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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Hyundai i10

Now first thank you Hyundai for launching the i10 first in India. In fact the car is also completely designed in India and manufactured too. What this means is that the customer in India gets a world class product. Whats good: Looks good, better than most hatchbacks in the same category. Its a 1.1 engine […]

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Monday, April 7th, 2008

Firefox reaches 18 percent of corporate desktops

After hitting the 500 million download milestone, here is another feather in the cap for Firefox. Mozilla Firefox’s share of the enterprise desktop market has reached 18 percent, according to a new Forrester report. Read more.

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Friday, April 4th, 2008

Sometimes its better not to ask

Interesting quote from Michael Dell in his book Direct from Dell. “Sometimes it better not to ask-or to listen-when people tell you something can’t be done. I didn’t ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.”

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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008

India Second Largest Mobile Market?

India is soon going to be the second largest mobile market in the world ahead of the United States. Currently India has 250 million mobile subscribers as per last count and will be 300 million by end of April 2008. US has 260 million and China is at 550 million. Way to go! Read More.

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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Best Practices for moving to desktop Linux

There are a lot of good reasons for moving to Linux on the desktop, primary amongst them that is is more secure, it doesn’t have the virus problems that Windows has and of course you can save tons of money on licenses.For the IT department, once a Linux system is set up, it is very […]

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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Quote from Warren Buffets in a CNBC Interview

“The HAPPIEST people DONOT necessarily have the BEST of all. They simply APPRECIATE what they find on their way.”

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Friday, February 29th, 2008

EeePC giving Sony sleepless night?

What happens when a relatively small company launches a low cost notebook? A device that doesn’t do everything but does all the basic computing: email,browsing and wordprocessing and is available at half the cost! From this article: Sony: “If (the Eee PC from) Asus starts to do well, we are all in trouble.” You better […]

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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Firefox 500 Million Celebration

The excellent Mozilla Firefox browser now had more than 500 million downloads! Thats excellent news and is perhaps the most popular open source application even more than Linux! Join the celebrations: In honor of the 500 million download mark we’re celebrating by raising 500,000,000 grains of rice in one day to help feed the world’s […]

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Sunday, February 24th, 2008

German scholar Max Mueller on India

“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.” Max Mueller, German scholar.

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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

HP Photosmart C4388 wireless printing/scanning on Ubuntu Linux 7.10

HP Photosmart C4388 – Multifunction Device – Printer/Scanner/Copier Configuring this with wireless printing and scanning Ubuntu Linux 7.10 Whats good about this printer: Wireless Printing: So your printer/scanner need not to be physically connected to the PC/Laptop and can be anywhere on the Network. Memory Card Reader: Remove your memory card from your digital camera, […]

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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Robert Frost Quote

Like this one: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

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Monday, February 11th, 2008

Declutter Your Mind

Nice article: 15 Ways to Declutter your mind.

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Sunday, January 20th, 2008

Life’s like that

From Robert Kyosaki’s book: Rich Dad Poor Dad. Found it very inspiring: Most of the time , life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, “Wake up. There’s something I want you to learn.” If you learn life’s lesson, you will do well. If not, […]

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Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Quick Way to STOP Negative Thoughts

“What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?” Read this very good article.

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Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Chinese Ambassador on India

“India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever having to send a single soldier across her border.” Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

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Friday, January 11th, 2008

iPhone Review

<!– @page { size: 21cm 29.7cm; margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } When was the last time you dated a woman who was nice and sexy and at the same time intelligent too? Welcome to the iPhone. Steve Jobs magic is working. The iPhone is not only a sexy phone but extremely intelligent. […]

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Thursday, January 10th, 2008

1 Lakh Rupees ($2500) Car

Tata has gone where no other car company has gone before. They have release the cheapest car in the World. This car has huge potential to provide basic automobile to the 3rd world countries at an affordable cost. Vital Stats: Engine: The three cylinder 624 cc four stroke petrol to develop 33 bhp. Mileage: 50 […]

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Tuesday, January 8th, 2008

The Kernel gurus

When men were men and wrote their own device drivers – Linus Torvalds Here are all the photos of the men 🙂 Kernel Summit 2007 group photo

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Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Funny Wikipedia cartoon

For all those who rely on Wikipedia for all their information 🙂 See more.

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Saturday, January 5th, 2008

50 Best Ubuntu Open Source Applications For Design And Developing

Excellent collection of Open Source applications for design applications. Read More

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