Grey Matter

Remember the days when you waited for somebody to send an invite for GMail. I remember me asking all those geeky guys to send me one if they can. It was as if like there were only two kinds of people around me. Those who have Gmail account and those who wanted one.

But after getting the account my first reaction was “What this doesn’t even have folders?!” But over the years I have learn’t to use labels.

This is the most used web application by most of us.  Hope they keep doing the labs thing forever. Let it be in beta forever.

I would be joining the techie folks at http://techasilo.blogspot.com and authoring posts there.

This is a strategical move for this blog —  it would now stay safe and away from anything, that my grandma wouldn’t be interested in reading about.

This is my first post on that blog.

set source_path=D:\test

set include=*.txt

FOR /R %source_path% %%G IN (%include%) DO (

ECHO "%%G">> filenames.txt

)

Searching for exit in google.com brings up link to yahoo.com in the first page of the search results. Though not the first result this could be a upcoming google bomb.

Google bomb for exit

Interestingly, Bala pointed out that searching for exit yahoo.com brings up google.com in the front page results.

Yahoo bomb for Exit

Are they metaphorpically indicating the end of their competitor in the search engine market?

User script for hiding the donation banner for Wikimedia on Wikipedia pages.
Install This Script

User script for stripped down version of Orkut:
Removes the glaring headings,footer,images and an unnecessary invite friends box.Along with giving it a cool gray scale theme.
Install This Script

Ps:You need to have Greasemonkey Add-on installed on Firefox to install these.

I wrote these 2 scripts sometime back to get the job done.(Which essentially means code ugliness ) You could change it yourself if you want something more to be done.

How many of us ever know that there was something called as Gopher,veronica ,WAIS etc, that existed in early 1990s.The huge hit of WWW and its powerful and simple language HTML, put Gopher and other early Internet Technologies to the back burner.Gophers are still around–supported by a few enthusiasts and hobbyists.It exists just like an old superman living in the past legendary memories.I just cant keep away from characterizing the technologies.Think of gopher as plain village gentleman who was good enough and in came the Dude from the City(WWW )with his flashy attire(HTML) took away all the fascination of the people towards him.And the Village Heads(IE)sneakily made the village gentleman to go away.(IE actually stopped supporting Gopher from IE5 onwards.Even though they supported initially it later offered the fix disguised as a “security” fix to remove the support of gophers. We would be able to manipulate the registry and even this is not possible in IE7 as it stripped away the gopher support at the code level itself.FF still supports Gopher.you could see gopher sites in FireFox 1.5 upwards)

Gophers could be what the doctor ordered for the low bandwidth networks such as mobile networks.But since the network speeds and bandwidth are fast increasing due to the better infrastructure the return of the Gopher is a distant possiblity. gopher://gopher.quux.org/ is one of the few gophers that still exist.

After toping the chart among the various linux distributions,Mark plans to release the next version of Ubuntu-its going to be ubuntu 7.04 code named ‘Fiesty Fawn’.I am sure its gonna rock.

via[Mark Shuttleworth]