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Blessings for a very happy new year 2007 1970-01-01 00:59:59 I wish you Health...So you may enjoy each day in comfort.I wish you the Love of friends and family...And Peace within your heart.I wish you the Beauty of nature...That you may enjoy the work of God.I wish you Wisdom to choose priorities...For those things that really matter in life.I wish you Generousity so you may share...All good things that come to you.I wish you Happiness and Joy...And Blessings
for the New Year.I wish you the best of everything...That you so well deserve.Happy New Year!(Author unknown, if you do let me know).
Gmail hacked? All contacts and messages deleted in some accounts 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Recently some gmail users made complains saying all their mails and contacts were automatically deleted from their mail accounts. And this was first reported on 19-12-2006 saying "Lost Everything in My Account..email,contacts,sent mail..". It further explained the issue as; Found my account clean..nothing in Inbox, contacts ,sent mail..How can all these information residing in different folders disappear? ..How to write to gmail help team to restore the account..is it possible? ..Where to report this abuse?. This message received so many replies saying others also faced the issue. But one important point came up there was that they were using Firefox 2.0. Another user pointed out that the following message was left after deleting all the mails."This is not a mistake. All your emails and contacts have been deletedon purpose. This was a malicious attack and not an error. Have a niceday. =)" People who got attacked had kept the Gmail
opened under Firefox 2.0. I was also used to keep my Gm Read more:messages
Patent damages tripled in 2006 1970-01-01 00:59:59 Trend of Patent
lawsuits are increasing drametically. According to sources, the total amount awarded in 2006 is $1 billion. Compared to $379 million which was awarded in 2005, this is almost a threefold increase.The top winner of the year was Rambus who won the case over Hynix Semiconductor with $307 million. Rambus has a ton of patents on their list.Even though there are pros/cons on having the patent concept, it seems companies are willing to goto courts to protect their technologies while few companies do it for the sake of grabbing some money from a company who misuses a technology or concept. Read more:damages
Eclipse - cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element error 1970-01-01 00:59:59 When working with XML files in Eclipse, a common error
developers encounter is; cvc-elt.1: Cannot find the declaration of element "some-element-name". The error message gives a clue on which file the error exists by pointing to the element name, but does not give any information on why this error is shown or how it could be fixed. Given error is generated if parser could not find any specification on the given elements when Eclipse tries to parse the XML file using Xerces XML parser. To over come the error, XML file must be provided with a specification (a schema file or a DTD file).Examples of such files may look like below.<!DOCTYPE mule-configuration PUBLIC "-//Comp //DTD configuration XML V1.0//EN" "http://www.comp.com/dtds/proj/project-configuration.dtd">or <element xmlns="http://www.comp.com/schema/element" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.comp.com/schema/element http://www.comp.com/schema/element/elements-1.0
Cartridge World operations automated using NetSuite - With my implementations 2007-03-14 06:03:00 Today is a pretty happy day in my life as one of the projects implemented by me has received a good reputation with this article by Yahoo! Finance. Basically the requirement was to integrate two systems, so that CartridgeWorld
can use the full blown features of NetSuite
. This integration is implemented by me with the coordination and help of my CEO and other members at Celigo Technologies. I'm proved to be part of a success story.Cartridge World
, is a world's fastest growing ink refilling retailer in printer cartridge industry. NetSuite, is a leader in on-demand business software suites. Cartridge World wanted to use NetSuite system to automate their e-commerce operations and it is implemented throw integrations with Java. The article shows how far the project succeeded.
