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A sneek peek

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 4, 2009

Thats the first preview of India Force Linux Desktop. Stay Tuned…

Here it comes..

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 6, 2009

6 years ago, I had my first ever tryst with Linux. One step towards the goal. Coming here was a task I dont want to remember. Still, I will reach to the top.
Here comes Agneya. The first release from India Force Linux.

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How to write a kludgy news crawler in Python and challenge Google News to its limits

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 17, 2008

A kludge (or, alternatively, kluge) is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a workaround, typically using unrelated parts cobbled together. Especially in computer programs, a kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge; this is essentially a kind of cruft.

I was [...]

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1 year of blogging

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 19, 2007

Gosh..Its my blogs 1st birthday today. Happy birthday little blog.

An overview of free and open software(part 1)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 21, 2006

I support and use GNU/Linux kernel and open source software mainly due to following factors.
1. Its free. Nothing can beat that.
2. Its stable and seldomly crashes. Memory management is more efficient.
3.Most of the documentation is available for free either online or offline.
4. It has got great desktops and allows one to fully customize the environment [...]

Google Co-op Search Engine

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 3, 2006

I think I am a little late on this topic,but anyway…
This is my new Google Co-op Search Engine over here.
Feel free to experiment, but note that it dosent index thousand/million/billion pages. However, it does incorporate nice links and good content for technology/food/linux/Web 2.0 fans and users. And following Googles method, its currently in beta.
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Google Code Search

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 7, 2006

It really seems that Google is on fire. It has definately taken search engine’s utility to a new level. Google Labs has got a new beta tool in its arsenal – ‘Google Code Search‘.
Developed by Russ Cox Google Code crawler gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code. It includes:

Support for [...]

The future of Google and conventional computing(beta version 0.01)

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 27, 2006

Today I had a nice closer look at . Infact, I must say that it is a nice product, definately a good competition to its paid and bloated counterpart MS Word.
Going by current product releases by Google, it seems that now the paradigm is slowly but surely shifting from offline, desktop based apps to online, [...]

Ubuntu

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 23, 2006

Today I got my official Ubuntu copies from Canonical. It feels nice that this distro is doing good, and I am sure that oneday it will be one of the most preffered and liked version of OS. It has got a nice GNOME desktop and an uncluttered interface making it very attractive. Even Google [...]

Linux for desktop users.

Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 16, 2006

Conventionally,GNU/Linux has always attracted the higher end market comprising of Geeks, nerds, techies, and for a time it was good.
But now, many useful changes are occuring and GNU/Linux is now available as a conventional ‘Desktop OS’, with sleek window managers like KDE, Gnome, Firefox, a good collection of useful software etc. Many end users [...]


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