Manish’s Scribble Board

1) Laptop: This is the thing which doesnt need any more description. Who would not love his/her own laptop. That too when it is a platform for me to learn new things. Imagining running from one room to the other’s friend’s room just to get surf the net or get some knowledge. Having my own laptop, am free to do whatever I like, even experiment too.

2) Firefox : Web Browsing had never been so easy and secure. Kudos goes to Firefox browser from Mozilla project. This excellent, robust, secure and free Web Browser has brought light to many people who were tired of that horrible Internet Explorer. Earlier half of the time which people might be doing would be cleaning spywares, viruses and hell lots of malwares from their boxes. I can well remember my earlier days when I used IE, when I had to get my computer formatted every two months or three. When I will start earning, I would surely donate to the Mozilla foundation for bringing out this excellent Free and Open Source software. Is not just a web browser. Its LIFE !!!

3) Wikipedia : “Cant Imagine a World without Wikipedia”. Surely! Whenever I would like to know something about anything I would just point my browser to en.wikipedia.org and make a search. The descriptions are very apt and knowledgeable. Controversial topics are marked properly to distinguish them from known facts. I have even seen many people criticizing that Wikipedia may not become a full encyclopedia like Encarta or Brittanica. I consider it hundreds times more better than these two. Wikipedia was written entirely from scratch and is a fruitful work of people all over the world. Brittanica and Encarta are offline versions, whereas Wikipedia is online allowing us to fetch data from virtually anywhere all over the world. The last word I can say about this great collaborative project is “If people Join hands they can surely change the World”.

4) Google : This term needs no introduction. Google is not just another company. Its a revolution in the field of information and sharing of intellectual property. This company has shown the way that strong will power and determination is required to be at the top of the world. Its search engine gets billions of queries every day, its the power and robustness of Google’s server that it can cope up with all sorts of magic inflation of traffic. It has become synonymous with Web search. “Google the web” is an alias to search the web. Google is no longer a noun, it has achieved dimensions as a verb and an adjective. Just imagine this world without google- “The whole web with load of information, but no one to organize them”

5) Linux : This term is somewhat geeky! Yes! Ask someone whether he/she uses it? They will give you a strange look and say “I dont like to work on that command line, I dont know commands”. This is the general misconceptions which people usually have about this great Operating System. Linux users are regarded as geeks and hackers. They cant even imagine a normal user using it. Now this world is changing, so why not linux too? Just have a try at Ubuntu, Fedora or OpenSuse. They are much more secure and properly organized. You wont find yourself desperately pressing three great buttons at each end of the keyboard. Am talking about Ctrl+Alt+Del. Linux doesnt hang as often as you might think provided it has sufficient RAM, even if it hangs that occurs only to the graphical interface, the OS keeps running as it is. To Newcomers I would recommend Ubuntu 7.10 aka Gutsy Gibbon. Its a great distro which everyone should keep their hands over.

6) My Own Web Site : My Web Site is my identity! Its my web presence! Presently I have two websites hosted on proper shared hosting. These two are www.manishsinha.info which hosts my personal blog and the other is www.manishtech.info which is my technical blog. Apart from that I use this website as a resource to identify myself on the net. I feel proud to have a proper domain name (I understand, there is nothing to be so proud of). The extensions of the domains is .info which signifies information. I had thought of .com but that symbolizes commercial which I cant attach with my informative blogs.

7) Wordpress : Wordpress has really shown the bloggers a new way. When this project was started who knew that it would become the de facto standard of blogging. Today blogging means wordpress. This is the first word that strikes the mind of a blogger when he hears the word “Blog”. The code of this great software package is neatly written, hundreds of themes spice up the look, plugins greatly enhance the functionality. It is highly secure and has surely given a new life to all bloggers.

8 ) PHP and MySQL : No other programming language I enjoyed learning so much as PHP. Java, which is the most famous language for a newbie to learn, didnt even fascinate me as this Open Source scripting language. The power of PHP is immense, its syntax matches with C, though many language constructs are inherited from Java and Perl. PHP alone is not sufficient, it is postfixed with MySQL, a database software tightly integrated with it. This is like a brother and sister relation. While programming on PHP a programmer only thinks of MySQL if he is asked to provide database access to his clients. Such is the power of PHP and MySQL.

9) Broadband Internet Connection : All of the above things could never have been implemented without my own internet connection. At my college I got my private Internet connection from Airtel. At home I had used dial-up connection which very pretty slow and very expensive which limited my browsing habits. After having unlimited bandwidth with Airtel one, I started using more than 30GB of data transfer every month. That’s quite a large number. I understand, but that implies how much information and knowledge i grabbed in.

This entry was posted on Monday, December 24th, 2007 at 11:13 pm and is filed under Blogs, College, News, PHP and MySQL, Personal, Technical.