Today I tried Adobe Contribute CS5 for writing blog and posted one entry http://bit.ly/a8SXuk <<here. Found lots of problem and bugs. First of all it didn’t integrate my tags in Wordpress. The insertion of object is really difficult here.

The best thing in Contribute is: After using it I just tuning up my Windows Live Writer with some use plug ins. Now I am quite OK with it. Thank you Microsoft for the greatest tool for blogging!

Now can anyone tell me why I’ll not use windows? Man can afford a mac. Because mac doesn’t have a similar tool like Live Writer.  

adobe · apple · blogging · contribute · cs5 · live · live writer · mac · microsoft · Software · windows · windows live writer

adobe,contribute,cs5,test,live writer,windows live writer,writer,live

I am writing the text now. Let me add some photos here.

Great. Image added. Now let me try with some other thing.

Adding a PDF document here.

Ok. Still my vote is for windows live writer. I am a bit confused why I will use this software for my blogging? Any good answer? Please let me know.

No tags

Today I am really really very happy. My younger generous brother Emran got certified from Zend Studio. He is a Zend Certified professional now.

Congratulations my brother! I am proud of you!

emran · zend

Dear Google,

Facebook is not Phishing site. Please update your database. Is this a cause of search deal?

Screen clipping taken: 12/3/2008, 4:44 PM

What is the hell! Google Chrome is saying Facebook.com is a phishing site! Can anyone facing the same problem? Please let me know.

chrome · facebook · google · phishing

This blog, www.nirjhar.com is on WordPress Engine. From this you can imagine I am a great fan of WordPress though I am not a regular blogger but reader indeed! I am a regular reader of TechCrunch (www.techcrunch.com actually my favorite site in this world ) and it is also a blog. The Great blog.

Few days back I started observing my native blog platforms very closely. While watching Somewherein Blog (www.somewhereinblog.net), Amar Blog (www.amarblog.com) and some individual bloggers (which are also in wordpress. Example Shahidul Alam’s blog http://shahidul.wordpress.com) for my test cases and after while Nations’ largest newspaper The Daily Prothom Alo launched their own blogging site (www.prothom-aloblog.com). That was also a positive step for this country, Bangladesh. The largest print media is shacking hand with web based media. For me it is a milestone.

Origin of Blog (From Wikipedia)

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, commercial online services such as GEnie, BiX and the early CompuServe, e-mail lists^[56] and Bulletin Board Systems (BBS). In the 1990s, Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running conversations with “threads.” Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical “corkboard.”

The modern blog evolved from the online diary, where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. Most such writers called themselves diarists, journalists, or journalers. Justin Hall, who began personal blogging in 1994 while a student atSwarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers,^[57] as is Jerry Pournelle.^{[citation needed]} Dave Winer’s Scripting News is also credited with being one of the oldest and longest running weblogs.^[58][59] Another early blog was Wearable Wireless Webcam, an online shared diary of a person’s personal life combining text, video, and pictures transmitted live from a wearable computer and EyeTap device to a web site in 1994. This practice of semi-automated blogging with live video together with text was referred to as sousveillance, and such journals were also used as evidence in legal matters.

In 1993, Dr. Glen Barry started publishing the first political blog — the “Forest Protection Blog” (originally entitled “Gaia’s Forest Conservation Archives”) at http://forests.org/blog/ — both to campaign for forest protection and as his Ph.D. project^[60]. This political blog initially used the gopher protocol, and has been on the web continuously since Jan. 1995, making it the web’s first and longest continuously running political blog. The work has since evolved into the world’s largest environmental portals.

Early blogs were simply manually updated components of common Web sites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of Web articles posted in reverse chronological order made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of “blogging”. Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software, such as WordPress, Movable Type, Blogger or LiveJournal, or on regular web hosting services.

