Shan’s Personal Blog to share his views and thoughts…
Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
In what is being hailed as a rare success in earthquake prediction, scientists from the National Geophysical Research Institute (NGRI) in Hyderabad, India, report successfully forecasting a very special type of earthquake in western India in May. The achievement may help seismologists better predict such earthquakes in the future.
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Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
The TopGear boys show us how to drive 800 miles on a single tank of gas.
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Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
India is expanding a government-led program to provide free, local language software to all of its citizens, as it tries to broaden computer use in the country.
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Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) might just as well have sued Google Inc. for copyright violation rather than pick on Torrentspy, the smaller company said in a court filing this week seeking dismissal of the case.
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Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
In full knowledge that what we omit will spur as much comment as what we include, eWEEK Labs puts forward this list of the 25 most influential products of the first 25 years of enterprise personal computing’s not only as a look back, but also as a spur to innovators to continue to come up [...]
Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
The program, now in its second summer, pays 630 students to stay home and code over the summer, working under mentors that include more than a few rock stars of the open-source world. Some students admitted experiencing trepidation knowing their work would be viewed by big names in open source or even inventors of programming [...]
Posted in Digg-News on Jul 29th, 2006
At Micrsoft
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Posted in Digg-News on Jul 28th, 2006
There are brown bottles, bags of white powder, a pestle and mortar, a collection of funnels, a roll of silver gaffer tape. There is a drill. There is a whisk. Are they making bombs? Are they making drugs? No. They are doing something far more likely to change the world we live in. They’re making [...]
Posted in Digg-News on Jul 28th, 2006
In an hilarious interview with Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton of District of Columbia, Colbert says that she is not an American because she is the representative of D.C., which is not a state. Hilarious reaction from her.
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Posted in Digg-News on Jul 28th, 2006
Security has become a no-brainer for desktop software, but the same doesn’t hold true for the booming world of Web applications.
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