O’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]
How 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" .
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 .
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,
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 .
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 .

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.
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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