UISpec4J is an Open Source functional and/or unit testing library for Swing-based Java applications, built on top of JUnit and TestNG.

Features:

1. Invisible execution: the framework does not require that the GUI be visible when the tests are being run means when we ran the test we dont see the GUI but the tests are executed.

2. Java Code is written so that makes it platform independent so once written can be tested in any environment which other tools like QTP lacks.

Limitations:

1. Provides support for Swing components, and not older AWT ones

2. Cannot test icons : For that you can write your own custom library

3. Cannot test focus management - the focus system does not seem to work when the components are not displayed.

4. No specific support for Java2D

5. No support for pure headless modes - even though UISpec4J tests run without displaying the GUI, we still need a valid graphics toolkit available on the computer.

You can download uispec4j java library from here.

Oracle 10g PC Minimum Hardware Requirements:

Oracle 10g Minimum Windows System Requirements:

If above requirements are met proceed.

1) Run as Administrator the setup file.

2) Oracle Universal Installer will start.

3) Give admin password it must contain small letter, capital letter and number. This password will be same for your SYSDBA, DBSNMP and SYSMAN if you do not change.

4) Click Next. If it gives error Abnormal Program Termination Due to  some Internal Error occured then terminate.

Steps i) – iv) if error comes

i) Right Click on setup.exe and click on Troubleshoot compatibilty.

ii) Click on Try Recommended Settings.

iii) After that windows will provide you with the environment in which u can install Oracle 10g  and then click on Start the Program..

iv) Then repeat step from 2) – 4)

5) If some warnings are their just click on the checkbox beside it. Click Next.

6) The installation will start. You does nt need to do much just wait for the product to install. Click Finish.

If in between some errors comes skip them. Now your are ready to create tables and records.

1) Go to Run Type regedit.exe

2) Then Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE goto SYSTEM it has two folders namerly ControlSet001 and ControlSet002.

3) Goto ControlSet001 services.

4) Delete all the Oracle Folders from it.(if present)

5)  Goto ControlSet002 services.

6) Remove all the Oracle Folders(if present)

7) Also Stop all the Oracle Services running

Now you are ready to reinstall Oracle with your previous sid.

• F1: Help
• CTRL+ESC: Open Start menu
• ALT+TAB: Switch between open programs
• ALT+F4: Quit program
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete item permanently
• Windows Logo+L: Lock the computer (without using CTRL+ALT+DELETE)

Windows program key combinations

• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+V: Paste
• CTRL+Z: Undo
• CTRL+B: Bold
• CTRL+U: Underline
• CTRL+I: Italic

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

• SHIFT+right click: Displays a shortcut menu containing alternative commands
• SHIFT+double click: Runs the alternate default command (the second item on the menu)
• ALT+double click: Displays properties
• SHIFT+DELETE: Deletes an item immediately without placing it in the Recycle Bin

General keyboard-only commands

• F1: Starts Windows Help
• F10: Activates menu bar options
• SHIFT+F10 Opens a shortcut menu for the selected item (this is the same as right-clicking an object
• CTRL+ESC: Opens the Start menu (use the ARROW keys to select an item)
• CTRL+ESC or ESC: Selects the Start button (press TAB to select the taskbar, or press SHIFT+F10 for a context menu)
• CTRL+SHIFT+ESC: Opens Windows Task Manager
• ALT+DOWN ARROW: Opens a drop-down list box
• ALT+TAB: Switch to another running program (hold down the ALT key and then press the TAB key to view the task-switching window)
• SHIFT: Press and hold down the SHIFT key while you insert a CD-ROM to bypass the automatic-run feature
• ALT+SPACE: Displays the main window’s System menu (from the System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the window)
• ALT+- (ALT+hyphen): Displays the Multiple Document Interface (MDI) child window’s System menu (from the MDI child window’s System menu, you can restore, move, resize, minimize, maximize, or close the child window)
• CTRL+TAB: Switch to the next child window of a Multiple Document Interface (MDI) program
• ALT+underlined letter in menu: Opens the menu
• ALT+F4: Closes the current window
• CTRL+F4: Closes the current Multiple Document Interface (MDI) window
• ALT+F6: Switch between multiple windows in the same program (for example, when the Notepad Finddialog box is displayed, ALT+F6 switches between the Find dialog box and the main Notepad window)

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

• F2: Rename object
• F3: Find all files
• CTRL+X: Cut
• CTRL+C: Copy
• CTRL+V: Paste
• SHIFT+DELETE: Delete selection immediately, without moving the item to the Recycle Bin
• ALT+ENTER: Open the properties for the selected object

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

• F4: Selects the Go To A Different Folder box and moves down the entries in the box (if the toolbar is active in Windows Explorer)
• F5: Refreshes the current window.
• F6: Moves among panes in Windows Explorer
• CTRL+G: Opens the Go To Folder tool (in Windows 95 Windows Explorer only)
• CTRL+Z: Undo the last command
• CTRL+A: Select all the items in the current window
• BACKSPACE: Switch to the parent folder
• SHIFT+click+Close button: For folders, close the current folder plus all parent folders

Windows Explorer tree control

• Numeric Keypad *: Expands everything under the current selection
• Numeric Keypad +: Expands the current selection
• Numeric Keypad -: Collapses the current selection.
• RIGHT ARROW: Expands the current selection if it is not expanded, otherwise goes to the first child
• LEFT ARROW: Collapses the current selection if it is expanded, otherwise goes to the parent

Properties control

• CTRL+TAB/CTRL+SHIFT+TAB: Move through the property tabs

Accessibility shortcuts

• Press SHIFT five times: Toggles StickyKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the right SHIFT key for eight seconds: Toggles FilterKeys on and off
• Press down and hold the NUM LOCK key for five seconds: Toggles ToggleKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+NUM LOCK: Toggles MouseKeys on and off
• Left ALT+left SHIFT+PRINT SCREEN: Toggles high contrast on and off

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

• Windows Logo: Start menu
• Windows Logo+R: Run dialog box
• Windows Logo+M: Minimize all
• SHIFT+Windows Logo+M: Undo minimize all
• Windows Logo+F1: Help
• Windows Logo+E: Windows Explorer
• Windows Logo+F: Find files or folders
• Windows Logo+D: Minimizes all open windows and displays the desktop
• CTRL+Windows Logo+F: Find computer
• CTRL+Windows Logo+TAB: Moves focus from Start, to the Quick Launch toolbar, to the system tray (use RIGHT ARROW or LEFT ARROW to move focus to items on the Quick Launch toolbar and the system tray)
• Windows Logo+TAB: Cycle through taskbar buttons
• Windows Logo+Break: System Properties dialog box
• Application key: Displays a shortcut menu for the selected item

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

• Windows Logo+L: Log off Windows
• Windows Logo+P: Starts Print Manager
• Windows Logo+C: Opens Control Panel
• Windows Logo+V: Starts Clipboard
• Windows Logo+K: Opens Keyboard Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+I: Opens Mouse Properties dialog box
• Windows Logo+A: Starts Accessibility Options (if installed)
• Windows Logo+SPACEBAR: Displays the list of Microsoft IntelliType shortcut keys
• Windows Logo+S: Toggles CAPS LOCK on and off

Dialog box keyboard commands

• TAB: Move to the next control in the dialog box
• SHIFT+TAB: Move to the previous control in the dialog box
• SPACEBAR: If the current control is a button, this clicks the button. If the current control is a check box, this toggles the check box. If the current control is an option, this selects the option.
• ENTER: Equivalent to clicking the selected button (the button with the outline)
• ESC: Equivalent to clicking the Cancel button
• ALT+underlined letter in dialog box item: Move to the corresponding item

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All of the following come on a disk image file (.iso). See below for installation instructions.
64-bit Windows Developer Preview
Windows SDK for Metro style apps
Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
Microsoft Expression Blend 5 Developer Preview
28 Metro style apps including the BUILD Conference app

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Live SDK

The Live SDK provides a set of controls and APIs that enable applications to integrate Single Sign On (SSO) with Windows Live ID and access information from SkyDrive, Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger. To learn more, sign up for our technical preview.

System Requirements

Windows Developer Preview works great on the same hardware that powers Windows Vista and Windows 7:
1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Taking advantage of touch input requires a screen that supports multi-touch
To run Metro style Apps, you need a screen resolution of 1024 X 768 or greater

Notes about installing the Windows Developer Preview
You can’t uninstall the Windows Developer Preview. To reinstall your previous operating system, you must have restore or installation media.Install on: Windows Developer Preview with developer tools Windows Developer Preview (32-bit or 64-bit)
Windows 7 and Windows Vista Clean install only You can keep accounts, files, and settings
Windows XP Clean install only You can only keep accounts and files
A clean install is supported on all builds. You will only receive the full set of installation options when setup is launched in Windows.

How to install the Windows Developer Preview from an ISO image

The Windows Developer Preview is delivered as an .iso image that must be converted into installation media stored on a DVD or a USB flash drive. On Windows 7, the easiest way to convert this file is to use Windows Disc Image Burner. On Windows XP and Windows Vista, a third-party program is required to convert an .iso file into installable media—and DVD burning software often includes this capability.

Note: The .iso file that contains the developer tools requires a large capacity DVD called a DVD-9, as well as a DVD burner that can handle dual-layer (DL) DVDs. Most modern burners should be able to handle this format.k

Approaches to green computing

Algorithmic efficiency

The efficiency of algorithms has an impact on the amount of computer resources required for any given computing function and there are many efficiency trade-offs in writing programs. As computers have become more numerous and the cost of hardware has declined relative to the cost of energy, the energy efficiency and environmental impact of computing systems and programs has received increased attention. A study by Alex Wissner-Gross, a physicist at Harvard, estimated that the average Google search released 7 grams of carbon dioxide (CO₂). However, Google disputes this figure, arguing instead that a typical search produces only 0.2 grams of CO₂.

Resource allocation

Algorithms can also be used to route data to data centers where electricity is less expensive. Researchers from MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Akamai have tested an energy allocation algorithm that successfully routes traffic to the location with the cheapest energy costs. The researchers project up to a 40 percent savings on energy costs if their proposed algorithm were to be deployed. Strictly speaking, this approach does not actually reduce the amount of energy being used; it only reduces the cost to the company using it. However, a similar strategy could be used to direct traffic to rely on energy that is produced in a more environmentally friendly or efficient way. A similar approach has also been used to cut energy usage by routing traffic away from data centers experiencing warm weather; this allows computers to be shut down to avoid using air conditioning.

Larger server centers are sometimes located where energy and land are inexpensive and readily available. Local availability of renewable energy, climate that allows outside air to be used for cooling, or locating them where the heat they produce may be used for other purposes could be factors in green siting decisions.

Virtualization

Computer virtualization refers to the abstraction of computer resources, such as the process of running two or more logical computer systems on one set of physical hardware. The concept originated with the IBM mainframe operating systems of the 1960s, but was commercialized for x86-compatible computers only in the 1990s. With virtualization, a system administrator could combine several physical systems into virtual machines on one single, powerful system, thereby unplugging the original hardware and reducing power and cooling consumption. Virtualization can assist in distributing work so that servers are either busy, or put in a low power sleep state. Several commercial companies and open-source projects now offer software packages to enable a transition to virtual computing. Intel Corporation and AMD have also built proprietary virtualization enhancements to the x86 instruction set into each of their CPU product lines, in order to facilitate virtualized computing.

Terminal servers

Terminal servers have also been used in green computing. When using the system, users at a terminal connect to a central server; all of the actual computing is done on the server, but the end user experiences the operating system on the terminal. These can be combined with thin clients, which use up to 1/8 the amount of energy of a normal workstation, resulting in a decrease of energy costs and consumption.There has been an increase in using terminal services with thin clients to create virtual labs. Examples of terminal server software include Terminal Services for Windows and the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP) for the Linux operating system.

