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I am shifting my blog to a new location. I dont wanna use blogger anymore thats why. Here's the link to the new blog: http://muchhala.in I will preserve this blog as long as possible :)

Finally deleted all the spam comments on the blog, must have been more than 30. Deleting them all was a tough job. Its amazing what ppl will do to increase their page ranking & stuff. Well if u know of way to stop all this post spam for blogger, please leave ur suggestion. (No Spamming PLEASE)

Well I finally received my 25 Ubuntu CDs I had ordered sometime in June, from shipit.ubuntu.com :). Didn’t receive as I had thought I would have, had to go to the Foreign Post Office at Ballard Estate in Mumbai. Those Custom people wanted me to PAY DUTY ON UNIVERSALLY FREE DISTRIBUTED LINUX CDs :o The timings mentioned on their Call letter was 10:30-12:30 & I reached there by 10:45 and the lady who was to start the process arrived at a cool 11:30. It turned out she was the best person in the whole office, doing her work sincerely and truly helping everyone. When I said that these were Linux CDs, they didn’t even know what it was and one of them thought it was a Porn CD :o because of the design of the Pack. How cheap minded. There was one lady who understood what it was and asked me to bring the print out of the page which said it’s distributed freely at no Cost. I got her that, but the other fool valued those 25 CDs at INR 200 and the total pack cost to INR 5000 :o But finally the

The latest entrant to the world of IM’s is the Google Talk. Well I don’t have the time and resources to Review it but from my experience of using it I did like to rate Size & Resource Usage: 9/10; There’s no IM that comes in a 900 KB pack. The amount of resources it requires is just about 1/4th of that of Yahoo or MSN, it’s a boon for someone like me with ultra low resources Interface: 7/10; Its typical simple Google Interface, simple and neat Navigation: 6/10, Chatting with two people is really not that simple Text Chat: 3/10, With nothing but plane jade text messaging where  text formatting is nothing more than using  _ & * for bold & italics with no colour or font change. Emotion icons the most important thing is missing. Voice Chat: 7/10; It has great voice quality even on a 64 kbps connection Overall: 5/10; Considering it’s the first ever Release and other IM’s already in they 7th version. The good thing is it has stuck to the open source Jabber protocol and not creat

Today when I logged in to my Hotmail MSN account I finally found my account upgraded to 25 MB. Thank GOD they finally did it. After all those mails to their customer service or even trying the. As just about I don’t care what this account has, because I got my accounts on Yahoo! And Gmail , which are way better than Hotmail MSN . As to what this accounts got is just invites from Microsoft Beta for Windows 2003 R2 The Account close and open hack never worked for me as it’s an @msn.com account and not the traditional @hotmail.com account Well as to all those who haven’t here’s the link on how to do it: Convert your Hotmail Account to 250 MB

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The 2012 Olympic Games will be held in London, the International Olympic Committee has announced. London won a two-way fight with Paris by 54 votes to 50 at the IOC meeting in Singapore, after bids from Moscow, New York and Madrid were eliminated. Paris had been favourites throughout the campaign but London's hopes were raised after an impressive presentation by Lord Coe, the bid chairman. Prime Minister Tony Blair called the win "a momentous day" for Britain. IOC president Jacques Rogge made the dramatic announcement at 1249 BST. It will be the first time the Olympics has been held in Britain since 1948. Coe said: "This is just the most fantastic opportunity to do everything we ever dreamed of in British sport." After the announcement, it emerged London was ahead in every round of voting except the second round when Madrid polled the most votes. News of London's victory delighted flag-waving supporters who had gathered in Trafalgar Square and Stratford in

