MOSS 2007 Enterprise Features Not Available in the Standard License

ID	Category	Feature	Description
1	Enterprise Search	Business data search	Search data residing in your line-of-business applications using the Business Data Catalogue. Structured content sources and line-of-business application data and reports accessible through Web services or ADO.NET can be indexed and retrieved through the Business Data Catalogue as search results or into a SharePoint list.
2	Business Intelligence	Integrated, flexible spreadsheet publishing	Office Excel 2007 provides an integrated publishing experience that lets information workers easily choose what they want to share with others and determine how others can interact with published spreadsheets.
3	Business Intelligence	Share, manage, and control spreadsheets	Share business data broadly while maintaining control and helping to protect sensitive information. Provides access to spreadsheet data and analysis through server-calculated, interactive Office Excel spreadsheets from a Web browser. Use these spreadsheets to maintain and efficiently share one centralized version of the truth while helping to protect any sensitive or proprietary information embedded in documents, such as financial models, by limiting access to portions of the spreadsheet and auditing their usage.
4	Business Intelligence	Web-based business intelligence using Excel Services	Excel Services empowers spreadsheet authors to easily and broadly share spreadsheets that use the new business intelligence (BI) functionality through the browser. Fully interactive, data-bound spreadsheets including charts, tables, and PivotTable views can be created as part of a portal, dashboard, or business scorecard, without requiring any development.
5	Business Intelligence	Data Connection Libraries	Data Connection Libraries are centralized SharePoint document libraries that store Office Data Connections (ODC); ODCs describe connections to external data. Centralizing Office Data Connections makes it easier to share, manage, and discover data connections that can be used by any Microsoft Office program.
6	Business Intelligence	Business Data Catalog	The Business Data Catalogue (BDC) tightly integrates external data into the Office SharePoint Server 2007 user experience, providing access to external data residing within backed line-of-business applications, and enabling the display of and interaction with external data through a set of Business Data Web Parts
7	Business Intelligence	Business Data Web Parts	Use SharePoint Business Data Web Parts for viewing lists, entities, and related information retrieved through the Business Data Catalogue.
8	Business Intelligence	Business Data actions	With no custom coding, easily create actions that open Web pages, display the user interfaces of line-of-business applications, launch InfoPath forms, and perform other common tasks. Use the convenient links that appear beside business objects returned from the Business Data Catalogue.
9	Business Intelligence	Integrated business intelligence dashboards	Create rich, interactive BI dashboards that assemble and display business information from disparate sources by using built-in Web parts such as dynamic KPIs, Excel spreadsheets, Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services reports, or a collection of business data connectivity Web Parts that can visualize information residing in back end line-of-business applications.
10	Business Intelligence	Report Centre	An out-of-the-box site optimized for report access and management, including a report library, data connection library, and a dashboard template. These sites, hosted by the new Report Centre, provide consistent management of reports, spreadsheets, and data connections
11	Business Intelligence	Key performance indicators	KPIs communicate goals and status to drive results. Using the KPI Web Part, a user can create a KPI list within a Web Part page, without writing code. The KPI Web Part can display KPIs from Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services, Excel spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, or manually entered data.
12	Business Intelligence	Filter Web Parts	Filters enable dashboards to be personalized by communicating shared parameters among Web Parts on a dashboard. The parameters passed can be automatically applied based on user profiles, SharePoint lists, the BDC, manually entered information, and so forth.
13	Forms-driven business processes	Browser-based forms	Microsoft Office InfoPath Forms Services available in Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Forms Server 2007 makes it possible to design Web-capable forms in Office InfoPath 2007 and distribute them on corporate intranets, extranets, or the Internet. Users can fill out forms in a browser or HTML-enabled mobile device with no download or client components needed.
14	Forms-driven business processes	Centralized forms management and control	Office InfoPath Forms Services provide a administrator controlled centralized form solution catalogue that makes it easy for users to find a form and minimize form solution downtime when upgrades are necessary. It also provides administrators with the tools to manage form solution security and accessibility.
15	Forms-driven business processes	“Design once” development model	Forms designers can design their forms once and deploy them for use both within the rich Office InfoPath 2007 client program and through a Web browser. Office Forms Server 2007 automatically converts the form into ASP.NET Web forms, with no additional work from the designer.
16	Forms-driven business processes	Form Import Wizard	The designer in Office InfoPath 2007 provides an easy way to convert forms designed in Office Excel and Office Word into rich Office InfoPath 2007 forms. The Form Import Wizard handles the conversion of form fields, repeating tables, rich text boxes, and other elements, dynamically generating the underlying XML structure for the new form.
17	Forms-driven business processes	Integrated deployment model for “no-code” forms	The Publish Wizard in Office InfoPath 2007 makes it easy to publish forms that do not have any managed code components to a Windows SharePoint Services library, while making the form available as a browser-based form at the same time.
18	Forms-driven business processes	Compatibility Checker	The Compatibility Checker helps forms designers validate those features that need to work across the broadest range of Web browsers.
19	Platform	Excel spreadsheet developer reuse and extensibility	Spreadsheets published to SharePoint sites are accessible more securely using Web services. This means that application developers can take advantage of the logic embedded in a spreadsheet by remotely accessing spreadsheets from any platform. Business analysts can modify or update the model without affecting the business application or having to involve an application developer in the process.

