Ravi Rao's Blog

Make the hard disks HARD!

One of the problems I face today is figuring out where to store my important documents. I always store them on my hard disk, and tended to resist the temptation of storing it on a server or on multiple machines (because I can never keep them in sync),

It's Windows Vista time!

So, they announced the name. I must say I'm not particularly fond of it, but then I didn't like XP or Windows 2000 as names either; I guess names just tend to grow on you. Beta 1 just got released, and it has been one phenomenal release. I'll have to

Meltdown 2005 - Day 1

I had the opportunity of speaking at Meltdown today. It was awesome, with people asking some excellent questions. There seemed to be a good amount of interest in how the protocols worked, and people seemed to understand how they would use this infrastructure

Peer to Peer and why it makes sense

So, our team created a platform for peer to peer application development. It's pretty cool actually. It enables scenarios around peer to peer name resolution, multiparty communication and peer to peer security. Take a look at http://www.microsoft.com/p2p

The SPOT watch

I've always imagined a watch that I could get information on. Not really sure why, perhaps inspired by Star Trek and other cartoons when I was a kid.With the SPOT watch, that wish came true. I paid 50 bucks a year, and got a watch that let me get stock