The 100 oldest .com domains on the internet.

The 100 oldest .com domains on the internet.

1. 15-Mar-1985 SYMBOLICS.COM
2. 24-Apr-1985 BBN.COM
3. 24-May-1985 THINK.COM
4. 11-Jul-1985 MCC.COM
5. 30-Sep-1985 DEC.COM
6. 07-Nov-1985 NORTHROP.COM
7. 09-Jan-1986 XEROX.COM
8. 17-Jan-1986 SRI.COM
9. 03-Mar-1986 HP.COM
10. 05-Mar-1986 BELLCORE.COM
11. 19-Mar-1986 IBM.COM
12. 19-Mar-1986 SUN.COM
13. 25-Mar-1986 INTEL.COM
14. 25-Mar-1986 TI.COM
15. 25-Apr-1986 ATT.COM
16. 08-May-1986 GMR.COM
17. 08-May-1986 TEK.COM
18. 10-Jul-1986 FMC.COM
19. 10-Jul-1986 UB.COM
20. 05-Aug-1986 BELL-ATL.COM
21. 05-Aug-1986 GE.COM
22. 05-Aug-1986 GREBYN.COM
23. 05-Aug-1986 ISC.COM
24. 05-Aug-1986 NSC.COM
25. 05-Aug-1986 STARGATE.COM
26. 02-Sep-1986 BOEING.COM
27. 18-Sep-1986 ITCORP.COM
28. 29-Sep-1986 SIEMENS.COM
29. 18-Oct-1986 PYRAMID.COM
30. 27-Oct-1986 ALPHACDC.COM
31. 27-Oct-1986 BDM.COM
32. 27-Oct-1986 FLUKE.COM
33. 27-Oct-1986 INMET.COM
34. 27-Oct-1986 KESMAI.COM
35. 7-Oct-1986 MENTOR.COM
36. 7-Oct-1986 NEC.COM
37. 27-Oct-1986 RAY.COM
38. 27-Oct-1986 ROSEMOUNT.COM
39. 27-Oct-1986 VORTEX.COM
40. 05-Nov-1986 ALCOA.COM
41. 05-Nov-1986 GTE.COM
42. 17-Nov-1986 ADOBE.COM
43. 17-Nov-1986 AMD.COM
44. 17-Nov-1986 DAS.COM
45. 17-Nov-1986 DATA-IO.COM
46. 17-Nov-1986 OCTOPUS.COM
47. 17-Nov-1986 PORTAL.COM
48. 17-Nov-1986 TELTONE.COM
49. 11-Dec-1986 3COM.COM
50. 11-Dec-1986 AMDAHL.COM
51. 11-Dec-1986 CCUR.COM
52. 11-Dec-1986 CI.COM
53. 11-Dec-1986 CONVERGENT.COM
54. 11-Dec-1986 DG.COM
55. 11-Dec-1986 PEREGRINE.COM
56. 11-Dec-1986 QUAD.COM
57. 11-Dec-1986 SQ.COM
58. 11-Dec-1986 TANDY.COM
59. 11-Dec-1986 TTI.COM
60. 11-Dec-1986 UNISYS.COM
61. 19-Jan-1987 CGI.COM
62. 19-Jan-1987 CTS.COM
63. 19-Jan-1987 SPDCC.COM
64. 19-Feb-1987 APPLE.COM
65. 04-Mar-1987 NMA.COM
66. 04-Mar-1987 PRIME.COM
67. 04-Apr-1987 PHILIPS.COM
68. 23-Apr-1987 DATACUBE.COM
69. 23-Apr-1987 KAI.COM
70. 23-Apr-1987 TIC.COM
71. 23-Apr-1987 VINE.COM
72. 30-Apr-1987 NCR.COM
73. 14-May-1987 CISCO.COM
74. 14-May-1987 RDL.COM
75. 20-May-1987 SLB.COM
76. 27-May-1987 PARCPLACE.COM
77. 27-May-1987 UTC.COM
78. 26-Jun-1987 IDE.COM
79. 09-Jul-1987 TRW.COM
80. 13-Jul-1987 UNIPRESS.COM
81. 27-Jul-1987 DUPONT.COM
82. 27-Jul-1987 LOCKHEED.COM
83. 28-Jul-1987 ROSETTA.COM
84. 18-Aug-1987 TOAD.COM
85. 31-Aug-1987 QUICK.COM
86. 03-Sep-1987 ALLIED.COM
87. 03-Sep-1987 DSC.COM
88. 03-Sep-1987 SCO.COM
89. 22-Sep-1987 GENE.COM
90. 22-Sep-1987 KCCS.COM
91. 22-Sep-1987 SPECTRA.COM
92. 22-Sep-1987 WLK.COM
93. 30-Sep-1987 MENTAT.COM
94. 14-Oct-1987 WYSE.COM
95. 02-Nov-1987 CFG.COM
96. 09-Nov-1987 MARBLE.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 CAYMAN.COM
97. 16-Nov-1987 ENTITY.COM
99. 24-Nov-1987 KSR.COM
100. 30-Nov-1987 NYNEXST.COM

