Thursday, August 31, 2006
So as we all know, Apple followed Dell in recalling a large number of batteries. Although the number of batteries recalled by Apple is smaller (1.8 million against Dell’s 4+ million), in terms of market share thats a huge number for Apple and virtually every Powerbook 12″ user I know (myself included) is affected. Now [...]
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Scene I Doctor’s waiting room. Electronic queueing system in place. My number – 184. 179 through 183 go by, ever so slowly. The next beep comes and I get up in anticipation, but the display shows nice round figures: 0000 in room 2. Nobody goes into room 2. Now, this is what happens when you’ve [...]
I don’t think anybody will disagree: the situation at the 4th test between England and Pakistan can only be labeled ridiculous. If you weren’t aware of the circus show, there’s no dearth of places to read about it. At the end of the day, the fourth umpire communicated that there would no more play today. [...]
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
I found this script which, when set as your default mail client, opens up a gmail compose window from KDE apps instead of KMail. I had a couple of problems with the automatic browser detection of the script, though, so I simply set the BROWSER variable to “firefox” instead of the command in the script. [...]
India’s 60th independence day, and the 10th that I celebrated outside India. A decade ago, there used to be just a handful of people who attended the ceremonies on 15th August and 26th Jaunary at the High Commission. To have a family there was extremely rare, and mostly it was just students and officials who [...]
I’ve been meaning to write some book reviews for a long time, but haven’t gotten around to it. Today I finished yet another book I’d want to write about, so I decided to clear the backlog. Here goes. A short history of nearly everything – Bill Bryson This is the best book about science I [...]
Thursday, August 10, 2006
Pretty sensitive issue this – whether man should be allowed to play God or not. I was a debater once, and I’ve pretty much debated this with dozens of arguments from each side. One thing you can’t argue with, though: playing God is fun. I was playing around with Scheme today (for the uninitiated and/or [...]
As promised, Apple introduced their next operating system, Mac OS X Leopard at the WWDC Keynote today. What I think of it should be evident if you bothered to read the title of this post. But first, lets start with the stuff I *did* like. Yeah, I’m talking about the digs at Microsoft: “Redmond has [...]
This is how Linux keeps you on your toes. I did a “yum update” on my system, and after that yum stopped working. Ouch. The error I was getting was this: There was a problem importing one of the Python modules required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was: No module named [...]
You can obtain a copy of MS Office 2007 Beta for US$1.50. That beta, I believe, is valid for a year; and it’s a beta of a program that when released, will cost hundreds of dollars. You can obtain a copy of Neo Office 2.0 Beta (NeoOffice is a Mac OS X office suite, closely [...]
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