tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-695325882101007052011-11-27T17:01:54.379-08:00Not A. Witty Namenoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69532588210100705.post-8039826824960141162007-04-15T05:03:00.001-07:002008-12-09T02:48:24.189-08:00This is extremely funny...<br />I was pointed to a <a href="http://www.isim.ac.in/infoquiz/infoquiz.htm">contest</a> conducted by the shiny new Information Management school — <a href="http://www.isim.ac.in/">ISiM</a> at <a href="http://uni-mysore.ac.in/">University of Mysore</a>, with prizes up to the value of Rs. 50,000 to be won!<br /><br />As I navigated through the website, I found <a href="http://www.isim.ac.in/html/reserch.htm">this page</a> with a very interesting header image(originally huge size, minimised using <acronym title="Hypertext Markup Langauge">HTML</acronym> markup!):<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://eniv.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_39sDymVguvk/RiJn7_oBbxI/AAAAAAAAABI/4euZsi2Ngbc/s400/isim_full.png" alt="" id="eniv" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The part encircled in red looked <a href="http://www.pcw.gr/uploads/phantom/lol%20keyboard.jpg">very familiar</a>!<br /><br />That is this...<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://eniv.blogspot.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_39sDymVguvk/RiJo6foBbyI/AAAAAAAAABQ/MxcpSlptxz8/s400/big_kbd.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5053717085994184482" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />:D<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/69532588210100705-803982682496014116?l=eniv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Not A. Witty Namenoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69532588210100705.post-91706384735445320072007-04-02T23:23:00.000-07:002007-04-09T11:15:02.008-07:00Lately, it has become very fashionable to “Open Source” or fork an already well established <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOSS">Free/Open Source Software</a>, though their only contribution may be a change of name or if we are lucky, some cosmetic touches.<br /><br />And every “innovator” wants to release the software in their own custom licence(especially those who create a new company for each software product!) and like most of the software this licence too is just <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPL">GPL</a> with few names swapped from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU">GNU</a> to say Acme Corp. and creators' names and titles.<br /><br />It's time that <a href="http://www.fsf.org/">FSF</a> had a provision in the new version of the licence that modified licences should acknowledge that their licence was inspired(too generous a word!) by the GPL!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/69532588210100705-9170638473544532007?l=eniv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Not A. Witty Namenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69532588210100705.post-86426486298295605812007-03-27T12:18:00.000-07:002008-12-09T02:48:24.479-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.p2plawsuits.com/"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_39sDymVguvk/Rglv0Qm3IKI/AAAAAAAAAA8/K8aFUHPNGyU/s320/p2plawsuit.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046687801047195810" border="0" /></a> I came across this news report in <a href="http://reddit.com/">reddit</a> where University of Maine refused to handover the details of their students to <acronym title="Recording Industry Association of America">RIAA</acronym>(or rather <a href="http://www.mafiaa.org/">MAFIAA</a> :P).<br /><br />The news report mentions a website — <a href="http://www.p2plawsuits.com/">www.p2plawsuits.com</a>, where pirates of P2P can confess and settle their lawsuits.<br /><br />The only way I have ever heard of underground pirate groups or script kiddies settle <i>whatever</i> is through a nice, warm <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack">DoS attack</a>!<br /><br />Respect the invitation, fry their servers!<br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;">PS: Would I be arrested for abetting this "crime"? :D</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/69532588210100705-8642648629829560581?l=eniv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Not A. Witty Namenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69532588210100705.post-60133445564612230832007-03-03T02:14:00.000-08:002007-03-03T02:18:15.407-08:00World!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/69532588210100705-6013344556461223083?l=eniv.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Not A. Witty Namenoreply@blogger.com1