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  1. Re:This is the free market at work. on Mauritius Aims To Be First Wireless Nation · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Ah, the knee jerk reactions start. let's check some facts BTW

    Size of Mauritius : around 1,865 km
    Population : about1.2 Million

    in contrast, size of LA: 1200 square kilometers

    what, you say it's easy to actually network a tiny country. noooo, let's put some spin on it.... oh, BTW, let's put the catch words competition, innovation blah blah. this should get modded insightful

  2. Re:CNET recommendation on mozilla on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 1

    pardon my ignorance but I am unaware of the encoding used by Klingon. Telugu is a language native to India. The proper encoding format in IE is to select view-> encoding -> { Western European / user-defined } Hope that helps

  3. CNET recommendation on mozilla on CERT Recommends Mozilla, Firefox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Good recommendation from CNET. I am a windows user (mostly) and get a chance to use unix boxes only at work. if using a web-browser, IE was the default choice since it's bundled with windows. I installed opera, netscape but they had issues loading a couple of webpages. I then tried mozilla but it was too slow. I then tried avant browser and it worked wonders albeit for a short period of time. The popup's were still coming, and there isn't a shortcut for opening a new tab. Finally, I moved on to Firefox 0.8 and 95% of the time, I am a die-hard user of firefox.

    I now use IE only to open my native language webpages since they aren't encoded properly in firefox. I would be grateful to anyone if they can show me how to open www.eenadu.net in Firefox. The native language is Telugu, if anyone needs it

    V

  4. Re:Dates on How Microsoft Develops Its Software · · Score: 2, Funny

    ah, so that's why the anti-MS tirade on /. I am starting to understand it all now. i'm such a genius

  5. Re:If you build it.... on Hotmail, Others Follow Gmail's Storage Boost · · Score: 5, Informative

    While it's true that hotmail in its earlier version was a huge spambait, the recent experiences are pretty good. I recently opened a new account (completely new registration) and had one spam mail in 4 months. Now, i'm impressed. Oh wait, we shouldn't have got that one spam mail too...

  6. I am lovin' it on Yahoo Boosts Email Space in response to Gmail · · Score: 1

    This is cool. I just logged into my Ymail account and noticed that they did increase to 100 MB. To make it more visible, you have a new layout for the login page. Now, I could just keep 1 yahoo account instead of 3 which I am having right now.

  7. Re:Ummm ... BMP, GIF, PNG, and TIFF? on Microsoft, Sony Announce iPod Competitors · · Score: 1

    Obligatory question. Can it play GIMP?

  8. Re:and meanwhile.... on Microsoft's Paul Allen Funds ET Search · · Score: 1

    Isn't you gov't supposed to do the above things? Forget about finding aliens, they can't even find WMD's.
    Now don't start saying that the money was microsoft tax paid by normal people like the rest of us. If it isn't MSFT tax, it could have well been unix tax, linux tax, mac tax ... atleast M$ charges lesser than the few. And oh yeah, I have found very few who paid full price for Windows XP

  9. Re:The government should try to solve that problem on India Test-Fires Cryogenic Rocket Engine · · Score: 1

    I am tired of hearing about rectifying the caste problem. Applying an analogy, the caste system can be compared with racism in US. You know its abolished but you can find it every creepy corner. Get what I mean?

  10. Re:my two cents on India Plans Moon Mission by 2008 · · Score: 1

    Right on target. I'm from India and guess what, India has more critics internally than the number of haters to MS. Most of the times, they would be communists who support China rather than their own country. The Problem with these people is that they don't believe in technology because it circumvents bureacracy. And without Bureacracy and Red Tapism, imagine the influence lost and the money. They do not want money to be spent on technology. Then, its the scientists who benefit. Rather, say you want to spend the money on poor and thats where the bureacracy comes. And that's also where there is your chance for corruption. And slackery ...