Archive for October, 2006

Eid Mubarak

Eid is one of the special occasions, that is awaited through out the year. Its an special occation for gatherings and family reunions. On Eid we usually share gifts, sweets and wishes with our friends and family members.

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak to every one !!!

Who’s Coloured?

This poem was nominated the best poem for 2005. Written by an African kid………amazing thought!!!

When I born, I Black,
When I grow up, I Black,
When I go in Sun, I Black,
When I scared, I Black,
When I sick, I Black,
And when I die, I still black.

And you White fella,

When you born, you Pink,
When you grow up, you White,
When you go in Sun, you Red,
When you cold, you Blue,
When you scared, you Yellow,
When you sick, you Green,
And when you die, you Gray.
And you calling me Coloured?

Pakistan won the match

Pakistan team recently jolted by a series of incidents: the Oval fiasco, Captaincy issue and the most recent doping issues which left the team without their front line bowlers. But they showed incredible self-belief and no little skill to pull off a splendid victory over Sri Lanka in their first match of champions trophy. It was a joint team effort to win the match, in the end it wasn’t easy to win but Razzaq made it child’s play.

Abdul Razzaq

Abdul Razzaq is one of my favorite players. He is one of the best allrounders in the cricket history. I would rate hime all time best allrounder and a true match winner. Todays Champions Trophy match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is the latest example of his allround performances.

JNODE – Open Source Java Operating System

Jnode is an open source Java operating system. It was started when JDK 1.0.2 released, Ewout Prangsma (the founder of JNode) dreamed of building a Java Virtual Machine in Java. It should be a system that was not only a VM, but a complete runtime environment that does not need any other form of operating system.

Ewout made various attempts to develop this OS. He first developed a JBS; the Java Bootable System. It became a somewhat functional system, but had far too much native code, in C and assembler, in it. So he started working on a new JBS system, called JBS2 and finally JNode. which doesn’t have C code, but has only a little bit of assembly code. In may on 2003 Ewout came public with JNode and development proceeded ever faster from that point on.

Hardware Requirements:

To be able to run JNode, you’re hardware should be at least equal to or better then:

  • Pentium class CPU with Page Size Extensions (PSE) feature
  • 256Mb RAM

more on hardware requirements

Performance:

Performance of an OS is critical. That’s why many have suggested that an OS cannot be written in Java. JNode will not be the fastest OS around for quite some time, but it is and will be a proof that it can be done in Java. To make JNode as fast as possible, we’ll concentrate on doing things as smart as possible, but still to do it in Java.

more on performance

Joomla – Open Source CMS

Joomla is one of the best Content Management System (CMS) available. It is an open source software and available for free. Joomla is the software result of a serious disagreement between the Mambo Foundation founded in August 2005, and its development team. Joomla! is the continued development of the successful Mambo system.

I am right now exploring it and trying to master its administration section (the back end) to control the website (front end). I like the organization of the administration section, there is hundreds of option available and all are well organized. It will look confusing at the first glance but when you look it for couple of times you will start understanding how things will work for you. I am at the moment exploaring it more will come on this blog about Joomla.

Joomla Logo

One thing I like most about Joomla is its name and logo. Joomla as it is said a Swahili word but I doubt that this word is derived from Sindhi word Joomlo, which means “every body”, and in late 1800 and early 1900 people from sub-continent migrated to East Africa, where Swahili is abundantly spoken. Any ways who cares where is the name came from, the name is superb and the logo is perfect.

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