tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244068890616123522011-11-28T06:39:26.631+05:30(an'-a-po'-do-ton) Gk. "without the main clause (apodosis)." A figure in which a main clause is suggested by the introduction of a subordinate clause, but that main clause never occurs. You are warned!!! ;-)ssskhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16205452515589680616noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-424406889061612352.post-36955123261081372492008-05-19T22:20:00.002+05:302008-05-19T22:26:04.429+05:30

Britain's Prime Minister understands the internet and the power it brings to the masses. So also do the Chinese :-)

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Over the last few days, several mergers and acquisitions took place. HP buying EDS was the hot news.But more interesting than that are the mergers happening in the internet media world, which IMHO is a pointer that the industry needs consolidation big time.CBS bought CNET Networks, Condé Nast bought Ars Technica, Vodafone bought a Social Networking Startup - ZYB.Particularly interesting is the

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Was Microsoft really interested in buying Yahoo! ?Did Jerry Yang do the right thing by rebuffing Ballmer ?Will the Yahoo! investors remain quiet even after losing out on the deal ?Does Microsoft realise they could/can never integrate Yahoo into their own ?Would the merger have been a good thing for Zimbra users ?Did Microsoft lose out on it's only chance of becoming a contributor to Open Source ?

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I was the keynote speaker at a local opensource fest. Here are the slides I'd prepared for the same. [odp][ppt]BTW, the video which may miss out is this one:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

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Collecting thoughts.

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Back after a long hibernation!!Of late, lots of websites have started asking users to register on their websites even to view content or comment on other's writeups.Though understandable, too many signups are an annoyance of course. Especially when they start spamming our inboxes. I happened to discover a couple of neat tricks that could help privacy freaks/lazy people like myself.A well known

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Microsoft pulled out it's stinking "getthefacts" campaign and replaced it with the equally ridiculous compare campaign. They needed to get back attention to their campaign. It was almost dying, and what best than a redesign and a rename ??But, while they were touting their supposed superiority over Linux, the crashing of their WGA programme gave a hint as to where Windows stands in comparision or

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Continuing our triumphs and tribulations with Zimbra, sometimes we encounter issues that defy the general rules of the game. In many such cases, we've found solutions on blogs or the zimbra forum.But here's one issue that I couldn't find anywhere on the net. It might help you if you are running zimbra and encounter this issue ;-)When clients try to send emails through Zimbra (SMTP Relay) using

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ಅಮೇರಿಕದಲ್ಲಿ ಸೀನಿದರೆ ಪ್ರಪಂಚದ ಮಿಕ್ಕೆಲ್ಲಾ ಕಡೆ ಜ್ವರ ಬರುವುದು ಹೊಸ ವಿಷಯವೇನಲ್ಲ. ಆದರೂ ಈ ಬಾರಿ ಬೇರೆ ಬೇರೆ ಕಡೆಯೂ ಛಳಿ ಜ್ವರ ಕಾಣಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುತ್ತಿದೆ. ಕಳೆದ ವಾರ ಅಮೇರಿಕದ ಒಂದು "ಹೆಡ್ಜ್ ಫಂಡ್" ತನ್ನಲ್ಲಿ ಇರಿಸಿದ್ದ ಮೊತ್ತವನ್ನೆಲ್ಲಾ ಕಳೆದುಕೊಂಡ ವಿಷಯ ಹೊರ ಬರುತ್ತಲೇ ಭಾರತ ಸಮೇತ ಸುಮಾರು ದೇಶಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಶೇರುಮಾರುಕಟ್ಟೆ ಬಿತ್ತು. ಇಂದು ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನ ಪ್ರತಿಷ್ಠಿತ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕೊಂದು ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಅಮೇರಿಕದ "ಸಬ್ ಪ್ರೈಮ್ ಮೋರ್ಟ್ಗೇಜ್" ಸಾಲಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹೂಡಿದ್ದ ಹಣವೆಲ್ಲಾ ಮಂಗಮಾಯ ಎಂಬ ಸುದ್ದಿ

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A perfect mail server setup is a holy grail for systems departments in any organisation, whatever maybe it's size. Whether to host the mail server locally, or outsource the hosting ? Will the data be safe ? Will the service be secure ? Will my provider be stable and is 1Mbps enough for my mails and internet access ? What solution do we adopt ? What will be the ROI/TCO/TLA ? These and a zillion

