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 time.
@Randy Pausch: Rest In [...]
I spent the first half of the day at SecurCamp -1 (or Security Barcamp). It always great to get together with the community and today was no different. It came a sweet surprise to me that I have quite a few acquaintances in the community. The best part of the whole day, however, was getting [...]
Slashdot is supposed to be a respectable (news) portal for geeks and nerds. It’s punch line says News for nerds, Stuff that matters. I must admit that there was a time when I used to start my day with Slashdot, trying not to miss even a single news. That phase, however, is over. The two [...]
January 31, 2008 – 5:34 pm
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.
December 22, 2007 – 7:27 pm
1. Life & Code
(The title of this section is taken from Johnny’s blog of the same name, Life and Code. Although my implementation of the phrase isn’t in terms with Johnny’s, yet I could resist using it. )
Life: Three days ago I found that there are some strange entries in my local Apache web [...]
December 20, 2007 – 3:14 pm
Update: Kishor reports a flaw in the implementation of “private” videos feature on Orkut. Although I am at office and I haven’t checked it yet myself, I believe I can trust him, based on his posts at Slackers. Nice one Kishor.
1. YAWN [Yet Another Worm, Nanny]
Orkut (Google’s MySpace and Facebook for Indian, Pakistan [...]
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August 21, 2007 – 5:38 pm
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:
As [...]
August 11, 2007 – 1:31 am
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 very [...]
I hope you remember the young Indian security researchers Vipin Kumar (22) and Nitin Kumar (23), the TPM Boys [I guess, that's the way they call themselves. At least their blog confirms that. ]They presented a Paper “Vboot Kit: Compromising Windows Vista Security” at Blackhat Europe - 2007.
The talk explained the (different) booting process [...]
The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end.
MutLive reports:
In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex, Yandex.Server (local engine), [...]