of cats and dags

¶ Published Monday, May 21st at 2:02 am ∞ In Open Source Software, Linux, Internet, Technology ∞ 7 Comments »

Now after systematically dismantling the hold of Internet Explorer over the user’s internet browsing experience, comes another threat - this time to proprietary media players. Songbird might not only hurt Microsoft here, but also other biggies who are much more prominent in the post-ipod world.

For the geeks (if they haven’t already heard of it, that […]

¶ Published Saturday, March 24th at 12:47 am ∞ In Operating Systems, Linux, Ubuntu, Technology ∞ 9 Comments »

Forgive the clichéd use of a familiar punchline modified for convenience. For a want of a better title, it was all I could come up with.
The past couple of days were spent in installing and tweaking (and more tweaking) a new operating system in my laptop. Ubuntu (meaning ‘towards humanity’ as its Wikipedia entry […]