Fri, 22 Aug 2008
Vent at your employer, give advice to your CEO, Rate your CEO
Have you ever felt the need for more openness about your company and being able to comment on your compay,companies culture , or share your grievances of your company or say that your company at good at various things.
Do you want to rate your CEO ?
Wanna know what others make in your company.
If the answer to any of the above is yes then there is a website which might interest you.
It is appropriately named as http://www.glassdoor.com
Do you want to rate your CEO ?
Wanna know what others make in your company.
If the answer to any of the above is yes then there is a website which might interest you.
It is appropriately named as http://www.glassdoor.com
posted at: 14:44 | category: /general | permanent link to this entry
Sat, 16 Aug 2008
Prevent Spam : Solve a captcha and hide your email address from Spam
We all want to avoid being spammed but at the same time we want to reveal our email address to people who need to contact us.recaptch solves that problem very easily and just by adding about 4 lines of code you can hide your email address from spammers and reveal it.
Another cool benefit of recaptcha is that you are helping "reading" books that is when some books have faded and are being scanned , you are helping solve the faded text.Read more about it on their website.
Another cool benefit of recaptcha is that you are helping "reading" books that is when some books have faded and are being scanned , you are helping solve the faded text.Read more about it on their website.
posted at: 00:41 | category: /general | permanent link to this entry
Sat, 19 Jul 2008
Ditching the landline
I have finally said good-byes to my phone landline and have moved to exclusively to mobile phone .
I hated paying almost $20 for a landline with no features and just local calling.
I have moved to Virgin Mobile as my preferred mobile carrier(have been using them for almost 2-3 yrs) because it is the most flexible service that is it allows you to switch between a pay-as you go model to a monthly service anytime without **any** annual contracts etc.You can also switch plans like say for example in the next month you anticipate that you will need a phone more then usual , then you can increase the monthly amount, and then say the month after next you are going out of country and wont be using the phone at all you can , reduce your monthly charges.
It seems that the mobile phone industry pretty much has a price war going on right now and I would not like to lock myself into a contract when I could have more choices in near future.In general I just don't like contracts, I prefer freedom for consumers which seems to be hard to get these days especially with the telecom industry.
Here is a nice site that provides a good comparison of pre-paid wireless plans/carriers.
Time to time there are good deals on Target or at Calling Mart where you can get Virgin Mobile Top-Up cards at a significant discount , sometimes upto 10%.
I hated paying almost $20 for a landline with no features and just local calling.
I have moved to Virgin Mobile as my preferred mobile carrier(have been using them for almost 2-3 yrs) because it is the most flexible service that is it allows you to switch between a pay-as you go model to a monthly service anytime without **any** annual contracts etc.You can also switch plans like say for example in the next month you anticipate that you will need a phone more then usual , then you can increase the monthly amount, and then say the month after next you are going out of country and wont be using the phone at all you can , reduce your monthly charges.
It seems that the mobile phone industry pretty much has a price war going on right now and I would not like to lock myself into a contract when I could have more choices in near future.In general I just don't like contracts, I prefer freedom for consumers which seems to be hard to get these days especially with the telecom industry.
Here is a nice site that provides a good comparison of pre-paid wireless plans/carriers.
Time to time there are good deals on Target or at Calling Mart where you can get Virgin Mobile Top-Up cards at a significant discount , sometimes upto 10%.
posted at: 20:36 | category: /general | permanent link to this entry
Sat, 31 May 2008
California Law for Hands Free devices starting July 1, 2008
Thank you Gov.Schwarzenegger for signing this, the only thing is wish it had been signed a couple of years back .Everybit helps as we have seen time and again that Cell phone drivers get too much distracted while driving and can cause accidents.
You can read more about this law at Gov. Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Requiring Drivers to Use Hands Free Devices While Talking on a Mobile Phone
posted at: 20:17 | category: /general | permanent link to this entry
Thu, 22 May 2008
Truecrypt Files on an encrypted Filesystem
A couple of months back I ran into this very good utility called Truecrypt.
It is a free open source software(GPL license) which creates a filesystem in a file and it is encrypted.
One of the cool things about this is how seamlessly it integrates with Windows/Linux.
It shows up as a drive in Windows Explorer just like a USB drive.And it mounts like regular mountpoints on Linux.
Another benefit of having all your files in one file is that you really don't need to worrying about forgetting to backup individual files.All you have to backup is one file which has all your folders/files etc.
To me This is a huge benefit as I have looked into multiple backup tools/machine imaging utilities etc but by far truecrypt is the best.
Another advantage of truecryt based filesystem is that it is ultra-portable. You just copy one file onto any machine and you have your filesystem there
. No need to use partition magic or other tools to backup the pastition and then restore it on another machine.
Combine this with Portable Apps and you can have your working desktop/environment on any machine and best of it all , it is encrypted !!!!
Oh, the other thing you don't have to pay inflated prices for USB drives for encryption.You buy **any** USB drive and put your encrypted files on the USB drive and you can derive similar protection.
One of the cool things about this is how seamlessly it integrates with Windows/Linux.
It shows up as a drive in Windows Explorer just like a USB drive.And it mounts like regular mountpoints on Linux.
Another benefit of having all your files in one file is that you really don't need to worrying about forgetting to backup individual files.All you have to backup is one file which has all your folders/files etc.
To me This is a huge benefit as I have looked into multiple backup tools/machine imaging utilities etc but by far truecrypt is the best.
Another advantage of truecryt based filesystem is that it is ultra-portable. You just copy one file onto any machine and you have your filesystem there
. No need to use partition magic or other tools to backup the pastition and then restore it on another machine.
Combine this with Portable Apps and you can have your working desktop/environment on any machine and best of it all , it is encrypted !!!!
Oh, the other thing you don't have to pay inflated prices for USB drives for encryption.You buy **any** USB drive and put your encrypted files on the USB drive and you can derive similar protection.
posted at: 16:39 | category: /general | permanent link to this entry
