Thermal Noise

The world is going BeleniX crazy ! I setup links to the isoHunt torrents on the BeleniX download page a few weeks back and the isoHunt folks responded most kindly by setting up a special box for seeding (Have you ever heard of that ?) and ran a front page article on BeleniX as a model project to use BitTorrent constructively.

As of today, the BeleniX DVD has more than 18000 (Yes Eighteen Thousand) seeds ! How many other torrents can claim as many seeds ? aXXo’s latest torrents have no more than 5000 seeds.

Is that frigging cool or what

P.S: For those who don’t know, isoHunt is the world’s most comprehensive BitTorrent search engine !

I am not the biggest Java fan inside or outside of my company. But I detest being on the receiving end of a conversation that involves Sun (I am madly passionate about Sun). So when I met up with a few friends of my friends and heard the standard “Java is dog slow” complaint, I had to invent a (truthful) counterexample.

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I had a chance to listen to and meet Eben Moglen, legendary professor of law and legal history at the Sun Office today. Eben had long been on the board of the FSF and is one of the key authors of the GPLv3, which happened to be one of the primary focal points of his talk today. (more…)

Friday was a day to remember, for I had the good fortune to meet in person, Scott McNealy - Co-Founder, Chairman and erstwhile CEO of Sun Microsystems. He was here in India to preside over the Sun Technical Summit 2007, where I was one of the speakers.

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The Founder of Debian, Ian Murdock has joined Sun as the Chief Operating Platform Strategist. Here is the scoop from “The Register”. Apparently the name Debian is a conjunction of “Deb” and “Ian”. Deb being Ian’s girlfriend

Welcome aboard captain !

Ubuntu took the “free” operating system principle to an altogether different level by shipping CDs free to anyone who requested it. Now OpenSolaris is doing the same to reach out to developers who cannot download gigabytes of ones and zeros.

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I was a part of the largest developer conference in Indian History last week and was speaking about Solaris technologies.

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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 !