The European Parliament has rejected a controversial measure that would have created a single method of patenting software throughout the EU. A government representative said that 648 out of 729 members of Parliament voted Wednesday to reject the proposal, called the Computer Implemented Inventions Directive, which critics said would widen the extent to which software could be patented. The Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure, or FFII, described the decision as a "great victory for those who have campaigned to ensure that European innovation and competitiveness is protected from monopolization of software functionalities and business methods." While many free-software advocates and software developers have spoken out against the directive from the start, large companies have lobbied in its favor, often via campaign groups such as the Business Software Alliance, CompTIA and the Campaign for Creativity. These groups and the companies behind them have put significan

Take a look at the all vesions of Windows till date Windows 1.01 Windows 2.0 Windows 286 Windows 3.0 Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows NT 3.1 Windows NT 3.51 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows Me Windows XP

A report that Cnet Networks, owner of several popular technology Web sites, is shopping itself to potential buyers sent the company's shares up nearly 10 percent Thursday. Executives from the San Francisco firm have held informal discussions with Viacom, the parent of CBS television, and Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp, according to an article Thursday in the New York Post. Yahoo Inc. and Time Warner, parent of America Online, might also be interested in bidding, the report says. Cnet's shares rose $1.10 to close at $11.74 Thursday. "I think Cnet would be a very attractive property for any number of online and offline media players," said William Morrison, an analyst for JMP Securities, an investment bank. "In my opinion, the company is a leader in a number of markets and has a darn large audience." Cnet spokeswoman Sarah Cain declined to comment on what she described as rumor and speculation. Unnamed sources cited by the Post said that the talks with Cne

Try this puzzle http://kiteretsu.jp/on/grow3/ Its one that will make u go crazy. I got the complete score 20000 after an hour. Put things in order so that it helps the other to grow. Just a hint. Start with egg and then the robo(the box) And the last 3 be dish, booster & tv

Researchers at Microsoft's (Profile, Products, Articles) Cambridge, England, labs are developing a file-sharing technology that they say could make it easier to distribute big files such as films, television programs and software applications to end-users over the Internet. Code-named Avalanche, the technology is similar to existing peer-to-peer (P-to-P) file swapping systems such as BitTorrent's, in the sense that large files can be divided into many smaller pieces to ease their distribution. End users request the file parts from other users' hard drives and reassemble them to create the original file. Such systems can scale well to serve millions of users, and reduce the bandwidth and computing costs of sending content directly to users from central servers. Some have also irritated publishers who complain the services are used to share copyright works illegally. The problem with existing systems, according to Microsoft, is that people sometimes have wait a long time to r

Archaeologists have discovered Europe's oldest civilisation, a network of dozens of temples, 2,000 years older than Stonehenge and the Pyramids. More than 150 gigantic monuments have been located beneath the fields and cities of modern-day Germany, Austria and Slovakia. They were built 7,000 years ago, between 4800BC and 4600BC. Their discovery, revealed today by The Independent, will revolutionise the study of prehistoric Europe, where an appetite for monumental architecture was thought to have developed later than in Mesopotamia and Egypt. In all, more than 150 temples have been identified. Constructed of earth and wood, they had ramparts and palisades that stretched for up to half a mile. They were built by a religious people who lived in communal longhouses up to 50 metres long, grouped around substantial villages. Evidence suggests their economy was based on cattle, sheep, goat and pig farming. Their civilisation seems to have died out after about 200 years and the recent arch

By the end of the year, spyware programs will have tripled in number, put Firefox in their sights, and have turned to RSS to distribute its key loggers and ad spawners, a security expert said Friday. Richard Stiennon, director of threat research at anti-spyware software vendor Webroot, first presented his six predictions at this week's Gartner IT Security Summit. Number one on his list? "The first spyware that targets Firefox will appear in the first half of 2005," prognosticated Stiennon. "That means either a spyware writer will take advantage of a vulnerability in Firefox, as others already have in Internet Explorer, or create a site that forces Firefox to invisibly download and install adware or spyware." Stiennon's apparently not worried about the impending deadline for his prediction. "Test code against Firefox exists," he said, "and I've seen [spyware] exploits against Firefox that don't work. At the Gartner conference, I had a c

I just went to check the number of invites with isnoop.net and this is what it said: I Quote from http://isnoop.net/gmail/ I have gotten the word from Gmail's Product Manager that my service is no longer tolerable. At midnight PDT June 7th, 2005, this service was disabled. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all who contributed to this service. Your generosity helped out a vast number of people and for that you should be proud. The gmail spooler email account is now deactivated and any mail sent to it will bounce. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to drop me a line: email@isnoop.net Did you know there was more to this site than just a Gmail invite spooler? Check out some of the other fancy tools and toys I've whipped up. --Ian "isnoop" Anthony Too bad its so popular service has been cut short by Google. :( Do you think its an indication of gmail moving out of beta, as it already allows u to sing up for google account holders (open sign up

Spanish Security firm Secunia, has found a seven year old flaw - 'frame injection' vulnerability, in Mozilla's Firefox browser which allows attackers to place malicious content on trusted websites. The warning reveals a flaw in the way the browser handles frames. The application does not verify if a page, displayed in different frames on a particular website originates from the same site. This flaw could be used by a hacker to insert malicious content in one of the frames of a trusted website. The security company pointed out that Firefox 1.x, Mozilla 1.7.x and Camino 0.x versions of the application were vulnerable to the flaw and has rated it as 'moderately critical'. According to a posting by a 'user support moderator' on the Mozilla's online forum, a user viewing a trusted site on one window and has open on another window a malicious website that attacks this vulnerability, can enable the attacker to steal his/her information. To ensure protection, th

After inch-by-inch progress, Opportunity back on track NASA's Opportunity rover has broken free from the Martian sand dune where it had been stuck for more than a month, the mission's top scientist announced Saturday. "We're out of the trench, and we're back on the surface again," Cornell astronomer Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers, told MSNBC.com. In a mission update, Squyres reported that data from the previous day's activities at Meridiani Planum showed all six of the rover's wheels on top of the soil. "We've been confident all along that this would happen, but still ... what a relief!" he wrote. The Opportunity rover and Spirit, its twin on the other side of Mars, have been studying the Red Planet from the surface since January 2004. Last year Opportunity sent back headline-grabbing evidence that its landing site was drenched with water in ancient times, and in recent weeks Spirit has been sending

Over the past week, there has been renewed rumor-mongering about discussions between Apple and Intel about the possibility of a move to Intel's x86-64 platform. Many have, once again, interpreted this as meaning that Apple would completely drop the PowerPC platform within a short time of moving to x86 -- but that is not at all what we've been hearing from sources in Cupertino. Apparently, any adoption of an Intel platform (whether it be x86-64 or something based on the Itanium "EPIC" design; the former being much more likely than the latter) would not be an all-or-nothing proposition. Instead, it would be a move by Apple to introduce its own computer(s) based on Intel and/or AMD hardware, simultaneously with its PowerPC systems -- probably a high-end machine in the PowerMac class. This would include at least some backward compatability for PPC applications and hardware drivers, and would compete within Apple's own offerings against the PowerPC platform. At times

Release Date: July 16, 2005 The following is a list of facts that we know about book six, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. From JKRowling.com: - The link between Chamber of Secrets and Half-Blood Prince relates to a discovery Harry made in 'Chamber' that foreshadows something that he finds out in 'Prince'. - Tom Riddle is not the Half Blood Prince (he is Voldemort). - Arthur Weasley is not the Minister of Magic. - Crucial information in The Half-Blood Prince was originally planned to be placed in Chamber of Secrets, the second book. - The HBP (half-blood prince) is not Harry or Voldemort. - There will not be two chapters in book six titled "Lupin's Papers" and "The Lovegoods in Court." - An excerpt from HBP: "He looked rather like an old lion. There were streaks of grey in his mane of tawny hair and his bushy eyebrows; he had keen yellowish eyes behind a pair of wire-rimmed spectacles and a certain rangy, loping grace even though he w