Decipher the code to check your eyes 2007-03-16 11:34:00 Try to read the following code. Even though this image looks like an ordinary one, it has a hidden message. But you won't be able to read it if you have good eyes.Couldn't you read that? You can see the answer below but try it again if you could not. Don't directly go and see the answer. Don't show that you have bad eyes. Try again.To see the answer click here.Code is: BAD EYESNow try again to see it yourself. [I don't know who is the owner of this creation, but a nice work.] Read more:Decipher
[Cricket] World record - Six sixes in one over 2007-03-19 13:12:00 Herschelle Gibbs, 34 yrs South African right hand batsman made a big record on 2007-03-16. He did this against a leg-spinner, Daan van Bunge of Netherlands in the 30th over. This is where those bullets went.29.1 : long on29.2 : long off29.3 : long on29.4 : deep midwicket29.5 : wide long off29.6 : deep midwicketGibbs got 72 off 40 balls with 7 sixes before Van Bunge caught him in the next over at long on.West Indies great Sir Garfield Sobers and India's Ravi Shastri had done this six sixes in one over during first-class matches. But this is the first time in an international match.Congratulations Gibbs. Related: World
record test cricket partnership Read more:Cricket
A child born, two years after his father's death 2007-03-21 10:25:00 According to your maths, above subject would not be correct. But that has happened in Texas. As CNN reports, the little boy's name is Benton Smith and his brave and courageous mom is Kathleen Smith while father was Brian.Brian, who was a solder in US army has gone for Iraq in 2004, and died there in July - 2004. But his wife has given birth to a boy in July, 2006. This has happened because Brian had donated his sperm so Kathleen could keep trying to have a baby while he was in Iraq.Congratulations Kathleen. You are a great mom and a great wife.Read more at CNN.com Read more:child
, death
Yahoo! Mail provides unlimited storage 2007-03-29 03:25:00 Yahoo has made a big announcement. They are going to provide unlimited storage
for Yahoo Mail!!! This huge feature will go live from May 2007. Can you believe it? Are they really going to achieve this or is this going to be an April Fool's Day Joke? Can't be. Today is 28th of March.In April 2004, Google launched GMail, with a 1GB which made all of us shocked, while Yahoo Mail providing 100MB storage. This caused the huge popularity of GMail. So many people switched to GMail from Yahoo and MSN (including me). In fact Google came up with a nice concept of expanding the user's storage limit every second and showing it in GMail home page. Currently it shows 2833.807851 on my machine.Yahoo Mail expanded in following fashion.1997: 4MB2004: 100MB2005: 1GB2007: Unlimited storageBut I really don't think that people love GMail just because it provides 2GM+ storage, but because of the features that it provides. So while providing huge capacities, Yahoo Mail will have to provide great and new Read more:Yahoo
[JSTL] According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions 2007-03-28 13:32:00 Error Message: According to TLD or attribute directive in tag file, attribute items does not accept any expressions. When working on a J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition) web application with JSTL (JSP Standard Tag Library), this is a pretty common error.Reason for this error is version incompatibility between JSP, Servlet and JSTL. Matching versions are listed below.JSP 1.2 , Servlet 2.3 , JSTL 1.0JSP 2.0 , Servlet 2.4 , JSTL 1.1Check the web.xml to see whether it uses the Servlet 2.3 DTD or Servlet 2.4 Schema. If it uses Servlet 2.3 DTD, it will have the following text.<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd"><web-app>.....</web-app>For Servlet 2.4 Schema, it will look like below.<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-a
Cricket: Sri Lanka won by two runs over England in World Cup 2007 2007-04-06 14:21:00 Sri Lanka
vs England
super 8 match was on 2007-04-04. They played an amazing match, it was the best game so far in this World
Cup. Even that was one of the greatest matches I ever had watched.Sri Lanka
ns were all out for just 235 runs causing many discussions to calculate how many runs should have been added to make it a winnable score. Then England started batting, but they were 12/2 after 6 overs.Over 20: Englands were in a comfortable situation, 100/2 with a RRR(required run rate) of 5.4. But this was easily reachable as Pietersen was batting impressively putting Sri Lankans under pressure.Over 34: Pressure on Englands. They were 134/6, with a RRR of 6.4. And Sri Lankans needed only one wicket two celebrate the tail enders' fun. And England fans were dead silent.Over 46: But that required wicket didn't fell and England batsman were rotating the strike well and they were 217/6 with a RRR of 9.5. But this was easily reachable as both the batsman were well established. It was just 1 Read more:Cricket
, World Cup
