Mr. Aggarwal

Even if you don’t like dinosaurs, you’ll find this interesting:

I’m pretty good at math, but these guys must be incredible at it:

I have been zipping and unzipping for a long, long time.  I used to use WinZIP for a long time, but switched over to an open source package called 7-zip a few years ago.  I thought I would reach out to the market again to see if anything better had come about, and I must say that I am impressed with 7-zip’s staying power as an open source package.  It continues to add support for different files types and performs very well.  This tool is exemplary at how an open source application can very well take over commercial products and basically keep any from really entering or re-entering the market.

If you are still paying for zipping (for personal or commercial use) or your organization is paying to license compression/decompression software for its many users, it’s time for you to take a look at 7-zip.  And send them a donation if it saves you time/money.  It will help ensure you will continue to pay next to nothing for this crucial computing need in our world of disk-hungry information/media.

It seems people still have a notion that “dedicated T’s are the pinnacle of data telecom service.  Why buy a dedicated T1, T3, etc. when alternative technologies are reaching/surpassing their performance for a fraction of the cost?

Note 1: Cable/DSL speeds are listed at somewhat of a maximum of what people are seeing today.

Note 2: Upload speeds for businesses that are hosting technology can be an important consideration, and Cable/DSL providers typically limit the uploads speeds significantly.  Verizon’s FIOS, on the other hand, starts with 2,000 kb/s and goes up to 5,000 kb/s for upload — still quite a bit faster than a T1.

I used to play a lot, but never had anything like this happen:

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - Thomas Jefferson

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Of all the parts of your body that can cause the most pain to others and yourself, your tongue is way ahead of the rest. - Ashok Aggarwal (offshoot of my Mother)

If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all. - Unknown

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real? - Ray Bradbury

Almost always, the person who complains that the current leader is unfit to lead doesn’t realize he will say the same for anyone who is leading. - Ashok Aggarwal

In an article by the New York Times about the Vonage versus Verizon litigation, the following was said:

The court could hear Vonage’s appeal on the injunction next week, said Susan Pan, a partner who specializes in patent law with the firm Sughrue Mion. She said Vonage likely has a 50-50 chance of winning its case on appeal.

“If you think of a patent as a fence, the lower court has viewed it as covering a large area like an entire acre,” she said. “It’s possible on appeal that the federal circuit will say that the patent actually only covers two-thirds of that acre. And the other one third could be the area where Vonage is operating, which would mean Vonage isn’t infringing.”

Did you know that 42.89% of statistics are made up on the spot?  How the reporting and/or the interviewee went from a 50-50 chance to a fence covering 2/3 of an acre seemed like a really funny read.  And I usually like the quality of the NY Times articles…

In terms of Vonage versus Verizon, I am listening intently.  This is a very interesting business, legal, technology, and intellectual property battle.  I am currently a Vonage customer, but not sure how much longer I will be one - either by choice or force.