Saturday, June 21, 2008

America's Most Expensive Homes [Photos]

Hillandale, Stamford, Conn. The 20,000-square-foot residence has eight bedrooms and 10 bathrooms. It's so big that the property straddles the New York-Connecticut border. The grounds also include four guest and staff residences and two barns, all connected by five miles of private roads.

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View the first photos from Mars Phoenix Lander LIVE!

Will Phoenix rise from the ashes and find signs of life on Mars?!

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The Extravagant Designs of Luigi Colani (PICS)

Aerodynamic Planes, Trains and Automobiles all from a never-never land of the most far-reaching imagination of the modern designers. To describe these concepts simply as streamlined is a huge understatement. They are wild, exciting, totally unexpected forms - a tribute to a Golden Age of futurism.

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In Pictures: Great Bond Gadgets

Get Up Close with some of the great gadgets used in the 007 movies.

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The World's Most Impressive Subways

Subways are as much a part of big-city living as high-rises and gridlock, and they get about as much love. For many people, subways are crowded, noisy places only marginally better than being stuck in traffic -- and most of them are.

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Gorgeous Images of the Sky, From 200+ Miles Above it [PICS]

The Space Shuttle Discovery successfully launched last week, becoming the 154th manned US space mission. One of the best features of the space program has always been astronaut photography, and I will take this opportunity to share some of the best photographs of Earth's skies, taken from above - way above

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12 Creative Table Designs

Nice collection of creative tables.

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10 Highest Waterfalls on Earth [pics

If you’re like me, as a kid, you probably enjoyed throwing heavy objects off super-high buildings, just to see how long it took and what they looked like when they smashed. As a responsible adult, I now get my pleasure in gazing at water falling from extremely high cliffs and splashing into the rocks. It’s quite spectacular. We wanted to find out .

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The 9 Largest Science Projects in The World

A great list of the 9 largest science projects in the world ... either running, under construction, or on the drawing board. Who else has never heard of the Space Elevator or the "Svalbard "Doomsday" Seed Vault?

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Why Oil Prices Skyrocketed - Gas To Get More Expensive?

With the cost of crude oil surging to record highs, a heated battle of blame is in full swing. Meanwhile, predictions that we've reached a peak in oil production or will very soon — dismissed only a few years ago as being alarmist and without merit — are receiving more serious consideration. How high will gas go now?

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Forbes: Why Firefox Matters

But don't be fooled. Firefox has become one of the most important pieces of software around today as consumers shift from using their PCs to run applications living on their hard drives to a communications device able to connect with applications living on distant servers. The new browser has plenty of these soon-to-be-ubiquitous features...

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And the fastest browser is...

Which is the world's fastest browser? According to Zimbra, Safari runs fastest, though it didn't beat out Firefox by much. Both Safari and Firefox were roughly twice as fast as Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7. Of course, Zimbra was testing for how these browsers perform with the Zimbra Web application. Your mileage may vary with other applications.

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Firefox 3 exceeds a million downloads

The download counter here at Mozilla headquarters shows that Firefox 3 has passed a million downloads. Ars reports live from the official release party.

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Power User's Guide to Firefox 3

You already know about Firefox 3's marquee new features, but now it's time to dig deep and unearth the shortcuts, tweaks, and even Easter eggs that Mozilla marketing doesn't mention. In honor of today's official release of Firefox 3, let's dive in past it's most talked-about feature-set into its lesser-known power uses, tricks, and customizations.

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6 free security tools you shouldn't live without

I won't keep you in suspense. I'll go ahead and name them right here, at the top of my post -- the six free security tools that all IT folks should know about and use: MetaSploit, Splunk, Google (don't laugh -- it's true!), KeePass, Helix and Netwox. Now read on to learn why.

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nVidia turning it's GPU's into "PhysX Physics Processors"

You may not know somebody that bought a PhysX card, but if you're a PC gamer with a relatively recent NVIDIA card, you've already got one. Or, at least, you will soon.A proportion of the 3D card's power can be given over to running physics, giving those fancy PhysX-style interactions without actually having a specific card for it.

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4 ATI GPUs = 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs

Ok, now this one is highly theoretical. But it is simple stunning how much performance is stuck within graphics cards these days. AMD says its new ATI GPUs have a number crunching capability of almost 5 TFlops - which is the equivalent delivered by about 25,000 Pentium Pro CPUs back in 1996. Amazing.

