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Sorry to inform all you guys that, when moving my server, I forogot to take a up a back up and lost my data’s for past 10 days 
! I am reallay sad to inform this. I lost my blogs between May 22nd till May 30th ! This is really sad. I hope it does not happens next time. I will be taking up backups regularly !!
Update 1: My friend sriram was able to help me, since he subscribes to my feeds via my blog, he has sent me all the posts that were deleted during server upgrade. Thanks a lot Sriram, You can find my delete posts coming up soon.
More updates from me soon !!
Monday May 2 at 17:00 - 18:00 CET (11:00 - 12:00am EST)
Here’s your chance to ask Opera’s CEO Jon S. von Tetzchner about Opera 8 and browsers in general.
I just sent my question to him :
My Question is very simple !
Q: What made you choose the cool name “Opera” for your browser ?
- Dreamchaser !
An overly excited Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software, today proclaimed at an internal company meeting that if the download numbers of the new Opera 8 Web browser reach 1 million within the first four days of the launch, he will swim from Norway to the USA with only one stop-over for a cup of hot chocolate at his mother’s house in his home country, Iceland.
Opera’s communications department could obviously not resist to make such a bold and inarguably over-confident statement public.
Opera’s new Web browser, Opera 8, was released Tuesday, and the massive response had Opera’s download servers kneeling an hour after the launch. Still, the download numbers of Opera 8 reached 600 000 in the first 48 hours.
“A lot of people had great difficulties downloading Opera 8 on Tuesday because the traffic on the servers was simply too high,” says Carsten Fischer, VP Desktop, Opera Software. “When download numbers reached 120 per second one hour after the release, our servers had serious problems dealing with all the requests. We had prepared for heavy traffic, but this exceeded our wildest dreams.”
Opera has now installed additional servers with increased capacity, and it was the download counter showing 600 000 downloads in 48 hours that sparked Mr Tetzschner’s enthusiasm and thus his courageous promise to boldly swim where no man has swum before.
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I just wanna ask one small thing about this, when FireFox was downloaded million times, the team were happy, but Opera is a not a freeware nor Opensource, do these downloads really earn them something ?
They must be happy only if atleast out of 1 million downloads 10 - 20% buy them ? Also do 1 million ppl love a browser with ads at top of the window that sucks their bandwidth ? Hmm !
The next release of Microsoft Visual Studio has been significantly improved for Visual Basic developers by adding innovative language constructs, new compiler features, dramatically enhanced productivity and an improved debugging experience.
Visual Studio 2005 includes several productivity enhancements including IntelliSense code snippets, Windows Forms designer updates, IntelliSense filtering, debugger data tips, Exception Assistant, and more.
Summary: Provides on overview of the new features in Visual Basic 2005 including, My Visual Basic, IntelliSense, Edit and Continue, AutoCorrect, Just My Code, Windows Forms enhancements, and more. (30 printed pages)
This link from Microsoft is really useful and hope its the same for all you programmers 
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Complete Info : Click Here
Here is a site which I came across today that provides free hosting for Video files, keep some conditions.
Putfile is a FREE dedicated digital media hosting service. Here you can upload videos and images to the internet for free. Your media will be hosted on our reliable Linux servers offering no downtime.
If you would like to upload images or video files for use on forums, blogs, or websites please use our quick upload feature above
- Upload Video, Flash, and Images
- .jpg .gif .png - 2mb
- .wmv .avi .mpg .mov .asf .swf - 10mb
- Linux Dedicated Servers
- Pornography Prohibited
They also have image hosting too, which really indeed a extra additional feature, you can learn more about the site at, PutFile.com
I browse IndiaGlitz.com and BehindWoods.com very often and I like the both sites for the good cine news coverage. I found something intresting (may be its not that interesting), about Sandhya (Kadhal Fame).
IndiaGlitz.com is reporting that she is very patient in choosing roles and taking up movies. On the other hand, BehindWood.com is reporting that her friends circle say that she keeps on giving call sheets to each and every movie which was offered to her without even considering about the story or the actors who act along with her.
Now my question is which news do I consider ? This is not a small play ground where you loose and win. Its about the quality news you provide, in Tamil Nadu there is always clash between a Weekly Magazine who always put some fake article to make thier magazine very popular. Now pointing on the two websites, I am still thinking which one is right ?
And if you could look at the comments made by two websites would be amusing …..
* IndiaGlitz.com : “Smart girl, indeed”
* BehindWoods.com : “Hope the actress sees what is coming…”
IndiaGlitz.com reports :
IndiaGlitz
Saturday, April 16, 2005
Kadhal fame Sandhya has offers coming her way from all sides. Following her good performance she patiently waited and accepted to play the lead role in a Malayalam movie Alputha Vilakku, directed by Sibi Malayil.
In the movie, she plays Jayaram’s sister and the ladylove of Vineeth. The movie released on Vishu Day all over Kerala has won good appreciation and especially Sandhya’s performance has gone down well with the public.
“To sustain the good name earned is very difficult. People appreciated me after Kadhal and it continues with Alputha Vilakku. I am happy that I am able to deliver a good performance. I am in a no hurry to take up movies. I will patiently wait for offers and pick the right ones that help me in my career”, Sandhya says.
Smart girl, indeed.
BehindWoods.com reports,
Behindwoods
April 12, 2005
The film Kadal, which was directed by director Balaji Sakthivel gave debutant heroine Sandhya a wealthy start in her film career. As a result the actress has been booked for many movies in a row.
However there is a small disturbance among the actresses’ friends circle that, she keeps on giving call sheets to each and every movie which was offered to her without even considering about the story or the actors who act along with her.
Sandhaya’s fans and friends are very much worried about her film career being spoiled because of her decisions. Hope the actress sees what is coming…
Who is true ? Her friends or Sandhya ? If you have comments, do post them here !
Library Stuff is reporting that Discovery Channel now has a RSS Feed.
Discovery Channel Goes RSS
Andrew from the Discovery Channel sent in the feeds vis the LISFeeds contact form. They have 4 of them:
+ Discovery Channel News
+ Animal Planet News
+ Travel Channel News
+ TLC NewsThanks to Library Stuff
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