Is open source loosing its track ?

Apache is going to start there own J2SE implementation, here is the proposal mail in apache domain; Now I got the strong feeling that entire open source community is loosing its track, Was Geronimo not enough joke? And otherside IBM is taking full advantage by slowly killing JBoss
I think it's time for entire OS community to stay focused instead of being scattered and busy producing low end products.

little reliable place to download latest mp3's

mp3.baidu.com
Baidu is most famous search engine of china, and was acquired by google sometimes back. Here you can search the latest mp3's and most of the times you get it, Baidu doesn't store mp3's but just point out the reliable illegal(possible?) websites which have that mp3 for download, usually within chinese domain only ... huhh

How windows search can be faster ?

Last nite I was trying to configure my new system(Windows XP Home SP2) and than I noticed that this windows can read zip file even without winzip, that was fantastic as I didn't had winzip installer neither any connectivity, so I started unzipping a 44Meg zip file using its windows internal unzipper, and it says 29 mins...28 mins... and it was literally taking this long time, When it was showing 19 mins remaining than I lost my patience and installed WinRAR and noted time
2min installation
+
1 min in unzipping 44 Meg file

Saved 16 mins, I wish I could embed winRAR unzipping engine in OS so that my xp can be even faster when searching files inside compressed files

Robo

I Also want one

Was away

Okay I was going to oracle and quest software office past couple of weeks and was really surfing try'g to bypass there proxy which blocks blogger, (Still waiting for dell to deliver my laptop at home)
But will try to come here more frequent and cover up the past week gap...

Disappointing yesterday ...

Yesterday I went to play badminton in condominium(Cyberia) near my office ... Can't believe, I lost 4 games, my confidence is badly shattered, at one point in singles I was ahead by 6 points(love 6) and I still lost, In the last I literally pushed myself hard and even strain my leg muscle, But I guess I was mentally not fit yesterday ... anyways who plays to win, we play just to sweat ... thats the dialog comes out from my partner in last :)
And just to finish it nicely I needed to pay $20 to cabby driver while going home ... and at 11pm a dude calls me up and say you must be at sleep ... he brought this new Proton Gen-2 that day only and was sounding like he desparately wanted to go on drive, so we went on a quick drive around mega mall.

Someone posted cool pics of Pixar HQ ( /. can ignore it )
http://aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=19658

Basket ball & Badminton in full swing ...

These days apart from swimming twice in a week, I am also playing Basket ball and Badminton in full swing these days...
Last saturday got lil injury while playing Basket ball, so couldn't go to mega mall where I was plann'g to go to see "Robots", But surprisinly this injury isn't stop'g me from badminton match which I am going to play today(in 1 hour) against some pro's, who cares about victory anyways ... :)

Forbes article about Apple

Forbes has published article about apple
Here they are comparing Apple with Microsoft, Reason is since Apple have recently sued couple of websites which was leaking information about there upcoming products even before they declare about it...well I don't see this as wrong, Apple now a days working in REAL competitive environment, mainly the mp3 market is really hi-tech and technology changes as quickly as a quarter, so I don't believe nothing wrong in putting a barrier to this leak, After all they want tobe competitive. Apple was not at all doing this years before, and those sites and many more exists from years, but now if they leak something which really can help there competitors then it makes sense to stop this, They are not eating or killing competitors, they are just trying to be best, nothing wrong in this I see.
What do you think about this ?

one more gmail bug

Okay, im really not so pragmatic about google or gmail, but this one is too tempting for me, Can't stop myself from publishing.
Have a look at the senders name, and look what gmail is giving name for invitation, they ate 2 characters of it.


Surely problem looks like some strings are not handled properly, after all who don't make mistakes when string comes embedded with white space, like this one.

