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Archive for March, 2006

Got access to my lost accounts ;)

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Not very difficult, seriously.
I hesitated to complain to the Yahoo! customer care, but they were really fast in responding once I reported the matter to them. They only took about 6hrs to let me reset my password. The story with google was a little different, they took time but never responded - and […]

Thoughts on my e-mail address hijacking

Saturday, March 25th, 2006

After my Yahoo! and GMail accounts got hijacked, I had to take some time off to understand what could have gone wrong with my email account.  I always thought that I take good care of them - Alas, I don’t!   Here are a few things that I noticed in the last couple of days.
How […]

XGL - Eye Candy at its Best

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

“Xgl is an X server architecture layered on top of OpenGL. It is at an early stage in development and a number of important pieces are still missing” … ” Layering X on OpenGL and using a composited desktop opens the door to new features and opportunities”
Thats what freedesktop.org had to say about XGL. Though […]

Google and Yahoo accounts hijacked!

Monday, March 20th, 2006

I created a category called “Privacy” under “Internet” not knowing that I would have some really stupid thing to say.  My google and yahoo accounts got hijacked early today.  I was logged on to gmail when all this happened - I could do nothing as I saw everything go away
Contacted google and yahoo, […]

Orangemedhas - How it all began?

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

Sometime in the beginning of the 5th semester at IIIT, a couple of us met in Sitha’s room (#152, OBH, IIIT Hyderabad) and were casually discussing about our just finished summer internships. All of us had one common opinion - the companies have a very poor way of managing people and ensuring the processes. […]

Gates mocks MIT’s $100 Laptop

Sunday, March 19th, 2006

“Hardware is a small part of the cost”

“If you are going to go have people share the computer, get a broadband connection and have somebody there who can help support the user, geez, get a decent computer where you can actually read the text and you’re not sitting there cranking the thing while you’re trying […]

Talks at VNR-VJIET

Friday, March 17th, 2006

I was pretty busy yesterday and today due to the two talks that I had delivered at VJIET. The first one titled “Unix Architecture” was primarily about the unix way of doing things - the command line and about combining simple tools to do complex tasks. Second presentation was about “Configuring Servers on […]

WP-Theme: Medhas.ORG

Wednesday, March 15th, 2006

Just finished writing a theme - actually significantly customising a theme for use on my blog. I used a theme called modern by Ulf Pettersson. The modern theme has most of what I wanted… good and simple colors, good layout, but lacked proper usage of space and compatibility with variable screen-widths.
Features of Medhas.ORG […]

Ruby Scripting!

Monday, March 13th, 2006

Not so long ago I came across this wonderful scripting language called Ruby. I was always in search of a good scripting language that is convenient to me, easy to understand and object-oriented. Ruby is all this and things like anonymous code-blocks make it very powerful. Below is the list of features that […]

Blosxom to WordPress

Thursday, March 9th, 2006

Blosxom was great and powered my blog for more than a year. WordPress looked more promising and so here I switch. My old blog however is accessible and would be accessible transparently, thanks to Apache’s RedirectMatch directive
Hope to be more regular on my blog now on. Keep visiting!