August 22, 2023

Due diligence is the process of researching and analyzing a potential investment before making a decision. The process can include reviewing…

October 30, 2021

Bitcoin and Ethereum had a significant drop and recovery this week. Here are a couple of simple BTCUSD and ETHUSD charts I generated from my…

October 20, 2021

Welcome to this week’s crypto update. It’s been an interesting week in the crypto and NFT worlds. Bitcoin just broke the all time high this…

October 13, 2021

Intro It’s been another exciting few days in crypto. I was planning to send this on Fridays but as is the case with the crypto world, things…

October 05, 2020

For the better part of the last decade, I've been a startup investor and community builder. It's been a lot of fun and I have loved learning…

July 02, 2020

Over the last twenty years, India has seen a tremendous amount of economic activity in the tech arena. The startup and venture capital…

May 09, 2020

IP Protection can be something very important for a startup but it can also be a very expensive thing to do and do right. Some tech startups…

March 19, 2020

In this online panel, we're going to discuss the changing meaning of FinTech and how that introduces new opportunities as well as challenges…

March 13, 2020

Angel investing into startups has risen significantly over the last decade. Part of the increase in angel investing has been because of the…

November 20, 2019

As founders, a VC, angel and, now, through our advisory business at Founder Craft, we get asked for advice or "feedback" a lot. The…

July 01, 2019

Are you a co-founder of a startup? Are you thinking of raising money? Have you already raised money and are navigating the relationship with…

May 01, 2019

Venture Capital can be complex and in this episode of InvestStream, I explain carried interest or carry as it's more commonly known and why…

December 16, 2018

A few weeks ago, my friend Harjit, and I decided to start recording our conversations about the economy, startups, and tech in the US and…

December 10, 2018

https://youtu.be/VGfbJswRZ9A In this first episode of InvestStream, Harjit Singh and I discuss the unemployment report and wage growth in…

November 09, 2016

Emerging markets often leapfrog technologies. For much of Independent India, it was very difficult to get a fixed-line phone. They were…

November 06, 2015

The trouble that some Indian startups are facing is being touted as the harbinger of a coming apocalypse. What happened at TinyOwl in Pune…

February 14, 2011

Startup Weekend is a 54 hour event where developers, designers, and entrepreneurs get together and build great new Internet and mobile…

September 13, 2010

This past weekend was one of the best weekends I've ever had. It was a little over 50 hours of intense execution by 150 people dedicated to…

August 04, 2010

The Taj Mahal is one of those things that no picture or video can ever do it justice. I've been to the Taj a few times and each time I've…

June 25, 2010

Here are some scenes from the iPhone 4 launch at Apple's Flagship store in New York CIty on Fifth Avenue. There were thousands of people…

May 07, 2010

TechCrunch and Mashable are reporting that Apple has announced dates and countries for the international launch of the iPad in May and July…

November 15, 2009

I picked up my factory unlocked iPhone 3G[S] on a trip to Malaysia in September. To my pleasant surprise, Internet tethering, and MMS were…

October 23, 2009

Looking for people that can design WordPress themes for clients that are located in the US

October 12, 2009

Bipin Singh from MobiKwik at Startup Saturday Delhi Oct. 2009 Manish Rathi from GlobalLogic was up next to talk about opportunities in the…

September 13, 2009

CamelI wanted to put an image of the Perl Camel up on this post but it would have required getting permission from O'Reilly to do so. Hence…

March 23, 2009

Twitter opened up their OAuth implementation last week. It's a much welcome aspect of working with Twitter's API since we're planning on…

March 08, 2009

Startup Saturday Delhi is just around the corner. We're holding our next event on the 14th of March at the American Center from 2pm to 6pm…

January 01, 2009

Happy 2009 everyone!2008 has been a very interesting year by all measures. We saw record drops in global stock market indices - 34% drop for…

November 26, 2008

Intro As all of you who've been keeping up-to-date on the happenings in the financial markets know, there's been a good deal of turmoil and…

