Dell to distribute Solaris OS

Its a great news for all, after Sun celebrated 1st anniversary of Java being OpenSource, here comes another good news.
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Dell to distribute the Solaris OS on select Dell PowerEdge servers

Solaris OS and Solaris Support Subscriptions are an excellent choice for Dell PowerEdge server customers who have applications that demand reliability, security, scalability, performance and integrated virtualization.

Dell is simplifying its customer experience by making it even easier to acquire an integrated Solaris-based solution and support by offering Solaris on or with its systems from the factory.

The agreement between Sun and Dell gives Solaris customers an expanded option of pre-configured systems from which to choose, and enables Dell customers to leverage the advanced security, virtualization and scalability features inherent in the Solaris OS, and a simplified buying experience to get an integrated solution with extensive backline support.

Simple steps to get Solaris Downloads and media :
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

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The World of virtualization

Have you ever thought of running windows xp in windows vista !! strange but it is possible today there are so many operating systems available in market and each having unique capabilities and we want them all, but unfortunately we are not able to install every operating system so there is a way called virtual machine which runs an OS within an OS . Sometimes it becomes a necessity to use MS Windows because 93 % market is of Microsoft but still you want to keep on using linux or mac, at that time the virtualization tools are a great advantage to serve you purpose of using windows, also all those who don't want to shift from windows to linux but just want to try linux or for those who don't want dual boot loves these tools which are now available for free and are open source.
QEMU is one amogst the leading virtual machines.

Other virtual machines

• Bochs
• Cooperative Linux
• KVM - Kernel-based Virtual Machine
• Microsoft Virtual PC
• Parallels Workstation
• Simics
• User-mode Linux
• VirtualBox
• VMware
• Xen

More on this topic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtualization

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Code For Freedom Contest

Sixty years ago, just as India attained freedom, we call upon the young minds of India to wake to the call of open source. The open source movement is emerging as the new world order in the technology sector across the world. Today, open source products such as Apache Web Server, Open Office and Linux have dwarfed several proprietary software products.

Learn to be open – Learn to share

Sun Microsystems, a front-runner in supporting open source and one of the largest contributors to this movement, takes this opportunity to invite the young, dynamic academic community of India to come and become a part of this exciting open source wave. We encourage all of you to take this opportunity to learn about open source technology and make contributions to specific open source projects.

Sun Microsystems is happy to announce the Code For Freedom contest where students across India will contribute to the technologies that are empowering the Participation Age. You will gain valuable industry experience while at college by participating in this contest. And there is more. We in turn will reward you for your valuable contribution towards the open source movement.
Come. Be a part of this phenomenon called open source!
Here is what you need to know to enter the contest:You can participate in this contest if you are a student from a recognized university in India.

Read the rules and the FAQs.
Register for the contest.

Choose your open source project and know how to contribute:
OpenSolaris
Project GlassFish
NetBeans
Apache Derby
OpenPortal

Join the http://groups.google.com/group/CodeForFreedom forum. You can post all your technical queries to this alias and participate in the Code For Freedom contest discussions.
Once you have installed the software and compiled the source code, you can request for a mentor from Sun. The mentor will help you thru the rest of the code contribution process.
Submit your contribution.

For any non-technical queries on code for freedom contact mailto:codeforfreedom@sun.com
Become part of the Open Source Movement. Join a global phenomenon

Important Dates

15th August 2007 Contest Starts
14th February 2008 Contest Ends
March 2008 Declare Winners

Prizes:

3 Grand Prizes- High-end Laptops
15 Significant Contributions- Ishuffles
10 Early Bird Champs- USB Drives
1 Grand Prize- College with most number of contributors: Rs 1 lac worth of hardware from Sun
Presentations:

What is code for freedom?
How to contibute to OpenSolaris?
How to contibute to NetBeans?

What are you waiting for?
http://in.sun.com/codeforfreedom/
Contribute and make India proud!

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Security Identity Protection Network System

What would happen right now if someone tried to get a loan or a credit card in your name?Has anyone ever tried to impersonate you to gain access to your private records?
Welcome To Debix Security Identity Protection Network System ...

