The equivalent of Microsoft’s Silverlight but for Linux operating systems is available for download as of May 13, 2008, under the label Moonlight. According to the official description of the technology, Moonlight is nothing more than the open source implementation of Silverlight, tailored for UNIX systems. With this latest step in the evolution of Silverlight, Microsoft can finally claim that the technology is truly cross-platform, because ahead of the May 13 public release of Moonlight, support was available exclusively for Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.
Moonlight is a project developed in parallel with Microsoft Silverlight, but not by the Redmond company. In fact, Microsoft partnered with Mono, an open source project backed by Novell, in order to port Silverlight to Linux. At this point in time Moonlight is still in development, and as such comes with the inherent problems associated with any Beta.
“The release comes in two forms: no-media codecs supported, but easy to install. This currently hosts builds for Linux x86 and x86-64 for Firefox. [And] source-code compilation, but you can optionally compile FFMpeg codecs yourself. To do this, download our moon-0.6.tar.bz2. And follow the build instructions”, revealed Miguel de Icaza, Novell Vice President for Developer Technologies.
De Icaza noted that Moonlight is designed to integrate seamlessly with both Firefox 2.0 and Firefox 3.0 releases, but that the latest modifications introduced in the development of version 3.0 of Mozilla’s open source browser will cause the open source implementation of Silverlight for Linux to malfunction. At this point in time Mono is offering both Moonlight 1.0 and 2.0 versions, adapted to correspond to Microsoft’s own Silverlight 1.0 and 2.0 releases.
“Moonlight supports “windowless” mode, a mechanism that allows Silverlight content to blend with other HTML elements on a page. This is only supported by Firefox 3, users of older versions of Firefox might run into Silverlight applications and web sites that do not work correctly as many Silverlight applications depend on this functionality (Flash sites have the same problem with Firefox 2)”, de Icaza added.
Novel Moonlight 1.0 and 2.0 Alpha are available for download here.
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Use these tips to help manage your files.
1. Use My Documents. For many reasons, it’s smart to take advantage of My Documents feature in Microsoft Windows. To open My Documents in Windows, click Start, and then click My Documents. My Documents provides an easy way for you to store your personal documents. By using My Documents, you will be better able to:
2. Find files. Windows provides easy access to the My Documents folder (and its subfolders) in many places: through the Start menu, the task pane in Windows Explorer, common File Open and File Save dialog boxes, and other places. Note Windows Explorer displays the structure of files and folders on your computer. To open Windows Explorer, click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, and then click Windows Explorer.
3. Back up files. Keeping all your files in one place is an essential first step in developing a practical backup strategy. Learn how to backup your files and folders. Keep files separate from programs. By separating document files and program files you reduce the risk of accidentally deleting your documents when you install or upgrade programs.
4. Adopt consistent methods for file and folder naming. Develop a naming scheme for the kinds of files you create most often and then stick to it.
5. Keep names short. Even though Windows allows you to use long file names, it does not necessarily mean you should. Long names produce cluttered displays. Brevity promotes clarity.
Let your folders do some of the naming. For example, rather than create a file called Great American Novel Chapter One First Effort.doc.
6. Avoid big folder structures. If you need to put so many subfolders in a folder that you can’t see all of them at a glance, consider creating an alphabetic menu. An example is shown in Figure 2.
7. Use shortcuts and shortcut links instead of multiple copies. If you need to get to the same file from manifold locations, don’t create copies of the file. Create shortcuts to it instead. To create a shortcut, right-click on the file and click Create Shortcut. You can drop-and-drag the shortcut to other locations.
8. Separate ongoing and completed work. To keep the My Documents folder from becoming too unwieldy, use it only for files you’re working on. This reduces the number of files you need to search through in addition toward the amount of data you need to back up. Every month or so, move the files you’re no longer working on in the direction of a different folder or location—if possible not in My Documents. You can archive them on a folder on your desktop (you could even label it Archives) or move them to a backup tape or recordable CD. Your My Documents folder, which you should back up frequently, remains relatively small.
9. Store like with like. Restricting folders to a single document type (or predominantly one type) allows you to take advantage of folder templates in Windows Explorer. This makes it easier for you to find files. For instance, with all your graphics in a single folder, it’s easy to use the Filmstrip view and slide show feature in Windows Explorer to find the right picture for your newsletter.
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Details on how to setup a local version of WordPress on your Vista system. A great option for theme and plugin development!
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After XP SP3 was pulled, now they’ve pulled Vista SP1 from being pushed via Windows Update for fear it may screw up some business apps.
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Some ‘Green’ reasons why Vista can save you money.
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A creative way to get around Vista?s UAC temporarily without having to reboot. Elevate Explorer!
