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.

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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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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