Avinash Joshi

Microsoft founders lead tributes to ‘father of the PC’ Dr Roberts died after a long bout of pneumonia The “father of the personal computer” who kick-started the careers of Microsoft founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen has died at the age of 68. Dr Henry Edward Roberts was the inventor of the Altair 8800, a [...]

The Red Ribbon Express organised by NACO – National AIDS Control Organization – will aim at spreading awareness about HIV, promoting safe behavioural practises and fighting the stigma and discrimination against AIDS. Emphasising on the urgent need of fighting social discrimination against those affected with AIDS, Gandhi said, “It is a battle which can and [...]

Amrita University & TIFAC CORE in association with VeriSign proudly present InCTF’10, India’s First National Level “Capture the Flag” Style Ethical HACKING contest. InCTF’10 is from February to March 2010 and is focused exclusively on the student community. You can participate from your own university and no travel is required. No prior exposure or experience [...]

Personally, I am a Durpal fan. It is, according to me one of the most powerful Content Management System. Here is yet another break through (grammy.com) for Drupal after the White House website (http://www.whitehouse.gov/). Lullabot is a team that focuses on providing Drupal videos, tutorials, training, consulting, and guidance… Now, read on to know how [...]

How has the nation fared since we gave ourselves the gift of democracy? Vikram Raghavan, Gopal Sankaranarayanan, Gyan Prakash,Nandini Sundar and Pamela Philipose look back at the Republic’s often-troubled journey…. Photo: The Hindu Photo Archives On a cold winter’s morning 60 years ago today, 271 men and women huddled together in New Delhi’s Legislative Building. [...]

After the Success of FOSSTER ’09 that was conducted on 28th and 29th of March, 2009; FOSSTER ’10, the National Level FOSS Conference at Amritapuri Campus is back. It will be held on 20th and 21st of February, 2010. FOSSTER now has an official website http://fosster.co.in [we we not able to reserve fosster.in - which [...]

Slowly but surely, we’re getting an idea of what Google’s Chrome OS will look like. We know that it will be Linux-based and that the primary interface will likely be the Chrome browser. Still, the search giant was not content to simply turn a Web browser into an operating system. Soon Google was launching a [...]

Attending JavaOne 2009 Conference at San Francisco was a wonderful, learning experience. As a part of Sun Microsystems’s Campus Ambassador Program, they nominated five CA’s from all over the world who would get an opportunity to attend the JavaOne 2009 Conference, fully sponsored by them. Let me now share my JavaOne 2009 experiences with you [...]

“Almost all of us have childhood dreams; for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don’t achieve theirs, and I think that’s a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I’ve actually achieved most of them.  More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the [...]

Suvendu Roy of Titan Industries shares his inspirational encounter with a rickshaw driver in Mumbai Last Sunday, my wife, kid and I had to travel to Andheri from Bandra. When I waved at a passing auto rickshaw, little did I expect that this ride would be any different. As we set off, my eyes fell [...]

Article from Netcraft.Com – http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/03/15/march_2009_web_server_survey.html In the March 2009 survey, netcraft.com received responses from 224,749,695 sites. This has brought the total up by more than 9 million sites, with QQ and Microsoft making the most significant contributions. Apache remains in the lead with a total of 104 million sites, while Microsoft-IIS’s gain of 3.3 million [...]

Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend about winning a programming contest with a single compilation. Andrew Binstock: You are one of the fathers of the open-source revolution, [...]

I have added a new page: http://avinashjoshi.co.in/users-speak/ Here, I will be posting (in reverse chronological order), my blog users, visitors and Friends experience with FOSS and generally with my blog. So, If you like my blog and would like to put up your comments on that page, mail to mail at avinashjoshi dot co dot [...]

I got up at 8am today to start studying for my internals that will be starting on Monday. I thought, before I start studying, I should read todays paper and thats where I stumbled upon this wonderful article, very nicely written by Suchitra Srinivas. I thought, I must share this with all and thats how [...]

“India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. Our most valuable and most artistic materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only!” – Mark Twain (Writer, America) I came across this [...]

The journey of a thousand miles has to begin only with the first step.  The 10,000-metre marathon too starts with the humble first step.  Several ‘prospective successful persons’ in the past did not go much  further because of THAT one step – they dared not take it (for reasons of several kinds) and were all-content [...]

Coffee isn’t a killer, but protects heart Here’s some good news for coffeebuffs — drinking large amounts ofthe caffeinated concoction doesnot increase the risk of an early death,and, if you are a woman, it may protectyou from developing heart disease. A new research has revealed thatdrinking up to six cups of coffee a day hasno [...]