There is no denying that the corporate work culture has a big impact on our off-office life. For example, if you are a SW development manager by profession, you automatically tend to map many of the things learnt in the office on to normal house activities – ‘Lets put a detailed requirements list for the [...]
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Switched to 1Mbps Airtel Unlimited DSL
When BSNL came up with the 2Mbps and 1Mbps plan, most of my friends who had Airtel 256Kbps line, jumped on to the BSNL bandwagon. I didn’t, for the simple reason that BSNL came with a data transfer limit! That is, only the first 1.25GB or so is free every month and after that you [...]
Site outage: How to handle?
I recently shifted out of my IIS setup in to a LAMP account. The site’s up time was much better, until yesterday, when suddenly my site was sucked in to the Internet black hole. Repeated help-desk queries pointed me to a routing issue in their end. Finally it got resolved after nearly 7 hours. If [...]
Yahoo!!! Demonoid tracker is up again…
Only yesterday I posted something regarding Demonoid. Today morning (IST), I was pleasantly surprised to see Demonoid’s tracker up and running. You know what it means?? I can finish off all of my 27 torrents that stopped when Demonoid went down now Yay!! It looks like, Demonoid is now hosted in Malaysia. Hmm…are Malaysian laws [...]
Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo!
Today Microsoft has made a proposal to buy Yahoo!. All the outstanding stocks sum up to a whooping amount of $4.4bn ($31/share). This is an amazing offer and if the deal goes through, Microsoft will get a good holding to take Google heads on. The news just popped up, I am sure before I hit [...]
Crazy online sites & Einstein!
Every mundane task of our daily lives has its presence in Internet nowadays. Online stores for all those super malls, movie review sites for the reviews in our morning news papers, online magazines of nearly every print magazine out there, the list goes on and on. This is good, in the sense, any one can [...]
How to use Windows Vista for more than 30 days?
There is a nice method posted by Ed Bott of Zdnet on extending the Vista’s trial period to 120 days (~4 months). I stumbled on this only recently, while seriously contemplating installing Vista ultimate in a Core2 Duo + 965GF combo. Nice trick, if you need more time to become comfortable with Vista before taking [...]
Management Gibberish
An effective way to stop managers talking! If you don’t see the image above, click here. Some more of my images are availale here. Link to this post!
Movies in Google Videos
One big downside of having an online Video uploading site like Youtube or Google Videos is that it provides a perfect platform for the Video pirates to upload and share their movies! When I searched for these videos an year ago, I found hardly one or two. But, recently I came across a post in [...]
Windows Beginner Developer Learning Center – Gr8 idea!
Microsoft has come up with a website totally dedicated to getting the programming newbies up and running (Of course, using MS technologies! :p ) BDLC covers both web and desktop applications. The best part is, it doesn’t assume any prior programming knowledge. I am pretty sure this is a great resource and is gonna boost [...]