Very first domain to be registered on the Internet

Very first domain to be registered on the Internet

Welcome the First Registered Domain! | 25th Anniversary
Online Since March 15, 1985!

668,000 new .com domains are registered every month.

Symbolics.com is the very first domain to be registered on the Internet. Symbolics.com was registered 25 years ago on March 15, 1985 by the Symbolics Computer Corp. in Massachusetts. In 2009, the domain was sold to XF.com Investments for an undisclosed sum.
Symbolics.com is the first of nearly 200 million (200,000,000) domains to be registered. Nearly 100 million (100,000,000) of those registered domains are of the .com extention.

ASP.NET - Resizing image using c#

Resizing image using c#

Just pass the path of image,path of where the new file will be saved ,width ,height and true or false(true if you want to resize only if the original is wider than newer one else pass it as false)


public void ResizeImage(string OriginalFile, string NewFile, int NewWidth, int MaxHeight, bool OnlyResizeIfWider)
{
System.Drawing.Image FullsizeImage = System.Drawing.Image.FromFile(OriginalFile);

// Prevent using images internal thumbnail
FullsizeImage.RotateFlip(System.Drawing.RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipNone);
FullsizeImage.RotateFlip(System.Drawing.RotateFlipType.Rotate180FlipNone);

if (OnlyResizeIfWider)
{
if (FullsizeImage.Width <= NewWidth) { NewWidth = FullsizeImage.Width; } } int NewHeight = FullsizeImage.Height * NewWidth / FullsizeImage.Width; if (NewHeight > MaxHeight)
{
// Resize with height instead
NewWidth = FullsizeImage.Width * MaxHeight / FullsizeImage.Height;
NewHeight = MaxHeight;
}

System.Drawing.Image NewImage = FullsizeImage.GetThumbnailImage(NewWidth, NewHeight, null, IntPtr.Zero);

// Clear handle to original file so that we can overwrite it if necessary
FullsizeImage.Dispose();

// Save resized picture
NewImage.Save(NewFile);
}

Top 10 "Seriously Good" News of 2010

2010 was a year of disasters -- Haitian earthquake, Gulf oil spill and Pakistani flooding -- yet it was also a year of stunning generosity, technological prowess, and compassion. These are our top ten picks to highlight the seriously good news that deserves pondering as we move into 2011:

10) Wal-Mart Commits $2 Billion to Combat Hunger in US

The biggest company in the richest country realized a need to tackle the growing hunger problem in the United States and stepped up to donate $2 billion in food and grants to hunger relief organizations. The five-year initiative, “Fighting Hunger Together,” announced in
May pledges $1.75 billion worth of food from Walmart stores, warehouses and Sam’s Club outlets. $250 million in grants will also support hunger relief organizations, including 10 million for children's lunch programs during the school year and summer months.

9) Street Vendors Foil Car Bomb Attempt in NYC

A veteran, Lance Orton, part of a brotherhood of 105 disabled veterans who are street vendors in Times Square showed the world in May that they were not just there to sell, but also to help, alerting police to the ticking car bomb parked illegally on a downtown New York street. The device had apparently started to detonate on a Saturday Night in the busy square. "A state law going back to the civil war gives vending licenses to disabled veterans," reports ABC News.

