Attending JavaOne 2009 Conference at San Francisco was a wonderful, learning experience. As a part of Sun Microsystems’s Campus Ambassador Program, they nominated five CA’s from all over the world who would get an opportunity to attend the JavaOne 2009 Conference, fully sponsored by them. Let me now share my JavaOne 2009 experiences with you [...]
Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
On June - 25 - 2009
“Almost all of us have childhood dreams; for example, being an astronaut, or making movies or video games for a living. Sadly, most people don’t achieve theirs, and I think that’s a shame. I had several specific childhood dreams, and I’ve actually achieved most of them. More importantly, I have found ways, in particular the [...]
Open Technologies and the Power of Students
On June - 25 - 2009
Sun Campus Ambassadors Talk about OSUM Clubs and student communities. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/globalcommunities/
Playing songs & Videos in the terminal [GNU/Linux]
On June - 19 - 2009
We can play songs and videos from the terminal in a GNU/Linux or Unix machine. The player is “mplayer”. MPlayer has a GUI version too. It is GMPlayer Just a few screenshots to show you how we can play songs and videos on GNU/Linux or UNIX To install this: 1. SOLARIS/OpenSoalris: http://blastwave.org 2. Ubuntu: In [...]
Guide to a happier unix life – screen
On June - 15 - 2009
Everyone using unix in their job will once in a while have to run a long running process. Usually right before leaving the office to go to dinner. If you have to check on it later to make sure it finished right then you are stuck with redirecting the output to a file and look [...]
Mozilla Firefox: It’s Time to Get Personal
On June - 10 - 2009
There are literally thousands of totally free ways to customize your Firefox to fit exactly what you like to do online. Mozilla to let enterprises build custom Firefox browsers The upcoming Build Your Own Browser program will let companies customize Firefox 3.5 and install it across multiple desktops Mozilla is readying a program that will [...]
Me on the stage during the J1 Openning session!
On June - 3 - 2009
David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