Debix operates an Identity Protection Network dedicated to protecting customers and the organizations that serve them from identity theft. It distributes it services primarily through creditors and financial institutions. Identity theft is just about the biggest worry that people have today. With computer hackers and other unscrupulous people getting your social security numbers, driver's license numbers and credit card numbers, people cannot be careful enough. Now there is help. Just go onto the Internet and check with Loud Siren for the very best in identity theft protection.

Debix — like no other identity theft solution out there — cuts off the bad guys before they can even start to rip you off by denying their false credit application in your name during the approval stage. You can lose thousands of dollars, not to mention all the hassle of trying to straighten out the mess caused by someone stealing your identity.Why worry and take chances, look them up today and protect yourself from identity theft and sleep better tonight.

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Deleting Hidden Unused System Softwares

XP hides some system software you might want to remove, such as Windows Messenger, but you can tickle it and make it disgorge everything.

Using Notepad or Edit, edit the text file located at X:/windows/inf/sysoc.inf (where x is the drive of xp located), search for the word 'hide' and remove every occurance of it.

Now go to the Add or Remove Programs in the Control Panel, select Add/Remove Windows Components and hidden system softwares will be displayed . They will be your prey, exposed and vulnerable..

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Be Always Idle or Always Busy On Gtalk

Google Talk does not allow users to decide when their status changes to 'idle' and back. The result is that others can tell whether or not you're at your computer.

gAlwaysIdle adds two new options to Google Talk, allowing you to change your status to be 'always idle' or 'never idle'. When your status is set to 'always idle', you'll appear idle to your Google Talk buddies, even if you're sitting at your computer typing e-mails and sending IMs.

System Requirements:

Google Talk Client Windows XP/Vista (no 64-bit operating systems)

Download Now from gAlwaysIdle Website

If the above link appers broken as reported by many readers, download the setup from :

Download from TechQuark.com

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Shopping cart software

Ashop Commerce is a world-class provider of shopping cart internet programming and digital imaging who cater toward small to medium sized businesses They have a team of experts and professional. They have provided unmatched level of service to there clients from long time. They believe in smart thinking and hard work.

There shopping cart software is unmatched and is a result of four years of development leaving no area uncovered regarding usability and functionality. It is easy to use though with many cool features.

This ecommerce software will give you more advance idea on how you can update our business. Even your business is small you can still have this software without worrying the big cost of your shopping cart.

Ashop commerce propose 10 days trial for free which i am sure that you cannot even finish the trial days you will already decide to buy because of their low prices cost for a very revolutionary online software ideas that can really promote your online store.If i will have enough savings to start my own business i am greetful to buy and protect my shopping cart software through ashop commerce.

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Noise-cancelling headphones

Noise-cancelling headphones reduce unwanted ambient sounds by means of active noise control. This involves a microphone, placed near the ear, and electronic circuitry which generates an "antinoise" sound wave with the opposite polarity of the sound wave arriving at the microphone. This results in destructive interference, which cancels out the noise within the enclosed volume of the headphone.

Keeping noise low at the ear makes it possible to enjoy music without raising the volume unnecessarily. It can also help a passenger sleep in a noisy vehicle such as an airliner.
Retail noise cancelling headphones typically only cancel the lower-frequency portions of the noise; they depend upon traditional noise suppression techniques (such as their earcups) to prevent higher-frequency noise from reaching the interior of the headphone.

Such headphones can be purchased at cheap rates on : http://wize.com/headphones/ . It’s a great one stop place for varity of headphones .

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World's First Quantum Computer

The World's First Quantum Computer's Image

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Desktop shortcut for locking computer

If you use your computer in an area where others may have access to it, and there are things on your system you would rather have kept confidential, locking your desktop when you leave the computer is an essential task. Here's a recipe for a desktop shortcut that will lock your computer in two easy clicks:

Right click on an empty area of the desktop and choose 'new' then 'shortcut.' The create shortcut wizard will open; in the first text box, type '%windir%\System32\rundll32.exe user32.dll,LockWorkStation' and then give your shortcut an appropriate name on the next page, and hit 'finish.'

