Rackspace had launched their cloud computing, cloud hosting service Mosso last year. We are hosting at Rackspace for quite sometime, although haven’t been able to try out Mosso.
Rackspace has always tried to contribute to opensource in some or other manner. (e.g. Custom Nagios modules, documenting various technologies used, and many more ).
Some may argue that [...]
I’ve heard this argument by many microsoft/closed source technology evangelist that Open Source softwares are not secure enough.
And any one can easily find the flaw in the software and use it for his benefit.
This week there was an argument on slashdot about the same.
According to the Linus’s Law, “given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow”. [...]
We have learned about the basics of business intelligence in the previous post.
Business Intelligence (Or BI) is a vast topic which covers various aspects of DSS (Decision Support System).
BI means attain complete wisdom from knowledge which will help taking the best possible decision yielding the best possible result.
To understand knowledge it would be better to [...]
I’ve tried attending few of the last barcamp’s at mumbai and always look forward to see what new I can learn from the same.
I’ve met few of my good contacts at barcamps and learned a lot from them.
My friend Satish Vijaykumar aka BombayLives (twitter – @bombaylives) have been the major driving force for me to [...]
We all know that piracy in some or other formats cannot be stopped and there have been number of futile attempts in past by large organisations.
And lets admit most of us have used/are using pirated softwares on their home/work computers.
I’ve came across following awesome response by USB Overdrive X to anyone using pirated code to [...]
In the last couple of years there was a big rush of making gadgets/widgets by most of the agencies/companies to have a prominent presence on social media for the last couple of years.
This involved many widgets being created for Facebook and loads of users adding those widgets to their profile.
One of the goal for the [...]
Google has launched the Project 10^100 (”Project 10 to the 100th”) to mark their 10th birthday; a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible.The price is around some $200,000 per idea. (they are selecting 5 ideas for $1 Million)
As they have already touched upon most of our daily [...]
The long wait is over & BarCampMumbai4 is finally announced on first weekend of October 2008.
What’s new?
* BCM4 is a 2-day camp this time.
* You have to be involved. You can either give sessions or volunteer to be a part of BCM4
When & where?
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As a logical extension to their existing product suite of EC2 cloud computing service and S3 online storage solution, Amazon is planning to launch a global CDN (Content Delivery Network) in near future. (Before dec 2008).
The idea is to provide publicly readable content to the customers worldwide, with low latency and high data transfer rates.(General [...]
I was going through slashdot and one bizzare incident was reported on it.
Google’s news tracker/crawler, fetched a news from some old reprint of an article from Dec 2002 when United Airlines was on the verge of bankruptcy.
United airlines later on managed to get out of the situation after that.
However google crawled it as latest news [...]