Posts by author: Aditya
Recently we saw a couple of earthquakes, cyclones and tornadoes and similar natural disasters. These things can happen to anyone at any time. Here is what you should do to stay safe. You need to build yourself a disaster kit. Usually it takes several hours, at times even days, before vital services are restored. A [...]
Whenever someone says Windows, Blue Screen of Death automatically flashes in my mind. One of the reasons I moved to Linux was this damn screen which would just dump a bunch of stuff in Hexadecimal on my screen and would ask me to restart the computer for no reason at all. It was there in [...]
Facebook just rolled out a subscribe button so that users can have selected feeds on their walls. So you can filter out people from whom you don’t want to hear much. But is that the killer feature? Well, the killer is that now you can subscribe to people who are not your friends. On a [...]
Recently facebook has started rolling out a new feature known as Smart Lists for selected users. It will automatically classify the people in three categories: People who went to school with you People who work with you People living within 50 miles And well, facebook has power to do this and do this right given [...]
TechCrunch is on the precipice. As soon as tomorrow, Mike may be thrown out of the company he founded. Or he may not. No one knows. And if he is, he will be replaced by — well, again, no one knows. No one knows much of anything. Certainly no one at TechCrunch. This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total fucking dark. I’ve been able to piece together little bits of information here and there, and it’s not looking good. Hence, this post.
A few days ago this appeared on Kernel.org’s home page. “Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure.”
