San Jose

SJ downtown sunset 02
Originally uploaded by DPTRONZ.

This is where I am right now. Thanksgiving break! Happy Holidays... and a short sojourn from blogging.

Customize right-click menu

I installed the Konfabulator! (Yahoo) to fiddle around with their widgets. The thing was pathetic. You have to download a new widget for every RSS feed you want. Then there was the analog clock where you had the choice of making the second's hand visible/invisible(??!!). And then Yahoo proceeded to add useless shortcuts to my right-click menu. WTF? I right-click on an email-link and I see Yahoo Maps! ... how does that make any sense? Just like popups and flashy ads are obsolete, so also is putting crap on the users short-cut menu without authorization. Anyway I found a way to take that shit out...

regedit
HKEY_CURRENT_USER > Software > Microsoft > Internet Explorer > MenuExt
and delete the offending folders. If you are using any other browser, I suspect that you will see corresponding folders in "Software". Don't go screwing around with the registry if you don't know what you are doing.

Go here if you want to know more about customizing your right-click menu.

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SUN dives into Niagara

Had the opportunity of listening to Kunle Olukotun’s talk on Chip Multi Processors (CMP) last Friday. Dr. Kunle is one of the founders of Afara Websystems where Niagara was conceived. And SUN, having acquired Afara in 2002, is hoping to make a comeback with Niagara.

With 8 multiprocessor cores and speeds of upto 32Gbps, Niagara is poised to take over the as an extremely powerful and "cool" server. These servers will realise their full potential when they are utilised by highly pipelined function calls with parallel processing needs. Sequential programming will soon be an artifact and parallel programming will emerge as the norm.

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Dilbert on Outsourcing

courtesy Dilbert - by Scott Adams

Done with my paper

Finally done with my MS paper... no pain... out of breath... more about this later.

;GrA,mMaR.!

Some guy sent this mail into a group yesterday. Now if there is a good example of how not to use grammar, then this must be it.

I today from the bottom of my heart; Wish U dear Friend; a Very Happy Diwali & a Prosperous New Year!!!!!Shubh Deepavali aur Nutan Varsh Abheenandan!

I count 2 missing commas, 2 semicolons in the wrong place, 6 exclamation marks, 8 randomly "titlecased" words, an incorrect abbreviation and a whole different language... all in one sentence (I think). Agreed that grammar is like statistics... a freakin lie. But this is pushing it, my friend....
Wish you all a happy new year and a glorious grammarification.