The UNIX-HATERS Handbook

Interesting....Thanks JG.

The Great Rebate Runaround
Consumers hate the hassles and hoops. Companies love them unredeemed. Now regulators are wading in
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Google Base: All your base are, in fact, belong to us

Checkout weather your Canon digital camera or camcorder is faulty here.

CompactFlash Performance Database

India's Next Step
First it became a hub for IT services. Now, India stands to become a major force in the software industry, too.

India's IT prodigals return home
In the 13 years that Sean Narayanan lived in the US, he earned a masters degree from Oklahoma University, worked with a top consulting firm and served at senior positions in technology companies. Read full story
Thanks Sameer

DFS and BFS
Recently had some interesting discussion on algorithms with my friend. We came to the point where question was when to use Depth First Search and when to use Breadth First Search. Not sure about all usages of when to use what. Other then DFS and detection of cycles and DFS maintains Stack and BSF queue what else do you think the situations where these are applicable?

Infrastructure the missing link

Thanks Sameer

buzztracker - 2005-04-13

siliconindia.com

Is it a good idea to make everything loosely coupled (IOC) and loose advantage of compile time compatibility check or gain more flexibility by using it. Which part is better than other and how worth is the sacrifice?

Jef's Notes for This Film and History©

Interesting Stuff
Just Say No To Digital TV

OFFICIAL THREAD: WHERE & HOW TO FILE COMPLAINTS ONLINE AGAINST RUDE CSR, MANAGER, BAD SERVICES, NEVER-COME REBATES, DEFECTIVE PRODUCTS, WARRANTY ISSUE!!! IT WORKS!!!!!!
A discussion thread from Fatwallet

Informative on projectors (commercial)

Reade this for good comparison of Struts and Spring and many other web frameworks

SourceForge.net: Project Info - Struts Applications

This looks interesting project appfuse: AppFuse

TheServerSide.com - Introducing the Spring Framework

Tim Blommerde here on javalobby concludes his comments on JDO and Hibernate as
What I can say about Hibernate and JDO, but that's mostly based on what I heard at JavaPolis this year, where I heard Gaving King talk about Hibernate and Patrick Linskey talk about JDO, is that Hibernate seems to have become the defacto standard, where as JDO is more or less the theoratical and (semi-)official standard.
...Now I need to investigate whether it's true =)

Refresh your browser to see change in the number
Monthly World population figures

Openness Spreading Out
Open-Source Biology Evolves

Pervasive Open Sources Postgres Database
Pervasive Software is open-sourcing its Postgres database. Postgres is the most advanced database given to the open source community to date.

Watch Out Google, Here Comes Gigablast!

JBoss has made strides advancing open source solutions as viable choices for enterprises. Its JBoss Application Server, BZ Research announced, is the preferred Java platform, besting IBM, Oracle, and BEA.
By JDJ News Desk
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Python is cool, very high level, have very desirable features, very easy and simple. I wonder why it's not yet in main streams. I would like it that way. Need to explore more.

Good time to start another eBay.
People who have used eBay understands value of have good and reliable auctioning mechanism in place. May be this is good time to start another auctioning site with gives more value than eBay.

Read this news from yahoo from Technology AP
EBay to Increase Fees, Angering Sellers

This is what happens when you become lazy :(
...Thanks Atul
Thinking of doing this for long time. Having all ammunition and not doing anything always gives chance to others. What to call this? Stupidity, lazyness whatever :/

True or False or Both check it out
A real use of Coke
From The Guardian by John Vidal
Tuesday November 2, 2004
Thanks Wei

Mr. Narendra Modi Time is answer..
Thanks Dhruv..

Why should govt run a medical college?

CLOSE_WAIT, logging

Solaris 8 Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

5 reasons why NRIs must invest in India

Wired News: India's Odd Couple: Cops and Tech

Tafoni - Cavernous Weathering

Salt Point Journal

ZDNet India : Flat-panel TVs can't topple tubes--just yet

Bay Area Housing Crash Continues

These are useful tools if you want to give some windows like features to your java applications

http://www.syncedit.com/download_javalauncher.html
http://jsmooth.sourceforge.net/
http://launch4j.sourceforge.net/

Apogee Photo: Bob Hitchman's More Great Photo Locations in North America

JBoss 4 Documentation Released

The JBoss 4 Application Server Guide

How to help people of Andaman and Nicobar Islands

The Need for Speed

Wildflower Hotline Links