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 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...
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...
Read more →I hope you remember the young Indian security researchers Vipin Kumar (22) and Nitin Kumar (23), the TPM Boys They presented a Paper “Vboot Kit: Compromising Windows Vista Security” at Blackhat Europe – 2007. The talk explained the (different) booting...
Read more →Slashdot updated today that Billy Boy is no more the Richest man in the world. The position is, however, not official. The standard is Forbes list. Billy Boy has been surpassed by Carlos Slim, the Mexican Telecom tycoon. Bill’s current estimated wealth is $ 59.2 billion, while slims estimated wealth is $67.8 billion. Reasons:...
Read more →The Month of Search Engine Bugs by MustLive has come to an end. MutLive reports: In the project took part 33 search engines (30 web engines and 3 local engines) of 19 vendors, some vendors have several engines. The list of project’s participants (in order of appearance): Meta, Yahoo, HotBot, Gigablast, MSN, Clusty, Yandex,...
Read more →I realized that the title of this post has a contrast with my previous post, only after I wrote the topic. Thus, I feel that it is obligatory to mention that I am still Anti-M$. I still do not support there business model. Phew!…and yes. The contrast in the names is just a mere...
Read more →It’s strange writing something like this using a service that’s owned by Google. But it was long overdue. There was a time when I used address Google as “Google God” .Used to believe a lot that they religiously follow their “Do no Evil” motto. I forgot that as companies grow, there are bound to...
Read more →I have been reading a lot of discussion on Sun’s current market position/revenue versus their *mad* strategy. I have simultaneously been working on Java’s history for my book. I thought it might be interesting to post my views on the topic and see what others are thinking. To justify/criticize Sun’s current modus operandi, I...
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...
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...
Read more →This is one crazy video. Though I have my own differences, but I loved. Simply loved it
Read more →I captured this “masterpiece” from Wiley’s site from this link a few moments ago. Look at the contrasting words: “Windows XP” “Dummies” & “Best Selling” >:) …….And I thought that the number of geeks is on an increase. Well, Microsoft proved me wrong. I should have already guessed this from the amount of crap...
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