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Stats showing why you should be using Vista, and be happy about it!
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The aging of XP and the uncertainty of Windows 7 mean businesses really have no choice: They have to move to Vista, whether they like it or not
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If you have to disable UAC in order to install an application, I’d say that takes it out of the ‘Vista Ready’ catagory.
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This tutorial describes how to install Ubuntu by copying the contents of the installation CD to an USB memory stick (aka flash drive) and making the stick bootable. This is handy for machines like ultra portable notebooks that do not have a CD drive but can boot from USB media.
In short here’s what you do:
Prepare the USB flash drive
Boot the computer from your USB flash drive.
Install Ubuntu as you would from a normal boot CD
Prerequisites
A running Ubuntu 8.04 or any ubuntu version installation
A USB device (stick, pen-drive, USB hard disk) that has already been formatted with FAT32 and has enough free space to hold your Ubuntu installation image
A Ubuntu CD image downloaded from the Ubuntu servers or mirrors (*.iso file) or from here
Step 1
On the root directory of your USB device, create a folder “install”
Copy the installer kernel and the initramdisk into this folder (Download source below.You need the files “vmlinux” and “initrd.gz”).
Download source for the installer kernel and initramdisk
For AMD64 Download from here
For i386 Download from here
You need to download the files “vmlinux” and “initrd.gz”.
Step 2
Note: You need to have the installer that fits the architecture of your Ubuntu version you want to install. In other words, you need a amd64 installer if you want to install an amd64 Ubuntu .iso image and the i386 installer for an i386 iso.
Step 3
From the installation iso image you downloaded, copy the folder “isolinux” to the root directory of your USB device (right-click on the .iso file, choose “extract here”). Rename “isolinux” into “syslinux”. Go inside the directroy “syslinux”. There, rename the file “isolinux.cfg” into “syslinux.cfg”.
Step 4
Make the stick bootable: Use fdisk to set the boot flag,
Install syslinux using the following command
sudo aptitude install syslinux
Now use syslinux to install a boot sector on your USB device
sudo syslinux /dev/sdbX
where sdbX is the device name and number of your USB device, check with “sudo mount”. A file called “ldlinux.sys” will be created in the root direcotry of the USB device.
Step 5
Copy the Ubuntu CD image in the root directory of your USB device (Contents of USB you can see as follows).If you are using i386 you need to copy the complete .iso image in to the root directory of your USB device.
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We have been receiving many mails from our readers these days with a problem that when ever they start up windows they see the error messages like as follows:
* Windows cannot find ‘C:\windows\svchost.exe.’
* Could not load or run ‘C:\windows\svchost.exe.’ specified in the registry
* Windows cannot find ‘C:\Windows\System32\amvo.exe’
* “Windows cannot find ‘copy.exe’
These type of messages appear at windows startup, when windows tries to load the virus files like amvo.exe, copy.exe etc. These error messages appear, because these files were removed by your anti-virus programs but still the registry entries for them exist.
Different types of viruses create some files which got executed at the windows startup so that they can come in action as windows load itself. In order to run the primary virus files required, they create run entries in windows registry.
Let’s see how can you remove these entries.
In order to fix it you would have to remove all the startup entries created by the virus.
Manual Removal
1. Open Start >> Run. This will open run window.
2. Type “regedit” (without quotes) and press enter. This will launch registry editor.
( If you are not able to launch Registry by the command above, you can refer to this post to know how can you enable regedit again.)
3. Navigate to the following registry path:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
4. Search for the keys here who have the data field set to any of the path specified above:
For Example: A Virus related entry will have
Name: Amvo
Type:
Data: C:\Windows\System32\amvo.exe
5.Delete these type of entries.
Note: Make sure you delete the virus related keys only
Automatic Removal
1. Download a program called CCleaner from here.
2. Install and Run it and Scan the registry scan
3. Once the scan is complete it will show you the Fix Selected Issues button, click it to removes all the incorrect entries including the virus files registry keys.
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The first step is to decide which programs you no longer need. Try to keep only the programs you use regularly as it’s easy to become a digital packrat. If it helps, make a list of programs you want to keep and others you can do away with.
Has it been a year since your child touched that action game? Chances are you still have the original CDs anyway (should you want to reinstall it in the future), so perhaps it’s time to wipe it off the hard drive.
Have your music tastes changed since you went through that Country & Western “stage”? You can easily delete downloaded MP3 files—or at least burn them to a CD to free up space on your PC.
If you’re unsure about a program that’s on your hard drive, you can always do a search at your favorite search engine (e.g., Live Search) to see what it is. For example, if you don’t plan on buying a camcorder, remove any preinstalled video-editing software that may have come bundled on your PC.
