SZ Quadri

Downgrade to Windows XP (from slow and blotted Vista)

Since the day I got my Vaio Z, I was feeling like vista is not allowing me to use the machine to its full potential. The trial of Office 2007 was also just too slow. Both the software look significantly blotted with unnecessarily stuff that most people do not use.

Ultimately I decided to use the downgrade option and downgraded the OS to Windows XP. The same machine now seems to run twice as responsive n fast!

I knew I will be getting performance improvements but did not thought, it will of this scale.

I recommend everyone who has an option to downgrade to use it and see if you feel like you have came out of jail.

My next move would be to totally move/migrate to Fedora or Ubuntu and stop using XP, except for testing on this platform.

Congrats! to President elect Barack Obama. Its a win for MySQL users as well.

I congratulate President elect Barack Obama on his decisive winning of US presidential election. We all welcome the change and hope that the economy the world over should rebound to new heights.

As per http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/techinterest we know that his offical web site used MySQL in the back end. So its a win for MySQL (and free and open source technologies in general).

Zaidsoft has been involved with deployment (and recommendation there of) of MySQL for most of Zaidsoft products. Its good that MySQL is really winning hearts and minds of people all over the world and the importance can be understood from the fact that the winning presidential candidate's web team is using it as well.

We sincerely hope that the first African American president is really going to bring all sort of positive changes.

IP address to Geo-location web tool

http://ipgeoinfo.com is simple to use, FREE web site for fast IP address to geo location information such as City, Region, Country etc. Other information available includes Time Zone etc. It also points the location on the Google map.

Want to learn the geographical location of the sender of the e-mail? Or want to check from where a particular order has been placed in your shopping cart? Geo-Location is the answer.

This technology analyzes network traffic as well as IP allocation data to determine the approx location of the machine having a particular IP address.

You can create link to this web site with parameter named ip to dynamically provide the visitor with option to check the location.

The tool can be used to prevent credit card fraud or for law enforcement purposes as well.

Check out http://ipgeoinfo.com

Central Govt gives clearance to Companies Bill 2008

The Indian Union Cabinet on Friday approved the introduction of a new Companies Bill in Parliament to incorporate far-reaching changes.

Some of the changes proposed are:

Scrapping the minimum paid-up capital requirement
Setting up special courts to try offences
Allowing one individual/person to create/own a company
Self regulation and shareholder control instead of government control

I like all the changes proposed except a few ones that should have been improved further.

One Person Company (OPC) verses LLC

The idea behind a one person company is to allow a single individual to own and operate a limited liability company. In India the minimum number of persons required for formation of a private company is 2. In some cases individuals (specially in service sector - which is booming in India) want to form a corporate structure for their business but are not able to do so because of large amount of compliance issues and requirement of at least 2 persons.

So in general the government is thinking in right direction that, one person can contribute to economy in never before ways and to facilitate that new form of corporate structure with simple administration and compliance requirements is a must. Corporate law should allow a single person to form a company. OPC or “one person company” is a concept in this direction. But, instead of OPC, I strongly suggest that government allow creation of USA style, LLC kind of companies, where a single person can own the company, run it and manage it. If the need be he can introduce other shareholders and directors without going through name changes and other compliance issues. For all practical purposes, the LLC can fulfill the requirements of not just single individuals but also small group of people who want to incorporate their business.

Further one of the biggest advantage of using LLC as an extension will be that it will look more international and will cause less confusion. I searched “OPC” on internet and could not find any results that even remotely connect to the corporate laws. LLC with similar concepts exist in various jurisdictions across the world and will become more popular in India as well. Indian companies are doing more and more international business and using an extension/suffix (in company name) that is widely understood is sure to help.

My wish list also includes that the word 'Incorporated' be allowed as the suffix along with Limited and Private Limited. But this is very low priority stuff as the world Limited as suffix is well understood across the globe.