All 25 language versions of Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft is currently gearing up for the availability of the gold build of Internet Explorer 8. The Redmond giant has not confirmed a deadline, except to say that it expects to deliver the final IE8 two years after the general availability of Internet Explorer 7 considered by the company to be January 30, 2007, the Windows Vista launch day. However, all indications point to a November release of IE8 final, including the fact that Microsoft is only offering support for the Beta 2 build of Internet Explorer 8 until the end of October.

“When installing localized versions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 on XP or Windows Server 2003 please remember that the base language of the operating system must match the IE8 language you are trying to install; otherwise the Setup Wizard will display an error. For Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, the base language of Windows does not need to match the Internet Explorer 8 language version in order for a successful install. When your user active language matches the Internet Explorer 8 language you installed, then IE8 will appear in the desired language. You will still be able to use IE8 in all other scenarios, but it will appear in English as a fall back version,” Kannan added.

All 25 language versions of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) Beta 2 are available for download:

English For Vista x86 [EXE]

English For Windows XP SP2 x86 [EXE]

English For Windows XP/2003 x64 [EXE]

English For Windows 2003 x86 [EXE]

FRENCH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

FRENCH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

GERMAN Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

GERMAN Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

SPANISH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

SPANISH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

ITALIAN Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

ITALIAN Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

TURKISH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

TURKISH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

DUTCH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

DUTCH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

DANISH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

DANISH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

POLISH Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

POLISH Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

PORTUGUESE Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

PORTUGUESE Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

JAPONESE Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

JAPONESE Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

KOREAN Installer For Windows XP [EXE]

KOREAN Installer For Windows Vista & Server 2008 [EXE]

Chrome Losing its Shine?

Google Chrome received an astonishingly good press, so it was inevitable that sooner or later something would upset the applecart. It has, and it comes courtesy of the German Office for Information Security, which has reportedly expressed concerns over the browser’s security features, and is warning against using it, at least until a final post-beta version has been released. Digging a little deeper reveals that the spokesperson’s comments have been widely hyped and misquoted, and Google staunchly defends Chrome’s safety. Nevertheless, there remains some questions marks over how much data it extracts from your surfing activities, and what, exactly it sends back to the mothership. It is also true that it assigns a unique ID to each installation, which seems a bit odd unless Google is going to track what you are up to. For those that like Chrome, and are concerned about privacy, have a look at UnChrome. It’s a freeware utility that zeros out the ID feature in Chrome, making it complete anonymous; what’s more, it doesn’t affect the way Chrome works and you only have to run it once.

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How does it work?

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If you have not provided your publisher details, our ads will be displayed on your blog, for supporting the free services offered by Blog.co.in.

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Keep in mind that, you need to have at least 50 informative posts on your blog, before you can even think of expecting search engine traffic (visitors finding your blog using search engines). This is not a benchmark , but just what we learnt from our experience.

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Google AdSense [Recommended]

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AdBrite

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Configure Yahoo Publisher Network

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U.S. Scientists Count Down to LHC Startup

Batavia, IL, Berkeley, CA and Upton, NY – On September 10, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider will attempt for the first time to send a proton beam zooming around the 27-kilometer-long accelerator. The LHC, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, is located at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. Journalists are invited to attend LHC first beam events at CERN and several locations within the United States. Information about the CERN event and accreditation procedures is available at www.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam. A list of LHC startup events in the U.S. and contact information for each is available at www.uslhc.us/first_beam.

The LHC tunnel

About 150 scientists from three U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science National Laboratories - Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California - have built crucial LHC accelerator components. They are joined by colleagues from the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the University of Texas at Austin in commissioning and continuing R&D for the LHC.

United States contributions to the Large Hadron Collider are supported by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science and the National Science Foundation.

The LHC will go for a test drive this weekend, when the first particles are injected into a small section of the LHC. The LHC is the final step in a series of accelerators that bring beam particles from a standstill to energies of 7 TeV. In the injection test this weekend, scientists will make the first attempt to send protons into the LHC, steering them around approximately one-eighth of the LHC ring before safely disposing of the low-intensity beam.

Next up is a series of tests to confirm that the entire LHC machine is capable of accelerating beams to an energy of 5 TeV, the target energy for 2008. On September 10, LHC scientists will go full throttle and try for the first circulating beam. First collisions of protons in the center of the LHC experiments are expected four to eight weeks later.

Brookhaven National Laboratory led the development of the 32 muon detectors in the LHC's ATLAS detector, above.

“We’re finishing a marathon with a sprint,” said CERN’s Lyn Evans, the LHC project leader. “It’s been a long haul, and we’re all eager to get the LHC research program underway.”

About 1,600 scientists from 93 U.S. institutions participate in the LHC experiments, which will analyze the LHC’s high-energy collisions in search of extraordinary discoveries about the nature of the physical universe. The LHC experiments could reveal the origins of mass, shed light on dark matter, uncover hidden symmetries of the universe and possibly find extra dimensions of space.

LHC scientists get death threats

So it’s come to this: Death threats against physicists. About what? The earth-destroying Large Hadron Collider, of course.

Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death threats, said Prof Brian Cox of Manchester University, adding: “Anyone who thinks the LHC will destroy the world is a t—.” (BBC)

My sentiments exactly.
People are calling everyday, pleading with the LHC folks to stop plans to flip the switch next week, reports PR head James Gillies.

“They phone me and say: “I am seriously worried. Please tell me that my children are safe,” said Gillies. Emails also arrive every day that beg for reassurance that the world will not end, he explained.

“There are a number who say: “You are evil and dangerous and you are going to destroy the world.”

“I find myself getting slightly angry, not because people are getting in touch but the fact they have been driven to do that by what is nonsense. What we are doing is enriching humanity, not putting it at risk.”

A new report published today once again assesses the risk and conclude:

Nature has already conducted the equivalent of about a hundred thousand LHC experimental programmes on Earth - and the planet still exists.
Each collision of a pair of protons in the LHC will release an amount of energy comparable to that of two colliding mosquitoes, so any black hole produced would be much smaller than those known to astrophysicists.” They also say that such microscopic black holes could not grow dangerously.

Not that I expect such research to quell the din of hysteria. As I posted in a comment, we now have such a gulf between what scientists understand and what average people believe – due in no small part to movies and religion – that people are more likely to believe doomsday scenarios than scientific research.