Blogging and Bangla:

Apart from the blogging history a new era was brought in Bangladesh on 16th December, 2005 on the day of Nations “Victory Day”. On that day somewherein net launched the first Bangla (Bengali, bn) blogging platform with full support of Unicode (UTF-8) with phonetic Bangla keyboard input. Before that Bangla bloggers were using Blogger to write their Bangla blog with external unicode keyboard like Avro, Ekushey, Bijoy. But blogger wasn’t in Bangla. My favorite Developer Hasin Hayder was the developer of this blog. And again in 2008 hasin created the new Bangla blogging platform Prothom-aloblog. Congratulations Hasin.

And now, blogging in Bangla is really easy for the easy typing method and easy Unicdoe conversion tools. And creating local blogging community is a trend now in Bangladesh. Each day I am getting question from people “How can I start a blog platform?” and My answer is always Wordpress. And then they asked what wordpress? Is it WP or WPMU (WordPress Multi User)? Then I have to answer them with care.

Here is some facts.

WordPress	WordPress MU
Supports one blog with multiple bloggers. Bloggers can’t use a avatar picture by uploading in database.	Supports multiple blogs and multiple bloggers. Bloggers can write for multiple blogs. Blogger can use avatar.
Famous for its “5 minute install.” In practical it needs actually some seconds if you use some service like SampleScript or Fantastico .	Setup is more involved. Really tough.
No advanced hosting requirements. Any host with a MySQL Database support will do.	Your host needs to support wildcard DNS to use the sub domains feature. And most of the cases few hoster (very costly) has this feature. You can’t use this in a Shared Hosting service.
Instant installation (through Fantastico, etc.) supported by many webhosts.	FTP time! You can reduce it by uploading in .zip format and decompress with Shell extension or CPanel File Manager. But still this is kind of Geek work.
Each user is assigned a role level (subscriber, contributor, author, editor, administrator).	In addition to the standard WordPress roles, you can also specify “site admins” who can add/edit/delete all blogs and users.
WordPress receives updates first.	MU users must wait for WordPress updates to be applied to WordPress MU.
Administrators can edit themes, plugins, and code files from within WordPress.	The Theme Editor, Plugin Editor, and Manage Files sections are all disabled for security reasons.
Plugins can be enabled/disabled by the blog administrator.	The site admin can opt to have plug-in disabled altogether (the default setting), or allow blog administrators to enable/disable plug-in that have been uploaded. Plug-in can also be uploaded to a special “mu-plug-in” folder, where they will be executed automatically on all blogs. (Some plug-in won’t function property when run this way, however.)
If you have multiple blogs running standard WordPress, you’d need to upload plugin updates to each one.	Plugins for all WordPress MU blogs are stored in one place. Update once, and it takes effect on all the site’s blogs.
If you have multiple blogs running standard WordPress, you’d need to login to each one separately to access the administration.	You can switch between blog admins using a simple drop-down menu.
Allows you to use most HTML in your posts, but strips out PHP.	In addition to removing PHP, WordPress MU is more strict in regards to what post HTML it accepts. For example, it will strip out class/ID attributes, inline styles, <span> tags, etc.
WordPress allows posting via email.	WordPress MU lacks this feature.
WordPress lets you customize its list of update services.	WordPress MU doesn’t let you specify update services.

Facts are collected from WordPress Expert Blog and modified in many part. Thanks Wordpress Experts.

I think there are other issues involving this comparison. As I am not an expert so dear folks please update here. I’ll love to put those.

Why WordPress?

Here is my points for WordPress:

1. It is really stable and fast.
2. Very easy to setup.
3. Versy easy to manage posts, comments, tags, categories and Spam.
4. Has huge range of Theme (template) to furnish the blog.
5. Plenty of tools (plug-in) is ready to enrich the blog.
6. You can post through Windows LIver Writer, MS Office, ScribeFire and Other supported offline applications.
7. The message compositing composer is really attractive with rich media support.
8. Using the custom fields is really handy.
9. Easy to track back the posts.

If I highlight number 6 (desktop blog posting software) both Somewhereinblog and Prothom-aloblog doesn’t have this feature. Only amar blog (www.amarblog.com) has it as because of WordPress MU.

