Make sure you visit this site http://getswiftfox.com/
Swiftfox, is running on firefox codebase, though its optimized for the processor we have. make sure you make the right choice there. If you have centrino etc .. core duo/solo choice should be fine.
Thats its pick the shell script that is closeset to your processor, then execute the shell script as root (sudo) and then it will do everything, downloading, and installation, just a single script that does everything.
enjoy !
Sunday, October 5, 2008
restart alsa in ubuntu
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
if that doesnt help use this
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
if that doesnt help use this
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset
sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils restart
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Lack of remoting into Vista home premium
Well being a home user doesnt mean you wouldnt like to remote into your machine isnt it. Just to remote in why should i buy a business edition, thats crappy.
Anyways i googled and i was able to get a way to enable rdp on vista home prem, but i dont think that works.
Anyways i googled and i was able to get a way to enable rdp on vista home prem, but i dont think that works.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
ok finally released !
finally chrome is out now ...
www.google.com/chrome
Its way way faster than IE anyways IE is nowhere close, the competition is firefox.
Anyways chrome uses a lot of open source components and thats why its open source itself.
Here is what i see it uses officially at http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=100336
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Official Build 1583
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/525.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/0.2.149.27 Safari/525.13
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Enjoy !
Coming of google chrome !
Here comes "another" open source browser , to be released on wednesday, possibly at http://www.google.com/chrome
It has components from different places , notably a new java script engine V8 from denmark and of course it has firefox components etc and hence it will also be open source ! lets see how this goes on ...
I guess the only thing remaining is google OS, based on linux that would be the complete cycle. Anyways now i am using ubuntu with a huge success for a long time, though i guess with all those patches etc, i am keeping my vista too upto date.
And this mojahve experiment was just crap.
It has components from different places , notably a new java script engine V8 from denmark and of course it has firefox components etc and hence it will also be open source ! lets see how this goes on ...
I guess the only thing remaining is google OS, based on linux that would be the complete cycle. Anyways now i am using ubuntu with a huge success for a long time, though i guess with all those patches etc, i am keeping my vista too upto date.
And this mojahve experiment was just crap.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Do I like IE 8 Beta 2 ?
Well my answer is "NO". I will get down to the points
1. Private mode is nothing great as a technology, firefox also provides a way in which you can delete on close. But yes this will not affect history but only the browsing session, so as such i dont consider it as a great "innovation".
2. Bloated, its memory footprint is high.
3. The so called "tab isolation" is crappy, i mean its nothing great, each tab is now an iexplore.exe process, so if you have 5 tabs you will have 6 iexplore.exe processes.
4. "tab isolation" has promised to make sure that even if a tab "hangs" others will work fine and the tab will be restored or killed without affecting other tabs, but i found myself in a situation where there were lot of hangs and everytime, the whole IE processes die together.
5. There were some sites where i found the website getting into an infinite loop, where it loads the same image(s) again and again and again ... which works perfectly fine with firefox.
I never liked safari too either, i would still rate firefox as the best and no doubt IE8 offers very little advantage over firefox. I know its beta 2 lets see how the final version looks like.
1. Private mode is nothing great as a technology, firefox also provides a way in which you can delete on close. But yes this will not affect history but only the browsing session, so as such i dont consider it as a great "innovation".
2. Bloated, its memory footprint is high.
3. The so called "tab isolation" is crappy, i mean its nothing great, each tab is now an iexplore.exe process, so if you have 5 tabs you will have 6 iexplore.exe processes.
4. "tab isolation" has promised to make sure that even if a tab "hangs" others will work fine and the tab will be restored or killed without affecting other tabs, but i found myself in a situation where there were lot of hangs and everytime, the whole IE processes die together.
5. There were some sites where i found the website getting into an infinite loop, where it loads the same image(s) again and again and again ... which works perfectly fine with firefox.
I never liked safari too either, i would still rate firefox as the best and no doubt IE8 offers very little advantage over firefox. I know its beta 2 lets see how the final version looks like.
Friday, August 15, 2008
Netbeans 6.5 impressive ~!
I checked the beta version for C++ development, and it is really really impressive, since it has excellent code completion, and instant error is visible for any syntax error, just like java development.
It seems impressive, frankly much better than VC 2008 that i use for c++, lets see how it performs better in the longer run !
So go ahead and start using it to see the difference. Though of course VC's have a great advantage of using lesser RAM (if you use the express editions though).
It seems impressive, frankly much better than VC 2008 that i use for c++, lets see how it performs better in the longer run !
