How to reject someone without suffering - Introducing The Official Rejection Line

November 18th, 2005 Helsinki's sewerage problem with toilet-disposed cellphones gave me an idea. Why not design disposable, bio-degradable cellphones? Imagine the great use cases: You are very angry with your significant other / fiance or your boss.

July 7th, 2005 European politicians have thrown out a controversial bill that could have led to software being patented. The European Parliament voted 648 to 14 to reject the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive.

November 1st, 2004 An interesting question is posed by Simon (in trackback). It is also true for many other professions.

August 7th, 2006 In Worldwide Developer's Conference 2006 Apple has posted an interesting banner which reads "Introducing Vista 2.0" to introduce Mac OS X 10.5. You can view the photo taken by Gernot Poetsch which almost clearly shows the banner at Moscone West.

November 5th, 2008 vi / vim as well as nano are the most popular editors on Unix / Linux / Solaris and for hardcode Mac OSX users too. For developing / debugging we need line numbers.

September 24th, 2007 In small businesses you will often have the ADSL broadband and telephone line from the same connection. You may also need to setup an EPABX on the connection to share the phone line.

October 23rd, 2007 Shorewall is an excellent free linux firewall which provides unparalleled level of fine grained control. It not only acts as a firewall and Gateway, it also supports DMZ, IP Masquerading (NAT & SNAT), Proxy ARP and more.

May 6th, 2009 Compuware sells software line to British companyDETROIT — Business software and services provider Compuware Corp. says it's selling an applications testing software line to Britain's Micro Focus International PLC for $80 million.

December 3rd, 2007 DROP (Don't Route Or Peer) is an advisory "drop all traffic" list from Spamhaus, consisting of stolen 'zombie' netblocks and netblocks controlled entirely by professional spammers. DROP is a tiny sub-set of the SBL advisory designed for use by firewalls and routing equipment.

August 17th, 2008 Ant is a popular, high quality Java based build and deployment tool from Apache Foundation. You can invoke Java programs in ant using the java task.

January 15th, 2009 No Jobs, no Apple. For Apple - devotees were left awestruck after a wrecking announcement, Apple Inc's iconic chief Steve Jobs was to bench himself for six month.

August 10th, 2006 Everytime I tried to upload a file to my PmWiki (popular PHP based Wiki) installation, it failed with "no file uploaded" error. Also it asks me for password thrice, once before accessing the upload page and twice after uploading.

March 12th, 2009 The line of a text is a big headache sometimes. If you work with text based documents, you will probably know the utility of a linebreak or a word-wrap.

September 8th, 2008 While debugging code Java programmers often use System.out.println(). It is important to write separate message in each System.out.println() so you can understand from the output where the problem lies.

June 26th, 2006 Google Earth rival Geoportail dies in one day. It's got to be a guiness record.