Google Chrome Os - Rush Time

As for Google mentioned :

" Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at net-books. Later this year we will open-source its code, and net books running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. "




But the major leaks I found is every file you store move or even trash happens to be in remote server .


It is similar to saying even your personal credential files will be exposed to them and your only allocated necessary privileges to access the files . I dono how far it is gonna be secure .




Persons with limited network bandwidth will be harder to use because each operation is a complicated network oriented .




Third even if I have huge hard disk say several TB's we are forced to access file from/to network which adds on burden for traditional off-line users .





As they mentioned Chrome OS as LIGHT WEIGHT BROWSER BASED OS they doesn't seem to match with high end gaming as well as with advanced hardware and software support . They seem to simplify more as only single processor is utilized even you have multi-core's.( Under utilization of available resource as far as I learnt :))





Guess this is a better matched OS for atom based processors and x86 series.



well this time Im expecting a real worthy OS from Google ( rather years ago I got a distro named GOS which is nothing rather than a new Themed Ubuntu :P)

Google chrome OS demo:


Free open source and Linux kernel are the pleasing words , as for as the project is concerned which gained my attention.


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Grub or Lilo ? what are they ?

well before stating about GRUB and LILO let me briefly say what are they :

They are Boot loaders .. Exactly they are piece of code which places your operating system from secondary hard disk to RAM when you switch on your PC . Thats why we say ' My PC didn't boot ' instead saying like Iron box or TV doesnt switch 'on' .



well any how this doesn't be much seen by naive users and mostly hidden Then why care about those thing ?

even seems like its hidden it has many consequence on multiple OS environment . If you used Linux past three years before then you will be more familiar about grub error 17 stage 1.5 error ( once we annoyed at this strange one and thought even hardware is totally gone useless :D )

I know speaking about grub and LILO is a most unresolvable one like we already have

KDE vs Gnome

Emacs Vs Vi

as once Linux article said :

" no arguing about a Linux distribution's bootloader. With LILO (LInux LOader) as the dominant software for this purpose, many seasoned Linux system administrators had mastered the art of creating a lilo.conf file out of thin air, without having to look through any LILO documentation. "




But Unfortunately for them, the release notes of Red Hat 7.2, released in October 2001, informed us that "we now use GRUB as the default boot loader." This is point where Grub emerges



Cool Grub at start up :



At present at Ubuntu 9.10 grub 1.97 is beta ( remember once its alpha release with several bugs) and even detects RAID 0,1 and all server configuration with less effort and also Grub provides its own unique interface ( Type grub in console to open up )

As far as Linux geeks grub is emerging technology with efforts to replace LILO and easify users with problems stuck on MBR

Any how , competitions makes a better product in all ..... well this is not an exceptional case ;)

Is Google Go gonna take a go?

Well Google is a is an American public corporation, earning revenue from advertising related to its Internet search, e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking, and video sharing services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the same technologies. Google has also developed an open source web browser and a mobile operating system.


Recently I heard about something like a Browser called chrome and Latest Wave ( every one fights for it ) and another project recently put on my ears is Google go .



Whats it exactly ?

well name doesn't reveal any of its identity about the product ( similar to every open source softwares does ;)) is a new language gonna be developed by Google team nearly 5 years of hard work from now .



Google's Go could improve on existing programming languages by simplifying development without sacrificing application performance, but it will likely take years for Go to attain an established position that will allow it to have a noticeable impact.


Google GO Team :


well as Wales said about Google go :

" Go's syntax friendly, with a clean feel to it like Python's and Ruby on Rails', while also familiar to the syntax of C-based languages. He also likes that, as a compiled language, Go's applications run extremely fast. "






I dono what this guys gonna do with Python and Ruby rather stay away from this field ..




If its a productive and cleaner language well other than few years of dumping its library and making its syntax familiar , its a less burden thing for me :)


But this guys sucked at chromium ( Linux edition of chrome ) with loads and loads of fatal errors and shooting bugs .

well let them fix it since its in beta till .

I remember the inspiring history of Google and its growth

But what happend to this guys at present copying a pokemon ball , tracing a bull shit logo ..






Copying a pokemon ball and made it as chrome :



Recent release Google wave logo resembles windows :




Well , let that all things remain apart .as an Inspired fan of Google and awaited person for Go let me see Whats the Go Gonna do in field of programming language :P

in the list of thousands and thousands of burdens which already exists ;)

Linux lags in Gaming ?

