The buildings constructed by the government after investing tens of millions of rupees to run Information Technology (IT) Park have remained useless nowadays.

The government had constructed four residential, one commercial and one administrative buildings for the IT Park in 227 ropanis of land at Dhaneshwor in Kavre last year.

The buildings have remained useless when one foreign company, which started works here before eight months, shifted to Kathmandu. Over 290 million rupees has already been invested for the construction of the IT Park.

None except some security guards stay here nowadays. The government last year called a tender to run the IT Park. However, only Javra Software Company of Netherlands filed the tender. After passing the tender, the Javra had started works before eight months. However, stating technical reasons, the Company left the Park and shifted to Kathmandu since June 15.

President of Computer Association of Nepal (CAN), Biplavman Singh said no foreign and native companies showed interest in the Park as the government increased the rate of tax.

After the completion of the Park's construction, foreign as well as native companies had shown interest to work in the IT Park. However, due to the government's attitude only one Company filed the tender at the last moment, Singh blamed.

With the view to make Banepa and its vicinity as IT City, the government had started the construction of the Park. Facilities of producing new Software and hardware; selling of produced software and hardware; importing of new technology immediately after launching in foreign nations and earning foreign currency, are available in the Park, IT experts said.

Problem of connectivity had emerged in the IT Park when the Javra Software Company started its work. The running of the IT Park is under the Science and Technology Ministry and there is also the responsibility of Ministry of Industry to develop the Park as an industry, so the running of the Park was affected due to the lack of coordination among the Ministries, said a member of the IT High-level Commission.

After the construction of the Park, many persons here had received computer trainings, said proprietors of Computer Institutes. Many people who were waiting chances to work in the Park have been unemployed.

"I received computer training investing thousands of rupees in Kathmandu. Native software companies have not the capacity to provide job opportunities for many people. I am planning to leave for Korea as the future of the Park is uncertain," said a youth in Banepa.

Before sometimes, IT Banepa, Dhulikhel, Panauti municipality and half-dozen VDCs of the vicinity were announced 'Information Technology Zone'. A dispute between Panauti municipality and Banepa municipality had also occurred on the issue of border due to the IT Park. However, both municipalities are quiet nowadays.

CAN President Singh said, the IT Park remained useless as the present government did not initiate any step to run it. The government turned deaf ears while we urged to be serious about the Park, Singh lamented.

Vice-president of the IT High-level Commission, Saroj Devkota said a preparation is underway to call a tender within a month to run the Park.

Saying that the foreign companies were hesitating to come Nepal due to the present political circumstances, Devkota urged the government to decrease the tax rate.


src:http://www.gorkhapatra.org.np/content.php?nid=24009

All of us know more than 40% of earth's population lives in China. It's kindda regular and normal to see/read news about China's strict policy upon Information Technology. It's very freaking for other free world when they read that China bans this and that sites and imposes restrictions on other online activities and so.. creating/implementing new laws everytime. It's not a big news when i write Google.com once has been banned there. The idea to write this post popped up when my friend Sulav made me aware of a mirror site of google http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi. I had once spent sometime on the site before he referred it to me. At that time, it showed me everything in mirrored form, you need actually a MIRROR to read the result. Everything starts from backward. I didn't care that much at that time. But just now, when i read about elgoog(opp of google), it acted as saviour to Chinese Netizens when google was banned by Chinese government. elgoog is still unmatchable to google, because google is superior to elgoog and elgoog looks and feels like a prank or joke site.

I'm also compelled to write about one more search engine. If you are wondering why i wrote that first sentence(fact figures) in this post, then i'll tell you now. Baidu.com is second largest search engine in world today after google.com. Believe it or not, and i'm using baidu.com for more than 2 months. It's not i've written or reviewed it in my post but it's always on my mind. It's second largest search engine because it's used by Chinese netizens and that's why, it's second largest. At the same context, the worlds most spoken language is not English but Cantonese, baidu.com is the growing search engines. It's in Chinese language but using simple common sense, one can promptly exploit this search engine at max.

Baidu.com has got a simple interface, since it's in Chinese, we have to hover our mouse cursor on link to read it's English link in status bar of the browser..so as to figure out what the content or hyperlink takes us to. There is separate search for mp3 too. Google won't allow us to search mp3 precisely only the expert user or someone who is profilic in google's hidden command can get through it. But Baidu.com has simplified it for visitors and when i search for specific mp3, i get it in no time. I've already downloaded tons of my favorite mp3 through it. What are you thinking about pal..go and try it for yourself.

I shall reveal more interesting sites in coming days.
Till then take care.

It has been constant raining since more than one week. It is still raining at the moment while i'm writing these words. Weather is so uncool here because the news of flood, landslides, hunger, plaque that is what eating me a lot. In Nepalgunj(southern terai region of our country), almost 11 people died because of this flood. I felt veryyyyy sad when i heard that people out there have no food supply. Transportation and communication, they are already cut off. And we, people of mountain, sitting in the high altitute just reading/listening news speechlessly. Government has become useless and futile. People are dying and nothing serious has been done to evacuate them or to rescue them who are in need of help,food,home and medicines.
Monsoon has never been this before. I've not seen sun rays 11-12 days herein Kathmandu. It's almost always cloudy and i pretty don't like grey-colored horizon all the time. I wish weather be good very soon.

Weather Forecasting system in Nepal is very conventional. They blame government as we all do, for not providing them with enough finance to purchase latest infrastruture that provides accurate forecasting of weather. It is stupidity to go by their forecasting report. When they say, it's gonna be raining, there would be clean sky and when they say sunny day, there would be hell of a stormy rainy day. Instead, i seek help of internet weather forecasting. I search on local weather condition and that rarely proves wrong to me. I even can estimate and see where cloud is forming or where rain is going to fall.

http://www.mfd.gov.np/ is official site of Meteorological forecasting division. I never cared about existence in net but found this after a little search on google.

