The code for those who don’t use NetBeans IDE:
Note: 1)You have to import the Toolkit Package
import java.awt.Toolkit;
2) Image icon = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(”icon_confused.gif”);
frame.setIconImage(icon);

For NetBeans IDE users:
1)You have to import the Toolkit Package
2)In the Netbeans properties window for your Frame, try iconImage.
->Select Custom Code
->Add the following line:
setIconImage(Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(SampleFrame.class.getResource(”/image/logo.png”)));
/**Here SampleFrame is the JFrame class name.*/
/**The logo can be placed inside a folder named ‘image’. Relative path is used to access the logo*/

Now you have your own customised logo on the Frame window. Cheers!
I have used it on my B.E final year project.

It supports unlimited domains/users including virtual domains & aliases.

XMail Lite also offers anti-virus integration, bayesian filters (for spam protection) & a logging functionality of all the activities.

Homepage and Download:
http://www.afterlogic.com/products/xmail-server-lite

Dashain

Today’s the tenth day of Dashain festival; also known as Bijaya Dashami. On this day we take tika and jamara from our elders and receive their blessing. We visit our elders in their home and get tika from them while our younger ones come to our home to receive blessing from us.

Well, it’s said that we needn’t wait for a specific time to put Tika and receive blessings. But yet, the auspicious time to put Tika this year is 10:55 am NST as notified by the Panchanga Authority. The conversion for various cities is shown below.(Read more..)

Auspicious Tika time on Monday, September 28, 2009 at 10:55 AM Kathmandu Time

The time on various parts of the world.

bday balloon

A birthday, as the term implies, is the anniversary of the particular day on which a person was born. Though by no means universal, such occasions are celebrated in numerous cultures, often with a party or, in some instances, a rite of passage.

The day started out with a shower. Checked some text msgs on my mobile, then headed to Bindabasini temple. Since everyone was at home, we planned to cook momo. After lunch, we were all busy making dough, preparing the masala for meat, and finally stuffing the minched fillings inside the momo.

While the momo was being cooked, I came back to my computer to check some mails. Lots of wishes had been posted on my Facebook Walls. Emails were also coming now and then. This year my Birthday fell on a day before Teej (the biggest festival of Hindu ladies). Everyone was busy at their homes feeding various food items to ladies fasting for 24 hrs the next day. Celebrating my party with my classmates were nearly impossible, so we postponded the party.

Mom ordered a chocolate cake for me. Till then, momo was cooked. I could smell the aroma coming out from the chimney from my window. Me and my brother brought a huge pile of momos infront of the TV and we played “Love Aaj Kal” on DVD. It was quite a nice movie. After that, I cut the Bday cake in a small family gathering. Then had dinner and came to my room to have some research on my Final year project. A video link was left on my msn by my sisters in UK. It was a sweet bday wish created by my 3 cousin sisters in UK. I felt so nice to get that. They had actually edited and compiled a small clip of 38 seconds with a recent pic of mine. I felt so glad to see it. That’s how my day ended.

The Birthday Clip:

Let me give you what might seem a strange piece of advice – be lucky. Sometimes you have good luck and sometimes you have bad luck. But do you have a choice? Can you make your own luck? Dr. Richard Wiseman has studied why some people are lucky and others are not. He advises that there are four main traits that lucky people have that help them to be ‘lucky’.

1. They create, notice, and act upon chance opportunities that come up.
2. They make good decisions using their intuition as well as their logic.
3. They have positive expectations about the future.
4. They don’t let bad luck get them down; they find a way to turn it into    good fortune.

There are more details in his book, The Luck Factor.

By changing your attitudes, behaviours and actions you can change your luck. If you see obstacles as opportunities rather than difficulties then you can turn them to your advantage. If you notice unusual things and think laterally you can see novel openings. This is particularly true in the contexts of creativity and innovation.

• Sir Alexander Fleming noticed that a growth of mold in a petri dish resisted bacteria. He investigated this and discovered penicillin.
• Clarence Birdseye noticed that people in Canada kept fish fresh by packing them in ice. He developed this idea and created frozen food industry.
• Percy Spencer noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted when he stood in front of a magnetron. He used this insight to help develop the microwave oven.
• Hiram Maxim found two problems when he went shooting. There was a powerful recoil after each shot which hurt his shoulder and he then had to go to the trouble of reloading. He wondered whether he could use one problem to solve the other. He invented the Maxim machine gun which used the energy from the recoil force to eject each spent cartridge and insert the next one.

Each of these people was doubtless called lucky by some contemporaries. But their ‘luck’ was the product of observation, insight and action.

Many people blame bad luck for their failures – especially on ventures where they invested considerable time and effort. People with positive outlooks recognise that each obstacle is a step along the way and that there is much that can be learned from setbacks. They learn lessons from reverses and they seek out fresh opportunities. They are always optimistic and receptive to ideas. They see opportunities in situations where others give up. They make their own good luck.

When the great golfer, Gary Player, was asked why he was so lucky he replied, ‘The harder I work, the luckier I get.’ So the lessons are clear. There is a way to be lucky. It involves a positive attitude, hard work, observation, preparedness, action and a willingness to see every setback as a learning opportunity and a step towards success.

Quick Links to check your luck now:

BarCamps are organized and evangelized largely through the web, harnessing what might be called a Web 2.0 communications toolkit. Anyone can initiate a BarCamp, using the BarCamp wiki.

The procedural framework consists of sessions proposed and scheduled each day by attendees, mostly on-site, typically using white boards or paper taped to the wall. This approach and has been dubbed to play on words, The Open Grid approach.

FooCamps and BarCamps are based on a simplified variation of Open Space Technology (OST), relying on the self-organizing character of OST. Other than in classical conference formats, BarCamps and OST rely on the passion and the responsibility of the participants, putting them into the driver’s seat.

While loosely structured, there are rules at BarCamp. All attendees are encouraged to present or facilitate a session. However this can be intimidating and unwelcoming. Everyone is also asked to share information and experiences of the event, both live and after the fact, via public web channels including (but not limited to) blogging, photo sharing, social bookmarking, twittering, wiki-ing, and IRC. This open encouragement to share everything about the event is in deliberate contrast to the “off the record by default” and “no recordings” rules at many private invite-only participant driven conferences.

Related BarCamps Links below:

Topics included:

1. Swing  and JMF
2. Cloning Data Sources
3. Seeking Frames inside a Movie
4. Transmitting Video over RTP  [RTP DataSink]
5. Transmitting Audio over RTP  [RTP DataSink]
6. Transmitting Audio/Video over RTP  [RTPManager]
7. Receiving Media over RTP [RTPManager]
8. Exporting Media Received over RTP
9. Transcoding to Different Formats
10. Capture Screen
11. Dynamic Capture Screen

The graphic can be specified with the -splash attribute when the class is run at a command line. Here’s how to do it with the SimpleWindow class:

java -splash:Everest.jpg SimpleWindow

Thank you.
I’m honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I’ve ever gotten to a college graduation. Today, I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl.

So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking, “We’ve got an unexpected baby boy; Do you want him?” They said, “Of course.” My biological mother found out later that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would go to college. This was the start in my life.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents’ savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn’t see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life.

So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out okay. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked far more interesting.

It wasn’t all romantic. I didn’t have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms. I returned coke bottles for the five cent deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the seven miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Let me give you one example:
Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn’t have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the “Mac” would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it’s likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on that calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever because believing that the dots will connect down the road will give you the confidence to follow your heart, even when it leads you off the wellworn path, and that will make all the difference.

Related Post:

Still, it is fun for football fans to check out the league table ranking every end of the season, whether they earn the bragging rights against their rivals. Thanks to TIOBE, we have a programming language “league table” as well. Bear in mind that, the ranking is not about the best, but the most popular programming language based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors.

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Note: ASP and ASP.NET are not considered by TIOBE as programming languages because they make use of other languages such as JavaScript and VBScript or .NET compatible languages. The same is true for frameworks such as Ruby on Rails, ColdFusion, and technologies such as AJAX.