Manish Sinha’s posterous

The Fastest Auto-Focus in this world

Rangoli Competition at Office

             

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Microsoft's sudo patent. As complicated as it's softwares are

The invention claimed is:

1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to present a user interface in response to a task being prohibited based on a user's current account not having a right to permit the task, the user interface comprising: information indicating the task and an entity that attempted the task; a selectable help graphic wherein responsive to receiving selection of the selectable help graphic, the computer-readable instructions further cause the computing device to present the information; identifiers, each of the identifiers identifying other accounts having a right to permit the task, wherein the identifiers presented are based on criteria comprising: frequency of use; association with the user; and indication of sufficient but not unlimited rights; one of the identifiers identifies a higher-rights account having a right to permit the task, wherein the one of the identifiers comprises: a graphic identifying the higher-rights accounts associated with the user; and a name of the higher-rights account; an authenticator region capable of receiving, from the user, an authenticator usable to authenticate the higher-rights account having the right to permit the task, wherein: the authenticator comprises a password, and the authenticator region comprises a data-entry field configured to receive the password.

2. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform acts comprising: determining multiple accounts capable of permitting a task not permitted by an account of a current user wherein the determining is based on criteria comprising: frequency of use; association with the current user; and indication of sufficient but not unlimited rights; receiving indicators for the multiple accounts capable of permitting the task; presenting a graphical user interface, the graphical user interface having: multiple account regions, each account region identifying one of the multiple accounts capable of permitting the task; an authenticator region capable of receiving an authenticator for one of the multiple accounts capable of permitting the task; receiving, through the graphical user interface, the authenticator for one of the multiple accounts capable of permitting the task; and responsive to receiving the authenticator for one of the accounts capable of permitting the task, packaging, into a computer-readable package, the received authenticator and the account capable of permitting the task associated with the authenticator, the package effective to enable authentication of the account capable of permitting the task.

Whoa! This is such a complex description. Looks like typical Microsoft software. They have explained GUI sudo in such a complicated way and OTOH say that Linux is tough to use and figure out.

Balmuri Falls

Place: Srirangapattana, Karnataka

This is actually a small checkdam where water is overflowing.

My Heaven

An Ant's view of the world

Droid Does

I just came across this commercial by Verizon advertising their phone - Motorola Droid. The specs are impressive, but the video commercial is one more page in the chapter of product bashings. "I am Mac" and "I am PC" weren't enough?

The Addon bloat

1. Adblock Plus
2. Echofon
3. Firebug
4. Googlegears
5. Greasemonkey
6. IdentiFox
7. is.gd Creator
8. Prism
9. Scribefire
10. Sxipper
11. User-agent switcher
12. Weave

Savings on Blonde creams

Who is not into Yoga these days?