Presentations on Open Source from OSCON – Over 100 of them

oscon_logoO’Reilly organized the Open Source Convention from July 21-25 in which several eminent speakers,programmers from  various top notch companies like Google,Yahoo,MYSQl,Sun etc. , participated and gave presentations , some of them have been made publicly available and believe me these presentations are superb as they are by experienced persons , with a profound knowledge about the future and present of the Technology they spoke on  ,

Some of the interesting ones  are ,

An Introduction to Ruby Web Frameworks

Ryan Briones (The Edgecase)

Paper: An Introduction to Ruby Web Frameworks Paper [PDF]

August 6, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Quick Launch your Applications using shortcuts at Run in XP and Vista

 add2run-softwareHow  elated would you feel if you could launch your applications quickly and you could name them in your own shorter  alphabets , I hope that sounds lucrative and yes it is possible by either using this small registry hack or by using the nifty application cited below you could make your work a hell lot of easier , you can launch Photoshop by typing "ps" at run or you can launch your Need for speed game by just typing "nfs" .

August 4, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Make Bootable USB drive for any Linux Distro !!

bootable Pen drive Now, It is way too easy to make a Bootable USB drive with a ISO image file of your favourite Linux distro that you downloaded. I googled  for this and I got tools that made bootable USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE  etc. but , it was hard to find one single tool that can do the needful for any Linux distro , given that I have the .ISO image file of that distro .

Now, my googling worked and here we have UNetBootin(Universal Netboot Installer) a superb tool that not only makes a bootable USB/Flash drive and even a bootable USB HDD from a ISO image, but it can also Download some specific distro’s right from the Internet and make the bootable USb drive out of it , so you can try this option if you have a broadband connection .

August 1, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Unable to delete File or Folder in Windows

If you are encountering problems while deleting a file or folder and you recieve any of these following errors ,

Cannot delete file: Access is denied.
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

then Unlocker utility is the solution for you,

July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment | Read More »

A 10$ Laptop – Promising plans of Indian Govt.

10$ laptops india India needs IT to progress and here is a great step from our Govt. to look into this issue, A minister of the federal government of India said that they are working on towards a 10$ Laptop  . Now this news is really great for students who can not afford costly laptops, like India gave the world the world’s cheapest car Tata Nano , I believe it will provide the cheapest laptops too , so that OLPC( One Laptop per Child ) scheme can be revised .

July 30, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

How to remove New Folder.exe (sohanad) Virus

Also known as sohanad virus , this virus is generally found on USB drives, and your shared documents folder . This virus actively infects other people on LAN, if they have their write access enabled and in this manner it can propagate in LAN environments very rapidly .

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July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments | Read More »

Download Accelerator for Linux,Windows or Mac Os X

We all know that windows has a lot of Download accelerators for it, but same is not true with Linux and Mac , although their are alternatives like Kget and wget in Linux , but still they are not that effective as they can not be integrated with Firefox, do not have multi-threaded download feature etc.

wxDownload Fast (also known as wxDFast) is an open source download manager. It is multi-platform and builds on Windows(2k,XP), Linux and Mac OS X. Besides that, it is a multi-threaded download manager. This means that it can split a file into several pieces and download the pieces simultaneously.

July 29, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

Cool New look for Wordpress Dashboard !!

Here , is a cool new look for your Wordpress administration area , in essence it is just a plugin which changes the overall CSS of the dashboard and administration area , It works like a charm and you get a cool new look instantly , Developed and maintained by OrderedList ,here are some snapshots of what his plugin does to your Wordpress administration area  .

1. The DashBoard

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July 29, 2008 | Leave a comment | Read More »

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