Vikram’s “Muse”

“And this one thing is what gives the confidence, however out of place this confidence might seem, to be absolutely unworried about the permanence of this bond. How can you somehow lose your reflection?” - Vikram

Miguel in town, Nat posts some cool Beagle demos, Update on Beagle for windows

Went to a cool Eritrean place for dinner and to hang out with Miguel (and a bunch of Mono fans) since he is in town for a few days. Interesting discussions ensued about whether "Thick" applications were getting outmoded by "offline-aware" "Thin" "Rich" web-applications. * phew * In other news, nat's ...

Article on Helix in Linux User and Developer Magazine

Helix was the subject of a recent magazine article. I am quoted a few times in there. HelixArticleLU.pdf (413 KB) (Article appeared in issue 42 of LinuxUser & Developer and was written by Jono Bacon)SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Article on Helix in Linux User and Developer Magazine", url: "http://viks.org/archives/2004/12/28/article-on-helix-in-linux-user-and-developer-magazine/" });

Beagle: Opensource Super Searching Goodness

A few linuxworlds ago I had a wonderful conversation with some friends at Ximian/Novell about smart searching that could take into account a great amount of meta data that today's searches ignore. This project is the answer to that question - the team's been working on creating a context aware, multiple ...

RealNetworks Announces New Versions of RealPlayer for Linux and Mac OS X

Both my teams had major releases this month. RealNetworks Announces 13 New Versions of RealPlayer for Linux and Mac OS X for Europe And Asia New Distribution Agreement with Leading Linux Developer in Asia solidifies RealPlayer as the Top Media Player for Linux Desktop; Points to Another Development Success for Helix Community. It ...

January 24th 2008
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Troubleshooting driver problems in Vista

This is a problem that has confounded and caused no end of trouble to me and several friends/colleagues. Now that I seem to have found a fairly reliable solution, I wanted to highlight it here. Problem Symptom: Vista fails to find drivers for devices - typically USB devices. Often these ...
November 26th 2007
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Forever Star

As someone said on TV recently, "I don't want to give an eulogy because that would be acknowledging that he is gone" - I have been trying to block out this reality for a little while now. The last email I got from the man who I have often ...
September 18th 2007
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All ur Translation are belong to Us

Mike tells me that this is what he translates every time he finds a new translation service. So, I decided that I would run it through the new translator service that went into silent beta recently. German: Alle ur Übersetzung sind gehören uns Arabic: كلّ [أور] ترجمة ينتسب إلى نا French: Toute la ...
June 2nd 2007
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Business Models for India - Recycling

There are two kinds of disappointments to those with an entrepreneurial bent. One - the "in retrospect" kind and another - the "ideated but un-executed" kind. The first kind is where you look at something that just happened and say "that is so obvious", and the second kind is where ...
May 30th 2007
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Surface is here!

Sometimes some products need little introduction or explanation. They easily capture your imagination and make you say - "I want one!" Here is one such truly cool product from Microsoft: Microsoft Surface.  Lately there has been a TON of news around touch computing TED Multitouch demo, iPhone and so forth. I ...