Business Today magazine published a list of hot startups in India. Startups are not just technical ones but are of various fields. Check it out here.
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The days are gone when Macs meant only MacOS. Today’s Macs use the Intel architecture rather than the old PowerPC architecture. Coming to Windows, you can easily install it on your MacBook using the bootcamp software provided by Apple itself.
But if you are one of those types who hates Windows and don’t like MacOS(A test of your geekiness!!!) but ofcourse you like the Hardware of Mac then ….You don’t have to worry. You can easily install Linux on your Mac. Moreover you will be surprised to know that all the hardware in the MacBook are compatible with Linux…including the accelerometer.
Check out the links below…
Gentoo Linux wiki on howto install gentoo linux on Macbook … Nice and detailed…
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Apple_MacBook
For Debian Linux … more detailed…
http://wiki.debian.org/MacBook
Video showing triple booting of Macbook …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hORXsK7jPIs
Triple boot Mac wiki …
http://wiki.onmac.net/index.php/Triple_Boot_via_BootCamp
And this one is awesome…Cherry on the top…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIFdGQNf0-c&feature=related
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I am at home for past few days. For past 4 years I always thought that day by day computers are making our lives all the more easy. With all the cool new services and softwares coming up it seems as if computers will eliminate all our problems. But what we do not think is that computers themselves are becoming too complex to use.
A close analogy that I can think of is an aeroplane’s cockpit and a car’s cockpit. Sure, Aeroplanes are much more than cars but ever looked at its controls????
In 90s MS did a great job by launching Windows which actually made the computers easy to use in those days.
Can MS Surface change the things? I think it can … if only MS stops fighting with Google and gets to do what it is best at…
BTW ask your parents or grandparents about this post …
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It came as a shock and a big relief too… MS Office to support ODF.
Relief because I am a Linux fan to the extent that I won’t even use MS office for my document work so the news gives me so much of relief.
Shocked because I really can’t figure out what Mr. Ballmer wants. So much of weired stuff since Mr. Ballmer became the CEO…First the Yahoo stuff, then the cashback on search and now this…and yes, did you hear of Mr. Ballmer being egged?
I really can’t get whether all this is just some kind of publicity stunts or Mr. Ballmer really wants to make Microsoft something new…
Mr. Ballmer please don’t break my trust in MS ….
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An IT professional has been arrested for writing obscene comments about Sonia Gandhi on an orkut community “I hate Sonia Gandhi”. Many in the blogosphere seem to think that this is an attack on free speech and Google was in the wrong for supplying the data to the government. (See the comments)
The accused has been arrested under section 292 of Indian Penal Code and section 67 of the Information Technology Act. I am no lawyer. However even a cursory glance at the sections makes it clear that the case is of spreading obscenity and not about writing something against Sonia Gandhi. Here is the text of the 2 sections
The Indian Penal Code vide section 292 defines the term obscene and provides for punishment for distributing any such object.
Section 67 of the I.T. Act is the most serious legislative measure against pornography. This section reads as follows “Whosoever publishes or transmits or causes to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to be published in the electronic form, any material which is lascivious or appeals to the prurient interest or it its effect is such as to tend to deprave and corrupt persons who are likely, having regard to all relevant circumstances to read, see or hear the matter contained or embodied in it, shall be punished on first conviction with an imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years and with fine which may extend to one lakh rupees and in the event of a second or subsequent conviction with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years and also with fine which may extend to two lakh rupees.”
Hence it seems the law does not have a problem with what he said but rather the language that he used to express himself. That clearly is not an attack on free speech.
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I have made all my money online through Adsense. I intend to continue to monetize my websites through adsense. Hence I should be the last person to complain about adsense. As a webmaster I am quite impressed with adsense.
But I happen to be a user of internet on technology blogs, classified sites and social news sites trying to find information to get my job done. And I am frustrated with adsense as a user. I am frustrated because of senseless comments just for the sake of getting a link and some traffic, Offtopic posts on classified sites, spam messages on social networks. Even when I get to a really good website with useful information, more often than not the user interface is decided to optimize the website for adsense. All this is making me get frustrated with the internet. I am sure many others feel the same way. That is why I think that adsense is killing the internet.
