Author Archives: Prabhu Srivastava

About Prabhu Srivastava

I have more than 14 years experience in all phases of software product development;I have done my engineering in Computer Science from REC Allahabad and I am an alumnus of Indian institute of Management, Bangalore. I am co-founder of NavankurIT.in, a company specialized in providing open source solutions to MSMEs. I can be reached at prabhu@navankurit.in.

silver price fluctuation

  Read the attached document, before parking your money in silver. In gist, if you are a individual investor, take extra care while investing in silver.   siliverPrice

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How to Run Android Applications on Ubuntu

Good reference link for installing android SDK and eclipse IDE on ubuntu. http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Run-Android-Applications-on-Ubuntu-115152.shtml http://developer.android.com/sdk/eclipse-adt.html

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Ubuntu 11.04 vs Windows 7

Good comparison between Ubuntu and Windows; I don’t understand, why people still use Windows; is it because people are used of bad things and not willing to change  to great product, even it is free? Ubuntu 11.04 vs Windows 7

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Nokia C-503: Worst phone, I have ever seen

Hi I brought my Nokia C-503, three months back and struggling to make it full functional. It has worst User interfaces, applications hang randomly and only way to come out of hang is hard reboot.It has got very huge boot … Continue reading

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Installing Openoffice on Ubuntu

My xubuntu 10.04 did not come with open office, so i had to install it manually, and got following site very useful in installing open office version 3.3 How To install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu Make sure to mention the … Continue reading

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RC files in Unix/Linux

The “rc” naming convention of “rc files” was inspired by the “runcom” facility and does not stand for “resource configuration” or “runtime configuration” as is often wrongly guessed.[2]

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media player in Google Chrome

Recently i had started using chrome on Window’s laptop where i had installed VLC played for playing multi-media contents. VLC is really cool and very fast as compared to real player. Real player seems to have to lot of features … Continue reading

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Free Invoicing Tools for SME

Following is list of available Free Invoicing software  for SME. Bamboo Invoice (http://bambooinvoice.org) simpleInvoices ( http://www.simpleinvoices.org) Bamboo Invoice is very simple and easy to install, Simple Invoice is having more features but few of them don’t work, for example delete … Continue reading

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Free/Open Source Software — The Indian Context

Free/Libre and Open Source Soft-ware (F/LOSS) has become a key component of today’s Information and Communication Technology stack. Unfortunately, despite its well documented tangible and intangible benefits, India continues to be a laggard in the adoption and contribution to F/LOSS. … Continue reading

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Yellow Gold Vs Black Gold: A Statistical Analysis

Is gold a good investment? How does it vary with oil price and stock market? When your wife asks for gold ornaments, as a statistician what should be your response? Are Indian doing right thing by investing in gold? Is … Continue reading

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