First we have to install Trac dependencies, some/most may or may not be already installed on your web server’s root but we will need our own editions to make all the things work together.

Installing Dependencies
a. Python (=>v 2.3 and <v3.0)
According to Trac documentation the recommended version of Python for Trac is above v2.3 and Bellow v3.0. So for example let’s go for version 2.5.

IMPORTANT: Considering you are using bash, set in .bashrc as follows (without this step the Python installation wont be complete):

b. Clearsilver (0.10.5)-it’s optional, some major plug-in requires it

c. eGenix extensions for python (3.1.2)

d. Swig (version 1.3.24)

I am skipping the Database installation (since SQlite 3.3.4 is preinstalled at Python 2.5.2) as well as subversion installation since it’s not mandatory for Trac (but you have to apply following commands if you want to use subversion with Trac).

Installing Trac itself
Now that all required dependencies installed, now let’s get down to the real deal that is the Trac installation itself.

Now just provide the details asked in response to above command. If you are using subversion please pay close attention to the location of your svn repository.

Now that your Trac installation is done, we need to prepare it to access this through a browser. In public_html or httpdocs or similar directory:

# create a projects.cgi with the following content:

# create a .htaccess file:

#on command line

# edit $HOME/trac-projects/conf/trac.ini and add the following under [trac]

That should be enough to have your Trac up, running and accessible through web browser. Lost? You can get preety good basic idea on platform specific installation guide over Trac Docs.

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Not sure if it’s heat from competitor Apple’s $29 price point for OS X Snow Leopard (coming in September, 2009) or the vista damage control initiative force Microsoft to slash the price of its most popular Home Premium to $119.99 (both upgrades and full copies). Vista premium original pricing were around $40 higher. Same slashed priced applied for Windows 7 ultimate edition as well, though business edition pricing still hanging onto same line like vista.

From June 26, 2009 to July 11, 2009 while supplies last Microsoft will offer special preorder pricing.  It will be offering in the U.S. Windows 7 Home Premium for $49.99 and Windows 7 Professional for $99.99, a savings of $70 and $100 respectively (In the U.S. preorders are for upgrade versions).  Canada and Japan enjoy similar deals.  Microsoft showing some real love for EU buyers- Germany and France consumer will receive Windows 7 Home Premium (€49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (€109.99) preorder prices.  The UK will get Windows 7 Home Premium (£49.99) and Windows 7 Professional (£99.99) preorder prices.  The EU preorders will be for full versions, and will likely be the cheapest available route to purchase a full retail version.

Now a year or two ago this pricing would have looked impressive juicy deal, but now as world recession beating consumers wallet run dry certainly pose a different scenario. $119 for an OS upgrade will not only look outlandish at this moment but as well as heart breaking, since consumers of Vista were certainly expecting certain sort of consideration. Another ugly scar I can see is the huge difference between 2 weeks preorder and original pricing. The biggest blow is it seems Microsoft’s adversary Apple well understand current economic timeline and set Snow Leopard pricing model ($29 for a one user license and $49 for a five user license)which is much more appropriate.

Now question whether that pricing really justified, despite the fact that Microsoft’s last Major OS Vista user deserving some kind of compensation/at least some sympathy from MS.

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We all have to agree the case is pretty damn code red plus situation when our antispyware goes rogue. So let’s first define what the hack is those thing? In simple word those are just a type of computer malware that deceives or misleads us (the users) into paying for the fake or simulated removal of malware.

How they disguise?

• Mostly these stuffs are Trojan which mislead us into installing, the most common disguise for these rogue spywares are:
• Browser’s plug-in or extension (mostly media codec type)
• Image, screensaver or archive file attached to an e-mail message
• Multimedia codec required to play a certain video clip, very commonly seen in video files downloaded in torrent sites.
• Free online malware scanning service (Most common—and a lot of people really fall for it)

What they do?

Most common symptom of rogue spywares are usually directing the users to some cheap porno site or Viagra stores in addition to that they may also:

• Displays fake screen of system crash, malware detection and performance issues etc.
• Disable parts of system to prevent authentic anti-malware software to perform.
• Offer urgent fix to computer yet prevent user to ignore the fix.

• Provides authentic-looking pop-up warnings and security alerts, mimicking actual system notices. But the notice keep coming back even after user cancel it.

Who they are?

This is the million dollar question, which is very difficult to answer. Why? Every day hundreds of new malware vendor turned to the simpler, more profitable business model of rogue security software, which is targeted directly at users of desktop computers. There are even functionally-identical versions of the same program repackaged as successive new products by the same vendor. According to Finjan’s latest Cybercrime Intelligence Report, there were 1.8 million unique users redirected to the rogue antivirus software during 16 consecutive days. According to the report between 7 percent and 12 percent of people end up installing the rogue antivirus software and 1.79 percent of them paid $50 for it.

There are couples of organizations who are dedicated to list down rogue spywares. Since the list change so frequently, it’s advisable to keep an eye on them at regular interval.

• Spyware warrior’s rogue anti spyware
• Secureworks rogue antivirus
• Symantic’s list
• Microsoft

What you should do?

