Author: Aman Sharma

BrisCAD is a real alternative to the AutoCAD , moreover it provides support for the .DWG file formats.

A few time ago, the creators of BrisCAD have made the public release for Bricscad V10 version for Linux Operating Systems.

The Bricscad Linux Version V10 also provides the support for Diesel APIs, DCL, LISP, and more than 500, 3^rd party developers who build the applications for the Linux.

At present, Bricscad Version V10 works perfectly on Ubuntu 9.10+, OpenSuse 11.1+, and on Fedora 12+. As Bricscad V10 is not available for free, so one can download its free-trial version valid for 30 days.

Finally, the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is ready to the downloads. After a lot of deployment testing, the the featured service pack and their updates are available for the people.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 brings a number of latest features along with the improved bug fixes. The main aspects of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 are,

• The Multi-Server Management and Applications of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 are totally compatible with the SQL Server 2008
• Integration of the Report servers could be easily done with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

When you’re done with the updating of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2, you can also enroll into the SQL Server 2008 Utility Control Point with database engine, as a managed instance of it.

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 2 is available for free (at the Microsoft official website itself), and you can download the feature pack from here, the SP2 version from here, and SP2 Express version could be downloaded from here.

Enjoy!

Finally after a long time, we have got a Transformation Pack for the Linux Operating System, which can make our computer look like Windows 7.

The software named Gnome Desktop or Win2-7 pack uses some tricks, to convert the look and feel of your Linux operating system, and hence provides a better experience while working on linux PC.

:

Well, I have personally tried it. This software is really very easy to install and use thereafter.

Moreover, there are number of customizations provided along with this Transformation Pack, by which you can customize the look of your Linux PC.

To use the gnome desktop – Win2-7 pack, you will have to install it. You can download gnome desktop Win2-7 pack from their official website gnome-look.org, and open the GUIInstall.sh to start installation.

Enjoy!

Silverlight is obviously a cool web development application framework, which is now getting popular steadily, because now a days, the the coding freaks are developing the complex web applications and folks like their interfaces.

But it looks very surprising, that one can’t install the Silverlight over the Linux Operating System, means no access to the silverlight enabled websites if you’re using the Linux Operating System in your Computer/Laptop.

However, I got 1 solution for this issue, which is named as Moonlight (from the people of Mono Project). Moonlight is an open source program for playing Silverlight Applications. One can for Moonlight as an alternative to the Silverlight if you are working on the Linux Operating System. There are 2 selective methods to use the Moonlight, as per your Linux environment,

• You might have Moonlight package available for installation in your Linux version itself. If it is, then just install it. e.g., Ubuntu Lucid Lynx is already having a Moonlight package included with it. So one can immediately install it via the below command line (To install moon-light plugin on the Firefox browser)

  sudo apt-get install moonlight-plugin-core moonlight-plugin-mozilla
  or by using their Ubuntu Software Center.

• If your version of Linux doesn’t contain the Moonlight with it, then you will have to install that manually. You can visit here to install Moonlight as a browser plugin over the Linux.

If you do the dual boot on your computer, e.g., Windows and the Linux, then, on Linux you won’t be able to access the Hard Disk Partitions that you created in windows OS. But here’s a solution for it. To use the Windows Hard Disk Partitions when you’re using your Linux Operating System, you can mount the Windows Hard Disk Partitions over the Linux.

Windows OS Hard Disk Partitions can be grouped in NTFS (New Technology File System) and FAT (File Allocation Table) file systems. You can have access to both the NTFS and FAT Partitions in Ubuntu or Linux operating system, without any complications.

Just, visit Applications then go to Accessories and click on the Terminal screen option there, and launch it.

Now if you want Windows Partition(s) to be mounted, then make a blank directory at some place, e.g. if you wish Windows C: drive to be mounted in the Linux OS, then just create a separate directory with the name c in the folder named mnt.

You will get the out put as following,

Boot Device      Start         End      Block   Id  System
/dev/hd1   *           5        3515    956465476+  212  Linux swap
/dev/hd2            3546        4576      346458   321  Linux
/dev/hd3            3565        7854    56465687   534  NTFS

by entering the Command,

# sudo mkdir -p /mnt/d

Then apply the below command to get the partitions names to be mounted.

# sudo fdisk -l

So the output clearly states – /dev/hd3 is the NTFS (New Technology File System) Hard Disk Partition of Windows.

If you want to mount the FAT partitions made on the Windows Operating System, then do a little change in the system type as following,

# sudo mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000 /dev/hda1 /mnt/d

But, to mount NTFS drive partition into a directory, use the following,

# sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/d

And, to un-mount anyone or all those Windows Hard Disk partitions, use the following,

# sudo umount /mnt/d

Enjoy!