8) Health Insurance Reformed to Benefit American Patients

This year marked a new day for health insurance in America. For the first time, if you or your children get sick and you want to buy health insurance you can no longer be denied coverage due to illness. Ending some of the worst abuses of the insurance industry, a new law makes it illegal for health insurers to place any limits on the amount of medical care you can receive -- previously known as "lifetime (or annual) caps". Additionally, no company can arbitrarily cancel your policy without the burden of proving fraud, or deny your claims without offering options for appeal. Young people can now remain on family insurance policies until age 26.

7)  Huge Parkinson’s Breakthrough: Disease Power Switch Found

A transformative study has uncovered both the key cause and an immediate treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Researchers reported their discovery that brain cells in Parkinson's patients shut down the energy-producing capacity of fuel that powers healthy brain function, resulting in a devastating shortage. The findings, announced in October, indicate that boosting the energy-producing capacity of the mitochondria with current FDA approved drugs early on may prevent or delay the onset of Parkinson's.

6) Generosity in Hard Times: Record Giving Boosts Haitian and American Poor

With coins and dollars, and an occasional diamond ring or gold coin, Americans donated a record $139 million to the Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign last Christmas, despite a continued economic slump.
The tally represented a seven percent increase over the previous record announced last year, and came at a time when demand for social services had skyrocketed. Charitable donations in the UK that year similarly rose by £400 million to total of £10.6 billion.

One month later, when the world heard the news of the devastating January Haitian earthquake, donations began to pour in. For the first time, mobile phone donations of $10 each racked up huge totals -- in excess of $30 million by month's end. Even the homeless were contributing to the Haitian disaster and by year's end, $3.5 billion in funds or in-kind contributions had been raised, with more pledges not yet delivered. (Totals from OCHA via PDF)

5) Crime Continues to Decline, Falling to 20-year Low

No one know why, but violent crime and property crime rates continued to fall across the US and Canada, despite continued joblessness. Reports of violent crime decreased 6.2 percent, dropping for the fourth straight year and property-crime reports were down 2.8 percent across the United States in the first six months of 2010, compared with the same period a year earlier. This follows a three-year trend of decreasing crime rates, with property crimes hitting a 20-year low.

Also notable, the level of crime in England and Wales had fallen to its lowest since records began in 1981. The annual British Crime Survey showed offenses fell by 9 percent in 2009-10, allaying fears that a deep recession would cause a jump in criminality.

4) CEO Gives 20 Million Dollar Company to its Employees

A retiring CEO gave his entire company to the workers who have made his natural food company a success. Founder of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods, Bob Moore, turned 81 on Feb. 15 and announced the news to his employees in Oregon.

With everyone at his birthday celebration, Bob announced the new Employee Stock Ownership Plan that would transform Red Mill, which generates revenues exceeding $20 million a year, into an employee-owned company.

3) World On Track to Cut Poverty in Half

Despite the global economic downturn, the world is still on track to meet a key U.N. goal of halving the number of people living in poverty by 2015, according to a report released in June. The UN confirmed that the overall poverty rate is expected to fall to 15 percent by 2015, which is half the number seen in 1990, with the U.N. meeting its Millennium Development Goal.

2) 57 Billionaires and Millionaires Pledge to Give Away Half Their Wealth to Charity

More than 50 of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to giving away the majority of their wealth to charitable causes before they die, by joining the "Giving Pledge", launched this summer by billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

The United States has roughly 400 billionaires, about 40 percent of the world's total, according to Forbes. The 57 signatories who have pledged to date could generate $600 billion dollars for charity.

1) Chilean Miners Rescued in Historic Effort After 69 Days Trapped Underground

Everyone remembers the number one feel-good story of the year: the rescue of 33 Chilean miners in October.

