Monthly Archives: December 2013
Explore the Power of the Bench Calculator
This second article on the mathematical journey through open source takes you through the basics of the bench calculator.
Faced with the limitations of the...
Innovation: Many Good Things, With An Open Twist
Gone are the days when open source was a concept that applied mainly to the arts and software. Today, open source fires innovation in...
Dynamic Program Analysis Using Valgrind: A Jump-start Guide
This article introduces Valgrind, a dynamic instrumentation framework to detect memory errors. The MemCheck tool, which comes as a part of the Valgrind framework,...
OpenStreetMap: An Open Source Alternate to GoogleMaps
This article introduces OpenStreetMap, which is bound to interest students, engineers, trekkers, cartographers, government officials, law enforcement authorities and anyone who makes use of...
The Status of Research in Localisation
In this 10th and concluding article in the series on localisation, the author take a closer look at the challenges for Indian language localisation...
Switching to IPv6? Here are Some Must-Try Options!
It is practically impossible and not particularly desirable to replace all your existing computing and networking equipment with IPv6 equipment at once. But what...
Combat Virtual Threats with IPCop Firewall
This article is an introduction to the special firewall distribution, IPCop.
In today's world, dependence on the Internet has reached such a level that without...
Protecting System Intents in Android
The last article on 'Intents in Android' covered the basics of one of Android's important inter-application communication mechanisms intents. This article goes deeper into...