November 22, 2008

For anyone interested in volunteering for Startup Saturday Delhi, we're meeting today, November 22nd, 2008 at 3pm at the Teknatus office in…

November 18, 2008

A quick update on Startup Saturday. Startup Saturday Delhi is going to be hosted by the American Center on the 13th of December 200…

November 05, 2008

This is a nice presentation on the need for startups to be lean and how agile development can help the process. It would have been nice to…

October 31, 2008

Below is a nice little video from IBM explaining enterprise mashups succinctly and in a language that non techies could understand. Enjoy.

October 15, 2008

Hiring is one of the most important tasks of any startup. It's critical to the success of a business. Hiring people can be fun and even…

October 15, 2008

During the weekend, Arun gave a presentation at BarCamp Delhi on Blog Action Day. This year's Blog Action Day (today - October 15th, 200…

October 13, 2008

Yesterday at BarCamp Delhi Prateek and Pratul decided to hold a hack-a-thon. The idea being, that in 2 to 3 hours, the group of programmers…

October 11, 2008

BarCamp Delhi has been going on this weekend. I don't think anyone took any video of the presentation but I turned into a bit of a pig and…

September 12, 2008

Back in July, I put up a post about the chinks in the economic armor of India. Since July, the BSE Sensex has dropped to a low of 12,575 and…

September 06, 2008

This posting doesn't have anything to do with tech or other geeky stuff. However, being a foodie, I just had to write about my experience at…

September 05, 2008

OSSCamp is gearing up for another meet on September 27th and 28th in Delhi. The volunteers have just spent a great deal of time and energy…

September 05, 2008

BarCamp Delhi is scheduled for October 11th and 12th 2008 at IIT Delhi. We're currently working on reaching out to bloggers to help spread…

August 28, 2008

I've been in New Delhi for almost a year and a half now. Though it's been difficult getting things going, I've been fortunate to meet some…

August 14, 2008

I've recently gotten back into some development and needed to run MySQL on my Leopard computers. The easy way out was downloading and…

August 04, 2008

A great post by Fred Wilson titled "Venture Fund Economics: Gross and Net Returns". Do take a look if you're even remotely interested…

August 03, 2008

Preparations for BarCamp Delhi are under way. The date for the fifth installment of BarCamp Delhi has been set for the 4th and 5th of…

July 29, 2008

It's great to finally hear that MSFT is beginning to see the light and getting involved in open source projects like Apache.  I just hope…

July 27, 2008

Here are some screenshots of apps I have downloaded from the Apple App store. All the apps are running on a 1st generation 8gb iPhone that…

July 27, 2008

Recently, I've seen three interesting timeline applications. Kronomy which Guy Kawasaki twittered about, LifeBlob which presented at Proto…

July 21, 2008

Proto.in is an event very similar to DEMO held in the US. The basic premise is to help startups gain visibility by being able to showcase…

July 14, 2008

Finding decent quality office space for any company is a challenge. However, the space challenges that a startup faces have a far greater…

July 05, 2008

For all you economics and business-minded folks out there, I put up a post about my thoughts on the Indian economy and the direction it's…

July 01, 2008

It's been quite some time since I put up a post and I apologize for that. Business matters such as recruiting, product development, and…

June 21, 2008

OSSCamp Delhi Summer Edition kicked off this morning. There was a movie called "Revolution OS" that talked about the beginning of the Free…

June 16, 2008

OSSCamp Delhi is just around the corner. On Saturday, 21st January, 2008 Open Source enthusiasts, users, and businesses will be gathering…

May 12, 2008

The Apple Store India was relaunched some time back but fairly recently, possibly even today, Apple has dropped the prices on almost all…

May 07, 2008

According to Ars Technica, Vodafone will be launching the iPhone in India beating out Airtel. It's not a surprise considering Vodafone…

April 28, 2008

As most people expected, Apple rolled out their iMac upgrades. Most of us didn't expect the upgrades this early and some of us, took a…