Google Wave Robot Development for Microsoft-oriented Developers

Receiving a Google Wave invitation from Google almost 2 months ago provided me with a compelling reason to get started with Google Apps-based development.

If you are a Microsoft-oriented developer, and are attempting to get started with Google Wave development, the following tips may help;

1. Use Eclipse as your IDE and Java for your development. Integration with the AppEngine from Eclipse is baked in (once the Google Plugin for Eclipse is installed) and very cool. 
2. I would stay away from the Python alternative as I found the AppEngine integration and deployment options relatively fractured and not as smooth. This could, of course, change as Google Wave itself and supporting tools are still in development.
3. Get started by writing robots for the Wave as this would immediately expose you to the Wave API event model. This helped me immensely.
4. If you are writing complicated Wave artefacts, keep an eye on memory consumption of the Chrome browser process (if you are using Google Chrome as your browser).

Below is a screenshot of my first Wave Robot that took me no longer than 30 minutes to build, deploy and test when leveraging Eclipse and Java. Exact instructions are available at http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/java-tutorial.html.

Memory Profiling: Determining Application Pool Process ID

To track the memory usage of an Application Pool in IIS 6.0, we first have to determine the Process ID (PID). The PID can easily be determined using the following steps;

1. Open a command prompt
2. Browse to C:\Windows\System32
3. Run cscript iisapp.vbs

A list of application pools with their relevant process id's will now be displayed. Using Task Manager or Performance Monitor, the memory consumption of the process can now be tracked.

To track the memory usage of an Application Pool in IIS 7.0, we have to go through the same process of determining the Process ID using the following steps,

1. Open a command prompt
2. Browse to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv
3. As shown below run appcmd list wps

A list of application pools with their relevant process id's will now be displayed in " ".

Comprehensive Linux Command List

Please note that the following list of Linux commands has been copied from http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html.

I intend to keep adding useful commands to this list as I grow in my experience of using Ubuntu.

