They are following me everywhere. Yes, I admit I’ve been there. But that’s not a crime! What is more surprising than you find internet marketing ads are following you? I visited Dominio.com and NetowrkSolutions.com yesterday, and today found them following me wherever I go. On totally different content, repeatedly and on multiple sites. Here are [...]
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They are following me!
24-Jun-10Vector Logo for IITK
02-Jun-10Here is an SVG or Vector graphic logo for IIT Kanpur. tool used for creation: http://vectormagic.com/online/how_it_works Another from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IIT_Kanpur_Logo.svg -Ankit
Saving Money with IRCTC
25-Apr-10Booking a ticket at IRCTC means spending a few bucks extra. Well, it does not bother much as it saved my time and petrol. Here is a tip to save some money, but before that, a concern to raise! IRCTC charges flat Rs 10 on each ticket as their service charge. But why? Cards payment [...]
Internet Speed at IITK
25-Apr-10Recently Youtube has launched a tool to test your network’s speed and see historical data too. Here is what it shows for IITK’s ISP (vsnl-iitk). (for vsnlproxy. as of 25 April,2010) It means at IITK people download videos at an average speed of 5.3 kilo kbps. People here enjoy the best internet/networking infrastructure in UP [...]
Showcase of Indian Academic Websites
10-Apr-10Web is ubiquitous. An institute’s website is the first impression an applicant has. However, Indian institutes are not gearing up for this changing scenario. Indian academics’ websites are far beyond the quality of US colleges and universities. I understand, in India institutes have other major problems to deal with and building a website comes at [...]
India and Internet
20-Dec-09You may have heard – the reach of Internet in India is increasing rapidly. VoIP has came in, 3G & IPtv is at the doorstep, bandwidth prices are falling down, BSNL’s netPC launched, but I still do not see a great future. I do not see awareness of .in domains, for promoting Hindi, I do [...]
Handling Data in Mega Scale Systems
20-Nov-09Vineet Gupta (from Directi) touches some practical aspects of scaling web-applications. He talks about scaling app-servers, database-servers, alternatives of RDBMS, handling replication and transactional behavior. Thought the presentation is big, it touches all major aspects of scaling and gives broader insight. Check out yourself…
Understanding Errors
05-Nov-09The following solution just came random to my mind and it worked! Problem: While surfing around, I came across a website whose content encoding is not being supported with my latest Firefox v3.5.4 showed me unsupported compression error. Content Encoding Error The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an [...]
Buzzword: Cloud Computing
23-Jul-09Youtube link for video: Larry Ellison – What The Hell Is Cloud Computing Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corporation, describes all the fuzz around cloud computing in a short introduction. He touches very reasonable concern – “computing industry is the only industry more fashion driven than woman’s fashion“ Of course, this is true. Think about [...]
Fun with Yahoo Media Player!
08-Feb-09A quick way to insert music in your site: Create hyper-links for few MP3 files Insert following script code to your page <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://mediaplayer.yahoo.com/js”></script> You are done! Yahoo! Media Player will be loaded and it will make all media links clickable Here are few of my favorite tracks. Use the play button to listen. [...]