April 25, 2008

Well, I've been trying for almost a whole week to get Airtel's Unlimited GPRS service (or Mobile Office as it's called on their site) setup…

March 06, 2008

Well, as expected, Steve Jobs & Co., released the much anticipated iPhone SDK. You should be able to download the iPhone SDK in a few hours…

February 28, 2008

I stumbled upon HungryZone which was launched by the same folks who came up with HungryBangalore. I never used HungryBangalore before but…

February 26, 2008

Apple has released the 1.1.4 firmware for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apparently, 1.1.4 can be jailbroken using Zibri's jailbreak tool…

February 09, 2008

iPhone Software Unlocking of firmware 1.1.2 and 1.1.3 is possible for upgraded phones and out of the box phones. I will post more details as…

January 27, 2008

It took some time to get the correct MMS settings for the iPhone but below is a screenshot of the exact settings to be used with Vodafone in…

January 26, 2008

A splinter dev team released iBrickr for Windows and Apple OS X to jailbreak Apple iPhones with firmware 1.1.13. This jailbreak will only…

January 18, 2008

Staples Logo I recently arrived in Bangalore for a few day visit and drove past one of the new Staples office superstores. Walking into the…

December 04, 2007

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to make the first OSSCamp in September so I'm excited to see that the folks that brought us OSSCampDelhi are…

November 13, 2007

I'm back in New Delhi and brought my iPhone along for the ride. I popped in a Hutch (Vodafone) SIM card into the iPhone. Everything appeared…

October 26, 2007

If you unlocked your phone using iPhoneSimFree's commercial unlock, stop reading. This post because it won't help you.As I mentioned, I had…

October 09, 2007

Since Apple release firmware 1.1.1 for the iPhone, there's been non-stop commentary and whining about the unlocked iPhones being relocked…

October 01, 2007

It's been a while since I've been able to blog. Not because I haven't had things to write about but because of a lack of time. We're finally…

July 10, 2007

On June 27th, Google released Desktop for Linux. I had looked for a download link on the main Desktop page but it only offered a download of…

June 24, 2007

After downloading from iTunes and watching episode 3 of the second season of Sleeper Cell: American Terror, my MacBook completely froze up…

June 05, 2007

After the release of Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, I decided to try upgrading my installation of Edgy Eft directly using Ubuntu Update Manager. It…

May 30, 2007

Well, we've been in India for over two months now. New Delhi is quite honestly one of the largest outdoor saunas I've ever come across. Of…

May 15, 2007

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April 07, 2007

We've been in New Delhi for almost 4 weeks now. It's been pretty tough adjusting to living out of temporary quarters. The three of us have…

April 07, 2007

Novell has gotten into flattering Apple by creating parodies of the "Get a Mac" ads. I thought the ads were "cute" but incredibly unoriginal…

March 16, 2007

It's been a while since I mentioned that we've decided to move to India, at least for the next 5 months. Part of the reason, I haven't…

March 02, 2007

There's a great article on the MercuryNews today by India's former candidate for UN Secretary General, Mr. Shashi Tharoor.  Mr. Tharoor…

March 01, 2007

Lenovo has issued another batter recall. This time it is for batteries manufactured by Sanyo. Systems affected are ThinkPad R60, R60e, T6…

February 21, 2007

Well, I finally got around to installing openSUSE 10.2 on my ThinkPad T60. Unfortunately, I was running very low on disk space and couldn't…

February 15, 2007

With Google's release of Google Maps for Australia, I am hoping Google Maps India isn't going to be that far away. Being a complete outsider…

February 14, 2007

Comic Vine has put together a super hero date quiz for Valentine's Day. Apparently, Aurora is a perfect match for me. Other matches would be…

February 14, 2007

Lenovo is offering users of ThinkPads and other Lenovo products who purchased their PC between October 26th, 2006 and March 15th, 2007 a…

