Google or Search?
shashiThe term google had entered our dictionaries not only as a proper noun, but also as a verb. We had stopped searching for information. Instead we googled for information. But…
Google getting googlied in China
It’s with great amusement that I am watching the ongoing battle between Google and China. What started as an almost diplomatic allegation over “hackers” gaining entry to Google’s developers’ desktops…
An XMPP Wave
The web is agog with the news of engineers at Google announcing their newest and next generation communication tool – Wave. The service looks awesome and sure is a next…
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Gnokii with Nokia 5130c-2 (XpressMusic) – USB
Gnokii works awesomely with the Nokia 5130c-2 (XpressMusic) model using the USB for communication. /etc/gnokiirc configuration for getting it to work (took me some time to figure): port = /dev/ttyACM0…
Crazy shell scripting
Not quite a mapreduce implementation , but nevertheless … while read l; do echo "SELECT id, email FROM tblName WHERE email='$l' ORDER by id DESC LIMIT 1;"|mysql -u root dbName;…
WP upgraded!
… and it took all of 5 minutes. wow Does this get me motivated to write more?
When did you “pass out�
Of late, we’ve been getting a huge number of mails from freshers/final year students looking for jobs. Though we are not in a recruiting mode now, we encourage people to…
R Project covered in the NY Times
There is an interesting article in the NY Times on R. It’s heartening to see that free and open source tools like R are getting noticed for their worth. Mainly…
Pension fund(a)s!
Something funny happening on the pension funds scene. Remember Argentina a decade back ? Almost bankrupt, they liberalised their economy based on the directions of the World Bank/IMF. Pension funds…