Command		Description
	apropos whatis	Show commands pertinent to string. See also threadsafe
	man -t man | ps2pdf - > man.pdf	make a pdf of a manual page
	which command	Show full path name of command
	time command	See how long a command takes
	time cat	Start stopwatch. Ctrl-d to stop. See also sw
	nice info	Run a low priority command (The "info" reader in this case)
	renice 19 -p $$	Make shell (script) low priority. Use for non interactive tasks
Directory Navigation
	cd -	Go to previous directory
	cd	Go to $HOME directory
	(cd dir && command)	Go to dir, execute command and return to current dir
	pushd .	Put current dir on stack so you can popd back to it
File Searching
	alias l='ls -l --color=auto'	quick dir listing
	ls -lrt	List files by date. See also newest and find_mm_yyyy
	ls /usr/bin | pr -T9 -W$COLUMNS	Print in 9 columns to width of terminal
	find -name '*.[ch]' | xargs grep -E 'expr'	Search 'expr' in this dir and below. See also findrepo
	find -type f -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -F 'example'	Search all regular files for 'example' in this dir and below
	find -maxdepth 1 -type f | xargs grep -F 'example'	Search all regular files for 'example' in this dir
	find -maxdepth 1 -type d | while read dir; do echo $dir; echo cmd2; done	Process each item with multiple commands (in while loop)
	find -type f ! -perm -444	Find files not readable by all (useful for web site)
	find -type d ! -perm -111	Find dirs not accessible by all (useful for web site)
	locate -r 'file[^/]*\.txt'	Search cached index for names. This re is like glob *file*.txt
	look reference	Quickly search (sorted) dictionary for prefix
	grep --color reference /usr/share/dict/words	Highlight occurances of regular expression in dictionary
Archives and Compression
	gpg -c file	Encrypt file
	gpg file.gpg	Decrypt file
	tar -c dir/ | bzip2 > dir.tar.bz2	Make compressed archive of dir/
	bzip2 -dc dir.tar.bz2 | tar -x	Extract archive (use gzip instead of bzip2 for tar.gz files)
	tar -c dir/ | gzip | gpg -c | ssh user@remote 'dd of=dir.tar.gz.gpg'	Make encrypted archive of dir/ on remote machine
	find dir/ -name '*.txt' | tar -c --files-from=- | bzip2 > dir_txt.tar.bz2	Make archive of subset of dir/ and below
	find dir/ -name '*.txt' | xargs cp -a --target-directory=dir_txt/ --parents	Make copy of subset of dir/ and below
	( tar -c /dir/to/copy ) | ( cd /where/to/ && tar -x -p )	Copy (with permissions) copy/ dir to /where/to/ dir
	( cd /dir/to/copy && tar -c . ) | ( cd /where/to/ && tar -x -p )	Copy (with permissions) contents of copy/ dir to /where/to/
	( tar -c /dir/to/copy ) | ssh -C user@remote 'cd /where/to/ && tar -x -p'	Copy (with permissions) copy/ dir to remote:/where/to/ dir
	dd bs=1M if=/dev/sda | gzip | ssh user@remote 'dd of=sda.gz'	Backup harddisk to remote machine
rsync (Network efficient file copier: Use the --dry-run option for testing)
	rsync -P rsync://rsync.server.com/path/to/file file	Only get diffs. Do multiple times for troublesome downloads
	rsync --bwlimit=1000 fromfile tofile	Locally copy with rate limit. It's like nice for I/O
	rsync -az -e ssh --delete ~/public_html/ remote.com:'~/public_html'	Mirror web site (using compression and encryption)
	rsync -auz -e ssh remote:/dir/ . && rsync -auz -e ssh . remote:/dir/	Synchronize current directory with remote one
ssh (Secure SHell)
	ssh $USER@$HOST command	Run command on $HOST as $USER (default command=shell)
	ssh -f -Y $USER@$HOSTNAME xeyes	Run GUI command on $HOSTNAME as $USER
	scp -p -r $USER@$HOST: file dir/	Copy with permissions to $USER's home directory on $HOST
	ssh -g -L 8080:localhost:80 root@$HOST	Forward connections to $HOSTNAME:8080 out to $HOST:80