Their forecasting from Friday 27 to Saturday 28(2007,July):
Tonight(Friday)'s Weather Forecast For Kathmandu
Generally cloudy with rains tonight.
(Yesterday night, it didn't rain)

Tomorrow(Saturday)'s Weather Forecast For Kathmandu
Generally cloudy with scattered rains.
(Today,Saturday, it's not a scattered rains, but heavy rains, if you stand open hair for 5 secs, you are all wet)

May be there are some technical difficulties that is preventing to forecast accurate weather conditions. But we Nepalese are suffering from excusitis. If we get good result, we die to get awards but if something turns up bad, then behavioural symptoms of excusitis appear. So, i watch those forecast engineer/scientist(forecaster) saying if we've this and that we'd have achieved this and that else not. After all, these characters are inherited from our very own political leaders,who want to blow their own trumpet if they achieve some small achievements else they start counting opposing leaders head if something wrong goes. That's how Nepal is being run. We really need radical change in everything,every sector. But, that's dreaming and talk of so far away which i'm doing right now.

I read on Internet that this weather condition is going to be for one more week,i'm convinced because i saw the satellitic image too and at the same time,i also heard that our Weather department announcing this condition is going to remain for 3-4 days. Now, it's all upon fluke because weather can play any role. It can change it's way anytime and there could be sunny day within a day or night. After all, nature rules us, we human and our technology can't change nature.

Google is master of all search engines, no doubt. I found a search site
similar to google in look.
This search site called DDLoogle is underground search site. Only pirated,
cracked,hacked,nulled,porn,illegal movies,music,games are indexed by this
search engine.
One day it'll be shut down because google will sue it for sure or may be not.
Whatever, it has the ditto interface of Google.Look at those colors on each letters, look at those search boxes. That's what caught my attention.

Search results?? umm.. why don't you try for yourself? i couldn't think of a search string.

Oh by the way, this site is registered by Thelk.Inc at godaddy.

Microsoft's Windows Live Hotmail Webmail service remained inaccessible to a portion of its users for several hours on Friday, but the problem has been resolved.

Windows Live Hotmail, which has about 310 million active users worldwide, became unavailable between approximately 6:30 a.m. U.S. Pacific Time and "late morning," a spokeswoman for Microsoft said.

She declined to specify how many users were affected, saying only that the problem affected "a limited set of customers."

The problem, which erupted during maintenance work for Windows Live Hotmail, didn't lead to any loss of data for users, according to the spokeswoman.

Still, the outage led many to report the problem in online forums and blogs. Those affected couldn't log in to their accounts while the problem lasted.

Earlier this month, various Yahoo sites and services, including the main Yahoo.com portal, suffered availability problems that lasted about 90 minutes.

src:
Author: Juan Carlos Perez
infoworld.com

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Today, i was way happy to find out that people are taking note of my blog articles seriously. I've found in many boards and forums, a discussions being made on my article and pointing out to my links as solution. Apart from them, i've filtred only few of them, which i thought is most deserving to mention in this post here.

I was making wild searches on my blog and what i found is this following link-
http://www.ourblogs.cn/feed.php?channel=47&iid=24196&y=2007&m=03

This link takes you to a chinese site where there is a topic called "Nepal: Roar against Internet Shutdown". My statement was also briefed there. I think it's posted by a Nepalese journalist. I dunno really. It was a hot issue when ISPAN(Internet Service Provider Association of Nepal) imposed Internet Blockade to people for few hours daily for some stupid reasons. It was the most stupidiest thing they've done in the history of information age. Now, that's passe.

And, when i first started blogging around few months ago, there was a debut of new tech TV programme called I-videogame. I made an article on it and a site called www.internet-nexus.com borrowed from my site. Thanks to them, gave me my full credentials.
http://www.internet-nexus.com/2007/03/i-videogame.htm

There is a site called tamangsamaj.com. It linked back to my site and topic on PRASHANT TAMANG. I'm pretty much honoured that i'm drawing attentions of some indigenous site too.
http://www.tamangsamaj.com/Prashant%20Tamang.php

And the following site has european accent. I couldn't understand the language much but at least, my site is listed on it's main page. To me it seemed some kind of bookmarking site. http://www.guff.eu/index.php
and there are so many other boards,forums where my blog articles have been discussed pretty much. I really felt good when i think at least my articles were of some helps to people and that encourages me to share more of my knowledge.

Besides,my friend Sulav told me Spicenepal.com has revamped it's interface lately and without delay when i checked, it's indeed very creative and beautiful. But.. Oh Big Butt, no no, not that BIG BAD BUTT, but a Big BUT.. so many links are still missing and it's a work-in-progress stuff out there in Spicenepal.com. Therefore, the impression is down once more. May be very soon they'll have this fixed up but... it left bad impression to me.

Talking about spicenepal.com, i give free service on behalf of them. I'm not lying. It's for sure. So many MeroMobile users come up with their own problems online and i've to solve them all. Check this link:
http://infotechnepal.wordpress.com/2006/10/31/how-to-connect-your-pc-to-internet-using-meromobile-gprs/
i've tried to solve all of their problems and they never came back asking for more. This link above is from my old blog.
Few of them came back for good solutions or for unsolved mystery, but i did save their time and cost. May be spicenepal.com must be taking note of this or may be smiling thinking me as some free volunteer doing some tech-support work on their behalf for free. Watever, it pleases me.
Having that said, goodnight for tonight.

Uff. i was supposed to make this post on Thursday. But, it's late night 12:09 am and already Friday. Anyway, i consider Thursday as a black day for me. In our culture, not all days are good to initiate some important work. For goodluck days, it's call 'Swaja' and for badluck days, it's call 'Sijja'. I never believed these things but today, my important job has been delayed and now , i confirm this Thursday as my badluck day. I'm pretty much disheartened at the moment. Anyways, my father called me up and boosted my ego. As he says, this is life and life goes on. That's right, i've to face obstacles.

And, i just met a friend online, Sulav Aryal. He was sharing some tech-guffs with me and i was enjoying chat with him. When he started to share his part of world, i got frightened how badly this Nepal Telecom sucked him.