The world sat in awe of the technological wizardry of rescuers who freed the trapped miners from more than 2,000 feet of rock, through a narrow makeshift escape shaft. The unprecedented and complex rescue operation utilized expertise and materials donated from around the world, helping to free men who had been underground for 69 days -- more than anyone on record. They emerged, each riding in a tiny capsule for 15 minutes, to the cheers of rescuers, officials and family members. Large video screens were set up in public places across Chile to let people watch and cheer as each miner was hauled to the surface and freed.

Source: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/most-popular/top-10-news-of-2010.html

ASP.NET - Make a WCF

ASP.NET - Make a WCF

The Database "EmployeeDB" has to be made with the following structure.

The following steps are to be followed to create a Web Service Project.

1) Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

2) Click File -> New Project ->

3) Choose Visual C# from the Left pane.

4) Choose Web and from the templates available, choose WCF Service Application.

5) For our tutorial we will use the name of the project as ServiceDB.

6) Create a connection to the database "EmployeeDB".

7) Add one Linq to SQL Classes from the templates; name it as "DataClasses1.dbml".

8) Add the above tables to the designer of the Linq to SQL.

9) In the class file "IService1.cs" add your custom method as [Operation Contract]. Add the following code to the interface “IService1”.

//Custom Method

[OperationContract]

string AllEmployees();

10) In "Service1.svc.cs" add the above method's implementation.

public string AllEmployees()

{

DataContext db = new DataContext(@"Data Source=DIPTI\SQLEXPRESS;Initial Catalog=EmployeeDB;Integrated Security=True");

Table emp = db.GetTable();

var query = from c in emp select c;



string result = "";

foreach (var e in query)

{

result += ""+e.EmpId+

""+e.FirstName+

""+e.LastName+

""+e.EmployeeInfo.Email+

"

"+e.EmployeeInfo.Address+

"

"+e.EmployeeInfo.Phone+

"";

}



result += "";

return result;

}

The following steps are to be followed to create a Client Application based on the Web Service. Here we will create a Windows application.

1) Open Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

2) Click File -> New Project ->

3) Choose Visual C# from the Left pane.

4) Choose Windows and from the templates available, choose Windows Forms Application.

5) For our tutorial we will use the name of the project as "ClientApplication".

6) Run the Web Service application and copy the URL of the service.

7) Add Service reference to the URL. Choose the name of the service reference as "ServiceReference1".

8) In the Form's design window add the following controls to see the data from the database.

a. Button as btnView

b. Data Grid View as dataGridView1

c. Binding Source as bindingSource1

9) In the click event of the Button add the following code.

private void btnView_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

ServiceReference1.Service1Client obj = new Service1Client();

string list = obj.AllEmployees();

DataSet DS = new DataSet();

StringReader sr = new StringReader(list);

DS.ReadXml(sr, XmlReadMode.InferSchema);

DS.AcceptChanges();

bindingSource1.DataSource = DS.Tables[0];

this.dataGridView1.DataSource = bindingSource1;

}

To run the application the following steps has to be followed.

1) Run the Service Application. (Don't close the service application)

2) Run the Client Application.

3) Click the Button to see the results.

ASP.NET - Difference between WCF and Web service

Difference between WCF and Web service

Web service is a part of WCF. WCF offers much more flexibility and portability to develop a service when comparing to web service. Still we are having more advantages over Web service, following table provides detailed difference between them.

Features	Web Service	WCF
Hosting	It can be hosted in IIS	It can be hosted in IIS, windows activation service, Self-hosting, Windows service
Programming	[WebService] attribute has to be added to the class	[ServiceContraact] attribute has to be added to the class
Model	[WebMethod] attribute represents the method exposed to client	[OperationContract] attribute represents the method exposed to client
Operation	One-way, Request- Response are the different operations supported in web service	One-Way, Request-Response, Duplex are different type of operations supported in WCF
XML	System.Xml.serialization name space is used for serialization	System.Runtime.Serialization namespace is used for serialization
Encoding	XML 1.0, MTOM(Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism), DIME, Custom	XML 1.0, MTOM, Binary, Custom
Transports	Can be accessed through HTTP, TCP, Custom	Can be accessed through HTTP, TCP, Named pipes, MSMQ,P2P, Custom
Protocols	Security	Security, Reliable messaging, Transactions