	ssh -R 1434:imap:143 root@$HOST	Forward connections from $HOST:1434 in to imap:143
wget (multi purpose download tool)
	(cd dir/ && wget -nd -pHEKk http://www.pixelbeat.org/cmdline.html)	Store local browsable version of a page to the current dir
	wget -c http://www.example.com/large.file	Continue downloading a partially downloaded file
	wget -r -nd -np -l1 -A '*.jpg' http://www.example.com/dir/	Download a set of files to the current directory
	wget ftp://remote/file[1-9].iso/	FTP supports globbing directly
	wget -q -O- http://www.pixelbeat.org/timeline.html | grep 'a href' | head	Process output directly
	echo 'wget url' | at 01:00	Download url at 1AM to current dir
	wget --limit-rate=20k url	Do a low priority download (limit to 20KB/s in this case)
	wget -nv --spider --force-html -i bookmarks.html	Check links in a file
	wget --mirror http://www.example.com/	Efficiently update a local copy of a site (handy from cron)
Networking (Note ifconfig, route, mii-tool, nslookup commands are obsolete)
	ethtool eth0	Show status of ethernet interface eth0
	ethtool --change eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full	Manually set ethernet interface speed
	iwconfig eth1	Show status of wireless interface eth1
	iwconfig eth1 rate 1Mb/s fixed	Manually set wireless interface speed
	iwlist scan	List wireless networks in range
	ip link show	List network interfaces
	ip link set dev eth0 name wan	Rename interface eth0 to wan
	ip link set dev eth0 up	Bring interface eth0 up (or down)
	ip addr show	List addresses for interfaces
	ip addr add 1.2.3.4/24 brd + dev eth0	Add (or del) ip and mask (255.255.255.0)
	ip route show	List routing table
	ip route add default via 1.2.3.254	Set default gateway to 1.2.3.254
	tc qdisc add dev lo root handle 1:0 netem delay 20msec	Add 20ms latency to loopback device (for testing)
	tc qdisc del dev lo root	Remove latency added above
	host pixelbeat.org	Lookup DNS ip address for name or vice versa
	hostname -i	Lookup local ip address (equivalent to host `hostname`)
	whois pixelbeat.org	Lookup whois info for hostname or ip address
	netstat -tupl	List internet services on a system
	netstat -tup	List active connections to/from system
Windows Networking (Note samba is the package that provides all this windows specific networking support)
	smbtree	Find windows machines. See also findsmb
	nmblookup -A 1.2.3.4	Find the windows (netbios) name associated with ip address
	smbclient -L windows_box	List shares on windows machine or samba server
	mount -t smbfs -o fmask=666,guest //windows_box/share /mnt/share	Mount a windows share
	echo 'message' | smbclient -M windows_box	Send popup to windows machine (off by default in XP sp2)
Text Manipulation (Note sed uses stdin and stdout. Newer versions support inplace editing with the -i option)
	sed 's/string1/string2/g'	Replace string1 with string2
	sed 's/\(.*\)1/\12/g'	Modify anystring1 to anystring2
	sed '/ *#/d; /^ *$/d'	Remove comments and blank lines
	sed ':a; /\\$/N; s/\\\n//; ta'	Concatenate lines with trailing \
	sed 's/[ \t]*$//'	Remove trailing spaces from lines
	sed 's/\([`"$\]\)/\\\1/g'	Escape shell metacharacters active within double quotes
	seq 10 | sed "s/^/      /; s/ *\(.\{7,\}\)/\1/"	Right align numbers
	sed -n '1000{p;q}'	Print 1000th line
	sed -n '10,20p;20q'	Print lines 10 to 20
	sed -n 's/.*	Extract title from HTML web page
	sed -i 42d ~/.ssh/known_hosts	Delete a particular line
	sort -t. -k1,1n -k2,2n -k3,3n -k4,4n	Sort IPV4 ip addresses
	echo 'Test' | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]'	Case conversion
	tr -dc '[:print:]' < /dev/urandom	Filter non printable characters
	history | wc -l	Count lines
Set Operations (Note you can export LANG=C for speed. Also these assume no duplicate lines within a file)