Sulav writes,
" I live life at 56kbps just like my internet connection slow and dull. Uneventful as ever but still expensive. NTC claims BroadBand adsl is going to be the savior but I feel like lecturing about the definition of broadband internet because NTC as we know it would be setting a new definition of broadband internet. 64 kbps is going to be new broadband I am waiting for that day. Everybody knows why so called IT Park is empty now. All they were asking for was 512 kbps and they couldn't deliver it. Hey did you know that the data service from cdma phone does not cross the 10kbps mark. They promised the speed of up to 192kbps. For those who are waiting I say dream on. One day pigs might fly. Any way adsl is coming and lunch date is set as jan 2008. This is no hoax I have got it in my mail. I asked those guys at asknepaltelecom.com. Now all I have to do is arrange some loan to buy the adsl modem of course. Can anyone arrange me some loan I am broke. "

Oh god, this is Nepal Telecom's treachery. This is how they make loot out of people. They tell one thing and do another things. After all, it is said privatized,however there are reminiscences of old hypocrite conventional work pattern.

I wonder, what happens if all the people in the country at the same times ditch this Nepal Telecom and get used to with Mero Mobile. Certainly, people will have better connectivity and no more 'ahiley besta cha (busy signal message)' message from Nepal Telecom. I really have a hard time calling to NT network through Mero Mobile service. And, i blame only and only to those NT badass. I still remember when those NT didn't give spicenepal(meromobile) to interlink with their network.

more on next time, feeling bit sleepy..uh.. but will make one more post..

In this site, there are approximately 400 registry hacks or edits in downloadable .reg and .vbs format. With this hacks, one can easily tweak his/her system or troubleshoot the errors in windows XP.

Sick and tired of constantly seeing the temp2.exe error message?

When you doubleclick on one of your hard drive partitions, does it show you some unexpected results?

When you rightclick on one of your hard drive partitions, do you see a new item called "Autoplay" on top of other items with bold face?

When you right click on one of your hard drive partitions, do you see some new items with garbage text?

If your answer was ‘Yes’ to any of the above questions then the chances are that you may be infected with the Perlovga virus (otherwise known as temp2.exe) or one of its variants. The problem is that this virus is particulary cumbersome to remove, even by reputable anti-virus programs. But we have the solution and it is called PRT (or Perlovga Removal Tool)!

What does this tool do?
It detects and reoves all traces of the Perlovga virus from your system, including floppy disks and USB flash disks (the latter ones must be write enabled during the scan process).

It also removes the leftovers of this virus by removing the 'autorun.inf' files and cleaning up you system registry, so you won’t see the 'autoplay' item anymore.

How to use it?
Start your computer in Safe mode and run this tool. If you have infected floppy/flash disks you can insert them and click start. You can repeat this process for every disk you have.

Perlovga Removal Tool

Download this tool here
Password: www.meroguff.com

1 - Disabled Ctrl+Alt+Del >> so the user can't see the virus and the other applications running!

2 - Disabled Folder Options >> so the user can't set the option to show hidden files!

3 - Disabled Regedit >> so the user can't see what is going on during system startup!

4 - Disabled Show hidden files & folders >> so even if you select "Show hidden files and folders from folder options these files & folder will not be shown!

5 - Disabled Run Command >> so the user can't use it to run some tools to track the virus activites of remove it.

6 - Disabled Windows Firewall >> so the virus can send & receive any data through the network without the attention of the user!

7 - Hidden Desktop items to prevent the user from accessing My Computer and other desktop shortcuts!

8 - Hidden Taskbar >> so the user can't explore start menu!

9 – Restricted Internet Explorer Home Page Changing >> so the user can't change the malicious web page set by the malware!

10 – Restricted Internet Explorer Closing >> so the user can't close the pops up windows that appear when visiting the malicious web page or any other website!

11 – Hidden Internet Options >> so the user can't change any setting set by the malware!

12 – Hidden Internet Explorer Address Bar >> so the user can't see what web page being visited and what scripts being executed!

13 - Restricted Internet Explorer Right Click >> so the user can't veiw the source of the page being visited and other useful things.

14 – Hidden Internet Explorer Navigation Buttons >> so the user will be forced to user the keyboard shortcuts to navigate through the web sites!

15 - Hidden Internet Explorer Context Menu >> so the user can't access this menu which make him able to select some useful settings.

16 - Hidden Internet Explorer Toolbar >> so the user can't use it to remove some unwanted toolbars made by the malware.
Remove Restrictions Tool v2.0

These above mentioned are some of the symptoms of virus-struck system. I've found a nifty tool to re-enable all these settings at one go. So that it could become easy to trace virus marks and delete them.
Somewhere Antivirus missed to correct these problems even after successful removal of virus or other sort of malwares.


Download this tool here.
password: www.meroguff.com

In this example, i'm taking a readymade folder called mIRC to protect from viewing or manipulating. There is a mIRC folder in my C: drive. I want to lock C:\mIRC folder without using any third-party software like folderguard.

To make this happen, i'll create a batch file. Steps aheads are clear enough.

1. Open Notepad.
2. Paste the following phrase exactly to Notepad.
ren mIRC mIRC.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}
3. Save it as lockmIRC.bat in c:\
(Note: Notepad saves file in txt format. While saving the file other than it's native format, use always an inverted comma around filename like "lock.bat" and click save)

Now, go to C: drive and double-click lockmIRC.bat. The folder in C:\mIRC will be protected and when clicked, it will launch control panel. Pretty cool.

To unprotect the folder.
1. Open Notepad
2. Paste the following phrase exactly to Notepad.
ren mIRC.{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D} mIRC
3. Save it as unlockmIRC.bat in c:\

Now, go to c: drive and double-click unlockmIRC.bat. The folder in C:\mIRC will be unprotected.

I was urgently needing a software which could read and pronounce a word. I was finding it for all the web but most of them are not free. I remembered i had similar softwares with me. I dug into piles of my data burnt CDs and finally found it. I tried to search it on net and found nowhere but only old pages. Microsoft TalkIt

So, Microsoft Talkit is a small program which would pronounce a word and we can hear it properly if speakers are turned on. I really needed it because i wanted to learn difficult pronunciations. Now, that problem is solved and phonetically, all the pronunciations are accurate and no doubt. Now, i would be taking help of it and learning difficult pronunciations tomorrow onwards.

Download HERE:
Password: www.meroguff.com

Learn how to install Windows XP on your computer!

Windows XP Setup Simulator is a program that teaches you how to install Windows XP, without having to worry you will mess up your hardware or software.

It just simulates installing Windows XP as if it was the real setup. It reproduces every step exactly as it is in the real setup, and it does not restart your computer.

This program can also be used as a guide for learning how to install Windows 2003, because the steps are very similar. The package also includes an e-book that explains every step of the Windows XP Setup and some other Windows XP Basics.

This Simulator is for anyone who hasn't installed a Windows OS before. Give it a try.

Download HERE
Password: www.meroguff.com

These are some of the facts and figures related to Display Technology.

1. A refresh rate of 85 MHz on your monitor means that every single pixel is refreshed 85 times a second.

2. Moire is a graphic effect that puts an undesirable pattern composed of small dots placed in a tight pattern on plain image.

3. A nematic liquid crystal is a transparent liquid that is used in twisted nematic displays, the most common form of liquid crystal display.

4. Self-scanned Amorphous Silicon integrated Display (SASID) technology is used in flat-panel displays in notebook and portable computers.

5. TOLED (transparent organic light-emitting device) is a display technology being developed by the Universal Display Corporation (UDC). It uses transparent electrodes and light emitting materials in an organic light-emitting device(OLED).

6. The stair-step effect that can be seen in diagonal line of some computer graphics is called 'thejaggies'.

7. In a computer monitor, the voltage gets boosted to 30000 volts in parts of the circuitry.

8. The concept of plasma display panels was first conceived in July 1964 at the University of Illnois.
(More inside.....)

9. Plasma monitors do not come with in-built tuner. AN NTSC/ATSC television signal must be passed through a satellite box, cable box, HDTV reciever, VCR/VHS device, or an outboard tuning device.

10. Unlike traditional displays, where the image is scanned across the screen, in plasma displays, pixels are'lit' all at once.

11. Plasma technology is different from that used in other display systems,in that red,blue, and green light is created in every pixels, reducing space. Charged electrodes between glass panels cause tiny pockets of inert gas to change the state of the plasma. This process cause ultraviolet light to be produce, which in turn reacts with the phosphorous in each pixel to produce visible light.

12. Plasma screens have no scan line due to the fact that each and every pixels has its own transistor electrode. This creates a smooth evenly lit image across the entire surface of the display.

13. In 1968, a research group at RCA in the US, headed by George Heilmeier, developed the first LCDs based on DSM, or dynamic scatering mode.

14. S Kobayashi of Japan produced first detect-free LCD. This was in 1972.

15. NEC, in 1986, produced the first LCD laptop computer.

16. Sharp produced the 28-inch TFT LCD in 1995.

17. LCDs were first put into use as displays in electronic calculators.

Everyone has to die one day. Dying is a natural process. But how do you manage your active online world once you pass away. If someone is busy blogging on and on and suddenly he passes away and nobody knows what has happened to him because his blog is stagnant for ever. This is just an example and today i found a wiki,after which we can manage our online life and let everyone know what has happened to someone.

Have a read yourself on this following link:
http://www.wikihow.com/Share-Your-Obituary-With-Your-Online-Friends

It is now almost 7-8 years now that i've not touched a brush to paint. I don't know why but if i've to paint again, i'm sure, i'm still at it because it's the instinct that will keep my artistic side alive always. The following few paintings are what i did in past. They are not that good but still when i look at it, i remember the time i put on it. My right hand's small finger is curved permanently leaving the impression if it's some sort of disease but i know why is it like this. Because as a child or school goers i was always busy drawing something and painting on and on. This led my small finger of right hand to curve unconditionally. I can't straighten it properly. But, i've no complain. Still, i'm known as a good artist among my friend circle. That's how i'm described to others.

There are so many other paintings i did out of the blue. It's a kids imagination and there were so many others which my friends or relatives are putting it on their sitting room as decorating subject. I feel proud when i see that. They asked and i gave them as souvenir. I was a good artist and i still think i am. I still remember that i painted my primary level's schools wall for free. It was bit colorful and kindergarten type of images on the wall.

Lamp in the night

Abraham Lincoln

Nepalese Temple

Winston Churchill

Sir Albert Einstein

Frozen River

Galloping Horse - I'm proud of this piece

Himalayas

This ebook teaches how hackers work and what are the tools needed to practice/use hacking in vulnerable systems.

The ebook writes:
"The author is not responsible for any abuse of this information. It is intended for educational use only. You may be quite shocked at how vulnerable you are! As an afterthought I added a section on database access due to a number of requests."

Download Hacking for Dummies from the link below:
http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/2/10/759688/HfD.rar
password: www.meroguff.com

Disclaimer: I'm and this my post is not responsible for anything caused after consulting above ebook.Please read and use the knowledge at your own risk.

Today was a complete hectic day. As always weather played hide and seek with me. When i went out from home, it wasn't raining but i had that raincoat put on. When i was returning back to home, it was raining and i wasn't wearing any raincoat. What a fuss?? and on the way to my training, i witnessed an accident. A motorbike rider was badly hit by a public bus and for half an hour, there was a big jam. I closely saw the guy, who was hurrying for hospital by some of his relatives(i guess) and his conditions was very bad. For him , it was even hard to breathe. Everyday, here and there, accidents keep occurring in the galis of our city. I blame those traffic policemen who issue license for newbies without proper exam and test but under bribe. I also blame them who recklessly drive and think the road is their grandfather's property. Moreover, the congested roads and ever growing population is another cause for these kinds of accidents. Its better if we don't make hurry in the roads,streets of Kathmandu because running death is always there waiting for someone.
Every morning i've to shave before i go anywhere. Do shave in the morning and by the evening, it comes again.. i'm tired of doing this on and on..shhhyaat

