Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category

Why cant FOSS succeed in India?

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Recently Julie posted an interesting article called "open source development: women and Asians last". This attributes the main reason for Women and Asian people's lesser involvement in Open Source development to be its confrontational nature. It does make sense to an extent as far as Thailand is concerned, Thai people ...

Yet another PC - Mac video

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Seems some people just wont stop making us laugh and bring out the truth. A couple of months ago I showed my Fedora 7 loaded notebook to someone (who has both mac and a windows workstations). She immediately commented.. "ohh that looks like a mix of mac and windows.". ...

Linux at NYSE

Thursday, January 10th, 2008

This would be one of my favourites at UserFriendly Click to Enlarge

Secure Proxy using Squid

Saturday, January 5th, 2008

Had originally posted this on Friday, September 29th, 2006 during the peak of Takhsin's rampant blocking of websites and the blocking proxies were messing up often blocking un-blocked pages also. It is very important to use a secure proxy if you browse the web from unsecure Networks. The basic requirements are a ...