Last night, we tried to install Linux Fedora Core 2 on our home PC. We got stuck a few times. Our machine already has two Windows OS running on two partitions. We didn't want the Linux bootloader because we want to use the Windows bootloader to choose the OS. Hence we skipped the option of installing grub. After the installation, we tried to copy the boot loader using the dd command. But the OS refused to boot the next time. Then we repeated the installation with the option of creating the boot loader. Even this attempt was not successful. Apparently, an extended partition cannot be made a primary partition. Any thoughts on this?
July 2004 Archives
What is the most efficient way to hire good people in an organization? I think most of the software companies do not have enough competency in this area. Normally when the company is in a hiring spree, the HR asks some experience employee to interview the candidate. Very less importance is given to the fact whether the interviewer knows how exactly to find the real potential of the candidate. Most people look for the weaknesses of the candidate and fire such questions that will bring out his weaknesses again and again. This ends up in a very biased evaluation and thereby the induction of a wrong person in the wrong place.
While taking an interview, the moment I realize that the candidate does not know a particular thing, I don't poke my nose deep into it. I just leave it there and go to the next question. As my husband rightly said, we must look for the strengths of a person, rather than for his weakness. I strongly feel that companies should be serious about giving training and guidelines to interviewers so that the right people come in to the organization.
Here is an MSDN article on Hazards of Hiring. The author Eric Sink lists out a few points to remember when you hire a person.
Few days back, George mentioned about the use of Mozilla as an application development framework. Today I read a few articles on this and found the amazing capabilities of the Mozilla browser to act as a full-fledged development platform which can be used to develop stand alone applications or browser-based cross-platform applications. The framework is called XPFE (Cross Paltform Front End) framework. It consists of a set of web-based standard technologies like XUL (XML based User Interface Language), CSS, JavaScript. and a few more components which are used in deploying, packaging. localization etc. You can read more about it at Mozdev.
Interestingly, the UI mark up language XUL is pretty much similar to the Microsoft's Longhorn markup language XAML (XML Application Markup Language). The similarity lies in the fact that we can add UI controls to a form/window using simple XML tags.
There is an exhasutive list of applications developed using the XPFE framework at Mozdev.
I just finished revamping our family website. Till now, the site was running on MySQL database along with a few static XML files for configuration. I removed the use of this XML and used the database instead. I also implemented the side navigation tabs for the site so that all of us can put more content in a more structured fashion. It is 2:00 am and I am the only one awake. Tomorrow I shall add content to the site.
Mono 1.0 has been released. It is an open source implementation of the .NET framework. It includes the SDK and tools to develop and run .NET applications on Linux, Mac, Windows and Unix platforms. The Mono project which is sponsored by Novell gives a compiler, CLR, class libraries, an IDE, debugger, a blog reader and a lot more. Read more about it from the Mono project web site.
Here am I back to blogging after a long time. Today is a bright new beginning for me. Lot of changes...
My daughter Liza called me up today. She talked to me like a mature girl. I wonder when she would grow up.. go to school.. get a job.. And I am going to watch her grow up. By the time she is sixteen or perhaps even earlier she would tell me and my husband "Mom, Dad, you don't understand". If we don't understand her, who would?
