Category Archives: My Comments

What happens to the Doctorates?

January 19, 2010 – 11:06 pm

Well the news is out the Govt. of India is derecognizing 44 so called deemed universities in India due to lack of infrastructure facilities. Finally some one in the Education department recognized it and blew the whistle.
Although I didn’t study in any of these universities but I have visited some of them during my UG [...]

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Windows 7 Vs Kubuntu 9.10 the fight continues..

December 10, 2009 – 12:49 am

I recently got a new laptop Lenovo ideapad Y550 which was supposed to come with Windows 7 but came with Vista instead but I already decided that I would use Ubuntu 9.10 to avoid all windows nightmare and started using Kubuntu 9.10 (KDE graphic environment of Ubuntu). I can do a whole podcast on the [...]

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Universal Mobile chargers finally..

October 25, 2009 – 9:59 pm

CNET news reported that the International Telecommunication Union a branch of UN has decided to go for universal mobile phone chargers.
In a world where each mobile phone from same manufacture have different chargers working this is a welcoming sign.
I also hope ITU gets in to and standardize the chargers for all portable devices as well. [...]

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try{use xp;}catch(n crashes;slow;){use Ubuntu;}

August 8, 2009 – 8:37 pm

Well the title explains it all. After using my IBM Thinkpad R50e for almost 3.7 years after

10 – 20 times of complete crash downs.
Backing up and recovering every time.
Slow system which wouldn’t allow me to use Eclipse   or Dreamweaver or run my fav coldfusion server CF8/Railo 3.
Upgrading my Ram to max 2 gb.

I [...]

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The Ripple Effect

May 18, 2009 – 1:38 am

With the United Progressive Alliance – UPA lead by Congress(I) winning the 2009 Indian parlimentary election with a surprise and its ripple effects has started showing up.
Obviously the first place to feel the effect is the closest to the center that’s Srilanka where BBC has reported that Velupillai Prabhakaran leader of LTTE has been killed. [...]

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Print Preview button missing in Chrome

February 19, 2009 – 11:29 pm

As I was testing one of my print style sheet in all browsers I found out that Google Chrome (1.0.154.48) doesn’t have a print preview button which is pretty much available in most of the browsers.
Did they miss it in the requirement or decided to leave it out like that to stand out of the [...]

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End of Tax Season 2008…

February 12, 2009 – 12:55 am

Generally I procrastinate filing the tax every year but this year I filed it too early considering my standard.
Although I’m not getting much in federal and paying some to CA tax its the free e-file feature, sudden interest to file my tax and get the return before federal govt goes bankrupt  [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire is Slum

February 2, 2009 – 2:26 am

Yes the title says it. Its a really good desi masala movie packed in a nice little tamper proof plastic cup so that it can be cooked instantly in your DVD player.
As I was watching it I was wondering why it got nominated for Grammy and Oscars come on people haven’t you watched a better [...]

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I’m not Sita – ur not Rama either

January 7, 2009 – 11:21 pm

I have faced this situation n number of times every where I lived in United states of America whenever there is a talk about India or going to Hindi movies.
I’m going to redirect them to this post to find my answer because I’m tired of telling each of them individually.
There is a wide spread accusation [...]

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What good will it do

October 13, 2008 – 12:19 am

What good will it do especially after the last fiasco with with Karnataka govt.

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