February 07, 2007

http://epaper.hindustantimes.com/ArticleText.aspx?article=07_02_2007_001_028&kword=&mode=1 The 2001 Census projects a yearly requirement of…

February 06, 2007

I had written about M2I (Moving-2-India) here and about how I've been bitten by the bug. Well, we've made our final decision to make the…

February 06, 2007

I've decided to use the Redoable theme by Dean J. Robinson. I like the look of this theme and I'm really diggin' the colors. Please let me…

February 04, 2007

~~LinOSX might be in some strange state for the next few hours as I'm going to be upgrading it to Wordpress 2.1 and probably changing theme…

February 02, 2007

I was reading an interesting post on Gaurav's blog about founders of startups taking significant paycuts when raising funding from VCs. i…

February 02, 2007

Actually, I've been back from India for a month but there has just been too much going on personally for me to devote time to blogging. It…

December 30, 2006

Apparently, I'm Spider-ManYour results: You are Spider-Man…

November 24, 2006

I'm at FOSS.IN at the National Science Symposium Centre in Bangalore. Mr Atul Chitnis will be giving the keynote in just a few minutes…

November 23, 2006

Here's a great article by Venkatesh Hariharan. He examines India's tradition of knowledge sharing and how the subversion of this knowledge…

November 22, 2006

I will be heading to Bangalore Thursday to attend the FOSS.IN event this coming weekend. FOSS.IN is the largest FOSS event in the world. I'm…

November 20, 2006

Since I started writing the previous post on my Passage to India, I've been very fortunate to meet some really incredible people in New…

November 20, 2006

Most "broadband" providers in India offer a fairly low cost DSL product with top speeds of 256K. At 256K, you are limited to 400MB of…

November 19, 2006

Emblem of India Nusair asked that I start blogging about my experience in India over the next few weeks. I have toyed with the idea of doing…

November 16, 2006

The first thing I did after I got the T60 was to format the drive, keeping the rescue partition, and resize the first boot partition to give…

October 30, 2006

As scheduled, Fedora Core 6 was released on October 24th, 2006.  I've upgraded a Dell PowerEdge to FC6 but that was after creating a…

October 17, 2006

Take a look at the Fedora Core 6 Draft Schedule. They've delayed general release by two more days. The original release date was Oct. 10th…

October 06, 2006

Google quietly released their blog pinging service on the same day they released their Code Search service.  It's a bit late but, hopefully…

October 06, 2006

Google announced two new services, Google Code Search and Google Blog Search Pinging. In this post, I'll discuss Google Code Search. Google…

October 05, 2006

How many presentations do you have locked up on a disk somewhere? Most of us never get around to doing much with our presentations other…

September 29, 2006

I've been having many problems with my Nokia E61, after the firmware upgrade. I've posted some of the issues on this blog as well as…

September 23, 2006

I did a firmware upgrade based on some of the issues I was having. The firmware upgrade process is well documented here and ran flawlessly…

September 13, 2006

Ok, well, Steve got up on stage yesterday and spent an hour woo'ing journalists and bloggers for the second time in about two months. Every…

September 03, 2006

The SS Tarapore committee on fuller capital account convertibility has recommended loosening of controls on capital flows in three phases…

September 01, 2006

This is a great talk from former Vice President Al Gore at TED 2006. technorati tags:TED, Google, Al Gore

September 01, 2006

Google is making available video from the TED (Technology, Entertainment & Design) conferences. Among videos available are talks from former…

September 01, 2006

CodeWeavers yesterday released a public beta of CroosOver Mac. A list of the supported applications is here. I downloaded and installed it…

August 30, 2006

Amazon just opened a beta of their aStore for Amazon affiliates. The aStore allows Amazon Affiliates to create a custom store listing Amazon…

August 28, 2006

Here's a great post on Amit Ranjan's personal blog about how large technology and outsourcing companies in India are turning the cream of…

