Yearly Archives: 2009

Today seemed to be the "shubh muhurat" for quite a handful of product launches. HTC launches their latest Android phone, Hero, in India. Along with that, there are Easy Peasy Linux and Intel P55 chipset that got released for the public.

Google has recently come up with a new drop down menu where they have integrated the "Advanced Search Setting" and "Account Settings" links in the very same box. However, this drop down is available only while you are logged in. Kinda makes sense since Google never had the "Account Settings" link when you aren't logged in.

In 1997, two university students had a very simple plan for their graduate project—build a rocket capable of inserting a 1-kg pico-satellite into orbit...

Welcome to another instalment of CodeSport. In this month’s column, we continue our discussion on the false sharing issue in multi-threaded applications. We’ll also discuss priority inversion and possible techniques to deal with it.

[The Joy of Programming] Can typing mistakes (typos) cause bugs? Yes, they can! We’ll look at some common C programming mistakes in this column.

Presenting a step-by-step guide on how to set up a Fedora mirror.

Here’s how to write a few simple scripts and then schedule them to run at a specified time using the at utility.

This article explains some free and open source tools like GParted, g4u and partimage, which are used for partitioning, disk cloning, partition backup/restore, etc.

Let’s get started with NumPy, which is supposed to be “the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python.”

Let us explore cloud computing and learn how to set up the cloud that can virtualise your USB device.