Moderated Media in Bangladesh:

In Bangladesh every media is moderated. If you think of a printed media they’ve huge moderation due to the limitation of space. So few of lucky person can write their (The Editors and Journalists are lucky, they’ve some space their ). When Bangla blogging started with the slogan “Badh Bhangar Awaj” as it implies the sound of breaking off the dam to unlock the free expression of motions, emotions, interactions in Bangla blogs the writers (bloggers) were happy. At least they’ve a place where they can write whatever they like. After while the blog community was polluted due to slang and personal attack. Then the blog company started to moderate the posts. Then again the moderated media is reborn.

For this reason many bloggers started their own personal blog. Because they believe blog is still their their Web Log.

amar blog · Blogging Engine · Blogging Platform · hasin · history · prothom-aloblog · somewhereinblog · swi · techcrunch · wikipedia · wordpress · WP · WPMU

Dear Friends,

If you need a QA Engineer for your open source project please contact me. I want to contribute. Please write me at lrnirjhar[at]gmail.com for my assistance. I’ll love to be a part of your project.

Have a great day!

developement · open source · qa engineer · softwaer

As you know my laptop is broken. That was a Dell XPS M1330 with 2.6Hz Core 2 Duo Processor (6MB), 4GB RAM and nvidia 9400GS AGP. Unlikely the AGP is broken. As that was purchased from USA so I have to send it back to USA to claim my warranty. I have 3years of warranty with accidental care. After this disaster I had purchased a Low-End Desktop (celeron) and that was bad choice. So again I have to change it. I love to work with my photos and videos so a high-end computer was required. To meet my tech-hunger I have purchased this machine. Here is the summary:

System Board: Intel® Desktop Board DG45ID

Processor: Intel Core2 Quad Q6600: 2.4GHz with 8MB Cache Memory

RAM: 8GB, Transend 800MHz FSB

HDD: 320GB, Hitachi 7200RPM with 3Gbps data transfer.

Optical Drive: BenQ Super Wrier DVD3

Monitor: BenQ T221W, 22inch WideScreen

Case: Delux Black Macpro Tower, I have modified the power supply. I simply integrated a Server power system 700W in it with extra Two Fans.

Here goes the details:

As I live in Bangladesh, high-end accessories are not available here. The main problem here is a good casing with good power supply. So first I chose a case which armor is heavy and good looking then I simply changed the built-in power supply with a 700W Server power system. I can’t trust other power supplies. Then I integrate my system board. Here is the feature of my board:

Features and benefits

Form factor
MicroATX (9.60 inches by 9.60 inches [243.84 millimeters by 243.84 millimeters])

Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets

• Support for DDR2 800/667 MHz DIMMs
• Support for up to 8 GBΣ of system memory

Chipset

• Intel® G45 Express Chipset

Audio

Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:

• 8-channel (7.1) audio subsystem with five analog audio outputs and one optical S/PDIF digital audio output using the IDT 92HD73E audio codec

Video
Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500HD onboard graphics subsystem with integrated HDMI + DVI-I display ports

LAN support
Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82567LF Gigabit Ethernet Controller

Peripheral interfaces

• Up to 12 USB 2.0 ports (6 back ports and 6 via headers)
• Six Serial ATA 3.0 Gb/s ports, including 1 eSATA back port with RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support
• Two IEEE-1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header)
• Consumer IR receiver and emitter (via internal headers)
• One serial port via header

Expansion capabilities

• One PCI Express* x16 bus add-in card connector
• Two PCI Express* x1 bus add-in card connectors
• One PCI Conventional* bus add-in card connector

The G45 Express and GMA X4500 HD

The G45 Express chipset is a step up from older Intel-based budget chipsets. It supports front-side bus speeds up to 1333 MHz, PCIe 2.0, DDR2 800 or DDR3 1066, and a whole mess of SATA ports through the ICH10 controller hub. The DG45ID in particular is a DDR2 motherboard, so that somewhat limits our memory bandwidth. It’s pretty small as MicroATX boards go.

