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Currently, I am working on Windows 7 and quite satisfied with that as it is hotter and faster than Vista. It is said not only by me but also by other users who have used last year. In 2009, Windows 7 sold well and gave the results that are not only in sheer revenue, but in the OS market share numbers also.

Windows 7 works very well better first few days in retail than Vista did when it launched and now that the system has had a full quarter and change to make an impression, it looks like that the growth is not slowing down.

According to new figures from Net Application, Windows 7 is gaining a top level of market penetration in a faster amount of time than Vista did; after a month, Win7 nailed the 4 percent mark, while Vista was stuck at 0.93 percent. After two months, Vista was barely over 2 percent while Win7 jumped to 5.71 percent after the same amount of time. Still there is no denying even that people are flocking to the system now. The most interesting part is that the overall market share of Windows 7 alone has now surpassed all OS X versions that are being tracked (10.4, 10.5 and 10.6).

So, Windows 7 has now become now more popular than all OS X version. So, live with Windows 7 to live long life.

Unix, a computer operating system which is the mother of Linux was developed in 1969 by Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian Kernighan, Joe Ossanna and Douglas McIlroy a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs.

Linux is refers to Unix-like computer operating systems based on the Linux kernel, written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux development is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration where all the source code can be used, modified freely and redistributed both non-commercially and commercially by anyone under licenses like the GNU GPL.

Linux From Scratch (LFS) is a kind of technology or a project that provides step-by-step instructions to enables you to create your own custom Linux system, entirely from source code.

The Linux From Scratch organization consists of the following subprojects:

LFS (Linux From Scratch book) is the base from which all other projects are derived
BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch) extends your finished LFS installation into a more usable system and customized
ALFS (Automated Linux From Scratch) provides tools for managing and automating LFS and BLFS builds
CLFS (Cross Linux From Scratch) provides the means to cross-compile an LFS system on many types of systems
HLFS (Hardened Linux From Scratch) focuses on creating an LFS system with heightened security
Hints project is a collection of documents to explain you how to enhance your LFS system in ways that are not included in the BLFS or books.
LiveCD project provides a CD which is useful as a general rescue CD or as an LFS build host
Patches project serves as a central repository for all patches useful to you.

So, this is all about LFS and we will further discuss how to build a linux system easily in our next article definitely.

Now finally FON have confirmed that their most innovative WiFi network, Fonera 2.0n “web applications” router is indeed available in the US in the bargain price of only $99 and in the EU for just euro 79.

World’s largest WiFi community announces to release 802.11n WiFi router that interacts directly with Web 2.0 services.  So, now you can manage entire host of web applications like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Picasa, and Flickr even if your computer is turned off.

Fonera 2.0n has a growing host of features like it allows you to up and download files to your favorite Web 2.0 services with your laptops are off. It can also automatically post status messages to Twitter and alert you to when another user has connected to your WiFi signal or to when an upload or download has completed.

Fonera 2.0n management software and a built-in USB port enable you to connect and manage external hard drives as well as other USB devices. By accessing the Fonera web-interface from computers, laptops and other kinds of WiFi devices include Google Android based phones or Apple iPhones, it can be managed.

It can also perform tasks independent, so you are free to log out and shut down your laptops completely. It has also the ability to backup files to a hard drive, stream music via WiFi, access webcam or a printer from anywhere, and converts a 3G or HSDPA dongle to WiFi. You are also free to create applications of your own on the Fonera 2.0n’s Open Source platform.

Fonera 2.0n also help you to save money on energy and reduce your CO2 output. This router consumes less than four watts while downloading, instead of a PC that averages 100 watts. Therefore, you can reduce your CO2 emissions by 273Kg a year.

Once it connected, it creates two separate WiFi signals, public and private that allow for a secure, wireless internet connection at home as well as free access at FON Spots worldwide. So, what are waiting for? Go and take the advantages of it as soon as possible.

