This is a mail I got
Dear Microsoft Customer,
Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows. The update applies to the following OS versions: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.
Please notice, that …
Long time since my last post :D This time I've a question for the community.
I was thinking of getting myself a portable audio player and an earphone. Haven't yet fully decided on what to buy though. I was thinking of getting a Sennheiser CX 300 or 400. No clue …
Saw an article on Wired about Carl Icahn and Yahoo! Basically Icahn wants to replace the current board of directors at Yahoo! with his own and pursue the Microsoft deal all over again. The New York Times has published the letter sent by Icahn to the chairman of Yahoo.
I …
Came across an interesting article on Wired.
NEW YORK -- Amid the documentaries and live-action features at this year's Tribeca Film Festival is a first for the event -- a feature-length, computer-generated animated film rendered entirely by a single animator, working out of a home office.
Nina Paley's Sita Sings the Blues …
University of Florida professor Michael Moulton thinks copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students, and he's headed to court to prove it.
Moulton and his e-textbook publisher are suing Thomas Bean, who runs a company that repackages and sells student notes, arguing that the business is illegal …
The official website of Cochin University of Science & Technology got defaced by crackers. I guess they're trying their best to restore it. The crackers call themselves "ProgenTR JAWNAX TEAM".
Happened to read this at Slashdot :
An anonymous reader notes that Comcast is offering a new 50-Mbps / 6-Mbps package for residential customers for $150, starting in Minneapolis-St. Paul and extending nationwide by mid-2010. The new service will use the DOCSIS 3.0 standard, which is nearing ratification. We've recently discussed …
The International Organization for Standardization(ISO) has approved Microsoft's OOXML as a standard.
ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology – Office Open XML file formats, has received the necessary number of votes for approval as an ISO/IEC International Standard.
Approval required at least 2/3 (i.e. 66.66 …
It's been a long time since I blogged. What made me come out of hibernation?
Demonoid, the popular BitTorrent tracker has been shut down. It says :
The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry …
My friend Arun recently blogged about Automounting filesystems in Linux from a Fedora perspective. For those of you who want an alternative method (especially Debian users), here goes...
I'll explain how I did it - it's much easier to understand from an example.
First of all, I used fdisk so I …