IBM has sold a multimillion-dollar model of its new Blue Gene/L supercomputer to simulate the workings of the human brain. The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, Switzerland, purchased the supercomputer, dubbed Blue Brain, and its researchers will collaborate with experts from IBM on the project, Big Blue is expected to announce Monday. The two-year project will build a three-dimensional model that simulates the electrochemistry of a major portion of the brain, the neocortex, with plans to simulate other parts and eventually the entire brain. The researchers hope to understand processes such as perception, thought and memory and to illuminate how malfunctions in the brain's circuitry can lead to problems such as autism or schizophrenia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but EPFL bought a four-rack Blue Gene model, and IBM charges about $2 million per rack. Each rack has 1,024 Power processors linked with multiple high-speed communications networks. The

If you can't afford the svelte S-Class or the catchy C-Class, here's a (relatively) cheaper W-Class MP3 wrist watch for you. The watch has 512mb of memory, and runs for between six to eight hours on a single charge. It also features a voice recorder and can of course store data as well. Generally Mercedes cars would have all top of the line features in even the most basic models, but here we have a 512mb MP3 watch that can only do USB 1.1. What's that top speed again? By the way I was just kidding about the "W-Class" bit, their watches don't fall into any classes. Not yet, anyway.

Japanese scientists are to explore the centre of the Earth. Using a giant drill ship launched next month, the researchers aim to be the first to punch a hole through the rocky crust that covers our planet and to reach the mantle below. The team wants to retrieve samples from the mantle, six miles down, to learn more about what triggers undersea earthquakes, such as the one off Sumatra that caused the Boxing Day tsunami. They hope to study the deep rocks and mud for records of past climate change and to see if the deepest regions of Earth could harbour life. Asahiko Taira, director general of the Centre for Deep Earth Exploration in Yokohama, near Tokyo, said: "One of the main purposes of doing this is finding deep bacteria within the ocean crust and upper mantle. We believe there has to be life there. It's the same mission as searching for life on Mars." Rocks in the upper mantle produce compounds essential for life when they react with seawater. "This is a system wh

A revolutionary machine that can copy itself and manufacture everyday objects quickly and cheaply could transform industry in the developing world, according to its creator. The "self-replicating rapid prototyper," or "RepRap" is the brainchild of Dr. Adrian Bowyer, a senior lecturer in mechanical engineering at the University of Bath in the UK. It is based on rapid prototyping technology commonly used to manufacturer plastic components in industry from computer-generated blueprints -- effectively a form of 3D printer. But Bowyer told CNN the RepRap's ability to copy itself could put rapid prototyping technology within reach of the world's poorest communities by alleviating the need for the sort of large-scale industrial infrastructure common across the developed world. "People can start manufacturing goods at a low price," said Bowyer. "All one needs is a computer and a machine that can copy itself. It can spread without enormous expenditur

Introduction Firefox will be one of the most critical delivery vehicles for Gecko and XULRunner technology in 2005. Our goal is to continue to build a "best of breed" browser product for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. We have ambitious goals for the workload between now and our next major release set. This document is a description of our current thinking on how we intend to get to Firefox 2.0. At this stage it is brief, but over time it will grow much as the 1.0 roadmap did. Structure We are planning for a Firefox 2.0, but will divide the planned work over (at this point) three major Milestones, 1.1 (July 2005), 1.5 (unscheduled) and 2.0 (unscheduled). All major development work will be done on the Mozilla trunk, and these releases will coincide with Gecko version revs. Milestone Plan This is, as always, subject to change. Milestone Release Date Bugs Summary 1.0 Phoenix 2004-11-9 Bugs + - ? Inaugural Release 1.0.1 Rose & Crown 2005-02-24 Security Update 1.0.2

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) may cut the prices on its K8 platform CPUs in July, which would come one month before Intel’s planned price cuts for its Pentium 4 600 series, according to market sources. Intel is expected to lower its prices on August 14, although sources indicated Intel may implement the cuts earlier if motherboard sales in the second quarter are lower than expected. AMD claimed no knowledge of the news. In May, AMD announced price cuts of its Sempron processors. Nvidia, which is promoting the AMD platform aggressively, has reduced the price of its nForce3 250 chipset by about US$5, according to sources at Nvidia’s customers. If the cuts go through, the new price will be similar to the price offered by VIA Technologies for its mainstream chips, the sources added.