Reason i was out today: I went to US embassy today and i waited their for around 1 hour after which i was talking to someone on that window. Good news, i was asked to visit again on August 1st for interview. Before that i've to complete some more documents which i've to make ready by then. And then, i wish that interview be successful else, i won't get that VISA stamp on my PP.
I'm a religious guy, see the prayer flags behind me.
Whatever it is, i'm happy and sad at the same moment. Happy because, i'm having enthusiam to get abroad and sad because, i've to leave my country. I'm gonna miss my loved things,pets here. I'm gonna miss two of my dogs, Sheru and Tiger.
Tiger(1 Year old) and Small Sheru(3 months old and sick)

Tiger (2 and 1/2 years) old and playful big Sheru(1 year old)

If we are true netizens, then there are few moments where we felt really unlucky. Precisely, when some file sharing site restricts us from simultaneous downloading or restricts us from downloading anything for certain period of times. I'm talking about sites like rapidshare.com. I had faced very problematic moments with rapidshare while downloading files. Sometimes, it restricted me to download more than 2 files off it's server at the same time. The reason is because i was using free service. To get premium services i've to pay them. Sometime, it didn't let me even download a single file. Said that i downloaded enough for the day, what the heck,i felt.

As a common sense, i cleared the cookies and it worked. After few weeks, it didn't work at all. Oh, by the way, cookies are files kept on our machine without our permission by the sites like rapidshare.com
It's for storing information about what we do on their site, what we save on their site and other similar things that we do on their site. Rapidshare's cookies kept information about how long we've been downloading file from their server.

Lets get to the business.

hit that Command prompt and flush the dns.

C:\ipconfig /flushdns
C:\ipconfig /release
C:\ipconfig /renew

There is another way to clear the rapidshare informations on our computer.
Simply clear the cookies in advanced way.

Click this link http://rapidshare.de/cgi-bin/premium.cgi?logout=1 from here.

and voila. Give it a try, you'll surely start downloading files from rapidshare.

here is another site called http://www.rapidrip.com/
to bypass the rapidshare restrictions. i've not tried it yet, but you can try.

If you are reading this page, you just know it's an internet but there are lots of things running behind. Lets say, we get internet as subscribed service through some Local ISPs, and then we start surfing net for fun, research,mails or for anything. We give simply www.something.com on address bar of the browser and we promptly jump into the site's content. We don't care what's the technical aspects behind this and it's not necessary either. I'm concerned to care about technical aspect because, what we see is not the correct thing on our browser's address bar. Though we see the human readable phrases as www.meroguff.com, in fact it's the numbers that each computer in the network deals with each other. If i do a reverse DNS lookup of www.meroguff.com, it shows me 72.14.207.121. This is a 32 bit naming convention of each node(a computer on a network). This is IP(internet protocol) number we are dealing with in real. So, how do these numbers convert into letters and how do letters convert into numeric IP numbers? It's because of DNS(Domain Name system/server). It's a server software that resolves the www.meroguff.com into numbers and vice-versa. Our ISP has their own DNS and sometimes we face inability to surf internet and so. Sometimes its not even optimized.

So, i came through this OpenDns.com . This is an online DNS service(which is free) which according to it gives us protection from phishing sites and some other malicious sites. I felt very happy and promptly applied it to my system. Now, i'm not using my ISP's DNS instead i'm using OpenDNS and writing you these words that way. Albeit, i'm using my ISP's own gateway. That's something we can't avoid because we've paid for it. Haven't we?

Lets implement OpenDNS to our system.

1. Please visit www.opendns.com for more info and for other necessary procedures.

2. If you are an XP user, simply click the link below to follow the exact procedures;
http://www.opendns.com/start/windows_xp.php

3. Restart the connection or better off restart the whole system.

4. Now, visit this link http://welcome.opendns.com/
If you've successfully set up your system, you'll see something like the screen below :


5. There is a demo site acting as phishing site. And when you visit the phishing site or some malicious sites, you'll get warning message like below:


To my knowledge, this is a cool way to surf internet.

(spammer: someone who sends unwanted emails to recipients motivated by selling pseudo -products or for infecting systems or for eating bandwidth or for harassment or for any other reasons)-meroguff.com

"Ed," a retired spammer, built a considerable fortune sending e-mails that promoted pills, porn and casinos. At the peak of his power, Ed says he pulled in US$10,000 to $15,000 a week, storing the money in $20 bills in stacks of boxes.

It was a life of greed and excess, one that preyed especially on vulnerable people hoping to score drugs or win money gambling on the Internet. From when he was expelled from high school at 17 until he quit his spam career at 22, Ed -- who does not reveal his full name but sometimes goes by SpammerX -- was part of an electronic underworld profiting from the Internet via spam.

"Yes, I know I'm going to hell," said Ed, who spoke in London on Wednesday at an event hosted by IronPort Systems Inc., a security vendor now owned by Cisco Systems Inc. "I'm actually a really nice guy. Trust me."

A quick-witted and affable guy who wears an earring and casual clothes, there was a time when Ed wasn't so nice. He sent spam to recovering gambling addicts enticing them to gambling Web sites. He used e-mail addresses of people known to have bought antianxiety medication or antidepressants and targeted them with pharmaceutical spam.

In short, Ed said he was "basically what people hate about the Internet."

He spent 10 hours a day, seven days a week studying how to send spam and avoid filtering technologies in security software designed to weed out garbage e-mail. Most spam filters are effective 99 percent of the time; he aimed for that remaining window, using tricks such as including slightly different images in his spam, which can fool filters into thinking the e-mail is legitimate.

"The better I got at spam, the more money I made," Ed said.

He would start a spam run by finding an online merchant who wanted to sell a product. Then he'd acquire a list of e-mail addresses -- another commodity that has spawned its own market in the world of spam. He'd also set up a domain name, included as a link in a spam message, that, if clicked, would redirect the recipient to the merchant's Web site, enabling Ed to get credit for the referral.

The spam would then be sent from a network of hacker-controlled computers, called botnets. Those machines are often consumer PCs infected with malicious software that a hacker can control. Ed would "rent" time on those computers from another group of hackers that specialized in creating botnets.

