Open Source Movie!!
Sunday, August 14th, 2005 Posted in NewAge, Progress, Technical | No Comments »"You can help us realizing this project by purchasing the DVD of the movie in advance. The DVDs will include the movie in high quality widescreen, making-of documentaries and all production files. And even better, all orders before September 1 ...
Random Event
Monday, August 8th, 2005 Posted in General, Social, Technical, Technology | 1 Comment »Clean Pipe - Prolexic Technologies - Defense against DDoS?
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »Prolexic Clean Pipe The Prolexic Intrusion Prevention Network (IPN) is a multi-million-dollar, four facility, global network designed specifically to protect Prolexic customers from DDoS attacks. Prolexic's Clean Pipe offers the most advanced DDoS protection available in the world. We have incorporated ...
unlock an audiovox 5600 for free
Thursday, August 4th, 2005 Posted in Mobile | No Comments »I didn't know you could do this, but seems like you can unlock an Audiovox SMT 5600 for free. Don't know if the same thing works for SPV C500. I don't need to find out. Am already unlocked.
Welcome to India
Monday, August 1st, 2005 Posted in Miscellaneous, Technical | No Comments »Heavy rains and flooding in Mumbai, India has damaged the .IN Registry's Name Servers. This has hampered DNS propagation, with the result that your Customers' .IN domain names might not resolve to their websites for the time being. Can you beat ...
Ruby - a pure OO programming language
Sunday, June 5th, 2005 Posted in General, Technical | No Comments »This seems to be a very very interesting programming language. Will give it a try soon. Should be fun.
Don’t Repeat Yourself
Sunday, June 5th, 2005 Posted in General, Ideas, Technical, Technology, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks | No Comments »(Don't Repeat Yourself. Don't Repeat Yourself.) Context: Duplication (inadvertent or purposeful) can lead to maintenance nightmares, poor factoring, and logical contradictions. Duplication, and the strong possibility of eventual contradiction, can arise anywhere: in architecture, requirements, code, or documentation. The effects can range from ...
Applied the Orange French ROM update
Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 Posted in Mobile, Technical, Tutorials, Tips & Tricks | No Comments »After much pain and deliberation, the "keeda" in me made me run the French update on the Orange UK phone. Ofcourse, it can't be done directly, so had to downlod ths tool called Typhoon, changed the Header, reclaculted hash, and went ...
Lappy Bag
Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 Posted in Bought, General, Gumption, Mobile, Technical | 3 Comments »Wanted something small. something compact. and most importantly, something that could let me use the lappy without requiring me to remove the lappy from it. This bag is an exact fit for my lappyhas enough room for the adaptor, mouse ...
ASCII Ribbon Campaign
Friday, January 14th, 2005 Posted in General, Netiquette, Technical, Web | No Comments »Join the ASCII Ribbon Campaign Say No to HTML Mails
Broadband in Andhra Pradesh - Aksh bags Rs 400cr broadband project
Tuesday, January 4th, 2005 Posted in General, NewAge, Technical, Web | No Comments »A consortium led by Gurgaon-based Aksh Broadband Limited has been selected to implement the Rs 400-crore Andhra Pradesh broadband project, which aims at extending broadband services to each and every village of the state in the next two years. The ...
Canadian Laws on Multimedia sharing / copying
Monday, December 27th, 2004 Posted in General, NewAge, Privacy, Technical | No Comments »Read this for the Canadian laws on File Sharing. They are very pro-consumer and extremely sensible. Take a look. Copying music is not illegal as long as it is for Personal use. That's the spirit.
Privacy’s random answer
Wednesday, December 1st, 2004 Posted in Privacy, Technical, Web | No Comments »Big Blue is experimenting with an idea for customer databases called data randomization. The technique will, conceivably, preserve consumer privacy by masking data such as income, age, past purchases or medical information through mathematical calculations that can't be unwound. For ...
FTP Error Codes Explained
Saturday, November 27th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »FTP Error Codes Explained An important and handy resource
Gmail has started allowing POP access
Sunday, November 14th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | 1 Comment »Gmail Gets Off its Web Perch In a very significant development, Google has allowed POP access to email stored on the server. I am gonna try it out. Dunno where the ads will be placed. But it's interesting.
Mobile data revenue to surge
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004 Posted in General, Mobile, Technical | No Comments »A new study by Research and Markets expects the market for mobile data to grow dramatically from $16.7 billion USD in 2003 to nearly $78 billion USD in 2007. The majority of that revenue will go not to the content ...
OQO handtop just around the bend
Tuesday, October 5th, 2004 Posted in Buy Me This, Mobile, Technical | 2 Comments »http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/5374.html OQO confirms its Windows XP-powered handtop, the OQO 01, is slated to go on sale on October 14th, featuring a WVGA touch screen, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, 20 GB of storage - and more. Buy me this!
Spread Firefox - Igniting the web
Wednesday, September 15th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »Please help Mozilla Firefox meet the 1 million download benchmark. Spread Firefox - Igniting the web Its a new preview release.
Shakespeare in quarto: view the British Library’s digital copies online
Saturday, September 11th, 2004 Posted in Technical, Web | No Comments »Shakespeare in quarto: view the British Library's digital copies online Very interesting
Following The Signs To A Job At Google
Friday, September 10th, 2004 Posted in General, Technical, Web | No Comments »Interesting article about how google ads only reach the target audience while the others don't even realize it's an ad for recruitment. Following The Signs To A Job At Google
