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Sunday, October 26th, 2008
Improving Ubuntu update speed
My friend Arun Khan told about this great way to improve the download speed of packages and updates for Ubuntu users. Start Synpatic, go to Settings-Repositories. Under Ubuntu Software tab, there is “Download from:” and next to that it will say Main Server/Server for India/etc. Click on that and select other. Now on the right […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Fastest photo backup solution
Hyperdrive has the fastest photo backup solution. Just remove the memory card from your camera, pop it in and it will copy your photos to the hard drive inside. In short its a portable hardrive with a built-in memory card reader. You can even view your photos on the LCD screen. Read more.
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Photography by Prakash
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
Open Source business model
The 451 Group has released a survey which says that Open Source is not a business model. As per the survey most of the companies doing open source have a hint of proprietary software. This is done to create a reason for customer to pay. Why would a customer pay if he/she is getting everything […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
Photokina: Panasonic Lumix G1 is revolutionary
Panasonic announced the Lumix G1 at Photokina. I had the opportunity to have a look and it looks very promising. What Panasonic has done, is redesigned an SLR and removed the Prism, the image falls directly on the sensor, like a point and shoot. Some key advantages: Reduces the complexity and therefore should give better […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Photography by Prakash
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Canon’s new 450D is Interesting
If you haven’t already seen this, and are looking for an SLR, check the Canon 450D. Here is whats new. 12 Mega Pixel. Live View (what you see is what you get). Olympus was the first to have this but finally Canon has caught up. SD Card Support (Earlier Canon SLRs were CF, this is […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Photography by Prakash
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
Linux Foundation launches killer development tool
For ISVs that are writing Linux applications, the Linux foundation has launhed a killer development tools. Some of the highlights of Linux Application Checker (AppChecker): Its open source It checks .rpm, .deb, tar.gz and tar.bz2 files. Checks the application for LSB compliance. And check against all the Linux distribution. So you can check if your […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Friday, August 8th, 2008
Lenovo X200 ultra portable 12.1″
Lenovo Which has good Linux compatibility and good reliable product has released the Lenovo X200 with 12.1″ display. This is similar to the popular Lenovo X61 except that it has the new Intel Centrino 2 processor which improves battery life significantly. (you can get up to 9 hours! of battery life). It also has the […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals by Prakash
Monday, August 4th, 2008
Foxconn fixes the famous Linux bug
Foxconn has quickly fixed the famous Linux bug found in their BIOS which was causing Linux to crash. Here is the update from the Foxconn team. Thank you foxconn.
No Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Indira Gandhi ‘s Quote on working
“There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.” -Â Indira Gandhi
No Comments » - Posted in India,Quotes by Prakash
Monday, July 28th, 2008
Security challenges with Virtualisation
Interesting quote: “You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can’t write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes.” — Theo de Raadt (OpenBSD) God bless the Windows sysadmins 🙂
4 Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Sunday, July 27th, 2008
Foxconn deliberately sabotaging their BIOS to destroy Linux?
If you are planning on buying a motherboard to run Linux, beware. Before you choose Foxconn, do check with them about this. From their article it implies that their BIOS is having code that will work perfectly fine with Windows but will crash Linux. Read more on Digg.
1 Comment » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Firefox 3 is here.
Still running Firefox 2? Or worse still running IE? Time to check out the latest browser Firefox 3. Download here. Read more about the new features. Still not sure ? See the download stats updated in realtime! Its a new world record of 8 million downloads within the first 24 hours!
No Comments » - Posted in General,Linux by Prakash
Monday, June 16th, 2008
Linux Kernel Stats
Here are some 2007-2008 statistics on the Linux Kernel from Greg KH’s presentation. Linux Kernel: 9.2 Million lines of code. Increases by 10% each year. Te core kernel is 5 percent of the code, device drivers is approximately 55 percent and the balance is architecture, networking etc. 4500 lines added. 1800 removed and 1500 modified […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Linux by Prakash
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
Location information for your photos
Saw this interesting product at Computex 2008: PhotoTrack This is a GPS device that stores location information. You just carry it with when you travel and then use the software which add the location information to your photos. It does this based on time syncronisation. It works with Flickr and works with all digital cameras. […]
No Comments » - Posted in Gadgets and Deals,Photography by Prakash
Sunday, May 18th, 2008
Is cancer curable?
As per various articles, cancer can not only cured but prevented by consuming Vitamin B17. Cancer is caused due to the deficiency of Vitamin B17. Test done on cancer patients has proven this. Also cultures such as the Navajo Indians, the Hunzakuts the Abkhazians have never had a reported case of cancer! And their diet […]
10 Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Forbes: 53% believe India will have the most billionaires by 2017
After announcing the number of billionaires from India. Forbes recently did a vote count and found that 53 percent believe that India will have most billionaires by 2017 than any other country. Over 13,000 people voted and more people are voting. Go ahead and cast your vote or see the list. I just did mine […]
1 Comment » - Posted in General,India by Prakash
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Upgraded to WordPress 2.5
I recently upgraded to WordPress 2.5.1. Looking at the features, I was really tempted to upgrade to 2.5 but decided to wait until the .1 release. 2.5.1 fixes a lot of the bugs which were reported. The upgrade was very smooth, and retained all my widgets, ads, layouts (which was something that used to get […]
No Comments » - Posted in General by Prakash
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
Forbes: Four Indians among the top ten billionaires
As pre recent study published by Forbes, 4 Indians were among the top billionaires in the world, more than any other country in the world! Lakshmi Mittal -Â World Rank 4 Mukesh Ambani – World Rank 5 Anil Ambani -Â Â Â Â Â World Rank 6 Kushal Pal Singh – World Rank 8 If only the Ambani brothers […]
1 Comment » - Posted in India by Prakash
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Albert Einstein Quote
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.†-Albert Einstein
No Comments » - Posted in Quotes by Prakash
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy torrent download links
The much awaited Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy is finally released. Go ahead and download using your favourate bittorrent client. Torrent links for Ubuntu. Torrent is the most efficient way to download as it doesn’t depend on the infrastructure of the central server and each download PC also becomes a host. If you don’t already have […]
