Zombie Startups | Danielle Morrill

My greatest fear as a startup founder isn’t to fail, it is to become a zombie startup. Kind of like in the 6th Sense when Bruce Willis doesn’t realize he is dead and tries to have a nice dinner with his wife, there are startups out there who are still “operating” but might as well not be. Zombie Startups | Danielle Morrill.

March 11, 2013 · 1 min · 62 words · Me

Firefox operating system released!

One of the first things that i wanted to implement in my university [~2006] was a operating system with only the Firefox browser as the core application. Turns out that is a popular reality now with the Chromebook and well to some extent the Firefox OS which is being released. I at that point had no idea that mobile would become that big, with the exposure that I had. Its all coming together!...

March 9, 2013 · 1 min · 205 words · Me

bye bye kaspersky, welcome avast

Well not a marketing post, I recently bought KAV or Kaspersky anti-virus for all the windows machines that I run. Lately it has become extremely bloated and well it brought all my machines down to their knees. The goal of running lean and mean, while giving me optimal online protection seems to be lost on them. Being the engineer that I am, my response was to find out the leanest one around [for free]....

March 6, 2013 · 1 min · 156 words · Me

Best Samsung i9103 ROM android

I have been using the Samsung i9103 for quite a while and have tried out most of the available experimental ROM out there. Most of today was spent trying to find out the right combination to make the phone usable again. Here are the steps to having a really good setup on this phone First follow the guide below and install the XXKPE ROM following the guide below. You will need to use Odin to flash this ROM onto your device....

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · 166 words · Me

Loyal to airtel, not the other way around

Mine is a dual connection household, I use one Airtel connection as the primary and the secondary MTNL one for backup. However, it seems I will need to change the order of those soon. Lately, airtel seems to have very odd bandwidth counters which always seem to never match up with my router connection monthly counters. The difference is more than 20-30% month on month [adding both up and down counters!...

March 5, 2013 · 1 min · 184 words · Me