Everything and anything under the sun related to silicon ;-)
Everyone loves to hate Microsoft. It is one of the favorite pastimes of Linux Geeks and users alike. I have done it and I accept it. Microsoft Windows the most popular operating system ever is also one of the most vulnerable. I have hated it when it did not something I wanted but behaved much like a cat doing it’s own thing.
However, I came across this interesting post which looks at Microsoft from a totally different perspective. Why it _might_ be targeted by virus writers, hacker et all. A pretty good read if only for light reading.
The article can be found here
I am pissed. Though not sure who to be pissed at. Thunderbird (My email client), Gmail, or my ISP. It’s been 3 days since I started having email problems. I use only pop3 email accounts cos I hate web-mail.
This is a very interesting which shows users how to run a very barebones instance of Microsoft Windows operting system. You run with only two services. But you can still surf the internet and do some other stuff.
Now I gotta try and see if I can play games on it. With most of my system memory available entirely for the game ;-)
The article is available here
Mark’s Sysinternals Blog: Running Windows with No Services
Anyone who is or has been a gamer will agree with quite a few of the points in this article. I was literally agreeing in my head to some of the points. But some of the points are quite in-the-future wishes. Am not sure if they actually are possible on the current hardware..It is to be seen when it happens cos it sure will :-D
This is how a bad day turns to the worse. :mad:
Most of today was pretty good with me sitting at home and whiling away my time. But around mid-afternoon my friend calls me up and tells me that our project reports were supposed to be signed by our HOD yesterday and he is not signing those which were not submitted yesterday.
But we had no option since our guide in the company was out of station and so could not sign it without which we could not submit it.
An evening with Googles Marissa Mayer (alan.blog-city.com)
Very interesting information about google’s thought process and continuing evolution to become the No. 1. Interesting read and comments.
The project report is done. There might be a wee bit left here and there, will know tomorrow. But besides that, I just completed the final draft of the report. Whee….
The presentation is being done by the others. I hope it will be completed by tom so we can be done with going to the company. Tomorrow will most likely be the last day of our little trip to UGSI :wink:
Ah well.. It was fun while it lasted. A long lasting memory for all of us I am sure :-)
But first, Morning I had our draft report submission. We were not completely ready as one of the guys who was supposed to complete the report index (You would not now how long an index a 100 page report can make:wink: ) never mailed it to us and was ex-communicando in the morning. So we went in for the submission without that.
Now once we were in college, there was someone else giving a demo of their project so we had to wait a pretty much long time. And gawd… was it hot. I was getting frustrated having to wait there in the heat. Well we finally got a system with a cd-rom drive and got the lecturer to sit with us long enough to explain the report. It was sorta fun. We BSed quite a bit but managed to convince him that our project was quite cool :-D
Now all we need is the external guide’s approval and we are home free literally.
Then we all waited in the college just chatting before everyone decided to leave.
Thus speaketh