There are six SATA ports and no IDE ports at all, so you’ll need to make sure you use a SATA optical drive. There is one PCIe x16 graphics slot, two x1 PCIe expansion slots, and a single PCI slot. Note that this motherboard does not support the really high-wattage Intel processors; the fastest supported chips are the quad-core Q9550 or the dual-core E8500.

Looking at the back plane, we see a whopping six USB ports, firewire, eSATA, five analog audio jacks, a TOSLINK optical audio output, and gigabit Ethernet. There are two digital video outputs—dual-link DVI and HDMI. 7.1 audio is supported through the IDT 92HD73E audio codec.

The GMA X4500 HD graphics in the G45 chipset is a relatively minor upgrade to the old GMA 3100/3500 in previous boards. It’s a very similar part, only with 10 unified shader processors instead of 8, running at a higher clock speed. Intel says it’s 2–3 times as fast as the GMA 3100 and as much as 70% faster than the GMA 3500 found on G35-based motherboards.

The X4500 HD is built on a 65nm manufacturing process, as opposed to the 90nm technology used to build the GMA 3xxx. The process shrink is what enabled the extra shader processors and higher clock speed.

Intel claims that the GMA X4500 HD supports DirectX 10, as the GMA 3500 did (with the right driver update). We tried it and it only "sort of" works. It’s far too slow to be usable even in the most forgiving of DX10 titles, and even with all the details turned way down. It’s also a little buggy—the Parallax Occlusion Map test in 3DMark Vantage crashes the system, and we saw little white dots all over the place when running Crysis in DX10 mode (at low settings).



click on image for full view

So while DX10 may be a "bullet point" for Intel here, you might as well ignore the fact that it exists. No DX10 title runs well enough to even enable DX10 mode, even if they all ran perfectly (which they don’t).

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The IEE-1394a port is an advantage for me. I can work with my HDCAM here directly. And also the eSATA port is fine. I love it.In Bangladesh all general users use the SATA controller as IDE bridge. They don’t know about the AHCI. The Intel Matrix Storage Device driver can solve this problem on OS Loading time. I did it.As I am using 8GB of RAM so 32bit OS can’t use it all so I am using Windows Vista Ultimate 64Bit.I am enjoying the built-in sound card. It is fantastic. Here is a screen shot!

Screen clipping taken: 10/17/2008, 2:14 PM

I am still not connected any Extra AGP or SoundCard. I am more than happy with the Built-In things.

And the view, My 22inch Wide Screen LCD Monitor. I can see two A4 size paper at same time on it. And I am really enjoying Adobe Photoshop and Camera RAW 4.5 with it. I calibrated it. Thanks goes to intel Gamma.

But there is some problem, intel should add more technical description in the bios setup area. So that user can customize the system comfortably.

Can anyone suggest me how can I build a machine which rating will be 7+? I am still curious on that. Dear Microsoft can you please tell me what is the standard of a 10rated machine? Please don’t suggest I have to purchase a Latest Super Computer.

22inch monitor · 64bit · ahci · benq · computer · core2 quad · desktop board · dg45id · microsoft · ultimate · vista · windows · x64

Today I purchased a new Desktop. Initially I have purchased a low end Desktop (Celeron) after my Laptop Disaster. Today I have replaced that one with a Intel 2.4GHz Quad Core Processor, 8GB (800MHz) of RAM, 320GB SATA 7200RPM 3GBPS HDD, 22Inch WideScreen LCD Monitor, 700Watt Power Supply, And a Fantastic Intel Mother Board which has lotssssssssssssss more of features.

Now I can even edit videos or can work with high end graphics. I am very happy. Really very happy.

computer · desktop · intel · quad core

Apple releases iTunes 8. I am using it. In this new version it is providing Album artwork in thumbnail view. I am really enjoying this. I have  more than 400GB of MP3 stored in a 1TB WD external HDD. I am really enjoying it.

You can download it from www.apple.com/itunes

Cheers!

8 · apple · itunes · music player · thumbnail artwork