August 26, 2006

This is a pretty good article about managing your batteries. After the recent Dell and Apple over heating problems and recalls, the issues…

August 20, 2006

I came across this great post today. Unfortunately, if you don't speak Hindi, you won't get it. However, if you speak Hindi and you're a fan…

August 18, 2006

It's almost anti-climactic to hear of another job board or social networking site. So what? There's nothing exciting or interesting about…

August 17, 2006

Tom Galloway at Google talks about Star Trek's influence on modern technology and heavy influence on us geeks. Google is hosting a booth at…

August 17, 2006

I just came across the Business Plan Archive while reading a post on VentureWoods. The Business Plan Archive is a research organization that…

August 16, 2006

I've been using the TVMini HD on my MacBook for a few weeks and I love it. Even with the included antenna, I've been able to easily pick up…

August 15, 2006

Happy Independence Day to all Indians across the globe! At times like this, with all the chaos and problems in the world, we can appreciate…

August 15, 2006

I haven't been following Riya lately but it is sure going to have it's hands full with Google's acquisition of Neven Vision. From Neven…

August 15, 2006

I've been using Diigo and the Diigo toolbar for a week or so now and so far, I really like it. I first heard about Diigo over at TechCrunch…

August 13, 2006

Google branded ice cream is available only to Google employees at the Mountainview, Ca campus. I hope it's a great way to boost morale…

August 11, 2006

Couldn't Lenovo have announced this in May? It is so tempting to think if I could dual-boot SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 ( preloaded and…

August 11, 2006

Google made some minor revisions to their homepage where they added video search directly on the home page and they added a little drop down…

August 09, 2006

This technology might actually make me a good photographer or, at the very least, half-way decent. Now if the technology could be open…

August 06, 2006

The Indian Supreme Court has subpoenaed Coke and Pepsi in India to disclose their ingredients after an independent research body found that…

August 05, 2006

I have just installed and made available forums to discuss anything from Web 2.0, to argue whether a ThinkPad or MacBook is better, to…

August 05, 2006

Google recently release a Picasa uploader for the Mac thanks to Ted Bonkenburg. Ted worked on this during his twenty-percent time at Google…

August 03, 2006

There's been quite a bit of discussion in the Blogosphere about how a 20yr. old former football player allegedly used Craigslist to get…

August 03, 2006

BlogBridge 3.0 came out a few days ago. As some of you know, I've been using previous versions for quite a while. What I like most about…

July 30, 2006

I am thinking about moving from Blogger to Wordpress. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts. Please let me know what you think. LinOSX…

July 29, 2006

And people as me why I don't recommend Dell laptops.... Today's "Dell laptop bursts into flames" story brought to you by "Henrik the…

July 27, 2006

Via Webyantra, I came across NowPos. What NowPos does is provide an ability to create, send, and receive voicemail from a browser. No…

July 27, 2006

Via Ajaxian, I cam across this Javascript tutorial presentation given at OSCON. For anyone working with Web technology, this is a great…

July 26, 2006

Greg and the team at Venture Voice have just put up, episode #36 of the Venture Voice podcast. This episode focuses on the Venture Voice…

July 20, 2006

My dear friend over at Tips are for Waiters and Herb Greenberg over at MarketWatch don't think Apple's earnings were all that impressive. As…

July 19, 2006

For everyone who has ever received an email from someone in Africa asking for X thousands of dollars for whatever reason, you MUST read this…

July 19, 2006

Via Emergic: July 19, 2006 Archives, the Wall Street Journal reports analysis done by Dennis Forbes around Internet domain names. All of the…

July 18, 2006

This is a great video of Darth Vader technorati tags:star wars, darth vader, comedy, parody Blogged with Flock edgeio-key: d177e4a3466ccc36b…

July 18, 2006

In response to the train bombings in Mumbai, India on 7/11/06, the Government of India has banned blogs hosted on Blogspot, Xenga, Wordpress…

