Max Table size in MySQL and World's Largest Database

By Ashutosh in Databases on

Max Table size in MySQL [http://www.peerfear.org/rss/permalink/2004/10/15/MaxTableSizeInMySQL/] (notes and tips). Did someone say 4GB? By the way, world’s largest retail data-warehouse [http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1677521,00.asp] is at Wal-Mart – more than 500 terabytes in size!…

Thinking About Outsourcing

By Ashutosh in Business on

Thinking About Outsourcing [http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000556.html]?! [via Brad DeLong] > And, conversely, consider India. Put 10 million people in India to work at $26,000 a year providing white-collar services to the industrial core, and you have boosted India’s standard of living…

Turn camera phones into bar code scanners

By Ashutosh in Gadgets and Gizmos on

Optical Intelligence Evaluation SDK [http://www.scanbuy.com/Website/developers_sdk_cameraphone.htm] enables developers turn camera phones into bar code scanners. Also note-worthy in this context is Semacode [http://semacode.org/], which has some interesting application possibilities [http://semacode.org/about/apps/possibilities].…

Google SMS to Bangalore

By Ashutosh in Business on

Google SMS [http://www.google.com/sms/] (Short Message Service) enables you to easily get precise answers to specialized queries from your mobile phone or device. Currently the service is available in USA only. Larry and Sergey [http://www.google.com.au/press/management.html#sergey1] recently hinted [http://australianit.…

Introducing XtUnit

By Ashutosh in .NET Web Dev on

Introducing: XtUnit [http://weblogs.asp.net/rosherove/archive/2004/10/05/238201.aspx] – an Unofficial Unit Testing Extensibility Framework – add new attributes to NUnit or MbUnit easily!…