‘technology’ Archive

BrandAdda release 1.0

Hi folks! On March 31, 2009 we opened up release 1.0 of our site to the world wide web. It was surely a proud moment for all of us at SmartCrowds who worked so hard towards it. If you haven’t already, I urge you to check it out. Don’t forget to leave the feedback at [...]

Twitter maintenance

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Hoax mail from “Microsoft”

“Please notice that Microsoft company has recently issued a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows.” I got this hoax by email. Be careful!

I want a new earphone and an mp3 player

Long time since my last post This time I’ve a question for the community. I was thinking of getting myself a portable audio player and an earphone. Haven’t yet fully decided on what to buy though. I was thinking of getting a Sennheiser CX 300 or 400. No clue about the player though I’m looking [...]

Carl Icahn and Yahoo!

Saw an article on Wired about Carl Icahn and Yahoo! Basically Icahn wants to replace the current board of directors at Yahoo! with his own and pursue the Microsoft deal all over again. The New York Times has published the letter sent by Icahn to the chairman of Yahoo. I doubt any good will come [...]

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 [...]

Demonoid brought down

It’s been a long time since I blogged. What made me come out of hibernation? Demonoid, the popular BitTorrent tracker has been shut down. It says : The CRIA threatened the company renting the servers to us, and because of this it is not possible to keep the site online. Sorry for the inconvenience and [...]

Using Windows partitions from Debian GNU/Linux

My friend Arun recently blogged about Automounting filesystems in Linux from a Fedora perspective. For those of you who want an alternative method (especially Debian users), here goes… I’ll explain how I did it – it’s much easier to understand from an example. First of all, I used fdisk so I could know which were [...]

Computer Warming – the new risk?!

Happened to come across a pointer in Slashdot to a Wired article.  From the article – BERLIN — A security researcher has a devised a novel attack on online anonymity systems in which he literally takes a computer’s temperature over the Internet. The attack uses a phenomenon called “clock skew” — the tendency for the [...]