Author Archives: Rohit Mishra

I am a Computer Science Engineering student at VIT. Worship Technology , support open-source, new media. Follow politics, cricket and F1. Working on my first product. I manage social media for my university.

Laptop buying advice for web and mobile hackers

There is a post on the 37Signals blog say­ing how the choice of oper­at­ing sys­tem doesn’t mat­ter much for a hacker. Unless you have another machine for you, I don’t agree to this. I am cur­rently devel­op­ing on Linux and look­ing to switch to a Mac. Linux is a great envi­ron­ment to hack but the …

January 11, 2012 – 12:46 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Think Different

I am cur­rently read­ing Steve Jobs — by Wal­ter Issac­son and came upon the mak­ing of this ad. It is easy to iden­tify with this ad today know­ing all that Steve did to trans­form so many things, but, to think of it at a time when Apple was in a hor­ri­ble shape and had its …

January 6, 2012 – 8:27 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Everything Else | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

iCloud ads don’t make sense in India !

India is one of the few coun­tries where Android tablets are doing well (Android tabs suck because of lack of apps though.) . Also, because the Indian mar­ket is so price-conscious, I doubt we have huge sales of iMacs and Mac­book lap­tops here.  So, it is con­fus­ing why would Apple push iCloud so heav­ily in India then. …

December 19, 2011 – 12:15 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Everything Else | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Installing Android SDK on Ubuntu 11.10

The first step in installing the Android SDK is installing the Sun (Ora­cle) JDK. Java 7 is out now, but I will stick with the rec­om­mended Java 6. Sun JDK is not avail­able in the Ubuntu repos­i­to­ries, so you need to install it using this method. Open Ubuntu Soft­ware Cen­ter, using the Super (Win­dows) Key …

December 16, 2011 – 3:07 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Hacking | Tagged , , | Comments (10)

Will UID project see the light of the day ?

One of my favorite day-dreaming top­ics was a project that will assign every India a unique iden­tity num­ber. I believed (and still believe) that such a project would go a long way in improv­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of gov­ern­ment schemes and improv­ing national secu­rity. So, I was elated when Nan­dan Nilekani joined the present gov­ern­ment to …

October 9, 2011 – 6:19 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in India | Tagged , , , , | Comments (2)

Android is not free courtesy Microsoft

  ZDNet is report­ing that Microsoft has signed a patent licens­ing agree­ment with Sam­sung for the latter’s Android phones and tablets. As hard as it is to accept, this has proven Steve Ballmer right where he said that “Android is not free. It comes with a patent cost”.  Sam­sung is not the first to sign …

September 28, 2011 – 8:19 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , , , , | Comments (3)

VIT University is now on Google Calendar

As the num­ber of stu­dent events and alumni meet­ings keep increas­ing, it is no longer viable to share all the posts on VIT’s face­book page with­out spam­ming the news feed of peo­ple who like the page. So, we have decided to share all the events using Google Cal­en­dar. You can sub­scribe to the VIT cal­en­dar by …

September 22, 2011 – 8:37 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Personal | Tagged | Comments (1)

Vaastu is not Science.

This post was orig­i­nally shared by Sand­hya Pentareddy, Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, VIT Uni­ver­sity on her face­book page. Fol­low her for a daily dose of lan­guage and sci­ence tips.  I hate super­sti­tions. I think they are the eas­i­est way to shy away from your fears. The gen­eral assump­tion is that only the old believe in them. But sadly, …

August 23, 2011 – 2:43 pm | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Everything Else | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Goodbye Palm !

Techcrunch is report­ing that HP has decided to kill the webOS phones and tablets. I am sad, but not sur­prised con­sid­er­ing head­lines like Best Buy asks HP to take back its Touch­Pads have been hog­ging the lime­light. I remem­ber being  super excited when I saw the Pre with the webOS for the first time. As …

August 19, 2011 – 2:30 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Apple’s 30% cut is leveling the field

Apple’s deci­sion to claim 30% price of all con­tent sold on the iOS devices forced many com­pa­nies includ­ing Ama­zon and the Wall Street Jour­nal to make web apps, in addi­tion to the native apps which no longer have links to their online stores. (The webapps have) Now, Apple’s biggest advan­tage over Android (and every other …

August 12, 2011 – 1:42 am | By Rohit Mishra | Posted in Tech | Tagged , , | Comments (0)