You will notice that the shortcut you created has a blank icon. To select a more appropriate one, right click on the shortcut and hit 'properties.' In the 'shortcut' tab, click the 'change icon' button.

In the 'look for icons in this file' box, type '%SystemRoot%\system32\SHELL32.dll' then click 'ok' to see a range of icons for your new shortcut. Choose an appropriate icon. Your desktop locking shortcut is now ready for use. Test it out.

It’s quite useful if you have a password protected account.

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Fun Computer Games

A computer game is a game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device.

Midori is a new company presently offering entertainment products. There Main Objective : Strive to make quality recreational games and software for people of all ages. Famous games of Midori which you will love to play can be : mac games , Games for kids & global warning .

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Display Logon Message

Administrator or owner of the Windows can set and create a logon message text that will be displayed or prompted on screen whenever a user login to his or her user account. The message is useful to show usage policy, security policy, legal statements, welcome message or a failure message to let users know that valid user name and password required or unsuccessful logon attempts will be logged to prevent hackers.

Open Registry by going to Start then Run, entering regedit .

Navigate to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon].

In right pane, look for key by the name "LogonPrompt". Set its value to whatever text you want to see displayed at login screen.

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Folder which can't be created in Windows and it's crack

Folders with name: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5,COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, & LPT9 cant be created using Windows Explorer or Command Prompt directly!

Try creating them anywhere and you will fail . This is prevented as XP terms these folders as SYSTEM Folder Names reserved only for the Operating System.

But there is a trick to create them (using command prompt ) :

Open command prompt by typing cmd in run window & type : md \\.\\C:\con .

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Booting time trick in linux

Booting Time Trick

Edit file using this command "sudo gedit /etc/fstab"
or "sudo vi /etc/fstab"

This will be your second line.
# "file system" "mount point" "type" "options" "dump" "pass"

NOTE : see option.
For Fat32 it is defaulted to 1. ext3 is defaulted to 2.
1 or 2 means that it will check this file system for errors. 1 or 2 is priority order.
0 means skip this file system for errors.

Make it "0" so that ubuntu skip these partitions for check.
Don't do this for other ext3 partitions.

Doing this atleast saves for 15 to 45 seconds.

Now using this trick my system boots in 30 secs.

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My Resolution For 2008 !!!

Hi,
I' ve set up a resolution for the year 2008....



My Resolution for this Year – 1280 by 1024 pixels!!!!!!

What's yours???


Happy New Year From The Team Of Tech Guru . Njoy !!!

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Bug / Easter Egg In Ms Word

This is something pretty cool and neat...and unbelievable... At Microsoft the whole Team, including Bill Gates, couldn't answer why this happens !!! This bug / easter egg is present in all versions of Office including Office 2007 .

It was discovered by a Brazilian. Try it out yourself...

Open Microsoft Word and type

=rand (200, 99)

Press enter and see the magic .

The sentence which appears many times contains all the alphabets of English language .

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Mac games and more

Mac Games and More is to recognize and publicize the work of independent Mac developers, the people who rarely get noticed.

So, the main intention of Mac Games and More is to support the work and creative minds of shareware developers, game developers and Mac products, as well as appreciate the work of Apple Games, its computers and all its hardware, software and peripherals .

Playing Mac shareware games and using shareware software in general, is one of the best ways to see the work of some of the most innovative and imaginative people in the shareware industry. These developers work hard and make their shareware accessible and affordable by allowing you to download the game or software, which means saving you a trip to the store, or having extra cd's and boxes to further pile up on earth.

Another positive characteristic about shareware companies is customer service. Generally, if you have a problem or question, you can contact the developer directly and usually get a response immediately. An ACTUAL human being will contact you (Not an unhelpful automated robot response).

The information and game downloads and software downloads here will grow and change as they find more and more hidden gems. There are several categories of free Mac games such as Action and Arcade and Shoot em up. There are Puzzles for all ages including Pre-K and up as well as Strategy and RPG games and you'll also find clones of games for Galaga and Tetris as well as others. Mac Mahjong is also fun to play .

