I was there at the Apple Store in 5th Avenue yesterday both to check out the device itself, as well as to experience first-hand the hype and buzz surrounding an Apple product launch ( Read more... )

• I was hoping, based on Google's past reputation, that it would be more than a mere facebook clone, but so far I'm disappointed.
  
• Email integration was a good idea for GTalk, but is not a good idea for Social networking IMO. For starters, email/IM is personal communication, whereas browsing social networks for anything of interest is like searching ( Read more... )

Content Providers (eg. Google, Hulu) want net neutrality ( Read more... )

Here's a very simple basic qn that I've often thought about but don't know the solution to (which is sad considering Linux has been my OS of choice for the last I-dont-know-how-many years ( Read more... )

A very interesting legal battle has been going on between Google and Viacom, during the last year.

The facts:In March 2007, Viacom filed a $1 billion lawsuit on Google claiming "massive intentional copyright infringement". In the lawsuit, it contended that almost 160,000 unauthorized clips of its programming have been uploaded onto YouTube's site ( Read more... )

I just came across this great quote by Rob Pike (one of the creators of Unix and Plan9):
The Interface to Security
Weak security that’s easy to use will help more people than strong security that’s hard to use. E.g.: door locks.

Tip: User interface is more important than security.

• Bad user interfaces drive people away from security.
• Weak security ( Read more... )

So I felt like listening to some soothing Praveen Godkhindi flute and opened musicindiaonline, but it refused to play on my Linux laptop. Off I go to google, to try to figure out a quick fix. And I land upon this random blog post, and one of the comments in that post has a link to a fix that worked beautifully for me.

The irony: That link happens ( Read more... )

http://www.dell.com/ubuntu

Windows has been popular all these years not because users chose it and liked it. It is because computer users never really had a choice.

Lets have a loud round of applause for Dell!

I was thinking about installing Vista on my desktop, and then I remembered the stupid XP setup and how it would pay scant regard to things like partition tables and the master boot record, and wondered if things have changed with Vista ( Read more... )

I found this attack that hackers recently demonstrated on vista very funny ( Read more... )