SandGorgon’s law of outsourcing analogies

ahh.. seems I originated a new law. In response to this article’s comment which states: “Who fixes a bug by making something dependent on the dll/exe company name? Stupid…How are those outsourced indians working for you now Oracle and Sun!!!!” I postulate thusly As an online discussion about PROGRAMMING grows longer, the probability of a [...]

Indian govt to develop it’s own OS and why you should be supportive.

Today, I read that the Indian govt (through its CDAC research arm), maybe developing its own open source operating system. Most probably built around Debian Linux, the goals of the project are security and dependability. On first sight, it looks to be a stupendous and awesome waste – but I do believe we need to [...]

IPV6 as an election manifesto

I have been wanting to write this post for sometime – primarily to educate our upcoming political leaders on what is needed to realize their dream (real or concocted) for a highly connected India. Recently, there have been posts by people like Sudheendra Kulkarni (of the BJP – surprisingly the Congress has no opinions) about [...]

A Business case for Infosys to deploy its “bench” towards FOSS

This is an open letter to several of India’s IT offshoring companies, who are suffering the problem of too much idle manpower to utilize this lean period to contribute towards Free and Open Source Software and in the process gather free PR and Marketing, as well as expose their employees to excellent mentorship. Dear Project [...]

Motherf*****s

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/27mumterror-pall-of-gloom-at-karkare-home.htm

Thar she flows!!!!

Oh it hurts so much … in India, we have been living under the looming spectre of oil prices. And right now, when Im staggering bewildered asto how it came to pass and trying unsuccessfully to supress my anguish at them oil kings, I came across this post which puts it all into some kind [...]

And then there was light…

This is so freaking cool that I couldnt stay away from posting it – it has the potential to change the way energy is consumed. I am more excited about this, because in a semi-developed country like India, there are countless miles of public areas that are unlighted because of want of energy. Moreover due [...]

Microsoft Techvista: Goliath strikes back??

Today was a fun day since I decided to attend Microsoft Research – India’s annual symposium TechVista, here in New Delhi. Well it was quite interesting given Microsoft’s attempts to fight back. Well for first, they had almost all the PhD candidates in India sitting there, plied with coffee and cookies (oooh…. Big Company… shiny….). And there [...]

Only the paranoid survive?

In which I explore the reasons for paranoia against totalitarianism and restriction of freedom. India has been subjected to online censorship, and there have been muses from both side of the fence. From those that believe the government has a legitimate and well intentioned right to do so to those and those (right here) who do not. But the question is not whether Site A should be blocked and Site B should not.  That is what most people are focussing on, but it is not the question one should [...]

What to do?

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