Digital Wealth

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Many people propagate the view that since Sikhism was born out of Hinduism, Sikhism is not a distinct religion. This is not correct – Sikhism is a distinct religion, as there are certain Hindu ideas that are not acceptable under Sikh dictates. The primary among these, being idol worship. As the fifth Guru quotes Saint [...]

These are the photos I submitted to Hindustan Times during the photography contest held on Aug 14th: Click on the images to see the full picture. Yet they decided to give away the awards to some staged action shots.

In the past I have shown ways to run Linux scripts on windows based system. I have also talked about one use of the find command, in conjunction with grep command to search for files having a given text content (say a word) in multiple folders. Today I will show you another use of the [...]

There are a lot of sites including Google that use a CAPTCHA to distinguish a human visitor from an automatic web robot (called bot). An image is shown containing some letters and the visitor is required to recognise the letters. This is something that’s difficult for computers to do, but easy for humans. reCAPTCHA is [...]

A photo of a cactus I brought from the Netherlands that I created recently:

Google recently released its new web-browser called Google Chrome. Microsoft had to undergo so many legal battles just because it released a web-browser for free. Today, there are so many free (and good) browsers available. Some credit should go to Microsoft for getting the ball rolling and providing thought leadership to free (as in free of [...]