July 18, 2006

A great friend of mine just started his own blog yesterday. He's a oney manager who's seen a lot of ups and downs. He's sharing his…

July 13, 2006

I've been using Flock as my primary browser on my work Ubuntu 6.06 PC, my MacBook and my Mac Mini PPC. It is an awesome browser on each…

July 03, 2006

Wishing everyone a very Happy, Healthy, and Safe 4th of July technorati tags:holiday, 4th of July Blogged with Flock

June 30, 2006

Almost 2/3 of the claims that SCO is making against IBM have been thrown out. After repeated requests to show exactly where code was taken…

June 29, 2006

The U.S. Sentate panel has sided with the telcos in allowing them to create a two-tier Internet. Get ready to pay more for your Internet…

June 28, 2006

As described on Creative Commons, David Byrne, of The Talking Heads, and Brian Eno have remastered and released My Life in the Bush of…

June 28, 2006

Watch this short video presentation that tries to explain exactly how losing net neutrality will affect all of us. technorati tags…

June 26, 2006

I wanted to congratulate the Greg Galant, Aaron Quint, and Laurence Koret for the wonderful job at the first Venture Voice Startup Worshop…

June 24, 2006

This is absolutely great. I salute this man's ingenuity and determination. Read more aobut how he started a web business in six to eight…

June 21, 2006

Amit Ranjan, head of the Delhi office of Uzanto, has started Webyantra to profile Indian web products & services. His focus will be on…

June 20, 2006

Yabba-Dabba-Do! Google has finally launched Google Earth for Linux. I have Google Earth for Linux working on a PC running Ubuntu 6.0…

June 16, 2006

Flock is awesome!  If you're a blogger, or love sharing pictures, or reading lots of RSS feeds, or storing your "favorites"/bookmarks…

June 15, 2006

Motorola, NEC, Panasonic, Samsung, NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone will be announcing plans to setup an independent foundation focused on…

June 13, 2006

The Social Web Browser, Flock, launched today with Beta 1 for windows, Mac and Linux. I have just completed the Mac install and am composing…

June 13, 2006

Sign the online petition at Save the Internet.com to send a message to Congress that you will not allow the Telcos to control the Internet…

June 13, 2006

Congratulations to Robert Scoble and PodTech.net. PodTech.net has been generating a great deal of content and I will definitely be on the…

June 06, 2006

I've been playing with the preinstalled Quicken 2006 for Mac after exporting most of my data from Quicken 2006 Premier Home and Business…

June 04, 2006

This is agreat article on MacWorld about gaming on the Apple MacBook. Some older games like Jedi Academy work pretty well, even with Rosetta…

June 01, 2006

I spent about 3 hours late last night reinstalling OS X on my MacBook, then bringing over my files and data from my Mac Mini, and finally…

May 29, 2006

Everyone's been talking about how hot the MacBook Pro and MacBooks get. I haven't yet seen anyone post anything about how hot the laptop is…

May 28, 2006

I've now had my MacBook for over a week now and used it pretty much in just about every real world scenario I have used my ThinkPad (other…

May 25, 2006

Unfortunately, Doc Searl's IT Garage blog had some issues with posting comments so below is my comment on Doc's Transcending boots post Doc…

May 21, 2006

As sturdy as Thinkpads are, there are a limited number of drops that even an IBM Thinkpad T40 can sustain (I'm sure the new Lenovo Thinkpads…

April 20, 2006

Saul, great post and I tend to agree with you. We still need desktop based services because we're not always connected and having…

March 30, 2006

Is this MySpace and FaceBook Envy or is it affirmation that Orkut isn't cutting it?Read more at googleblog.blogspot.com...technorati tags…

March 29, 2006

rPath has a great idea to allow people to cook up their own Linux distributions using only a browser! However, it is way too painful to work…

March 12, 2006

Just yesterday, I completed the first pre_alpha release of the core backend and frontend of an open source social networking application…

