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!!!!…

UN declares 2 October, Gandhi’s birthday, as International Day of Non-Violence

United Nations decides to observe October 2 as International Day of Non-Violence in honor of Mahatma Gandhi, the man who inspired a nation with his idea of non-violence. At last, the world has resolved to accept the greatness of our Mahatma and let us hope it doesn’t become a ritual as it is happening here!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to my wife who pointed out this info to me:-)

IAF turns 75

The Indian Air Force celebrated its Platinum Jubilee on 8th Oct. It was on the same day in 1932, well before we got independence, that IAF was formed, then known as the Royal Air Force with a pretty small fleet of 4 wapiti aircrafts with 6 officers and 19 sepoys. As we stand today, IAF is the 4th largest in the world with over 1.7 lakhs personnel and around 1300 aircrafts.