On its own website, Google keeps the advertisements separate from the content.Then why is Google is advocating the adsense driven design for your website? Through its adsense optimization guidelines Google encourages the webmasters to blend the advertisements with the content even though technically it still requires the advertisement to be distinct from the content. Google does not have a stake in the long term growth of your website. It does not care if your website stays long enough -or not. It just wants to maximize its earnings from your traffic. That can happen only when you place your advertisement prominently on the page. However by encouraging webmasters to design the websites to maximize adsense CTR, google may be driving the users away from internet.
Duplicate copies of the same content is another vice encouraged by easy adsense earnings. A large number of smart people are simply copying content from elsewhere. Instead of focusing on content creation, they concentrate on monetization of the duplicate content through SEO, Social media marketing and even spamming. Duplicate content creates 2 long term problems for the internet. It makes the internet a less attractive medium for original content creators and it makes it difficult for users to get to more original content.
If the internet economy is a river then the water level (earnings) is high now. That is why no one is noticing the rocks. However once the water level falls down, we shall collide with these rocks more often.
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Every blog has two types of visitors : returning readers and first time visitors. Returning readers already know what to expect on your blog and come to your site for its content and for what you write. First time visitors, (mostly search engine visitors), come because they are looking for something particular, look at the page, and leave.
The returning visitors should be treated as premium members because they spread word about your blog and link to you. Anyways they are least likely to click on your advertisements. So no point in showing a lot of adsense advertisements to them and put them off. I shall rather show them CPA advertisements to them as they trust my blog.
Whereas one time visitors are most likely to click on the adsense advertisement as they are looking for something. If I have to monetize my blog with adsense then I shall show the adsense advertisements to these one time visitors. However the compexity of the code required to determine if the visitor is a regular user or onetime user deterred me from using this strategy.
However now you can control the display of the advertisements using who sees ad plugin for wordpress
While inserting the adsense code you just mention what type of user can see the ad. The plugin takes care of everything else.
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If you are a student and you have a blog, then you may consider applying for a $10,000 scholarship at College Scholarships.
You need to submit a 300 word essay answering the following questions
* If you nominated a friend, what makes them and their blog so special?
* What is the most interesting or inspiring blog post you have ever read? Why did you find it inspiring?
* How have you used blogging to help yourself or others?
* What is the most powerful social change you have seen come out of blogging?
* Why did you start blogging? What does blogging mean to you? Why is blogging important to you?
This looks like a really good opportunity for student bloggers.
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check http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/
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I had made a post about ie7.com advertising for firefox. In the comments to the post rajeev pointed out that airtel.com redirects to vodafone. Someone please let me know if this is legal.
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Being as popular as techcrunch is perhaps the most ambitious objective of any tech blogger including me. Just found out the january traffic number for techcrunch. So techcrunch has 2,647,027 unique visitors. Well with 6,800 unique visitors binaryday needs to grow only 400 times to beat techcrunch. Not that tuff….watch out for me mike.
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I stumbled upon ie7.com accidentally and I was surprised to find a huge firefox logo there. Just wondering if this is legal i.e to book a domain similar to the brand of your rival? Please let me know if you have any views on the same in the comments.
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Anybody who has done even a little bit of programming in any language knows what is a “Hello World” program.
But ever seen a collection of hello world programs???
Check this(http://www.roesler-ac.de/wolfram/hello.htm) . It’s a collection of hello world programs in 366 different languages…Awesome !!!
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Linux began with this post to the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.minix, in August, 1991,
written by a Finnish college student:
Hello everybody out there using minix-
I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be
big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
That student, of course, was Linus Torvalds and the “hobby” of which he wrote grew to
what is known today as Linux. Version 1.0 of the kernel was released on March 14,
1994.
(Taken from the book : “Linux programming unleashed”)
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