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Orkut Buyukkokten, creator of Orkut is married to his boyfriend Derek Holbrook recently. It was expected as the California Supreme Court has made gay marriages legal recently. The ceremony was witnessed by Marissa Mayer, the Vice President of Search Product and User Experience at Google.

In the above picture, form left to right you can see Derek, Marissa and Orkut himself. (Photo by Drew Altizer via SFluxe)

When we tried to figure out who is Derek Holbrook, first Google result taken us to Derek’s facebook profile. I guess now two are married, Derek may consider deleting facebook profile in order to strengthen bond with Orkut.

You can use Orkut’s or his boyfriend Derek’s scrapbook to send your greetings to them. Most of their scraps are in Portuguese.

As default Ubuntu has no password set for the root user. To gain root access you have to type in your own user password. This is the password you set for the first user while installing Ubuntu.

To manually set a password for the root user, type in the following in the shell:

sudo passwd

After that you are asked to type in the new root password twice. Finally, your root user has its own password.

Mono :Mono provides the necessary software to develop and run .NET client and server applications on Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix. Sponsored by Novell (http://www.novell.com), the Mono open source project has an active and enthusiastic contributing community and is positioned to become the leading choice for development of Linux applications.

GCC and g++

GCC is the compiler system of the GNU environment. GNU is a UNIX-compatible operating system, being developed by the Free Software Foundation, and distributed under the GNU Public License (GPL).

Installation Procedure :-

Binary Packages and Source Code Downloads:

Source code and pre-compiled packages for Linux, Solaris, MacOS X and Windows is available from  Go-Mono.com web site from the download Section.

Quick source code installation:

If we have no packages for your platform, installing from source code is very simple.

mono:

    $ tar xjf mono-1.9.1.tar.bz2
    $ cd mono-1.9.1
    $ ./configure
    $ make
    $ make install

Then compile libgdiplus:

    $ tar xjf libgdiplus-1.9.tar.bz2
    $ cd libgdiplus-1.9
    $ ./configure
    $ make
    $ make install

Now You Are All Done.
Happy Projecting !!

Regards.

Indian travel search engine Zoomtra.com has launched a destination & travel review application, India Dekha, on two social networking sites Orkut and Facebook.

According to the company, India Dekha, with more than 100,000 registered users, has already generated over 80,000 destination reviews.

According to the company, it is the first of its kind travel networking application, which collects public reviews about various places in India and allows the Orkut and Facebook users to select a destination, review and rate it. It also added that Zoomtra.com is the first Indian company to introduce a Facebook application and India Dekha was one of the first 20 global applications launched with Orkut’s new open-social platform.

From a user’s perspective, once the application is added to the account, the user can select any destination from the list to add it as hometown or a place visited or a desired destination and so on. Further to this, rating and reviews can be written about the place, shopping destinations, nightlife, etc. The other option is to make your own map and share it with the others.

Regards.