Had a general discussion about Logos. He is using Corel Draw to do a live logo design. Good time to check my email but there were some good points that came out

SSID: BARCAMP
Password: 01234567891011121314151617
Proxy: jupiter.iimb.ernet.in:80

4 days to go!!!
If you are in Bangalore this weekend, then you cannot miss this.
Catch you there

I hope to see meet the following people and more:

• Aashish Solanki
• Abdul Kazia
• Ashwin Krishna
• Gitu Krish
• Jerry Mannel
• Kapil Chhabra (I hope you remember me :))
• Kumar Gaurav
• Rakesh Reddy
• Sandeep
• S. Moorthy
• Santosh Maharshi
• Ujjwal Grover
• The Cruise Maniac

Yes, Philip Parker of Insead has managed that.

NYT said that he is laying the groundwork for romance novels generated by new algorithms. Its okay as long as the books primarily have those wild numbers crunched, graphs etc but a romance novel?

I wonder what Shakespeare, and others would have said about it.

Please guide me how can I quickly install MySQL server on Ubuntu.

Use this command
sudo apt-get install mysql-server

Please guide me how can I quickly install Apache2 and mod_python on Ubuntu.

Use this command
sudo apt-get install apache2 libapache2-mod-python

To restart apache2, use:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 -k restart

Yay! Sameek is now experimenting with his blog. I sincerely hope that he will blog regularly and soon write some great stuff for us to read. Here is the customary first post.

Google has started to use ‘evil’ tactics. The most recent to join the list of evil things done by Google, is hijacking of 404 pages if the user has installed the latest Google Toolbar.

Matt Cutts says and I quote:

if you’re a webmaster and want users to see your custom 404 page, just make your page be more than 512 bytes long.

Damn you Google! Who are you to tell me what should be the size of my custom error page if at all I show one? It is my right to show a error page which is less than 512 bytes. Your toolbar manipulating that error page and showing something else that favors your search box is simply not acceptable.

The way I read this is: It is not a tactic to help users. It is a tactic to get its search box to more and more places and hence getting more and more people to search using Google. Stop it Google! Behave like a good company and stop using your user base along with shady tactics to get more users/ searches and hence advertising dollars.

(via Seoker, Codswallop and TC)

UPDATE (February 25, 2008)
Google on its own 404 pages does not show a search box. See sample @ http://www.google.com/404page. So, why does it want to put one at other websites

1. Download SWiSH Video 2.
2. Start the setup program.
3. Select a Custom Install.
4. Untick the top checkbox if you do not need a program to convert videos to FLV. [NOTE: You MUST have at least the center checkbox ticked for this process.]
5. Keep clicking on “Yes” and “Next” until the setup is finished.
6. If you want to configure WinAmp to play FLV files: Add ;FLV to the Extension List in:

   Winamp > Preferences (Ctrl+P) > Plugins > Input > DirectShow (in_dshow.dll) > configure

   It should now looks something like:

   MPG;MPEG;M2V;AVI;FLV

You will now have playback support for FLV in Winamp. Any media player that uses DirectShow can now play FLV files. You might need to configure the media player like the way we configured WinAmp