Mycroblog- Simplifying Saral March 18, 2010Why does the FM (as in the ministry, not just the man) need to make simplifications to the Saral form almost every year ? Why not get some design experts, and get it done with in one shot ? Someone from google should help these guys ! […]
- A free guide to Google Wave March 18, 2010A free guide to Google Wave: This free guide to Google Wave is a great starting point for understanding how to leverage the power of the new platform. In addition, it’s free, and will be updated regularly as more features are added in wave. […]
- Short ebook on software pricing March 18, 2010Short ebook on software pricing: Neil Davidson has come up with a great guide to software pricing, which also covers the basic microeconomics therories on demand-supply curves, etc. Good read. […]
- "Dear Facebook,
I do NOT want to
* Poke someone
* Right on someone’s wall
* Send a message to..." March 18, 2010“Dear Facebook, I do NOT want to * Poke someone * Right on someone’s wall * Send a message to someone * Reconnect with someone I am already connected to * Suggest a profile picture for a needy * Help make facebook better for someone by sending a message So please stop suggesting these irritating activities which you recently started suggesting !” […]
- "If tumblr is a microblogging site, why isn’t the page load time on its site in..." March 18, 2010“If tumblr is a microblogging site, why isn’t the page load time on its site in microseconds ? Takes more time for a new-post page to appear than the time it takes to write a post !” […]
- Simplifying Saral March 18, 2010
Monthly Archives: February 2005
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kachagolar sandesh
A colleague at office brought some kachagola sandesh from kolkata. Generally I’m not too sentimental about “home made stuff” (in that I do not crave it as much as others do, but love eating it nevertheless). However, this time it was really nice .. maybe because its been a long time since I’ve had “real” [...]
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Fountainhead
I bought the Ayn Rand masterpiece, The Fountainhead, yesterday. I had hoped to read it at a leisurely pace, over a period of a week or so. (Un)fortunately, I completed it in a day (3 hours last night 7 hours non stop today). And that without skimming too much over the monologues present therein.
As expected, [...]
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Great shockwave animations
http://www.neave.com/lab/misc/imagination.html
Other goodies at http://www.neave.com/lab/
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SHA-1 Hashing Algo broken !
SHA-1 is the hashing algorithm used for signing digital content. It basically takes a data stream, does oodles of computations on it, and comes up with a “unique” fingerprint that is much shorter. This can be used to sign your mail (pgp), files, whatever ..
A team of researches have found a way to find [...]
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Great flash animation
Someone posted this link to a flash animation. It is great !
Disclaimer : Keep headphones on !
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the loveliest keyboard ever
Being able to use this keyboard would be a dream come true ..
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Setting up VNC with ssh port forwarding
I tried to set up tightvnc with ssh port forwarding
Steps
1. Remote machine : Run VNC Server , Note down the display number
For eg – server name remoteserv, display :20
2. local machine :
ssh -N -T -L 5901:localhost:5920 remoteserv
Here, -T : No tty (Optional)
-N : No Shell (Optional)
-L : <local port>:<local machine>:<remote port>
-C : compression [...]
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CCIE : The hottest exam around
http://certcities.com/editorial/features/story.asp?EditorialsID=85
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An experience with Lasik
A (what seems to be)* nice 1st person report on LASIK surgery. The comments following it are informative, too.
* Havent read the whole stuff
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