Posts by: Sachin Khosla

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The plastic pearl necklace

Here is a short sweet story that will help people to move on in your life. Jenny was a bright-eyed, pretty five-year-old girl. One day when she and her mother were checking out at the grocery store, Jenny saw a plastic pearl necklace priced at $2.50. How she wanted that necklace and when she asked[…]
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Microsoft’s answer to Google Sky

(13 May 2008, 1057 hrs IST,REUTERS) SEATTLE: Any Star Trek fan knows that space travel is not always easy, but Microsoft Corp wants to make traveling the “final frontier” as simple as turning on your computer. The world’s largest software maker launched a free software application called WorldWide Telescope on Monday that allows everyone from[…]
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Disable Vista System Beep

Hiya, Just a small tweak wanted to share with you guys, i will tell you how to mute/stop that shrill System beep in Windows vista, that you sometimes  get to hear when working with MS DOS :p 1) Open Device Manager (Shortcut key  windows key+break) 2) Goto view and click “show hidden devices “ 3)[…]
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Unsubscribe from efreshers.com (efreshers)

hiya, i know you reached here, when you got lotsa spam from the junk site called http://efreshers.com into your mailbox. Well no offense as such to the site particularly, but still it bugged me and my friends a way more severely. Finally we decided to unsubscribe something that we never subscribed. But to my surprise,[…]
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What an IT guy wants ?

I found this article here. But, that blog has been deleted by the author. So I am recreating the post here. If anyone know the name of the actual author, please do let me know. I would be happy to give credits to him/her. If you ask me technical questions please don’t argue with me[…]
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If a programming language was a boat…

Java Java is a cargo ship. It’s very bulky. It’s very enterprise~y. Though it can also carry a lot of weight. Will carry a project, but not very fun to drive. Perl Perl is a tugboat. Powerful enough to tug Java around, in 80 characters or less.
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Test Your Broadband Speed

Want to check if you are getting the promised broadband speed? Here’s a site that can help Log on to Speedtest.net, a website that provides an application which runs a small test on your Internet connection and tells you what speeds you are getting currently. Measure the speed at different times of day, especially during[…]
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Yahoo may reject latest MS bid

WASHINGTON: US Internet company Yahoo on Monday rejected software giant Microsoft’s three-week ultimatum to accept its takeover offer. Yahoo is responding to a three-week deadline issued by Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer in a letter to Yahoo on Saturday for Yahoo to agree to Microsoft’s $31 a share cash-and-stock offer or risk seeing the bid[…]
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Yahoo agrees on Microsoft’s Bid of 44.6 Billion USD

After much internal debate and industry speculation, Yahoo today agreed to be acquired by Microsoft, adding $2.6 billion to Redmond’s original offer of $44.6 billion on Jan. 31 The agreement was reached near midnight last night, thus closing a contentious quarter for the Web company, one rife with in-fighting and power jockeying since Microsoft’s initial[…]
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CSS Annual Naked Day (Strip your websites)

Hell yea, saw the American pic Naked Mile ? well if no, then lets celebrate the CSS naked day here. April 5th is observed as the world’s naked day for all the sites through the world. On this day, the websites simply remove their CSS style sheets from server and let the content mingle or[…]