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October 21, 2009

Apple releases new iMac and a special Magic Mouse

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — admin @ 2:30 am

Apple released a new iMac and a special Magic Mouse on 20th Oct 09, two days before Microsoft’s Operating Sysytem Windows 7 is scheduled to be released. The new 21.5-inch iMac features a high resolution 1920-by-1080 pixel display. The 27-inch iMac features a beautiful 2560-by-1440 pixel display that offers 60 percent more pixels than the previous 24-inch model. Both 21.5 and 27-inch displays use IPS technology to deliver consistent color across an ultra wide 178 degree viewing angle.

The two iMacs, 21.5 inches and 27 inches, sport LED-Backlit displays with super high resolutions of 1920*1080 and 2560*1440 respectively. These are 16:9 displays, cropping exactly to the high definition movie standards. The base model will cost around $1199

August 3, 2009

Hide posts from wordpress home page

Filed under: Uncategorized — Tags: — admin @ 4:13 am

If you want to hide your posts to appear from Wordpress blogs homepage, it can be easily done. This method will disable the posts from homepage, but they’d still appear in their respective categories:

Step 1: Just before in your oindex.php file, add this code:

<?php
if( is_home()){ query_posts(array('post__not_in' => array(603,621))); }
?>

In this, 25,26 is the id of your post. If you check your posts www link, you will find the id at the very end of the link.

index.php can be modified directly from wordpress admin panel. In wordpress 2.8, you’d need to go to Appearance–>editor–>Main Index Template

July 30, 2009

Will Google buzz due to Microsoft-Yahoo Alliance?

Filed under: General — Tags: , — admin @ 1:10 pm

After over a year long persual of yahoo, Microsoft has finally managed to form a strategic alliance with Yahoo to take on Google. For the past decade, Google has had a free run in the online search market, and any effort made by Microsoft or Yahoo to take on Google never worked. But, now with the two coming in together, they might actually be able to reduce the market share of Google if not completely overtake it.

As per the alliance, yahoo will recede its own search and will start displayin gMicrosoft’s new search engine “Bing” results. The ads displayed on those search result pages will be managed by Microsoft’s Adcenter and not by Yahoo’s ad platform Panama. Yahoo will keep 88% of the revenue of ads that will appear on Yahoo sites.

For internet users, this can only help. Although Google is still miles ahead, many believe that the Top 10 results of Google are these days prone to spam. More often than not, we now find irrelevant results in Google’s top 10 or results coming in from past years. Hopefully, the new alliance will also force Google to develop better search. All in all, it’d be the users who’d finally gain from this.

July 28, 2009

Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf

Filed under: General — Tags: , — admin @ 9:17 pm

If you get this irritating error message every time you start your computer or cd/dvd drive “Exception Processing Message c00000a3 Parameters 75b6bf9c 4 75b6bf” , then the solution is simple:

Just go to your device manager and look for floppy drive controllers. Then disable them. Who needs a floppy drive anyway! This will solve your problem surely.

July 24, 2009

256 GB USB Flash Drive by Kingston

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — admin @ 7:00 pm

Kingston has launched it’s 256 GB USB Flash Drive. Two months back, Kingston came out with it’s 128 GB version as well, the DataTraveler 200 (DT200), which was world’s first 128 GB hard drive. The USB flash drive is also enhanced for Windows Ready Boost and can carry around thousands of images as well as big database back ups.

July 21, 2009

Wordpress latest articles on homepage or different website

Filed under: coding — Tags: , , , , , — admin @ 12:55 am

I was looking for a solution to this and found that it’s pretty easy to achieve this. Here are the simple steps:

Step 1: Add this code at the start of your page. This has to come even before the <Html> tags on top.
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July 14, 2009

Chrome Operating System Announced.

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — admin @ 7:59 pm

On 7th Jule 09 Google announced it’s Chrome Operating System. Although it’s not scheduled to come out before Dec 09, it has already created a lot of buzz. I just wish it has a lot less hardware requirement than Windows and performs better.

