A UAE based site (Souq.com) is auctioning blank sheets of original watermarked 5 Rs Indian notes. The current bid is 79 AED. One of India’s growing problems is rampant distribution of fake notes to fund terrorist operations. My concern is that such auctions may make it easier for them to procure raw materials to use and experiment with.
Today, 29th June, CN aired the last episode of DragonBall Z. It will start looping again from the beginning from 2nd July. Forget about Frieza saga, Goku turning SSJ, not to mention Cell or Buu saga. Cartoon Network India, by even the most lenient standards, is sick.
After sometime I am back to developing in Java & JSP. And boy does it smell good! If there is a programmers heaven, I am in it now. I have small self-made libraries to help automating regular tasks, tons of high quality free third-party libraries for the bigger ones like opencsv, poi etc. and I am kicking some coding storm. After spending sometime with other languages and environment it sure feels sweeter.
Sun Microsystems announced today that its hardware will power the largest supercomputer ever built, with 62,976 CPU cores, 125 terabytes of memory, 1.7 petabytes of disk space, and 504 teraflops of performance.
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Seagate announced availability of Terabyte disk drives at 7200 rpm; separate models targeted for enterprise and consumer desktops. The enterprise drives features serial attached SCSI interface option. Last week Samsung announced terabyte disk drives. A brief overview of the offerings and key differentiators.
AT&T Inc. and Apple Inc. on Tuesday revealed prices for iPhone service, which would start at $59.99 a month and require customers to buy an Internet plan.
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In directories under subversion there may be files which you do not want to add to subversion. Normally such files would show in subversion status (svn stat) with ? in front of them. This is useful to let you find files that you may have missed. However in some cases there are files you want to intentionally miss, such files then merely clutter the status display. There is a simple fix.
I really like the opening song of Ben 10 sung by Mz. Moxy & written by Andy Sturmer. The lyrics are hard to fully understand. I used a high pass filter and here it is: