Re-Enable Sleep Option in Windows Vista

If you've found that your Sleep mode menu is dimmed out in Windows Vista, it's most likely because Media Center disabled the option when it feels that media is being shared. This is an easy setting to fix, but it's a little tough to locate without some assistance.

Ubuntu 9.04 Releases on 23 April 2009

The Ubuntu team is happy to bring you the latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. This is their latest result, the Ubuntu 9.04 release, which brings a host of excellent new features. New features: Ubuntu 9.04 RC includes the latest GNOME 2.26 desktop environment with a number of great new features, including Brasero 2.26.0, an all-in-one CD burning application and the default disc burning utility in Nautilus, and improved handling of multiple monitors; X.Org server 1.6; Wacom tablet hotplugging; new style for notifications and notification preferences; significantly improved boot performance; Linux kernel 2.6.28; optional ext4 files system support...." Read the release announcement, release notes and feature overview for further information. Download (MD5): ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso (699MB, torrent), ubuntu-9.04-desktop-amd64.iso (697MB, torrent).

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 (Service Pack 2) Available for Download on April 28th

Microsoft has announced that the final RTM build of Microsoft Office 2007 SP2 (Service Pack 2) is due to release for public download on April 28th, 2009.

2nd service pack is applicable for both the 2007 Microsoft Office System and the 2007 Microsoft Office servers.

Changes that impact desktop applications :-

• Service Pack 2 adds the ability to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. These applications now let users save, open, and edit files as OpenDocument Text (*.odt), OpenDocument Spreadsheet (*.ods), and OpenDocument Presentations (*.odp).
• The 2007 Microsoft Office Service Pack 2 is the first service pack to support uninstall of client updates through the Microsoft Service Pack Uninstall Tool for the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite as well as via Windows Installer command line. The Service Pack Uninstall Tool will be available as a separate download.
• The Microsoft Save As PDF or XPS add-in has been built into Office applications in SP2. Users no longer have to download and install the add-in separately.
• When many graphic objects are present performance has been improved.

Changes that are made for individual products: --

Access

• The ability to export reports to Excel has been added.
• Fixes for issues with the import data wizards, report printing and previewing, macros, Excel integration, and date filters.
• Updates to Access Developer Extensions are now included in SP2.

Excel

• The charting mechanism has improved robustness and targeted performance improvements.
• A chart object model has been added to Word and PowerPoint.
• Improved printing of graphical content, especially on PCL printers.

Groove

• Improved form tools.
• Synchronization reliability has been improved.

InfoPath

• Increased compatibility between InfoPath forms and other Microsoft products, such as Groove and Outlook.

OneNote

• SharePoint synchronization has been improved which helps reduce the load on SharePoint servers and produce fewer errors.

Outlook

• Performance in startup, shutdown, view rendering, and folder switch has been improved.
• Calendar updates, search, and RSS are more reliable.
• The object model has been improved.

PowerPoint

• Resaving of files is faster. Several printer-specific problems have been fixed.
• The Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model has been more fully integrated.

Project

• The scheduling engine, Active Cache, and Gantt charts all have improvements.
• There is additional reliability with earlier versions of the .mpp format.

Publisher

• Fixes have been made in the following areas: print preview, compatibility with Internet Explorer 8, e-mail on Windows Vista, and saving to the Content library.

Visio

• Improved compatibility with other Microsoft products in several key scenarios, such as inserting Visio drawings as linked objects in PowerPoint or Word, exporting reports to Excel, and saving drawings as Web pages for browsing in Internet Explorer 8.

Word

• Fidelity of PDF and XPS output has been enhanced compared to the output created through the use of the download.
• Better integration of the Microsoft Office Excel Chart Object Model.

Changes that impact the server products

Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP2 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server SP2 include fixes and enhancements designed to improve performance, availability, and stability in your server farms. SP2 provides the groundwork for future major releases of SharePoint Products and Technologies.

• An STSADM command line that scans your server farm to establish whether it is ready for upgrade to the next version of SharePoint and provides feedback and best practice recommendations on your current environment.
• SP2 offers support for a broader range of Web browsers.
• Substantial improvements to Forms-based authentication.

Windows Server 2008 SP2 and Windows Server R2 will be supported on their release.

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

• The performance and stability of content deployment and variations feature has been improved.
• A new tool has been added to the STSADM command-line utility that enables a SharePoint administrator to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.

