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Start Wars - The Clone War - Reading Book

Live Mesh Tech Preview

Live Mesh Tech Preview is now available at http://www.mesh.com . You will need Live ID to use it. Live Mesh will puts you at the center of your digital world, connecting you to the information, people, and devices you care about. You can use your Live Desktop to access folders and devices from the web. You can also add a device to synchronize folders with your mesh and connect to it remotely. More details at available at About Live Mesh .  

Happy Diwali 2008

Wish you and your family a very happy and prosperous Diwali . Have a wonderful time and best wishes. Bellow is photograph of Vedic Diwali day. He is in traditional Indian dress (Kurta Paizama).  

Welcome To Winter 2008

Welcome to Winter 2008. It is getting cold in Orlando during the morning & evening. Vedic was waiting to wear this dress for long time. First day of winter when we had 68F inside home, he got the convincing reason to wear this dress.

Room To Read – Changing World By Educating Children

www.roomtoread.org is a non profit organization created by John Wood. He leave the Microsoft to create a non-profit with a strong business ethos, RoomToRead. He also wrote a book “ Leaving Microsoft to Change the World : An Entrepreneur's Odyssey to Educate the World's Children”. In this book he wrote about long term vision of world change.  & early successes. Please visit www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com to read more. Me and my friends specially Anurag Bhargava are fully convinced by the RoomToRead vision. We request everyone to check the site www.roomtoread.org & www.leavingmicrosoftbook.com and make some donations. John wood is doing great work to provide books school and scholarship to the students in Nepal, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh  and other developing countries. At least we can promote his cause by making a small donation. Direct link to Make A Donation page: http://www.roomtoread.org/involvement/donate.php

HTC – Touch HD

Another iphone competitor coming soon to the U.S. This one is the newer modified version running at speeds of 3.5G with a 5 megapixel camera, GPS and a 3.8 inch WVGA display. Does not have a built in memory as large as the iphone but it is expandable via SD card but you see everything in high definition as this is strictly a HD model. With the information given so far, this phone is expected to be a winner in the cellular world. It has ultrafast 3.5G technology to surf and download at broadband speeds. On HSDPA networks, the Touch HD TM delivers downlink speeds of up to 7.2 Mbps. Other HTC Touch Screen products are http://www.htc.com/www/product_all.aspx

Silverlight 2 Released

Microsoft has released the Silverlight 2. Get start using it http://silverlight.net/GetStarted/ More info on the release is available at http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx

Linux Root Password Recovery

"root"  is the super user of Linux Operating System and he has full privilege to do anything on it. and if you forgot the root users password then it is very helpless situation for you. in this situation you will not able to do any changes in Linux Operating system, and as a standard user you do not have such privilege who has root user. but do not vary about this problem, Linux operating system has solution for this problem. Before do this you need some basic concept  about "init" process.  init is father of all Linux processes and it is first process which is executed at the time of booting after the loading Linux kernel in to the RAM. By default init has 7 run levels and every run level has specific use. Default runlevel. The runlevels used by Linux are: #   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this) #   1 - Single user mode #   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have networking) #   3 - Full multiuser mode #   4 - unus

Schedule Shutdown in Linux and Windows

Shutdown is common process on every Computer. After completing the work most of the us shutdown the computer, shutdown process completed in sequence of task by computer and Operating System. In shutdown process Operating System will end every running process step by step and save unsaved information before power goes off. If you are near the computer then you can shutdown it properly. But it is not a easy task to shutdown computer from remote and make sure all the running process ends before power turn off. To doing this you can schedule shutdown process on particular time for example Like shutdown at you Sleeping time, Time to go home after office hours, etc. Every Operating has its on mechanism for task scheduling. through which you can define task for auto shutdown. Bellow is a step by step procedure on How to schedule shutdown process in Windows and Linux 1. Schedule Shutdown in Linux 2. Schedule Shutdown in Windows

Schedule Shutdown in Windows

  For automatically Shutdown Windows  we have two method, one with "at" command and second with "Scheduled Tasks", but to start the shutdown process automatically in windows no inbuilt command or software available other then windows 2000 resources kit by default. So first we need to download " PsShutdown "  and copy it to in folder like "C:/Adminutils" PsShutdown is a command-line utility for shutting down or rebooting the local or a remote computer, PsShutdown can logoff the console user or lock the console PsShutdown requires no manual installation of client software. 1. Shutdown Windows with Windows "at" command Now open windows command terminal (Start > Run > cmd). In the terminal window use windows "at" command to schedule reboot: C:> at 12:00pm C:\Adminutils\PsShutdown.exe -r -f -c -t 10 Above command will reboot system at 12pm. If you want to shutdown s

