Archive for April, 2008

Sita Sings the Blues

Came across an interesting article on Wired. NEW YORK — Amid the documentaries and live-action features at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is a first for the event — a feature-length, computer-generated animated film rendered entirely by a single animator, working out of a home office. Nina Paley’s Sita Sings the Blues, which makes its [...]

Are lecture notes copyright infringement?

A Professor believes his lectures are copyrighted. Why are we not shocked?

CUSAT site cracked

The official website of Cochin University of Science & Technology got defaced by crackers. I guess they’re trying their best to restore it. The crackers call themselves “ProgenTR JAWNAX TEAM”.

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 Comcast’s BitTorrent throttling and [...]

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 %) of the votes cast by national bodies participating in the [...]