So go ahead and start using it to see the difference. Though of course VC's have a great advantage of using lesser RAM (if you use the express editions though).
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Change is good but !
Well somehow again, i feel there needs to be a lot of improvement to Blogger, since i still feel writing on a wiki is more of a fun experience.
I am starting to like visitor pattern :-)
I am starting to like visitor pattern :-)
Thursday, July 31, 2008
pidgin is a better IM
well recently on linux i was using pidgin so i thought i start using it on windows too .. and boy i am more than happy, atleast its good for what it does .. just text .. no video/calls but thats fine, since most of the time in office we use it to communicate via text.
try it .. its free at http://www.pidgin.im/
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Hadoop ! Breaks records
http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/hadoop/2008/07/apache_hadoop_wins_terabyte_sort_benchmark.html
Interesting - http://hadoop.apache.org
Its an excellent software for distributed computing on the lines of map/reduce from goog. Anyways normally we wouldn't need it unless, we need to do analytics or things like indexing TB's of data.
Interesting - http://hadoop.apache.org
Its an excellent software for distributed computing on the lines of map/reduce from goog. Anyways normally we wouldn't need it unless, we need to do analytics or things like indexing TB's of data.
Monday, July 28, 2008
This person works for google !
Really inspirational ... Parents illiterate and doesnt have legs , read this story , an IIT madras grad and now works for Google !
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/28sl1.htm
http://specials.rediff.com/news/2008/jul/28sl1.htm
Whats the next ! after web
yes web is innovating and reinnovating itself, whats the next now. I am sure its not mobile as many think, since mobile has been too much over hyped, its just a device, i want to call people thats all, nothing more, nothing less. I guess yes there is this iTablet that would be intersting to see.
Look at the difference, people wanted cellphones to get smaller and smaller sometime back now they want to watch /browse and hence small isnt cool, they would naturally want it big, but then where is the end, how big is big and how small is small. We used to ask how big is your TV and the bigger the better, isnt it .. And innovations were on making TV's bigger and bigger and at the same time there were innovations to make cellphones smaller and smaller :) so everybody has work , the ones who make things smaller and ones who make things bigger - best of both worlds.
But in the end, here is what i think will be real innovations or what i guess i will consider as the next in devices
1. Foldable laptops / Foldable displays.
2. A renewable source of energy that can be used anywhere (like what we see in iron man) , that would really change things.
3. Green revolution - Better recycling techniques, reduction of green house gasses.
4. Of course, lesser dependence on fossil fuels, that will be a power changing equation, since then mid east would be uneasy, as their monopoly would be lost, but useless ideas like corn methanol should be avoided.
What else ? I wish i have another dream ;-)
Look at the difference, people wanted cellphones to get smaller and smaller sometime back now they want to watch /browse and hence small isnt cool, they would naturally want it big, but then where is the end, how big is big and how small is small. We used to ask how big is your TV and the bigger the better, isnt it .. And innovations were on making TV's bigger and bigger and at the same time there were innovations to make cellphones smaller and smaller :) so everybody has work , the ones who make things smaller and ones who make things bigger - best of both worlds.
But in the end, here is what i think will be real innovations or what i guess i will consider as the next in devices
1. Foldable laptops / Foldable displays.
2. A renewable source of energy that can be used anywhere (like what we see in iron man) , that would really change things.
3. Green revolution - Better recycling techniques, reduction of green house gasses.
4. Of course, lesser dependence on fossil fuels, that will be a power changing equation, since then mid east would be uneasy, as their monopoly would be lost, but useless ideas like corn methanol should be avoided.
What else ? I wish i have another dream ;-)
Aha here comes cuil ?
Well as usual here comes "another" search, just that this has got a lot more publicity due to the perceived capabilities of the creators. I guess this must be interesting, though i am used to the way the standard search engines return results.
www.cuil.com or www.cuill.com
This one returns results in a different way, like a newspaper layout kind of thing. It claims to index a lot of millions of pages, though google doesnt publish anymore about its index size.
I guess thats valid, since index size is no more a valid comparision of strength. Whats important is whether i get what i want. I couldnt atleast find it as useful as google, since most of my results gave me some unpopular sites with lesser information. As such this is certainly not at attempt to build another company but an open book to come and aquire. this is a nice process, like they did before, build a company, show as though you are going to attack the king. The king will buy you, or alteast someone who aspires to be a king. And in the process the creators fill their pockets with billions of dollars.
Is this good ? I mean are people starting ventures to nurture it or sell it ? Atleast i will never trust someone who starts a venture in the hope of being bought by a bigger company, well that might be good for the investors, but is that really an indication of love of their babies , will they do this to their kids, isnt a startup like a kid for the creators ?