If one of the spam recipients bought something, Ed would get a percentage of the sale. For pharmaceuticals the commission was around 50 percent, he said.

Response rates to spam tend to be a fraction of 1 percent. But Ed said he once got a 30 percent response rate for a campaign. The product? A niche type of adult entertainment: photos of fully clothed women popping balloons.

To track the money, merchants set up a "referral sales page" where spammers can see how much they make from a spam run. Ed would log in frequently, watching the money increase. He was paid into electronic payment transfer accounts, such as e-gold or PayPal, or into his debit card account, which he could cash out in $20 bills.

That became problematic when the cash became voluminous. He says he made $480,000 his last year of spamming. But the lifestyle of being a spammer was taking a toll. In essence, he had no life.

It's hard to go into a bar and explain your job to a woman by saying "I advertise penis enlargement pills online," Ed said. "It doesn't go down very well."

He rationalized his actions by saying spamming is not like robbing someone, although the lurid impact of spam was clear. Some nine million Americans have some dependence on prescription drugs, Ed said, and he noticed that the same people were buying different drugs each month. "These were addicts," he said.

Additionally, "the product is always counterfeit to some degree. If you're lucky, sometimes it's a diluted version of the real thing," he said. Viagra is cut with amphetamines, and homemade pills are common from sketchy labs in countries such as China, India and Fiji, Ed said.

So Ed got out of the business. He's written a book, "Inside the Spam Cartel: Trade Secrets from the Dark Side," which he said has had some take-up in law enforcement circles eager to learn more about the spam business, which he projects will only get worse.

As broadband speeds increase, spammers will increasingly look to market goods by making VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) calls or sending out videos, Ed said. The ultimate unsolvable problem is users, who continue to buy products marketed by spam, making the industry possible.

"I think in 10 years we'll still get spam," Ed said. "Be prepared to be bombarded."

Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service

Managing those images uploaded to blogger blog will be no more pain in ass. One can manage all the images uploaded using Picasa Web Albums. We can save/copy/delete all those photos uploaded to the blog.

Blogger Photo Gallery

Log in to http://picasaweb.google.com using your gmail username and password. This will bring up the image galleries associated to those blogger blogs where you've uploaded your images.

Note: If you delete images from the gallery, the images will be removed from the blogpost as well.

MozBackup is a software for creating backups of Mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey,Mozilla suite and Netscape profiles. It makes backup of bookmarks,mails,contacts,history,extensions,cache etc and it's easy to restore this backup too. There may be other ways of backing up bookmarks too but i found it way easy for doing so.

1. Run MozBackup(you'll be greeted with welcome message) and click Next

2. Choose the Operation i.e Backup a profile. We can also restore a profile in later time. But we are here for backing up. So, lets choose Backup a profile option. Select the Firefox version and click Next

3. Now, select the profile as default, select the location where the backup file is to be saved and click Next.

4. Here mark all the relevant options for backing up purpose. Since, my extensions on Firefox tend to not work while restoring, i deselected here in my case, and click Next.

5. Backup will be created and the file is saved with the extension *.pcv
You can backup this file using the same procedures mentioned above instead we've to choose the restore option in step 2.

Download MozBackup here

iLightenment
By Dalai Lama
I received my new iPhone at 9 p.m., June 29, after three and a half days of meditation in line behind a blessed 17-year-old boy who made his fortune selling pictures of women’s feet over the internet. I could not possibly be happier with my purchase (unlike some others).

I suppose your fulfillment will depend on your reason for wanting one. I bought mine to bring communication at the temple into the 21st century. As it was, one of the monks in a neighboring temple would signal me with a 75-foot pyre of flame, and I would shed my mortal body and project my spirit to him across the astral plane. In the end, we decided that a two-year service agreement with AT&T required slightly less suffering.

I am only having one difficulty. I am unable to load Freddy Mercury’s magnum opus “Fat Bottom Girls” on it. If someone could please explain to me how to defeat Microsoft’s akusala, Windows Media DRM, I would be most grateful.

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Wellllllll... if you think this Blog of venerable Dalai Lama is for real, then you are wrong. Newsgroper.com is a site or say blog where all the real celebrities names are used by fake celebrities. It seems real celebrities are making blog posting but in real it's the fake authors who are doing so. I was astonished that they didn't spare even the tibetan spiritual leader on their rampage.

The site is full of humorous postings by so called fake celebrities that will certainly make someone entertain for a while but seeing someone like Dalai Lama on it, i felt really bad.

May be political figures or entertainment celebrities who are full of earthly scandals, they deserve to be the target of such satirical harassments but people like Dalai Lama. They don't deserve such things.

I wish the newsgroper.com removes the content on Dalai Lama or make the author who is acting as Dalai Lama to quit.

Today, i found my 'Recent Comments' on my sidebar was not working. Upon contacting the author of this widget i found, he has faced bandwidth limitation for loading his script from googlepages. According to his fix, it is clear, now blogger has to load it(this widget script) locally instead of remote loading which i was doing previously.

Here are the workarounds:

1. Edit the template and put the following javascripts one after another just before the < /head >tag,

javascripts are in these following links, paste them exactly to the template file before the < /head > tag of template file. Make sure 'Expand widget templates' check box is ticked.
http://www.anniyalogam.com/widgets/hackosphere.js.html
http://www.anniyalogam.com/widgets/recent_comments.js.html

2. Save the template file. No need to configure 'Recent Comments' widgets from 'page element' windows. It just works.

Also find and remove the following line from the template:
< script src='http://www.anniyalogam.com/widgets/hackosphere.js'
type='text/javascript' / >

Do you want to get msnaccount@anythingyoulike.com? I think that's not hardest thing and you can get your own personalized email add for free. For my case, though i don't own boudha.com, i added navinlama@boudha.com for free in this tutorial. I'm gonna show you step by step how.

First of all,microsoft hotmail is full of hidden goodies. To maximize the user experience,it has transformed itself into Windows Live Mail. First of all, lets do signup as usual way to get unique Hotmail ID.

