I was having an argument with a friend from school, I met after 20 years. His point was in the last decade or so there hasn't been any real innovations in computer science.

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Apple launched iPhone in India, a country with only 1.2 billion people and overall not considered rich like their counterparts in USA. In USA Apple launched iPhone for $199 only. Steve Jobbs also promised that it will be similalry priced across all markets. So how did they target a market of 1.2 B with a very high mobile pernetration and nowhere as rich as USA? By pricing iPhone 3G at 4 times the US price at Rs. 31, 000 only (and lockdown for a year to the service provider) and without 3G. Imagine how the market reacted…

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Do you know that Linux automatically scales CPU utilization depending on processing requirements? This reduces power consumption and heat. However there are situations when CPU scaling monitor cannot properly identify CPU requirements. In such cases you may want to manually stop cpu speed daemon and restart it later again if required. Here are the required commands:

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I don't get Google AdSense. Last year with great fanfare they announced making the text of the ad non-linkable while keeping the title and URL linkable. This lead to immediate loss of huge revenue by publishers worldwide. And yet they are glaringly violating their own rules for ImDB.

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Like GMail Chrome allows really useful shortcuts. Some of my favorites are:
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The following is a detailed of Google Chrome browser. I have taken it through the paces, tested many features and even tried to run it on Linux.
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The test machine runs on Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz (x2) with 2GB RAM. I tried loading single page PHP manual (16.5 MB) on Windows Vista from our local server with 100Mbps LAN connecting it. At the same time I was running the Javascript console to measure performance of page loading. I was also searching for the term cgi in the page being loaded. It takes about 2 minutes to load it in Firefox. 20 minutes later the page was still loading in Google Chrome!

The page up / page down keys were pretty unresponsive in the tab as well as the Javascript console. It appears Google Chrome parses pages as it loads the. As of the time of this writing the single tab with PHP manual has consumed 576 MB of RAM and still increasing. I could see the Javascript Console was using the same process which explains which it was hanging along with the browser tab. Read after the break for more details.

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Here are few tips (with undocumented features) to help you export huge MS Access database (production database with real data) to MySQL.

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To perform a global search and replace in vi editor, use the search and replace command in command mode:
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Why does finally have to have braces?

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