Open and read any file in a .war file of a web application with Java 2007-04-17 09:05:00 Question: How can I open and read a file inside a war file of a web application?Answer: InputStream can be used for this with a ClassLoader. A code snippet for opening a file from Java for reading a file inside a web application is listed below. Commented line (InputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(filePath);) shows the common approach used in non-web applications. Common approach is not usable with web applications (.war file) since it fails to find the files. Even though the correct relative path is provided, programs will face issues depending on the web server versions. For web applications, the InputStream will be created using a ClassLoader. Following code snippet can be used for this requirement. But this approach has one limitation. This can read only the files inside WEB-INF/classes folder.import java.io.InputStream;public class WebAppFileReader { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { // full path: "C://projects//myWeb//WebRoot//WEB-INF//classes//t
World Cup Semi final on 24th: Sri Lanka vs New Zealands 2007-04-23 03:11:00 Tomorrow (2007-04-24) is going to be a big big day for both Sri Lanka
and New Zealand. Two teams meet each other in a crucial match, semi finals. In recent past, SL have done well against New Zealand. They once met in the super eight matches and Sri Lanka
won comprehensively by 6 wickets.According to news, the pitch at Sabina Park in Jamaica will have some bounce. This is said to be favoring NZs because SLs have much experiences on subcontinent wickets. But having the best balling department, SLs will be able to get the benefit of the bounce as well. A quick comparison over the two teams1. Captaincy:Stephen Fleming, the New Zealand captain has more experience and is a good leading captain. But Mahela Jayawardane is one of the best positive captains in the world who has shown much colors in a lesser number of matches. So I weight SL has a good captaincy.2. Balling attack:NZ comes with one of the best ballers in the world, Shane Bond. But SL goes with 4 high class ballers: Vaas, Murali, Read more:World
, World Cup
Google Adsense gets nice look and feel with Google Account 2007-04-27 15:20:00 Seems Google
has started integrating Google Adsense
with Google Account
. We believe this as a good step since it makes life easier, login to only one account but have many services working. Previously Google did this with Blogger as well. New login page is very nice and colorful. New login page looks as below.Currently the two old and new login pages can be accessed using two different URLs, but this will be changed very soon.Old login page: www.google.com/adsense/login3New login page: www.google.com/adsense/login/ Read more:Google Adsense
Sri Lanka through to World cup finals playing against 11 or 13? 2007-04-25 18:42:00 Today is a special day for Sri Lanka
ns as SL made their way to finals
in World
Cup 2007 after the semi final victory over New Zealand yesterday. That was a fantastic match even though it was hard to judge whether SL were playing against
13, not just 11 players. SL was playing against 11 friendly and claim NZ players (and 2 slightly unfair professional umpires).Interesting point was both the 2 umpires, RE Koertzen (South Africa) and SJA Taufel (Australia) made poor LBW decisions against SL. One LBW was given for a thick edge and the other for a ball going far away from the leg stump. When NZs were batting, umpire RE Koertzen warned Dilhara twice putting him under huge pressure. Another a tough LBW decision was given against Rose Tailer for a ball slightly missing the stumps. We can not guess why such experienced umpires give that much bad decisions in crucial matches like semi finals. Even with that type of a situation, SL team came up brilliantly in batting, balling as well as fielding Read more:Sri Lanka
Rename a database in MySQL through Linux console 2005-12-06 06:38:00 Steps to follow to rename a database in a Linux
environment can be listed as follows.1. Stop mysql Use $ kill -9 [processID]2. Search the place where the database folders are stored Use $ mysqladmin variables | grep datadir3. Goto the folder which contains the database folders4. Rename
the folder Use $ mv 5. Start mysql Use $ mysqld_safe & Read more:MySQL
If you think Internet Explorer is great, read this 2005-11-23 04:55:00 Many internet users happen to use InternetExplorer
as the default browser, since it is provided with Microsoft Windows. So the users do not think
of other choices, and stuck to IE.It's still not too late to switch to a great browser like "Firefox". www.stopie.com is a site completely related for this matter. Read more:Internet Explorer
A Baby Named Google 2005-11-23 00:40:00 Today only I heard that a child is named Google
, actually Oliver Google Kai born on September 17th 2005 as son of Walid Elias Kai (a Ph.D. holder in search engine marketing) who is also a Google fan.He is having his own home page, and also a blog.Read More>>
A poem by an African Man 2005-11-11 04:30:00 Dear White fella............ Couple of things you should know.....When I born, I Black,When I grow up, I Black,When I go in Sun, I Black,When I scared, I Black,When I sick, I Black,And when I die, I still black.......And you White fella,When you born, you Pink,When you grow up, you White,When you go in Sun, you Red,When you cold, you Blue,When you scared, you Yellow,When you sick, you Green,And when you die, you Gray.................And you calling me Colored ???????????Quite correct but innocent idea. I love this poem very much. Read more:African
Have you ever used EJB? 2005-11-08 23:55:00 View cartoon story: EJBHammerNice and a completely true idea from TSS. Without XDoclet, writing an EJB is a huge work. I totally agree with this. What do you think?
