Month: November 2004

  • Most haunted Operating System

    I rolled out Windows XP SP2(Service Pack) more than a month ago and was indeed impressed by the improvements. Everything was fine till this morning when my XP workstation in the office had a little surprise!!! for me. Arrived at office after an uneventful travel this morning, grabbed a cup of coffe, and logged into…

  • Don’t be

    More at http://72.3.131.10/

  • Firefox 1.0 (p)review

    For nearly an year now, me and Firefox have become unseparable. Ever since I started using this browser, I have talked about this browser to hundreds of people. This is certainly the best thing to have happened to the Internet in recent times. With the launch of version 1.0, Firefox has clearly proved that it…

  • Ammaa endrazhaikkaatha…

  • Open Source Learning Management Systems

    I am at present evaluating few Open Source LMS(Learning Management System) . The systems I have shortlisted are: 1. .LRN – http://dotlrn.mit.edu/ 2. Atutor – http://www.atutor.ca/ 3. Bazaar – http://bazaar.athabascau.ca/ 4. KEWL – http://kewl.uwc.ac.za 5. Moodle – http://moodle.org/ 6. Bodington – http://bodington.org/index.html 7. Eledge – http://eledge.sourceforge.net/ 8. Manhattan Virtual Classroom – http://manhattan.sourceforge.net/ These are not…

  • Fedora Core 3 Released

    Fedora Core 3 is now available on all the mirrors and also in the torrent. Keeping in track with Redhat’s policy of 2-3 releases every year, this new version has come out within six months from the release of Fedora Core 2. It is good for the OSS community, in the sense that there are…

  • Indian Ramadhan

    Indian Muslims offer Friday prayers inside the 16th century Jamia Masjid on the third Friday of holy month of Ramadan in Delhi.

  • Releasing Tomorrow

  • Come bite me!

    In the Lion’s Den: A Taiwan man shouts “Come bite me!” to two lions at the Taipei Zoo. The man leapt into the lion’s den to taunt the animals by shouting: “Jesus will save you!”. One of the lions bit him in the right leg before it was driven off by zoo workers wielding tranquilizer…

  • South Africa – A competitor to India?

    The Economic Times has a news article on South Africa’s efforts to steal the call centre jobs from India. South Africa is emerging as a serious challenger to India to take away some of its call centre jobs , a report said here on Saturday. South Africa reckons it has a lot to offer British…