Archive for December, 2008
2009 Bring Health, Wealth and Happiness to You!
We wish all of our readers a very happy new year. We pray for your well being and prosperity and wish you lot’s of good health, plenty of wealth and most important of all happiness in your life.
We, the group of friends who run ixibo.com for you, have made a pledge with ourselves to take this blog to new heights in the new year 2009. We will try to post more often and more relevant and will try to stick to our core theme. we have added new members to our community. we welcome Paul, Sarah, Maria(she is new owner), Henry, Jason, Mansoor , Imran, Talha and Usman as our latest members. we hope to see more content and posts from you in 2009.
here is a small happy new year card I made for you all.
Please Help Me Choose a Wireless Phone!
The New Year is just around the corner. While thinking about things to do before new year night, I have resolved to buy myself a new mobile phone/wireless phone. but this leads to a strange situation. With so many choices available, It is hard to decide which mobile phone should I buy. I have narrowed down my search to following few. I need help from my readers to help me select one of them. Please leave a comment with your choice and reason for making that choice.
Nokia N97
Nokia N97 is the first mobile phone with 32GB internal memory and additional external SDHC memory cards up to 16GB and also the first with the concept of social location that use sensors and a GPS electronic compass.
Free Windows Live Writer 2009 Download
Microsoft is not well known when it comes to free software for pubic domain. but for for bloggers there is some good news. Windows Live Writer 2009 is here for download and still it is free.
Although focused at Windows Live Spaces, Windows Live Writer 2009 is one of the best tools available for general purpose bloggers.
Its earlier version is part of the daily life of many professional blog writers.
I myself love it. I admire the new 2009 version even more. As a matter of fact I am an open-source proponent but the convenience of using WLR 2009 is so great that I too had to accommodate it as my primary post creation tool. I was introduced to WLR 2008 by Paul (A fellow Author on this Blog) Now we are both convinced that it is a great productivity tool with a excellent interface and superb features.
Download Windows Live Writer 2009 Installer
Friends don’t Let Friends Use Internet Explorer
Good friends don’t let friends use Internet explorer. I hope you will spread this poster to increase awareness about FireFox and how it helps you be safe from spyware and other predators on web.
How to wire a Cat-5 Cable with RJ45 connectors using wiring standards
This tutorial helps your understand how to wire a 10BaseT, 100BaseT or 1000BaseT connector with Category 5, 5e, 6, 6e cable and RJ45 connectors using USOC 568B wiring standards.
RJ45 is a standard type of connector for network cables. RJ45 connectors are most commonly seen with Ethernet cables and networks.
RJ45 connectors feature eight pins to which the wire strands of a cable interface electrically. Standard RJ45 pintouts define the arrangement of the individual wires needed when attaching connectors to a cable.
Several other kinds of connectors closely resemble RJ45 and can be easily confused for each other. The RJ-11 connectors used with telephone cables, for example, are only slightly smaller (narrower) than RJ-45 connectors.
Best Virtual Desktop / OS Emulator Tools for Linux
There are plenty of tools available for creating virtual machines and servers in windows. These OS Emulation tools comes handy for testing software without investing in a large and expensive hardware lab. Before researching for this list, I was not aware that there are so many Linux tools available for creating virtual desktops and testing operating systems.
VirtualBox
VirtualBox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
This VM (virtual machine) application, owned by Sun Microsystems and created by a small company called innotek, is one of the most popular virtualization solutions for Linux.
“It’s the third most popular method to run Windows applications on Linux”, according to DesktopLinux.com (trailing Wine, which is not an emulator/virtualizer, and VMWare, which is proprietary).
There’s good reason: it has a plenty of features, including snapshots, shared folders, RDP, ability to use host USB, and a lot of advanced hardware virtualization. There are two versions of VirtualBox. Installing the open-source edition is easy: just install the virtualbox-ose package in the universe repositories. If you want to install the enhanced but closed-source version, you’ll need to visit the Web site(below) and download the binaries from there.
Step by Step Guide to Setup LAN for Internet Cafe and Homes
Creating a Local Area Network is very easy. You can either hire someone to do it for you or do it yourself. In both cases the guide that follows comes handy. It teaches you how setup a LAN for your home or office or Internet cafe.
LAN is a network of connected computers and it can be used to Organize a LAN party with your friends so you can enjoy multi-player games with them. In business it can help you share files between computers and share a single Internet connection.
Other uses of LAN are sharing Internet connection with neighbors and reducing the cost for every one in the neighborhood.
Requirements:
1) UTP Cat-5 Cables
UTP Cat-5 Cables
vi Editor Commands to Remember by Heart
The VI editor is a screen-based editor used by many Unix users. The VI editor has powerful features to aid programmers, but many beginning users avoid using VI because the different features overwhelm them. The best way to learn is to remember these commands by heart, and print out this post and get a free shell account online to practice these and other Linux commands… There’s no better way than to experience things yourself.
Starting the VI Editor
The VI editor lets a user create new files or edit existing files. The command to start the VI editor is vi, followed by the filename. For example to edit a file called temporary, you would type
vi temporary
and then return. You can start VI without a filename, but when you want to save your work, you will have to tell VI which filename to save it into later. Read More
