Windows XP - Memory Tweak - Works on Certain Systems Only

Open System Properties (right click on My Computer and select Properties), select the Advanced tab and press the Performance Settings button, finally selecting the Advanced tab.



Processor scheduling: This option specifies how CPU time is to be shared between processes. By default this is set to Programs, which indicates that foreground processes are a higher priority for CPU time and is recommended for most users as Application performance will be of primary concern. When set to Background services CPU time is more evenly divided between processes, which is more appropriate for Servers.

Memory usage: This setting controls the size of the file system cache. When set to Programs (Default) a standard sized file system cache is allocated (Less than 10MB RAM); this is recommended as it provides best Application performance. When set to System cache this enables the use of a large file system cache (Up to RAM minus 4MB!); this option is only suitable when Windows XP is acting as a Server not as a gaming system or for other Application/Workstation use as it will be detrimental to performance as Microsoft notes:

When you enable System cache mode on a computer that uses Unified Memory Architecture-based video hardware or AGP, you may experience a severe and random decrease in performance. The Drivers for these components consume a large part of the remaining application memory when they are initialized during startup.

What is Python??

Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes programmer productivity and code readability.[2] Python's core syntax and semantics are minimalist, while the standard library is large and comprehensive.

Python supports multiple programming paradigms (primarily functional, object oriented and imperative), and features a fully dynamic type system and automatic memory management; it is thus similar to Perl, Ruby, Scheme, and Tcl.

Python was first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991.[3] The language has an open, community-based development model managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation. While various parts of the language have formal specifications and standards, the language as a whole is not formally specified. The de facto standard for the language is the CPython implementation.

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Microsoft Releases Next Generation Visual Studio 2008, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, and Windows Server 2008

Microsoft’s Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has unveiled the next generation of server products, including Windows Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.

“IT professionals and developers tell us they spend too much time and money managing existing systems and not enough investing in new capabilities that create strategic advantage,” Ballmer said.

At Fidelity National Estate Agents, the combination of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 enabled the creation of a website that provides homebuyers with access to real estate and neighbourhood information about listings for sale, home values, schools and much more.

“The new website serves customised content, 3-D aerial views and animations 10 times faster than was possible with older technologies — but it also was created for approximately $1.4 million less than using other development tools,” said Marty Frame, senior vice president and general manager, Cyberhomes, Fidelity National Real Estate Solutions.

Windows Server 2008 also includes a beta version of the Hyper-V virtualization technology.

SQL Server 2008 will become widely available later in 2008.

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Sun Microsystems completes £500m acquisition of MySQL

Sun Microsystems has completed the £500m acquisition of MySQL, the open source database server, in a move the company regards as the most significant in the open source community.

The company has announced worldwide open source support, with 24x7 multi-platform support for MySQL Unlimited licences – for a flat annual fee. Through the acquisition, Sun hopes to be able to provide users with a platform for open source server-based network computing.

Jonathan Schwartz, CEO and president of Sun, said, “MySQL acquisition will expand Sun’s software business. For the first time ever, businesses across the world can standardise on a commercially supported, open source platform that meets their needs for scale, quality and global service.”

MySQL has tens of millions of users and Sun hopes the acquisition will help the company sell its products and services.

Rich Green, executive vice-president of Sun, said, “MySQL is essential for developing Web 2.0 and this acquisition puts Sun as the biggest contributor to the open source community.”

Green said Sun would now be able to provide businesses with a full open source IT architecture. “We have completed our ability to deliver an open source platform for the server. We think we can deliver that platform.”

Through the acquisition, Marten Mikos, head of database business at Sun and former CEO of MySQL, would continue developing MySQL projects.

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Pakistan Government Sucks - retalted to the last post.

• Produce some GUTS to take an action. Our Pittyful Government

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan's telecommunications regulator said Tuesday it has lifted restrictions on YouTube that knocked out access to the video-sharing Web site in many countries for up to two hours over the weekend.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority told Internet service providers to restore access to the site after the removal of what it called a "blasphemous" video clip, authority spokeswoman Nabiha Mahmood said.
Pakistan ordered the site blocked on Friday over a clip featuring a Dutch lawmaker who has said he planned to release a movie portraying Islam as fascist and prone to inciting violence against women and homosexuals.
Mahmood said attempts to access the offending clip on Tuesday afternoon brought up a message explaining that it had been removed on ethical grounds.
She said the authority had posted a complaint through the Web site _ a facility open to any registered user _ but had not been in contact with the administrators of YouTube.com, which is owned by Internet giant Google, Inc.
While several other videos featuring the politician, Geert Wilders, would remain visible to Pakistani Internet users, Mahmood said the one which was removed had been "totally anti-Quranic" and "very blasphemous."
She said it promoted Wilders' upcoming movie, but provided no details about its content.
The authority aimed to restrict the site only in Pakistan, but the move inadvertently cut access for many of the world's Internet users for up to two hours on Sunday.
YouTube said the next day that it was caused by a network in Pakistan.
"We are investigating and working with others in the Internet community to prevent this from happening again," YouTube said in an e-mailed statement.
Mahmood said the Pakistani regulator carried no responsibility for "technical hitches" which may have lead to problems elsewhere. She said it was not clear how that occurred.
Pakistani officials hope to prevent a repeat of violent anti-Western protests that erupted in early 2006 after a Danish newspaper published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad regarded by many Muslims as offensive.
Danish editors reignited the controversy earlier this month by reprinting a cartoon that shows the prophet wearing a bomb-shaped turban.