SAN FRANCISCO - In a sure sign that the era of mobile computing has arrived, notebooks have for the first time outsold desktops in the United States in a calendar month, the research firm Current Analysis says. After tracking sales from a sampling of electronics retailers, Current Analysis says notebook sales accounted for 53 percent of the total personal computer market last month, up from 46 percent during the same period last year. San Diego-based Current Analysis does not follow worldwide personal computer sales. Spurring demand for notebooks is their overall price drop as quality has improved, says Sam Bhavnani, senior analyst for Current Analysis. "Just a few years ago, the performance of notebooks was nowhere near where it is today," he said. Notebook prices fell 17 percent during the past year while desktop prices dipped only 4 percent. Some of the features common in most notebooks are longer-lasting batteries, CD burners and wireless capability. The computing crowd i

The first-ever ThinkPad that converts to a tablet PC will make its debut on Monday, CNET News.com has learned. China's Lenovo Group is expected to announce its new X41 Tablet Series (X41T) in coordination with IBM, which developed the convertible laptop. This is the first computer released by China's Lenovo Group following its purchase of IBM's legendary PC business earlier this year. With its signature black casing, eraser-size trackball and red and blue click buttons, the X41 Tablet Series looks like any other model of IBM's ThinkPad laptop line. However, the 12-inch screen of the X41T can be rotated 180 degrees and pressed flat against the computer's keyboard, turning the notebook into a tablet computer. This was made evident in photos and internal documents supplied by IBM's Japanese laboratories mysteriously that began appearing on the U.S. Federal Communications Commission Web site late last month. A spokesman for Lenovo said the company would be making a

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Giga-byte Technology, the Taiwanese hardware maker has found a way to boot PCs based on Microsoft's Windows XP operating system faster. The company has come up with Iram, a PC add-in card with four DDR DRAM (double data rate dynamic RAM memory) slots that's designed to be used as a PC drive. According to the company, since IRam uses DRAM rather than a hard disk to store information, data can be retrieved from the drive up to 60 times faster than is possible with a hard drive. Giga-byte, showed the board at the Computex exhibition in Taipei this week. Tim Handley, a marketing account manager, Gigabyte, said that the IRam was originally designed for video and editing applications where users require fast access to very large files, but the company soon realized that the IRam had other potential applications. He added that, users who are tired of waiting for their Windows-based PCs to boot up, can install Windows on the IRam and use that as the drive to start the system faster. Wh

Software giant, Microsoft, has acknowledged that its South Korean website has recently been victimized by hackers. According to reports, the attack was directed on the news section of the site. Microsoft s spokesperson Adam Sohn confirmed that the site had been attacked on Tuesday morning, and the company had taken the site offline for a few hours to fix the problem. Investigations have revealed that hackers had placed an iFrame on the site, which took advantage of an iFrame vulnerability of Microsoft s Internet explorer (IE), for which the software company had issued a patch in December last year. The vulnerability that empowers the hacker to take control of the victims PC, was only capable of harming un-patched PCs. Systems with Microsoft s Windows XP Service Pack 2 security update are not vulnerable to the attack. The vulnerability would allow attackers to scan the visitor s computer and activate malicious code to steal passwords from the computer. Security researchers discovered th

If there’s more than one site you always visit after starting up Firefox, you can set your homepage to open several tabs of different web sites at once automatically. From Firefox’s Tools menu, Options, General, enter the addresses of sites separated by a pipe |, as shown above. Or, you can open up all the sites in tabs and hit the “Use Current Pages” button. Thanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting

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