Well why Linux lags in gaming than windows , is a question nagging in most of Linux minds ...

As apart saying , geeks don't play games or games are meant for lazy windows user or use Wine instead doesn't seems like a satisfactory answer


Well why is it so , does Linux doesn't have the necessary modules or its a OS for who doesnt know what is entertainment and games actually mean



Before , what makes windows run all the top most games is a hardware abstraction layer called DirectX 3D Linux have better one called OpenGL



1. Direct3D is a proprietary API that provides functions to render three dimensional graphics, and uses hardware acceleration if it is available on the graphics card. It was designed by Microsoft Corporation for use on the Windows platform.



2. OpenGL is an open standard API that provides a number of functions for the rendering of 2D and 3D graphics and is available on most modern operating systems. If hardware 3D acceleration is present, OpenGL can use it.




I too had a watch of rare Linux games that are standard like open arena ,tremulous and some more first person shooter game



Open arena is one of my favourite


Try sudo apt-get install openarena




A best implementation of OpenGL that you can feel over:




As wikipedia states :






" In the earliest days of 3D accelerated gaming, performance and reliability were key benchmarks and several 3D accelerator cards competed against each other for dominance. Software was written specifically for a particular brand of graphics card. However, over the years, OpenGL and Direct3D emerged as software layers above the hardware, mainly because of industry support for a cross-hardware graphics library. Competition between the two rose as each game developer would choose either one or the other. In the 1990s, OpenGL dominated due to a better design of the interface and still dominates the console and handheld markets:

AppleInsider's Prince McLean said, "OpenGL is used by Linux and, more recently, by nearly all of the major game consoles, including Sony's PSP and PS3 and Nintendo's Wii. The console exception is of course Microsoft's Xbox, which was named after the DirectX graphics libraries it was designed to promote in an effort to stop a broad migration to OpenGL in gaming, and a subsequent erosion of Microsoft's software monopoly. "





Then still why there is no standard games ( as there are for windows ) developed for linux still even it has everything it needs?


Because I can only see games like Tux ( grand old Mario ) , chess , mines and so small packed games (x<1 MB)




Is it mean people using a OS say X can only afford such a huge amount for mere gaming entertainment ?



Is this a Politics of Microsoft or no work teams of Linux wanna take the risk of developing ?


What you people think of it ?

Graphics.h fails in Linux ?

Are you a Linux critic saying graphics doesn't work on ?


Haven't explored SDL graphic part thrro' C?


Switched on to linux recently and breaking your heads on graphics libraries for linux ?





The packages you need before working on with graphics library in linux are:

Try installing thro' console by







sudo apt-get install libsdl-image1.2 libsdl-image1.2-dev guile-1.8 guile-1.8-dev libsdl1.2debian-arts libartsc0-dev libaudiofile-dev libesd0-dev libdirectfb-dev libdirectfb-extra libfreetype6-dev libxext-dev x11proto-xext-dev libfreetype6(upgrade) libaa1 libaa1-dev libslang2-dev libasound2 libasound-dev







or select the package in synaptic it will automatically resolve dependency's








LibGraph Installing and configuring:

First download libgraph from here

Then as usual extract
tar.gz and run

./configure
make
make install

write some c with graphics implemenation and name it as test.c

Thats it :D








Now compile and run the file as:

g++ test.cpp -o test.o -lgraph
And execute the program by ./test.o

-lgraph links with graphics library


if you get any shared library error ( ofcourse most people get this thing)

then shift as sudo cp /usr/local/lib/libgraph.* /usr/lib






you may now see a SDL output window showing smooth graphical 32 bit output (rather resorted dos window :P )








3D chess game in graphics C








Learn , code and Enjoy Linux geeks :)

Google wave

Every one from email users to high end technocrats speak about this Google wave ...



Its sounds every where but sad thing is we can use it only with invites :(



This is not new for Google the same thing happened when gmail was introduced . well whats it why people long for it ?

as Google :


"Google Wave is a project announced by Google at the Google I/O conference on May 28, 2009 It is a web application and computing platform designed to bring together e-mail, instant messaging, wiki, and social networking, with a strong collaborative focus, mixed with spellchecker and translator extensions, which are able to work in concert, in real-time. It is planned to be released later in 2009."




