Google apes my.yahoo.com

Google certainly has a huge scope to add new services. For the moment all it has to do is ape popular services offered by Yahoo. Probably it would contribute some of its own innovation into the taken-for-granted services which dont see many enhancements due to the monopoly. Check out the Personalized Google HomePage Google Groups is one such initiative. The best part of it is that the emails are organized as conversations. Steve Ballmer: Google might disappear in the next five years! Yeah. Right!!

GDIT99 Blog Ring

I have discovered several veteran blogger batch-mates from IIIT. May be its time we create a blog ring for ourselves. This page shall have the list of all Gdit99 bloggers.

• Best of GDIT99
• Thiyagarajan
• Vasant
• Vakiba
• Nishkala
• Prashanth
• Prasad
• Bunny
• Priyam
• Hari
• Sri Lakshmi
• Kalyan
• Babu Siva Krishna
• MNSSK
• Vamshi Ambati
• Dhiraj
• Sitharamaraju
• Yaswanth
• Santhosh

Suggestion: Please link to the next blogger in the above list or to this page. 

2004 Desktop Linux Market Survey

Finally, the 2004 Desktop Linux Survey is out. My combo of Suse + KDE + FireFox + Thunderbird seems to have prevailed. How did your combo fare ? Thankfully, our dept. runs Citrix windows clients for unix platforms. Its robust and with the Full-screen mode, WindowsNT is just another workspace in my KDE environment. The other applications of my choice are Bash (Shell) Konsole (Terminal ), screen (textmode window manager), Vim (Editor), WordNet (dict), Mplayer (for the rest of us), XMMS (MP3 player) , GkRellm (sensors monitor) etc.