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Reader's Digest: So where are the rude Bombayites now ?
In a recent survey of global courtesy, Readers Digest found Bombay — now officially called Mumbai — to be the rudest city on earth.
Funny, reading through various blogs and online news report, one would think that there was an immediate transplant of residents from some other place.
Maybe this sounds selfish, but I hope that none of your loved ones were hurt, and that nobody you know personally was hurt. Obviously everyone was somebody’s loved one, and for them I am sorrowful.
One may be far away from Bombay but you can never take the Bombayite out of you
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Reader’s Digest: So where are the rude Bombayites now ?
In a recent survey of global courtesy, Readers Digest found Bombay — now officially called Mumbai — to be the rudest city on earth.
Funny, reading through various blogs and online news report, one would think that there was an immediate transplant of residents from some other place.
Maybe this sounds selfish, but I hope that none of your loved ones were hurt, and that nobody you know personally was hurt. Obviously everyone was somebody’s loved one, and for them I am sorrowful.
One may be far away from Bombay but you can never take the Bombayite out of you
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Canonical has expired SSL certificate for its release note
I hope SABDFL Mark Shuttleworth managed to retain a few of his ex-Thawte colleagues. Whilst looking at the Ubuntu download page I clicked upon the release notes which were behind this SSL link.
The certificate had expired on January 2006 and this resulted in lots of warnings from Camino. Personally, I don’t see why the release notes had to behind https unless Canonical is using this to test out the SSL offload capabilities of the Niagara.
interesting viral marketing campaign for SubEthaEdit by MacZot
I came across this very interesting viral marketing campaign run by MacZot (think of it as the Woot for Mac users) for SubEthaEdit from Coding Monkeys (the collaborative text editor)
MacZOT and TheCodingMonkeys will award $105,000 in Mac software
This is how they are doing it
BlogZOT! uses the power of blogs to create value for all Mac users. In today’s example: Each qualified blog entry reduces the price of SubEthaEdit from $30.00 to $0.00 by $0.05 per entry. For each entry, that’s $166+ given back to the Mac community.
BlogZOT instructions. Please READ them as we won’t have time to answer emails about BlogZOT until after it’s over.
1. You can purchase SubEthaEdit on MacZOT.com at anytime today using the Buy button above at the current price.
2. If you’d rather pay less, you can help by getting bloggers to post a comment about SubEthaEdit being the BlogZOT 2.0 on MacZOT.com
3. BlogZOT 2.0 will run until the end of the day 11:59 pm in California or until 3,000 copies of SubEthaEdit have been awarded to BlogZOT participants.
4. Bloggers who participate and enter a working email will receive a SubEthaEdit registration if the goal of reducing the price to $0.00 is accomplished.
I’ve been using SubEthaEdit 2.2 on and off. This is the last version which was free for non-commercial use. It’s a nice text editor but I really haven’t had the chance to play with the collaborative side of things. I think this viral marketing campaign will go a long way in improving SubEthaEdit’s reach
Good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee at that time
Slashdot can be disastrous to your keyboard and monitor. Some comments definitely need some Surgeon General like warning 🙂
Good thing I wasn't drinking coffee at that time
Slashdot can be disastrous to your keyboard and monitor. Some comments definitely need some Surgeon General like warning 🙂
Just when you thought it was safe
Before IDF, CPU choices particularly if you were looking for performance and reasonably good thermal envelope was easy. The AMD64 in all its variant pretty much ruled the roost.
Now, 2006 is looking to be a very interesting year particularly if you are looking at a hardware refresh in the second or third quarter. As detailed in this RealWorldTech post by David Kanter, Intel’s new Core Architecture is shaping up to be a strong contender.
Combine this with Apple’s switch to Intel and the possibility of combining good hardware from Intel with the slickness of MacOSX will be very compelling.
With virtualization support native to the CPU, it will be uber-cool if somebody like VMWare came up with VMWare for OSX. That would make MacOSX/Intel the platform of choice for developers particularly in the web space (test Firefox/IE/Safari from one box).
iLife’06 is the underestimated star of MWSF
There have been lots of blog posts about the new Intel Core Duo based iMac and MacBook Pro released at Macworld San Francisco yesterday. Personally I think that iLife ’06 is a very significant upgrade and people might be underestimating how many users will finally get to effectively use their digital cameras, digital video cameras. I’ve ordered my copy and look forward to playing with it
iLife'06 is the underestimated star of MWSF
There have been lots of blog posts about the new Intel Core Duo based iMac and MacBook Pro released at Macworld San Francisco yesterday. Personally I think that iLife ’06 is a very significant upgrade and people might be underestimating how many users will finally get to effectively use their digital cameras, digital video cameras. I’ve ordered my copy and look forward to playing with it
Some thoughts about ZFS
Been reading a lot of blogs about ZFS . It’s mind blowing. Take a look at the screencasts done by Dan Price .
Sun currently uses the tag line “ZFS: The last word in filesystems”. From what I read and saw, I immediately felt that sysadmins who start their career with zfs will never understand the pain felt by people who’ve gone through volume management, fsck, moving filesystems around. A lot of sysadmins have missed crucial moments with their loved ones because they were fighting fires. ZFS makes that a bad dream
I feel Sun Marketing should market ZFS as
“ZFS: Because your family deserves it”
Congratulations to team ZFS and particularly to Jeff Bonwick who had the vision and courage to “think different”
A shout out to our friends at Sun Beijing, there are a truckload of installations running Linux/BSD boxes using 3ware. Get a 3ware/Areca/Qstor driver in Solaris 10 at the earliest and Solaris/ZFS becomes the NAS OS of choice.
I cut my teeth with SunOS/Solaris. With the recent release of Studio 11, it’s going to be very compelling. I hope the Solaris hackers can put some love into the installer and provide some update tools like yum,apt-get.
Yusuf Goolamabbas 