It's not what you don't know that hurts you . It's what you think you know that's ain't so.
Posted by Javeed Abdul on January 30, 2010 under Interesting, Linux, Sun Solaris | 
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Recently a build of Google’s Chrome OS was released for testing. Though it’s not ready for prime time, you might want to test it out in a virtual machine. Today we take a look at how to setup and run it in VirtualBox.
Note: In this example we are using VirtualBox 3.0.12 running on a 32-bit version of Windows 7 Ultimate.
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London, England (CNN) — Think of the origins of that staple of modern life, the cup of coffee, and Italy often springs to mind.
But in fact, Yemen is where the ubiquitous brew has its true origins.
Along with the first university, and even the toothbrush, it is among surprising Muslim inventions that have shaped the world we live in today.
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Posted by Javeed Abdul on January 27, 2010 under Tools, Windows | Be the First to Comment
There are distinct classifications for rogue software: all of which cause harm to your PC in some way or another.
The terms spyware and malware generally refer to software that purposely exploits your PC and/or steals personal information: all for the sole purpose of making money. Sometimes, spyware is referred to as adware because it can serve ads (repeatedly and obtrusively) to your PC.
On the other hand, viruses usually cause harm to the PC and are most noted because they can spread infection to other computers easily: hence, a “viral infection.” The major difference between a virus and a spyware infection is that viruses don’t usually exploit a PC for profit.
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Norton Ghost, meet Backup Exec. Backup Exec, meet Ghost. That’s right: Symantec’s Backup Exec System Restore 2010 Desktop Edition is an imaging product, like Norton Ghost. But it’s also a substantially improved version that offers a compelling new feature as well finally addressing my longstanding and deal-killing complaint about Symantec imaging products: their inability to back up using the boot disc.
The compelling new feature of which I speak is the ability to convert BESR 2010 backup images to the VMWare .vmdk, Microsoft .vhd, and VMWare ESX server formats. If your system hardware goes belly up, you can mount these in a virtual machine on another PC and continue working.
Posted by Javeed Abdul on January 26, 2010 under Interesting | Be the First to Comment
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This is a practical selection of the commands we use most often. Press <Tab> to see the listing of all available command (on your PATH). On my small home system, it says there are 2595 executables on my PATH. Many of these “commands” can be accessed from your favourite GUI front-end (probably KDE or Gnome) by clicking on the right menu or button. They can all be run from the command line. Programs that require GUI have to be run from a terminal opened under a GUI.
Legend:
<> = single special or function key on the keyboard. For example <Ctrl> indicates the “control” key.
italic = name of the file or variable you probably want to substitute with your own.
fixed width = in-line Linux commands and filenames.
Notes for the UNIX Clueless:
1. LINUX IS CASE-SENSITIVE. For example: Netscape, NETSCAPE and nEtscape are three different commands. Also my_filE, my_file, and my_FILE are three different files. Your user login name and password are also case sensitive. (This goes with the tradition of UNIX and the “c” programming language being case sensitive.)
2. Filenames can be up to 256 characters long and can contain letters, numbers, “.” (dot), “_” (underscore), “-” (dash), plus some other not recommended characters.
3. Files with names starting with “.” are normally not shown by the ls (list) or dir commands. Think of these files as “hidden”. Use ls -a (list with the option “all”) to see these files.
4. “/” is an equivalent to DOS “\” (root directory, meaning the parent of all other directories).
5. Under Linux, all directories appear under a single directory tree (there are no DOS-style drive letters).
6. In a configuration file, a line starting with # is a comment.
<Ctrl><Alt><F1>
Switch to the first text terminal. Under Linux you can have several (6 in standard setup) terminals opened at the same time.
<Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=1..6)
Switch to the nth text terminal.
tty
Print the name of the terminal in which you are typing this command.
<Ctrl><Alt><F7>
Switch to the first GUI terminal (if X-windows is running on this terminal).
<Ctrl><Alt><Fn> (n=7..12)
Switch to the nth GUI terminal (if a GUI terminal is running on screen n-1). On default, nothing is running on terminals
8 to 12, but you can run another server there.
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Posted by Javeed Abdul on January 24, 2010 under Interesting | Be the First to Comment
A picture is worth a thousand words.No need to type your search anymore. Just take a picture.
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Where are we exactly?.
Posted by Javeed Abdul on January 20, 2010 under Interesting | Be the First to Comment
Imagine a world where the PC you buy today, will last 10 or 15 years.
And… It will NEVER need upgrading. Or even fixing.
Ridiculous?
Here’s how it works:
Your computer would be connected via the internet to a computer cluster.
(This “computer cluster” is just a data center full of servers)
And… Instead of doing any processing work, your computer would instead just act as a midway point between you and the cluster.
All fetching, filing and retrieving (all the hard work a computer does)… Would instead be done by a super-fast computer cluster.
Computing resources would then be a metered service, similar to public utilities like electricity, water or the telephone.
What would this mean?
Your computer would never need to be upgraded. As all the processing work your computer does, would be done by the computing cluster.
What’s more… There would be far less technical problems, as any problems can be fixed by expert on-site technicians at the computer cluster.
The result is a cheaper and much faster home PC.
You may think this sounds like a dream.
But…
The technology I’ve described above is already fully functional, and the company is already bringing in substantial revenue from Japanese companies.
Now you know what “cloud computing ” is google up to find more …