Must Read: Google Robots.txt Parsing WeirdnessJuly 7th, 2008 Google search bot (Googlebot) parses robots.txt file to find excluded sections of the site like any good webbots. However unlike the other bots, Google bot behaves differently when you have a section for all bots (*) as well as a section specifically for Googlebot.
Tadalist is Slow!June 26th, 2008 We extensively use Tadalist to manage our daily tasks. Previously I wrote about the 5 missing features in tadalist.
Twitter Global Visitors Cross Digg, LinkedIn, NYTimesMay 21st, 2009 Twitter's shooting up at a reckless pace as if it's got a nitro boost. Figures released by comScore reveals that Twitter's global unique visitor this April had touched 32 million, gaining 13 million visitors since March 2009. Twitter flaunts 17 million unique visitors in U.S alone.
Switching Mailing List For BlogsJuly 13th, 2006 We are working to provide a better mailing list for our blog readers who prefer to subscribe by email. The current provider bloglet.com is unreliable at times.
What is The Best Database for a Souped Up Hashtable?July 6th, 2007 All I really want is to store a very large Hashtable with more reads than writes. It should be able to deal with more than 8GB of data.
Blog Ping Server ListAugust 27th, 2007 Here is the list of blog ping servers I use. Ping servers are services which are automatically notified after a blog post is published.
Load Balancing & Failover Script for Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux with Mail on failureFebruary 13th, 2008 Please read the original article - How To: Load Balancing & Failover With Dual/ Multi WAN / ADSL / Cable Connections on Linux. It contains detailed information with a sample script.
5 Must-Have Features Missing in TadaList (Online Sharable Todo List)June 23rd, 2008 Tadalist is a popular free online todo list manager with sharing capability but without fine grained permission control. Here is a list of 5 must-have features missing from Tadalist (add yours below):
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'123456' is World's Worst Password Used in InternetMarch 19th, 2009 '123456' is the most common password used by people on the Internet. Obscenities, names of fast cars and even ncc1701 - the ship number for Star Trek's Starship Enterprise, have made it to the list of top 500 worst passwords of all time.
Help: Hard Disk & MySQL Server Suddenly Read-OnlyAugust 26th, 2006 Suddenly my Hard-disk & MySQL Server had gone read-only, thereby making this blog (because it is cached) and other sites inaccessible, including ssh access. Do you have any idea why this could have happened?
A hard reboot rectified the error for now.
Blogs I Read - Russell Beattie NotebookMarch 7th, 2006 I have started covering some of the blogs I love to read, bloggers who resonate with me at some level. In the first article I covered Guy Kawasaki's blog.
10 Cheapest Digital Cameras Below $100March 2nd, 2009 You can't afford to spend beyond your limits these days, esp in this time of global economic slowdown. But should that refrain you from buying a good digital camera which you were longing for almost a year? Not at all.
List of Feed Aggregators / RSS Readers Supporting HTTPS/SSL & HTTP AuthenticationFebruary 22nd, 2007 This is a major list of Feed Aggregators / RSS Readers supporting HTTPS URL and/or HTTP Authentication.
RSS Reader / Feed AggregatorHTTPS/SSLHTTP Authentification
SharpReaderYesNo
NetNewsWireYesYes (through URL)
NewzCrawlerNoYes
NewsGatorYesYes
AmphetaDeskNoNo
FeedDemonYesYes (through URL)
Radio UserlandYesYes (through URL)
SynderallaNoNo
RSSOwlYesYes
Vienna (mac only)YesYes
Can you suggest new entires for this list?
Top 5 Reasons Why Samsung LCD TVs are the Best in IndiaMarch 9th, 2009 With a global trend of dumping the CRT TVs, India is of no exception to the trend with the market of LCD TVs growing nearly at a rate of 100% per year. According to Display Search analysis the LCD TV market of India will surpass the CRT TV market by 2012.
50 Coolest Websites of 2006 or 5 Really Cool SitesAugust 21st, 2006 Times has compiled a list of 50 coolest websites for 2006 with some ridiculous entries like human clock, which shows a different photo for each minute of the day, being categorized under News & Information, instead of Time Wasters. The only information it provides is photos with specific time of the day.