I was worried the world was coming to an end. Yesterdays hot and amazingly humid conditions in Mumbai refereshed some images from a TinTin comic edition titled ‘The Shooting Star’ which I had browsed long long ago. The sweaty stinky moist bodies of middle-aged men brushing in the crowded locals, is not my idea of a pleasant journey by any stretch of imagination. Yet someone amongst the heavens above might have yearned for some more fun to unfold as the train I was riding pulled in on the newly contructed (and a true nightmare for any infrastructure project in this city) platform no. 8, which is far from the Borivli area. The long march towards the exit was completely forgettable.
Coming out of the railway premises, I was being jabbed and pushed by crowds moving towards the station. The road widening and repairs had left huge dust mountains to settle around while the vehicles zipped freely. Jostling on the roads, covered in sweat the filth I finally reached home and dived straight into the shower.
The evening bought with it some good news in the form of rains. The boom and the lightning show was never seen before. It was like the army of raingods attacking the summer satans with a thunderous rapture, ending months of our piteous condition! The cold wave swept across the city, bringing immense relief to the city dwellers. Here’s hoping that they stay in this city for some time.
No matter what the critics have to say about the Apple iPhone. Scratches or no scratches, after watching this demo, it’s difficult to resist the temptation of buying one. The innovative design, the iPod plus the touch screen features make the iPhone a must have device of the new era. Apple Inc’s Phil Schiller shows John Blackstone the many features of the iPhone which launches in the US in June 2007.
I was nurturing a passion of experiencing Linux first hand. After I read and saw some interfaces over the internet, I decided to try out Ubuntu on my home PC. For the unintiated, ubuntu is a one of the many distros available for the Linux kernel; the others being SuSe, Fedora, Mandriva, etc. You can download a copy of the latest version called “Edgy Eft” or ver 6.10 (ISO file, 698 MB) for ubuntu from this address. Please read the instructions before running the Live CD or installing it on your PC.
Some of the web resources on installing Ubuntu were more frightening than helpful to a non-techie like me. In the end, I decided o play safe and run the Live CD without installing it. Everything went off smoothly and the GUI rocked as well. You can do a lot more with the GNOME desktop and change it in whatever way you want it. If I ever gather the courage to install it myself (ubuntu has apparently eased the process than some of its counterparts) it will no doubt be a fabulous experience working on a parallel OS and grasping the knowledge of some new tools. For the time being, I will enjoy my Ubuntu on the CD.
Atleast that’s what this website wants us to believe. It’s offering a browser called Microsoft Firefox 2007 for download along with a complete feature list! The design looks much similar to Microsoft’s IE 7 spotlight. Even the favicon is similar to Microsoft’s. So shall we term it as a website rip, an attempted phishing or simply a figment of somebody’s wild illusions? you can decide for yourself. But IE married off with Firefox is a dangerous proposition to even imagine :-)
