The following email was sent to all Tata Indicom (formerly VSNL) customers informing of the draconian directive from Department of Telecom, India:

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Subversion is a highly popular version control system used worldwide. It succeeds CVS and aims to rectify its shortcomings. Subversion, like any other version control system, is used to maintain current and historical revisions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation.

Hosted Subversion Service allows you to host your subversion server and data on a remote server which you can access securely (must-have feature) over the internet. Most hosted subversion service has a minimal free plan followed by a paid subscription.

We have previously posted comprehensive review of hosted subversion services. Today we will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of hosted subversion services in details.

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NEW DELHI - The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) Thursday urged the government to take strong and immediate action against those behind the financial fraud at leading IT firm Satyam Computers.

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Shares of Satyam Computer Services plunged more than 80% in Mumbai Wednesday, after the founder and chairman B. Ramalinga Raju shocked every one by resigning. Satyam Computers is reportedly the fourth largest software company in India. Currently there was much speculation about Satyam's credibility after World Bank snapped of their multi million dollar deal with Satyam. But no one thought that the founder himself will be resigning this way and that too for an issue where the balance sheet was the main questionable point.

If you look at the course of proceedings to every day happening inside Satyam, you will find some very doubtful parts. Lemme read them out for you.

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HYDERABAD - In a development that shook India's corporate and financial worlds Wednesday, co-founder and chairman of Satyam Computers B. Ramalinga Raju resigned after confessing to a Rs.40 billion (Rs.4,000 crore or $823 million) fraud that had been going on for years.

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HYDERABAD - Following is the text of Satyam founder chairman B. Ramalinga Raju's resignation letter to the IT firm's board:

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Butera & Andrews, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm filed suit against IBM in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It is accusing IBM of hacking into its e-mail system.

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I have been interviewing several freshers who were taught Java in engineering schools under computer science curriculum. Interviewing them highlighted serious problems with their education as well as with the system. This is a brief overview of the issues and ways to interview such candidates. At the end I have included my recommendation of courses for software engineers.

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According to Amartya Sen, Economist and Nobel Laureate, being argumentative is an asset rather than a liability acquired as a legacy from India's historical, cultural, racial and religious ‘heterodoxy'. "India is so full of contradictions that any generalisation about India has an opposite argument which is just as true," explains Sen. So, in his just published book, Sen - who "enjoys putting forth arguments rather than giving advice to people" brings up the brighter side of being argumentative. Here are a few excerpts…

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Contents

• NailGun Introduction
• Rationale for Porting
• Compiler choice: MinGW versus CygWin
• Mini Porting guide from Linux to Windows (networking focussed)
• Testing
• Code & Executable Download
• Suggestions for improving NailGun

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