Virtualization (the ability to run multiple OS simultaneously) is gaining lot of traction nowadays. In the PC world this started initially with VMWare and Virtual PC (which Microsoft acquired from Connectix) for development and testing purposes soon gained popularity in the servers. In servers virtualization...

I came across this brilliant site called " Geonames.org " - a Geographical database for download free of charge containing over eight million geographical names. The site allows you to search for any city or place or postal code and the best part is all of this is also available through a number...

Last few days I had a firewall issue in my desktop that made web browsing irregular. It was a peculiar problem, I was able to browse few sites like Google, Vishwak.COM but not others. I had to keep running the same diagnostic commands many times to take values to be sent to my support team. Finally I...

In my voluntary role as Vice-Chairman in INFITT I am currently helping in maintaining the website of INFITT.ORG . One of the things is to get myself familiar with a Web CMS called Joomla! - which is a LAMP based Free Open Source CMS that is targeted for small community websites. This post is about problems...