Author: Aditya

So how much of it does actually happen?

I still prefer my apps to be free

'The discussion started innocuously enough, within Bug #532633 in light-themes (Ubuntu) on Launchpad, where the order of the window controls within the Light theme were requested to be re-arranged to be on the upper right side of any given window. Light, it seemed, now placed the buttons on the left side, similar to the Mac OS X interface. '
'It's critical to recognize that open source does not bring complete democracy to software development. It never did, and it never should. Ultimately, someone in the developer chain will have to make the tough calls.'

I used the more mundane buses & autorickshaws & the likes

Useful guide

The changing face of online referrals

Very interesting technology. Can turn out to be of immense value if it can be extended to organs.

A handy list of tools not just for remote media streaming & control, but also for remote desktop usage

The top 10 real life quotes from a magazine contest. Real gems.

An interesting image creation tool in the form of flames

A set of online tools for image & media editing

Just a matter of scaling it up then

A handy guide to use vmware to setup a virtual WinXP installation

A handy tutorial with a humorous presentation

Toothpicks can be really handy & so can the photoshop clone tool

The puzzle: 'There are three guardians, A, B and C. Their names are Knight, Knave and Chaos. Knight always speaks truly, Knave always lies. Chaos tossed a coin this morning to decide whether today he would behave like Knight or like Knave.
Your task is simple: ask three yes-no questions, each of a single guardian, and determine which is Knight, which is Knave, and which is Chaos. There is, alas, a complication: the guardians understand English but will answer in the local language, in which “Da” means yes and “Ja” means no. Or possibly “Ja” means yes and “Da” means no – you cannot remember.'
There's apparently an entire page on wikipedia for the puzzle including a solution – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever

NASA technology and macrophotography come together to produce a stunning set of images of the real alien ant farm.
A clear gel that holds up in zero gravity & during take off to make special ant farms for NASA

Very interesting talk on how the usage of free time has changed over time
via http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/03/but-its-better-than-tv.html

'Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a flexible configuration and can be customized to suit individual needs and tastes. It has application for both stand-alone systems and multi-user networks.'

A very handy software along the lines of Privoxy that acts as a local HTTP web-filtering proxy.

Understand the reason behind success or failure & the context rather than blindly following a company or leader.

Interesting piece of technology. Must have for celebs. Too bad it's only for flash photography.

Food for thought. Luckily you won't gain weight by consuming this… unless you do it sitting down.

MySQL Workbench is a cross-platform, visual database design tool developed by MySQL

Handy setup guide to setup up a home FTP server. Quite handy for transferring files to the ipod touch.

Fusing a keyboard to pants – now that's innovation. Too bad only one half works.
And a video of them in action – http://blip.tv/file/2095987
via http://hackaday.com/2009/05/11/keyboard-pants/
via http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/12/diy-keyboard-pants-destined-for-the-geek-catwalk/

Interesting way to represent stuff. Not sure how long this link will work though – looks like a temporary one.

Is the customer really the king?

A humorous way to calculate the money wasted on meetings.

I wonder whether this could have any practical applications. Also they should try doing it for Bollywood & see what they get.
'The key thing is having shots of similar length that recur in a regular pattern throughout a film'… However, 'He says that a good narrative and strong acting are probably most important.'

Interesting idea & they do look like the real stuff too

A healthy dose of geekiness

And you'd think that the legal sources would want to save you time…