A year on a Blogstreet Project

                In the next month this will be a year complete for my working on BlogStreet Project.
During this year I got to learn a lot from html, javascript, perl, cgi, to the world of Web Services. Soon i will be working on new project , so will be great to have a look at the scope of BlogStreet.
                  " Weblog -
A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.

                 BlogStreet.com is a portal for weblogs having analytics, tools and services for
blogs and RSS. There are four main sections on the site viz.
Blog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Blog Tops, Search and Directory.

                 Blog Profiles provides a sketch of the blog and its author by collating their
information, meta-data and analytics. Information like blogger's Name, Email,
Photo, BlogRank, Influence Quotient, Category, Rating and Reviews can be seen.
One can quickly read the latest on the blog via the titles of the RSS feed.
Profile also has a blog's Neighborhood which is a set of related blogs.
This is useful in finding more blogs of the kind that you have liked.

                 RSS Ecosystem is a suite of various RSS related tools. It has utilities for
discovery, creation, transformation, subscription of RSS sources i.e.
RSS Directory listing 24000 feeds.
RSS Panel is a mini Javascript aggregator which can be used to subscribe to RSS
feeds and include them in your blog's sidebar.
For mobile users there is RSS2Mobile which lets you read RSS feeds on a WAP
enabled mobile.
                 The Blog Tops includes the lists for Top 100 - 500 blogs in the blog world.
The Popular Books includes most Popular Books in the blog world and information
about those books extracted from amazon.

                BlogStreet has one the unique search engines which has granularity as a blog
post and not a web page. The Blog Directory is a user-classified list of blogs.
Users can categorize a blog. By using the Neighborhood feature for a blog in the
Blog Directory one can find more than the number of categorized blogs ."

Google It

PUBSUBWEB

Time has come to be ready for the changing internet. From the time of start of internet
    we are using it as same style. but now we should be ready for change. i.e Publisher and Subsciber Web. Rajesh Jain describes the concept on his weblog.
    In this new web 'The producers would like tools to make publishing and distribution easier, while the consumers would like to have tools which make receiving and subscribing to information easier.' and probably he will play a role in it, by integrating the RSS-to-IMAP service and a rss generator. and addittion of a events
    In PUBSUBWEB the key factor will be RSS.

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Google It

Aviators mark 100 years of flight

BBC reporting about completion of 100 years to first flight in air.
Aviation enthusiasts across the world are celebrating the centenary of the Wright brothers' first powered flight.
    It is 100 years since Orville Wright took to the air in the 'Flyer' for a flight lasting 12 seconds that carried him just over 30 metres.
    A re-enactment of the feat using a replica of the aircraft will be staged at Kitty Hawk beach in North Carolina, where the original flight took place.

Let's Salute the brothers who made humans win over Birds possible.

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Chalata Phirta P. C. O.

News.bbc.co.uk Expalins a story abut a new customer oriented services in rajasthan.
A regional mobile phone company in India is taking a novel approach to drive up business and help the poor at the same time.
       Shyam Telecom, which operates in the state of Rajasthan, has opted to take its phones to the people rather than wait for them to come to it.

The company has equipped a fleet of rickshaws with a mobile phone. Drivers pedal these mobile payphones throughout the state capital, Jaipur, and the surrounding countryside.

The rickshaw drivers, numbering around 200, are largely drawn from those at the margins of society - the disabled and women.

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One More Amul Story is on the way : Computing power aids India's milk farmers

BBC News. explaining a story about A quiet revolution that is taking place in the unremarkable town of Baramati .
         This place, 270 kilometres east of India's commercial capital Bombay (Mumbai), is literally the land of milk and honey, thanks to modern technology.
          Its recently installed computerised and automated milk collection centres are helping India retain its new-found position as the world's largest milk producer.
          It was all very different in Baramati just a few years ago. Then, the milk was sold locally, if at all.
          Its 100,000 largely illiterate dairy farmers milked their few cattle by hand and struggled to get to market before the searing heat turned the milk sour.
          At the market, they could never be sure they would find a buyer, day after day.
         But cutting-edge technology used in the collection, processing and sale of milk is triggering a "white" revolution in the 150 dairy-farming villages around Baramati.
          It need not have been this good. In a country like India, where labour is abundant and wages low, technology and automation are generally seen as suspect.
          But Baramati's poorest, its struggling low-tech dairy farmers, surprisingly embraced technology as a lifeline.

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Web Services Description Language ( WSDL ).

