What if Open Source ain't "Open" no more

We all have somewhere and sometime heard the word Open source. If anyone of you haven't then for you "Ignorance is a bliss". We all love, Firefox, Flock, SeaMonkey, Linux, and MySQL. These are a few to name among the others. Go check out if you are curious about others at SourceForge. This is a great site that's the hub for all the open source projects.

Now wonder what would happen if all the open source suddenly becomes closed source. That's nightmarish to be sure, but I have to ask how much of the nightmare is not wholly real.

Tell me what you feel and go crazy with the idea and it's reprecussions.

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Want More Space

How many of you boast yourself to be nerds like me. It's obnoxious sometimes to say yourself nerds when you actually know that you are a novice and real nerds are out there. Anyways nothing better having the feeling that you are nerds and I have succeeded in making myself happy thinking of being a nerd.

Coming to the point though. Now that you are nerd I am sure you face the same problem of exhausting hard disk space. We all know that most of the space is used by your fetish porn collection ! lol. Let's face it. Even if you were given 1 TB of disk space and a 100 mbps LAN, I am sure you would be running out of the disk space pretty soon. So coming to the real stuff, there's a compression utility called as KGB Archiver. This is not a new kid on the block but for sure deserves the right for being on the wall of fame.

Just to tell you this freak of an utility can compress data in a ratio that's unbelievable. I have Windows Vista Ultimate with Office 2007 Ultimate compressed in a 4 MB file. Are you shocked! Give it a try for yourself.

Here are some test results from the site which is the home to this amazing utility.

Format	Size	Ratio
Uncompressed text data	19900KB	100%
ZIP, maximum compression	4922KB	24,7%
ZIP, Deflate64, maximum compression	4865KB	24,4%
CAB, LZX - maximum compression	3559KB	17,9%
BZIP2, dictionary 900KB	3399KB	17,1%
RAR, maximum compression, solid archive	3220KB	16,2%
UHA, maximum compression, dictionary 32MB, multimedia compression	3171KB	15,9%
7zip, ultra compression, solid archive, dictionary 48MB, word size 255B	2726KB	13,7%
SQX2.0, ultra compression, dictionary 32MB, solid archive, multimedia & EXE compression	2631KB	13,2%
KGB, normal compression	2339KB	11,8%
KGB, medium compression*	1543KB	7,8%

Let me warn you though, the home page says something like this KGB Archiver is the compression tool with an unbelievably high compression rate. Unfortunately, in spite of its powerful compression rate, it has high hardware requirements (I recommend processor with 1,5GHz clock and 256MB of RAM as an essential minimum). One of the advantages of KGB Archiver is also AES-256 encryption which is used to encrypt the archives. This is one of the strongest encryptions known for human.

Also, I once tried decompressing a 4 GB file archived using KGB and it took me 7 hours to decompress with a good high end PC. However, I've never tried compressing data using KGB. So Hold on please. Next time you crib of running out hard disk space, think again!

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Firefox is Memory Leaking..

How many of you (of course people who don't shut down their PC and redefine Load testing) have seen your Firefox shooting up to 500 MB of memory (I am wondering what it used to be in the days when 64 MB was the common standard for RAM). I know it sucks when your favorite browser (Favorite more coz it's open source and of course extensible) sucks up your RAM and leaves you with too less physical memory for other great memory consuming Windows applications (LOL, I remember when Bill gates once said that never will any version of Windows require more than 64 MB of RAM).

All this has left you with imagining if you want to uninstall Firefox. But Hold on Please there's a little piece of utility written in some foreign language by a guy with Pseudonym FelipEX that dramatically optimizes firefox's memory consumption. Don't believe me, try it out yourself. Search for the utility by named "Firefox Ultimate Optimizer" and try it yourself. Just to tell you the results.

My Firefox was using 388 MB before installation and as I write this post, post installation Firefox Ultimate Optimizer, firefox is just consuming 28 MB of RAM. So, Hold on Please before you think about uninstalling Firefox. A word of caution though, I have not tested this utility enough and cannot tell you as yet whether it drastically reduces the performance of Firefox.

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First Post....Hello world in ECMAScript

Hold on please is the theme of this blog and hence I am going to write about things which we have for ages taken for granted but are actually not exactly the notion they carry in our heads.

Ok, enough of Gyan (Knowledge). How many of you have used JavaScript or for that matter heard about it. Well I surely have. For those who have not heard of it, JavaScript is used in millions of Web pages to improve the design, validate forms, detect browsers, create cookies, and much more.

Hey Hold On, did you know that JavaScript is not the real name of the language. JavaScript's official name is "ECMAScript". The standard is developed and maintained by the ECMA Organization. So hold on please. Next time you want to flabbergast someone just ask them if they know ECMAScript.