Are our accents really this bad?

Posted On Saturday, August 1st, 2009 By Ravi

Are our accents this bad really? Or is Russell just making it sound funnier? Untill quite recently, I noticed huge similarities between Russell Peters and Salman Rushdie. Well, I am a low lying person, and suddenly came to my senses that the common thing between the both of them is that they both ate Indians, talking about India to Non Indian people everywhere. Russell makes fun of us, while Salman makes some sense, tries to project the richness of the countries without making the Europeans feel depressed or anything. Well, both need to do some Fastin and loose some wieght if they want to stop panting whe they talk.

Ubuntu for the servers

Posted On Friday, May 8th, 2009 By Ravi

I have been using ubuntu for my desktops since late 2006, and have never moved back to windows. Unix, the operating system made when the hippies walked the earth is THE os, and all its derivatives are just too good. I love Linux, and bsd at times, and I just hate windows. Windows ia a big black mark on mankind. Atleast in the desktop world since most of the server world still rely on unix and its derivatives. I did have a few windows servers, which I maintained for a few insufferable clients I had, and the rest of the clients were happy with the linux servers I had. I have been enthusiastic at managing my linux servers and I just hated working on my Windows servers. Well, till April 2008, I thought CentOS was the best ever operating system for servers. It is simple, it is powerful, It is made from RedHat, and its free. Redhat comes with a $20 license fee per month. CentOS is geared up for the server environment. Set it up, harden it, and you are ready to roll. And managing it through shell is never easier. But still I missed ubuntu on my server. Continue Reading