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This is my first post ??? Yes, my first post from Windows Live Writer(Beta) 1.0 from Microsoft, Just wanted to see how this soft works out. Seems to be good with minimum features of an editor, links, images. But does not seem to have any hi-fi features right now, have to Wait-n-See whats in store for us from the Software Gaint ...
शुरू हो गयी मामू अब तो अपने ब्लाग मे हिंन्दी टाईप कर सकते हो मुझे तो इतना हिंन्दी नही आता इसलिये येहि पुलिस्ताप कर रहा हू :)
Google into the mobile industry? Google acquires the Web-based calling service GRAND-Central. Is it going to be stepping stone for Google to the huge mobile industry, where Google's footprint is missing. May be sooner, we will see about the Google's phone too ... That will surely threaten all those out in the mobile industry. I feel that its time to find a common platform for all the Google applications to run from network on a browser(or something like that) rather than on an Operating System. Picasa/Gtalk etc... are some that are still OS dependent to run :) I would love to see an Operating system that runs from RAM and 1G or 2G of HD space, with an internet connection and all application by default saving the files to Google Server.
FILE TRANSFERs from MINIX to HOST : This gets files from minix VM to a host system ... 1. Set up a serial port mapped to output file for the Minix VM, say to c:\scratch.ser 2. start Minix virtual machine for which the serial port is setup 3. tar up the file(s) you want to move from Minix to Host: tar cvf /tmp/mytempfile.tar /usr/src_modified 4. uencode the files and write directly to the serial port uue /tmp/mytempfile.tar - >/dev/tty00 5. when uuencode returns prompt.. on Host machine copy the serial file to mytempfile.tar.uue 6. halt minix, close VM, delete the serial file (if it's big) 7. uudecode and untar using winzip/winrar ...