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I’ve been tinkering around with Python on the N900 and this one one phone hackers will love. You can make the phone do almost anything you want if you know a little bit of scripting. I picked up a bit of python to try making a call blocker which was missing for the N900, and [...]
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I’ve always wanted to know how the various opensource search engines performed when running head to head with each other. I’ve personally not had the time nor patience to setup such a benchmark. Luckily Vik Singh has done just that and blogged the results of the benchmark. He’s benchmarked the latest versions of Lucene, sqlite, [...]
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Yesterday Nokia India had arranged for a blogger’s meet in Bangalore to familizarize us with the upcoming N97 mobile phone. The meet featured Axel Meyer, Nokia’s Global Design Head for Nokia Nseries, who took us through a presentation which showed what the Design team took into account while designing this phone. What I liked about [...]
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Here’s a real interesting article on how Facebook’s handling their photo storage system by creating their own storage system called HayStack. This week Facebook will complete its roll-out of a new photo storage system designed to reduce the social network’s reliance on expensive proprietary solutions from NetApp and Akamai. The new large blob storage system, [...]
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Been busy in my spare time for the past few weeks playing on N-Gage. One game I got a hold of is One. The first thing which amazed me was the graphics this game was belting out on a N81 – some of the best graphics I’ve seen on a mobile game! There are various [...]
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Cloud Computing Image via Wikipedia Here’s an interesting Article I came across today which goes through the basics of setting up Scalr. Scalr is is an open source, fully redundant, self-curing, and self-scaling hosting environment that uses Amazon EC2 This article discusses the implementation of Scalr. Scalr allows network administrators to create virtual server farms, [...]
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Here’s some good news for Amazon’s EC2 users:EC2 now supports Static IP addresses using Amazon’s Elastic IP Addresses feature. Each account can allocate up to 5 Elastic IP addresses to be used (you can contact Amazon to get more). These IP’s can be allocated to one instance which will replace the dynamic IP for that [...]
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Here’s something which caught my attention – Microsoft actually trying to make it’s bloatware product Windows leaner ! October 13th, Microsoft distinguished engineer Eric Traut went into details on the project, known internally at Microsoft as MinWin. In his demo, Traut loaded MinWin into a virtual machine with only 40MB of RAM allocated to it. [...]
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It was interesting to follow the battle between ODF and OOXML at the ISO standards voting commitee. According to NY Times: Of the 87 countries that participated, 26 percent opposed Microsoft’s bid. Under the rules for approval, no more than 25 percent of the countries could oppose the bid. Microsoft also failed to win the [...]
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Here’s a new service from BritePic which allows you to add interactivity to the images on your site, and at the same time make some $$. BritePic allows you to place advertisements in your images, and allow users to zoom, email, create links to your images. Here’s a sample image served by BritePic: So instead [...]
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