Web experience : Ajax leads JPSpan

Before one get boredam of the existing webapplications there is some new child pops up and gather users attention, well this time it is not a new one, but a years old, and comes up with example of its potential, Our very old baby which I believed had a great potential is again in limelight.
what it can do?
Try this google suggest beta and type a word and you will see the magic, client actually pushes something in backend and gets data and indeed uses it to give more lively user experience,
This is done using javascript engine, but not the old hack of image loading, as that I believe is already blocked by IE, But it uses XMLHTTPRequest in the background.
But I still really don't know the reason of google, amazon, etc investing in Engines like Ajax than jpspan which a php and Javascript combinations, and also free., Though one clear disadvantage of later one is it limits you to php on server side, which I agree is not really only cool thing out there.
Can anyone add more here?

moviekend

my weekend started on tuesday(8th feb) evening and till now im in weekend mode,
Following is the stuffs I did
Wednesday, 9th Feb 05:
Movie:
-> Multiplicity
-> Maid in Manhattan

Thursday, 10th Feb 05:
Movie:
->Lost in translation
->Tommy boy
->Charles Angel
->Rush hour
->Eraser

Friday, 11th Feb 05:
Movie:
-> Multiplicity(Yes again)

Saturday 12th Feb 05:
Movie:
->The Juror
->The cat

So total of 10 movies, and todays plan is "Indiana Jones" and "Catch me if you can".
so making it total of 12 movie for a weekend, well maximum I have ever seen in any of the weekend, but still got bored most of the time :)

Artificial species

Its being very long I can recall that I heard of artificial species ... most probably in some book as I like reading those kindof books.
But this concept I saw lately(8-10 months backs) first time in movie in "I Robot" where Bill Smith fight against Robo's rule, And now today 03 Feb 2005, I heard it for real that some S. Korean researcher sponsored by HP is planning to give Robo's sex drive and will eventually allow them to reproduce, Well truly speaking im just shocked by this news.
Here are the links from some major sites over this
SMH
FIP

FISH

I have been reading this book last day name'd "Fish" it is from Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul and John Christensen, it is kinda series book taking a story and tells how to boost your moral and create a good working environment no matter you love what you working or not, I liked it, I am going to read its next series whenever I get time
Here is a nice poem from this book
I want to write about faith
about the way the moon rises
over cold snow, night after night

Faithful even as it faides from fullness
slowly becoming that last curving and impossible
silver of light before the final darkness
but I have no faith myself
I refuse to give it smallest entry

Let this then, my small poem
like a new moon, slender and barely open,
be the first prayer that opens me to faith.

More information about this philosophy can be found on fishphilosophy

Starting of last week in Bangalore

Okay now this is pretty much certain that I will be leaving this town(Bangalore) and my company(Sun microsystems) and this is my last week out here, and today being monday I am having kindof mix reaction as monday is the day where my mental hormones get released I guess...
Anyways, Don't want to get overwhelmed so here I will talk about weekend.
I ended up watching 2 movies, Kisna and Page3, Kisna was a unsuccessful attempt by Shubash Ghai, but "page 3" came out to be excellent movie it was story of journalist movie which was "page 3"(masala page) editor and she found herself in strange situation where people are making strange type of compromises to be successful in life using shortcut and this is indeed truth and examples are around everyone, but she refused to make this kindof compromises and GWS(Goes without saying) suffers, but this clearly show the real of face the dirty society we are developing and moreover sometimes ... rather are so proud of it.
Another important thing we did was, we shifted to T2's house since I am going this friday so making this weekend as last day for shifting for my room mate, kinda hectic but manageable, but only thing is I havn't got proper sleep from last 2 days and moving around with red eyes, and every1 thinking it as hangover as usual ... :)

NYT - Face off China

Here is a great article by New York Time, It is not about old Kyoto protocol or another story about rise of dragon but it tells how the cost of this rise is being paid by rural people and to some extend even by urbanites and how much dragon is ignoring them, From around a year or 2 all I was seeing in news was just Shanghai or Beijing and there high rise buildings or there state of the art Infrastructure or news about there great FDI, etc, Though I knew this is not really the picture but just a tiny part of this massive country, As surely it can't be all rainbow and people are literally surfing and paying cost, even in developed cities like Beijing and Shanghai people are feared to even talk about bad part of dragon.
Though in some points you can really compare this with India when it comes to difference between Urban and Rural India it is really increasing here too, and same applies for pollution and same applies for pollution and health but difference is here people have right to protest and media also helps them sometimes and really make the difference, recently there are such examples came in when media reported and then state govt acted on it.