This evening when I started booting my reformatted laptop, I realized that I am no longer at status quo. Reminds me of the conversation in Matrix. At first Neo’s new world seems rather unreal to him, and he begins to doubt that he has entered a new world at all.“This can’t be…” he begins to [...]
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Exploring an unchartered territory, the world of Ubuntu ‘Lucid Lynx’ Linux
Posted on 08. Aug, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
Aug 8, 2010: I finally got away from Windows XP on my Dell Latitude D630. 80 GB of data, firmly archived, saved on 2 external hard drives in 2 different formats. Then sanitized the disk with mhdd ERASE command. Why do I hate windows? Or do I? Actually I don’t. I use windows more than [...]
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As I have blogged before, Windows mobile has never really been a true business phone. It seems like I am not alone. Windows mobile is really losing ground. With Android and iPhone on the shelves, and most developers developing for these platform it is simply a matter of time before Microsoft is history on phones. [...]
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Importance of TIME in rapid, low cost, we-want-it-now Software Development
Posted on 17. Jul, 2010 by Amit Jindal.
I have been a software process practitioner for a greater part of my professional life. I have managed project that are very large in scope, change and complexity. I have tried all approaches, Scrum, XP, Agile, Classic, Prince2. With every approach comes benefits and pitfalls. Still I find all these approaches are too vague for [...]
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Those who know me already know that Aquevix is a Linux based Infrastructure. Our mail servers, virtualization, thin clients, firewalls, application servers, database servers, monitoring servers, all are Linux. I have been a Linux user since 1997 when Redhat was 6.x (before their Enterprise products). Moreover, somehow I just couldn’t bite the idea that we [...]
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I have used Microsoft Mobile phone for past 5 years. Used iMate, O2, Asus, HTC. The speed increased from 64Mhz to 200 Mhz to 524 Mhz. Then I got fed up with hangs, slow opening applications, dying voice and what not. So I threw away all my applications and restarted with Nokia E71. For first [...]
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Last Thursday I was at Microsoft ISV day. To my surprise, Steve Ballmer (Microsoft) was there for keynote. I was expecting a virtual Steve Ballmer on a screen. That was nice of him to show up. Anyway, the conference did not turn out as useful as I had hoped. The initial talks were about Cloud [...]
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Apparently Montbanc missed the flight when God was distributing brain. That’s why they do not understand even the single principle behind Mahatma Gandhi’s struggle. Just to re-iterate, Gandhi ji BURNED foreign good. He did not buy Montblanc. Just how stupid you have to be? These images jar with German pen maker Montblanc’s launch of a [...]
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Once again on Microsoft Platform: One of the world’s nastiest password-stealing trojans evades detection by the majority PCs running anti-virus programs, according to a study that examined 10,000 machines. Zeus, a stealthy piece of malware that sits on a PC and waits for users to log in to bank websites, is detected just 23 per [...]
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Nokia just doesn’t get it – Open letter to Nokia E-71 Support
Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by Amit Jindal.
When Nokia releases a Business Phone, what exactly do they mean by Business Phone? Does it means a business person can use the phone? Or does it really means it has all the features typically needed by Business person? I think it’s more of the former than latter. That’s why my recently purchases Nokia E71 [...]