Self declared spam king files for Chapter 11 (Bankruptcy protection)April 1st, 2005 Scott Richter, the man behind OptInRealBig.com and billions of junk mail messages, said lawsuits had forced the company into Chapter 11. OptInRealBig was fighting several legal battles, most notably against Microsoft, which is pushing for millions of dollars in damages.
Silicon Graphics: The End of HistoryMay 12th, 2006 Silicon Graphics has filed for bankruptcy protection. The significance of this news would be lost to newcomers in the industry.
Few interesting linksApril 19th, 2005 VNC2SWF Recorder - Looks too complicated for making a simple presentation. I would rather use Wink.
How To Install Windows msi Files in LinuxJuly 12th, 2008 In Linux wine (or crossover office if you like to pay) is used to execute Windows applications. wine normally open exe files only.
CIT Group falls off S&P 500 index, to be replaced by open-source software maker Red HatJuly 18th, 2009 CIT Group falls off S&P 500 indexNEW YORK — Standard & Poor's is replacing the struggling CIT Group Inc. with software maker Red Hat Inc.
Ruling by court panel sends ownership of Unix copyright to trialAugust 25th, 2009 Ownership of Unix copyright headed to trialDENVER — A federal appeals court on Monday reversed a judge's decision that granted the copyright of the Unix computer operating system to Novell Inc. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S.
How To Fix - Couldn't find per display information Error in Java ApplicationsJune 23rd, 2008 While running some Java applications (like Thinreader) you may see this strange looking error - Couldn't find per display information. You may find this error when running such applications in JDK 6 or later.
Nortel bankruptcy pulls down Indian IT stocksJanuary 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - Indian IT firms received another jolt Thursday when Canada-based Nortel Networks, one of North America's largest telecom equipment firm and an important client for outsourcing firms here, filed for bankruptcy. Among the biggies of Indian outsourcing firms that are expected to bear the heat of the development are Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, Infosys and Sasken Communication Technologies, industry sources said.
How To Recursively Delete Files And Directories Using JavaJune 15th, 2006 How can you recursively delete files and directories in windows? You can select them in explorer (in windows) and delete it, right?
The problem with the explorer approach is that if one or more files and / or directories cannot be deleted then the whole process fails. Try cleaning your Local Settings\temp directory to see an example.
Nortel bankruptcy jolts Indian IT outsourcing firmsJanuary 14th, 2009 MUMBAI - India's outsourcing firms were jolted Thursday after Canada-based Nortel Networks, one of North America's largest telecom equipment firms and a key client for many IT firms in this country, filed for bankruptcy. Among the biggies of Indian outsourcing firms that are expected to bear the heat of the development are Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Wipro, Infosys and Sasken Communication Technologies, industry sources said.
File Archiver SmackdownJuly 5th, 2007 I tested several file compression programs like zip, gzip, arj, bzip2, jar etc for compressing big files. The corpus constituted 5 POI generated Microsoft Excel documents totaling 298.8 MB.
How To Migrate Mantis Defect Tracking System From Windows To Linux / Fedora Core 6May 12th, 2007 Mantis is popular php based defect tracking application which works on top of RDBMS like MySQL and PostgreSQL. Recently I ported our Windows based Mantis installation to Linux.
Simplest Way to Mount / Extract iso files without BurningNovember 14th, 2008 Isn't it pretty annoying to burn any .iso file to make it work? In linux, you have a pretty simple way to mount an iso file without even burning them. This allows you to view the files within the iso file as simply as you would view files in any normal directory.
XnView: Cross Platform Graphic File Viewer & Converter (400 Graphic File Formats Supported)March 18th, 2008 XnView is an cross-platform utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It can import about 400 graphic files format and export about 50 graphic file format.
How To Delete Trash From Command Line in Linux / Fedora Core 6May 2nd, 2007 The Trashcan on your Fedora Core desktop (tested for gnome) is actually located in ~/Trash directory. So a simple commaond as below should clear your trash:
rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
Why did I need this?
There were some files in the Trash can which I didn't have permission to clean.