Watch out for spectacular fireworks of bright meteors. Comet Tempel-Tuttle associated Leonids are also known as sky earth gazers will be seen today (Monday) and for couple of more days on sky at their peak.
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Nov
16
It’s not a Y2K bug but the enhancement and new innovations causing this. I found this story reported on ZdNet blog few days back. You might find it interesting.
While disks are incredibly reliable devices, they do fail. Our best data - from CMU and Google - finds that over 3% of drives fail each year in the first three years of drive life, and then failure rates start rising fast.
With 7 brand new disks, you have ~20% chance of seeing a disk failure each year. Factor in the rising failure rate with age and over 4 years you are almost certain to see a disk failure during the life of those disks.
But you’re protected by RAID 5, right? Not in 2009.
Nov
14
A neat firefox plug-in for reading favorite Kannada weekly magazine Sudha online by Sunil…Here is what he says about the plugin.
You might be knowing that there is a sudha weekly (www.sudhaezine.com) that gets published. In fact, I personally enjoy reading Sudha at home. She has been my companion for many years now. I could hardly wait to get a copy on every Thursdays.
A small firefox plugin that lets you read Sudha at your ease.
Few advantages of this plugin are:
* Ease of use - All the technical details are abstracted. Just click the page you want to read and woila!!! you have it on your desktop. (Check the attachment sudha-ezine-plugin.jpg)
* It provides off-line capabilities. - You can read Sudha even without using Internet.
* Saves your Internet bill (useful for dial ups and traffic based billing) - Once you read a page using this plugin, it archives in your system, so next time when you would want to read the article, the saved copy is served from your own desktop. No internet is required for subsequent visits.
In fact we could implement many more social ideas around this.
Nov
14
On 12th November, Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft has successfully reached its intended operational orbit at a height of about 100 km from the lunar surface. This followed a series of three orbit reduction manoeuvres conducted during the past three days by repeatedly firing the spacecraft’s 440 Newton Liquid Engine. As part of these manoeuvres, the engine was fired for a cumulative duration of about sixteen minutes. As a result of these manoeuvres, the farthest point of Chandrayaan-1’s orbit (aposelene) from the moon’s surface was first reduced from 7,502 km to 255 km and finally to 100 km while the nearest point (periselene) was reduced from 200 km to 182 km and finally to 100 km. continue reading…
Nov
12
Free Knowledge Institute’s SELF Project and the Open University of Catalonia have jointly produced the book “Introduction to Free Software“. It contains all that you want to know and share about Free Software.
The book provides an introduction to the inspiring world of Free Software, covering its main concepts, some of the most successful free software projects, the specifics of their development and the legal basis that free software licenses provide for the protection of users’ freedoms. It also contains a large directory of glossary, bibliography and links to help the reader explore deeper into this field. While this book provides an excellent introduction to Free Software, it is also an illustrative example of how the SELF Platform can be used.
Authors
Jordi Mas Hernández (coordinator)
David Megías Jiménez (coordinator)
Jesús M. González Barahona
Joaquín Seoane Pascual
Gregorio Robles
Links
[1] http://selfplatform.eu/
[2] http://ocw.uoc.edu/computer-science-technology-and-multimedia/introduction-to-free-software/Course_listing
[3] http://selfproject.eu/en/system/files/Introduction_to_Free_Software–SELF.zip
| Attachment | Size |
|---|---|
| Introduction_to_FS–SELF.pdf | 2.09 MB |
Nov
8
Need a cool PDA/Notebook look for your Ubuntu installation? Then try this Notebook launcher package. It fills in on top of your existing Ubuntu installlation and gives a cool look for the UI.
In a terminal type:
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
This will bring up your source list. then add these two lines to the end of your source list:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/netbook-remix-team/ubuntu intrepid main
In a terminal type:
sudo apt-get update
To update your source lists.
Then Install the Netbook Remix packages
In a terminal type:
sudo apt-get install go-home-applet human-netbook-theme maximus netbook-launcher window-picker-applet
Now you need to restart the Gnome display manager.
In a terminal type:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
After the reset you will see the UME-Launcher running.
To maximize your workspace area, you might want to remove the bottom pane, by right clicking the bottom panel and selecting the “Delete this Panel” option.
To get the most from your top panel you will want to add functions to your top panel. Right click the top panel and select the “Add to the Panel” option. Some suggestions include: GoHomeApplet, WindowPickerApplet, NotificationArea, and VolumeControl.
You also need to set netbook-launcher to your startup programs. Go to System>Preferences>Sessions and add enteries for both of these commands.
Source: UbuntuMini.com
