http://www.rajatarya.com rajatarya.com - a portal to me Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:59:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Image via Wikipedia (This is even more technical than my other technical posts. Consider yourself warned.) I wanted a dual-boot system between Windows 7 and Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit.  I wanted both systems to be fully functional as 64-bit operating systems and have full access to the computer's hardware.  Accomplishing ... http://www.rajatarya.com/website/taming-windows-virtualbox-vm Image by Getty Images via Daylife Most teams in business today rely on email.  Though imperfect it is ubiquitous for electronic communication.  It has proven the lowest-common denominator for communication between team members. The question of how to organize email is often left to each team member.  I think ... http://www.rajatarya.com/technical/engineering-mailing-lists [caption id="" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Image via Wikipedia"][/caption] Going to college during the dot-com boom meant that we had lots of opportunities to play buzzword bingo.  This post talks about one of the buzzwords I remember hearing repeatedly from that time - synergy.  This word was used to talk about business models ... http://www.rajatarya.com/technical/successful-teams-have-high-bandwidth-communication This is the second post in a series about the realities of life as I have found them "I'm just too busy for ..." - How often have you heard this or thought this?  The goal of every person at every stage of life is to feel comfortable in that stage ... http://www.rajatarya.com/writing/reality-check-you-do-have-time Finally got around to writing briefly about Shaily and my cross country drive in November 2008 from Arlington VA to Seattle WA.  I've posted it on our website thearyafamily.com. From now on you will see more and more family related postings on that site and this site to be more individual ... http://www.rajatarya.com/travel/roadtrip-2008 Quick post with a couple attachments. Recently I put together a couple presentations to present to a working group inside University of Washington. If you are on a team or in an organization that has not heard of model-view controller, hopefully you can use this presentation to bring your team ... http://www.rajatarya.com/technical/model-view-controller-presentation This is the first in a series of posts about the realities of life as I have found them. "Find a job you love and never work again" - This quote is completely wrong.  The truth is that every career, every job, almost everything in life, has both good and bad ... http://www.rajatarya.com/writing/no-perfect-job Editorial Update: Removed a couple of unnecessary stories from this post - they served no purpose and I decided I didn't need them to get my point across. Though it is past April 15th and I missed my "taxes" deadline for this post, I still wanted a chance to share some ... http://www.rajatarya.com/travel/2008-year-in-review I know it's late, but until taxes are due I can still write about 2008.  There is lots to cover in the annual 'Year In Review' post, but I'll get to that soon enough. This post covers the books I read in 2008.  Since I post my writeups about the books ... http://www.rajatarya.com/writing/reading-list-updated-through-2008 Did not get a chance to finish this as the library called it back, but read the majority of the book from February  2009 till March 2009. Pisani documents her travels and entrance into the world of "sex and drugs" as she puts it to find out about ... http://www.rajatarya.com/reading/the-wisdom-of-whores