Roaches have attacked the toner in laser printers .. or so some judges claim! however the infrastructure team claim that they have found yet another effective way of dealing with them.. the heat and the laser killing the roaches!? Now how weird is that. Check it out here What’s next, the spider that weaves a web that disconnects the US and Asia and disrupts outsourcing ?! ;) (touch wood)
Wordpress is a nice small CMS written entirely using php and mysql! It makes using blogger, MT and other such services entirely useless!! If you have a website and would like to manage your website effectively go for this!! I’m planning to switch to it in the near future! I’m working on choosing a nice skin and customising it for my site! Do check back soon! *Update 13-Nov-2009* You shouldn’t be here if you are looking for me. Well, considering that you are reading this, I’ve messed up somehow. You can find my latest ramblings at http://blog.shiv.me, or if you are the micro-blogging kind, head over to http://twitter.com/shiva or http://facebook.com/shivanand. ...
The latest update to gaim is out! These guys are churning in version after version .. nice and kewl… 1.3.0 is more of a bug fix release .. not many features version 1.3.0 (5/10/2005): * Removed parts of the font selection dialog that were not respected * Fix being invited to a multi user chat on MSN * Multiple SILC accounts should work now (Pekka Riikonen) * Fix times on jabber chat backlogs * Fix gevolution plugin to compile with e-d-s 1.0 or 1.2 * Fix gevolution plugin to remember buddy name when someone added you and you then add them * Formatting in jabber chats works * Fix to prevent MSN disconnecting if you change status while connecting * Fixes for two remotely exploitable crash bugs. See http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ for more information. ...
Well I confess, I’m a tool fanatic . Before you get werid ideas let me tell you that what I mean is that I like to use small, efficient utilities, that help me get my work done quickly. I have been on a perpetual hunt for THE best utility for almost all tasks. A lot of my colleagues and friends seem to share this fascination for “those quick little things”. So here is a list of some that I use quite regularly. ...
A one stop shop for all your google needs! http://www.google.com/downloads/ These guys are doing awesome stuff aren’t they?! What’s next? a self-aware OS?
Yup, been a very long time since I blogged!! but I am back again! **Thanks to my fellow util-seeker Sudhin for this bit of news ** Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion. Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange. Based on Adob ’s and Macromedia’s closing prices on Friday April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock. ...
Free ebooks are available for download from Apress. A Programmer’s Introduction to PHP 4.0 Dissecting a C# Application: Inside SharpDevelop Writing Perl Modules for CPAN Programming VB .NET: A Guide For Experienced Programmers COM and .NET Interoperability NJoy!
Started reading “Illusions” by Richard Bach. Often, I feel, that a book comes in your life, when you are ready for it. It presents itself, in ways you never would have imagined. I have heard of this book for the last 10 years. There has been a sopy at my parent’s place (where I stayed for the better part of the last 10 years) and it never occured to me, to pick that small book (of about 200 odd pages) and give it a read. ...
FIR of a virus on a phone! A very warm welcome to the world of computing! Soon we will need antiviral software running on our phones all the time and that would mean that your phones will get more processing power. If phones take the way PCs have, the day when we will have a phone with a huge Pentium or whatever processor and tons of RAM won’t be too far away. ...
What a lousy feeling it is, when you hold shares of a company, whose customer you have been for more than 2 years and have paid everyone of the bills in time, and when you have an issue, you are brushed under the carpet!That’s what happened to me today. I have been with Airtel (cell phone service provider in Chennai, India - for the uninitiated ;)) for the last two years. I had an automatic debit facility enabled. In January, the credit card I had enabled the auto-debit facility on expired. Airtel, promptly disabled the facility and disconnected my service asking me to call customer support. Well, I tried to do just that, but you know what?, the call to customer-care wouldn’t go through coz they disconnected me!! Wonderful! ...