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Sites We Cant Live Without

Recently, I came across the Time.com ’s list of 25 sites, We Can’t Live Without . I read it till the end to discover the new websites, I might be unaware of. I thought so because being a software professional, I spend much of my time daily browsing Internet. Not to my surprise, I came across quite a few websites, I had not heard of. More so, may be because I don’t need the services offered by them like one that’s selling shoes and accessories. But there were some websites, I was happy to browse. One of them is Craiglist , it’s more like Yellow Pages cum Free Advertisements that are bundled for free alongwith the Newspapers. I was surprised to see a separate section for Bangalore and that too quite an active one. Others in the list were mainly News-Related Websites or portals like Yahoo , MSN & AOL . Though they are not exactly comparable in terms of size and content, but that’s a broad category I’m putting them into. Drudge Report , Factcheck.org , National Public Radio and ...

Lyceum Installation

Lyceum is an extension of the popular Wordpress blogging software. While Wordpress is a single user blogging software, Lyceum is a multiple users blogging software. Under early development, read about it here I tried installing it on my Windows XP system, running Apache 2.0.59, PHP 4.4.3 & MySQL 3.23.42 and faced quite some problems, so thought to blog about it. Installation Steps Download, Install and configure Apache, MySQL and PHP on your Windows Machine. Download and Installation should not be a problem. For configuration, you may follow these links: http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/php4install.shtml http://www.dmxzone.com/ShowDetail.asp?NewsId=6452 After you’ve configured all the above 3 components, download Lyceum source from here Extract the source and place it under your DocumentRoot ( ). You should have the following directory structure. /lyceum + /dev | /doc | /src | + /bin | | /config | | /installation | | /lib | + /lyceum + /tests Befo...

Single File Format

Recently, I read this article, where in the Author has imagined interoperability of all files some way; where all possible file formats could be represented in a standard/single format, so as to ease the process of file editing/creating and parsing. Read it here