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Microsoft spends $486 million to compete with Google

Microsoft spends $486 million to compete with Google by ZDNet 's Garett Rogers -- Today we’re seeing headlines about Microsoft’s latest huge investment that is going to “accelerate pursuit of Google“. They purchased a company called Ciao that is said to be used by 26.5 million people a month to compare and review products. It might be a case of regional usage, but I’ve never heard of it before, have you? Anyway, if Microsoft thinks this purchase is going to help them gain any kind of meaningful ground on Google, I believe they are mistaken. If I was in control of the “Google pursuit” at Microsoft, I guarantee I could find better use of half a billion dollars. That’s an interesting question — what would you do with the $1.2 billion per year that Ballmer has set aside to get Microsoft into the game?

Solaris Service Management Facilities

Service Management Facility(SMF) is new features added in solaris for Self-healing services are delivered and managed on Solaris. This utility makes system administrator troubleshooting & downtime faster. When I had been to training i learnt a lot about SMF which makes Sys Admin life easier. There is a quick quickstart guide on Solaris Service Management Facility from BigAdmin. This video explains the complete features of SMF from Googletechtalks

How to boot system in emergency mode.

Q. How to boot system in emergency mode in Solaris. A. Let me tech you how to boot system in emergency mode. Start the system & boot from Solaris Disk1 or Solaris DVD To boot the system from CD-ROM [break the single = Windows Key (Ctrl+Pause Break)] & go to "OK" prompt. >Ok boot cdrom -s Once you have logged in to machine type the below mentioned commands. # mount /dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 /a # cd /a # TERM=vt100; export TERM # cd / # umount /a # init 6

How do i restore default permission for “root” directories on Solaris

Q . How do i restore default permission for “root” directories on Solaris? A . As a sysadmin we get lots of issues from users saying we are unable allowing to login to the machine. It throws the error message " module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 writable by group " which occurs b'cos user had changed the group & permission for whole "root" directories using sudo command. Error Message: techserver console login: root techserver login: open_module: module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 writable by group techserver login: load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 techserver login: open_module: module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 writable by group techserver login: load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_authtok_get.so.1 techserver su: load_modules: can not open module /usr/lib/security/pam_dhkeys.so.1 Machine will not allow untill you restore the ownership and group of root files Bef...

WordPress released open source iPhone app

Wordpress as released open source iPhone application. I used wordpress from my iPhone to post my blog it is really superb application which lets you to write posts, upload photos from your iPhone. Download WordPress for iPhone Click Here Find out the WordPress stats 257,163 blogs were created. 271,427 new users joined. 3,110,479 file uploads About 1,381 gigabytes of new files. 395 terabytes of content transferred from our datacenters. 6,245,424 comments. 4,868,359 logins. 812,287,538 pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 567,059,283 on self-hosted blogs (1,379,346,821 pageviews total across WordPress blogs we track). 1,102,039 active blogs and 13,216,843 active posts where “active” means they got a human visitor. Related: WordPress Official Site for iPhone WordPress: our iPhone app is coming soon iWPhone Plugins & Themes Feedbacks: We appreciate feedbacks and suggestions about our website info@techgyaan.org Copyright © 2008 All articles are copyrighte...

Happy Birthday Debian! Open Source. ...

On the 16t h of August this year the Debian project turns 15. The Debian Project was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16th, 1993.At that time, the whole concept of a "distribution" of GNU/Linux was new. Ian intended Debian to be a distribution which would be made openly, in the spirit of Linux and GNU.The creation of Debian was sponsored by the FSF's GNU project for one year. Debian is a user friendly operating system for computer users. Debian is a multipurpose OS, which can be used as a desktop or server operating system. Several distributions are based on Debian, including: Ubuntu , MEPIS , Dreamlinux , Damn Small Linux , Xandros , Knoppix , Linspire , sidux , Kanotix , and LinEx among others.... Related: To know more about Debian Download Debian GNU/Linux Feedbacks: We appreciate feedback and suggestions about our tutorials from readers to info@techgyaan.org

Install and configure Bea Weblogic 81 on Ubuntu Linux using Console Mode

I was bit confused with BEA WebLogic server 8.1.0.4 installation on my Ubuntu 7.10 machine there was no package for ubuntu in BEA.Officially Weblogic is supported on Suse and RedHat only. I download the BEA WebLogic server 8.1.0.4 RedHat Enterprise version which is free license for development. To download the installer from BEA you must register at the site Register With BEA For Installing WebLogic Platform Using Graphical-Mode Installation click here : Create the following directory root@techgyaan:#mkdir /usr/bea Assign the permission to the package root@techgyaan:#chmod a + x net_platform814_linux32.bin Run the installer root@techgyaan:# ./net_platform814_linux32.bin by simply following the default installation instructions you will be done with installation. Congratulations! WebLogic Platform 8.1 SP4 has been successfully installed to /usr/bea/weblogic81 . After downloading, you must choose the product installation directory (WL_HOME), for me: /usr/bea/weblogic81 Configuration...

5 reasons to avoid iPhone 3G

The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G: iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on everyone's phones. iPhone endorses and supports Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) technology. iPhone exposes your whereabouts and provides ways for others to track you without your knowledge. iPhone won't play patent- and DRM-free formats like Ogg Vorbis and Theora. iPhone is not the only option. There are better alternatives on the horizon that respect your freedom, don't spy on you, play free media formats, and let you use free software -- like the FreeRunner . Continue reading the complete Article Here

How to install WebLogic 8 on Solaris 10

Lets start the installation Login to solaris box use sudo command to install the application. $ ./server814_solaris32.bin Extracting 0%……………………………………………………………………………………….100% Unable to instantiate GUI, defaulting to console mode. Welcome: ——– ————— This installer will guide you through the installation of WebLogic Server 8.1 SP4. Type “ Next” or enter to proceed to thenext prompt. If you want to change data entered previously, type “Previous”. You may quit the installer at any time by typing “ Exit”. Enter [Exit][Next]> BEA Systems License Agreement: —————————— BEA SYSTEMS, INC. SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT USE OF SOFTWARE ORDERED FROM BEA SYSTEMS, INC. (”BEA”) IS PROVIDED ONLY UNDER LICENSE FROM BEA. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING LICENSE CAREFULLY AND INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE BY CLICKING THE ACCEPTANCE BOX. CERTAIN CAPITALIZED TERMS ARE DEFINED IN SECTION 11. 1. LICENSE TERMS a. Workshop Free Use. The terms of this Section 1(a) are applicable to you if you h...

113 Useful RUN Windows Commands

To Access…. Run Command Accessibility Controls access.cpl Add Hardware Wizard hdwwiz.cpl Add/Remove Programs appwiz.cpl Administrative Tools control admintools Automatic Updates wuaucpl.cpl Bluetooth Transfer Wizard fsquirt Calculator calc Certificate Manager certmgr.msc Character Map charmap Check Disk Utility chkdsk Clipboard Viewer clipbrd Command Prompt cmd Component Services dcomcnfg Computer Management compmgmt.msc Date and Time Properties timedate.cpl DDE Shares ddeshare Device Manager devmgmt.msc Direct X Control Panel (If Installed)* directx.cpl Direct X Troubleshooter dxdiag Disk Cleanup Utility cleanmgr Disk Defragment dfrg.msc Disk Management diskmgmt.msc Disk Partition Manager diskpart Display Properties control desktop Display Properties desk.cpl Display Properties (w/Appearance Tab Preselected) control color Dr. Watson System Troubleshooting Utility drwtsn32 ...