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10 Awesome Steampunk Designs and Mods [PICS]

What started as a literary genre has since evolved into an art form with incredible real-life inventions, modifications and redesigns. The following is an introduction to the art of Steampunk, with everything from awesomely altered retrofuturistic guitars to a Steampunked iPod.

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IBM supercomputer is world's fastest & most energy efficient

Good news for green tech: The fastest supercomputer in the world is also one of the most energy efficient. In the twice-yearly list of the fastest computers on the planet, IBM has 5 of the top 10 most powerful computers, including the No. 1 spot.

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The Greatest Invention in Computer Science

"What do you think the single greatest invention in computer science is? Besides the computer itself, I mean. Seriously, before reading any further, pause here for a moment and consider the question."

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Database Normalization and Table Structures

Normalisation and relationships explained in clear terms.

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Microsoft shows off Multitouch Windows 7

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer got on stage at D6 with Walt and Kara to talk... Microsoft, of course. While the company is still being rather coy about Windows 7 -- some have blamed loose lips early on in Vista development for saddling the OS with too high of expectations and making things difficult for developers

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Announcing openSUSE 11.0 GM

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the release of openSUSE 11.0 which includes more than 200 new features specific to openSUSE, a redesigned installer that makes openSUSE even easier to install, faster package management thanks to major updates in the ZYpp stack, and KDE 4, GNOME 2.22, Compiz Fusion, and much more.

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Java is finally Free and Open! GPL Compatible.

Recently Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java under the terms of the GPL. The task (6.5 million lines of code) is complete! This week the IcedTea Project reached an important milestone - The latest OpenJDK binary included in Fedora 9 (x86 and x86_64) passes the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit (TCK). What about Red Hat?

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Wine 1.0 Released

The Wine team is proud to announce that Wine 1.0 is now available.This is the first stable release of Wine after 15 years of developmentand beta testing. Many thanks to everybody who helped us along thatlong road!

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Banshee 1.0 Final Released!

After more than eight months of hard work, including major improvements and new features (and a new website!), Banshee 1.0 is here! Play your music and videos. Stay entertained and up to date with podcasts and video podcasts. Discover new music with Last.fm radio. Sync your devices. We think you'll love it!

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Announcing GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″

It has been 41 days since we released GNOME Do 0.4.2, and today I’m honored to present GNOME Do 0.5: “The Fighting 0.5″. Here are the main improvements and new features, accompanied by plenty of sexy screenshots: new preferences window with plugin manager, and many new plugins, including WindowManager, Gcal, Gmail, RSS, Skype, and more.

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What's Slowing Down Your System, and How to Solve With Linux

Computer users expect their systems to work well at all times, but unfortunately this isn’t always the case. If your system becomes slow, there certainly is something you can do about it. This article will help you understand what’s happening on the system, whether it’s the computer in front of you or a system you’re accessing remotely.

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How to order pizza from Domino's by using the command line

Only in *NIX could you order pizzas from Domino's Pizza with any topping, any size, any crust using only the command line!

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Friday, May 9, 2008

Adios Mes Amis..

today i will stop chatting with my old gtalk account.
now i will chat with the other one.
that will only for the Closest Circle.
i think i was getting astrayed.
in that way i was being misled.
some crap ideas were starting to rule the roost.
i was being taken over by some Thought which i Finally found was Detrimental.
that Must be Curbed right now.
ya i mean it and am very serious about it.


*****if someone thinks that it is about him or her, he or she is Definitely Wrong. this is not at all due to some Personal Grudge with someone. it is due to some Special Things, which i find, i am unable to deal with.*****



My Captions:
-----------------

well i wrote a lot of captions.
some were very good.
some were true word by word.
some brought me appreciation.
some ppl. were of the opinion that i copy them from somewhere.
well i wud say that, majority of them were Originals.
amazingly enough some ppl. sometimes were scared due to some scary Ghost Pictures.
i Apologise to them.
Trust me they were outcomes of Long Encounters with Some Quality Horror Movies.
newayz i also think that you should not have got Scared.
You are Grown Up babies.


