iPhone is booting on Linux

At last some one from Portlan, Oregon has found a way to port (porting from portaland, is it a joke? ) Linux kernel in iPhone bootloader yesterday. He has managed to load the kernel on iPhone means there is no graphics yet. There is another group working on the same project. Read more »

Starting with PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows machine

I believe, there is enough resources on this topic. But this article is intended mostly for my friends who shows ineterest in learning, but I may not find enough time to help them out. It is very elementary tutorial. Assuming you already know what html is. If you don’t, then consider reading this, before you go further.

What is PHP, MySQL, and Apache and why?

Very briefly, PHP is a programming language (for web), MySQL is a database management and Apache is a webserver. Read more »

Top Supercomputers November 2008

Every year, a project named TOP500 releases two list of top 500 most powerful supercomputers – one in June and the other one in November.

They have recently released a top 500 super computer list. In June’s list, there were six super computers from usa, whereas they have nine super computers in the new list. An interesting fact is, India’s TATA owns the most powerful commercially available super computer (Eka- means “lonely”) in the world. Well, in June’s list, that was the fastest super computer in Asia; which is now taken by China’s Shanghai Super Computer Center (only non-usa super computer in the new top 10) and they went down to 13th in world ranking from 4th. However, their website still claims the old record. Read more »