Google set to display books 2005-11-03 23:59:00 Google Print resumes its work from today for books and other contents that are not covered by Copy Right Law. So the authors of the books can decide whether they want their books to be available on Google print or not.Google print also would be a great help for people who are trying to find a good book to buy since it allows you to read some parts of the book. Read more:Google
Scored 98% - Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4 (CX-310-035) 2005-10-22 03:30:00 I scored 98%.Today is a very special day for me as I could comprehensively complete the Sun CertifiedProgrammer
for Java 2 Platform
1.4 (CX-310-035) exam. I could score 98% which is believed as to be a great score.I got ready for this while I was too busy with a new project in my office. But I was able to some how manage and complete the exam with a great score.And if you are having any questions or clarifications I may be able to help you. Just put me a mail with an explanation, so that I will help you on clarifying those.
Google vs Microsoft - Case over Dr. Kai-Fu Lee 2005-09-14 09:36:00 According to a news after the court case over Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, from today Dr. Lee will be working for Google
on the lab at China, but he is not allowed to work on the areas that he was working under Microsoft
such as Search and Speech Recognition.Both of the companies say that they have won the case. Anyway hearing that Dr. Lee is back on work is nice.Anyway in this case there are two sides as I feel. Microsoft has a right to say that Dr. Lee should not be using what he gained at Microsoft in a competing company like Google. In the other way if he is not using those, then it is ethical for him to work in a competing company.See also>>
eBay is on fire 2005-09-12 22:05:00 Today I heard two impressive news on eBay.One news is that eBay is buying Skype for $2.6 billion. The next is eBay plans to acquire Shopping.com in a $620 million cash transaction. Buying Skype would be great communication tool for the buyers and sellers at eBay. But according to an older news, Google and Yahoo were in the battle for buying Skype (which did not come true). Now eBay will have to take part in the competition with Google (VoIP-bound Google Talk), AOL (VoIP-bound AIM), and Yahoo (VoIP-bound Dialpad integration).According to these news, is eBay moving to a competition with other internet gients.
Google hires the Father of the Internet 2005-09-12 05:50:00 A big event happend at Google
. As a news said Google has hired Vint Cerf (Vinton Gray Cerf), the Father
of the Internet
.Cerf's job title will be 'Chief Internet Evangelist', as though Google needs one of those. His role will be to build network infrastructure, architectures, systems, and standards for the next generation of Internet applications.He will also continue in his role as the Chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).Read More>>This must be related to the news on Google's plan of launching their Own WI_FI network. So is that news going to become true? Read more:hires
By concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it 2005-09-08 23:38:00 Today I found a nice little story which reminds us that we have a great life to live.A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old University of Notre Dame lecturer.Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee.When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said: "If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups." "Now, if Life is coffee, then the j Read more:enjoy
Is Google building their own WI-FI network 2005-09-04 22:35:00 Today morning I so an impressive news related to Google
, the search giant.Google seems like building their own network
through out America. As google has bought resources for providing network services this may become real soon. As Business 2.0 says, Google is already building such a network, though ostensibly for many reasons. It's also acquiring superfast connections from Cogent Communications and WilTel, among others, between East Coast cities including Atlanta, Miami, and New York. Google has sponsored Wi-Fi hotspot, built by a local startup called Feeva. Feeva is reportedly readying more free hotspots.Read More>>But will Google become a free ISP? How huge will be the impact on ISP industry? What do you feel?
OpenOffice 2.0 Beta released 2005-09-03 04:24:00 Today I saw that OpenOffice
2.0 beta second release is available for testing now.As the OpenOffice site expresses;Beginning with version 2.0 OpenOffice.org uses the open standard OASIS OpenDocument XML format as the default file format. The OASIS OpenDocument format is a vendor and implementation independent file format, and thus guarantees freedom and independence.Read More>>Actually I saw this news through one of the blogs at blogspot http://cnpchillers.blogspot.com/.
WinFS 2005-08-30 01:38:00 Microsoft released a beta version of the new file system named "WinFS" (Windows File System). What is WinFS"WinFS" is the code name for the next generation storage platform in Windows "Longhorn." Taking advantage of database technologies, Microsoft is advancing the file system into an integrated store for file data, relational data, and XML data. Windows users will have intuitive new ways to find, relate, and act on their information, regardless of what application creates the data. Also, "WinFS" will have built-in support for multi-master data synchronization across other Longhorn machines and other data sources. The platform supports rich managed Longhorn APIs as well as Win32 APIs. Read More>>The biggest enhancement to Longhorn that is being pulled from the 2006 release is WinFS (Windows File System), said company officials in Redmond, Wash. WinFS is a next-generation storage subsystem that allows advanced data organization and management and improves the storage and retrieval of fi
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