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5 Comments »It may be too soon but that’s the way it is. Last week after the death of Steve Jobs the world flooded with the news of his death. Everyone from the kid who owns an iPod to the major giants in the IT industry. They all showed that they care but all they were doing is showing how big of an ass-licking hypocrites they are. Apple is the most valued company after all. They wept and they shed tears. Every company posted a link to Steve Job’s obituary. Apple, Google, Amazon. Everyone. And all this happened within an hour of Job’s death.
I don’t have a problem with that. Heck, I know no one cares what I have a problem with. But I am going to say it anyway. Dennis Ritchie is dead and right now not a single company seems to care. They may post things up tomorrow but that is not good enough. That just shows how much they care. [Read more →]
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3 Comments »It’s been a long time since I posted anything here. Never really felt like moving away from the technical scribbling and into the light. So here it goes, as usual, I kick off with a rant. Well no – I actually have no idea what to write at this point. Moving on – I was discussing the ever so increasing number of people who are beginning to use u and r instead of you and are (Come on – you really thought this won’t be a rant? I have been ordered to post rants here, nothing else).
So we went on discussing it. He was supporting the usage of these… things? To call them words is essentially the same as accepting them as words. How hard is it to type 2 additional letters? The discussion ended quickly after we knew no one was going to back off and we both had better things to do and that people don’t change and everybody lies (yes, I know, too much House). [Read more →]
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4 Comments »Inception – the movie which changed the way many people look at things. At least that was what I heard when the movie came out. Everyone was talking about it. The graphics, the soundtrack, the acting… the story. It is a good movie, one of the better movies of late and I respect Nolan for that.
Many people have raised questions about the movie. The initial concept, lack of information about the device that lets you tap into someone else’s mind, the dreams within the dreams… People say he has not explained things clearly and that there are a lot of lose ends to be tied up. One of the questions everyone asks is – what exactly is the device? How can you go into someone else’s dreams? I don’t want to get into that argument in this post. There are a lot of movies which do not answer a lot of questions.
Then I stumbled upon an episode of SouthPark. Insheeption. It’s a parody of Inception and I like it more than the movie in a way 
(I know I am comparing Linux with BSD here). The way they have done things is unique. The dialogs like taco inside a taco inside a Taco Bell inside a McDonalds inside a mall…. you get the point. It’s a very funny, well written and properly executed script. A must watch for all Inception fans and haters alike. [Read more →]