Schedule Shutdown in Linux

Some time we need shutdown process be automatically and our computer Shutdown automatically on particular time, this can be possible with Job scheduling In Linux For Job Scheduling 2 utility available one is "at" and second is "cron" at - Execute a task at a specific time. and "at" is Useful only to schedule one job at a time or a single future event. in this we can not define recurring events or daily events. for shutting down Linux automatically at 11:59 pm, use following example. # at 11:59pm at> halt (Press CTRL+D) Some more command for "at" atq - List the current "at" jobs pending. atrm - Used to remove pending "at" jobs. Linux Cron job to Shutdown Linux server/Desktop system: cron – cron is Linux command line task scheduler, Useful to schedule recurring events or daily events such as backup, check system security etc. Step 1 - Login as root user and at shell prompt type crontab -e command so that you can add cronj

Windows to Linux - A Frightened Novice

Windows to Linux - Frightened novice Changing from Windows into Linux is nothing lesser than Conversion of religion. One has to afford to leave behind comfortable(?) life for unknown mysterious world. But, the mere thought of having perfect control over about what i am doing on networking administration and the chances of becoming contributor to open source community from mere subscriber/donor to Bill Gate$ is worth to make dive into Linux. Having exposed to networking administration near a decade, i yet feel Microsoft made me from novice into novice x 10 in the field of networking administration. I think, implementing Linux will invite lot of trouble... but, i believe it is essential for one to become an "Adult"...!!! In my experience, i found few common windows networking tasks are much used in day-to-day life, and i invite you all to share tips & trade secrets to achieve equivalent tasks using Linux and other open-source. Assume a heterogeneous domain consists of RedHa

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Nokia 5800 XpressMusic – Features and Specifications

Top Features: Music Player with superior sound and 8 band graphics equalizer It has 8GB MicroSD card inside that can be replace with a 16GB MicroSD card. Browse, stream and download songs from Nokia Music Store using 3G and WLAN 3G and WLAN mobile technology Nokia Music Software to sync, drag, drop, rip music on your PC Unique two-way transfer of playlist to manage your music Specifications Dimensions: 111*51.7*15.5mm (height*width*depth) Weight: 109g Screen: 3.2’’ widescreen touch display 640*360px nHD resolution with upto 16M color touchscreen display 16:9 aspect ratio Automatic orientation sensor for display rotation (Accelerometer) Stylus, plectrum and fingure touch support Handwriting recognition, alphanumeric keypad, full and mini QWERTY keybords Dedicated Media Bar touch key for access to music, video, share online and web Music Player: 8 band graphics equalizer Bass booster, stereo widening and loudness

Tangler Website is Down – Nokia Launch Event

Tangler website is now down and has following message. This must be cause of the live Nokia Tube 5800 lunch Event . Woah! Looks like the hamsters have fallen off the treadmill We're sorry, Tangler is currently experiencing some technical difficulties. We are probably frantically running around trying to fix it right now, so try again in a few of minutes. In the meantime, why not have a look at our blog . Team Tangler (including hamsters and their families) Registration Page:

Nokia Tube 5800 – View Lunch Event Live

Nokia is launching their new Nokia Tube 5800 a touchscreen phone through a livecast open to everyone. When: October 2, 2008 @ 17:30 UK (16:30 GMT) 16:30 (4:30PM) in GMT converts to 11:30 (11:30 AM) in EST You can use http://www.timezoneconverter.com to convert to your time. Nokia is officially launching the Nokia Tube 5800 touchscreen phone today in a press event in London. This event can be view LIVE at Nokia website http://events.nokia.com/remix_event/ . Also users will able to take part in live discussion (they are using Tangler.com service for this). UPDATE 12:10AM EST: http://blog.laksha.net/2008/10/tangler-website-is-down-nokia-launch.html UPDATE 12:15AM EST: Tangler site is now working.

Forgot Password - Administrator Password - Lost Password

As a human being, forgetting things are natural and forgetting password is problem of mass population. Forgot password is very dangerous if you don’t have mechanism to recover the password. Sometime there is a mechanism available to recover the lost password but lots of people don’t know about it. Like in Windows XP there is a mechanism available to recover Administrator password “Windows XP password recovery method” but only a few people of knows about this method. Previously I have posted an article Recover your Lost Windows XP Administrator Password that describes exact method to recover lost Administrative password and a step by step procedure.

Oracle on Linux - how to Install

Oracle Database administration is a very hot profession of today and if you know how to install Oracle database on Linux then you become a very valuable person. Both technology is in demand, and together oracle & Linux create a very secure & sophisticated environment. Installing Oracle on Linux is little bit tough job. In this article I am discussing procedure to install Oracle on Linux. With the help of this article installation will be like playing the game. good luck. If you face any problem during or after the installation please post your comment. I will try my best to answer your question and resolve problem. Installing Oracle Database On Linux – A Step by step Guide Hardware Requirement for Oracle Installation on RedHat Linux Processor - Minimum Bettor to you have P4 and equivalent of P4 or later version of processor RAM - The minimum RAM required for oracle installation is 1024MB , for know the RAM on PC # grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 1034680 kB HDD Space -