Windows 7 and Japan Linux Symposium

Japan Linux Symposium is between October 21 – 23 2009 in Tokyo, Japan. In the same day (21) Microsoft Japan Launched Windows 7 and one of the Microsoft point of sales was across the street from this Linux Symposium. The guys decided to do something fun and get one of their best guests, on this symposium, and take a picture on the Windows 7 stand.

Linux Torvalds and Windows 7

Yeah, the guest was Linus Torvalds

All the credits of this pictures goes to Chirs.

Windows 8 plan

Windows 7 has not released yet, but Microsoft already made big plans for Windows 8. It will released in 2012 and one of the most important features will be 128bit architecture support.

Microsoft:

Robert Morgan is working to get IA-128 working backwards with full binary compatibility on the existing IA-64 instructions in the hardware simulation to work for Windows 8 and definitely Windows 9.

The user interface will be totally different, more pleasant, easy to use … and so OSX.

more about "Windows 8 experience", posted with vodpod

Other features of Windows 8 are:

• Virtualization
• Cloud Integration
• Network sharing improvements
• Core and Performance Improvements
• Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)
• BranchCache

via TaranFX

Quick Tip: How to search in Windows Active Directory from Linux with ldapsearch

Sometimes we need to query, under Linux, Active Directory for users/computers without accessing a remote desktop. We can achieve that with ldapserch. First you should install first ldap-utils. In Debian or Ubuntu just run:

$ sudo apt-get install ldap-utils

The syntax for using ldapsearch:

ldapsearch -x -LLL -h [host] -D [user] -w [password] -b [base DN] -s sub "([filter])" [attribute list]

A simple example

$ ldapsearch -x -LLL -h host.example.com -D user -w password -b"dc=ad,dc=example,dc=com" -s sub "(objectClass=user)" givenName


Application Development with RAD Studio 2010 |Delphi , C++Builder & Delphi Prism

One of the most productive IDE applications, Delphi RAD Studio 2010, from Borland Embarcadero, had reached version 2010:). Here is a video demonstrating why Delphi is still the best player in area.

The introduction explains about multitier development, multiple databases code quality tools, touch and gesture inmput.

more about "Application Development with RAD Stud…", posted with vodpod

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Quick Tip: How to install Windows fonts under Linux

A lot of webpages are build with “Windows” software and they are looking good only under Windows, and that only because of the fonts. Windows fonts can be installed under any distribution of Linux, so I will show you multiple way’s to install them.

Under Linux Debian just run as root:

apt-get install msttcorefonts

If you don’t have Linux Debian:

1. Copy *.ttf fonts from your Windows partition to virtual parition fonts:// under Nautilius
2. Copy *.ttf fonts from your Windows partition to virtual parition fonts:/// under Konqueror
3. Another working method for Ubuntu is to copy *.ttf windows fonts under .fonts folder created in your home folder.
4. This is the most generic method and it will made the fonts available for all users.
Find the path where True Type fonts are installed (/usr/share/fonts/truetype) or search this path with find. Read my tutorial Using find to search for files in Linux to have a clue about “find”.

find /usr -name '*.ttf'

Now copy all the *.ttf files from your windows folder to /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows

$ mkdir /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows
$ cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows
$ cp /media/windows/windows/Fonts/*.ttf .


Now we should set the rights of the copied files

$ chown root.root *
$ chmod 644 *

Now we should index the new true type fonts

$ cd /usr/share/fonts/truetype/windows
$ mkfontdir
$ cd ..

Edit /usr/share/fonts/truetype/font.cache-1 and add

"windows" 0 ".dir"

Run
$ fc-cache

and you are done! Windows fonts are available to in your entire system.

Fonts what are coming with msttcorefonts

* Andale Mono
* Arial Black
* Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Comic Sans MS (Bold)
* Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Impact
* Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic)
* Webdings

If you want the Windows Vista fonts then you should follow this tutorial to grab them, and in rest just follow my tutorial to add them to system.

Tux and broken windows

Broken windows

A picture is worth a thousand words

Quick Tip: How to mount a windows share under Linux

First you should install smbfs package. Under Debian or Ubuntu is easy, just run:

$ sudo apt-get install smbfs

and apt will install all necessarily dependencies.

Now just mount your windows share

sudo mount -t smbfs -ousername=user //ip_of_your_windows/share /mnt/share

Probably it will ask you the password and after just go in /mnt/share too browse your windows share.

Quick Tip: Socks for everyone !

I’m talking about Socks PROXY and not my/your foot socks . Socks is a layer 5 proxy and can “route” your packets (TCP and UDP) through other host(server). Usually you need to install a Socks proxy somewhere on a server, but if you have a openSSH server somewhere then you can use ssh as Socks Proxy. SSH clients know proxy? Yes! openSSH Client (Linux) and even putty (Windows) know Socks proxy.

For Linux, connect with ssh client to the server with -D option

$ ssh root@host -D 12345

and in your localhost port 12345 you will have an socks proxy. New version of openSSH also know address binding. That means, if you have multiple interfaces in your computer, then you can specify on what interface your socks should bind.

$ ssh root@host -D 10.0.0.1:12345

Under Windows you can use putty. Configure a normal session. On Tunnel (expand SSH tree if is not already) menu just check Dynamic (normally is Local) and write the port on source port and on destination hostname:port. Press Add and it should appear under “forwarded ports”.

Now you can enjoy your SOCKS proxy.

MSE – a Free antivirus with no performance impact ?

Microsoft launched Microsoft Security Essentials (code name MORRO) which is a free real-time antivirus. It seems MSE is just another antivirus against viruses, spam, spyware, and other malicious software without any other feature. On Vincent Bellet MSDN blog I found a very interesting information:

Now, we offer a free, reliable with no performance impact product for your PC!

I’m very interested how good is an antivirus with no performance impact on a computer … I think you cannot cut from performance impact without removing from antivirus features …

Anyway, Vincent Bellet, is also talking about Avast:

… even if Avast is quite good, not free antivirus often a huge program with performance impact….

I really want to see a comparison between MSE and Avast Home edition.

You will find more about MSE here: http://www.microsoft.com/security_essentials/

Windows 7 Available For Download

Windows 7 is available for download to MSDN and Tech net subscribers, but for general cusomers will be available only in 22 October. The new version of windows is coming with a lot of new features like:

Improved taskbar previews
Bigger icons
Pinning
Speedy access to your favorite pictures, songs, websites, and documents.

or better read here all the improvements: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/products/features

Also it seem the Beta 1 of .NET is doesn’t survive to an update so is better to have Beta 2.

And the latest news:

It seems the chkdsk utility from the latest version of windows 7 is leaking memory.

When scanning a second hard disk (a non-boot partition or second physical drive) using the “/r” (read and verify all file data) parameter the utility starts to leak memory like its a monsoon and quickly runs up a high enough memory debt that it blue screens and crashes the system, according to some (others merely report a memory usage of around 98 percent within seconds, but without the legendary “blue screen of death”).

Anyway as usual Microsoft say is not their fault and is probably a chipset problem.

http://www.dailytech.com/Nasty+Memory+Leak+Found+in+Windows+7+RTM+Build/article15901.htm