As such i hope this doesnt turn out to be another sale story, it would suck then.
www.cuil.com or www.cuill.com
This one returns results in a different way, like a newspaper layout kind of thing. It claims to index a lot of millions of pages, though google doesnt publish anymore about its index size.
I guess thats valid, since index size is no more a valid comparision of strength. Whats important is whether i get what i want. I couldnt atleast find it as useful as google, since most of my results gave me some unpopular sites with lesser information. As such this is certainly not at attempt to build another company but an open book to come and aquire. this is a nice process, like they did before, build a company, show as though you are going to attack the king. The king will buy you, or alteast someone who aspires to be a king. And in the process the creators fill their pockets with billions of dollars.
Is this good ? I mean are people starting ventures to nurture it or sell it ? Atleast i will never trust someone who starts a venture in the hope of being bought by a bigger company, well that might be good for the investors, but is that really an indication of love of their babies , will they do this to their kids, isnt a startup like a kid for the creators ?
As such i hope this doesnt turn out to be another sale story, it would suck then.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
generics in java
generics in java has more to it than whats visible. what happens behind the scenes is really great to understand and know. things like type erasure and reification , pretty interesting. But its one of the most used features now, its there in almost every code that I write (though i had lived without it).
love java
recently i have started doing a lot of c++, and well yes after a long long time, and now i really appreciate how cool java is :) Java is the best language out there, and i guess its the best thing that happened to the computing industry !!! Java is great !!! (Not that i dont like c++) , c++ and Java are the two languages that i like love and appreciate.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
terror attacks on india !
2 serial blasts in 2 cities lots killed and injured .. (in Bangalore and Abhmedabad) .. where has india gone wrong ? I have quite a few muslim friends, and i am sure they are good, somehow it seems a few fundamentalists are misusing religion and trying to instigate instablity.
My question to terrorists
1. Does attacks increase love towards them ? Like yes today there was an attack, i started loving muslims from today .. Is that what they want ?
2. Attacks increase hatred, its simple thing to understand if they have a brain. If they want to reduce hatred, attacks have increased it (was this what they wanted ? )
3. Avenging bad treatment with bombs ! Well interesting, they need to get a life and understand that a lot of love and appreciation comes with helping others. Why dont terrorists open shelters for poor, or donate money, or food etc. That will surely help in building bonds.
4. A lot of muslims should come out openly and condemn it (of course only if they are remorseful), and muslim leaders in india should strongly condemn it. This is really not the right solution and it will only lead to increased hatred ..
thinking of that, actually do the terrorists even know why they are doing it ? or what exactly they want ? if they tell that, atleast they can get what they want, but if their desire is playing with blood, they are surely not going to have a happy time themselves. GIVE RESPECT and TAKE RESPECT, i hope something like this was there in their holy books. Terrorists are enymies of everyone, including muslims.
India is strong and united and no terrorist can change that.
My question to terrorists
1. Does attacks increase love towards them ? Like yes today there was an attack, i started loving muslims from today .. Is that what they want ?
2. Attacks increase hatred, its simple thing to understand if they have a brain. If they want to reduce hatred, attacks have increased it (was this what they wanted ? )
3. Avenging bad treatment with bombs ! Well interesting, they need to get a life and understand that a lot of love and appreciation comes with helping others. Why dont terrorists open shelters for poor, or donate money, or food etc. That will surely help in building bonds.
4. A lot of muslims should come out openly and condemn it (of course only if they are remorseful), and muslim leaders in india should strongly condemn it. This is really not the right solution and it will only lead to increased hatred ..
thinking of that, actually do the terrorists even know why they are doing it ? or what exactly they want ? if they tell that, atleast they can get what they want, but if their desire is playing with blood, they are surely not going to have a happy time themselves. GIVE RESPECT and TAKE RESPECT, i hope something like this was there in their holy books. Terrorists are enymies of everyone, including muslims.
India is strong and united and no terrorist can change that.
what is google doing - lively sucks and so does knol
Seems they are out of ideas ! That is what happens when "so called intelligent" people think of that as "heaven' , yes free food wow thats great isnt it - as though eating is a good thing.
Anyways here is the point
1. lively is only for windows ! well that sucks .. anyways when i tried, i would say second life is million times better , why clone second life ? Google is trying to drive other companies out of business, by bringing bad products, but they do sell, due to the brand name, anyways they are hurting their brand name.
