July 2009

Doordharshan will be the first channel in India to serve high definition content.

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@ankur_sethi I’m always reminded of Ballmer in Pirates of Silicon Valley when I read some news story that quotes him.

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@shivaas That’s like the shittiest news site around.

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Mac OS X update 10.5.7 has increased my MBP’s battery life to 4.5 hours(web browsing over WiFi).

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@sudhang Wow. That’s a whole lot of movies.

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Twitter’s homepage looks slick.

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Busy at college, Busy at home. Life is fun.

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Haven't seen this before. Happened the moment I restarted my PC and switched to Windows. http://yfrog.com/0o9c0p

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AdSense spots suddenly flooded with Google Chrome ads.

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RT @ankur_sethi The Free Software Foundation are a bunch of whiny douchebags. I couldn’t care less about what RMS has to say these days.

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@ankur_sethi It’s become annual. I’m not sure but I think it happens at different times of the year in different colleges. Ours is now.

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So many blog posts sponsored by 9.9 for 9.9 products. No one seems to be saying they’re being paid for though.

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Some weird (annual) teachers’ strike today. But our lucky class is taught by some non-OBC non-permanent teachers who can’t go on strike.

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Wikis hog on storage space because they store every idiotic edit as a separate entry even if all that’s changed in the edit is the edit date

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@ankur_sethi Why shouldn’t we be using the internet there? :S

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@ankur_sethi We’re actually more productive this way. Why shouldn’t be using the internet there? :S

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Today we setup our own Ubuntu cluster from scratch. Details on WikiEducator. Next step is to add more nodes. http://bit.ly/XcjdG

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@ankur_sethi On the PIs in the cluster lab where some machines have just X(Xorg and Xvesa don’t work!), we use Lynx as our browser.

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Google News doesn’t let me choose sections on Lynx? Why Google, why?

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Firefox for Windows following the Chrome path. http://bit.ly/WAaZC

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Daughtry “You Don’t Belong” #aolradiorequest

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This month is going to be a Daughtry month.

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Daughtry out with new album. Pretty good too!

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‘Make Your Own Kind of Music’ on a continuous loop.

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@emkwan Fun. Miss having such arguments after joining college.

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@sudhang Are you adding to what you originally said? As in patting your own back?

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@sudhang You mean the way you think about Stallman? No way!

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@sudhang It starts with the 5 rupee pen I use. I like it. I talk about it. And I say its name out loud.

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@sudhang I just threw the dart on the dartboard you showed me.

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@sudhang Say all you want. The moment you use something else, you’ll know the difference.

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@sudhang typo in previous reply: should be ‘its value’ instead of ‘it’s value’

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@sudhang Your “gift” loses it’s value because you’re not able to play Ogg. So you should return it for something you like better.

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@sudhang That was more for blogs. The second link is what you need to look at.

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@sudhang And I know you love your mp3s. Oh wait, you listen to FLAC? Move to analog man.

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@sudhang Of course you’re a user. A pathetic one too. If you cared so much, you would have found a way to get an Ogg alternative.

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@sudhang You own one too. Amazing that you’re so cynical about the whole thing.

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@KritiA Now that really makes me want to to say “eh”. So, eh?

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You will soon be able to order pizza from Pizza Hut on your iPhone OS devices. http://bit.ly/DXDZY

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@itsanimesh I bought a Netgear for 1550 and a Belkin 1590. The Belkin one rocks because it lets you use it as an access point too.

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@itsanimesh How much does GPRS cost you on Vodafone?

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I love the way a Gmail message gets grouped with replies. That’s the one feature I miss on Mail.app.

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RT @blah_bleh Must watch on Mumbai terror attacks. http://vimeo.com/5409826 (via @rungta) You should watch this.

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LOL. People just can’t make up their minds. http://bit.ly/AR2Qj

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@ajuonline Tell me where you finally get one. All the details.

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Don’t risk destroying your Super Drive. Stick to VLC 0.9.9 till bugs are fixed and discs stop spinning at insane speeds.

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Just came back from a shopping spree. Clothes at Westside are awesome. Levis, Lee have reduced prices to half. The money I earned - Gone!

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So much for Schmidt dismissing Twitter last year. http://bit.ly/G1DVF

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Awesome VLC mod that makes it look more like Leopard. http://www.mediafire.com…

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@ap00rv If you have your GPRS settings right, it should switch to EDGE whenever possible automatically. On S40, the small G on top becomes E

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MTNL’s EDGE coverage ain’t bad. When I have network coverage, it’s actually pretty fast.

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@ap00rv I thought it was weird when I heard a person say say “I’m Google. What do you want to search today?”. Try it. http://bit.ly/Ddwen

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Most of the Heroes and Lost episodes are exactly 42 minutes long.

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@sudhang Did you pick this up from that stupid show too?

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VLC turned 1. And it didn’t turn into a Twitter trend? #theworldisending

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Picked up a graphic design job at 9.9.

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Setting up an Android device for development: “If you’re developing on Mac OS X, it just works. Skip this step.” http://bit.ly/ZJYhF

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Schmidt discussing Chrome OS. http://bit.ly/dEutc

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Typo - That should have been Croma

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Apple Shops. Chroma. Like the ones in Best Buy. http://www.apple.com/in/…

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@ap00rv Forget 3G, I’ll be lucky if I am able to have a coversation with someone without the connection dropping.