Since most of the attack is targeted to PC (MAC version of rogue spywares are also beginning to spread), you can use MS Malicious Software Removal Tool, which updates every month. If you hate downloading and want to scan your PC online, you can use Windows Live safety scanner .

Install only trustworthy anti-spyware, research and consult with your friends, co-workers before you install any unknown/new anti-spywares. Only use which are proven to be trustworthy, ex-

• Ad-aware
• AVG anti-spyware
• MacScan (Mac)
• McAfee AntiSpyware
• Pest Patrol
• Spyware Doctor
• Spyware Fighter
• Sunbelt CounterSpy
• Spybot search and destroy
• Windows Defender

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Now like its predecessor WordPress 2.7 got all the cool permalink features to make posting URI the way you like (well almost all logical variant). Example:-

• Ugly/Default: http://bloggism.net/?p=123
• Day and name: http://bloggism.net/2009/04/09/sample-post/
• Month and name: http://bloggism.net/2009/04/sample-post/

Or if you don’t like anyone of those you can build your own custom URI structure using the fifth option, i.e. Custom, in that case you will need to use a number of tags specified by WordPress documentation.Apart from default permalink, all permalink settings will require following:

• Apache web server with the mod_rewrite module installed
• In WordPress’s home directory,
  • The FollowSymLinks option enabled
  • FileInfo directives allowed (e.g. AllowOverride FileInfo, AllowOverride All)
  • An .htaccess file (if this file is missing, WordPress will try to create it when you activate "pretty" permalinks)
  • If you want WordPress to update the .htaccess file automatically, WordPress will need write access to the file.

For Windows IIS server, consult to this article please.

Another cool stuff that was added back to WordPress 2.7 is usage of Post/Page slug to customize permalink. WordPress 2.5, 2.6 removed the post slug button from weblog interface. As a replacement, the “edit” link of Permalink was used for the purpose.

But WordPress 2.7 doesn’t show Post Slug interface by default. In order to display Post Slug text box, click the “Screen Option” on upper-right corner, go on and select “Post Slug” you will find the Post Slug input box at bellow the editor.

Problem 404!

Unfortunately recently I came across a mysterious permalink issue with WordPress 2.7 new installation, while working for a client. When I said mysterious, it really did gave me a hard time for an hour. After a bit googling I realized I wasn’t forgetting something at all, it’s a bug. For some weird reason kept getting 404 pages when I switched to pretty permalink after I install WordPress. To my surprise none of the permalink was working except only the default one, even after WordPress automatically generate and Write on .htaccess. I did all sorts of contingency procedures but hack result is always 404.

Solution

Some WordPress experts suggested this problem was caused by PHP ‘magic_quotes_sybase’, but unfortunately even after turning it off- most cases problem still remains same (since most cases it’s already turned off), 404! So I have to dig out for alternative solution that works every single time, not just once or twice. Here is the solution that working for me ever since I solved the issue:

1. Delete the existing .htaccess if you have any from the server (Please do back it up).
2. Change Back the blog/site’s Permalink to default through http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
3. On a notepad file create a new .htaccess file with just one single line

   1	RewriteEngine on

4. Upload the .htaccess file on the server blog/site’s root directory and set the file permission to 777.
5. Wait at least 2-3 minutes.
6. Now change the permalink to whatever form you like using http://yoursite.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
7. Wait another 2-3 minutes before you reload the blog pages/posts.
8. Now all should be working. Change back the file permission of your .htaccess to 644.

Remember to replace http://yoursite.com with your blog/site url.

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1. Ensure your blog doesn’t have password protected posts, otherwise Talkr won’t work.
2. Open up a free account with Talkr.
3. After completing the registration process, log into Talkr and go to My Feed section - Talkr Podcast (keep this window open until the last process)
4. Open another browser window or tab and go to feedburner and burn a new feed (even if you already have a feed burned in feedburner), using your blog’s source feed (Atom or RSS not RDF).
5. Then login to feedburner and browse to “Content-Type Burner” under optimize tab.
6. Select “Use this Content-Type:” as text/plain, which will be last in the options. After that just activate and Save.
7. Before you logout of feedburner sure “Browser Friendly” and “SmartFeed” options are activated. Leave everything else alone.
8. Now that you have burned a feed exclusively for Talkr, in Talkr window/Tab (see step 2) use newly burned feedburner feed address in “Add RSS feed”.
9. Once the new feed is added you will notice a blue background Tab entitled “Promote this feed”, with few options. At the top of that Tab you will find Source feed and
10. Talkr feed URL. The Talkr feed URL is just like this -

http://www.talkr.com/app/cast_pods.app?feed_id=12345 Note the 4 digit feed id.

• Now go to your WP-admin-> theme editor, and open up post.php and put this code somewhere in between the <?php the_content and above the comment template call.

<img style="border:none;" xsrc="http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif" mce_src="http://images.talkr.com/images/speaker_20.gif" alt="Listen to this article" border="0" /> <a xhref="http://www.talkr.com/app/fetch.app?feed_id=4 digit feed id&perma_link=<?php the_permalink() ?>">Listen to this article</a>

That’s it; you can do customization, or even call the same code within a single post.