The standard format for describing a web service. Expressed in XML, a WSDL definition describes how to access a web service and what operations it will perform. WSDL makes it easy to for consumer to invoke the webservice.

Universal Description Discovery and Integration ( UDDI ).

A service consumer must be able to locate a web service in order to use it This is known as discovery. it defines a searchable registry of services and description so that consumer can automatically discover services they need.

Simple Object Access Protocol ( SOAP ).

SOAP is a lightweight protocol intended for exchanging structured information in a decentralized, distributed environment. Basically it's a protocol on top of which webservic can work. Soap can be much betterly used for cross platform ( Operating System and Programming language )integration than using COM and CORBA.

XML Messaging.

	XML
Application	<        >	Application
	Message

XML Messaging is where applications exchange information using XML Documents.

It's ths basis of SOAP. As XML is not tied any particular application, operating system or
programming language, two applications regardless of their O.S, lang or implementation details can openely share information using a simple message encoded in way that both application can understand. SOAP provide standard way to structure XML Messages.

web service deployment descriptor (WSDD).

After the development of WebService, WSDD is needed to deploy the Web service on Tomcat-Axis.

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One of the Best parties i had ever seen

Yesterday 9 th Dec, I experienced the best party ever in my life.
     It was the ocassion of wedding of our Technology Vice President Mr. Kalpit Jain with Ms. Sonal. It was at Parsi Gymkhana, near charni road.
We were there around 8 pm and leaved the place at 10 pm. The decoration at entrance and stage was amazing, full of beautifull flowers and statues. The Food was delicious with lot of varieties from salad, indian cusine, chinese, surti, deserts, fruits, juices, chat and lot many sweet Dishes. We enjoyed a lot. I won't be able to forget that wonder full evening.

How To Export Display from local machine to reomte machine

at local machine do
xhost +
grep kiran /etc/hosts
This will display a line, note this line.
Then Log On to remote machine. and fire following command.
export DISPLAY=XXX.XXX.XX.XXX
NOTE: Here [XXX.XXX.XX.XXX ] is a i.p . shown after grep command on local machine.

Now you can run your programs at remote machine whic require a remote display.

How To change the default gateway

Fire following commands at your console.

/sbin/route shows the IP routing table.
/sbin/route del default deletes current default gateway.
/sbin/route add default gw xxx.xxx.x.xxx adds a new default gateway.
[ xxx.xxx.x.xxx is ofcourse the gateway you want to set as default ]

After changing default you need not to restart network.
But if you want , you can restart your network by

/etc/init.d/network stop
/etc/init.d/network start

Proxy settings can be changed by changing /home/web/.wgetrc file.

Now, viruses target Windows-based ATMs

Article at indiatimes.com explains a story of new virus attack,
SAN FRANCISCO: Automatic teller machines at two banks running Microsoft's popular Windows software were infected by a computer virus in August, the maker of the machines said on Monday.

The ATM infections, first reported by SecurityFocus.com, are believed to be the first of a computer virus wiggling directly onto cash machines.
Computer security experts predicted more problems to come as Windows migrates to critical systems consumers rely on.

An unknown number of ATMs running Windows XP Embedded were shut down during the spread of the so-called "Nachi" worm, said officials at Diebold Inc., which made the ATMs and refused to name the customers affected.

The Nachi worm, also called "Welchia," was written to clean up after the MSBlast, or Blaster, worm. Instead it crippled or congested networks around the world, including the check-in system at Air Canada. Both worms spread through a hole in Windows XP, 2000, NT and Server 2003.

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Services on demand

This is some extracts from a white paper by sun on "Implementing Services on Demand With the Sun Open Net Environment".
At Sun, we view Services on Demand as the most realistic and viable approach for companies moving towards the development and deployment of Web-based services. The Services on Demand vision recognizes that businesses will need to use and support a variety of service delivery styles, such as traditional dedicated applications, Web applications, Web services, and future Web services. And the Services on Demand model includes all of these styles.
The raw materials for building the services that are offered to the community are the data, applications, reports, and transactions that are the information assets of an enterprise.
The first step in turning the raw information assets into value for the community is creating a directory of both the assets and the community. This is the role of the iPlanet Directory Server, and it sits in the middle of every connection from the assets to the community. The iPlanet Directory Server is the core of an LDAP-based, multipurpose directory framework that acts as both an information repository and a policy management infrastructure. As a result, it not only provides enterprise-wide and extranet-wide access to information about the supported communities and information assets, it also provides authentication, authorization, non-repudiation, metering, rating (pricing), and billing support.
The iPlanet Directory Server suite of software includes a number of auxiliary tools to fulfill this central role:

iPlanet Meta-Directory:

integration between the master LDAP directory and all of the special purpose directories throughout an enterprise (such as PeopleSoft, SAP, Microsoft Active Directory, etc.)