My Friends:
---------------------------

i am apologetic to those ppl. who are my friends and whom i will miss due to the reason that i am stopping to chat with this account. i do not have any Hesitation in saying that it is a big personal loss to me. but i have to do it.
i am not left with any other option.
Causality Rules.

well i wud like to tell you that, i Find myself very Fortunate, that i got an opportunity to share some very beautiful moments of my life with you. i found that i was among the Best Brains. i found that all my friends know a lot more than i know. they were Truly an inspiration. i found that i will have to work very hard to reach the Level of Intellect at Which they live. i found that to be in the Elite Friend Circles i will have to be very efficient. well friends, i tried my best to be upto your expectations. rest is upon You ppl. to decide.


My Life with You:
-------------------------------
when i started chatting i was very apprehensive that will some girl chat with me?
am i smart enough that someone will give attention.
will i ever be able to make a girl my friend.
but when today when i see behind i find that i have many friends as girls.
some of them are True Friends.
i really Thank Them from the bottom of my heart for their Help when in need.
well i will also say sorry to them as i will not able to chat with them from today onwards.
Extremely Sorry.
i will try my level best to be in contact.
so plz. Cooperate with me and understand the problems i am facing due to which i have to stop chatting with this id.
well we shared some very interesting thoughts in chat sessions.

and Boyz, we talked about everything, studies, movies and even deodorants.
i think Boyz are like this.
Boyz find ways to have fun.
i remember there were times when some boyz chatted with there roommates only for fun.
and that was truly funny.
initially i didnt get the concept.
how can someone chat with someone sitting just in front of him.
but it happenned and really was a true fun.
there were many moments when we had discussions abt. serious topics also.
we used to discuss abt. our lives.
past, present and future.
Thanks to You all.

Thanks a Lot.


What Next:
---------------------------------
after sometime i will have a diff. id to chat with.
i am very hopeful that if i send you a Friendship Invite, You will be Merciful enough to accept it.
well i will again say "Plz." for that..



May i Conclude:
---------------------------------
if You are reading this line, i think You really are a Friend of mine, because it is a long post, and Not all will read whole of this.
i hope that many of You will understand the reasonz of this of my move.
i really do not need to explain further.
with these words My Friends i will end this post.'
bye friends.
May The Force Be With Us In All The Quests We Undertake.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

the last post continued:

i think;


Well when i say "i think", what happens actually?
Some reactions.
Which are bound by Scientific rules.
some Physical, Some Chemical etc...

Nothing can go beyond these rules.

but again, what are these Scientific rules?
they keep changing.
like, what Newton said, Einstein came and extended it.
and again when, we humans thought, that the Earth was in middle of the whole solar system and this idea was given by the most brilliant minds of those times and it was a Scientific fact, this also was proved wrong.

time and again i read that "Something has been found which has velocity more than that of light".
what i mean to say that the things which we consider as The Scientific Rules may be proved wrong the very next day.


One more thing:



Can we say that what we have as scientific rules are perfect?
We rely upon whatever our Brains say.
And how the brain works we do not know.
Then how can we trust a thing which has been produced by a machine which can’t understand itself. Wud u trust a car the design of which is unknown to the whole world????????
I am not saying that this machine(Brain) is inefficient.
It is truly very efficient. It is only some logic which I am talking abt…
No controversies plz… and I may wrong from the very beginning.

So I think that I don’t have a well defined set of scientific rule using which I can understand the thinking process.

a theory which i saw on TV:

the Quantum Mechanics. it says that whatever happens happens because it has a very high probability. it says that, things which we consider impossible can happen, however their Probability is very less, but they can happen.

returning to the main topic:

i think.


so according to the Quantum Mechanics, whatever i think, I think because the probability of this was very high.
what does that mean.
if i want to think in a particular way, i cant. It is all ruled by some Probability.
if this is all Probability, i wud like to have the Sample Space plz..
and if there is a sample space, where can i find it.
And who controls this Sample Space, how is it managed.
again it is all probability, i may find it or i may not.
so it is something recursive.
i cant conclude because i think the probability is very low.

i am getting confused.
Will try to think abt. it later.

right now i have to complete Generics in JAVA.
if someone can help me understand Bridge Methods i wud be grateful.
thanks for reading the post.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

why the Earth is rotating and revolving...

