National Do Not Call(NDC) Registry Rocks!!

Well, i had my apprehensions on how successful this is going to be. But going by my personal experiences, it has been quite a relief. From an average of atleast 10-15 marketing calls a week, the number has come down to almost zero. People are still finding workarounds as i get SMSs with the sender phone number hidden, but that is something that i can live with. A far cry from the earlier situation when you get a call in the middle of some important work and you are in a quadary whether to pick or not.

The process of subscription is also simple, just send “START DND” to 1909, whoever your service provided is going to be. 

BOSS- India’s Contribution to the OSS Community

WOW, the last post was 8 months back..so much for my resolve to be frequently updating this blog!!!!

Quite sometime back there was this news of CDAC spearheading a project to develop a Linux solution tailored specifically to indian needs.  Pretty good initiative indeed, i thought at that time.  The reason for this post is the advt i happened to see in the newspapers last week about the 3.0 release of this distribution. Christened BOSS, an acronym for Bharat Operating System Solutions, this is a debian based distribution, available in Tamil and Hindi, but ultimately to be made available in all the major Indian Languages. Unfortunately, I have been trying to access this page for the last 2 days, but without much luck.

This distribution comes bundled with the BharateeyaOO, which is a project to make available the Open Office Software in Indian Languages.

Good luck CDAC!!!!…