Notes on PDC2008 Day 1 – SQL Services
This was by far the best session for me in PDC2008. It was SQL Server: Database to Data Platform – Road from Server to Devices to the Cloud by David…
October 2008
Notes on Microsoft PDC 2008 – Day 1 Keynote
You can see the photos I took from here. Ray Ozzie For the last few years, the scope of enterprise applications are increasing. IT departments have to manage more of…
Macbook Air – Fix your Wakeup problem when using Vista
I have been using as my primary laptop a Macbook Air running (obviously) Windows Vista for last six months. Everything is great with the laptop – the lightweight and the…
Cray CX1 Supercomputer
Today I got a chance to visit Cray Inc. (The supercomputer company) headquarters in downtown Seattle. I got to see in their lab the recently arrived Cray CX1 Supercomputer. This…
India launches its Moon Mission
India has successfully launched its first 🛰️spacecraft Chandrayaan-1 today. The craft weights 1380 kg, planned for a mission life of two years, was launched by PSLV-C11 rocket from Sriharikota, India.…
Intel Museum in Santa Clara, CA
I am in Bay Area, USA for 2 weeks which will take me to Silicon Valley, Redmond (WA) and Los Angeles (for Microsoft PDC ’08). Sunday evening I went along…
BSE SENSEX going below 10,000
Today Indian Stock exchange lost its recovery from earlier the week to below 10,000 and closing at 4-digit marks. I was curious on how this journey was, so I downloaded…
Firefox Geode and W3C Geolocation
Mozilla in their upcoming Firefox 3.1 release is introducing an experimental feature “Geode”. Geode is about the browser (and server) automatically deducing your location and provide appropriate location-based information. Though…