currently global economy seems to be getting better for Open Source. After enterprises adopting Open Source now software outsourcing Major says: “We won’t have as much work for all our employees right now, so we’re encouraging them to contribute to projects on open source and do more innovative work,” Nandan Nilekan, Co-Founder, Co-Chairman and […]
No Comments » - Posted in India,Linux by Prakash
Sunday, March 22nd, 2009
BJP commits support to open source
The BJP, India’s biggest opposition party has released its IT vision which states that they will use Open Source and follow Open Standards. They also plan to give 10 Million Laptops loaded with Linux and Open Source for Rs. 10,000 US$200. Their IT vision is very impressive and looks like its well thought out strategy […]
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
More patent related lawsuits from Microsoft
Simple business model: Make your product/technology popular. Let people start using and depending on it. Now extract money by suing them. Profit! This is exactly what is happening with Patents, its becoming a way to extract money. And Microsoft is using it to fight Linux.
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
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 […]
