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NYC panel proposing stronger rules to force cabbies to hang up that phone and focus on road
NEW YORK — Like so many who hail yellow taxis in the city, businessman Amit Agrawal says he’s fed up with hearing cabbies talking on their cell phones while driving. “That could be dangerous,” he said Friday as he walked to a subway stop in lower Manhattan near the World Trade Center construction site. “I [...]
Stream audio wirelessly to your desktop speakers with Karmic Koala
Some of you might not be aware Karmic comes packed with a brand new version of PulseAudio that has some pretty neat new features built in. Amongst these is support for Apple AirTunes which is a protocol that allows you to stream audio to remote devices over a network. I’ve been using it to stream [...]
How to install Opera Web Browser in Ubuntu including flash,Java Plugins
Opera is a web browser and internet suite developed by the Opera Software company. The browser handles common Internet-related tasks such as displaying websites, sending and receiving e-mail messages, managing contacts, IRC online chatting, downloading files via BitTorrent, and reading web feeds. Opera is offered free of charge for personal computers and mobile phones, but [...]
Telecom company Cellular South announces plans to acquire Alabama-based wireless provider
RIDGELAND, Miss. — Cellular South Inc., a privately held telecommunications company based in Mississippi, has announced plans to acquire Alabama-based Corr Wireless. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Friday. The acquisition requires regulatory approval, which Cellular South officials say should be completed in several months. Corr Wireless, which employs 130 people, provides wireless communication [...]
NASA photos reveal moon strike may have yielded important data
LOS ANGELES — NASA’s much-hyped mission to hurl a spacecraft into the moon turned out some worthwhile data after all, scientists said. New images show a mile-high plume of lunar debris from the Cabeus crater shortly after the space agency’s Centaur rocket struck Oct. 9. “We were blown away by the data returned,” Anthony Colaprete, [...]
Java EE 6 web application (JSF 2.0 + JPA 2.0 + EJB 3.1) using Oracle, NetBeans and GlassFish
This application will use Java Server Faces 2.0 for displaying the results, Enterprise Java Beans 3.1 + Java Persistence API 2.0 for middle tier, and Oracle database server + GlassFish v3 as the backend. The most recent development bundle NetBeans 6.8 & GlassFish V3 build 68 would be good work for testing Download NetBeans IDE [...]
Russian space agency: Cargo craft delivers food, fuel, oxygen to International Space Station
MOSCOW — A cargo ship has delivered food, fuel, oxygen and other supplies to the International Space Station. Russia’s space agency says the unmanned Progress M-03M docked with the orbital station Sunday after a three-day trip up from Earth. Care packages for members of the multinational six-person crew were one part of the delivery vehicle’s [...]
Mozilla says Microsoft browser malware can Firefox off
Odd isn’t it, how Microsoft kicked up a fuss when Google announced the Chrome plugin for Internet Explorer on the grounds that it could make the browser more insecure. Indeed, it went as far as to suggest that it doubled the potential surface area for malware and scripted attacks. Yet, amazingly, Microsoft sees no such [...]
D-Link Now Offers Lifetime Warranty
D-Link India has announced that it will provide lifetime warranty on its entire bouquet of business solutions products. Starting this October, all business solutions products purchased from D-Link and its authorized partners will be covered by the lifetime warranty for as long as the product is owned by the original customer, or up to a [...]
Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books
Google plans to launch an online store to deliver electronic books to any device with a Web browser, threatening to upset a burgeoning market for dedicated e-readers dominated by Amazon’s Kindle. The Web search giant said on Thursday it would launch Google Editions in the first half of next year, initially offering about half a [...]
A 250GB PlayStation from Sony
Sony has confirmed that it will launch 250GB PlayStation 3 Slim console in November this year. Back in August, Sony had announced PS3 Slim 120GB for $299 (Rs. 14,400 approx.) and now, 250GB HDD loaded PS3 Slim will cost $349 (Rs. 16,800 approx.). North American consumers will be the first ones to get his 250GB [...]
Request Handling in Apache
The process of handling requests can be divided generally into these consecutive phases: Check Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). In this phase, the Apache Web server first analyzes the request sent by the client and determines the information that the client requires. After doing so, the Apache Web server locates the place where the requested information [...]
Multithreaded and Multiprocessed Web Servers
When an HTTP request arrives, the Web server starts fetching the resource as requested by the client. While the Web server is busy fetching resources, client computers might send more requests. These requests are either ignored or handled simultaneously by the Web server. Web servers that ignore other requests or even queue them while they [...]