The easiest way to remove a program from your hard drive is to look for an uninstall or remove option from within its program group. You will find this by clicking the Start menu, then All Programs (or Program Files), and then choosing the program that you want to uninstall.
Once inside this program group, you will usually see an icon to launch the program, a ReadMe file (documentation that tells you how to use the program), and, for our purposes, an option that enables you to remove or uninstall the program. Click this and follow the onscreen wizard to safely remove the program from your PC. You may be asked to reboot your computer. Only click to do so once you’ve saved everything that’s open at that time.
If you want to free up even more room on your hard drive, go to My Computer or Windows Explorer and right-click on the letter associated with your hard drive (usually C:). Click Properties, then click Disk Cleanup. Check off the desired boxes and it will tell you how much space it can free up.
When uninstalling a program, you may also get a message that says the program can remove a file that may be shared by another program. To be safe, keep these suggested files on your PC (they shouldn’t take up much room on your hard drive, anyway). Similarly, when you uninstall a game, the program may ask if you want to keep saved game files (i.e., a bookmark of your progress). If you think that you will reinstall and play this game again, you can choose to keep these files.
Sometimes the program group may be the company’s name. Move your mouse over the name and it will reveal which program(s) are inside.
If you download a .zip or .exe file from the Web and then install the program to the hard drive, you can delete the original file once it’s successfully installed.
Keep in mind that your PC automatically creates restore points while you’re using your computer. That way, if you accidentally delete a program that you want to keep, you can revert your PC back to an earlier time. To do so, click the Start menu, then All Programs (or Program Files), then Accessories, and then System Tools. Click System Restore and the program will guide you through the steps.
Some programs do not give you the option to uninstall them from a program group. No problem. You’ll need to go to the Start menu, select Control Panel, and then Add or Remove Programs.
It may take a few seconds for this page to load but once it is finished, it will display a long alphabetical list of installed programs. Once you see the name of a program you no longer want on your hard drive, click it, then click the tab to the right of it, which will say Remove or Change/Remove, and follow the prompts. A progress bar will show you how long it will take to safely remove the program. When it’s finished, you will see the list once again.
Go through the list, but leave those programs that you are unsure of. Remember you may use Microsoft Word all the time so do not uninstall Microsoft Office, as Word is part of it. Some programs may not be familiar to you, but are required for another to run a rule of thumb is to ignore it, especially if it doesn’t take up too much space on your hard drive (you will see how many megabytes on the right-hand side of the program name). If the program is spyware or adware, then you may want to leave this for your spyware/adware program to sniff out and safely remove. Two good free programs are Ad-Aware and SpyBot, both of which are available at Windows Marketplace. You can also download the free Windows Defender.
This article focuses on uninstalling entire programs, but it’s even easier to delete individual files. Once you’re inside My Computer or Windows Explorer, simply highlight the files that you no longer want on your hard drive and tap the delete button or right-click and select Delete. This will send all unwanted files to the Recycle Bin for safekeeping until you’re sure that you no longer want them.
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Nvidia caused almost a third of the crashes in early Vista setups.
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If you’re installing Adobe Director 11 on your Vista machine, there are many potential issues you might face. This document describes some of them, and how to get around them.
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This article describes how to use the System Configuration utility (Msconfig.exe) to troubleshoot configuration errors that might prevent Windows Vista from starting correctly.
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This update package installs the Hyper-V remote management tools on a computer that is running Windows Vista Service Pack 1. Links to the downloads are included.
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You can use this method to expand and to apply the source and license files for a Windows Vista SP1 image.
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This article contains a description of an update for Windows Vista and Vista for x64-based systems. These updates contain the Check for System Update Readiness (CheckSUR) tool. CheckSUR will try to fix certain Windows Update installation failures.
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By going to a special webpage while in reduced functionality mode you can upgrade to SP1, which will get you out of that mode. Note that you can’t uninstall SP1 when upgrading with this method.
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Mary Jo comments on the Windows Vista Blog article reguarding the release of SP1 to Windows Update.
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Ed details the SP1 upgrade, and points out the list of bad drivers that delayed the release of SP1.
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Ed starts an investigation of a friends slow Vista laptop to see where the problem lies.
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Mary Jo’s details about the SP1 release.
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Long Zheng explains why Vista’s frequent association with Windows ME may not be such a bad thing.
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Another opportunity to install SP1 with Microsoft’s help.
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Yet another survey that says Vista is in trouble in the enterprise. If you ask 1000 people if they are concerned about something, anything, you’re gonna get a large percentage that are. The question is loaded, as are many of these surveys.
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