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@ankur_sethi if this is a book used by a good number of colleges here, then you’ll find the rupee edition that will be much cheaper.

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Anyone who uses the word ‘fanboy’ in an offensive way only cares about hits. And they always start articles saying they aren’t fanboys.

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By not saying much about Chrome OS, Google gets to read a lot about what the community expects from it. Great way to gather information.

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@karmanya And why are you still using Windows?

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How does the supplementary exam system work with regular courses(not following the semester system) in DU? How can total marks be just 400?

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@ap00rv and since nobody uses brute force to chose a network based on the password, there’s no need to broadcast the SSID.

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@ap00rv They don’t need to change the SSID to do that, do they?

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I wonder why people like to broadcast their SSIDs.

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Belkin Routers are the most feature rich. I’ve set it up as an access point, to simplify all the port forwarding for VNC.

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@yuvipanda Still, I don’t understand how that is bad?

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@yuvipanda That doesn’t answer my question. There’s nothing wrong with the Linux kernel. It’s an excellent base.

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@yuvipanda And how does that stop it from being awesome?

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The first app I used with Push Notifications looks pretty awesome. It’s an IM app called eBuddy. Some neat UI too. Hate the blue though.

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Me too. RT @gakman I, for one, welcome our new Google Chrome Operating System overlords.

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Creating a little Joomla installer of my own that does a little more than fantastico.

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Thinking of picking up some HTML5 projects.

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@emkwan Any case. I think ZAGG’s InvisibleShield is an exception.

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@emkwan Oh, you think that case wont scratch it? The scratches will be neatly carved. I wish they had an aluminum version like the nano.

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Now why the hell does Mozilla not want to build a Firefox theme like the one Camino uses?

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@sudhang I don’t think so. Unless you can write a script to maintain the encrypted XML database.

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Very, very difficult to keep an iPod touch scratch free.

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@sudhang doesn’t fedora bundle gtkpod ootb?

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The export option in Pages ’08 was way better. DOC exports look so weird.

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@ap00rv Michael Emerson was by far the best actor in the show.

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@ap00rv I don’t know. All the tome travel was a little crazy. Didn’t like season 3 and 4 as much as the others.

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Finished watching all seasons of Lost.

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Here’s how you find out who manufactured the LCD on your Mac - ioreg -lw0 | grep IODisplayEDID | sed “/[^<]*</s///” | xxd -p -r | strings -6

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@ahujaankit The only way you’ll get it with support from Apple is when you buy it legally(Airtel/Vodafone). Very expensive option though.

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@Pixelgun I don’t think you will. But it may take some time getting used to if you’ve used Joomla for a long time.

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All text wallpaper with Apple logo. http://bit.ly/v7vjc

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Awesome ad network for FOSS-related websites. http://adbard.net/

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@ap00rv It’s actually pretty decent. I can’t get the encoders working though.

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@ankurb I don’t actually mind it being there, most of the websites I’ve using Joomla have menu categorization. I just don’t use content cat.

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@ahujaankit You could check out Pricegrabber. Some StoreFront sellers there even ship to India free.

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@ahujaankit Saw some of your GSOC code. Neat. Is anyone working on improving the menu item creation in the administration section?

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@hilsatlvsonline Is Drupal that old? I think I’ve pampered myself using Drupal, seeing the hundreds of little additions with every iteration

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@hilsatlvsonline Create the article, go to the permalink and then edit them from the frontend. That’s still a lot of work.

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@Pixelgun On #drupal, all I have to do is fill in the menu fields while creating the article.

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@hilsatlvsonline I know that and it’s so difficult. If this were possible on the page where I create the article, it would be so awesome.

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Joomla is still as unusable as it was 2 years back. You can’t create articles, and link them on menus directly. Drupal rocks!

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I understand that most WordPress plugins still serve XHTML code. Now that 2.0 is dead, I hope they start supporting HTML5.

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I’m still not used to Safari 4’s progress indicator. Firefox 3.5 is way better than I thought. After changing the default theme, that is.

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@adipedia Google plans to support both Theora and H264 in Chrome. Someone leads the way, others are fast to follow.

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@adipedia It’s a start. Better than Flash, any day.

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On Thunderbird 3, you can archive emails like you do on Gmail.

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@ankurb I have no idea. But 2 new Seagate HDDs that I bought last year and the year before that stopped working.

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@ankurb Maxtor is a Seagate brand. But the Seagate Free Agents I’ve bought never lasted like the Maxtors have.

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@gursartaj I think they gave themselves some space if they ever need it for ads (even though that seems unlikely) or something.

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@ankurb I think WD is probably the best. I’m using a Maxtor right now. But I think it’s all luck.

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@kbhargava All my Seagate(other than my Maxtor external HDDs) hard disks have failed. My 5 year old internal WD works just fine though.

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Maxtor is Seagate’s low cost external hard drive brand but those are way more reliable than the expensive hard disks they sell.

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@karmanya will send you one in some time if you like.

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@ap00rv unfortunately this doesn’t look like an April fools’ joke.

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@rungta I was looking at Ogg A/V as an open(better?) alternative to FLV. Kinda unique too.

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