it is funny to read write about JAVA today, I was angry and sad almost a year ago when I posted this; http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/06/0647249&tid=108 today I wrote about Java again; http://gridtech.blogspot.com/2006/11/java-gpled-when-is-sun-going-to-stop.html Should I laugh?

I became a part of a discussion on /. today by the virtue of one of my blogs being mentioned in a comment! I hope to get full /. one day. but for now the discussion is here http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/10/03/1628257.shtml/. and my article is here http://geemodo.blogspot.com/2006/10/firefox-vulnerability-is-hoax-and.html/ Thanks Masklinn:http://slashdot.org/~masklinn/

After years of running my blogs, I gave up and registered for Google adsense. Well I was surprised. Not a whole lot of money to leave my job but it is interesting how advertisers pay for clicks. So now I am studying about online advertisements. My pages get 10 hits! per day so not a whole lot of clicking going on but now I see that a successfull bloger could earn his money just doing that!

iptelephony http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/ IP Telephony and gritech http://gridtech.blogspot.com/ blogs. Added http://geemodo.blogspot.com/ geemodo. Makes me happy to work on them and at least makes my typing better (I hope)

The Associated Press' TED BRIDIS reports and is on on this article That Grokster has agreed to shut down operations to settle a landmark piracy case filed by Hollywood and the music industry. Hollywood wins again and where are we going?

Iam back. was working (?) on my
iptelephony
http://snapvoip.blogspot.com/ and
gritech
http://gridtech.blogspot.com/ blogs. please visit.

discourse.net reports that US Department of Commerce has announced new policy regarding the DNS (Domain Name System) and the ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers). Previously US mentioned that it would US would someday release its ultimate control over the "root". But this announcement takes the path in opposite direction. I think Slashdotters will find a better explanation, I am confused, does it matter!

reuters reports that NASA engineers cheered this weekend when images returned from Mars showed the six-wheeled geological research vehicle was finally freed from the dune and making tracks, according to a posting on the JPL Web site. Engineers worked for nearly five weeks to maneuver the craft out of the dune. A photograph on the JPL Web site showed fresh rover tracks stretching across what appeared to be the surface of a large dune. News with some images is also here.

than previously estimated! I submitted this topic under space and got rejected!! May be the space stuff slashdot knows is sith wars!! Well I will keep trying

I just joned this and created my own team. Sorry Slashdot I will make another device and join slashdot team later. My UID is ravenii and team is 3echos Just passed 12000 points mark! link

Linus Torvalds has begun looking for a new electronic home for his project's source code after a conflict involving the current management system, BitKeeper. "I've decided to not use BK (BitKeeper) mainly because I need to figure out the alternatives," Torvalds said in a posting. "Rather than continuing 'things as normal,' I decided to bite the bullet and just see what life without BK looks like."

Following a similar theme(earlier /. article) but different methods, rights of their own network, Advanced IP Pipeline reporting today that wireless broadband provider Clearwire Corp. is apparently blocking outside VoIP providers from its network. Who do you suport, Vonage or Clearwire? A Clearwire spokesperson told advanced IP Pipeline's Paul Kapustka that some VoIP technologies "are problematic for wireless networks versus a wired network." The spokesperson also implied that granting open access to VoIP services such as Vonage's could tax network capacity.

t's perhaps the most controversial project in the open source world, but this mostly stems from misunderstanding: Mono, the open source development platform based upon Microsoft's .NET framework. Immediate reactions from many dubious Linux developers have ranged from confusion over its connection with .NET to wondering what the benefits of developing under it are. Throughout the course of Mono's four years of intense development, sponsored by Novell, founder Miguel de Icaza has had to frequently clarify the .NET issue and sell the community on it. But the project's heart has always been, he explains, about making the lives of Linux developers easier: "One of the reasons that we developed Mono was because we wanted to have better tools to develop software." (Figure 1.) Vice president of developer platform for Novell in Boston, de Icaza, 32, took a moment to discuss with us the primary legal concerns and technical issues with Mono, its current and near-future status, and why you should consider developing your next project with it. For those of you who are still unfamiliar with Mono, consider this interview a definitive, quick-and-dirty primer.

Some users noticed bandwidth drop in there broadband services when they installed voip services, from 6MB to 15-1.8MB or there abouts. So they set out to find answers, Interesting link to an article came up! PBS's i'Cringley's informative piece gives an eye-opening look at the anticompetitive behavior of some ISPs who are showing up late to the VoIP game. This is not something that could be easily mandated and the beauty of this approach is that they're NOT explicitly doing anything to the 3rd party service applications. They're just identifying and tagging their own services, which is within their rights. But services like this seems the way to avoid these measures.

Some 13 vendors of commercial software and appliance products present at CeBIT receive an open warning letter against their alleged misuse of GPL licensed software. Those warning letters will be personally handed over to the respective companies at their CeBIT booth by Mr. Harald Welte, free software developer and founder of the gpl-violations.org project.