The other day I was checking out an e-mail from one of my friend, and interestingly enough it had some so called ads on the side which were themed in a way or the other about the "IIT's" this was the first time I noticed that my mail too had an IIT theme, I was like awwww..., whats that.That was the moment I realized of reading something written as "better ads in Google", stay tuned, and the gmail blog which said of how the ads will be customized just for you. But here it was happening real-time and it felt a bit of awkward.
And that's the reason I received so many college ads in the year end seasons, and so many android ads whenever the talk was hot!
And the worse part, Gmail web-clips can be turned off (from settings-web-clips tab) but the ads on the right side of your mail are not so easily switch-off'able, though there are some greasy monkey scripts and some other hacks. I don't like it when I get ads of Android when I talk of android, and ads of "get cheap phones" when I was talking in a conversation or two about mobile phones. Yes, yes I know, no human is reading my mail behind it, but still its all like, while delivering my letter my postman says to me " Your aunt is a good personality, and a rich one too. *wink ;-)*", and I open up to find a letter from my aunt praising something!
I dint say its bad but at-least its awkward, its innovative, it new and its good.
And that's the reason I received so many college ads in the year end seasons, and so many android ads whenever the talk was hot!
And the worse part, Gmail web-clips can be turned off (from settings-web-clips tab) but the ads on the right side of your mail are not so easily switch-off'able, though there are some greasy monkey scripts and some other hacks. I don't like it when I get ads of Android when I talk of android, and ads of "get cheap phones" when I was talking in a conversation or two about mobile phones. Yes, yes I know, no human is reading my mail behind it, but still its all like, while delivering my letter my postman says to me " Your aunt is a good personality, and a rich one too. *wink ;-)*", and I open up to find a letter from my aunt praising something!
I dint say its bad but at-least its awkward, its innovative, it new and its good.
). I was quite frequent one of th nearby cyber cafe, which made me quiet free to talk to the cyber cafe man! I one day asked him: why you use XP, whilst you have pretty good configs! (i was actually asking for the 7 thing) so we had a chat like what are the problems, virus and all. And that conversation lead me to many probable answers for "why not Linux"!<i mean cons with common man>. So in the end of it i figured it out that in the cybercafe at-least one or more person will be using internet, apart from the gaming thing in the cafe, as commonly one who came for gaming didn't surf and vice-versa, as this will also ease him on some computers' configurations. And i even proposed him to handle one computer's problems to me. Which meant any customer facing any problems on that computer will be my responsibility. So here began my research and experimenting time. I first of all listed out the problems of a lay user surfing internet which he will face on Linux, and found out that for and average customer there were no problems he can have. So here was a good news. First of all i installed Ubuntu and then worked out for the internet connection and codec thing with the help of a friend. And rest of it was done as i installed some basic software one needs. Rest was taken case by Ubuntu itself. Firefox was there, PDF reader, gimp, vlc, 7zip all went to desktop and what else was needed. (actually if i had worked out with mint it would have been a bit easier for the codec thing, or even Kubuntu). That was it and the special thing was that the over all user experience feedback was very good as most of the people were not even bothered, they didn't had any problems, they worked as usual, as almost all the soft-wares were already familiar specially the Firefox. Some users who wanted to work on their own soft-wares were shifted to the windows system. I even gave him a CD with boot'able "Geexbox" for users who came just for watching movies(why bother them, what else can be better than a 8 MiB full featured easy to use media player distro) Today even most of the daily life apps have gone online soo...