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Spock.com, the best way to find people

Are you looking for a long lost friend or you just want to know someone else profile? Try Spock.com - The Best Way to Search People . It is a search engine focused on finding people. All you need to do is to type in the name of the person you want to search and Spock will display the results with matching photo, address, occupation, interests and other needed information.

Spock works by simply using its technology to seek out information from across the internet to produce content rich search results. This includes social networks, information sites, news sites, and blogs. You are able to search for people by just typing in their name or a search term otherwise known as “tags” and even by using their email address on Spock.com.

Spock also allows you to create a profile for yourself if you are not listed. All you have to do is to fill out a simple form and you will be added to their ever growing list of profiles pages, which is believed to have topped one hundred million. You can also request that Spock.com remove or correct any information you have supplied about yourself. If you are a member of Spock.com you can also add a tag to a friend’s profile.

Would you like to search for an old buddy you went to school with back in high school but has lost contact since then? Type in their name over at Spock and you may find them already listed. Well, If by any chance, your friend’s name is as popular as mine.. and ends up browsing through hundreds of people and Spock member profiles sharing the same name. Just add add a tag or location, to narrow your search.

So go on lets find friends , relatives , old neighbor , say any one on this planet ... Search Now.

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Smorty : Turn Your Opinion Into Money

Smorty is another get paid for blog advertising , similar like payperpost. But there are some advantags in smorty which makes it unique. You will be paid weekly, which is very quick when compared to other paid to blog sites. Also you can post the same opportunity on different blogs which gives more money for the same content. Opportunities are directly sent to admin panel and as well as emails. Hence you dont need to check back frequently about the opportunities.

How to use it as a blogger? This is really easy, just register a free account and submitted your blog to get approve. After that, you are free to do review base on in the list. The minimum of requirement words to write a review for them is 150 words, fix. After you submitted your review, you have only 3 days to complete your review and it will take 5 days to get your review approve. Well, they paid basic of weekly basis, exactly 7 days, include the approve period. That is why I love Smorty. :)

Benefits for blogger :

1. Get paid for writing review. 2. They can give their own idea. 3. Blog is approved quickly as compared to other pay per service. 4. They are payed weekly through Paypal.

Benefits for advertiser :

1. Get review of their products,goods or service. 2. Get a backlink. 3. Can expect good review from the bloggers.

So , what you are waiting for join now .

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Bug In Notepad

For those of you using Windows, try the following steps to witness a bug in NotePad .

1.) Open notepad ( Type 'notepad' in the run window , or go to accessories option )

2.) Type , 'Bush hid the facts' (without the quotes)

3.) Save it with any name and at any location .

4.) Close it, and re-open it.

Surprised ??? Is it really a weird bug ???

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RSS Hugger : Hug Your Feeds

Anyone who is into blogging will know 'traffic' = 'money'. There is no point in having a blog full of wonderful content if people do not get to see it! And there are so many ways to bring in the traffic.

I ran across an interesting relatively new site for promoting RSS feeds today - rssHugger. It’s 100% manually reviewed. Currently just over 500 feeds and every one has been checked to make sure it’s not spam and that the site is family friendly.

RSS is one more wonderful way to bring in the 'money'. now for people who just started blogging if RSS sounds alien no issues... you can read more about it on : RSS Feeds

Once you put your blog on RSS Hugger , you will get 'targeted' traffic - people who are just like you - BLOGGERS. So happy blogging and 'sharing' through RssHugger.

The idea behind the new site is to create buzz and generate new RSS subscribers for RSS feeds that are added to the site. When you buy a page you basically get your feed headlines displayed on your own page within RSSHugger.

So , what you are waiting for ... List your feed now on rssHugger .

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Hiding shared folders with $

If you would like to share a folder so that users on your network can access it easily, but are worried about displaying the folder for anyone to browse through, there is an easy way to render a shared folder invisible but still accessible.

From the shared folder dialog: (right click on desired folder\sharing and security\). You can hide a shared folder by simply adding a '$' to the end of the name you give the folder in the 'sharing and security' window. In this way, you can maintain network access to shared folders, while hiding them from prying eyes.

To browse to a hidden shared folder from another computer, simply click 'start/run' then type \\(name of the computer the share is on)\(sharename$) and press enter.

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