iPlanet Certificate Management System:

A digital certificate management system for producing, signing, and distributing the digital tokens that implement a typical chain- of-trust authentication and authorization mechanism.

iPlanet Policy Server:

A framework for defining access and authorization rights for the enterprise.

iPlanet Directory Access Router:

A load-balancing mechanism for examining and re- directing LDAP requests to appropriate servers and an invaluable aid to scaling and distributing directory resources.

There are various components of iPlanet Server e.g

iPlanet Portal Server

It does the content aggregation and customization and secure remote acces, Instant Collaboration Pack, Personalized Knowledge Access Pack, Access Pack (includes a Wireless Access Protocol (WAP) server), and Secure Remote Access Pack.

iPlanet Integration Server, EAI Edition (formerly the Forte Fusion product)

The iPlanet Integration Server is a framework for integrating a variety of legacy applications. such as SAP and PeopleSoft (using available connectors), and defining workflows that create single services from a variety of functions that cross services.

iPlanet Integration Server, B2B Edition (formerly iPlanet ECXpert).

B2B Edition is a facility for secure document exchange.

iPlanet Messanging and Calendar Servers

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Microsoft targets young geeks with blog service

TheSpoke.net hopes to build community of students interested in software development.
Microsoft Corp. has quietly launched a Web logging, or blogging, service targeted at tech-savvy people in their teens and 20s, but the service is apparently open to anybody.
The service is called TheSpoke and is part of Microsoft's Academic Developer initiative, a Microsoft spokesman said Tuesday. The site was created by Singapore-based marketing services company Earth9 Pte. Ltd. and went live last week, said a spokesman for Smooth Fusion Inc., the Lubbock, Texas, company that hosts TheSpoke.net for Microsoft.

Microsoft's academic developer initiative is focused on building a community of students interested in software development, the Microsoft spokesman said. TheSpoke is in a test phase and more features will be added, he said, adding that the site is not intended to be competition for blogging services such as Google Inc.'s Blogger.
"While there is a blogging component, TheSpoke is not a blogging site. Creating this kind of community is a longstanding Microsoft approach, particularly when it comes to building relations with developers," he said. "Considering that academia is fertile ground for Mac and other Unix and Linux development, Microsoft is wise to provide alternative resources like TheSpoke, where student developers can gather and build a community."

TheSpoke is at http://www.thespoke.net/

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The Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM)

The Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) Optional Package enables applications to send and receive document oriented XML messages using a pure Java API. JAXM implements Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 with Attachments messaging so that developers can focus on building, sending, receiving, and decomposing messages for their applications instead of programming low level XML communications routines.

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W A R P

an acronym for Web service aggregation, rely and propagation. Warp is designed to help an enterprise deal with the rapidly expanding number of available services on demand that will emerge over the next several years.
It is a standard application server.
Warp can be used to build services on demand that sit on top of the Sun Open Net Environment (Sun ONE).
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Microsoft's Next Frontier: Cars

Rajesh Jain in weblog mentions about microsoft's Next Frontier: Cars.
Cars with the Microsoft Corp. software will speak up when it's time for an oil change. They'll warn drivers about wrecks on the road ahead and scout alternative routes. They'll pay freeway tolls automatically. The software running their brakes will upgrade itself wirelessly.

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Plastic promises dense data store

An article from news.bbc.co.uk says.
A common plastic used to keep monitor screens clear of fluff could soon be used as a high-density computer memory.
In the journal Nature, the US researchers behind the discovery say it could let them pack a gigabyte of data into a sugar cube-sized device.
The material is also very cheap to manufacture and data can be written down and read back from it quickly.
The researchers predict that it could take only a few years to turn their discovery into working devices.

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PC eye-control for severely disabled
An article at news.bbc.co.uk mentionig about great new technology.
Award-winning Spanish technology that lets severely disabled people control a computer using eye movement could soon be available in the UK.
The Iriscom, which emulates mouse movement by tracking the iris, is already on sale in Spanish-speaking countries and Portugal.
Iriscom moves the mouse pointer by tracking a person's eye movement and mouse clicks are performed by blinking.
It also has an on-screen keyboard so users can input text.
It can be used by anyone who has control of one eye, including people wearing glasses or contact lenses.

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