Ubuntu 10.10 'Maverick Meerkat'

After long period i am posting this marvellous post
Ubuntu in action with new version 10.10 Maverick Meerkat :)
Some of the features are
1) For the 10.10 desktop edition, the GNOME desktop environment has been updated to the 2.31 version and the Evolution groupware suite is version 2.30, which is said the be much faster compared with the version the previous release, 10.04.


2)The Ubuntu Software Center gets an updated look and feel and the Ubuntu One cloud service is better integrated in the to the desktop integration with a new authentication process.


3)The new btrfs file system is an option during installation and the Maverick beta kernel has decommissioned support for the ia64 and Sparc architecture ports - a decision made by the Ubuntu Tech Board

and lot more features.....enjoy it on 10 October, 2010.

How to write SQL fast???????

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Five Key Benifits Of Cloud Computing

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Microsoft moves to social networking

Microsoft’s latest suite of business products mark the start of a dramatic shift towards more informal user interfaces. The newly released Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 has integrated a number of interesting new functions such as Instant Messaging (IM), voice over IP (voIP) and live content streaming. The Facebook-esque new MySite feature is especially reminiscent of social networking. The web-based feature allows users to share their profile with other users within the network, automatically taking information from content that that user creates to make tag clouds of commonly-used keywords. In a turnaround from Microsoft's usual exclusive web browser policies, MySite will be viewable through various browsers, including Firefox and Opera and can be further connected to display status updates from traditional social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn. Microsoft Australia spokesperson, Oscar Trimboli, said that the reason behind the shift was the increase of “digital natives", people who grew up with computers, in the workforce, creating a demand for document in an enterprise to be as readily available as information on the internet. Indeed, Corrs Chambers Westgarth chief information officer and Microsoft customer, Jon Kenton, said that he was quite excited about using the software's social collaboration aspects to keep tabs on aspects of human resources. However, the shift towards the use of social networking tools within an enterprise environment, raises issues as to how much an employee's privacy can be violated with an organisation's use of these new features. Although Microsoft does provide a few basic tools for the filtering of content from and to these sites, Trimboli said that the issue of protection of privacy was ultimately up to the end user and the organisation. "The user ultimately controls with their own login to their own social network what information they expose to the organisation or to their other contacts and that's really reliant on the controls within that social network itself." Trimboli said. Facebook recently used the same argument to protect themselves against privacy violation accusations with little to no success. Then, there's the issue of using the social network as a means of work avoidance. Kenton said that he was not concerned about his employees using the network to goof off during work, provided that they got their work done at the end of the day. "I'm sadly old enough to remember the conversations around not giving employees Internet because they would just be on the Internet all day." Kenton said, "Even going to work, someone can distract themselves - whether it's at the water cooler, the coffee machine or so on. I think it all comes down to making sure you've got a motivated staff, correct supervision over them and making sure that they're getting their job done." That being said, Corrs Chambers Westgarth is still in early implementation stages of the Sharepoint software and the effects (if any) of Microsoft's new social networking shift will probably reveal themselves over time. Microsoft will be releasing the consumer version of its new software packages on 15 June 2010. Courtesy Computer World

Install multimedia codec and VLC in ubuntu without internet connection

Initially when i don't have internet connection i googled for several hours to install multimedia codec and VLC in my ubuntu but i never found the solution for that but now there is an easy way to install All those codecs are also called as ubuntu restricted areas here is the solution for the problem Download ubuntu-restricted-extras for ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) First download link from here Alternative download link from here If anybody is only looking for multimedia playback then installing VLC will solve most of the problem. Here are some of the links to download VLC-offline-installer for various release. Installation is same as ubuntu-restricted-extras-offline-installer. Download VLC media player for ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid) First download link from here Alternative download link from here Credit goes here Hope you enjoyed it plz comment

Top Ten IT issues addressed at Melbourne Summit

The top ten issues were listed as:

• 1. Funding and resourcing
• 2. Governance and strategic planning: driving it value
• 3. Cloud computing
• 4. Staffing: workforce planning/staff development
• 5. eResearch support
• 6. Business continuity/DR/availability
• 7. Project and portfolio management
• 8. Identity and access management
• 9. Business agility/impact of government reform
• 10. Data centre capacity/maintenance

Recovering ubuntu 9.10 and XP after formatting

Hi folks everyone facing this problem like
If you are using dual OS say XP and ubuntu 9.10 then if you have an idea of formatting XP just format it and install newly then you can't see Frub2 list to select OS just tit automatically boots to XP.It means you lost your ubuntu 9.10 MBR so to recover ubuntu just follow these steps.Even i got the same problem.After googling i got the solution but not in clearly organized way so i am here explainin you to get over from problem.

1) insert your ubuntu 9.10(Karmic) Live CD

2)open Application->Accesories->Terminal

3)  sudo fdisk -l
      It list all your partitions note down you linux partition
 In my system its at /dev/sda5
4)

sudo grub-install --root-directory=/media/sda5 /dev/sda

5)Now u recovered your ubuntu 9.10 type Exit and restart

6)It Lists both ubuntu and XP,Just Select XP
 It throws some error like device not found or anything

7) No need to suffer boot to ubuntu and open Application->Accessories->Terminal
 sudo update - grub

8)Now you recovered both XP and ubuntu9.10 MBR.

