Feeling: chipper(Warning: A lot of links in this post. Proceed at the peril of your own time. Or someone else’s if that rocks your boat ) So I finished Jingo, book 21 of the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. It’s my 3rd book in from the series in 2 weeks (Pyramids and Unseen Academicals. I am [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Computers'
My Terry Pratchett Obsession, Reading and TV
April 4th, 2010 5 Comments
Tags: big-bang-theory · Books · comedy · Comics · Devanshi · Discworld · fantasy · Humour · ipad · Jingo · nerd · Obsession · rachel-mcadams · Terry-Pratchett · the-time-travellers-wife · the-yiddishi-policemens -union · Unseen Academicals
Success = Monopoly = Antitrust? Why the MS antitrust case is just wrong
June 22nd, 2009 5 Comments
I came across an interesting article which articulates much of my own thoughts on the entire Microsoft Internet Explorer antitrust saga. The article on a blog JCXP which I came across for the first time. The blog seems to be by MS fanboys supporters is calling for a boycott of Opera Soft, makers of the [...]
Tags: anti-trust · IE · internet explorer · ipod · itunes · law · legal · microsoft · monopoly · opera · windows
Book Review: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers
August 1st, 2008 4 Comments
Feeling: sleepyRemember your high school computer theory class? References to the “ancient” (in computer innovation time) machines which utilized vacuum tubes, drum memories, ferrite rings? Remember ENIAC, UNIVAC, EDVAC etc? If these terms bring back nostalgic memories of your high school computer course and the thoughts imagining what these machines looked like, then Core Memory is [...]
Tags: book · Computers · core memory · edvac · eniac · history · imac · pc · photographs · Photography · Review · univac · vacuum tube · z3
Random Number Generator
November 21st, 2007 3 Comments
Feeling: tired Listening to: Iron Maiden – Can I Play With Madness- I found this article quite a good take on the US Presidential race. What will it take for politicians to be more honest and actually work for a country and it’s people rather than amassing money or power. I think politicians are the worst scumbags on [...]
Tags: devegowda · macbook · macbook-pro · politicians · Politics · quote · read · sleep · Work · write
GPL is too restrictive
June 3rd, 2007 3 Comments
Feeling: discontent Listening to: Bob Dylan – Like a rolling stoneI want to base a theme on Sandbox but unfortunately it is based on GPL which I think is too restrictive. I would rather have it in LGPL/MIT/AFL (Even MPL) instead which are more open and non-restrictive. Sigh.. I’ll have to look for another theme though I doubt [...]
Tags: afl · bsd · dual-licensing · lgpl · licensing · mpl · plaintxt · Rambler · sandbox · WP
Google Analytics Invite
May 12th, 2006 7 Comments
I have about 2, maybe 3 Google Analytics invite code available. I had signed up with a couple of email id’s since I wanted to try it out desperately at the time. Having got one a few weeks back, I got a few more yesterday which I have no use for. So I can hand [...]
Tags: analytics · google · google-analytics · invitation · invite
Microsoft purchasing part of Yahoo?
May 3rd, 2006 2 Comments
Feeling: pensive Listening to: Creed – HigherCan and is Microsoft planning purchase a part of Yahoo!? Cnn Money seems to think so. Everyone knows that Microsoft is running scared of Google‘s advancement in search and online advertising marketshare and the way it has leaped clear over everyone else. Microsoft’s own search engine, MSN is lagging quite a bit [...]
Tags: decade · gmail · google · hotmail · marketshare · microsoft · msn · online_advertising · partnership · rival · running_scared · search_engine
Desicritics
April 13th, 2006 1 Comment
Feeling: sleepy Listening to: The Rasmus – In The ShadowsThere is a blog I’ve recently started following, called Desicritics which is a part of a blog network called Blogcritics. The Desicritics blog consists of a huge bunch of writers who write almost daily on a wide range of topics related mainly to India and south east Asia. But [...]
Tags: blog · blog_network · fun · India · limelight · multitude · south_east_asia · succinct