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So this much awaited Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) release candidate will have these changes/upgrades:

• Some of the changes include more non-Microsoft applications compatibility with Windows Vista after this Service Pack 2 update.
• The Vista SP 2 RC will include improved Windows Search 4.0 with better indexing and search relevance.
  Windows Media Center will have a better content protection for TV.
• Application compatibility can be increased through a registry key change that will allow increasing the maximum number of TCP connections.
• SP2 RC adds Blu-ray media writing ability.
• The new Feature Pack for Wireless brings support for recent Bluetooth v2.1 and improved Wi-Fi connection performance.

Release-to-manufacturing (RTM) version of Vista SP2 will be probably available sometime in the first half of the second quarter.

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HP and Sun compete each other in the server hardware business, so this move was little unexpected. According to this new partnership HP will distribute and provide support for Solaris 10 on its ProLiant server and blade system platforms. On the top of that this duo has plan to integrate the operating system with HP’s Insight server management software.

But sadly (for Sun) the Solaris deal doesn’t affect HP’s Integrity line of servers, for which HP will still use its own HP-UX operating system. Since this isn’t an exclusive partnership so similar partnership deal with other vendors will not be affected.

The partnership is good news for Sun, with HP’s ProLiant leading the x86 server market at 38.2 per cent factory-revenue share in the fourth quarter of 2008(the IDC report). The deals will also strengthen Solaris position to be a longer-term Unix-variant survivor than any other Unix variant outside the Linux reservation.

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To be honest 99% social network still lacks any business model that can produce cash, apart from advertising revenue. More scarcely only a very handful companies really have figured out how to capitalize on all that coveted word-of-mouth and networking. So clearly the problem lays within the social network nature such it is, where lack of room for business to fit in. For example—Twitter, a mighty social networking tool that growing in lightning speed and bagged couple of awards in recent years. Not only awards but as well they grabbed US$35 million in VC funding lately. But still now there is no sustainable business model. Social networking monetization is still just a topic of discussion rather than reality.

Social networking even became a buzz at mobile community, more and more mobile social networking evolving every day. The ability to share thoughts, pictures and video with friends seems tailor-made for the mobile community. But same as previous scenario what’s not so clear, is the how businesses may utilize that same technology. Social network like MySpace even got a bundle deal with Mobile operators to go with handset on sale, that’s a sign of progress though. But it’s also true many companies are still wary of adopting social networking solutions for security or other reasons. This circumstances here practically blocking the whole business aspects of social networking.

So here we are at - with one of the most powerful community engagement tool in history, “Social networking”, with almost zero or should I say minus possibility of business. I guess the business aspect of social networking is still premature!

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Windows Mobile is nothing more than a whisper at this moment, so to change that scenario Microsoft is overhauling its mobile operating system and bringing services aimed at the consumer space. Well they definitely alter their mobile phone strategy to compete with Symbian, RIM not to mention Apple. Hack they even will rename smartphones with Microsoft’s mobile operating system to “Windows Phone”.

For a better web browsing experience, Windows Mobile 6.5 has a revamped Internet Explorer that supports new optional component Adobe Flash Lite 3.1 and a touch-friendly zoom slider with a bunch of frequently used command buttons. The IE address bar now has auto-complete suggestions, and it allows search from the address bar. The new IE browser for Windows Mobile 6.5 will compete with iPhone’s Safari and Android’s browser for ‘desktop-like’ web rendering experience.

Trailing Apple’s success on its App Store, Microsoft planning to launch an over-the-air store for distributing mobile programs. Not so original idea, but at least that can be considered as welcoming reform to a lot of users. Details are still sketchy as Microsoft not telling much about the real stuffs.

The challenge now for Microsoft is, no one wants to pay for an OS when they have Symbian and Android for free with the device. It’s not that like Apple they also have a Magic device like iPhone + the OS. So without some exceptional, magic like features and better strategy Windows Mobile have to walk the mile to earn its cash.

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Well before we carried away with joy let’s see what this JavaFX is (or what it intends to accomplish). JavaFX Mobile is a platform, which will allow mobile developers to create apps that have high-definition audio and video, animation, vector graphics, rich text, and off course access to Web services. The platform runs on top of the Java Platform Micro Edition (Java ME), which is available on most of the mobile phones, including low-end phones and high-end smart phones.

JavaFX Mobile, which makes its formal debut next week during GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, won’t be replacing the existing Java ME. On the contrary it will expands on Java ME, calling Java ME APIs and preserving existing Java ME apps while also providing a library for new JavaFX applications. The JavaFX SDK has been upgraded to support Mobile development, so developers use the same toolkit for building both desktop and mobile apps.

Sun has created a partners program for spreading this platform, and it includes heavyweight like Sony Ericsson, LG Electronics, Orange, Sprint, Cynergy and MobiTV. OEMs and mobile phone network operators have the choice of either delivering the JavaFX Mobile runtime as an embedded application on the device or delivering it over the air.

So let the war begin J Microsoft silverlight vs. Adobe AIR vs. JavaFX, this would be an interesting showdown.

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