Firefox 10 Released to Download

Firefox 10 has been released and is available to download for Mac, Windows, and Linux users. The new version isn’t too different from version 9, but includes bug fixes, better extension management, an auto-hiding forward button, improvements to CSS3 capabilities, and antialiasing support for WebGL, as well as some other additions that the average user probably won’t notice. The release notes are posted below for those interested, otherwise just download and enjoy.

Download Firefox 10

• Mac OS X
• Windows
• Linux

Unfortunately, the browser is still lacking the now standardized OS X Lion full-screen button, and the 10.0 release didn’t include any new Mac-specific features. All in all, for a 10.0 release it’s kind of boring, but you can make it more attractive by giving it a Google Chrome style Omnibar with this add-on for Firefox that merges the search and URL bars into one.

Firefox 10 Release Notes:

• The forward button is now hidden until you navigate back
• Anti-Aliasing for WebGL is now implemented (see bug 615976)
• Full Screen APIs allow you to build a web application that runs full screen (see the feature page)
• CSS3 3D-Transforms are now supported (see bug 505115)
• New bdi element for bi-directional text isolation, along with supporting CSS properties (see bugs 613149 and 662288)
• Inspect tool with content highlighting, includes new CSS Style Inspector
• We’ve added IndexedDB APIs to more closely match the specification
• Some users may experience a crash when moving bookmarks (681795)
• Some synaptic touch pads are unable to vertical scroll
• For some users, scrolling in the main GMail window will be slower than usual
• If you try to start Firefox using a locked profile, it will crash
• This version of Firefox will not work on Macintosh hardware with Power PC CPUs
• Under certain conditions, scrolling and text input may be jerky
• Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later

Source: osxdaily.com

PHP 5.3.9 Released

On PHP.net they’ve posted the official announcement about the release of PHP 5.3.9, an release following 5.3.8 with Security Enhancements and Fixes.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.3.9. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.3.x branch with over 90 bug fixes, some of which are security related.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.3.9:

• Added max_input_vars directive to prevent attacks based on hash collisions. (CVE-2011-4885)
• Fixed bug #60150 (Integer overflow during the parsing of invalid exif header). (CVE-2011-4566)

Key enhancements in PHP 5.3.9 include:

• Fixed bug #55475 (is_a() triggers autoloader, new optional 3rd argument to is_a and is_subclass_of).
• Fixed bug #55609 (mysqlnd cannot be built shared)
• Many changes to the FPM SAPI module

You can download this latest release from download page. Windows binaries can be found here.

Trip to Kodari – Northern Nepal border to China

Cable cars to transport the magnesite in Lamosanghu

Open mountain

Open mountain, closer view

Shringeshor Temple

Beehives on open mountain

Stunning beauty of Bhote Koshi river

Bhote Koshi river water flow

Garden

Warning

Entrance to picnic spot, garden and hot spring bathtub

Tatopani hot spring bathe

Sringeshor temple premises

Shringeshor murti

Tatopani hot spring premises

Tatopani hot spring entrance gate by right side

Tatopani Hotels and Lodges

Waterfall

Stunning beauty of waterfall

Waterfall, closer view

Roadway to Kodari

Waterfall, closer view

Immigration Office

Tatopani customs office

1st entrance gate to cross the border and way to Tibet

Parked Trucks and Trippers to load goods imported from Tibet

2nd entrance gate to cross the border and way to Tibet

The entry point to Tibet – Miteri Bridge, built by China in 1985

Distant view of Zhangmu, Tibet – in nepali called Khasa, the major trade center between Nepal and China

Kodari street

Bungy spot

160m high metal suspension bridge over the Bhote Koshi river, way to The Last Resort entry point

Getting ready for Bungy

Bhote Koshi river gorge, down view from the bridge

The Last Resort entrance gate

Cattle farm in local village

Local kid

Ganesh murti closer to gate

Quick information on the exciting adventures

Beautiful flower decoration on the water pot

The Last Resort adventure and relaxation area

Seems to be deeper

Stone tiles arranged on the edge of the road

Facebook gives Timeline to iPhone users

Facebook extended Timeline access to iPhone users with an app update released today.

In addition to the social network’s new profile design, version 4.1 of the iPhone app provides mobile users access to their friend lists, subscribers, and subscriptions. Facebook says the app also makes it easier to view, upload, and comment on photos.

Facebook says iPad support for mobile Timeline will be coming soon. Timeline, which shows all the updates a person has added to Facebook since they joined the site, was rolled out to Web browsers and Android devices worldwide on Thursday.

The update may help the iPhone app retake its lead in popularity for accessing the social network. Facebook for Android now has 58.3 million average daily users compared with an average of 57.4 million daily users who use the iPhone app to read the site, according to stats complied by AppData.

Source: news.cnet.com

Microsoft decides to automatically update Internet Explorer for everyone

Good news, everyone! Microsoft has decided that the time has come to make sure that all users of Internet Explorer are using the most current version possible. To accomplish that goal, they’re turning on automatic updates.

Yes, Internet Explorer patches and new major versions are already available via Windows Update. But to move from one version to the next, it’s never been a fully automatic process. There’s a separate install window that appears for installing, say, Internet Explorer 9. For many users, the additional steps required were often enough to prevent them from installing a new version.

And so from now on, Internet Explorer will quietly update itself just as Windows does. Starting in January, users in Australia and Brazil will be the begin receiving automatic IE updates. Microsoft will then gradually extend coverage to other parts of the world as time goes on.

Ryan Gavin, Microsoft’s senior director for Internet Explorer, pointed out several benefits. The overall security of the Windows user community will be improved as outdated browsers are replaced, developers can focus their attention on building sites using modern web code, and those who surf with IE will be able to enjoy the full Beauty of the Web.

