Monthly Archives: February 2005

safaribooks

At work, we get complete access to the online safari bookshelf. The number of titles present there on technical and management subjects  is mind boggling. Plus, every week atleast 20 books get added to the list. I have been adding all the good ones to my bookmarks, but never get time to read any ..
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http://www.fortune.com/fortune/bing/0,15704,1025804,00.html?cnn=yes
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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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