The Dark Knight Perspective

"I'm starting to think of Reflection much the way I think about Regular Expressions. If you have to solve your Problem with Reflection, you may just end up with Problems, plural!" - Scott Hanselman I figured waiting to publish something unique/rare/useful would take too long. So here's...

I'm not a fan of bandwidth throttling even though my bandwidth is under 1mbps and I don't think any consumer would be happy if his/her bandwidth were being throttled. But the recent cable accident in Egypt would make a pretty strong case if an ISP in India were to throttle torrent traffic. If...

I idolize Scott Hanselman , and I've already mentioned this before . Ramesh Sringeri asks a good question... "Is being a 501 developer, bad?" The question seems obvious to a terminology that is highly restrictive of the definition of the phenomena it is trying to explain. Perhaps there...

At the time of writing this post TV viewers in India are awaiting with great anticipation & excitement the exploding conclusion to Heroes in Chapter 23 - "How To Stop An Exploding Man" due to telecast in 1 hour. Among the little nuggets they will learn today the most trivial yet interesting...

I believe so. It is funny in a way, and I could go on and say to all the Apple fans / Steve Jobs worshipers - "in your face suckers!" ( Security flaw hits Safari (Windows) only hours after release ). But I'm not going to say anything or do anything of that sort, there's no reason for...

Last night I when I reached home and switched on my machine it froze at the BIOS OEM Logo screen. I panicked but only for a second as it all seemed all too familiar to me. Recent memory of a post on Scott Hanselman's blog helped me fix the problem in under a minute. Turns out my brother had brought...

I've been reading about the whole VMware's attack on Microsoft's Virtualization strategy and its follow up stories. Having very little to do with hardcore system administration I am not at all qualified to comment on the issue/issues. But since Desktop Virtualization applications by both...

Here is a fine example of what I mean when I say tech journalists in mainstream media need to know what they are really saying. You can have the greatest security in the world but it is no match against human stupidity.

No! I am not trying to count the reasons. Dear reader, if you came here to find the answer to that, I'm sorry.I'm in the same boat as you are. I just do not understand why? It has no separate DB access layer; it supports only the php & MySQL combination; that too, limited versions (the latest stable...

I saw this picture on Blank Noise Project . I have to admit that this is smart! But ladies if you're smart enough to come up with such a nifty idea, certainly you should be aware expecting that men won't stare at you is like hoping for the sun to rise from the west. I admit men in this region...