February 28, 2006

Steve Jobs announced a revamped Mac Mini running on Intel's single-core chip. Updates: The new single-core will be upto 3x faster a dual…

February 23, 2006

Not bad for a beta of a web publishing application. There are a decent amount of templates and there's 100MB of space to publish your pages…

February 21, 2006

Microsoft recently unveiled the highly anticipated MS Office Live Beta. There are 3 packages available. Microsoft Office Live Basics - Free…

February 14, 2006

I just finished installing the Breezy Badger and started configuring it. I'm sharing it through a dual boot on my IBM ThinkPad T40. So far…

February 13, 2006

My 3G iPod still works but the LCD died after about 18 months of use. 18 months is an inordinately small amount of time for a device that I…

February 07, 2006

This is a great little article about *nix basics. Very useful to newbies and for reference. Read more at www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt...

February 07, 2006

Don't Believe the hype! The much speculated 1GB Apple iPod Nano is out and prices on the iPod Shuffle have dropped to $69 for the 512 MB and…

February 06, 2006

FON has gotten a huge amount of blogosphere and media coverage over the last day or two. It appears to be a very interesting idea. I'm not…

February 02, 2006

Ever since I started using a Mac a year ago, I was always amazed at how everything just worked. There wasn't any tinkering required with…

January 23, 2006

The first time i tried to get broadband at the end of 1999, I kept getting told by Verizon that "It's coming soon". After about eight or…

January 10, 2006

Does anyone know why Google has NOT come up with Google Pack for Linux or OS X? Now, I understand that they're gearing their software…

January 04, 2006

My Jabra BT250v died last week. I'm not sure how it died but I was able to hear people but they weren't able to hear me no matter how loud I…

December 27, 2005

I've been playing around with Windows Live Local and Google Local. I did a few searches like "children party places in north platte, ne…

December 24, 2005

Interesting article on Emacs but most people using Emacs today are using it on Intel Hardware ( and PowerPC base Macs ). I think the writer…

December 13, 2005

Mozilla Corporation - Home of the Firefox web browser and Thunderbird email clientFirefox 1.5 has been running pretty well on my work Fedora…

December 12, 2005

I've been using OpenSuse for a few months now and though I like OpenSuse enough to be still using it on my Thinkpad T40, I am a little…

December 09, 2005

Del.icio.us, the shared bookmarking and tagging business was acquired by Yahoo as reported by Reuters on CNET. Yahoo is sure on a Web 2.…

December 09, 2005

Wow. I never thought I would say this but for a Beta, I am amazed at 1) Windows Live Local beating Google to the punch and putting this Web…

December 07, 2005

I just finished reading the free Tux Magazine Issue Number 8 ( 9 is also available ). It's a very good quality linux magazine from the same…

November 30, 2005

I just picked up a Sony PlayStation Portable with Star Wars Battlefront II. I can't say too much about the game yet because I haven't had a…

November 29, 2005

It's official Mozilla.com has announced Firefox 1.5 is now available. Go Get it NOW! Linux Mac OS X Windows technorati tags: mozilla…

November 22, 2005

Google appears to have drastically underestimated the demand for the service and is now playing catch up in providing the necessary…

November 17, 2005

I signed up for Google Analytics on Tuesday to monitor this blog and see traffic patterns, if any, and really just to test out what Google…

November 17, 2005

I downloaded and installed OpenSuse 10 on my laptop along with Fedora Core 4. The installation screens were prettier than Fedora but that's…

November 11, 2005

I just downloaded Firefox 1.5 RC2 for Linux and built the RPM for Fedora Core 4 using Thomas Chung's spec file from http://www.fedoranews…

October 26, 2005

What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly -- Defining just what Web 2.0 means (the term was first coined at a conference brainstorming session between…

October 01, 2005

CNET recently posted an article about Apple's decision to, in some cases, provide hardware on their fabulous Mac Mini that performs beyond…

August 31, 2005

Having been using five or six different email accounts ( 1 with my ISP, 1 for a personal domain I have, 1 for work, 1 for junk mail, and…