May 17, 2009

Wolfram Alpha goes Live

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Touted as the new search engine with exceptional computational powers, wolframalpha is now Live!

May 13, 2009

Windows 7 system restore and errors

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Like many others, I decided to try out the Windows 7 RC version being given for free by Microsoft for 1 year. I had Vista ultimate installed and instead of doing an upgrade,


I decided to go for a fresh install on a different hard disk, so dual boot. The installation went smooth, but when I first logged in, this is what happened:

1. First few minutes all looked fine. Then while downloading my Nvidia drivers from nvidia site, the screen suddenly turned white. Nothing responded. Just white screen.

2. I had to finally restart the comp and then when I tried to start Windows 7, it froze on the start-up screen.

3. I restarted again and logged on to Vista next. Amazingly Vista gave me an error saying my vista needs to be activated and I have 0 days left. Found the key to Vista and activated it again. Downloaded nvidia driver for Windows 7 and restarted the system.

4. Decided to log onto Windows 7 again. Hannged on start-up screen again. Restarted.

5. This time I got an option saying, repair start-up options. Looked cool as this is for the first time I saw something like that on Windows start-up. So I tried to use it. Took me to a repair services window which kept going on and on and on for more than 15 min. I tried to cancel, but it said that the repair process can not be cancelled. Next - Restarted again!

6. This time used safe mode on Windows  and used system restore. Took a longer time then Vista to restore the system, but I was finally able to log on to Windows 7. Finally! BUt unfortunately, it deleted the nvidia file I downlaoded using Vista during System Restore. Gave no warning and showed no changed programs or folders menu.

7. Since then, system has been running fine. Overall, i find Windows 7 to be just a very slightly upgraded version of Windows VIsta. Although I liked the new taskbar options, moving of the show desktop button to extreme right seems pretty dumb.

8. Going back to Vista now and will wait till final version of Windows 7 comes out.

My Computer specs: 9300 Quad-core processor, 4 GB Corsair 800 MHz RAM, 500 GB + 180 GB + 120 GB hard drive, Nvidia 9800 GT.

February 14, 2009

UNIX time hits 1234567890 on Valentine’s Day

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UNIX time hits 1234567890 on Valentine’s Day

“At 11:31:30pm UTC on Feb 13, 2009, Unix time will reach 1,234,567,890.
Where will you be at this momentous second?” - from Bell Labs

This will be Friday, February 13th at 1831 and 30 seconds EST. If you want to find out what time it will be in your local time, try this Perl script courtesy of Matias Palomec:

perl -e ‘print scalar localtime(1234567890),”\n”;’

Now if there was any reason to fear Friday the 13th, I think this is it. That many numbers sequentially in a row representative of time? Who knows what will stop working? Will lex(1) cease to work, will yacc(1)s
everywhere revolt? Will the rapture be upon us?

I remember asking Alan Cox about UNIX (note that I spelled UNIX in all capital letters, as it should be) time with respect to Linux in 1999. I was confident that most Linux systems would not be adversely affected by “Y2K”, but I knew about a hidden time-bomb in the year 2038, when the “UNIX epoch” comes to an end. Alan assured me that Linux was now working on 64-bit time, and its “roll-over” would happen about the time that the sun burnt out. And while this upcoming event is not a “roll-over”, nevertheless because it occurs on Friday the 13th I will be holding my breath….

I intend on being at the place where I have the best chance of surviving this potential catastrophe and where I can personally do the most good:

=>Martha’s Exchange Restaurant in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA<=

While our friends at Bell Labs (er, ah, Lucent….O.K. “Alcatel-Lucent”) strive to understand this phenomenon, I will be doing my civic duty by drinking fine beer, and maybe an Islay scotch. This is hard to do while you are holding your breath, but I will suffer through. Who knows, perhaps the U.S. government will give us a “bailout” to study this issue.

Who will join me as we watch the time of UNIX line up? Please have a picture taken of you and your friends whereever you are at this time and email it to me at Pawprints AT linuxpromagazine DOT com

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