	sort file1 file2 | uniq	Union of unsorted files
	sort file1 file2 | uniq -d	Intersection of unsorted files
	sort file1 file1 file2 | uniq -u	Difference of unsorted files
	sort file1 file2 | uniq -u	Symmetric Difference of unsorted files
	join -t'\0' -a1 -a2 file1 file2	Union of sorted files
	join -t'\0' file1 file2	Intersection of sorted files
	join -t'\0' -v2 file1 file2	Difference of sorted files
	join -t'\0' -v1 -v2 file1 file2	Symmetric Difference of sorted files
Math
	echo '(1 + sqrt(5))/2' | bc -l	Quick math (Calculate φ). See also bc
	echo 'pad=20; min=64; (100*10^6)/((pad+min)*8)' | bc	More complex (int) e.g. This shows max FastE packet rate
	echo 'pad=20; min=64; print (100E6)/((pad+min)*8)' | python	Python handles scientific notation
	echo 'pad=20; plot [64:1518] (100*10**6)/((pad+x)*8)' | gnuplot -persist	Plot FastE packet rate vs packet size
	echo 'obase=16; ibase=10; 64206' | bc	Base conversion (decimal to hexadecimal)
	echo $((0x2dec))	Base conversion (hex to dec) ((shell arithmetic expansion))
	units -t '100m/9.58s' 'miles/hour'	Unit conversion (metric to imperial)
	units -t '500GB' 'GiB'	Unit conversion (SI to IEC prefixes)
	units -t '1 googol'	Definition lookup
	seq 100 | (tr '\n' +; echo 0) | bc	Add a column of numbers. See also add and funcpy
Calendar
	cal -3	Display a calendar
	cal 9 1752	Display a calendar for a particular month year
	date -d fri	What date is it this friday. See also day
	[ $(date -d "tomorrow" +%d) = "01" ] || exit	exit a script unless it's the last day of the month
	date --date='25 Dec' +%A	What day does xmas fall on, this year
	date --date='@2147483647'	Convert seconds since the epoch (1970-01-01 UTC) to date
	TZ=':America/Los_Angeles' date	What time is it on West coast of US (use tzselect to find TZ)
	echo "mail -s 'get the train' P@draigBrady.com < /dev/null" | at 17:45	Email reminder
	echo "DISPLAY=$DISPLAY xmessage cooker" | at "NOW + 30 minutes"	Popup reminder
Locales
	printf "%'d\n" 1234	Print number with thousands grouping appropriate to locale
	BLOCK_SIZE=\'1 ls -l	get ls to do thousands grouping appropriate to locale
	echo "I live in `locale territory`"	Extract info from locale database
	LANG=en_IE.utf8 locale int_prefix	Lookup locale info for specific country. See also ccodes
	locale | cut -d= -f1 | xargs locale -kc | less	List fields available in locale database
recode (Obsoletes iconv, dos2unix, unix2dos)
	recode -l | less	Show available conversions (aliases on each line)
	recode windows-1252.. file_to_change.txt	Windows "ansi" to local charset (auto does CRLF conversion)
	recode utf-8/CRLF.. file_to_change.txt	Windows utf8 to local charset
	recode iso-8859-15..utf8 file_to_change.txt	Latin9 (western europe) to utf8
	recode ../b64 < file.txt > file.b64	Base64 encode
	recode /qp.. < file.txt > file.qp	Quoted printable decode
	recode ..HTML < file.txt > file.html	Text to HTML
	recode -lf windows-1252 | grep euro	Lookup table of characters
	echo -n 0x80 | recode latin-9/x1..dump	Show what a code represents in latin-9 charmap
	echo -n 0x20AC | recode ucs-2/x2..latin-9/x	Show latin-9 encoding
	echo -n 0x20AC | recode ucs-2/x2..utf-8/x	Show utf-8 encoding
CDs
	gzip < /dev/cdrom > cdrom.iso.gz	Save copy of data cdrom
	mkisofs -V LABEL -r dir | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz	Create cdrom image from contents of dir
	mount -o loop cdrom.iso /mnt/dir	Mount the cdrom image at /mnt/dir (read only)
	cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom blank=fast	Clear a CDRW
	gzip -dc cdrom.iso.gz | cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -	Burn cdrom image (use dev=ATAPI -scanbus to confirm dev)