July 18, 2005

This article doesn't have anything to do with Linux or OS X but it was a very interesting article about the Rediff.com in India. Click on…

July 10, 2005

Apple's recent announcement to move to Intel chips isn't very surprising. However, it will create significant challenges for Linux companies…

July 09, 2005

Fedora Core 4 was released in the middle of June with some interesting enhancements/additions. Click here to download it.So far, FC4 is the…

March 02, 2005

I've been using the Mac for roughly a month now and I love the machine but I just finished ordering a 1GB memory upgrae for the Mini. OSX…

February 07, 2005

Well, I've been playing with the Mini for just over a week now. Everything's been pretty smooth other than needing lots of memory and being…

January 31, 2005

I've been watching Macs for about 3 years now with a bit of envy. Apple, a few weeks ago, released the Mac Mini - "The most affordable Mac…

January 28, 2005

I finally modified the script slightly to keep a list of the "bad" IP addresses in a text file. Please feel free to modify the script any…

January 10, 2005

Ok, I admit it, this script is horrible, even for a quick hack. Duplicate address constantly get processed every hour since they're already…

December 08, 2004

I wrote a very simple shell script to use iptables to block ip addresses that are use various rootkits to try and hack into your box over…

December 06, 2004

I've been using Solaris and Linux for more than eight years now and couldn't bare the thought of having to use Windows. I always thought it…

November 30, 2004

Well, it looks like there's either something wacky with my hardware. After 11 tries, I could not get the Fedora Core 3 installation done on…

November 30, 2004

I've decided to take the plunge and try rolling my own Linux distribution based on Redhat's Fedora Core 3. I'm including many thirdparty…

November 26, 2004

Wow...I have never tried 7 straight installations of any OS before. I wound up needing to re-install Fedora Core 3 on my Dell Dimension at…

November 14, 2004

Another FC2 -> FC3 upgrade I just upgraded my FC2 desktop to FC3 and again, absolutely smooth!! This time, I didn't even have the problem of…

November 11, 2004

After a bit more playing with my upgraded laptop, I found that not all my FC2 packages were upgraded. I tried opening OpenOffice Writer and…

November 10, 2004

Fedora Core 3 was released on Monday. By early Wednesday morning I had the DVD ISO downloaded and burnt onto a shiny new DVD+R. I popped the…

August 03, 2004

It's been a while since I promised to post instructions on getting the Centrino working on my Thinkpad T40 with Fedora Core 2 and…

June 18, 2004

This turned out to be pretty easy. I installed the RPMs from ATRpms for the hostap and ipw2100 kernel modules. Initially, I couldn't load…

June 18, 2004

I've been away on vacation, buried with work and spending time with the lovely wife and relatives so it's been a little tough to spend time…

May 21, 2004

I just installed gnome-blogger on my FC2 Dell desktop. Looks very simple and powerful with decent editing features. What would be nice is to…

May 21, 2004

I just finished my download of Fedora Core 2 after 4 days of trying and funny enough, using Bittorrent from Europe was faster than using the…

May 20, 2004

There's a great article on linuxdevcenter on how to create your own bootable Linux CD based on Knoppix. Using and Customizing Knoppix by…

May 14, 2004

Working out of a different office today, I was extremely apprehensive about being forced to use Windows and Outlook. I decided to download…

May 13, 2004

Click on the title above to read a case study about how Redhat is being deployed at the Central Bank of India, a bank with over 300…

May 12, 2004

I was doing some poking around the web to look for Linux projects in India and came up with the links below. Some interesting stuff. A perl…

May 12, 2004

Looks like Novell GPL'ed the Ximian Connector for hooking Evolution up to Exchange 2000/2003. Panu Matilainen was nice enough to start…

May 10, 2004

I'm far from being a tech guru. I'm just a tech enthusiast who really likes the freedom, flexibility, and tinkering nature of the *NIX world…
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