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Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Sunday, June 22, 2003
Can you really port a Windows device driver to Linux?
Actually "NO", but just during the search found a very good article on this issue. What really matters when you are a hardware manufacturer or developer. Whether the term "port" is appropriate depends on how much of the device driver code is Windows-specific.
If most of the code is concerned with controlling the device, then it seems reasonable to call it "porting". If most of the code is concerned with the Windows API, then it would be more appropriate to call it "re-writing". Whatever you call it, being able to refer to the source code of a working Windows driver can help us with the implementation of a Linux driver - particularly by alerting to us to potential problems in the hardware interface that may not be immediately apparent from the hardware documentation.It may also be case changing the way we write drivers to eliminate the Widows specific code or by modulating it in the functions so that it becomes easy to replace. The first option is always bad because it may get into performance related issues over the time and would require a lot of testing for a small small functions. [via : WingPath Software]
Thursday, June 19, 2003
Stylish Web page from CSS Zen Garden
CSS Zen Garden has a range of admirable Web Template designs free to download. They are maintained by Graphics Designers only.CSS allows complete and total control over the style of a hypertext document. The only way this can be illustrated in a way that gets people excited is by demonstrating what it can truly be, once the reins are placed in the hands of those able to create beauty from structure. To date, most examples of neat tricks and hacks have been demonstrated by structurists and coders. Designers have yet to make their mark. This needs to change.. I guess it explains everything.
Driver for Toshiba Bluetooth PC Card
About 7 months back, I baught a Bluetooth PCMCIA Card
Toshiba PA3053U, but unfortunately they provide CD for Windows 2000. After a lot of research I made for the drier, I could not find the drivers. then decided for the support from Toshiba for the drivers. Being a Compaq, Sony customer earlier, I couldn't wait for more than 20 minutes on phone for the CSR, I decided to throw the card and buy a new one. Fade up with all these things, I was doing something on google search, and found a link where ZDNet published a review for the same card, delightedly I read the article and the last link was for the manufacturer and it came out to be Toshiba, Australia where they have the driver for Toshiba PC Card on Windows XP platform.
Finally, I am using my Compaq iPaq Pocket PC in "Sync" with my laptop over Bluetooth Tooth. Overall summary is thanks to ZDNet and Toshiba is horrible in support. Their sites are not linked worldwide.
Sunday, June 15, 2003
Media Convergence at one edge of world
A man walks by a bank in Osaka just as it erupts into flames. He pulls out a camera-equipped cell phone -- one of 10 million in use in Japan -- and snaps a photo. He e-mails it to Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest newspaper, which publishes it on the front page.This is the age of Mobile technologies, we know Japan is the leader in that. Only fear is that they are thinking is it can be popular but not the profitable. [via JapanMediaReview]
All Attributes of CSS for CSS Scraper
I had received a lot of requests to open the links for all attributes in a single page. Today got some time so wrote a PHP page which lists all attributes. Here is the link.This list is the list for all attributes I have information about when I wrote the CSS Scraper. This utility is used to check the all CSS attributes used in a URL provided for the compatibility for a perticular browser. You need to provide a URL only not the whole CSS file. Actually, the code checks for the inline style information also. I knwo there are lot of tools available on internet which tell you if it is upto the standards, but there is nobody who can tell you if it is compaible. In my opinion, whatever works is a standard, I dont care what W3C says. If the standardized tag doesn't work in a perticular browser, it is of no use for me, because I have to get so way around to get it working in that browser, because my user is using that.
"We all work in Customer focus environment, what works for my user is my standard."
Sunday, June 08, 2003
Outsourcing made possible
Can any one tell me who is the biggest outsourcer in the world? India, offcourse I am talking about IT outsourcing, in other words, Business Process Outsourcing. India happened to be one of the leaders of the same getting highly chased by Israel, China and also Malaysia. India can be considered as the outsourcing dependent country.The major resources are coming from USA. During the whole last decade India has evolved the standard above others and have been proclaimed by the intellect and also the power of English. Though we speak the language of King and Queen, but we do understand what an American means to say. This is a major barrier for Israel and also the China. The talent is superfluos for them. The human resources are unending, what matters is the ability to serve the client. I was reading some notes on Gartner found some interesting research
"China and India Can Both Win at Software Development"The companies going for the outsourcing option are really very much cautious about a few things like knowledge retention. Major concern is what if the person who is traned ont he system leaves the vendor company, they do nto ave any backup.If you consider the way India works is totally indigestable to an American Entrapreneur.
by French Caldwell | Dion Wiggins
India's and China's software industries aren't like opposing teams in a football match. In the World Cup, people in every participating country cheer on their national team, and at the end of the game one side has to win; the other has to lose. The same thing could happen between China and India in software, as both governments cheer on the national efforts. This type of scenario will not likely occur in the software market, because cooperation between Chinese and Indian software vendors will give both sides more opportunities for growth.
The countries have complementary strengths in software. China has a large, fast-growing domestic software market. Multinational companies will want to outsource development to Chinese companies, at least in part, as a way to participate in the domestic market. Yet, Chinese companies are small and not well-known abroad. India's large, established companies have strong relationships with multinational corporations, and they have a deep pool of seasoned IS professionals able to manage large development projects. Therefore, Gartner's forecast is that Indian companies will partner with Chinese software makers and will win a large portion of the software outsourcing market in China. That's a game no one has to feel badly about in the end.
The India-Pakistan war tensions made the decisions defintely divert to China. Pakistan is also a competitor, but they will have to work a lot on the political situation before they can even be counted on, sufferer is India.
A major concern is also that "Country or Company?", one has to make a decision, currently the whole market is profit oriented, everybody is asked to cut down their costs, so the labor has to be cheaper. Outsourcing has been a greater option in IT. The industry where labor is also called as Knowledge Worker. He was paid lavishly, so cut on the pays lead to the cheaper foreign labor, the lay offs are common for the employees. So some are still dwelling on the question of "C or C?". This does not have any right or wrong answer. After all we all have a tummy to fill twice day.
CSS Scraper
Basically I am software Guy ... mostly web junks. I do write less about the Web Technologies. Last year I made a project for look up of the CSS compatibility for the browser and called as the CSS Scraper. Actually this was my own need to find out how my own website is compatible with which browsers. Made the same online. Now more than 200 websites had been checked for the compatibility. I am going to make the changes now. Based on the data provided by enthusiast users, thanks to them, I will try to make it better to use.AppLook has linked the tool, here.
Sunday, June 01, 2003
20 Days in Spring
A book created over a 20 day period in the spring of 2003 as a response to the US invasion of Iraq. It is simply one US citizen's outlet for feelings of frustration, belief and impotence in the face of a war that should not have happened and that has been mounted by an administration drunk on its power and delusions of grandeur
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