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Microsoft postpones the Cremation Date of Windows XP, Hallelujah

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Microsoft today announced that it is going to extend the date from which Windows XP would be unavailable to the general public and vendors. Previously Microsoft announced that it would detest the sales and support of Windows XP from Jan 31st, 2009, but now the date has been extended to May 30, 2009.

So, what might [...]

Differences “Size” and “Size on Disk” in a file’s Properties

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Say we created a notepad file which contains just the letters HI and save it. Now, go to that file, right click on it and click “Properties”. Check the “Size” and “Size on disk” for this particular file. The file has two characters namely ‘H’ and ‘I’ which occupy 1 byte each,so totally 2 bytes [...]

Google Adsense System Down page too has PR

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Affected by the Google PageRank bug? Yeah, most of the new bloggers are.
Today when our blog admin wanted to check Team Nirvana’s earnings in Adsense, he got to see this message.

Someone must be earning huge bucks which pulled the system down or else again the “change to terms” might have been updated as it happens [...]

Open Files With Any Extensions and Formats

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Team Nirvana came across a stupendous website that provides solutions to the extension woes that every computer user gets into at one point of the time or the other. How many times have we not seen some applications which display as ‘unidentified files’ by Windows XP and how we have vowed to open them by [...]

Strange Election Rule As Per 1969 Act-Vote or Don’t Vote

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Did you know that there is a system in Indian constitution, as per the 1969 act, in section “49-O” that a person can go to the polling booth, confirm his identity, get his finger marked and convey the presiding election officer that he/she doesn’t want to vote anyone! Yes such a feature is available, but [...]