today i was thinking.
and thinking right in the very morning.
why the Earth is rotating and revolving in the sky from a long time back.
and it will keep doing so for a long time to come..
is it for some reason.
or is it just an experiment going on.
or is it an illusion which we cannot comprehend.
or is it really some kind of a Matrix.
or am i getting it wrong altogether.
or is it a game which someone is playing for his/her fun.
or is it something which i cannot even imagine.

newayz i just wanted to know the reason.
and some concrete reasons with strong proofs.
i cudnt find that.
if someone knows that plz. comment.

new drawing




the image is an original drawing as usual and some editing has been done like enhancing the contrast and adding sepia effect.
comment plz...

Scientists Create Material One Atom Thick

Flat, parallel sheets of carbon atoms in the graphite of pencil lead have been peeled apart by the scientists to yield a sheet a single atom thick that has peculiar properties.it provides the wherewithal to probe the workings of the universe and without the need for exotic equipment, such as the £4.5 billion atom smasher being readied

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Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates

You know, we should have paid a little closer attention to Microsoft's decision yesterday to extend Windows XP sales to "June 2010 or one year after the general availability of Windows 7"

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Linux Declared 'Hacker Proof'

The Linux running on a Sony Vaio remained undefeated at the end of a three-way computer hacking challenge Friday at the CanSecWest conference.

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Internet Explorer: A Browser Breaks

The monster is driving away customers. Enterprise IE adoption dropped from 88.7 percent to 78.7 percent in 2007 with gains mainly going to Firefox, according to a new report. Forrester published the data on March 27, but only released it publicly today. Forrester surveyed a whopping 50,000 users at over 2,300 large to very large enterprises through

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4/4/75: Bill Gates, Paul Allen Form a Little Partnership

Bill Gates and Paul Allen create a partnership called Micro-soft. It will grow into one of the largest U.S. corporations and place them among the world's richest people. Allen was 22; Gates was 19.

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new drawing




only the contrast of the drawing is increased.
no further editing.
hope u like it.
plz. comment.

Thursday, April 3, 2008

KDE 4.0.3 Released - Brings Lots of Improvements

KDE, the leading Free Software desktop, continues to release updates for version 4.0 on a monthly basis. KDE 4.0.3 comes with an impressive amount of bugfixes and improvements, especially in KHTML web rendering engine and KWin window manager. As always, there are also lots of updates to translations.

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Friday, February 29, 2008

Researchers Transmit Optical Data at 16.4 Tbps Over 1,500mi.

FiOS, you ain't got nothing on this: Alcatel-Lucent researchers in France have successfully transmitted optical data at an absolutely blazing sped of 16.4 Tbps over a distance of over 1,500 miles.

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What Does the Internet Look Like? [map]

Why China has as many IP addresses as an American university, which ISP should be called "Spamalot," and more.

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

A Sit-Down with Warren Buffett - Thoughts on Business

Noted from a Q & A at Emory's Goizueta Business School with (according to Forbes) the world's second richest man, Warren Buffet.

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Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

Once a marketing gimmick, free has emerged as a full-fledged economy. Offering free music proved successful for Radiohead & Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. The fastest-growing parts of the gaming industry are ad-supported casual games online and free-to-try massively multiplayer online games. Virtually everything Google does is free to consumers..

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Ubuntu Brainstorm Launched!

Ubuntu now has its own Brainstorm website where people can add their ideas and vote for their favorites.

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NASA uses Fedora - a lot!

Jack Aboutboul, Red Hat Community Engineer, had the chance to visit NASA and take a look around. While there he discovered that they use Fedora a lot, from live video distribution to Houston to data analysis of the Columbia crash. Read on for more details and lots of pictures!

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NASA Plans To Crash Moon

NASA is gearing up to crash two probes into the moon's South Pole on purpose to look for hidden water. I bet they can pull off this one.

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Free copies of Vista and Office 2007

Microsoft is so keen to get Vista and Office 2007 into the hands of early adopters, it is giving copies away. If you can handle sitting through three videos on each of Vista and Office 2007 explaining their new features, Microsoft will reward you with a free copy of Vista Business and/or Office Professional 2007.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

Engadget Finally Tests the Optimus Maximus

It's the damndest thing: years after seeing the renders we're actually finally writing this post on our very own Optimus Maximus. We've had ours for a few weeks for testing, but we weren't able to do a whole lot with it until we got some later firmware updates. Here's the preliminary report:

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Firefox hits 500,000,000 downloads

The Mozilla community is celebrating 500 million Firefox downloads by earning 500 million grains of donated rice, enough to feed 25,000 people.