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Pakistan IT Engineers Rock..!!!

An attempt by Pakistan to block access to YouTube spilled outside its borders and affected much of the world.

According to reports, a Pakistani ISP tried to implement the government edict not by blocking the traffic but by changing network routing so that attempts to reach YouTube were directed to another IP address.

But the way the Internet works meant this route spread outside Pakistan, and YouTube's site became unavailable to a growing number of users around the world until the bogus route announcements were stemmed and YouTube issued new routes to undo the damage.

The YouTube ban, announced by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority last Friday, will run for an indefinite period and is reportedly a response to the presence of what the Pakistan government regards as anti-Islamic videos.

While the Authority did not identify the material that led to the ban, reports suggest it may include the Danish newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed originally published in 2005, and a forthcoming film by Dutch national Geert Wilders.

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New Fantastic Ipod Released by Apple - Ipod Touch

New Fantastic Ipod is released by Apple. Entire touch-screen interface, sleek design, extra ordinary functionality, and low price are the highlighted attraction to this new machine. Check out all it's features in the following video.


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Leaking of Information by Social Networking

After the turmoil generated by the seemingly endless stream of data loss scandals at the end of last year, organisations have become generally more sensitised to the issue of data leakage.

This, combined with a raft of recent surveys around lost productivity due to staff using social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace, is also raising awareness that action needs to be taken in this domain.

For example, according to a study undertaken by information security consultancy Global Secure Systems and the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe 2008 exhibition, the use of such sites is costing UK business an estimated £6.5bn per annum in terms of reduced output.

A poll carried out among 776 office workers indicated that most spent at least 30 minutes a day visiting social networking sites, while two were so hooked that they engaged in such activities for as many as three hours each day.

Unsurprisingly, therefore, other research by Computerweekly.com found that some 63% of organisations were planning to monitor or limit staff access to these sites over the next six months, while 17% intended to ban their usage entirely.

Meanwhile, a second survey undertaken by YouGov and commissioned by infrastructure software and services provider, Dimension Data, provided a breakdown of which kinds of personal web sites were being accessed most.


Of the 2,134 employees questioned, some 46% undertook online banking at work, 19% visited social networking sites, 13% indulged in file-sharing, while 10% downloaded media files such as MP3s.

Nonetheless, many organisations are keeping a watching brief on the issue by monitoring internet usage and, if and when the statistics show high levels of activity, tend to take action at that point.

Python - Skills in Demand

According to the Tiobe Community Index - based on hits on major search engines - Python is now the seventh most popular language, well behind Java, C, Visual Basic, PHP and C++, but catching up rapidly with Perl. By Tiobe's measure, Python had the largest increase in ratings of any language in 2007.

Tiobe describes it as "especially beloved by system administrators and build managers", and says "it has become the de facto glue language at system level".

Along with PHP and Perl, Python is one of the alternative Ps in the Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL) development stack. Available under an open source licence, it is free to use, even in commercial applications provided the terms of the licence are followed.

In contrast to Perl in particular, Python was conceived as a small language core, with minimalist syntax and semantics, and a large standard library. It is easily extensible using C, C++, Java and others.

Like Perl and Ruby, it enables programmers to choose their own approach - object-oriented, structured, functional or aspect-oriented. There are Python implementations for Java and .Net languages.

For organisations which distrust open source, there is a commercial version, ActivePython, which combines an industry-standard Python distribution with support and maintenance, and also includes extensions for Windows users.

MySQL - Skills in Demand

Sun's agreement to purchase MySQL AB will consolidate commercial use of the open source originated database, although MySQL was already doing pretty well on its own.

Over 40% of software developers interviewed by Evans Data Corporation in 2006 said they used it (though not necessarily as their main database platform). It's the favourite of Web 2.0 enterprises such as Google, YouTube, Facebook and Wikipedia, but with a strong presence too among telecos, whose requirement for 99.9-recurring uptime demonstrates that MySQL is far more than a free download for hobbyists, non-profits and businesses too small to afford a serious commercial database.

But such a small number of users, and modest applications in large organisations, still make up the bulk of MySQL licences. As CEO Marten Mickos says, "Other databases have many features that we don't. We are still a complement to them, although we of course do compete for individual projects where other databases are overkill or we have a more compelling licence."

According to Gartner, "MySQL will be enhanced and aided by other Sun products, such as HPC (Lustre), high-performance file systems (ZFS), Suncluster, Java, Xen virtualization (xVM), identity management and DTrace's diagnostics." This has already happened to PostgreSQL, which Sun began shipping in 2006.

As well as supporting the Lamp (Linux, Apache, MySQL/PostgreSQL, Perl/PHP/Python) stack, Sun offers its own, based on Solaris and Java. However, according to MySQL AB, around 40% of downloads are for Windows.