An Eternal Quest for Incremental Improvement
Normally when people have more than one network interface on their PC or laptop and using linux, they may face a problem of network interface names eth0 and eth1 getting swapped betweeen the the interfaces on every reboot. The fact that which interface is getting what name is not predictable ...
The frequency of blogging has gone extremly down now-a-days. Just a quick update on things.
My debian laptop is connected to Internet directly at home and through
a HTTP proxy at office. For handling apt-get, I was having a
shell script which sets the HTTP_PROXY, http_proxy,
FTP_PROXY, ftp_proxy environment variables to the
approrpriate proxy server on demand and then I do sudo apt-get
<whatever>. All ...
Google is redesigning the search results interface. A set of IPs are chosen for the testing (may be alpha). But anyone can get the new interface by this easy hack.
Open Google search page (http://www.google.com)
Enter the following string in the browsers URL input box
javascript:alert ...The days Google was relying on Yahoo Finance for online quotes are gone. Google has come up with yet another new service Google Finance. This will put them in direct competition with existing finance services from Yahoo and MSN. A first look at Google Finance is impressing with a scope ...
Jonathan has a new post on the Sun Grid. Looks like they have finalized with the domain name for Sun Grid and ready to roll out pretty soon. Due to export regulations it seems that Sun Grid will be initially available only for US customers. Well, tons and tons of ...
Ever since my update of Wordpress to 2.0 from 1.5, I was facing more annonyance than any help from the new so called, "Visual rich editor". I think that it is the same case with most of the Wordpress users. In the view of helping novice Wordpress users ...
Fast 50 reports the list of top 50 people (2006) who can change the way we live and work over next ten years.
Now one can start exploring Mars using the new service from Google, The Google Mars. It has three type of images namely Elevation, Visible and Infrared. The coolest thing is that you can search and locate most of the landmarks that are named under the categories Regions, Mountains, Plains, Canyons ...