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Microsoft jumps on the open bandwagon

According to a wordy press release issued by the company, the Redmond giant will begin embracing an open attitude by publishing documentation for all of its "high-volume product" APIs free of charge, will detail patents it holds and applications that cover its protocols...

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Drastically Speed up your Linux System with Preload

Preload is an "adaptive readahead daemon" that runs in the background of your system and observes what programs you use most often, caching them in order to speed up application load time. By using Preload, you can put unused RAM to good work, and improve the overall performance of your desktop system. Best of all, it's easy to install and use!

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Seamlessly Run Linux Apps on Your Windows Desktop

Wouldn't it be great if you could run those great Linux apps side-by-side with your Windows apps—like Linux users can do with WINE or OS X can do with Parallels or VMWare? You can, and today I'll show you how to seamlessly run your favorite Linux applications directly in Windows with a free software called andLinux

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Red Hat not impressed with Microsoft's interoperability plan

Red Hat has voiced skepticism of Microsoft's latest interoperability initiative and says that if the company really wants to demonstrate support for interoperability it should adopt ODF and offer patent grants for its protocols under terms that are conducive to open source distribution models.

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From Windows to Linux - and back again

Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.

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Steal Encrypted Data with Liquid Nitrogen

A group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher has developed a simple method to steal encrypted information stored on computer hard disks.

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14 Best Ways to Use Your Computer’s Spare Time

Between YouTube videos, your processor can search for a cure for AIDS.

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Top 10 PC Games We'd Like to See Remastered

Playing through Tomb Raider Anniversary got me to wonder, what other games would I like to see get this treatment? I sifted through the crevices of my fondest gaming memories and came up with this list of personal favorites that I think would be great candidates for remakes.

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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Were the First Stars Powered by Dark Matter?

When scientists look at what makes a star and what makes it burn, they turn to fusion. However, according to new research, dark matter annihilation was the source of energy for the earliest stars, rather than fusion, when the universe was only 100 to 200 million years young.

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Scientists Build First Man-Made Genome

Craig Ventner has created the first Genome from scratch - essentially accomplishing the inverse of the human genome project - by taking an almost 600,000 long base pair sequence from a computer and turning it into a DNA strand. This allows scientists to create living "robots" from scratch, and could lead to man-made biofuel producing cells.

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Microsoft posts new Windows XP SP3 build, RC2 to the public

Two weeks after it last handed a new build of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to several thousand invitation-only testers, Microsoft Corp. today posted that version for public downloading. Want to try it out? Here's how: Uninstall RC1 if you have that first, download the reg patch from http://tinyurl.com/2mflo7 , then run windows update to get it.

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Is This the PDF Killer? Scribd Launches iPaper.

iPaper is a lightweight alternative to Adobe Reader that streams documents in your web browser similar to YouTube videos. It's fast, free, and won't crash your browser. iPaper also lets you put ads in documents for the first time ever.

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Undersea saboteurs may have been responsible for cable cuts

New information from the UN agency tasked with repairing the undersea cable cuts of early February has reported that they can't rule out sabotage at this point of time. Of the five cuts, only one has been ruled an accidental failure—the cause of the other four is still unknown.

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It's official: HD DVD is dead, the format war over

Toshiba just made a statements saying, "It will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders." Finally.

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SHIFT: Are solid-state drives really better than hard disks?

Well... are they?

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Amazon S3 - World's most reliable web service is DOWN

The most reliable storage on the net been down for over 30 minutes and counting. This might not seem much, but think how many sites now rely 100% on Amazon S3 to keep their sites running - such as SmugMug and PageFlakes. These sites are losing revenue right now...

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GeForce 8 cards to gain PhysX support via software dowload

Nvidia completed its acquisition of Ageia yesterday, and it has revealed that it will soon introduce PhysX physics processing support into all of its GeForce 8-series graphics cards through a simple software download. PhysX support will allow the cards to accelerate physics effects in games.