2. I dont use lively now, but i dont use second life too :) , after all these are things which someone who has a lot of time to waste would do. Already social networking seems to be a burden ( i mean text one), why would i spend my life in virtual world, we need to get a life and visit places and not be in virtual world ! Later sell virtual gym too !
3. Yes it would be like Orkut, thats losing its shine and a low performer, so would google news.
4. I wonder people are taking social networking to too much extent, they are just adding to internet traffic. Who has time, i wonder !!!
5. Knol !!! well another great useless product, wasnt wikipedia great ? I dont know why another clone of Wikipedia, and that too a bad one ? Intelligent, they masked it in knol.google.com so that alexa cannot tell the traffic, though lively shows traffic improving and then dropping, people are attracted to it due to the fact that its goog, but unless the product is good, and innovative it will fizz out, there is nothing innovative in this.
Google, is a search engine provider, and they should stick to that, there are lot of things in search that still needs to be solved, and all these seem to be more or less ways of trying to earn more money with ads.
I hate facebook too, its again a huge waste of time, i would say linkedin is the best , they could add more features, like scraps etc, but as such it serves the purpose , being connected. everything else can be done through mails.
True good ones are like twitter, myspace, linkedin, ebay and amazon, google search, ask news according to what i feel.
Anyways here is the point
1. lively is only for windows ! well that sucks .. anyways when i tried, i would say second life is million times better , why clone second life ? Google is trying to drive other companies out of business, by bringing bad products, but they do sell, due to the brand name, anyways they are hurting their brand name.
2. I dont use lively now, but i dont use second life too :) , after all these are things which someone who has a lot of time to waste would do. Already social networking seems to be a burden ( i mean text one), why would i spend my life in virtual world, we need to get a life and visit places and not be in virtual world ! Later sell virtual gym too !
3. Yes it would be like Orkut, thats losing its shine and a low performer, so would google news.
4. I wonder people are taking social networking to too much extent, they are just adding to internet traffic. Who has time, i wonder !!!
5. Knol !!! well another great useless product, wasnt wikipedia great ? I dont know why another clone of Wikipedia, and that too a bad one ? Intelligent, they masked it in knol.google.com so that alexa cannot tell the traffic, though lively shows traffic improving and then dropping, people are attracted to it due to the fact that its goog, but unless the product is good, and innovative it will fizz out, there is nothing innovative in this.
Google, is a search engine provider, and they should stick to that, there are lot of things in search that still needs to be solved, and all these seem to be more or less ways of trying to earn more money with ads.
I hate facebook too, its again a huge waste of time, i would say linkedin is the best , they could add more features, like scraps etc, but as such it serves the purpose , being connected. everything else can be done through mails.
True good ones are like twitter, myspace, linkedin, ebay and amazon, google search, ask news according to what i feel.
Thursday, July 24, 2008
Deal or No Deal is TOTAL CRAP
This is one game show, thats just nothing more than crap, actually crap also might be better.
This is the only show where you dont have anything to do, and still you are asked to think carefully on which box to choose, well isnt that funny ? Whats there to think hard and choose carefully ! Anyways the worst show , i wanted to write this for long, though i stopped seeing it long time back ..
This is the only show where you dont have anything to do, and still you are asked to think carefully on which box to choose, well isnt that funny ? Whats there to think hard and choose carefully ! Anyways the worst show , i wanted to write this for long, though i stopped seeing it long time back ..
poor twitter struggling !!!!
Here is what i see ... I guess twitter should have started using Java instead of Ruby on Rails ;-) anyways i know thats not to blame for :) but they are now doing the right things, but their messaging infrastructure seems to be really overburdened.
Here is what i see .... though it was temporary - I mean i couldnt see it later, so i thought i will capture it - >
multiply.com interesting ...
Well recently i opened an account on multiply.com , yes thats the site thats now accusing facebook of copying and facebook is busy accusing others of copying :) interesting.
Anyways this site is like one in all, everything from photos to videos to blog to calendar and yes to social networking .. everything is there , i liked it and i am sure anyways i was never a facebook fan, i would like to see it more.. It also gives option to import blog ;-) from blogger too .. so here you go .. maybe i would import it there .
my vote now goes to multiply.com - down down facebook, which is somewhat like a ms slave (well or the other way ! not sure).
Anyways this site is like one in all, everything from photos to videos to blog to calendar and yes to social networking .. everything is there , i liked it and i am sure anyways i was never a facebook fan, i would like to see it more.. It also gives option to import blog ;-) from blogger too .. so here you go .. maybe i would import it there .
my vote now goes to multiply.com - down down facebook, which is somewhat like a ms slave (well or the other way ! not sure).
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