Power management

The Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI), an open industry standard, allows an operating system to directly control the power-saving aspects of its underlying hardware. This allows a system to automatically turn off components such as monitors and hard drives after set periods of inactivity. In addition, a system may hibernate, where most components (including the CPU and the system RAM) are turned off. ACPI is a successor to an earlier Intel-Microsoft standard called Advanced Power Management, which allows a computer’s BIOS to control power management functions.

Some programs allow the user to manually adjust the voltages supplied to the CPU, which reduces both the amount of heat produced and electricity consumed. This process is called undervolting. Some CPUs can automatically undervolt the processor depending on the workload; this technology is called "SpeedStep" on Intel processors, "PowerNow!"/"Cool’n'Quiet" on AMD chips, LongHaul on VIA CPUs, and LongRun with Transmeta processors.

Data Center Power

Data Center, which has been criticized for its extra ordinary high energy demand, is a primary focus for proponents of green computing. The federal government has set a minimum 10% reduction target for data center energy usage by 2011.With the aid of a self-styled ultra efficient evaporative cooling technology, Google Inc. has been able to reduce its energy consumption to 50% of that of the industry average.

Operating system support

The dominant desktop operating system, Microsoft Windows, has included limited PC power management features since Windows 95.These initially provided for stand-by (suspend-to-RAM) and a monitor low power state. Further iterations of Windows added hibernate (suspend-to-disk) and support for the ACPI standard. Windows 2000 was the first NT based operating system to include power management. This required major changes to the underlying operating system architecture and a new hardware driver model. Windows 2000 also introduced Group Policy, a technology which allowed administrators to centrally configure most Windows features. However, power management was not one of those features. This is probably because the power management settings design relied upon a connected set of per-user and per-machine binary registry values, effectively leaving it up to each user to configure their own power management settings.

This approach, which is not compatible with Windows Group Policy, was repeated in Windows XP. The reasons for this design decision by Microsoft are not known, and it has resulted in heavy criticism Microsoft significantly improved this in Windows Vista by redesigning the power management system to allow basic configuration by Group Policy. The support offered is limited to a single per-computer policy. The most recent release, Windows 7 retains these limitations but does include refinements for more efficient user of operating system timers, processor power management, and display panel brightness. The most significant change in Windows 7 is in the user experience. The prominence of the default High Performance power plan has been reduced with the aim of encouraging users to save power.

There is a significant market in third-party PC power management software offering features beyond those present in the Windows operating system. Most products offer Active Directory integration and per-user/per-machine settings with the more advanced offering multiple power plans, scheduled power plans, anti-insomnia features and enterprise power usage reporting.

Power supply

Desktop computer power supplies (PSUs) are generally 70–75% efficient, dissipating the remaining energy as heat. An industry initiative called 80 PLUS certifies PSUs that are at least 80% efficient; typically these models are drop-in replacements for older, less efficient PSUs of the same form factor. As of July 20, 2007, all new Energy Star 4.0-certified desktop PSUs must be at least 80% efficient.

Storage

Smaller form factor (e.g. 2.5 inch) hard disk drives often consume less power per gigabyte than physically larger drives.Unlike hard disk drives, solid-state drives store data in flash memory or DRAM. With no moving parts, power consumption may be reduced somewhat for low capacity flash based devices.

In a recent case study, Fusion-io, manufacturers of the world’s fastest Solid State Storage devices, managed to reduce the carbon footprint and operating costs of MySpace data centers by 80% while increasing performance speeds beyond that which had been attainable via multiple hard disk drives in Raid 0. In response, MySpace was able to permanently retire several of their servers, including all their heavy-load servers, further reducing their carbon footprint.

As hard drive prices have fallen, storage farms have tended to increase in capacity to make more data available online. This includes archival and backup data that would formerly have been saved on tape or other offline storage. The increase in online storage has increased power consumption. Reducing the power consumed by large storage arrays, while still providing the benefits of online storage, is a subject of ongoing research.

Video card

A fast GPU may be the largest power consumer in a computer.