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AMD delaying quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 once again?

The sun just refuses to shine on AMD -- according to several Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers, AMD is saying that the quad-core Phenom 9700 and 9900 are going to be delayed yet again, this time to the end of Q3. Apparently there's a buffer-related glitch in the original design, so AMD is actually "canceling" the two chips and [...]

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Google intoxicates Linux users with Wine improvements

Improvements to Wine sponsored by Google have made it possible to run Adobe Photoshop and Dragon Naturally Speaking on Linux.

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From Windows to Linux - and back again

Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.

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From Windows to Linux - and back again

Seven years ago, Strathcona Baptist Girls Grammar School, which is situated in a suburb of Melbourne, took a step that made it stand out from other educational institutions.he school decided to adopt Linux on the desktop on a fairly large scale, with about 350 workstations being installed with the free operating system.

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Run Linux inside Windows

andLinux is a complete Ubuntu Linux system running seamlessly in Windows 2000 based systems (2000, XP, 2003, Vista [32-bit only]). andLinux is not just for development and runs almost all Linux applications in Windows without modification. It supports quick launch icons, start menu, system tray, Explorer shell extensions and file type associations.

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Impressive Eye Candy: 3D OpenGL Transitions for OpenOffice.o

PowerPoint's push-down transition has done its 15 years of service, and it's time for something new. Do the sleepy faces in your meetings agree? OpenOffice.org Impress 2.4 upstages PowerPoint with ten 3D transitions rendered in OpenGL.

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Virtualization in Linux: A Review of Four Software Choices

Virtualization is the technique of running a "guest" operating system inside an already-running OS; for example, Windows inside Linux, or visa-versa. This article compares four virtualization products available for Ubuntu Linux: the free, open source Qemu; the closed-but-free versions of VirtualBox and VMware-Server, and the commercial Parallels.

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69 Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection

The ultimate collection of cheat sheets for linux users. Enough to fill up your whole wall with commands yielded by the geek gods!Be sure to digg this so more people can have the opportunity to get ahold of all these in one place.

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how to increase fontsize in Firefox and Opera

Firefox:

keep control button pressed.
scrolling mouse wheel forward will make the text smaller
scrolling mouse wheel backward will make the text larger.

Opera:

keep control button pressed.
scrolling mouse wheel backward will make the text smaller
scrolling mouse wheel forward will make the text larger.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

create a shortcut for locking ur computer in Windows XP

the command used is

rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation

here i assume that u already know how to create a shortcut.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Microsoft's Net Rises 79% On Strong Vista, Office Sales

Microsoft Corp. posted a 79% jump in quarterly net income from a year ago, when results were lowered by deferred sales of Windows Vista and Office. Quarterly revenue jumped 30% amid a surge in sales for the Windows operating system and holiday sales of the Xbox 360 videogame console.

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AOL / ICQ are adopting the open source technology Jabber

Proprietary protocols are things from yesterday. Today, Opensource technologies are taking over the world! AOL / ICQ has just launched a test server using XMPP, an open technology. This means that you'll soon be able to talk to your ICQ / AIM contacts via Jabber. Google has already started using it. So who's next? MSN!

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KDE goes cross-platform with Windows, Mac OS X support

The KDE development community is working on porting the open source desktop environment to Windows and Mac OS X. The ports aren't quite finished yet, but early versions are now available for testing.

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Linux kernel 2.6.24 released

The latest stable version of the Linux kernel 2.6.24 has just been released.

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Mozilla confirms Firefox proof of vulnerability

Mozilla’s security chief Window Snyder has confirmed a proof of concept information leak flaw in Firefox–even fully patched versions.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

recover Debian Etch root password

i just found this thing accidently.
i knew how to recover the root password of the Fedora Core,
but never thought that it wud work for Debian also.
the Fedora Core 7 DVD was in the DVD ROM, as i forgot to take it out.
so when i pressed the on button of my machine, the computer booted right
from the DVD and i really did not notice that.
so i got the screen of Fedora Core 7 where it asked me what i wanted to do?
obviously i did not want to instal it as i already had fully functional Debian Etch installed on my machine.
so driven by my curiosity
i booted it in rescue mode.
some messages came on the screen.

then issued the command

chroot /mnt/sysimage

and now issued the command

passwd

and now i was able to change the root password.

