Goodbye MS Office, hello OpenOffice - The Economic Times:
OpenOffice, a multiplatform and multilingual office suite, gives users the chance to be Microsoft free — at last!
The Indian media has articles about free software — at last! Media has always had something with Microsoft, everything that Microsoft does, including realeasing a toilet paper would be great [...]
Slashdot | Is Silicon Valley Reproducible?
“Paul Graham, in his latest essay, looks at the ingredients which make Silicon Valley what it is. From the essay: ‘Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it? It wouldn’t be surprising if it were hard to reproduce in other countries, because you couldn’t reproduce [...]
linux kernel monkey log:
Have you ever felt teased when driver developers of other operating systems teased you about a lack of a “proper” driver development kit for Linux? Have you felt left out of the crowd when looking at the 36 cdrom package of documentation and example source code that other operating systems provide for [...]
Rags to riches: From Rs 30K to Rs 10 crore
Got link to this article from Nishi’s Blog. Story of one Mr.Subramani Ramachandrappa who started a company called Richcore. The article talks about the way he started a company when he was in a debt of Rs.25 million and now the company has a [...]
http://www.navicasoft.com/Newsletters/February%202006%20Newsletter.htm
… virtually all of Google’s paid search runs on MySQL. In other words, the billions of dollars [...]
Slashdot | France Considers Anti-DRM ‘iPod Law’:
“According to the Washington Post, France is contemplating legislation designed to ‘to force compatibility between digital songs and the different machines that play them.’ Known colloquially as the ‘iPod bill’, it is opposed by Apple, the Business Software Alliance, and others who refer to it as ’state-sponsored piracy.’ Two [...]
I am not against reservations, but at the same time I am against the way they are being implemented. I am against the way reservations became a vital card in the politics of India. I am against the criteria used to give reservations… I am against the current system of reservations and not the reservations [...]
The argument against wild productivity claims usually goes something like this: If I’ve got a decent hammer, I’d be hard-pressed to find another hammer to make me twice as productive, let alone 5 to 10 times more productive, because hammers have evolved over thousands of years. But people who compare Ruby on Rails with a [...]
Just saw the movie - Cindrella Man. The movie was cool and liked the story too. As in case of The Worlds Fastest Indian - a story about Burt Monroe, the first thing I did after finishing the movie was to read more about this Cindrella Man and ofcourse about Max Baer. Movies, with minor [...]
The Foundation [OpenDocument Foundation] is offering ODF support for Microsoft Office because “this isn’t about ‘Windows’ or MS Office. It’s about people, business units, existing workflows and business processes, and vested legacy information systems begging to be connected, coordinated, and re-engineered to reach new levels of productivity and service. It’s also about the extraordinary value [...]
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