Do no evil

wow google has done an about turn on its do not evil mantra. does these mantra even make sense now. There are 2 main objections I have with the google-verizon deal (or a non-deal/pact/arrangement/MOU).

1. wireless is excluded : we all know that mobile internet is the way forward. It is explictly excluded by saying that it applies to "wireline" internet. Verizon is the biggest android carrier. Google is betting heavily on android. thus google sees a huge revenue potential by creating a fragmented internet experience on the mobile users. internet is internet on every device. no differentiation. Google you are in bed with the devil

2. The wording of "public internet" didnt raised as many eyebrows as i thought. Internet is internet. there isnt an "private" internet or an non-public internet. looks like they are trying to carve one out. They reference "differentiated" services now. Looks like they will offer some kind of "paid" internet model where stuff would run faster. they want to create different class of internet, free and paid. the internet does not look "neutral" anymore. google sold itself out!

Apple Mail issues - ATT00001.txt , missing incoming attachments

Apple mail has been a big pain in the ass for sometime for me. Occasionally it will drop incoming attachments. no rhyme or reason. It seems to prefer dropping the larger attachments, but it has dropping smaller ones too. The attachments show up ok in webmail. I am using snow leopard and use exchange imap.

this thread suggests trying to set the prefered format to html always to avail the issue. it kinda sorta worked on some cases for me. I am still loosing attachments but less frequently

Permanent solution:

Quit Mail
Open Terminal,
Enter "defaults write com.apple.mail PreferPlainText -bool FALSE"
Open Mail.

second issue i have is when sending attachments, my friends often see an extraneous blank attachment. The solution for it seems to me to check the following options

 Edit->Attachment-> Send windows Friendy Attchment
 Edit->Attachment-> Insert attachment at the end of the message

iphone does NOT charge via usb if connected to apple keyboard

I have been having this problem for last few months. I have the original iphone dock connected to my apple wired keyboard USB port. It used to charge without problem for the for two years and then it stopped charging midway. I thought the battery had gone bad.

I bought the new iphone 4 and it HAD the same problem.

I ran into a few articles online about this. one from apple : which specifically say that low-powered usb ports might have an issue. They also say that the battery will actually drain if the computer is turned off or sleep. I have definitely noticed that. I leave my iphone docked to my compyter every night and i have woken up to a totally drained iphone instead of finding a flly charged iphone.

wonder cant Itunes/iphone detect it and report it ?

comcast really cares about your account

here is the email one of my buddies got after he opened an account with comcast. look at the password

Thank you for taking the time to register with Comcast.

Below is your login information.

       User Name: ##########
       Password: uAxk+K~ZwjT=QEl2+c45M(Lzxp&4Tonb(#ezb7Hf

To update your profile, track applications or apply for further 
positions at  Comcast, you can access the login page at 
www.comcast.com/careers and click on the "Login or Register" 
button.

If logging in for the first time, you can cut and paste the user name
and password provided above into the login page; you will then 
be prompted to reset your  password. Once you have logged in, 
you can change your user name by clicking onthe "Change User Name" 
link.

Thank you for your interest in Comcast. We wish you the very best in
your career endeavors.

Gadget development on mac and windows

We have been developing a gadget for both mac and windows. Its been an interesting experience to say the least.
on the mac we developed on safari/firefox and it worked flowlessly as a mac widget. On windows it was a teeth pulling exercise.
of course the mac widget code did'nt work at all. we developed the code on ie 8, hoping it work as the gadget.
ofcourse it failed miserably. getting css to work on the windows gadget was painfully hard

we wanted to have the exact same codebase for both mac and windows. with same css that works accross both.
it was painful process.

wonder when the day would come when life will be easier for us developer.

personal security measures for everyone

I am at the security/hacking talk by Ken Sipe at the Uber Conf. It was an very interesting talk. Learned about some of the cool tools availble to hackers. He also some good guidelines that i think we all can/should use. Specially in light of how easy it is for hackers to do "bad" stuff.

• We should all use different browers for general browering/browsers for financial transactions. i.e use chrome exclusively for financial transactions, firefox for general browing


• When browsing to a site where you do financial tramsactions always have ONLY One tab open. to the site you are at.


• never do business with site ( as a policy)
  
  
  
  • that will return your passwd in email/over phone
  • will ask you passwd to another site


• do a simple xss check/sql injection check

interesting rules. I hope to use them

thoughts on Uber conf

I am attending  the uber conf  this week. Its been an interesting experience. I mainly attended sessions around a few themes  architecture and performace. I also attended a talk on scala.

Looks like everyone wanted to bash java and push their new fav language of the week. Scala does look good and I am looking fwd to using it, The functional language and concurrency seems very appealing.

The architecture talks were very intersting. Most of them focused on soft skills. architects also need to be hands on coder. cant get too far away from where rubber meets the rocks.

On the performance talks, there wasnt anything earth shattering, looks like the caching, reducing latency etc

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