But Microsoft hasn’t forgotten about its enterprise customers — there won’t be an admin uproar like the one we saw when Mozilla shifted Firefox to a rapid release cycle. Just as they always have, Microsoft will continue to offer Internet Explorer blocker tools so that network administrators can deploy new browser versions once they’ve been fully tested and won’t cause any application compatibility issues.

There also won’t be any changes made to a user’s default search provider or home page. User preferences won’t be touched as part of this new Internet Explorer update process. You’ll simply be bumped to the most current version available for your version of Windows (IE9 on Vista and Windows 7, IE8 on Windows XP).

It certainly sounds like there’s no downside here. With today’s internet threat landscape, there’s no question that using an outdated browser is a fool’s errand. And you won’t find a web developer anywhere who’s sad to learn that Internet Explorer 6 (and even 7) will soon disappear from Windows XP machines around the globe.

Source: geek.com

Peace of Heaven – Druk Amitabha Mountain

Breaking mountain for constructing road

Art

Buddha Statue

Main Statue

Close view

Garden

Stairway

Valley view from height

Stairway to Monastery

Close view

Monastery

Buddha Statue

Main gate

Sunset time

Why this kolaveri di – Dhanush

yo boys i am singing song
Fm Fb C#       Fb
      soup song
Fm       Fb C# Fb
flop song
Fm                Fb                C# Fb
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
Fm                Fb                C# Fb
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
rhythm correct
Fm                Fb                C# Fb
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di
maintain please
Fm                Fb    C# Fb
why this kolaveri... aa di

Fm          Fb
distance la moon-u moon-u
C#             Fb
moon-u color-u white-u
Fm                 Fb
white-u background night-u night-u
C#              Fb
night-u color-u black-u

Fm                Fb                C# Fb
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di - 2x

Fm           Fb
white skin-u girl-u girl-u
C#             Fb
girl-u heart-u black-u
Fb            Fb
eyes-u eyes-u meet-u meet-u
C#        Fb
my future dark-u

Fm                Fb                C# Fb
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di - 2x

maama notes eduthuko
apdiye kaila snacks eduthuko

Fm            Fb            C#               Fb
pa pa pa paan pa pa pa paan pa pa paan pa pa paan
sariya vaasi

Fb|Fb|C#|Fb

super maama ready
ready 1 2 3 4

Fm|C#|Eb|C# - 4x

whaa what a change over maama
ok maama now tune change-u

Fm           Eb
kaila glass-u
only english

Fm              Eb
hand la glass-u glass la scotch-u
C#             Cm
eyes-u full-aa tear-u
Fm           Eb
empty life-u girl-u come-u
C#           Cm
life reverse gear-u

Fm          Fb
lovvu lovvu oh my lovvu
C#            Eb
you showed me bouv-u
Fm          Fb
cow-u cow-u holi cow-u
C#            Eb
i want u hear now-u
Fm             D#
god i am dying now-u
C#           D#
she is happy how-u

Fm                     D#
this-u song-u for soup boys-u
C#            Eb
we don't have choice-u

Fm                Fb                C# Fb
why this kolaveri kolaveri kolaveri di - 4x

Destination Weekend – Nagarkot

Mountain range

Closer view

Tower

Get ready

Records on the tower ceiling

Climbing tower

Photo shoot

Couple

Viewing through telescope

Gravity station

Road under construction

Forest roadway

Sunlight passing through the trees

Geodetic survey branch

Poster shot

Mahadev temple

Beer bottles arranged

Bottle garden

Marigold

Wheeling self made vehicle

Dim light

Relax

Tall trees

Sunset time

Closer view

Way to nagarkot

Nice background

Catching the sun

Sunset

Backup/Restore SQL Database using SMO in VB.NET

What is SMO?

This can be achieved in earlier versions of SQL Server using Distributed Management Objects (DMO) but now it is no longer supported in SQL Server 2008 R2 and future versions. You can achieve the same using SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) in 2008 R2. SMO provides objects which are used to manage SQL Server.

SMO has different namespaces, Server is the base object in SMO. SMO object model is based on managed code and all are .NET assemblies.

One of the advantage of SMO over DMO is objects are loaded only when you specifically refer in your code so it improves your application performance while interacting server.

You need to refer the following assemblies in your project, which is located in C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\SDK\Assemblies\

• Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo.dll
• Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll
• Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum.dll
• Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlEnum.dll

Now here is the snippets

Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
Imports Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common

Private Sub btnBackup_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnBackup.Click
Dim oConn As New ServerConnection(<Instance_Name>, <UserID>, <Password>)
Dim oServer As New Server(oConn)
Dim oBackup As New Backup
oBackup.Devices.AddDevice(“d:\backup.bak”, DeviceType.File)
oBackup.Database = <Database>
oBackup.Action = BackupActionType.Database
oBackup.Initialize = True
oBackup.PercentCompleteNotification = 10
AddHandler bkp.PercentComplete, AddressOf ProgressEventHandler
oBackup.SqlBackup(oServer)
End Sub

Private Sub btnRestore_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles btnRestore.Click
Dim oConn As New ServerConnection(<Instance_Name>, <UserID>, <Password>)
Dim oServer As New Server(oConn)
Dim oRestore As New Restore
oRestore.Devices.AddDevice(“d:\backup.bak”, DeviceType.File)
oRestore.Database = _Database
oRestore.Action = RestoreActionType.Database
oRestore.ReplaceDatabase = True
oRestore.PercentCompleteNotification = 10
AddHandler res.PercentComplete, AddressOf ProgressEventHandler
oRestore.SqlRestore(oServer)
End Sub

Private Sub ProgressEventHandler(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As PercentCompleteEventArgs)
Console.WriteLine(e.Percent.ToString + ” % completed”)
End Sub

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