	cdparanoia -B	Rip audio tracks from CD to wav files in current dir
	cdrecord -v dev=/dev/cdrom -audio *.wav	Make audio CD from all wavs in current dir (see also cdrdao)
	oggenc --tracknum='track' track.cdda.wav -o 'track.ogg'	Make ogg file from wav file
Disk Space (See also FSlint)
	ls -lSr	Show files by size, biggest last
	du -s * | sort -k1,1rn | head	Show top disk users in current dir. See also dutop
	df -h	Show free space on mounted filesystems
	df -i	Show free inodes on mounted filesystems
	fdisk -l	Show disks partitions sizes and types (run as root)
	rpm -q -a --qf '%10{SIZE}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -k1,1n	List all packages by installed size (Bytes) on rpm distros
	dpkg-query -W -f='${Installed-Size;10}\t${Package}\n' | sort -k1,1n	List all packages by installed size (KBytes) on deb distros
	dd bs=1 seek=2TB if=/dev/null of=ext3.test	Create a large test file (taking no space). See also truncate
	> file	truncate data of file or create an empty file
Monitoring/Debugging
	tail -f /var/log/messages	Monitor messages in a log file
	strace -c ls >/dev/null	Summarise/profile system calls made by command
	strace -f -e open ls >/dev/null	List system calls made by command
	ltrace -f -e getenv ls >/dev/null	List library calls made by command
	lsof -p $$	List paths that process id has open
	lsof ~	List processes that have specified path open
	tcpdump not port 22	Show network traffic except ssh. See also tcpdump_not_me
	ps -e -o pid,args --forest	List processes in a hierarchy
	ps -e -o pcpu,cpu,nice,state,cputime,args --sort pcpu | sed '/^ 0.0 /d'	List processes by % cpu usage
	ps -e -orss=,args= | sort -b -k1,1n | pr -TW$COLUMNS	List processes by mem usage. See also ps_mem.py
	ps -C firefox-bin -L -o pid,tid,pcpu,state	List all threads for a particular process
	ps -p 1,2	List info for particular process IDs
	last reboot	Show system reboot history
	free -m	Show amount of (remaining) RAM (-m displays in MB)
	watch -n.1 'cat /proc/interrupts'	Watch changeable data continuously
System Information (see also sysinfo) ('#' means root access is required)
	uname -a	Show kernel version and system architecture
	head -n1 /etc/issue	Show name and version of distribution
	cat /proc/partitions	Show all partitions registered on the system
	grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo	Show RAM total seen by the system
	grep "model name" /proc/cpuinfo	Show CPU(s) info
	lspci -tv	Show PCI info
	lsusb -tv	Show USB info
	mount | column -t	List mounted filesystems on the system (and align output)
	grep -F capacity: /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info	Show state of cells in laptop battery
#	dmidecode -q | less	Display SMBIOS/DMI information
#	smartctl -A /dev/sda | grep Power_On_Hours	How long has this disk (system) been powered on in total
#	hdparm -i /dev/sda	Show info about disk sda
#	hdparm -tT /dev/sda	Do a read speed test on disk sda
#	badblocks -s /dev/sda	Test for unreadable blocks on disk sda
Interactive (see also linux keyboard shortcuts)
	readline	Line editor used by bash, python, bc, gnuplot, ...
	screen	Virtual terminals with detach capability, ...
	mc	Powerful file manager that can browse rpm, tar, ftp, ssh, ...
	gnuplot	Interactive/scriptable graphing
	links	Web browser
	xdg-open .	open a file or url with the registered desktop application
Miscellaneous
	alias hd='od -Ax -tx1z -v'	Handy hexdump. (usage e.g.: • hd /proc/self/cmdline | less)
	alias realpath='readlink -f'	Canonicalize path. (usage e.g.: • realpath ~/../$USER)
	set | grep $USER	Search current environment
	touch -c -t 0304050607 file	Set file timestamp (YYMMDDhhmm)
	python -m SimpleHTTPServer	Serve current directory tree at http://$HOSTNAME:8000/