ASUS has entered into the home server market with its TS mini home Server. a new home server model, Asus Home Server TS mini is slightly higher than two Coke Zero, with the images came some alleged specs, conveniently sized up with its rival’s Acer’s Aspire easyStore Home Server, lighter, taller as well as half the width but it also have room for only two 3.5 inch SATA drives versus four in the Acer version. It is run by an ethernet port, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N280 with 2GB RAM, and also has storage expansion options including 6 USB 2.0 and 2 eSATA ports that will certainly come in handy though.

ASUS TS mini home Server measures 245×96×204mm, weighs 2.6kg without the hard disk drive. It’s suggested that the Asus Home Server might show up in the UK, USA, Australia, Japan, Taiwan and Germany. If you are asking for its price and release date then I would say just have patience, wait for it and start saving your money from now.

I am a big fan of  Google because whenever I use Google to search anything, to confirm anything, to know about something, it helps me a lot. Google guides me in an easy way and therefore I don’t need any tutor or teacher or to take help from other in free of cost. Infact I teach people after studying from Google.

Google has had many logos but the current official Google logo is a word mark based on the Catull typeface and was designed by Ruth Kedar. This company has many modifications and/or humorous features like cartoon modifications of their logo for use on birthdays of famous people, holidays and big events. Some of these special logos are designed by Dennis Hwang and now known as Google Doodles.

To the Burning Man Festival of 1998, the first Google Doodle was a reference and was designed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page, to notify users of their absence in case the servers crashed. After Larry and Sergey, Dennis Hwang (an outside contractor) was asked to design a logo for Bastille Day in 2000, although he had not been hired to do anything remotely related to logo design. But, Hwang has been designing the Google Doodles ever since.

Google doodles have been produced for many famous artist’s and scientist’s birthdays. They are also used to depict major events at Google. On the occasion of Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2007, the Google doodle had featured a chocolate-dipped strawberry that combined the second “g” and the “l” as its green stem.  This design gave the appearance that the “l” was missing, thereby displaying “Googe”.

What doodles will be doing next? Well, I have no idea. One thing I like most about Google is that this is the kind of company that, when a user writes in to suggest that they honor the once in every122-years Transit of Venus on their home page, they actually do it. Wow!!

Till today, I was looking for some another PC that could fit anywhere in my home. But I am glad that now my searching is going to get stop as Lenovo has recently announced Q700 system, which the company describes as the “perfect fit” as it can anywhere in my home for my convenient PC access and to keep pace with my busy lifestyle.

Lenovo Q700, a compact as well as decor-friendly device, is a discrete design that charms with its looks and also an affordable addition to my modern interior and a decent spec-ed computer to get my things rolling on. It is also called as Home Entertainment PC that will not compromise when it comes to an amazing entertainment experience because it doubles as a home theater, personal computer, sound room as well as gaming console all at once.

The new Lenovo IdeaCentre Q700 is is currently available with an Intel Pentium Dual-Core E5200 processor, 4 GB of DDR3 RAM memory, a built-in DVD burner, 640GB hard drive and the usual integrated Intel X4500 integrated GPU along with 1920 x 1080 resolutions (full HD). It also has TV tuner and HDMI out making it easy to hook up to that 50″ LCD HDTV. It also has many other media-friendly features. Its starting price is of just $499. But I think I should confirm it.

The main part of this Pc is that it has a very small form factor so you will find no problem in finding a place for it in you home. I totally agree but still if you have any doubt, you can get a closer look.

The cloud computing infrastructure built on servers with different levels of virtualization technologies and consists of reliable services delivered through data centers. These services are accessible anywhere that provides access to networking infrastructure.

The three basic service models to consider are: Public, private, and hybrid clouds

Public clouds

Public clouds are mostly hosted away from customer premises. These clouds are access by third parties and applications are mixed together from different customers on the d networks and storage systems, cloud’s servers. They help to reduce cost and customer risk by providing a flexible extension to enterprise infrastructure.

The existence of other applications that are running in the cloud should be transparent to both end users and cloud architects, if a public cloud is implemented with data locality, security and performance in mind.

The benefits of Public clouds are:

• They can be much larger than a company’s private cloud might be
• Offering the ability to scale up and down on demand
• Shifting infrastructure risks from the enterprise to the cloud provider

Private clouds

Private clouds are providing the control over quality of service, security and data, built for the use of one client. These clouds may be deployed in an enterprise datacenter and may also be deployed at a collocation facility.

