Silverlight vs Flash.... Who's gonna be the winner?

Its again going to be a tough battle between Microsoft and Adobe with the new product Silverlight in the lime light. As it has already been with .Net and Java and also with the PDF vs XPS competition, this one is again going to be a straight forward war with the Adobe's Flash player. And who knows with all the financial backups microsoft has, it may eventually be winning the race. However, the major drawback with the Siverlight package is - No Linux support. How could microsoft even think of launching a web based product without linux support and making it a big success. There's a considerable amount of flaw in this and this might be the advantage Adobe will have.

Beryl..... Really amazing!!!

Beryl is a window manager in Linux that has amazing features. With this window manager installed, there is simply no way you can give away with it. Have a look yourself of this awful window decorator. I bet it’s the best present till date.

Roll up your sleeves as you are definitely going to have this installed if you are a linux user. :)

The Obselete and interesting stuffs

My interests lead me to some obsolete techy stuffs. And my special desire of learning NLP routed me to some amazing and interesting stuffs. Let me come to them one by one.....

First, The Scigen paper generator, truly based on context free grammar and a sentence generator. It generates some fascinating computer papers, few of which have even been accepted in a few international conferences. Its a research on sentence generator by MIT. Try it out yourself. The link follows.....
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/

Second, this is not a tool, not a collection, but quite interestingly, is a museum. The Retrocomputing Museum is the one which receives these appreciations. Most of the softwares it contains are now a living history - environments that were once important, but are now merely antiques. And when you really try to look back on them, they would show you the paths to this modern computing softwares age. Here lies the museum......
http://www.catb.org/retro/

Third, here lies the mailing group of a unique community of classic computers. They discuss, describe and work on computers that are legacy and classic piece of the technology now. You might not get a chance to work on these classic computers, but can be a part of this community and know the computers which have really become classic today. Here follows the Classic Computers Community Website......
http://www.classiccmp.org/

Time's out for me now. Will continue with these collections in my next blog...... Cheer up till then.... :)))

Installing WLan on Linux

I installed Fedora Core 7 few days back and got a problem with the Wireless LAN. When trying to activate the eth1 interface, received the following error (followed up with the command in bold):
$ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

When trying out to find the error, i finally got to the conclusion that the firmware files were missing. It really took a lot of effort to find this out and to get to know what needs to be done. So, I am listing out the steps that needs to followed to overcome this problem.

Try out the following: (It works finally)

Download the firmware file from the following location:
bcm43xx-fwcutter-005-1.fc6.i386.rpm

and extract it on your system using the following command.
$rpm -ivh bcm43xx-fwcutter-005-1.fc6.i386.rpm

Next, download the Broadcom 802.11g driver. You can find it in the following link:
ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_3020/driver/

Unzip the package.
$unzip WLan\ Driver\ Broadcom\ 802.11g\ 3.100.46.0.zip

Give the folder an executable permission.
$chmod +x 80211g/

Next extract the firmware from the bcmwl5.sys file (from the directory where you saved it).
$/usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/ ./80211g/bcmwl5.sys

If the above steps completed succesfully, then you have almost finished up. Try out the following codes and you are ready to use the WLAN.

$su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on'

$su -c '/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on'

$su -c '/sbin/service NetworkManager start ; /sbin/service NetworkManagerDispatcher start'

This finishes the installation of WLAN on your linux system. Enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!

A jist of useful links........

Here's a small jist of useful links I found useful. However its not a complete set of what i want..So I need more to have my problems solved.Well till then these are really useful.

www.rapidhsare.de

well to find links within the site just try out this kind of link on your addressbar....
http://www.google.com/search?q= .wmv OR .avi OR .mpeg OR .rm site:rapidshare.de&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&start=10&sa=N
or something like of.

The other links are
www.surfshield.net for surfing without firewalls
www.projectw.org for downloads
print.google.com for reading e-books
www.powergames.friko.pl/html/download.html for downloading games
www.tinyurl.com for remembering lengthy urls

Well I would like to get more useful links frm others as well. Please refer me some useful links if you have one.

Linux z Cool

LINUX is cool ......thats what guys everywhere are saying. But too much taken to be granted. It is really very very hot. One of the major problem with the ongoing linux revolution is the varities and flavours added to this os, though, it is also one of the major key reason for the rise and development. However, one thing is sure about it, if the players do not go in hamony it will be a mojor defeat for the opensource. And you can never be sure whats are the real requirements you need and which flavour you need to satisfy your demands. Just bieng a pro in this field matters and thats the point where linux starts loosing. As far as the players (the key promotors) of linux are concerned, they must have a reaon for switching over the sides. Its just not possible that Novell and IBM are loosing money for thier support of linux. It is a safe sided game for them. And maybe the world now is not prepared for this linux (or rather say opensource) revolution or we are missing some key facts somewhere.

Nothin Personal

A host of Fun and a lot to do right over here. Who says life is easy ??? Life is too busy to have some time for yourself to be alone. And thats the tragedy that you can do nothing about it. Well, life goes on and thats the secret to it. You absolutely have no power to give a halt to your own life. And thats the trick which is played. Never mind, its the most essential component to be busy or else no one knows what will happen. Either the world goes down or something else very drastic happens