1. Go to http://get.live.com/getlive/overview

2. Click the Sign Up button there. The next screen showing hotmail form comes up. In the address bar, just copy the below Javascript, paste it there in the browser's address bar and click Enter.


(NOTE: for some strange reason,blogger.com is not letting me paste Javascript in post area here. Even though i pasted it here forcibly, it showed broken scripts which wouldn't work. So, i put the screenshot above how it looked. And, i know it's difficult to write above code and paste it, so please download the script in txt format from here. Sorry for the inconvenience)

3.Once you copied & pasted the above javascript in the address bar, you'll see the following message after hitting Enter Key.



4. Now, you'll see something like this below.



(wish you had your own choice of domains listed out there?? no problem, just edit the variables in that javascript code)

5. And, start entering details of your personalized email. In my case, once i chose navinlama@boudha.com,it'll check for the availability, if it's available then steps forward are easy to carry out.



Best of luck.

Warning: This tips didn't work well in Firefox. Please try it in IE.

Hello fellas,
If you are using Windows XP, access your folder as :
C:\windows\help\tours\windowsMediaPlayer\audio\Wav
(I'm assuming C: as generic system drive letter where windows is installed)
There are small wav files. Don't double click them but right-click one of them and open with Notepad.
Now, scroll down and you'll see something like this pics below:

So, it's obvious that Sound Forge 4.5(cracked by a cracker "Deepz0ne") was used and they didn't use the genuine Sound Forge but the cracked one.

So, now, what do you think of yourself using Pirated Windows? Do you blame your dignity? So, this shows how hypocrites are they.

Though USB portable drive was initially used only for file storage proposes, today, it's more than that. It has innumerous uses to say like one can carry entire Operating system in it, lousy and troublesome Floppy drives has been replaced, acts as a quickest means of data transfer and storage. Moreover it is acting as a physical RAM(memory) in windows Vista(Readyboost). Not only this, software developers have broaden the idea of portable applications. That means we can carry any kind of Windows(OS) dependent applications independently in flash portable devices. This certainly has increased one's productivity.

Just take portable applications of your choice,start working on your favourite application on any machine and personalise any computers in world according to your taste.

To get all the whistles and bells, we must have at least 512 MB of storage on Flash drives. Now, coming to the point, the following site has comprehensive list of portable application for your portable flash drives. Open Source as well as commercial one. Take a look in it, and feel blessed.

http://usbtools.wordpress.com/

These days, this is the most happening song in channels. I saw this music video on two channels simultaneously and i thought, seems like a most demanded music video. Besides, i had to make this video as 3gp for one of my bro's friend. Since i was searching for this video, i thought to write something in here too. May be you too can watch this video and feel what you think. It's one of the hottest song by a band called 'ROUGE'.

There is a horse dancing in last sequence of this song. That horse is beautifully animated and i really liked that. After all, computer animation is creating magic everywhere.

watch ROUGE-Eh papi video

Source writes:
"After the astounding success of hit single ‘Don’t be Shy’, YBR Records presents the most awaited debut of the season ‘Rouge’. This self-titled album features the chartbuster ‘Eh Papi’, with appearances of Legha as ‘Smasheroo’, Laura as ‘Twinkle Togs’ and Amrita as ‘Drizzle Dash’. The album also has other smashing 16 brand new songs including the 2005 smash single “Don’t be Shy” and “Eh Papi & Don’t be Shy” remixes.

And the party is not alone; the debut album also comes with a “BONUS” second CD of chartbusting, foot-tapping peppy numbers from artistes like Jay Sean, Labh Jhanjua, Bombay Rockers, Stereo Nation, Bombay Vikings and others."

One can ignore this Italicized PARA and start reading from second paragraph
My comp is like acting weird lately. Due to frequent voltage up and down in my area, my comp shut down improperly many times. I had to go somewhere and due to power up/down, after certain load-handling through UPS, my computer was like black,.. power off. Now, i'm sure, it's pretty much the reason for my unstable system. Lots of my important system files got corrupted. My audio driver didn't work well. Right now, i uninstalled it and no sound on it. My modem driver went kaput cause, when i was online, power fluctuations occurred many times and my PC was shut down innumerous times abruptly. So, consequences are sure to witness. I'm witnessing them. After lots of hassles, right now, i'm being able to log in. So many files have been corrupted. Damn electricity in Nepal. Anyways, good thing is i'm attending this comp of mine and leaving no way ON when i'm not around it. And, slowing getting all things back to work properly but as usual, i'm so lazy doing all those stuff at once. Today, i uninstalled so many crap,useless software off it. I just reg-cleaned it too. Tommorrow, i'll start revamping it again. Sure enough, i won't re-install entire XP rig as some newbie rather i'll start troubleshooting each problem one by one.

And, i'm not sure if i should put those things in my head under these writings or should i be posting it in another new topic. But whatever i'm lazy enough to do that either. My main point today is being Anonymous Online. There are certain group of people who think being anonymous online is their right, for privacy sake. And that's true, we need privacy. I don't like someone monitoring all my activities, where i go, what i do, what i eat, blah blah. Same thing goes with online. Those online sites keep track of every visitors, some even make business out of your information. That's no way good. So, if you visit certain sites, they know where you are from and later, to your surprise, you even can't lie. Because they prove you so wrong.

Now,i don't want to put my crap anymore here and coming straight to the point, being anonymous online is nothing hard after TOR evolved. TOR is a brilliant anonymity tool supported by the group of people like you and me. In their language, to become Anonymous online is "Torify". SO, lets torify ourselves and get hidden from those prying eyes.

If you want to know more about TOR, you can jump up to their site, rest here, i'm discussing only straight business.

What do we need:
1. TOR application itself(actually, TOR is the bundle of anonymity tool. Just like WAMP as it is for Windows+Apache+Mysql+Php) . Download it from below link. It's the stable one.
http://tor.eff.org/dist/vidalia-bundles/vidalia-bundle-0.1.2.14-0.0.11.exe

2. Next, install it as usual windows application.

If everything goes right, you should see something like below.
Do you see that Green Onion Icon and 'P' in blue balloon icon. Okay, they are the agents running in the background and they'll be launched on every boot. If green onion goes yellow and blue P balloon goes red, then something is wrong and our Anonymous project won't work. So, make sure, those tray ICONs are just like one shown in above figure


Thats it. You are now ready to set couple of things only.

