Oracle Unbreakable Linux !!

How mny more Linux flavors are we going to get ??

On october 25, 2006, Ellison Says Oracle Knows What's Best for Linux,.

Oracle Unbreakable Linux is a support program that provides enterprises with industry-leading global support for Linux. Oracle also offers Enterprise Linux software as a free download.

While Oracle will remove the Red Hat trademarks from the Linux it distributes, Ellison denied that this would in any way "fragment" the Linux Market.

On Red Hat's site, though, the Linux company comes out swinging. In a section titled "Unfakeable Linux," Red Hat points out a laundry list of what's wrong with Oracle's Unbreakable Linux

The Devil's Recipe - By Hugo Chavez

Hugo's speach at the UN raises few good points, It is worth reading:

The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.

"And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here." [crosses himself] "And it smells of sulfur still today.

2006 NBA Finals - A Conspiracy Theory

Match-fixing, usually happens when India vs Pakistan cricket match. If it is match fixing, it will be very obvious when some of the legendry cricketers who are in good form will loose their wickets (get out) easily for no reason (like run - out) or and good bowler will out perform properly. Because these well paid criketers are agreed for a lum-sum amount of money and perform in favour of other team to win. If you are a cricket adherent, you know what i mean.

To me, This is first time I smell that NBA got rigged in favor of Miami-Heat despite their poor performace except Dwyane-Wade (aka Flash!!) for his sole and brillaint performace, Ofcoure basketball is not a one man game!! NBA finals was almost decided in favor of Dallas - Mavericks when they were 2-0 lead. Its all started when the game moved to Miami and the officials are started to support in favor of miami, there are lot of calls which are under dispute, unnecessary suspension on stackhouse during the crucial game 5.

The only difference between match fixing in Cricket and NBA is, in cricket bunch of bookies will pay the key players to underperform whereas in NBA, The whole organization (not the teams) + the officials will do in favor of the team which is hot in making more money buy selling tickets and merchandise!!

Red Hat Goes All Out for Developers

If you were looking for new products at Red Hat's second annual Red Hat Summit, you came to the wrong place. But, if you were interested in bigger and better development tools, you came to the right place.
Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik introduced the company's new open-source developer community Web site, "108," in the show's morning meetings.
This new site is intended to help open source developers share resources; build and fetch code; find and meet other developers, interact with them; and collaborate with them.

Good place to contribute / interact / resource for open source tech.

Rational Application Developer (RAD) Resource !!

I strongly suggest to take a look at Bill Hahn's site , if you are intersted in learning about RAD / Websphere application developer. Bill has lot of presentation + demos.

I mailed Bill this afternoon about the outdated links. Guess what!? He immediately replied me with the updated links.

Thanks a Lot Bill.

27 per cent reservation for OBCs in higher learning !!

IITs (Indian Institute of Technology) and IIMs (Indian Institute of Management) are the premier higher learning institutions in India. IIT is basically for Engineering Technology and IIM is for Management. Inorder to get an B.Tech admission in IIT, one has pass the grueling "JEE" (Joint Enterance Examination, conducted across India) is the toughest enterance exam in the world. To get an idea about IIT, put MIT, Harvard and Princeton together and you come to know the status of IIT.

Ministry of HRD (Human Resourse Development) under the present Indian goverment (ruling congress party headed by Prime Minsiter Dr. Manmohan Singh), decided to Implement 27 % reservation quota for OBC (other backward caste) from next year onwards to all central universities includes IITs and IIMs. These universites are getting financial grant from the central (federal) government. With 27 % increase to the existing quota, which takes the total of whopping 49.5%. which means other castes (In India basically education system is based on the stupid caste system) candidate (rememeber the population in India , 1+ Billion) has to fight for the remaining quota!!.

I strongly against this move, which is basically bad to the country. I cannot understand why this stupid congress want to implement the quota in higher education? I strongly suggest who ever wants to get in to the premier institution should purely based on merit. You know what this will going to happen in future? Think about a below average candiate (just scored mere pass marks in his graduation), just because he / she is OBC and got admission to these elite institute which not fair compared to an outstanding candiate who can't secure an adminsion to the institute because of this fucking caste system? Think about the outcome of the below average candidate who (if at all ) graduated from these elite institute, will be the same below average joe.

I request everybody to strongly oppose this stupid quota system.

Hello Congress please wakeup!!

Lotus fires back at Microsoft's Notes rhetoric

John Fontana, Lotus has no intent to back off its stated commitment to provide backward compatibility for all Notes applications regardless of reports to the contrary this week from longtime rival Microsoft.

Can Microsoft comes up with a clean product for Collabration Platform to compete with Lotus Notes / Domino??? I doubt it.