Excel Services

• SP2 makes it easier to configure Excel Web Access Web Parts on new sites.
• Several rendering, calculation, and security issues have been resolved.
• Some display issues have been addressed.
• Improved compatibility with Mozilla Firefox browsers.

Groove Server

• Improved synchronization reliability.
• Groove Server 2007 Manager will install and run with SQL 2008.
• Groove’s LDAP connectivity and auto-activation functionality have been improved.
• Error reporting in the Groove Relay Server has improved significantly.
• Groove Relay Server has improved robustness.

Forms Server

• Memory requirements and the page load times for large browser-rendered forms have been reduced.
• Browser rendering of various controls, such as the ‘cannot be blank’ asterisk and the rich text field has been improved.

Project Server

• Better memory management in the queue service.
• Performance to certain database table indexes is improved.
• Resource plans, build team, cost resources, and the server scheduling engine have improved.

Search Server

• Improvements to the reliability and stability of very large corpus crawls.
• Backup-restore has been improved.
• A new command has been introduced to the stsadm.exe tool that lets a SharePoint Administrator to tune the Query processor multiplier parameter.
• Improved accuracy in searches involving numbers. 

The enhanced speed, quality of services, Compatibility with Open Office tools, and other extensions are major changes which makes MS OFFICE a suitable project for users.

Tesla brings super computing at your desk

American company NVIDIA has brought personal super computing at your desk with world’s first personal supercomputer ‘Tesla’ that offers high performance computing of up to 250 times faster than standard PC
workstations.

At a price tag in between £4,000 and £8,000, the supercomputer is based on NVIDIA's CUDA parallel computing architecture.



Powered by the Tesla C1060 Computing Processor, it can process information 1000 times faster as a result it would be a great help to scientific and research community.

The PC maker believes that with such efficiency, the supercomputer would calculate data much faster; as a result doctors would easily be able to process the result of brain scan much faster than the usual process.

Contrary to what a Supercomputer looks in size with huge machines, required a lot time and resource to build, Tesla Personal Supercomputer is more or less like a normal PC.

With the availability of such a high capacity computer to perform complex computations without entering into the lab, certainly, research scientists also hope that they can easily get into the remedy of cancer and malaria faster than traditional research.

Gmail voice and video chat

Google's new chat service, by this you can chat with your friend including voice and video chat.
To do this you need to install a new plug-in into your browser,
Now you are ready for the video chat

go for the link below to download it:-
Download now

G-mail adds Theme section.

Google's mailing service g-mail Adds Themes setting facility into their clients mailing account.
You can easily set interesting themes into your g-mail account.
To set it:-
1. Sign in into your g-mail account.
2. Now click on 'settings' which are present on upper - right side of the page.
3. Now choose the 'theme' section from the menu.
4. Choose a theme of your interest.
5. Now save your settings by clicking on 'save as' button.
yahooooo... your account visualize in a better way.

Barack Obama Spam, Trojan attack the world

Barack Obama Spam, Trojan have attacked the world. The Barack Obama win has given a golden opportunity to spammers across the world to tap the popularity of the President elect of United States.



Shortly after having known the results of the US presidencial elections, the cyber-crooks have used this topic to distribute malware in spam messages.

One of these malicious emails seems to be sent from an online newspaper from Peru. Its content is in Spanish and talks about the results of the US elections and invites users to view a video addressed to the Latin community.

The video is actually the file "BarackObama.exe" which has been detected as Banker.LLN. This malicious code modifies the file HOSTS of the infected computer, redirecting the http connections of some websites belonging to one of the biggest banking entities from Peru to the local IP address local 127.0.0.1, in which a fake page of the bank is displayed in order to obtain our access data.

Another example of this kind of spam is the one informing that Barack has become the 44th US president and the first Afro-American president. This email contains a link to a fake website that seems to have the America.gov domain. Besides the mentioned piece of news, we can view a video but an adobe flash update (adobe_flash9.exe) is required to view it. However, this file is not an update but the malicious code.

This malware consists of Trj/Spyforms.BQ and the rootkit detected as Rootkit/Spyforms.BR in order to hide the worm component. It is designed to capture the network traffic and harvest information related to ftp, icq, pop3, imap connections, etc…

So, browse internet and read your mails with care.