Friday, January 4, 2008

5 Things You'll Love About Firefox 3

Some of the new features in Firefox 3 are not immediately obvious -- at least, not to the casual user. Among other things, Mozilla is incorporating new graphics- and text-rendering architectures in its browser layout engine (Gecko 1.9) to offer rendering improvements in CSS and SVG; adding a number of security features, including malware protection

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Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB

New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in notebook storage.

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Art Lebedev kills us with Optimus Tactus keyboard concept

Yeah, you thought the Optimus Maximus was the holy grail of keyboarding -- then you saw the Optimus Tactus, a giant touch sensor display tablet keyboard that could do all the sorts of crazy stuff the Maximus can't even touch, like playing movies and being a gigantic color swatch.

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Sony Stops Taking it in the Rear

Sony is dropping its money-losing rear-projection TV business worldwide to focus on two flat panel technologies — liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode, the company said Thursday.

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The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?

Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.

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The perfect computer memory: quantum dots?

Flash storage is the component that makes low power electronics so flexible. Unlike RAM, flash memory will stay written for about 10 years without power. However, we pay for that convenience in access times, which are much slower than those for RAM.

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Monday, December 31, 2007

what happened to Winamp 4.................

ya, i never saw a Winamp 4.
reasons are here: http://www.winamp.com/player/faq#10

Debian Etch, ntfs automounted, dictionary, wireless Internet..

now a days i am using my Linux Box to the fullest.
for almost all Computer related works i have to do, be it programming or be it listening songs or watching movies.

distro is Debian Etch.
this is the latest stable version of Debian.

must say a fantastic Operating System.

how i got connected to the Internet?
i am working with a wireless Internet connection.
i do not know the exact device name of the wireless adapter, used on my Linux Box.
i downloaded ipw2200-fw-3.0 and extracted the files to the /lib/firmware directory with the root privileges of course.
a restart and then choose the network i wanted to be on.
that was it, i was connected to the Internet.

dictionary:
i always wanted to have a dictionary on my Linux Box itself.
Google Search.
came across Wordnet.
searched Synaptic Package Manager.
Wordnet, kthesaurus and some more packages were there the names of which i do not remember.
installed them and i got a fantastic dictionary on my Linux Box.

yes i love to type Linux Box.

how i made the ntfs partitions get automounted:

made a directory /mnt/win_d
by using mkdir /mnt/win_d
then:
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d
worked but did not worked as i wanted it to.
why?
because the drive was mounted but i could not access them from the GUI.
the files were accessible only through the terminal in superuser mode.
so only half work done.
i didnt do anything with the fstab file yet.
so time to edit the fstab file.
added the following line at the end of the file and reboot.
/dev/sda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
done.
the ntfs partitions shows on the desktop and is accessible without being in the superuser mode.
here i get only read access and no write access to the partition.
still i have not tried the ntfs-3g which provides read and write access both.


music and video:
that was not a big problem at all.
VLC is there for almost everything.

accessing Linux ext3 partitions in Windows XP:

downloaded Ext2IFS_1_10c.exe
from http://www.fs-driver.org/download.html.
installed it, and during installation choose a proper drive letter i wanted to assign to the Linux ext3 partition.
that is it.
opened My Computer and the new partition was there.

the vacations are almost over.
and again it is time to welcome my friends back.
i enjoyed the vacations and yes found many new things.
okay, i admit some movies were also there.
and would u believe, i went through some comic books.
made me remember my childhood days when i used to be a fan of Raj Comics.
no new drawings.
i am in no mood to draw.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

Planet Earth 2007: Top 10 Science Revelations

From the damning climate report by the IPCC to projections of an impending peak in global oil production, 2007 was full of startling findings and prognostications about the blue marble we call home.

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Wine 0.9.52 Released

This is release 0.9.52 of Wine, a free implementation of Windows on Unix.What's new in this release: - Improved graphics tablet support. - Support for RPC context handles. - Fixes for some longstanding screen depth issues. - Implementation of "My Network Places" shell folder. - Lots of bug fixes.

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Kubuntu Demoted Gnome Gets Thumbs Up From Canonical

"Even though I'm among those who prefer KDE overall, I think Canonical's decision is sensible under the circumstances. And maybe, if we're lucky, this choice will be one small step toward moving beyond the problem that there have to be different Ubuntu flavors with different user interfaces in the first place."

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10 Most-Anticipated Movies of 2008 + Official Trailers

As we look back into 2007, we didn't have many remarkable movies around. Hoping 2008 to be a better year in the movie sphere,here is a list of most anticipated movies of 2008 which is probably a useful resource.

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