Santhosh’s Blog

ISRO Stands for Indian Space Research Organization. Recently the PSLV franchisee has made an break-through by docking 10 satellites to orbit in a single mission/launch.

This is the first time in the world that 10 satellites were launched into orbit in a single launch and this is also PSLV’s 12th successful flight. Earlier, Russia had launched eight satellites together.

The satellite weighed 230 tonnes and carried heaviest 824 KG luggage.

More info @ The Statesman

The hottest bus is here in Karnataka, which can take you a ride with no flaws and lets you to browse the state with no hassles.

Two Folks from Karnataka, India has captured photographs of a bus which has the paintings which resembles the firefox logo. They believe, the painter knew firefox and its logo. Many comments in his site says its photoshopped. But I say its never photoshopped. Coz i’ve seen many buses which has funky paintings. And its bit impossible work to photoshop to this level. And Personally, I’ve seen a bus which has paint job similar to Korean’s cop vehicles!!!

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No, I haven’t been to Carribean! This is just a compilation of information, photographs and facts that I collected after few days of study. All credits of the images goes to respected photographers and their websites.

If you don’t know what and where St Maarten is, you may read this wiki article. Dutch people call it St Maarten, French call it St Marten and few others call it St Martin. It is your choice to choose the one which you feel is easy :p

St Maarten is an island in the northeast Carribean. The island is too small and the terrain is unequal. So building an airport here was kind of toughest challenge to many engineers. Somewhere in western tip of the island there is a small narrow passage of land, which apparently been modified by humans to create a flat land and some good enough room for building an airport. From all this efforts, finally the island has got an airport with some hue which attracts many tourists. The reason for this attraction is, the runway is so close to the beach and a perpendicular road that passes just few meters away from it makes people to catch the glimpse of aircrafts approaching the runaway just a few meters above their head!

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Ever heard of this triangle ? This is a region near north-western atlantic ocean where many planes and ships has disappeared. The myth is that, if you enter this region, you might probably not return back to your home!

Some people have claimed that these disappearances fall beyond the boundaries of human error or acts of nature. Some of these disappearances have been attributed to the paranormal, a suspension of the laws of physics, or activity by extraterrestrial beings by popular culture. Though a substantial documentation exists showing numerous incidents to have been inaccurately reported or embellished by later authors, and numerous official agencies have gone on record as stating the number and nature of disappearances to be similar to any other area of ocean, many have remained unexplained despite considerable investigation.

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Joomla is one of the most popular and powerful Content Management System today. It has wide range of features which makes you feel you are lost somewhere within joomla without knowing what to do next. If you are a beginner, you can always start by reading the Quick Startup Guide or you can also download a podcast so that you learn some basic functions easily.

But learning Joomla which is installed your web server is a painful task. Since you know very little thing, you may require to work back and fourth to get the job done. It takes your time and you will be wasting your bandwidth as well. Especially if you are on slower internet connection, then it will be pathetic task to learn Joomla which is installed on your web server.

So the only solution to overcome this problem and headache is by installing Joomla on your computer (localhost), so that you can save a lot of bandwidth and can work faster and easier and most of all, offline – hassle free!

Since Joomla is a Sever-Side script, you need to install three essential software which enables you to install Joomla on your computer. Those three softwares are PHP, MySQL and Apache Server. PHP is server-side scripting which is used to create Joomla and whereas MySQL stores all the data such as articles, sections, posts, comments and pages etc. And Apache server is a web server and it is responsible to deliver the output on web browser.

Instead of installing all these applications individually, you can just install a program called WampServer 2.0. For linux you can install software called LAMP or the LampServer. And for MAC you can install MAMP Server.

WampServer stands for Windows Apache MySQL PHP Server. Which means it installs all those applications at one time easily. Installing WampServer on your computer doesn’t require you to be a Rocket Scientist. All you need to do is just download and install it in few clicks. By default, WampServer 2.0 will be installed in your “c:\wamp”. And if you have installed WAMP5 earlier, you need to uninstall it before installing WampSever 2.0.

After you install WampServer on you computer, your windows firewall may ask to block or unblock, just unblock it. In order to test whether if the WampServer is installed properly or not, launch the WampServer from your desktop or All Programs. The WampServer runs in your system tray.

Now open your web browser and type http://localhost in your address bar and hit return key. That should take you to the “Server Configuration” page.

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