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Dell Linux Survey
Posted by: BD on: March 14, 2007
- In: Linux| Technology
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Please vote at Dell Linux survey. For details on how it came into existence check out Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth’s post.
Dell’s move towards linux and opensource would motivate other hardware vendors to do the same. Please vote! Every vote counts.
Also, don’t forget to vote for linux and other open source options at Dell Ideastorm
Fun with satellite tracking
Posted by: BD on: February 24, 2007
It seems I’ve hit a gold mine. This website (n2yo.com) lets me track satellites orbiting the Earth in real-time. It also lets you know how many satellites are hovering over you right now.
It’s got tons of satellites to track. For example, if you want to see who, the old Indian spy satellite, TES is snooping [...]
Have you tried out Yahoo pipes yet?
Posted by: BD on: February 23, 2007
If you thought site feeds were just for newsreaders and aggregators, think again. Yahoo pipes offers you a tool to mash up different site feeds to generate ‘new’ content.
For example, this pipe lets you pull out images from Flickr based on each news item in New York Times. Cool, isn’t it?
What’s even better is that [...]
Space Hegemony – III
Posted by: BD on: January 19, 2007
- In: Military| Technology| World
- 6 Comments
The rumors have been confirmed, eyebrows have been raised. The ramifications of the recent Chinese anti-satellite missile test are much more than simply an arms race.
I don’t blame the Chinese though. Satellites form the spine of a nation’s communication and information systems. Protecting such assets in space is equally, if not more, important as protecting [...]
Designed to break
Posted by: BD on: January 11, 2007
- In: Personal| Technology
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Are products nowadays designed to break as soon as the warranty is up? It’s the last place I’d expect precision engineering to be applied, but the trends make me wonder.
It happend to me twice, first my laptop(Dell) and then my digital camera(Canon). And given how dear they were to me, they surely didn’t break [...]
INRSS
Posted by: BD on: December 20, 2006
ISRO continues to surprise!
India wants to set up the “Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System” (IRNSS), that would be totally under its control. Under the other systems, denial of access to satellite signals or the degrading of signal accuracy, especially in a conflict situation, remains a distinct possibility.
When implemented, the IRNSS would provide positional accuracy similar [...]
Google patent search online
Posted by: BD on: December 16, 2006
Google cares! So that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel!
Space hegemony revisted
Posted by: BD on: October 18, 2006
A new space defence policy recently set by United States President George W Bush opposes any arms control treaty that would limit US actions in space, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. Rediff
Related post: Space hegemony being broken
[tags]Space warfare[/tags]
Google Creative writing competition
Posted by: BD on: September 20, 2006
Google is not just about code jams. For a change, Google(India) is organizing a creative writing competition. Amit Agarwal has more info.
via desipundit.
Hard to believe
Posted by: BD on: April 14, 2006
- In: Technology
- 1 Comment
Cosmetic surgery was practiced as early as 6th century BC , in South Asia. Hard to believe? No? Now beat this: Dentistry was practiced as early as 9000 BC, in South Asia.
An article published in Nature, documents the analysis of about 4000 dental samples from 225 burials in the Neolithic necropolis at Mehrgarh region [...]
Movie on Ramanujam
Posted by: BD on: March 20, 2006
- In: Movies| Technology
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Dev Benegal and Stephen Fry are collaborating on a movie based on the life of Srinivasa Ramanujam. Read their press release.
The Indian president is among many who are contributing to this project. The movie was officially launched with his presence in the ceremony.
Also check out Dev Benegal’s blog.
Update:
IBN has more details on their site.
Benegal said [...]
We are still evolving
Posted by: BD on: March 8, 2006
- In: Technology
- 5 Comments
Contrary to popular belief, a recent scientific find shows evidence for the fact that human beings are still evolving:
The finding adds substantially to the evidence that human evolution did not grind to a halt in the distant past, as is tacitly assumed by many social scientists. Even evolutionary psychologists, who interpret human behavior in terms [...]
The other side of outsourcing
Posted by: BD on: February 23, 2006
- In: Technology| World
- 1 Comment
An in depth look into the economic cultural and economic effects of Globalization in India, presented by Tom Friedman
technorati tags: outsourcing, India, Thomas+Friedman
The spirit of questioning (the fundamentals)
Posted by: BD on: December 1, 2005
- In: General| Technology
- 3 Comments
Came across an article on BBC about a speech by Lord May at the Royal Society. An excerpt:
Another danger to the enlightenment of science came from the growing network of fundamentalist and lobby groups in the US that campaigned for creationism to be taught in science classes, he added.
“By their own writings, this group has [...]
Music Genome Project
Posted by: BD on: November 28, 2005
- In: Technology
- 2 Comments
The year 2000 saw the completion of the mammoth Human Genome project; in the same year an ambitious Music Genome project (MGP) was launched. Just hike human genomics, MGP seeks to identify basic characteristics that help define the nature of a song. Tom Conrad elaborates:
We believe that your musical preferences are first and foremost [...]
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