Reverting KDE to GDE in Ubuntu Jaunty

Being a recent convert to Linux, I installed the KDE desktop on Ubuntu.

However, I did not like KDE much and then decided to revert back to the default Gnome Desktop Environment. To revert desktops, I found the easiest way to run the following command at console login;

> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm

The next step is to remove the complete K Desktop Environment. Because several other packages are installed as part of KDE, the following command removes all of them;

> sudo apt-get remove akregator amarok amarok-common apport-qt ark cdrdao dolphin dontzap dragonplayer exiv2 foomatic-db-gutenprint gdebi-kde gnupg-agent gtk2-engines-qtcurve gwenview hpijs-ppds ijsgutenprint install-package jockey-kde k3b k3b-data kaddressbook kamera kate kde-icons-oxygen kde-printer-applet kde-style-qtcurve kde-window-manager kde-zeroconf kdebase-bin kdebase-data kdebase-plasma kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime-data-common kdebase-workspace-bin kdebase-workspace-data kdebase-workspace-libs4+5 kdebluetooth kdegraphics-strigi-plugins kdelibs-bin kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a kdelibs5 kdelibs5-data kdemultimedia-kio-plugins kdepasswd kdepim-kresources kdepim-strigi-plugins kdepim-wizards kdepimlibs-data kdepimlibs5 kdeplasma-addons kdeplasma-addons-data kdesudo kdm kfind khelpcenter4 klipper kmag kmail kmix kmousetool knotes konqueror konqueror-nsplugins konqueror-plugin-searchbar konsole kontact kopete korganizer kpackagekit krdc krfb ksnapshot ksysguard ksysguardd ksystemlog ktimetracker ktorrent ktorrent-data kubuntu-artwork-usplash kubuntu-default-settings kubuntu-desktop kubuntu-docs kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts kuser kvkbd kwalletmanager language-selector-qt libakonadiprivate1 libao2 libaudio2 libavahi-qt3-1 libboost-program-options1.35.0 libclucene0ldbl libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libeet1 libexiv2-5 libflac++6 libgeoip1 libk3b3 libk3b3-extracodecs libkcddb4 libkdecorations4 libkdepim4 libkexiv2-7 libkholidays4 libkipi6 libkleo4 libkonq5 libkonq5-templates libkpgp4 libksieve4 libkwineffects1 libloudmouth1-0 liblua50 liblualib50 libmad0 libmimelib4 libmodplug0c2 libmpcdec3 libmsn0.1 libmysqlclient15off libokularcore1 libpackagekit-glib11 libpackagekit-qt11 libphonon4 libplasma3 libpoppler-qt4-3 libpq5 libqca2 libqca2-plugin-ossl libqedje0 libqimageblitz4 libqt3-mt libqt4-assistant libqt4-core libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer libqt4-help libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-sql-sqlite libqt4-svg libqt4-test libqt4-webkit libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libqzion0 libraptor1 librasqal1 librdf0 libsearchclient0 libsoprano4 libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libstrigihtmlgui0 libstrigiqtdbusclient0 libvncserver0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-xv0 libxine1 libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-x libzip1 mysql-common okular okular-extra-backends openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-style-crystal oxygen-cursor-theme packagekit packagekit-backend-apt phonon phonon-backend-xine pinentry-gtk2 pinentry-qt4 plasma-widget-network-manager plasma-widget-quickaccess python-dev python-kde4 python-packagekit python-plasma python-qt4 python-qt4-common python-qt4-dbus python-sip4 python2.6-dev qt4-qtconfig quassel quassel-data raptor-utils redland-utils software-properties-kde soprano-daemon speedcrunch strigi-client strigi-daemon system-config-printer-kde systemsettings ttf-dejavu ttf-dejavu-extra update-manager-kde update-notifier-kde && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop

Wolfram Alpha and Computational Search

I was honestly more excited about the launch of Wolfram Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) than Microsoft Bing in May this year. It must be noted that Wolfram Alpha is a computational engine and the service that Wolfram provides is very different from Google or Microsoft search.

Stephen Wolfram, the founder of Mathematica led the effort to devise a strategy that enables the Wolfram Alpha engine to understand the language and interpretive intricacies of the web as compared to the more typical semantic tagging approach. Though not on the same scale, Wolfram's efforts in the present day are very similar to an ancient Sanskrit grammarian named Pāṇini (पाणिन) from the Indian subcontinent who lived around 27 B.C.E and produced 3,959 sutras or rules of  the Sanskrit grammar. Pāṇini essentially came up with formal rules to describe Sanskrit grammar and used these rules to compute poetic forms in Sanskrit. Wolfram's task of attempting to interpret the "language of the web" and making all available data computable by leveraging models, is much more arduous in terms of scale and this is why I am fascinated by the efforts of Wolfram Research.

The best way to understand how the computational knowledge engine differs from existing search engines is to run a few queries . As an extremely trivial example, I typed in "Australia India" and the below results were returned in Wolfram Alpha. A similar query in either Google or Bing led to a whole bunch of search engine results that were not relevant (purely) in context of quantifying comparative (computational) statistics of the two countries.