“Money for Nothing” is a song by Dire Straits, which first appeared on their 1985 album Brothers in Arms and subsequently became an international hit when released as a single. It peaked at number one for three weeks in the U.S., becoming their most successful single. The song was notable for its controversial lyrics, groundbreaking music video and a cameo appearance by Sting singing the song’s iconic falsetto introduction and backing chorus, a borrowing of the cable network’s slogan “I want my MTV”. The video was also the first to be aired on MTV Europe when the network started on August 1, 1987.
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Mar 07
Music Video Clip of the day: Dire Straits “Money for Nothing”
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Mar 07
Top 10 Open Source projects for the month of March ‘2007
Let’s go Open Source! Here is the top 10 Open Source projects for the month of March’ 2007 from the main OS repository sourceforge.net:
1. Azureus
Azureus is a powerful, full-featured, cross-platform bittorrent client.
2. FileZilla
FileZilla is a fast FTP and SFTP client for Windows with a lot of
features. FileZilla Server is a reliable FTP server.
3. ADempiere Bazaar
Adempiere is an ERP Bazaar for Open Source Developers that contribute
improvements of Compiere, CRM, Shopfloor, POS, Helpdesk, Financials
Accounting, Supply Chain, Knowledge and Business apps in an open and
unabated fashion. Focus is on the Community.
4. ZK – Simply Ajax
ZK is Ajax framework enriching Web apps with little programming. With
event-driven components and XUL/XHTML markup languages, developing is as
simple as programming desktops and authoring HTML pages. Scripting
support Java, JavaScript, Ruby, Groovy…
5. Gaim
Gaim is a GTK+ instant messaging application. It supports multiple
protocols, including AIM, ICQ, Yahoo!, MSN, Jabber, IRC, Napster,
Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr, and SILC. It has many common features found in other
clients, as well as many unique features
6. phpMyAdmin
phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the
administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop
databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any
SQL statement, manage keys on fields.
7. Openbravo ERP
Web based ERP for SMEs, built on proven MVC & MDD framework that
facilitate customization & maintenance of code. Already in production,
it encompasses a broad range of functionalities such as finance, supply
chain, project mgmt, manufacturing & much more
8. Inkscape
A Linux, Windows & OSX vector graphics editor (SVG format) featuring
transparency, gradients, node editing, pattern fills, PNG export, and
more. Aiming for capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, Visio, etc.
9. pydev for eclipse
Python Development Environment (Python IDE plugin for Eclipse). Features
editor, code completion, refactoring, outline view, debugger, and other
goodies – check http://pydev.sf.net)
10. KeePass Password Safe
KeePass Password Safe is a free, open source, light-weight and
easy-to-use password manager for Windows. You can store your passwords
in a highly-encrypted database, which is locked with one master password
or key file.
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Mar 07
Places to visit. Issue 2
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Sang Shin offers absolutely free online programming courses that he teaches at Brandeis university in Massachusetts.
Sang Shin is presently working for Sun Microsystems as a Technology architect, consultant, and evangelist. He speaks on various Java and Solaris related technologies to worldwide developer audience. -
Interesting tool, that provides a domain lookup (whether or not it is available) while you typing it. Also provides suggestions on other possible choices, in case if domain is taken. There you can play with enabling/disabling synonyms and more.
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Recently Ubuntu took my breath away with its just simple coolness and stability. However, I still stay inclined to the Apple folks with their OS X and all those urban style Mac Books. This article, from O’Reilly, discusses nice things to have in mind for Linux users working/starting on OS X
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To minimize cost and time, you no longer need to rent 6 video tapes and spend 9 hours of watching your favorite Rocky series – now you can just watch this video that captures all 6 Rockies in 5 seconds and delivers the clear message.. :)
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Mar 07
Music Video Clip of the day: Scorpions “Wind of Change”
“Wind of Change” is a 1990 power ballad written by Klaus Meine, vocalist of Scorpions. The lyrics celebrate the political changes in Eastern Europe at that time – such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the increasing freedom in the communist bloc (which would soon lead to the fall of the USSR), and the clearly imminent end of the Cold War.
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Mar 07
Play the win-win GAIM!
A win-win game is a type of game which is designed in a way that all participants can profit from it in one way or the other. (wikipedia)
Quite a few… Don’t you agree? Of course you do! – quite of few different IM (Instant Messaging) software solutions are out there for humanity to use. Funny enough, geography put its "social walls" in between groups of people around the globe, and we all use and know about different tools and products just because "we are from here"… Here is a quick example:
- ICQ was developed by the Israeli company Mirabilis, and first version of the program was released in November 1996. It is very popular in Europe and Asia, but if you ask people in United States, you’ll see an emptiness in the eyes and sometimes a quite common response – "what queue!?".
- Although people from Europe know and use ICQ they prefer MSN that was developed and distributed in US by Microsoft between 1999 and 2005 for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system.
- People from US use MSN too, but mostly prefer AOL’s AIM which was released in US by company called AOL in May of 1997.
There are "others that use others", and another disturbing fact is that if you need to talk to somebody from US, and you live in Europe, you need to install and run MSN in addition to AIM – so now you have two different applications running. And if you need to use ICQ, guess what – there is another application that you need to install – quite inconvenient. But along with 21st century came GAIM (and brothers: Trillian, Adium and Miranda), which broke, and still brakes, those geographical "social walls" by uniting/combining all the above instant messengers together in one very functional and great looking product. Hence now, by using GAIM, you do not have to install several different applications on your computer, you just install GAIM, and put all your accounts (MSN, AIM, ICQ, Yahoo, GoogleTalk, …) into it and use it. It offers "Tabbed message windows", "Logging", "Encrypted messaging" and many more, and of course it is open source, free, runs on multiple operating systems and just plain cool! You did not do it yet!? Go here, download and try it out – feel free to post any comments here, or just e-mail me, if you have any questions – good luck!
P.S. GAIM is far from being classified as news, however, in many companies I go to, I meet people (a number of people) who are using several instant messengers, who never heard about tabs, so they have 7 windows, if they talk to 7 different people, instead of having one with 7 tabs, and when I ask them "do you know what ICQ is?", they still make me smile with a reply: "what queue!?"