Archive for the ‘Technical’ Category
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
There are laptops that have rotatable LCD panels. Whereas I dont see panels that can be raised and lowered.
I have a feature suggestion to make. Look at a monitor like HP LP2465 in which height can be adjusted. If there would be a vertical scale like thing inserted into the ...
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
Twitter Showed me this in the friend requests page. I just noticed that there is high probability that a user clicks the block link instead of Accept link, given the small gap between the two, and the chances for a slip of mouse pointer on laptop mouse pads, where the ...
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Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Day two had 4 tracks - Fedora, KDE, OpenOffice, Indic Linux. I was wondering why they had put all non-technical tracks together on one day. Only KDE had technical talks(about Qt4), and I was there.
The KDE track started with a talk on "The Pillars of KDE 4" and "How ...
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Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
There were four parallel tracks going on for the First Project Day, viz., Debian/Ubuntu, Mozilla, GNOME and OpenSolaris.
I attended most sessions of Mozilla and one session in Debian/Ubuntu.
The first talk was on Extensibility of Mozilla by Myk. Myk talked about various addons for Mozilla, what they do, and an overview ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Victor Tsaran, the Yahoo! Accessibility Guru, gave a talk on accessibility in web applications. The public version of the talk was on 23rd, while we had an internal session on 21st of this month. After attending his talk and interacting with him for sometime, I realised how big a *sin* ...
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Book Jan 22 - 25 for Kurukshetra and get ready to battle!
Kurukshetra is the Annual Techno Management fest of Anna University,Chennai. It is one of the finest Tech Fests in the country which is Conducted on an unprecedented scale,and includes a broad spectrum of activities that spans over all disciplines ...
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
Yesterday, in #linux-India IRC channel, one n00b had come in somehow figuring out how to use IRC. He wanted to do blackhat hacking(cracking), and he insisted on helping him to break into one of his senior's comp. As usual after some flames, ppl started trying to help him understand ...
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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
During the time when I wasn't blogging regularly, I got interested in a pure functional programming language called Haskell, and had been in love with it all the free time. After exploring Haskell for sometime, I found web programming with Haskell using Haskell Application Server(HAppS) fascinating due to its ACID ...
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Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Get Set Code.. Its time for aBaCUS!!!
Greetings from aBaCUS '07 Team!
aBaCUS is the International Techfest conducted the Dept of Computer Science and Engineering (DCSE) ,College of Engg(CEG).Since its inception,aBaCUS has been successful,under the aegis of various companies, organizations and also by the active participation from the student community.
With a wide ...
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
I came across this search engine named Guruji through Business Today of this month. It claims to be a search engine that is designed to give results specific to India. I just thought that this would be yet another search engine that tries to bring some buzz around with not ...
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