Here is the contest reported recently on the BigAdmin site. Send in your video on how you can use a Sun’s X4500 server (aka Thumper.) If you are a winner, you get one of those amazing boxes! Start rolling your web cam or video cam! Lights, Camera, Action!!
Today, I bought a copy of Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris Kernel Architecture by Richard McDougall and Jim Mauro. The previous edition of the book is available in Low Priced Indian Edition (Rs 500) and this International edition costed me Rs 4000 approximately. This book is worth that price.
A quick glance thru the table of contents tells me that there are new chapters added for Process Rights Management, Zones etc.
May take a few weeks before I dig deeper into this book.
A couple of advertisements I liked in the past two weeks or so:
First one is from Babool bubblegum. The ad starring three birds, a turtle and a monkey is very impressive. The colors and animation are very appealing, the voice overs are perfect and the theme is excellent. A refreshing advertisement.
The second one is from Idea Cellular. The ad featuring a monkey that steals a phone but returns it back due to continuous calls (read good signal reception) wherever it goes. Builds a lot of curiosity and adds good amount of fun.
Spurthi went for a school trip yesterday to Delhi and Shimla. She will be back in about a week. This is the first time we gave her a cell phone during a trip, so she is busy experimenting it.
She packed a good quantity of Chicken Biriyani for dinner yesterday and looks like many of her tripmates liked it. She and her tripmates called home exclusively talk about the biriyani.
There is a recent news article that says Indian Railways is thinking of slashing the III-AC prices considerably low. Looks like a very good move to get back the customers from discount airlines.
This news story on computerworld talks about Google experimenting with Open Solaris as a long term prelude.
This blog by Madhu K.R. describes a good customer report on Sun Cluster. 889 days of continuous uptime is excellent!
Just now checked out the the new charts on Yahoo! Finance that are in Beta now. Cool. Very Good UI. The Y-axis that is presented on the right hand side might be not very intuitive to figure out initially, because we are all used to the Y-axis on the left edge and X-axis on the bottom edge.
What do Java, Wonder Bra and Light Bulb have in common? Hard to guess? Thinking of Portability? Think no further.
All of them are inventions by people of canadian origin. CBC is running a Greatest Candadian Invention contest. Cast you vote for these 50 inventions, including Java, Wonder Bra, Light Bulb and many more.
Well, this is something I wouldn’t have dreamt a few years ago, but this happened. Lalu is teacher-for-a-day at IIM-A, India’s premier business school. Report here.
No matter what his past record is, Lalu is the person behind turn around of Indian Railways. His efforts should be appreciated.