9)So enjoy with dual OS

HP(Hewlett Packard)

Hi friends i got selected in HP(Hewlett Packard) so i will update news about my company
HP Labs Director Prith Banerjee is turning his attention to HP's half-dozen international labs in China, England, India, Israel, and Russia to work more closely with one another.His goal is to produce more inventions that can be turned into technology that goes on to generate revenue for the company. Signaling its emphasis on international research and development, HP opened its seventh lab in Singapore on Feb. 24, establishing a research hub in a key country in HP's fastest-growing region.

HP is taking the refining process global. On Jan. 4, Banerjee named Min Wang, a former research manager at IBM's (IBM) Thomas J. Watson lab in New York, as the new director of HP Labs China. HP closed a Tokyo lab last year. Banerjee rejiggered HP Labs's performance evaluation system to more accurately measure high-quality research. The company also shortened the amount of time it takes to present findings to a review board. "Gone are the days of the labs of 30 years ago, where there was no pressure and you did whatever you wanted to do," says Banerjee, sitting at a table overlooking a leafy courtyard below his office, which is down the hall from the preserved work spaces of HP founders William Hewlett and David Packard.
Hewlett-Packard operates one of the few remaining university-style research labs in U.S. industry, along with IBM and Microsoft (MSFT). The labs are designed to foster innovation by looking five and 10 years into the future. But industrial labs have also been criticized for failing to commercialize enough of their work.
In May 2008, Banerjee, a former academic and founder of two chip design companies, undertook a top-to-bottom reorganization of HP Labs aimed at turning more of its research into useful technology. "This was a five-year plan I signed up for with [Chief Executive] Mark Hurd," Banerjee says. HP has sped up commercialization of technologies from its labs in areas including digital printing, flexible displays, and oil exploration. The company on Feb. 10 announced a deal to sell seismic sensors to Shell (RDS.A).

Google Buzz

Now a days every one seeking for some good social networking technology.Everyone might have heard of this word "BUZZ" if you are using Gmail. Its like twitter and facebook to share our ideas and share photos,videos etc.
Buzz is a mixed bag -- a combination of good ideas and bad implementation -- and it needs more refinement before it can be a serious contender in the world of Twitter and Facebook.

Microsoft surface

Microsoft has officially launched its Surface line of touch computer units in Australia with a focus on retail, education and finance markets.

At an event in Microsoft’s Sydney headquarters on Tuesday, Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division president, Robbie Bach, said the main targets would be businesses and not consumers.

“The goal here is to make the technology so natural that you don’t even notice it,” he said. “Today, surface is mostly provided by businesses. It enables them to build their brand, it enables them to interact customers in a different way, it enables them to allow their customers to find information and export them.”

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Windows 7 Release Candidate Expires

Hey pupil using windows 7 release candidate(RC) version check this post fully...

Microsoft is reminding people running the Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) to install the released version of Windows 7 to avoid data loss.

The ‘beta’ version of Windows 7, Windows 7 RC, is due to expire on 1 March 2010. Once the deadline is reached, the PC will experience bi-hourly shutdowns.

The shutdowns continue for three months through to 1 June 2010, when the PC’s wallpaper will disappear and a message: “This copy of Windows is not genuine” will display in the lower right corner above the taskbar.

Data will not be saved during the shutdowns and Microsoft is pushing users to install Windows 7 before the automatic shutdowns begin.

what do google and bing think each other

Hi friends
This looks very funny
Google Search has a feature called Search Suggestions which drop down suggestions as you type in a query. Now Bing also comes with search suggestions.

What does Google think of Bing?

What does Bing think of Google?

 

Passwords that never use

Hi folks
Everyone knows that china hackers are playing in big officials documents and now they attacked india's IT dept systems too...Already they attacked google and as a encounter google blocked lots of facilities for china in search engine.....
A data security firm has unveiled the ten most commonly used passwords on the web.
1. 123456
2. 12345
3. 123456789
4. Password
5. iloveyou
6. princess
7. rockyou
8. 1234567
9. 12345678
10. abc123

and also its my kind advice is not to use your name,age,ph no,mobile no
because its very easy to hack for ex: if ur passowrd is name "vinoth" totally 6!=720 so i can find 720 possibilities of my name so that any one hack by writing program for it.......

Cyber Threats In 2010

"It really speaks to a Web 2.0 world. People communicate differently today, people transact and pay their bills differently today, and that drives today's criminals," ABC Science quoted David Marcus, director of security research and communications for McAfee Labs, which this week released its 2010 Threat Predictions report, as saying.
According to McAfee, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites-will become major targets for cyber criminals.
Symantec said in its recent report on 2010 threats, URL shortening services will "become the phisher's best friend."
Some criminals have already learned how to bypass the banks' second layer of protection.

Resource
http://in.yearinreview.yahoo.com/2009/blog/19