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We Made Money ! January 25, 2007

Posted by Ananth in General, Sun.
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Yes. Yes. Yes. This is the moment I have been dying for:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/23/sun_q2_profit/

There were over a 1000 articles on this news. SUNW continues to be among the Top 10 traded stocks at NASDAQ and the NASDAQ index is up because YHOO and SUNW are going strong ! W00t !

Nice guys don’t *always* finish last and I got atleast one of my predictions for this year right ! Way to go SUNW !

Sun and Intel - Together Again January 22, 2007

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Historic day in the Semiconductor buisness.

I guess I couldn’t have screwed up more on my technology predictions for this year. In hindsight, AMD had it coming. Sun-AMD was always a one-way partnership - we don’t even have a decent ATI driver for Solaris despite AMD buying ATI a year back. Whereas AMD took off only because a company like Sun decided to abandon Goliath and go with David. Heck, its all Wall Street Madness…

Debugging Tools and Techniques January 19, 2007

Posted by Ananth in Computer Science, General, Rants.
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I was at my alma mater last week to give a presentation on Debugging Tools and Techniques. It was a part of a week long seminar on FOSS Technologies. You can find the presentation here. The talk wasn’t half as scary as the presentation, which looks completely crazy with useless command line options. The “uninitiated” second year students of TCE were the main audience along with a few third year students. It was great to find a lot of wannabe Unix programmers out there.

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The Best of Times .. January 1, 2007

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. It was the spring of hope, It was the winter of despair ….

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