Anant Shrivastava : Techno Enthusiast

Finally google has once again updated its toolbar PR.

and guess what i have been on the benifit end

the details of my personal pages pr update is as follows.

http://blog.anantshri.info – earlier PR2 – now PR3

http://www.linkedin.com/in/anantshri – no PR – now PR3

http://claimid.com/anantshri – no PR – PR3

http://anantshri.stumbleupon.com/ – np PR – PR3

http://www.naymz.com/search/anant/shrivastava/1518597 – not created at last PR – PR2

Till now i have found these changes

I hope to get a lot more in next PR update.

But for the time being this much is enough for me.

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I recently brought a book thinking it might give me someips on how to improve blogging habbits, and boy i was not wrong to select Blogging for begineers : by Margaret stead.

This book is an amazing art, it starts with asking simplest question of all

WHY YOU SHOULD BLOG

and then moves on to show how you can find topics to blog on, also find the nich you could servive on.

and then it moves on to the all esential point, what are the advantages of blogging.

1) how you can monotize your blog

2) how your blog can help you get better oportunities.

3) and most important of all how can you keep our spirits high even when you think you are shouting in forest.

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To look at the options to provide a virtual machine to run windows on Linux.

i had multiple options

Complete virtualization (virtual machine)

1) Bochs (I have used it a few years back and found it good, but it only lacked a graphical configuration manager)

2) VMWARE (one of the best in terms of ease of use but i have to reject it in due to its licensing)

3) XEN (text on net says a lot about it but till now i am unable to establish a xen server what i want to do is to set a windows guest but i have not found an option for it till now.)

then a site came into view the screen shots seems quite impressive and so came the fourth option in my mind

4) innotek virtualbox (although its proprietary in its fullest, but a limited version is also released in GPL, and both versions are free for educational and not for commercial use.)

See more about the latest version of virtualbox here

Emulation

5) Wine – a nice piece of software, till now i have been able to succesfully run

i) macromedia dreamweaver 8.0

ii) adobe photoshop cs2 tryout

iii) winzip, winrar and other compression tools

iv) AVR studio 4

v) WinAVR

vi) Boson Netsimulator

vii) need for speed II SE

viii) AVRlibs

6) DOSBOX

Well i have been dieing to try my hands on those nice games available to me during the good old days of dos, which includes jazz jackrabbit and others which i was unable to on XP, even under compatibility mode.

This nifty utility is now installed on both my windows and Linux box and is helping me run those old applications which worked on dos only (or at most win98) environment.

NOTE : this article was publized on eulogik blog on 20th sep 2007, posting here, to collect at one place.

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