Read this article http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.07/hoax.html for informative humour.

–Karan

Today, Apple has previewed Mac OS X v10.4 codename “Tiger”. Many of these features were supposed to be included in Microsoft’s next version of Windows codenamed “Longhorn” due in 2007, but unfortunately Microsoft has withdrawn plans for some of the most salient features. To my surprise, Apple has managed to conquer the goal that Microsoft declared as too tough to make it even by 2007 – this was the searchable File System (also known as WinFS). Apple touts its new Search backbone as “Spotlight” and like Exposé was for Panther, Spotlight will be for Tiger. I shall not mention much more than what you can find out from Apple’s Tiger Website. However, it should be duly noted that Spotlight will be using metadata as one of its many criteria for searching.

Other important improvements in Tiger are Dashboard and Automator. Do check out Apple’s website for more information if you so desire. In other important announcements, the most important is the announcement of a 30″ LCD screen by Apple which would run at a resolution of 2560 by 1600 (very very very very big) and would need not only the most powerful graphics card available for the Mac platform but also two DVI connectors instead of one to feed it with the graphical data it so hungers for. Notice that it towers above the Power Mac G5 (which is much bigger than a normal tower PC itself).

–Karan

Tonight, comes the Tiger…

Click on the pictures to enlarge

–Karan

Hi folks! and Congrats karan for becoming the president!

Its nice to see such an active exun blog. By the way, when’s EX04 happening, can u update me on that from time to time.

thanks guys.

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ANKIT

–W–

Acronyms

1. Field Programmable Gate Array
   
2. Recreational Software Advisory Council
   
3. Multi-resolution Seamless Database
   
4. Media Access Control
   
5. Internet Message Access Protocol
   
6. Business Process Outsourcing
   
7. Open Source Development Labs
   
8. GNU Compiler Collection
   
9. Advanced Technology Attachment
   
10. GNU Network Object Model Environment
    

The Real Questions

1. Open Source Development Labs
   
2. John Tukey
   
3. RSAC
   
4. MINIX
   
5. Stepper Motor
   
6. Donald E. Knuth
   
7. Daemon
   
8. @ symbol
   
9. Loosely held collection of NNTP servers which act as a forum, sort of predates the internet, used largely for developer, scientific, porn, fetish, and other non-regular content
   
10. When you read http://slashdot.org you say it as h t t p colon slash slash slash dot dot org. So it’s a tongue twister
    

Special Thanks to Aurojit Panda for help with the answers.

–Karan

Hi, Sony Qrio was in school on monday. Get Photos and video from school if you want.

Will you teach me what are message boards and forums.At one time i was the most frequent posters at thinkdigit.com/forums and forums.anandtech.com . Also i am a member at blog.chip-india.com and pchardware.com . If you know people post posts for 2 reasons,they want to help the other person out:tell him waht all above mentioned things are wrong or right and be to the point.Secondly it could be to continue with an incomplete conversation,as time passes it doesn’t remain a formal post but a 2-3line amedment and conversation or sometimes even joking and not really that rude as i was with Mohit.

I’ll be giving out the answers on June 2. I haven’t received as many entries as I’d liked to see. All Quizzers please go through this log entry.

Remember the deadline: June 2.

–Karan

Apple Remote Desktop with real-time screen sharing is the ideal desktop management solution for education and business. Teachers can monitor students’ computer screens, perform group demonstrations, and assist individual students. System administrators can configure remote systems, distribute software, provide online assistance and create reports on software and hardware configurations from anywhere on the network. If you are managing more than one Mac desktop, get Apple Remote Desktop to help increase your productivity and reduce your support costs.

System Requirements

Apple Remote Desktop supports administration from computers running Mac OS X v10.1 or later, and allows administration of Macintosh Power PC running Mac OS 8.1 through Mac OS 9.2, or Mac OS X v10.1 or later.

Link to the Apple Store

Mukesh sir look in to this for a new lab may be.

This Story is from MSNBC.msn.com

The Ultimate Computer

Earlier this week I wrote about the ongoing addition of feature after feature to cell phones-most recently, satellite TV. I suggested we’re at the start of a dramatic period of rapid technical evolution, wherein our information and communications devices are going to morph into all kinds of new combinations. One reader commented:

Name: Joe

Hometown: Fort Worth

When you continue to add all these features to different sorts of devices, I can see everyone in the not-so-distant future carrying their “life” with them in the form of some electronic piece of equipment. Just another thing people will be slaves to.

Exactly right, Joe — although, I think it’s up to us as to whether we’re the slaves of these devices, or vice versa.

However, besides cramming next-generation computing and communication into a single personal device, there’s another element we need: massive information storage, so we can archive everything we do in life, from e-mail to photos to videos, and have it all available at our fingertips. And that’s exactly the direction that Google’s one-gigabyte, highly-searchable GMail could take us.

About ten years ago I asked Steve Jobs for his vision of the ultimate computer — the machine that might be possible midway through the 21st century. He said it would be a flat, tablet-like device that you might get as a child; you’d unwrap it, and, via speech and voice recognition, it would ask your name, where it was and then begin learning everything about you.

You’d carry it everywhere: do your homework on it, store all your books and correspondence, and it would subtly integrate itself into your life. It would ask, for example, where you were going and you’d say, “To my tennis lesson,” and it would respond “Would you like me to remind you about your tennis lesson at this time every week?” And then finally, Jobs said, you’d be 17 or 18 years old, sitting on your bed talking to your computer, and you’d mention that you’d just broken up with your girlfriend. And the computer would say, “Steve, it’s the third time it’s happened that way. You want to talk about it?”

Perhaps that will always be science fiction. But this decade we’re seeing the elements of that vision start to come together. Our computers still need to get much smarter, of course, but the ingredients of constant connectivity, massive memory and friendly interface design are on finally on the way, and it’s going to be an interesting ride for the next few decades.