The web that time forgot

Microsoft gets so much crap from folks for the BSOD, but Apple seems to have the same problem in the form of the SBBOD. Iam seeing it so frequently these days. :(

Kiva. A very interesting idea which has a huge potential.

Renesys blogs the timeline of yesterday's Youtube domain hijack.

First interaction with KDE4

After installing KDE 4.0, this is exactly what I felt! Looks like one needs to wait multiple releases before moving towards KDE4.Luckily Hardy Heron will have both KDE3.5 and KDE4 flavours to chose from.

VMWare images to a few linux distros. The torrent download is pretty fast too!

I love these laptop designs. Hope they will get to market soon with affordable prices.

Noticed two folks flaunting their unlocked iPhones at office today. Looked pretty cool. But not sure whether I want to own one!

No power to the people. An excellent column on the current state of affairs.

GTAC 2007

These are videos from the Google Test Automation Conference 2007 held at Newyork. If you are interested in participating in the related mailing list, you can subscribe here.

I felt strongly about the sentence handed out to Sanjay Dutt, and wanted to make a post about it. But Acorn has made a nice post on it with exactly the same points I wanted to convey, but in a much better manner than what i could have done! :)

Was browsing through yatra.com, when this job requisition caught my attention.

Come On! Screen scraping is hardly a skillset! :)

Google Local for India

In case you haven't checked this out yet, try Google Local for India. For example, this search for restaurants near Banjara Hills, Hyderabad or restaurants near Lavelle Road in Bangalore gives me a list of results for restaurants along with their contact info.

Sivaji

Watched Sivaji. Rajini is brilliant at times, but mostly just an average movie. Interestingly it looks like there has been a great response here in Hyderabad for the Tamil version of the movie (Mostly all the Tamil movies are dubbed into telugu before it reaches Hyderabad). Prasads, where the tamil movie is showing just increased the number of daily shows for the tamil version of the movie from 1 to 2.

Never Use a Warning When you Mean Undo.

Peter Norvig on the future of search

This is an interesting idea. Now you can buy O'Reilly e-books one chapter at a time.

Mizpee :)

Tata Indicom Data Card on Ubuntu

Got my Tata Indicom data (which is basically a Huawei E321) card to work my laptop running Ubuntu Edgy. It was fairly straightforward process, with ubuntu automatically doing most of the work. :)

1. After inserting the card, the modem got detected at /dev/ttyUSB0.
2. Ran

sudo wvdialconf

and it setup the default configuration
3. The I edited the /etc/wvdial.conf file to setup the Phone number, Username and password.

Phone = #777
Password = internet
Username = internet

4. Now run sudo wvdial R and that's it. After a series of debug messages, you should be connected to the internet.

Now I still need to figure how to get the signal strength of the network Iam in.

Awesome Video