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We have a home brewn Single Sign-On implementation in our office which uses account information stored in OpenLDAP, exports home directories (NFS mounts) for clients using Automount. Our desktops run either Ubuntu Dapper or Debian Etch.During the initial days when we deployed and provisioned the system, I faced a problem in which the desktops wouldn't boot.udevd[1005]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to

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Thanks to sachin, saw this movie a week or so back. I would rate this one as one of the best dramas ever I've experienced. The best thing about the movie are the dialogues. Sample this:Though out of context, it might not make much sense. Watching the entire movie really gets one thinking. It got me! Reflecting!!

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As usual, J.D. "Illiad" Frazer is right on top. But why ?

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"Giving love to projects" is a concept innovated by the GNOME Project. The idea is simple. You identify an open source project which you're likely to give more attention to and work on it. You love your work, the work automatically gets done.Today, I'd a similar opportunity to give love to. The project called Sampada (ಸಂಪದ) is a community portal run by a very dynamic and brilliant friend of mine

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I was working on a small shell script to generate stubs for a project we're working on. After arriving at a rough design and deciding on the class names, method names to be generated, I started generating the stubs (scaffolding?). And came across an amusing non technical issue. getBench() was fine, but getBenchs() wasn't. It should've been getBenches().Uh, oh! There might be a tool that can

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Though technically not a startup, we've been in a startup mode from quite sometime - say seven years. Oops! In seven years, history gets changed by companies younger than that. So, what does it take to build a startup and be successful while at it ?Marc Andreessen has addressed some points in his blog, in which he points out the reasons not to build startups!! He hits the nail right on the head

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Inspired by Mark Shuttleworth's latest postA friend of mine is pretty tech savvy and also very organised. He backs up all his files once a month, copied it to floppies earlier, onto CDs later and now to DVDs. He carefully catalogs those disks and stores it away. Who knows, what might be required at a later day!!He has in his collection all the documents, he's created over the years using a

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In unix, fortune has been around from a long time and it's as popular and a favourite now, as it was way back in time.Some nuggets:Don't worry so loud, your roommate can't think.----You will wish you hadn't.----Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.----You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture.----You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it

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Our honorable Prime Minister has called upon our corporate honchos to cut on their drawings and increase their commitment towards social responsibility. As several writers have already talked about it already, that's a very timely suggestion and it's about time too. Or is it ?Indian corporates have always been humble over the years. They've also have had some ideas of social responsibility. But,

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A few weeks ago, Userfriendly ran this series:So ? Google betas their products almost always, to enable people experience cutting edge technology without waiting endlessly for the product to pass all kinds of QA tests. In the process, the users are helping Google harness their resources much better and test the application while at it. Noble thoughts indeed!!Aaargghh!! Here comes Marketing. But

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enta (ಎಂತ) in Kannada slang translates to "whither" as in "whither are we wandering ?".Over the past couple of months huge strides have been made in the development and deployments of several new free operating systems. While tracking their progress and goals, I'm writing down a couple of points for myself to revisit some time later and make an assessment.Debian GNU/Linux: The universal

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Today, I'd been to a session where I was educated about the importance of hedging against the Dollar falling again against the Rupee. The gist was this, "you buy Futures the bank's gonna profit through margin money. You buy Options, the bank'll debit your fees". "You may lose some money but it's all about minimizing risk, honey!!" "Hedging is not about another way to increase your profit, but a

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A couple of days back, while going through Google news, I came across two headlines - "Blackberry network squashed", "Intuit overwhelmed by last-minute tax filers". Wow! Blackberry is a kind of lifeline of thousands of corporate users. Intuit's Turbo Tax is used by again thousands of taxpayers to file their returns. That the services which Big Money is dependent on goes down for hours together

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Anapodoton: (an'-a-po'-do-ton) Gk. "without the main clause (apodosis)." A figure in which a main clause is suggested by the introduction of a subordinate clause, but that main clause never occurs.For a change, here's a blog that could in all probability stay true to it's title. From quite some time now, I've been attempting to chronicle my views on various aspects of life on a weblog. I

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