Nice maintenance message from twitter :)
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Hoax mail from "Microsoft"
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 …
I want a new earphone and an mp3 player
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 …
Carl Icahn and Yahoo!
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 …
Why is there no broadband in India? :(
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 …
ISO approves Microsoft's OOXML
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 …
Demonoid brought down
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 …
Using Windows partitions from Debian GNU/Linux
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 …
Computer Warming - the new risk?!
Happened to come across a pointer in Slashdot to a Wired article. From the article -
BERLIN -- A security researcher has a devised a novel attack on online anonymity systems in which he literally takes a computer's temperature over the Internet.
The attack uses a phenomenon called "clock skew" -- the tendency …
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