Like Mr. Karan Misra said, Unix can go and bury itself in sand.
Fedora core is an open source project sponsored by red hat, but not supported by it.

It comes in a 4 CD Pack + 1 Rescue CD.
Fedora can be configured to run as Personal Computer OS, Server, Workstation or Mixed. It has very good looking interface. It also has varity of software bundled with it including a WinXP like CD/DVD Writing wizard, games etc, development tools, various services like httpd, windows networking, c and perl compilers and lots more (It comes in 4 CD pack, what do you expect?). You will just love it.

But, It does have a problem with Anaconda (Installer of Fedora Core system), I have
a 1997 Computer with Celeron (coppermine) 600 Mhz , 64 MB RAM (Yes its historic) and 10GB Harddisk (I Know….No need to repeat), serial mouse, standard keyboard.
I tried to install fedora on it. Result – 6 Hrs wasted, crashed my hard disk.

First of all, If you have a serial mouse and try to install in graphic mode, Your mouse will not work. It is a bug in the installer. So, you have to install it in
text mode.

Second of all, If you just go on clicking next..next..next, you will end up having lots of errors, very bad partition, crashed harddisk.

Third of all, if you have a low memory (64 MB RAM) and you don’t create a SWAP
partition, you end up having your installer crashed.

Finally, It doesn’t give error when it needs to. I didn’t notice during installation that i have forgotted to create ‘/boot’ partition. Result after 2 hrs of installation and rebooting ->

Boot record from CDROM…Not Found
Boot record from Floppy…Not Found
Boot record from IDE-0…OK
Missing Operation System.
(System Halted)

Don’t Mistake, The problem is with the installer and not the Fedora Core Itself. The
installation will go smooth if you have PS/2 Mouse and lots of RAM. I installed it
on our school’s computer and it worked very well without any single error. It just that the installer don’t like old machines. Overall I will give 8/10.

Loading of Fedora:

Desktop:

References: fedora.redhat.com, google image search

Connect to www.educomp.com

Mukesh

In short: The XBOX 360 can go bury itself in the sand!

–Karan

Just to let you guys know, as of 9PM CST, rather 7:30AM IST, most issues with the WWW server for the lnexun.com, as well as exunclan.com were resolved. During this entire 50 hour period, FTP and any other related services were running.

For those interested, the port 80, the default port for the HTTP service, was being blocked by Iowa State University (my ISP), for some unknown reason.

The block is in effect until May 27th. Until then a makeshift procecdure has been installed for lnexun.com, exunclan.com; though should be transparent to you all.

Cheers.

Apple has encouraged programmers to create new widgets for the tiger’s dashboard but in a few days of its release a programmer has claimed to have created a mal-ware widget. The programmer named Stephen writes on his blog claiming that his widget will auto-install on the Mac users computer when he is visiting his site using safari browser. He has created a set of widgets, which resemble the original Mac widgets and can replace them without the users consent and run with full system control. These widgets can be removed only by deleting them from the library.
Apple has yet not given any comments on this.

Read more about this here

==Gaurav Misra

For those of you who’re interested, I’ve written up a fairly long review of Tiger.

Click here to read.

–Karan

Though I am not a web-designer, I have tried to create a design for exunclan.com. Please do not hesitate to give comments. Tell me where I can improve, what I can add and all.

You can view my 1 + 2.5 (for the nav bar and other stuff) hour work here

— Gaurav Misra

Adobe systems recently released the 11th version of Photoshop – Photoshop CS2. Photoshop has been around for 15 years now and the new features that CS2 offers are still more surprising to see.
The vastness and complexity of the software is undefined(there are at least 95 Photoshop how-to books, three Photoshop magazines and four annual Photoshop conferences – no wonder you don’t get a Photoshop how to do book with the software!!).

Most of the improvements are administrative rather than creative. To reduce complications with the staggering 494 menu commands that Photoshop has to offer it is the Edit menus dialogue box which comes to the rescue where you can hide commands you never use and highlight those used most often.

It also comes with bridge, a new graphics browsing program which resembles IPhoto from apple. It looks like a slide sorter which displays all images on your HD as thumbnails, you can sort them , crop, rotate ,give star ratings to them and much more. More importantly bridge also applies certain transformations to sets of images all at once without interrupting work on Photoshop. It can also convert file formats for various formats of images in a few clicks.

Bridge also connects to Adobe’s online photo service where you can buy professional photos from services such as Comstock and Getty images but each photo costs no less than 200$!!

Some common features include everyday tools such as a new feature using which you can quickly remove red eye. The spot healing brush is one more feature which can remove something from a white hair to an entire body. The Wrap mode enables you to bend or twist an image as a whole into any shape.

with all these new features and more the new Photoshop is definitely the ultimate software for image-editing.

In a very basic sense, having a dual core processors is the equivalent of having dual processors in your system. However with dual core processors, you get the advantage of both “processors” being able to fit on a single chip and fit into a single socket. There are disadvantages to this as well, like having to share a FSB and the problem of having nearly two times the heat coming off of the same processor.

Because of those reasons and more, the Pentium Extreme Edition 840 processor runs at 3.2 GHz, well below the 3.8 GHz models on the Pentium 4 line that are available now. Here is a quick run down on the specs of this processor:

• 3.2 GHz dual cores
• HyperThreading capable on each core
• 2MB total L2 cache
• 800 MHz FSB
• 64-bit support

Now, if that doesn’t mean anything to you at all, don’t worry, we have some benchmarks to show you how it all turns out in the full review.
The DivX encoding application does however improve the performance, and because of that we see a good performance gain over even the much faster 3.73 GHz P4 processor.

The multitasking test you see above is based on a new benchmarking methodology created specifically with dual core test setups in mind. You can read all about it here, in the full review.

this program is also based on triangles.
Make a program in any programming language (preferably c++ but any other would do)
which will take as input three values they are
1] length of base of triangle(in cm)(eg. 5 cm)
2] the angle opposite to the base(eg. 60 degrees)
3] the ratio between the other two angles (eg. 1:8)
the program needs to use the above input data to calculate the length of the altitude of the triangle.

eg.
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Input:
10,90,1:1
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Output:
5 cm
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this should keep you busy for some time. 😉