Attending JavaOne 2009 Conference at San Francisco was a wonderful, learning experience. As a part of Sun Microsystems’s Campus Ambassador Program, they nominated five CA’s from all over the world who would get an opportunity to attend the JavaOne 2009 Conference, fully sponsored by them. Let me now share my JavaOne 2009 experiences with you all. Let me start with the day when we reached San Francisco. Three of us – Ashwin Bhat from Mangalore, Angad from Delhi (Both of [...]
“Almost all of us have childhood dreams; for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don’t achieve theirs, and I think that’s a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I’ve actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the creation (with Don Marinelli), of CMU’s Entertainment Technology Center of helping many young people actually *achieve* their childhood dreams.” – Randy Pausch, Oct. 23, 1960 [...]
We can play songs and videos from the terminal in a GNU/Linux or Unix machine. The player is “mplayer”. MPlayer has a GUI version too. It is GMPlayer Just a few screenshots to show you how we can play songs and videos on GNU/Linux or UNIX To install this: 1. SOLARIS/OpenSoalris: http://blastwave.org 2. Ubuntu: In the terminal, type “sudo apt-get install mplayer”
Everyone using unix in their job will once in a while have to run a long running process. Usually right before leaving the office to go to dinner. If you have to check on it later to make sure it finished right then you are stuck with redirecting the output to a file and look there later. Much better solution: Use screen! It can do lots of things, but the main one in this context is allowing you to “detach” [...]
There are literally thousands of totally free ways to customize your Firefox to fit exactly what you like to do online. Mozilla to let enterprises build custom Firefox browsers The upcoming Build Your Own Browser program will let companies customize Firefox 3.5 and install it across multiple desktops Mozilla is readying a program that will allow companies to build their own customized browsers based on the next version of Firefox, which will be out in a few weeks. The Build [...]
