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In the address bar of a firefox window, type ‘about:mozilla’.You get a royal red page displaying the official verses from the book of mozilla.
Now try the same thing in Internet Explorer.What do you see?…You get a blue screen death(like we need any more of those?);in some versions of Internet Explorer you get a white screen with the word mozilla.

P.S For those of you who still haven’t made the switch to firefox, use google or the official website of mozilla to read the verses..they give Nostradamus a run for his money.

A lot of changes seem to be going on inside the headquarters of Apple Computer Inc. It looks like the madman who runs the company is finally caving in to pressure. First, Apple switches to Intel, and now Apple releases a multi-button mouse. The amazing thing is that it took 21 years to happen. That’s practically a millennium in computing terms.

Word has reached the campus of Apple from a dying man on horseback who told of strange and mysterious computers used in a foreign land that offered not one but several mouse buttons. Before the aged rider expired, he also told of a wheel on the mouse that spun, causing items on the screen to scroll.
(Excerpt from Macworld.com)

The odd/amazing thing about this mouse, however, is that it doesn’t actually have any buttons. In fact, you can’t even see two distinct left/right-click buttons. Mac OS X can be set to assume the Mighty Mouse as a one-button mouse and so, just like regular Apple mice, it does a left-click no matter where you press on the mouse. However, there’re touch sensors in the mouse and the right-click can be activated, to, well, right-click, if you happen to exert pressure on the right-hand side of the mouse. The scroll wheel is actually a scroll dot that doesn’t simply go up or down but, like a rotating sphere, it goes 360 degrees and so this is the first mouse I’ve seen that can scroll diagonally. Another weird thing about this mouse is that all the clicks are “synthesized”. The mouse never makes any physical clicking sound, but there’re tiny speakers in the mouse that give a synthetic clicking sound when you click, just like the Clicker on an iPod.

Enjoy the weather while it lasts!
–Karan

Last week Microsoft said that the operating system known for years as Longhorn would be called Windows Vista and that a beta version would be available by Aug. 3.

Then on Wednesday morning–a week ahead of schedule–the software giant said that the beta is ready to go.

Bharat

Ishan, Abhay, Mukul, and I are planning on holding some sort of an algorithmic programing workshop day-after-tomorrow, that is on the 27th from 1:30 – 3:30 PM, somewhere inside of school (one would hope), and hopefully if you come around to the eGurucool lab on that day someone would tell you where to find us.

We plan on covering basic recursion, some amount of dynamic programing, and introductory graph theory, or some subset of those topics, depending on how much time we have on our hands, and as far as I know we would probably not be doing anything which would require you to prefer one particular language over another, however a basic understanding of itteration (that’s basically a suave way of saying that you should know about loops, though I use that as an example, know some amount of programing, you should have gone beyond hello world programs in at least one language), and such things would be helpful.

I know this is really short notice, and hence it would be really great if people spread the word around, and while I know there are a billion reasons why people would want us to shift the date around, however due to prior commitments it is unlikely that all of us would be able to make it to school on any other day, so we would really like to do this on Wednsday.

I hope to see some of you around on Wednesday, and I would really appreciate it if people spread the word around.

Aurojit/The Mascot

Final Participants:

WebD:
Manas Gautam
Gaurav Mishra

Programming:
Rijul
Rasagya

Software Display:
Abhisheyk Gaur

Gaming:
Siddarath Nangia

Attention all Exun Members.
You are requested to each write a paragraph about yourself to be put up on www.exunclan.com.
It should include your hobbies, interests, etc.
Please Mail it to me at: gursartaj@gmail.com as soon as possible
Thank you
Gursartaj

The following members should reach the e-gurucool lab on July 22,Friday in the break to get their photographs clicked:

1. Dhruv Aggarwal
2. Swati Gupta
3. Aayush Kumar
4. Saumya Kharbanda
5. Rijul Bhardwaj
6. Mukund
7. Aditya Jain
8. Sakshi Gupta
9. Aditya K
10. Shrey Verma
11. Bharat

In case I’ve missed somebody who doesn’t have their photograph on the members page, turn up for the photo session anyway.

Trust Google to come up with something like this. It’s not a hoax. Check it out:
http://moon.google.com/

–Karan

PS: Try zooming up to the maximum level. The moon turns to …… ?

FYI: This is the alpha-2 release of the new firefox browser.
Downloads available at:

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/deerpark/

Lots of new features. I’ve also compiled some screenshots for Deerpark available at:

Deerpark Screenshots

Cheers