Physicists test Einstein theory in Stanford's 'mystery pit'

Located in the basement of the university's Varian Physics Building, the 25-foot pit is where the team is currently testing Einstein's principle of equivalence. The pit's history is a mystery, but according to lore it was built during the 1960s for space gravity research.

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Why don't we dump nuclear waste into volcanos?

An actual question sent to the website - and voted by readers as the "best" question of 2007

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Time Travel in the Brain

The human mind can move through time in any direction and at any speed it chooses. Our ability to close our eyes and imagine the pleasures of Super Bowl Sunday or remember the excesses of New Year's Eve is a fairly recent evolutionary development, and our talent for doing this is unparalleled in the animal kingdom

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NEWSWEEK.COM: "Mind Reading Is Now Possible" (78% accurate.)

(Using MRI technology.)"If what your brain does when it thinks about an igloo is almost identical to what mine does, that suggests the possibility of a universal mind-reading dictionary, in which brain-activity pattern x means thought y in most people. It is not clear if that will be true for things more complicated that pliers and igloos, however.

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Newsflash: Time May Not Exist

Physicists are confounded about how time actually fits into the universe. One theory is that “time may be an approximate concept that emerges at large scales—a bit like the concept of ‘surface of the water,’ which makes sense macroscopically but which loses a precise sense at the level of the atoms."

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First Reaction to Cloverfield: They Have Created a Classic

J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves have created a new classic monster movie. It is everything you expect and it's also nothing you expect. This movie feels so real that it's not even a movie, it's an entire incredible experience.

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Black Holes Spinning Near the Speed of Light

Supermassive black holes, according to new research, are approaching the speed of light. Nine galaxies were examined by NASA using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, and found each to contain black holes pumping out jets of gas in to the surrounding space.

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Hydrogen beast is closing in on the Milky Way

It's large, it's fast, and it's heading toward the Milky Way. Less than 40 million years from now, a giant cloud of hydrogen gas, clocked at 250 kilometers per second, will smash into our home galaxy, likely setting off a huge burst of star formation.

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Big Brain Theory: Have Cosmologists Lost Theirs?

A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit. If true, it would mean that you yourself reading this article are more likely to be some momentary fluctuation in a field of matter and energy out in space than a person with a real past born through billions of years of evolution in an orderly star-spangled cosmos.

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Microsofts' spy patent can monitor even your heartbeat

Every aspect of computer users’ lives — from their heartbeat to a guilty smile — could be monitored and immediately analysed under the futuristic system detailed in Microsoft’s patent application. The systems work not only through desktop or laptop computers but even through mobile phones or handheld PCs

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Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

That didn't last long! Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.

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eSATA to shed the power plug

eSATA is an external version of the Serial ATA technology used to hook up internal PCs, but today external eSATA drives need their own power supply. But recently, the Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) announced it's working on a version that will let external drives draw power over the cable that connects the drive to a computer.

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Ubuntu releases ten lessons for the desktop

In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest.

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How to fix your Windows MBR with an Ubuntu liveCD

Something happen to a windows Master Boot Record (MBR) that you’re responsible for? Want a very quick, very easy way to restore it with nothing but your craft, native intelligence and a liveCD?

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3 Ways To Access Linux Partitions (ext2/ext3) From Windows

If you have a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, you probably know this problem: you can access files from your Windows installation while you are in Linux, but not the other way round. This guide shows 3 ways to access your Linux partitions from within Windows: Explore2fs, DiskInternals Linux Reader, and the Ext2 Installable File System for Windows.

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Yahoo Implements OpenID; Massive Win For The Project

Will more than triple the number of current OpenIDs.

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Google's Answer to Wikipedia

Google's Knol project aims to make online information easier to find and more authoritative.

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Interview: Why Warner Went Full Throttle With Blu-ray

Warner announced earlier today it was 100 percent Blu-ray. We just talked a bit with Warner about some of the whys behind the decision. In a sentence: Because the format war is killing regular DVD sales on top of hurting sales of both HD formats.

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New Apple MacBook Air Is World's Thinnest

It's real and I want to buy one and lick it. The fabled MacBook Air actually exists. It's ultra-thin, has a solid state drive and, except for a couple ports, it's all about wireless connectivity.

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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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