The user page of google wave seems something like below :





seems like it had added something like yahoo answers i.e called brainstorming by google wave


next point photo sharing instead you need not go for separate thing like picasa , flickr , phototub , etc


wave is integrated with photo sharing



And interactive games too have been added to play online ( guess this is alrdy in yahoo )


finally its not at all in need of any software as previous gtalk, picasa etc


every thing is embedded in pure browser environment making simple and integrated



how to get invite ?



1. You signed up early on for a Google Wave account. Google put up a request form for Wave invites not long after Wave was announced. Most of the invites arriving tomorrow will go to people on that list. Your chances improve if you signed up early on and wrote a message to the Wave team.



2. You have an account on the Developer Preview of Wave. The Sandbox version of Google Wave has been active for a select group of developers for several months now, allowing them to test Wave, report bugs, and build Wave extensions. They will all get accounts.



3. Some paying users of Google Apps will get accounts. It’s likely several companies asked Google for invites when the real-time tool launched. They will get accounts. Some schools that use Google Apps will also get early access.



4. You are invited by someone currently using Wave. This is the most intriguing revelation made today by the search giant.






Regardless, these are currently the only four ways to get an account on Wave. So if you don’t get an invite tomorrow, you still have hope. You’ll probably have to beg someone for an invite, though.






Let me taste it when invite comes ;)


if any one experienced the taste of wave you can share yours too :)

Often Moving out ? Feeling harder to lock always?

Are you a PC user always distracted towards environment and feeling harder to lock your PC each time you leave it ?


Are you in need of something which locks and unlocks itself depending upon your presence ?




If you have a blue-tooth dongle and a Linux then you are done with simple effort ...





Blue proximity is a software which detects the signal strength of blue-tooth and locks if the range of the blue-tooth exceeds particular range





Try sudo apt-get install blueproximity




or thro' synaptic






Then you can see in Meta-->Accesories-->BlueProximity







It is an auto startup program and you can see at quick launch like this













Now open The preferences You can change settings as below which fits to your locking and unlocking range of computer













Now you are done with





i)whenever you move out to particular distance then your Linux PC automatically locks ( assuming you carry the Bluetooth enabled device with you ;) )


ii) when you are back it unlocks depending on the signal it receives




You can change the command from lock and unlocking to any thing you wish by simple editing the preferences as here








Thank you

SEM V '.'

Semester five .. well a suckiest sem I have ever seen .


well every time I speak I used to say the latter is the worst . But now situation seems more and more bad :) . Writing exams for filling up 3 hours and not even bothering about labs . But actually that's the sem i thought to do lots and more :P .


successfully completed my semester examinations at worser than worse. That doesn't even matter for me . Thought of enjoying a full month leave .Nothing gonna help me releaving from this boring holidays ( I tried everything I can ) . But happiest one is Sem V is no more . I have passed by one of the 8 . ( Not sure about results )




But this semester made a huge list of remarkable things and actually I feel the semester I have enjoyed a lot relatively . Proximity knows about that :P. Let it B.


Thought of doing some useful things in this holidays .Let me see what awaits ;) .

Happy Bday Firefox

Firefox , a revolution in browser's history .
1. Firefox — 45.7%
2. Internet Explorer — 38.7%
3. Safari — 8.75%
4. Chrome — 5.2%

As you can see, competition in the browser market is still alive and well. Of everything available, Firefox still continues to be my primary browser for every day usage.


so Firefox users , lets celebrate the fifth official B day of Firefox :)

Curious case of Benjamin button ( 2008 )

Life is a symmetrical . We have a growing phase ,stabilize at same point then shrinking phase when we turn older and feeble.Vice versa is the story line .Even it seems more paradoxical and no supportive scientific ideas have been supported this movie seems great.








Movie seems a bit slow but steady in its flow of scenes .starting with Daisy the story rolls on towards so many interesting personality ( Quinnie is my favorite of all , a motherly goddess) . I dono why clock maker gateau interrupts the story . Short and tragic about him . Then story captures it real pace , Thomas button abandons his child . Why the baby was so ugly and what made him so was not clearly explained ( since its not a fiction film :P ) .









Quinine takes the baby and grows it irrespective all the obstacle she faces from her man and doctor ... why he cries like normal baby when stamped by Tizzy under stairs rather feeble voice of a old man . Every one miracles about survival of this man . If they wanna tell really about reversal of phases why Benjamin plays with spoon and wanna play like rest children :P ( as in first phase of benjamin) .





