Babu Srinivasan on September 4th, 2008

The fact that an open-source browser from Google isn’t available on an open-source platform — Linux — is sad. And that too one that is based on Apple’s Webkit.
I ran the browser, called Chrome, on Windows; opened a few tabs and looked at the memory consumed. In Firefox, one of the negatives is that memory [...]

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Babu Srinivasan on June 30th, 2008

Fibonacci numbers are a series of numbers such as 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34,55,….
You can write a simple program, such as the one given below, in any language such as perl, python, ruby, javascript, php, java, haskell etc.
slowFib 0 = 1
slowFib 1 = 1
slowFib n = slowFib (n -2 ) + slowFib (n - 1)
This algorithm is extremely slow, [...]

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Babu Srinivasan on June 1st, 2008

I didn’t expect to be writing an article criticizing ubuntu. Ubuntu can be a great alternative to Windows.
I installed Ubuntu 7.1 on a desktop (core 2 duo) using a CD and upgraded it to 8.04 (Hardy) using the update manager. Worked great. The 2d and 3d visual effects provided by compiz are very nice. I [...]

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Babu Srinivasan on May 24th, 2008

Due to the reasons mentioned above, it is difficult to choose a theme as there are so many factors to consider. You can certainly try them one by one, but visitors to your website will be subjected to your theme experimentation. What we need is a way for the blog admin to be able to try out a bunch of themes where the selected test theme only shows up on his browser; all others (not logged in as admin) should see the default theme.

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