Technology trends

August 20, 2008 · Filed Under Techno-Bab · Comment 
  1. ZDNet reports that antivirus software moves out of your computer to a network cloud.

    This next-generation antivirus system ‘virtualizes and parallelizes detection functionality with multiple antivirus engines, significantly increasing overall protection,’ according to the team leader. Even if the results look promising, it should be noted that this is just an academics project for the moment.

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  2. Do you need an operating system to load (forever sometimes…) for your minimum functionality of seeing your emails, look up your calender for schedules and write a few letters? No, as the “instant ON” and other technologies that Intel and Dell are putting on the PCs. OS is going to be one of the applications that will run on the hardware “as required”. So the days of OS being the fundamental veda of the computer are getting numbered!

    Read about the “end run around the OS” on ZDNet.

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10 most annoying programs on your computer

June 6, 2008 · Filed Under Techno-Bab, internet · 4 Comments 

Techrepublic has listed 10 most annoying programs to a computer user, both on the system and on the internet.

I have slightly changed the list and put them in the ascending order of the degree of annoyance. Though the intensity of pain in the ass that these bugs produce is purely subjective, there is no gainsaying that there exist some specimens of terror in digital form which inflict universally on the hapless users.

10. Flash

Flash is a good program. There is nothing to replace Flash movies - SWF or FLV. In fact the Youtube revolution has been made possible only by Flash. And Flash embedded players have ushered in the phenomenon of podcasting. In fact your cyber life would be thrown light years backwards with out Flash.

But having said that, there is no forgiving truckloads of Flash movies in intro pages of web sites. They trickle like molasses in December!

9. Yahoo and Google Toolbars
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Nada nada nada

December 11, 2007 · Filed Under Techno-Bab · Comment 

After my posting on “nothing” with the title, “There is more nothing than something”, I thought the good old nothing hasn’t got that many fans in this world, even though 81 people have read my post.

NadaBut I was wrong! There is actually more to nothing than being mere nothing. It is “NaDa”! Yes, the term “Nada” means “nothing” in Spanish (though the term is also used in Sanskrit to denote subtle aspects of musical sound. But we are not going to dwell on that!).

And “Nada” has become a hit in Cyberworld! Look at the Wikipedia explanation for “NaDa”:-

NaDa is a fake-satirical software that “does nothing, but does it very well.”

“NaDa does nothing for everybody”

NaDa is actually a useless and otherwise harmless empty file, one byte small (a newline), compressed and available for download from its site.

The site is designed to look like an actual professional programming company site, complete with users’ testimonials, legal disclaimers, advertisements, etc. The NaDa page actually belongs to the professional site of a graphic artist, Bernard Bélanger. The testimonials are written by “fans” who decided to mail him. The site has over a million visitors.

The NaDa website describes NaDa like this:-

NaDaâ„¢ is a new concept. A thought, really. It is very light : 1 byte. It doesn’t take long to fetch. It doesn’t take long to understand. It doesn’t disturb your habits nor does it makes you feel insecure. It is a reassuring piece of software that does nothing, and does it very well. That’s a lot !

Most products we see on the market want to increase our productivity, organize our screen joyfully or make wonders with our sound card, but NaDaâ„¢ does nothing. This is a revolutionary whole new approach, a concept far beyond what you usually expect from the software industry. Download it and forget it.

Spifftastic idea, what!!

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