Shan’s Personal Blog to share his views and thoughts…
Sep 15th, 2008 by shan
Believers in copyright keep dreaming about building a digital simulation of a 20th-century copyright economy, based on scarcity and with distinct limits between broadcasting and unit sales. This vision of copyright utopia is triggering an escalation of technology regulations running out of control and ruining civil liberties.
Sep 15th, 2008 by shan
This Youtube video shows The Door To Hell, as the locals in Darvaz,Turkmenistan call it. Thirty-five years ago, geologists were drilling when then encountered a very large cavern filled with poisonous gas. They ignited the gas expecting it to burn off in a few hours. It still burns today.
Sep 15th, 2008 by shan
What are they? They’re the anti-good ideas. They’re the braindamage that makes your $100,000 ASIC-based turbo-stateful packet-mulching firewall transparent to hackers. Where do anti-good ideas come from? They come from misguided attempts to do the impossible - which is another way of saying “trying to ignore reality.”
Sep 15th, 2008 by shan
In this article we’re going to look at 10 useful tutorials showing you how to do stuff you always wanted to do - but just didn’t figure out how. Easy step-by-step instructions with screenshots.
Sep 15th, 2008 by shan
Some quick tips for improving your Ubuntu (or any other Gnome Linux distribution with small tweaks) experience. It doesn’t employ using any terminal/console commands.
And yes i know that I’m not going to get dugg because i don’t have an established domain / or a big fanbase behind me. Meh. this is digg this days.
Sep 15th, 2008 by shan
Men and women are quite different, which basically means that (surprise!) they are driven by different things in a mate. Having been a single woman living in Los Angeles for a while now, and being the ever-observant creature that I am, I feel that the following is pretty accurate in regard to what we want from each other.
Aug 21st, 2008 by shan
Nice collection of famous logo designs.
Jul 26th, 2008 by shan
Linux® loadable kernel modules, introduced in version 1.2 of the kernel, are one of the most important innovations in the Linux kernel. They provide a kernel that is both scalable and dynamic. Discover the ideas behind loadable modules, and learn how these independent objects dynamically become part of the Linux kernel.
Jul 22nd, 2008 by shan
It is estimated that the data storage sector consumed about 61 billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) in 2006 (1.5 percent of the U.S. total, or more than the electricity consumed by the nation’s color televisions and similar to the amount of electricity consumed by approximately 5.8 million average U.S. households. These numbers are only expected to grow.
Jul 22nd, 2008 by shan
Interview with AMD: Now there is an opportunity to get PhysX to run on AMD/ATI cards, but there seem to be some roadblocks and there is a certain suspicion that AMD does not want Nvidia’s CUDA and PhysX to run on its graphics cards. We chatted with AMD’s Godfrey Cheng to get more details on this issue as well as AMD’s physics strategy.