How to know when your Windows was installed???

Found this tips in http://www.geekzone.co.nz from chakkaradeep. Thanks chakkaradeep!!

systeminfo | find /i "install date"

So you will get something like below:

 

APPLE BANS SAMSUNG AGAIN.. AGAIN... AGAIN AND AGAIN... WTH!!!

Stupid Apple really does it this time.... but why only Samsung??? There are 101 "copycats" of IPAD if they are actually a copycat.... heck, these Android Tab are far more better and cheaper than the dumb IPAD which is only for the looks.... Dont you dare come to Malaysian court!!!

Apple scored a pretty big victory in their ongoing court battles with Samsung in Germany. The Dusseldorf court just confirmed the ban on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 shipments in Germany, as the slate was found guilty on infringing Apple's patents.

If you need a memory refresh, the German story started with Apple winning an injunction against the sales of Galaxy Tab 10.1 across all of the EU. Later the court lifted the ban outside Germany because it suddenly realized that it has no jurisdiction over the Korean-based company.

Samsung's problems continued when the German court extended the ban to include the freshly announced Galaxy Tab 7.7. Just a day after it was announced at the IFA in Berlin, the 7-inch tablet disappeared from Samsung's booth because the court ruling prohibits not only the sale, but also promotion of the infringing devices.

 

Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 is already banned in Australia and Apple is already on its way to the Japanese courtrooms. Apple also managed to secure a preliminary injunction that bans the Galaxy S II, Galaxy S and Galaxy Ace in Europe starting on October 13th for infringing a single Apple patent - a gesture one.

Today's decision from the court in Dusseldorf confirms the ban of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany. The ruling is in favor of the plaintiff (Apple) because there is a "clear impression of similarity" between the iPad and the Galaxy Tab 10.1. This happened despite Apple presenting tampered evidence in court.

Samsung is prepping to appeal in higher courts, so this is far from over, but shipping will probably remain forbidden for the duration of the trial.

The most disturbing thing here is that the German court really believes Samsung (or any other manufacturer actually) should make their tablets different from the iPad. The following quotes from a technology expert really say it all:

"The judge basically said that only Apple is allowed to sell thin square tablets with round edges. That's just insane."

Let's hope this madness ends soon as we can't see anyone gaining too much from it. Even if Apple do win in the end, Samsung will probably fix the infringing parts and still bring the tablets to market. And we aren't sure a few months of market advantage are worth the inevitable bad PR for Apple. Plus, us, end-users are not exactly benefiting from the decreased competition.

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot comes in one month time!!!

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot will be released officially On October 13th 2011.

Textbox All Upper Case (Auto Capitalization)

I was looking for a script that can change text input into textboxes to change to capital letters automatically and I found this wonderful short script in http://javascript.internet.com/forms/all-upper-case.html

Just add the code below in your textbox code

onChange="javascript:this.value=this.value.toUpperCase();

Mapguide Maestro 4.0 Beta 1 is released!!!

Mapguide Maestro 4.0 Beta 1 has been released!!! Go get one and try it out!!! What are you waiting for, all you GIS Lovers!!!

To download the latest version of Mapguide Maestro please go to the link below:

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapguide/wiki/maestro/Downloads

How To Access A VNC Remote Desktop After The Server Reboots

Been looking for this solution for a long time, great article by AnthonyDiSante of http://encodable.com/

Ubuntu Linux, and probably other modern versions of Linux, include a built-in VNC server for remote desktop access. In Ubuntu this is called vino-server and it’s enabled via Main Menu -> System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop.

But since this runs as the user who’s logged in to Gnome, it only starts after that user is logged in. So if you’re away from the PC and accessing it remotely, but something happens which causes/requires it to reboot, then when it comes back up, you won’t be able to access the VNC server because the user won’t be logged in.
The solution to this is actually simple as long as you have SSH enabled and you have root access (via "sudo su" for example) to the server. Just SSH to it using your normal user account. Then edit the /etc/gdm/gdm.conf file (actually it’s /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom on Ubuntu) and add the following lines to the [daemon] section:

AutomaticLoginEnable=true
AutomaticLogin=yourusername

Then either reboot the server by running "sudo shutdown -r now", or just restart gdm by running "sudo killall -HUP gdm". Once gdm restarts, it will automatically login as the specified user, and your vino-server process will then start, so you can VNC into the system again. Don’t forget to remove those auto-login lines from your gdm conf file when you’re done.
UPDATE: alternatively you could forget about vino and the Remote Desktop preferences altogether, and just install x11vnc on the remote system. Once it’s installed you just run it from your SSH shell, passing "-rfbauth NNN" where NNN is the port number you want it to run on. Then run your VNC viewer app on your local system to connect to the remote system on that port.