May 11, 2010 Posted by Gubbi

Yahoo’s New Ad Needs More Thought.

PluggdIn writes about this new Yahoo Ad and expresses surprise over their boldness on attacking Google head on. Yahoo! Tile Video @ Yahoo! Video In this Ad, I couldn’t help but notice the irony when he says “It’s everything you are into, all in one place, all within easy reach” while showing a heap of haphazardly scattered icons about thousands of topics and sites, many repeating... read more

Dec 15, 2009 Posted by Gubbi

Third Party Batteries and Power Adapters on Dell Laptops.

Dell has a slimy trick. Many people choose them for customizability, cost benefit compared to some brands and quality. All these are great reasons to buy Dell laptops. However, they have a trojan horse kind of a trick with them that goes unnoticed until much later. It’s their batteries and power adapter. Dell logo Dell batteries don’t have a long life and often they start failing after 1 or 1.5... read more

Nov 23, 2009 Posted by Gubbi

The Holy Trail Continues.

This is the 6th makeover to my blogging since I started it.. And looking back at all the earlier posts, I see many other posts about a makeover… fresh start… Pretty common for the blogs eh? Yet Another New Day. Yet Another New Start. Version 1: Vinuth Mahipal Reddy Madinur: http://vinuth.blogspot.com/ Pensive Pouch: http://vinuth-ppouch.blogspot.com/ My Scrap Book:... read more

Dec 13, 2008 Posted by Gubbi

College, Enthusiasm and Studies.

Professor is six minutes late.   Venu wrote a nice post presenting his hypothesis to explain the decline in enthusiasm with regards to studies among the undergrad students.  It was a great read and a good topic to contemplate on. Go read his post to understand what exactly I’m responding to.  The “pecking order” might be one of the factors. But I’m not entirely convinced. I... read more

Apr 5, 2008 Posted by Gubbi

Vista WinSXS woes & MS Brilliance.

Lets start with this: I received Vista SP1 update. I have installed Vista on a 13 GB partition, and I had only around 700 MB left. After downloading the update, it said minimum 2GB required. So I set out to explore what is eating so much memory. Turned out Windows folder took a good 10.2 GB of it. And digging deeper the system32 folder took 4.17 GB and there was this other folder named winsxs which took... read more