Private clouds can be managed and built by a cloud provider or by a company’s own IT organization. In the “hosted private” model, a company can operate, configure and install the infrastructure to support a private cloud within a company’s enterprise datacenter.

The benefits of Private clouds are:

• The model gives companies a high level of control over the use of cloud resources.

Hybrid clouds

Hybrid clouds are a combination of both public and private cloud models. They help to provide on-demand, externally provisioned scale. A private cloud with the resources of a public cloud can be used to maintain service levels in the rapid workload fluctuations. A hybrid cloud also can be used to handle planned workload spikes. It is also called “surge computing,” a public cloud can be used to perform tasks that can be deployed easily on a public cloud.

Hybrid clouds determine how to distribute applications across both a private and public cloud. If the application is stateless or the data is small, a hybrid cloud can be much more successful than if large amounts of data transferred into a public cloud for a small amount of processing.

So, these are the basic service models and rest of the models we will discuss later.

Bing is a web search engine. The latest search of Microsoft offering Bing Search is live now. The new Bing Search replaces the Live Search that has failed to compete with search engines such as Yahoo and Google. The Live search is being redirected to the Bing Search.

As there is a tough competition against Google, Microsoft has reformed its search engine Kumo but launched it in new name, Bing. Microsoft still wants to strike a partnership with Yahoo in order to rise in the search engine market.

The competition is easy at all. Last month, Google handled 9.5 billion out of a total of 14.8 billion searches. Yahoo was on second position with 20.4 percent of searches followed by Microsoft at 8.2 percent. Microsoft calls its search engine a Decision engine rather than a normal search engine as it will pull out close relevant search automatically. The webmasters could take the advantage of Bing search engine by submitting soon their websites or blogs, and register the sitemap so that the crawling process will be faster.

Various good features available in Bing are:

1.  Bing Search

The different tabs are available in the home page such as videos, images, maps; shopping etc on the left hand side or it might be on top for regional pages. In the search result, there is a hover item on the right side that gives more information about the page available in the result.

You can actually see the news search related searches, on the left hand side of the search. Search history is a feature by which you can track all your search keywords. You can turn off this feature in preferences.

2.  Image Search

To do image search, click on the Images link and enter the keyword. You can filter the search result based on Layout, Size, Color, People and Style.

3.  Advanced Search

Advanced search can be done for a language and domain and country.

4.  Video Search

The left hand panel on video search can be used to filter videos based on screen size, length, resolution and source. If you hover over any video, it plays the videos inside the search itself. With this feature you can actually view the video even if the video site is blocked or not available.

5.  Bing Shopping

The shopping search shows the best prices with the Cash back offer available on the products. So, Bing Shopping allows you to decide on the best available offer for any products.

6.  Save and Share Search

This feature is optional and you have to opt-in to use it. Currently only Microsoft Silver light users have access to this feature. With this feature, you can save your search results to share with Face book friends or Windows Live Sky drive or email.

You can customize the search result in preferences and also set up your cash back account. It can be accessed using the extras link on the top right hand corner.

7.  RSS feeds

You can subscribe to the RSS feed of any search by appending &format rss to the search result URL, if you want to get the RSS feed of any search result as there is actually no direct way to get it.

So, we can say that Microsoft’s Bing is doing good even in this tough competition.

There are 5 Steps for Building a Cloud Computing Infrastructure:

Step 1: First you should decide which technology will be the basis for your on-demand application infrastructure.

The decision related to which virtualization technology will be the organizational standard is already made. But decide before you start if it has not made. There are cons and pros to both a homogenous and heterogeneous virtualization infrastructure and the decision will impact the ability to monitor and manage infrastructure later. So make this decision first.

Step 2: Determine what delivery infrastructure you will used to abstract the application infrastructure.

Cloud infrastructure’s the on-demand capabilities are first designed to do two things: make efficient use of resources and ensure scalability. Some method of load balancing/application delivery will be necessary to accomplish the former.

To abstract the applications, this layer of the architecture will helpful and will provide a consistent means of access to users, shielding them from the high rate of change which occurs in the infrastructure.