Energy efficient display options include:

• No video card – use a shared terminal, shared thin client, or desktop sharing software if display required.
• Use motherboard video output – typically low 3D performance and low power.
• Select a GPU based on low idle power, average wattage or performance per watt.

Display

CRT monitors typically use more power than LCD monitors. They also contain significant amounts of lead. LCD monitors typically use a cold-cathode fluorescent bulb to provide light for the display. Some newer displays use an array of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in place of the fluorescent bulb, which reduces the amount of electricity used by the display. Fluorescent back-lights also contain mercury, whereas LED back-lights do not.

Materials recycling

Recycling computing equipment can keep harmful materials such as lead, mercury, and hexavalent chromium out of landfills, and can also replace equipment that otherwise would need to be manufactured, saving further energy and emissions. Computer systems that have outlived their particular function can be re-purposed, or donated to various charities and non-profit organizations. However, many charities have recently imposed minimum system requirements for donated equipment.Additionally, parts from outdated systems may be salvaged and recycled through certain retail outlets and municipal or private recycling centers. Computing supplies, such as printer cartridges, paper, and batteries may be recycled as well.

A drawback to many of these schemes is that computers gathered through recycling drives are often shipped to developing countries where environmental standards are less strict than in North America and Europe. The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition estimates that 80% of the post-consumer e-waste collected for recycling is shipped abroad to countries such as China and Pakistan.

The recycling of old computers raises an important privacy issue. The old storage devices still hold private information, such as emails, passwords and credit card numbers, which can be recovered simply by someone using software that is available freely on the Internet. Deletion of a file does not actually remove the file from the hard drive. Before recycling a computer, users should remove the hard drive, or hard drives if there is more than one, and physically destroy it or store it somewhere safe. There are some authorized hardware recycling companies to whom the computer may be given for recycling, and they typically sign a non-disclosure agreement.

Telecommuting

Teleconferencing and telepresence technologies are often implemented in green computing initiatives. The advantages are many; increased worker satisfaction, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions related to travel, and increased profit margins as a result of lower overhead costs for office space, heat, lighting, etc. The savings are significant; the average annual energy consumption for U.S. office buildings is over 23 kilowatt hours per square foot, with heat, air conditioning and lighting accounting for 70% of all energy consumed.Other related initiatives, such as hotelling, reduce the square footage per employee as workers reserve space only when they need it.Many types of jobs, such as sales, consulting, and field service, integrate well with this technique.

Voice over IP (VoIP) reduces the telephony wiring infrastructure by sharing the existing Ethernet copper. VoIP and phone extension mobility also made hot desking more practical.

A fabric-based computer is a modular form of computing where a system can be aggregated from separate building-block modules connected over a fabric or switched backplane.
In its basic form, a fabric-based computer comprises a separate processor, memory, I/O, and offload modules (GPU, NPU, etc.) that are connected to a switched interconnect and, importantly, the software required to configure and manage the resulting system(s).

The fabric-based infrastructure (FBI) model abstracts physical resources – processor cores, network bandwidth and links and storage – into pools of resources that are managed by the Fabric Resource Pool Manager (FRPM), software functionality. The FRPM in turn is driven by the Real Time Infrastructure (RTI) Service Governor software component.
An FBI can be supplied by a single vendor or by a group of vendors working closely together, or by an integrator – internal or external.

The list did have some surprises that I wouldn’t have thought about, below is a quick summary of the 10 items listed in the article. Each entry has a short video or abstract associated with it, click on the associated image to open the link. I’ve also included any relevant links that can supply a more descriptive explanation about the technologies described here.

1. Solar Fuel: This doesn’t mean solar energy but fuel derived from an organic, solar driven process. The idea is to use genetically engineered microorganisms that can convert sunlight into ethanol or diesel fuel as an alternative to current biofuel processes. The argument is that this technology will finally produce a viable, cost effective and scalable alternative to fossil fuels. Using microorganisms to produce the fuel from sunlight would be incredibly cheap, and because it could use the same infrastructure to deliver the product success would seem certain. This is only the beginning of organic machines and our ability to manipulate genes in order to create organisms with specific features and a purpose. It is possible that a bigger impact of this type of technology will be in the context of geoengineering, this is currently being discussed as an approach to deal with climate change. The obvious problem with this as a fuel alternative is issue of clean, biofuels burn cleaner than fossil fuels but they may not be as clean.
   
