Randy Pausch, fondly known as the Last Lecture Guy, is no more. If you have not heard of him, I suggest you watch his “last lecture”. A summary of the lecture and Randy Pausch’s life can be read here. p.s.: @Johnny: Thanks for updating me. @Slashdot-ters: Thanks for not making stupid and mean remarks this [...]
Read more →Taken from Joy of Tech On a personal note, you did change the world Billy Boy. Hope you do the same again. p.s. BTW, Joy Of Tech guys are good. Subscribe to them if you like a laugh once in a while.
Read more →I have a special likeness for T-Shirt with quotes. More Geeky the quote, more geekier… I mean better. I got this T-Shirt made for myself a couple of days ago. I case you didn’t get, it’s a mockery of the crippled iPhone. Oh by the way, this is my first post on the new blog, [...]
Read more →Those were the days when I used to be a Apple fan. aah.. the harsh reality that they produce nothing more than crippled products at sky-high prices. Moreover, Apple isn’t just about cut-throat business. It’s also about making people feel bad about themselves. Don’t trust me? See here yourself.
Read more →Update: I somehow managed to make a blunder. A part of slide no. 12 was taken from David Kierznowski’s (of GNUCitizen and Blogsecurity group) presentation for OWASP Belgium Conf. I missed out on mentioning David’s name is the credits. Apologies David. I’ve updated and re-uploaded it. Yesterday, I presented my first Webinar (Seminar on Web). [...]
Read more →I am not sure if anyone is aware of it or not, so kindly spare me if it’s not NEW in the sense I wish to convey. (Or may b, you didn’t discover it the way I did) For no particular reason, I visited the windows update page today (using IE7) and got this message: [...]
Read more →No Yahoo! hasn’t changed it’s name to Insane!. It’s just their behavior that has gone insane. If you’ve been a member of some online group for quite some time, chances are that the group is on Yahoo! Groups. Same with me. This story is concerned with my college batch online egroup. Yahoo! groups has a [...]
Read more →Update 1: I was unable to configure MySQL. Reason: It was installed in C:\(blah-blah) and , probably, do not have write rights in the directory. Installing it to D:\(bigBlah) solved the issue. Duh! Update 2: I see a fairly good traffic coming here searching for the same problem. So, in case you are in a hurry, [...]
Read more →Arpit had a joint post on the probable revealation of FSJ (Fake Steve Jobs), along with the info on Exif Data revealations of the Harry Potter book images. Anyways, the new news is that FSJ has been busted for real. It’s work of a New York Times reporter Brad Stone. The FSJ is Daniel Lyons, [...]
Read more →I realized that the title of this post has a contrast with my previous post, only after I wrote the topic. Thus, I feel that it is obligatory to mention that I am still Anti-M$. I still do not support there business model. Phew!…and yes. The contrast in the names is just a mere coincidence. [...]
Read more →Disclaimer: The post may give you a notion that the author has surpassed all the heights of patheticism; which actually is sort of true Have I ever posted that I am a *crazy* person?Probably a number of times.This post is another proof; which I am shamelessly sharing with a hope that my *unconscious* realizes the [...]
Read more →I posted a very small article on Google Bombs; and quite co-incidentally few days later read that Google has started diffusing the bombs. Now “started diffusing…” makes sense when it has to be done manually, but aren’t we talking about terabytes and petabytes of data? We can never expect it to be done manually. Moreover, [...]
Read more →I stay back in the office during night and return back at around 6-7 am, when everybody is coming . These nights are supposed to be LONELY as I am the only one in the building (actually in all the four buildings combined), apart from the security guards and office boys, of course. However, I’ve [...]
Read more →Q. Where do you think will you find an amazingly crafted code that would give priority to a Screensaver over a Keyboard/Mouse interrupt? No Kidding. Think. Ans. If you guessed it to be an Operating System designed by the Redmond Giant, you are stupid. It’s not something to be guessed.I just posted to let you [...]
Read more →I was returning back to my room at around 6:30 in the morning after spending the whole night, as usual, in office. Suddenly this though struck me. I always talk about codes and related stuff and ask people to map their algorithms to real life while coding, especially in OOP languages. I asked myself, what [...]
Read more →I don’t intend to post any review of the vista. There are some neatly written essays on the topics by experts, like this one. I was going through the article and stumbled on this page, which has the picture given below. What happened was due merely due to fast glance and my mouse cursor covering [...]
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