Ruminations Galore

In 2004, the IEEE announced work on a new 802.11 standard called 802.11n, thought to be capable of achieving speeds up to a theoretical 540 Mbit/s. The 802.11n differs from the previous 802.11 standards as it uses Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output. MIMO uses multiple receiver and transmitter antennas that allow increased data throughput, thus achiving the high speeds. [...]

Because of the lousy firefox theme. Actually, it’s only partially because of that. But for most part, it’s my promise to hack it, the process of hacking it, and leaving it at that. Partly hacked, partly modified and missing tags have contributed to it. It’s not that I don’t know how to make it validate. [...]

The very hard working people over at php architect have created Beeblex — a PHP search engine. Use it to search for articles, blog entries, and just about everyplace where PHP is discussed. The Beeblex page also has a blog roll, so you’d always find some interesting link each time you drop over.

Yup, I am doing it too! Seems that no techie can stay without talking about Web 2.0. There is talk about Web 2.0 being websites created with AJAX or websites where users can contribute. Here is what Web 2.0 really is. Web 2.0 is all the sites which are based on user interaction and contribution. [...]

Google provided their testimony before the Committee on International Relations of the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday. Reading through the introduction, I come to the conclusion that Google is on a self-defeating goal here. They claim that google.cn is an initiative to spread the availability of information to the Chinese. I have never once on [...]

It is amazing. I am impressed with the functionality and the ease of use of Google chat. No need to download any software or configuring gaim. Just click on any name and start yapping… Plus, you have the advantage of tagging yourself as busy if you don’t want to be disturbed in the middle of [...]

I had a long time ago posted about the lack of the Delete button in gmail and the trouble it caused people. Seems that Google is worried about it too, or at least in part. The “Move to trash” from the more actions drop-down has been renamed to “Delete”. Why? I don’t know! I think [...]

If you were wondering whatever happened to NASA’s desire of making all of their websites look similar, there is some good news. NASA, it seems, learnt about Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and how it could provided a viable solution to their requirement. A web developer at the Goddart Space Flight Center, Bryan Stephenson, has designed [...]

Like I had posted before, I recently bought myself an Acer 2312 TravelMate notebook. It’s time to rave about the machine. The 2312 comes equipped with 256 mb DDR memory, which coupled with its 1 mb L2 Cache and 1.4 ghz processing power is pretty fast. It has a 15″ TFT screen. You get a [...]

I wonder why most of things google makes are first made available for the windows platform. Considering that they run Linux servers themselves, this move of theirs is a turn-off for me. Anyway, in the traditional google standard, the google talk IM has been released for windows. But there is hope for linux users. Especially [...]