2. Mobile 3-D: This is a huge stretch and leads me to believe somebody in the editorial staff at TR really, really likes Avatar and their iPhone. The company, Dynamic Digital Depth has developed software that can turn 2d video streams into 3d video streams. Sounds impressive and I’m sure it is but software handling this kind of conversion on any scale would seem to be a stretch. I do think 3d has lots of applications beyond entertainment just not on cellular devices, maybe iPads or tablets. In order for 3d to be implemented in the way everybody wants the actual production process has to change, like Avatar did by specifically creating a 3d render-able version of the movie.
   
3. Duel-Action Antibodies: This comes from some work done at Genentech where using a duel-action antibody can deliver two drugs for the price on one, this reduces cost but more importantly should increase efficiency and effectiveness of various cancer and aids related drug therapies. The European Commission recently approved a drug called Removab which is an engineered antibody specifically designed to grab a cancer cell and an immune cell such that the immune cell can kill the cancer. The ability to target two things at one with these bispecific antibodies represents some amazing possibilities for innovative treatments and therapies. Like the engineered microorganisms described above, these engineered proteins are just the beginning of what we will be able to do.
   
4. Real-Time Search:  The focus here seems to be Google’s ability to harvest social content, in real-time, and make it available via the search engine. First, I think this is already happening with Twitter and Facebook as they both opened their fire hose a couple of weeks ago, I’m sure Google is tapped in. Second, the real issue with social network data is security and privacy, I think Google may damage themselves here just as Bing or Yahoo would be likely to do. Beyond the social stuff I do agree that real-time web (a little broader) will have an impact on Internet consumption and on search. The bigger impact isn’t real-time search but deep web search, the ability to dive into and index the real content instead of high level meta data as is done today. Since Google is always downstream to the creation process the best they can ever do is near real-time, just to be clear.
   
5. Light Trapping Photovoltaics: The idea here is increasing the efficiency of solar cells by using nanotechnology as means to boost light scattering in thin solar cell devices. While thin solar cells are considerably cheaper to manufacture then traditional solar cells they are also much less efficient, this process is changing that. The implementation is conceptually simply, they are using silver nanoparticles deposited on the solar cells to increase light scattering towards the cell, the light then becomes trapped between the solar cell and the nanoparticle. This process is inexpensive according to Kylie Catchpole, a research fellow from Australian National University, and is done primarily through self-assembly inspired by simple processes like evaporation and condensation. It will be interesting to see if organic processes steal the show here, its possible that engineered organic materials will be far more efficient than anything we can do mechanically. 
   
6. Engineered Stem Cells: To put it in computer terms, engineered stem cells represent the possibility of having a simulator that allows you can debug disease states and drug effectiveness. The focus here is much more on education and learning than it is on creating organ farms or some other right wing fear. This makes a ton of sense and probably represents the only real possibility for us to create a way to really, truly simulate living processes under all kinds of conditions. The focus has always been on organ growth or tissue generation, this shift in thinking represents (I think) considerably more benefit both short term and long term. Think of what it means to be able to debug the human body, ultimately that’s what this represents.
   
7. Social TV: This is an interesting idea, social media is clearly being integrated into the entertainment experience, especially with television. What is suggested here is that social interaction will be tightly integrated into the television watching experience. Today this is accomplished by people Twittering or Facebooking as they are watching something on the television, in the future this type of social interaction is likely to become much richer and more deeply integrated into the overall experience. This is done online now, there are multiple video streams where viewers chat and comment, these interactions become part of the video record and represent, in many cases, a big part of the overall experience. For example, MLB.com offers a service where you can watch the game online and simultaneously interact with anyone else on the service and watching the game, everybody can see the stream. For me, this adds a lot more interest to the game and definitely makes it a more interactive and fun experience.
   