Then starts working with tug boat and knows part of life.And enjoys everything he can . I guess the only girl left around entire film is Caroline :P. As the film has two perspective views from Daisy side and Benjamin side,makes viewers more interesting and careful to watch in every scenes.







" Death's are quiet natural and its the only sign of remembrance of a person "




is the point more stressed and I feel out of this film . Death of Quinnie ,one who made Benjamin a place to stand in this earth when none did .I guess the movie can still be shortened and may prevented the viewers losing their patience. The last moment when Benjamin turns out to baby and when he closes his eyes finally , I can feel entire thrust of the film .





A good time pass rather fixing schedule to watch this film .if you get free time this one is a watchable slow paced film .

This is called Makrekting :D

Dell Marketing startegy Ha ha :D



Whats the cost you afford for same family of hardwares but with crooked difference you may not have noticed :P

Source: Azhagu

Best Torrent Downloader I have ever seen

I have a 2 Mbps broadband connection and was struggling to download torrents ( even with plenty of seeders beside) with my windows and bit torrent.



I'm really frustrated with torrents and started searching direct downloads ( but many things we need are not available thro' direct download).





When I tried the same torrent files in my Ubuntu Desktop edition I can see a drastic raise in torrent speed shooting up from mere 20-22 KB/s to 222 and even reaching my highest of 250 KB/s :O..





I'm really confused what makes windows such a slow in torrent ( but i know the speed IDM does in windows :) )rather in Ubuntu and other linux .




I use transmission bit torrent client fastest torrent I have ever seen







If you wanna fastest direct link downloader ( like IDM in windows ) Then have a look at AXEL a fastest downloader .


but its still available only in command line version sorry for GUI suckers .Its gives me speed up to 272 KB/s( I cant imagine this with default Firefox DM) .









This is what i get:


karthik@karthik:~$ axel http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-dvd/debian-503-i386-DVD-1.iso
Initializing download: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.3/i386/iso-dvd/debian-503-i386-DVD-1.iso
File size: 4673224704 bytes
Opening output file debian-503-i386-DVD-1.iso
State file found: 100018728 bytes downloaded, 4573205976 to go.
Starting download


[ 0%] .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... [ 208.0KB/s]
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If you need this :


Try sudo apt-get install axel

Windows inside Ubuntu

My Ubuntu Desktop snapshot







If you are a newbee to ubuntu or cant leave some of the features of windows then best way to use virtual os.

Now make your gui easier and use both at same time.

Install virtualbox a free virtual os manager from sun microsystems .


sudo apt-get install virtualbox



run as super user (or else you may get errors at times )



sudo virtualbox



install the virtual os , before that create a virtual hard disk of required size




go to the settings tab of virtualbox and


mount the xp or vista iso image

click start button and you must get a boot option do as prompted


then on the mode use


seamless mode



thats it ! now you can use both OS with single interface


Demo video is here .. you can have a look at it ;)

Ubuntu 9.10 release

Ubuntu is a free open source software distributing free cd's all around the world as every one knows ,

by the past ubuntu release 9.04 Im really sucked up , I had to install everything from Sound driver to configuring my webcam

But this release made my installation as simple as eating a cake , Every hardware

i) hp laserjet printer 1020 plus
ii) Microdia webcam
iii) gigaget sound driver
iv) Mesa graphics driver
v) network

all drivers have been automatically installed at end of installation :D


note :
Please plugin all your available hardware to pc when you start installation

bcoz its little harder in post installation

And finally Im surprised by the option MOBILE BROADBAND at network connection which makes gprs connection through mobile far far easier than windows

Next as a new feature Pidgin had video and voice chat for gtalk as well as file transfer support ( The main reason why I switch onto windows is no more :P)

Above all GAMING is major reason why windows is still in many box , here comes an end , CEDEGA supports 3d acceleration in ubuntu 9.10 that made my games faster and reduced pixelation when i play

but thing is i dont know to crack ( as we usually do ) in cedega :( so u can use only genuine cd's

If you are still stuck with windows and cant change out abruptly then try wine or cross over ( if you can really afford such a huge amount )

Im pleased to use Ubuntu 9.10 as early as its released and really its far better than 9.04 with many bugs fixed up