National Internet Exchange & .IN Domain names
India’s bandwidth consumption is growing by the days. But most of the traffic goes to servers outside the country (primarily the US). One of the ways, to reduce the broadband…
October 2004
Reducing size of a screen shot
When you are writing technical articles or a spaghetti blog (with general, travel and also Technical entries) like this, you will need to use screenshot images. The problem with screenshots…
Fight Spywares in Windows XP
Spywares are irritating and an outright waste of resources. The first step towards fighting spyware is to get a good detection and fix tool. Apart from the tools I mentioned…
HTTP Trace & Web Service Trace
HTTP Trace When you are doing some HTTP upload or download development, like in a Web Client it is useful to do an HTTP Trace. A HTTP Trace basically dumps…
World welcomes Indian Tourist
Recently if you were watching media in India, you will be surprised to see plenty of tourism ads from all the nearby countries. You will see Malaysia – “Truly Asia”,…
Gurgaon
Gurgaon is a Satellite City near New Delhi. It is promoted by its state “Haryana” as a model Cybercity. I thought in Bangalore, construction activities are being the highest in…
A Good Day – Today
Today it is “Saraswathi Pooja” – an auspicious day here in South India where we pray to “Saraswathi” goddess of Education & Knowledge. I travelled to Gurgaon for an especially…
Surrogate piracy
I learned a new term today, “Surrogate Piracy”. The term refers to the practise of licensing a cheaper priced application and then using pirated copies of another (full-fledged) expensive application.…