8. Green Concrete: This one certainly caught my eye, learn something new everyday. It turns out that cement accounts for about 5% of the global carbon emissions based on the fact that it is primarily limestone and requires extreme heating during preparation. A new type of cement, created by British statup named Novacem promises to not only eliminate the carbon emissions but turn cement into a carbon sinkhole. This is accomplished by using magnesium silicates processed at low temperatures instead of the carbon dioxide containing limestone. Once the magnesium oxide is produced it is mixed with various carbonates that turn it into cement and cause it to have a negative carbon footprint. Changing the basic chemistry of something that has been around for a few thousand years is pretty amazing, creating an ecological benefit at the same time, priceless.
   
9. Implantable Electronics: This topic can certainly take on several different connotations, everything from pacemakers to cyborgs. The technology described here is focused on drug delivery, monitoring bio-markers and other types of treatment and research, all at the nanoscale. One of the remarkable features of these implantable devices is that when they have completed their life cycle they simple dissolve, a version of cyber-apoptosis. Unfortunately, the video explanation is terrible and difficult to make sense of. This is the type of professor that would cause kids to to find another career path, he tries to explain two different technologies but isn’t successful explaining either. I do know they are using silk extensively in their work. Apparently, this technology is small enough to fly under the radar of the body’s defense mechanisms and avoid being attacked by antibodies or white corpuscles.
   
10. Cloud Programming: The discussion here revolves around cloud computing tools that are specifically designed for data management,Joseph Hellerstein from UCB believes that what his team is working on will unlock the potential of cloud computing. The basic idea is to expose a set of tools that allows developers to take advantage of cloud resources (via parallel computing) without dealing with the associated underlying complexity. The initial focus is on datasets and the dynamic organization of them, the efforts hint at a crowd sourced solution where the software can augment the crowd’s efforts. This is huge problem as new data is released into the cloud every second of every day, since there are not any adopted standards for dataset design and construction this situation promises to be an on-going problem unless a group like this is successful.
    

Our Final Year Project is a Complete Project management Solution with Agile Methodology(TouchEnabled).

A overview on Agile:

• Customer Satisfaction
• Early Incremental Delivery
• Small Teams
• Informal Methods
• Minimal Work Products
• Continuous Communication among developers and Customers

Some of the planned tool features are:

• Product Planning
• Sprint Planning
• Release Planning
• Maintenance
• Regression Testing
• User Story Testing
• Reporting
• Dashbooards

In the reporting module, we will be providing with the following charts:

• Burn Down Chart

• Member Performance Chart

• Gantt Chart

We are also providing with the Touch feature so that this application will also work on Tablet PC. The Application will also have support for drawing the Use Case Diagrams and the Data Flow Diagrams.Even the Event Trace Diagrams can be drawn in this application. But this is not the only thing, User can draw these diagrams using the touch in his own way and the complete diagram will be replicated in the standard format. So this provides the easy way for the user to draw the diagrams

This is the industrial project with Persistent Technologies Ltd.

Project Guide:

Mohd. Irfan Khan from Persistent and College mentor are Prof. M.B. Chandak and Prof. Rashmi Welekar.

Project Members:

Hrushikesh Zadgaonkar, Satyendra Singh Naruka , Saurabh Maheshwari, Lalit thawrani and Gourav Agarwal.

Sometime you may need the OS installation date. You may want to know how old is your OS or any other information related to your system. Windows does not provide direct information about the installation date of installation of your OS.
However you can view the date of OS installation from command prompt by giving some syntax to it.

With following command you can view whole detail about the manufacturer and about your OS. In this tutorial I am focusing to installation date of Windows.

systeminfo

Open command prompt window by going to Run and type “cmd” (without quotes).

Input “systeminfo” command to it.

It will look up for system information and load the result below the input.

Search for the OS installation date. There you’ll find exact date for installation of OS. Not only this, you can view the BIOS version of your system, Computer model name, Product code, Time and date of system startup etc.