If you really want to anonymize your internet surfing, for ex. I use Opera, follow the steps in OPERA browser like:

Open Tools -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Proxy Servers. Check HTTP and enter "127.0.0.1" and "8118" as port or open about:config and enter "127.0.0.1:8118" in Proxy -> HTTP Server.

Before TOR, my actual location
After TOR, new location shown which is not real


Thats it. If you need more info on torifying other browsers, take a peek over here, they have comprehensive guide over there but i'm here just trying to simplify those documentations based on my understanding.

Now, the most important part. This has been a request to me by many of my online friends. How to evade web-based chat ban/zline/kill or any kind of restrictions. To some i described this process in IM but was way to long to describe. Now, i'll give this link to them who need to be anonymous.

I bet most of you use mIRC for chatting on those IRC servers. Start your mIRC and before logging your server, make some changes as shown in the figure below. Be sure, that TOR is already installed and actively running in background.

Make sure in mIRC option,
-Firewall support be set to 'BOTH'
-Protocol be set to 'Socks5'
-Hostname is set to 127.0.0.1
-Port is set to 9050

I think we're done.

My sole purpose is to protect our privacy and be anonymous. And one Advantage using TOR is that it keeps changing it's location(technically lets say server and we'll be assigned different IP each time). That means, everytime, we reload(exit and restart) the browser or any program that has been 'torified' will show the new address or location to third party. I think we're are anonymous someway. But according to TOR TEAM
"
Tor's security is improved as its user base grows and as more people volunteer to run servers. Please consider volunteering your time or volunteering your bandwidth. And remember that this is development code—it's not a good idea to rely on the current Tor network if you really need strong anonymity.
"
Thats true, it still not a fool-proof but it works. And the server that we use, they are for real. If we volunteer on their project, someone will be using our IP or lets say sharing our node with them. This is indeed a team work where virtually many people share their IPs making it very hard for someone to track somebody.

Job is done. And now, if you want to know what this TOR really in depth, since it has done some work for you, then please visit their site and contribute to them if you could. Here's their site: http://tor.eff.org/

With this, we can evade bans in IRC ( that doesn't mean we have become some badass on rampage)
we can escape FROZEN stat, BAN stat in Nepalnews chat
We can surf net which are blocked by our ISP or some website. ( some sites or forum block your IP or some even threatens you , that's history now, don't fear anymore, if they disable nick, that's different case but nobody can stop you from visiting any sites in the world unless they are password protected or something like that. )
I used to visit Maoist's site using TOR when ISP banned all their sites.

Unlike VirtuaGirls(desktop virtual girls dancing with profanity),MP3 Dancers are different and tiny video figures of real dancers who dance IN RHYTHM right on your desktop.



Whatever you're listening to, CD or MP3, you will now have these cute professional dancers move to the rhythm on your desktop.

It is fun watching them dance whenever we play some music on our PC.

For full download info, check inside!!!

http://rapidshare.com/files/16959643/MP3Dancer.rar

Author: http://www.mp3dancer.com

My Mozilla Firefox version is 2.0.0.4 and it's the stable version. Mozilla Firefox v3.0 is the next official version, which still has not been released because, it's still in Alpha version.

If it interests firefox fans to try it's next version in Alpha stage, he/she can download Firefox v3.0 Alpha from the following links.

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/

http://rapidshare.com/files/17459933/firefox-3.0a2pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe

Microsoft stated before the release of Windows Vista that one can use the storage space of PEN drive/Thumb Drive/portable drive(whatever it is called) as computers RAM. So, the feature that is known as Readyboost exclusively available only in Windows Vista, can actually use the storage of portable device as virtual RAM thereby speeding up the computing performance.

wiki writes:
"ReadyBoost is a disk caching technology first included with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system. It aims to make computers running Windows Vista more responsive by using flash memory on a USB 2.0 drive, SD card, CompactFlash, or other form of flash memory, in order to boost system performance."

In Tom Archer's blog, i've found very interesting questionnaire upon this Portable flash drive acting as Virtual RAM. It is a nice read for them who is trying to use their portable flash drive as Virtual RAM.

If any website asks your email for certain verification or for some purposes, you don't need to write in your valid email. You can give them other temporary email address. That 'temporary' mail would be created in no time.

Some people have come up with this idea to fight spam. If you don't want them to send you their periodic mails.. or if you don't want them to sell your email Id to spammer and in rewards start getting holy pack of spam email.., then there is a way.

I'm talking about few sites that will actually do the magic.

www.dodgeit.com

www.pookmail.com

Steps(Read these steps and you'll find out what i meant actually):
1. enter your email address to that email hungry site as (for my case) " meroguff@pookmail.com" ( i don't need to create email account on www.pookmail.com , just do like that)

2. go to www.pookmail.com after some time, there you've to enter your email id.. for my case, i'll type in the input box of the site as " meroguff" and hit GO..

3. You'll see the email or some info that email hungry site has sent for you..

NOTE: the message won't last for ever... it'll be only for few hours. Precisely, temporary emails will be disposed after 24 hours for pookmail.com and 7 days for dodgeit.com

Caution: If you are paying some sites for some regular newsletters, then using this above tips is not recommended.

Nirmal Pariyar(permanent resident of Morang,Nepal) customized his bicycle, put steering wheel on it and riding cycle with ease. Brake is behind the front tyre and applicable using foot.

One major issue with iPhone is it's just limited to AT&T only in US or with the other service provider with whom Apple Inc has dealing with. So, only the service provider can sell this thing which has an exclusive deal with Apple Inc.

Recent news are spreading related to unlock iPhone. Hackers are trying hard to find a way and they are successful to some limit. Once someone purchases iPhone, he/she has to go through hectic process of activating it using iTunes. