How to make Reliance Netconnect broadband to work on Ubuntu 10.04

June 17, 2010

If you are following me in this blog, you might be aware of that I switched to Ubuntu 10.04 last week. On changing, I had to give some effort to make sure my Reliance Netconnect broadband connection working in Ubuntu. Here’s how I did it, based on referring several sources and forums in the internet. [...]

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Changed to Ubuntu 10.04

June 15, 2010

I was a Windows user for a long time. From the day I started using computer till last week, I never thought of leaving Windows.There were several software which kept me glued to Windows. All was well until my friend inserted an virus infected pen drive to my laptop and it *really* screwed my operating [...]

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Going back in Time

June 10, 2010

Do you still remember the software that you used from your earlier days when you first started using a computer? Even though there are several new versions of software came these days, the first ones never goes out of our mind, at least for me. I used to get nostalgic whenever I see someone blog [...]

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Mars Rover in Java

June 6, 2010

Sometime back, when Arun posted a Python version of Mars Rover problem, I tried the same in Java. Btw, if you haven’t heard about Mars Rover problem before, here’s the text for you (Ctrl+C & Ctrl+V’ed from Arun’s post). Mars Rover problem: A squad of robotic rovers are to be landed by NASA on a [...]

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Thank you my readers! This blog turns 2 year old!!

June 5, 2010

First of all, let me say a BIG THANKS to all my readers who visited, read my posts, commented,  sent me emails, joined my network, subscribed to my posts  (and *some times* clicked on the ads ). Because of all your positive feedback, this blog turns 2 year old in this month (June 3rd to [...]

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CSS Sorter – Revamped

June 2, 2010

If you remember, some time back I had released a small Java application called CSS Sorter that sorts the Cascading Style Sheet rules alphabetically. That application was developed based on Google’s App Engine Java platform. I took that project as a learning exercise to know more about Google App Engine development and it served well [...]

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Bought a new Laptop – Acer Aspire 5738Z

May 25, 2010

Last weekend, the first item on my TODO list was to setup a desktop PC. I had decided on the PC configuration long back ago, but didn’t actually set it up. Because that time I was in Trivandrum, where the PC accessories might cost a bit higher. I was holding that plan till I move [...]

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Google Wave opened to public – are you using it?

May 20, 2010

After an year of development, Google has opened Wave for public access. Now you don’t need to wait for an invitation to get a Wave account. Go to wave.google.com, sign up, fill in the blanks and you’re on Wave! When  the Wave was announced, it was mainly considered as a move from Google to overshadow [...]

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Behind the Names

May 11, 2010

Recently I attended an in-house session on “Eclipse tooling”. In that, the presenter shared an interesting information about the reason behind naming Eclipse as “Eclipse”. The history goes something like this: Sun develops Java, Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT), Swing technologies =>   IBM wants to develop a extensible Java IDE/platform out of VisualAge => IBM evaluates [...]

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Innovation – Why startups rock and big companies suck?

May 1, 2010

Believe me, when I say Innovation (in the context of software development), you would have definitely thought about a company/product which is in it’s early stage, i.e. a startup. Off course, there are lots of large companies in the market with lots of resources (a.k.a. developers) and infrastructure and funding. But why couldn’t those companies [...]

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