A good read  on know how the modern browsers work. How browsers work, gives  an in-depth look at the internal workings of today’s modern web browsers.

Visiting Crossword, Landmark or Walden stores was my traditional way to buy books. Although i have tried  infibeam and flipkart to buy books i was more comfortable going to the book store to buy books. 

Recently i have been more active on flipkart website and been ordering books online. I have been getting great deals on the books which are not being matched at the offline stores. The service provided by flipkart is also awesome and i have been buying more books online. Looks like i wont be going back to bookshops. 

This is some of the best Career planning advice i have read. It comes from Marc Andreessen. Do read these links.

1. Guide to Career Planning, part 0: Introduction
2. Guide to Career Planning, part 1: Opportunity
3. Guide to Career Planning, part 2: Skills and education
4. Guide to Career Planning, part 3: Where to go and why

I came across a very good link in Hacker News  which has lot of video tutorials for hacking.
Starting from assembly language programming to router hacking. You can view them here

Kopete is an instant messenger supporting AIM, ICQ, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo.
Kopete supports yahoo webcam and it works seamlessly. Although it doesn’t work right away after installing kopete. If you try to access anyone’s webcam you’ll get the following error.

Unable to find the Jasper image conversion program.
Jasper is required to render Yahoo webcam images.
Please see http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Kopete%20Webcam%20Support
for further information.

You can fix it simply by installing jasper packages available in Ubuntu repositories:

sudo apt-get install jasper libjasper-java libjasper-runtime libjasper-dev libjasper1

After much contemplation finally I moved my blog to Dreamhost.

What do i get extra from my previous hosting company?

• Shell access
• Unlimited domains and sub domains for the same hosting account.
• Perl,Python and Ruby support
• Unlimited space , bandwidth and much more.

There are many Promo codes for Dreamhost where you can get 50$ discount. You can find some on Gadgetcage.