The delivery infrastructure or load balancer will need to be included in the provisioning process and to provide visibility into application capacity, performance as well as resource management.

Many solutions are there to match you choice, but select one solution in which you will integrate the system into the architecture. Also you need to verify the solution that whether it is capable of providing the visibility you will need into performance metrics or not. So, decide what metrics and thresholds you’ll use to trigger provisioning processes and ensure that the infrastructure can support it.

Step 3: Prepare the network infrastructure.

Prepare the network to deal with an on-demand application infrastructure. Application delivery: must be configured correctly for the application being deployed, Hardware: network, storage. The network must be configured to deal with such change without requiring human intervention and must be able to handle applications which migrate from hardware to hardware. For this, the network will require constant optimization to adapt to changing traffic patterns.

Step 4: Provide visibility and automation of management tasks.

Remember, visibility is a key to an on-demand infrastructure. An associated management systems and the infrastructure must know what is running, when and where to evaluate available resources. Find how you will collect the data and from where. Decide which system is authoritative for each metric and verify to feed that information in real-time to the automation system.

Step 5: Integrate all the moving parts, such that the infrastructure and realizes the benefits of automation, abstraction and resource sharing.

The last one is most difficult part, and requires the previous steps be completed. The integration, automation of all the pieces of the infrastructure like storage, network, and application enables the infrastructure to act on-demand. The realization of cost-reduction benefits will be marginalized without automation.

The integration step automates workflow. Automation requires constant monitoring across the application infrastructure from the network layer to the applications executing in the environment.

In many cases this integration may require a custom solution. if you are an early adopter it may be necessary to build management system and an automation framework yourself.

Toward a cloud infrastructure, Virtualization is the first step. It is important to re-evaluate the suitability of each critical layer of the architecture for inclusion in the new infrastructure model.

An investment will require for Building cloud infrastructure, if not in solutions or hardware then in time and effort. Automation, Reconfiguration and Integration will require significant IT resources to accomplish.

Now, we are sure that you are able to build a cloud infrastructure by following all these Steps.

A computing technology that uses the central remote servers and internet to maintain applications and data is called Cloud computing. It allows businesses and consumers to use applications without installation and also allows them to access their personal files at any computer with internet access.

Cloud computing is divided into three segments:

• Applications
• Platforms
• Infrastructure

Infrastructure, the final segment in cloud computing is the backbone of the entire concept. It provides the physical storage space and processing capabilities. The products in this segment are more varied than other areas of cloud computing. But they include development environments (like Google gears) and managed hosting that allows users to build applications. Cloud storage like Amazon’s S3 is also a part of the infrastructure segment.

There are some companies those who are Major Infrastructure Vendors means they that provide infrastructure services:

• International Business Machines (IBM) – Managed hosting
• Google (GOOG) – Managed hosting, development environment
• SAVVIS (SVVS) – Managed hosting
• Amazon.com (AMZN) – Cloud storage
• Terre mark Worldwide (TMRK) – Managed hosting

There are two methodologies for constructing Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) AKA “Cloud Infrastructure Services”. The first is “cloud centers” that are data centers in the sky. The second is “Infrastructure Web Service”. These two approaches directly affect your selection of a Cloud Infrastructure provider. These two models highlight a difference in target markets and in core infrastructure. Cloud centers provide a direct equivalent to traditional datacenters and hence are usually more desirable for IT staff, systems operators, and other datacenter savvy folks.

On the other hand, Infrastructure Web Services are more analogous to Service-Oriented-Architectures (SOA) which require significant programming skills and much more comfortable for software developers. Infrastructure Web Services provides different Web Services that can consumed individually or put together to support different kinds of applications, a batch processing or web application of some kind.

These services include:

• Servers on demand via Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
• Object-based file storage via Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Block storage on demand via Elastic Block Storage (a part of EC2)
• Content distribution and edge-caching via Cloud Front
• Distributed database functionality via Simple DB (SDB)
• Messaging & queuing via Simple Queuing Service (SQS)
• Billing & re-packaging of the above services via Amazon Dev Pay
• Payment processing via Flexible Payment Services (FPS)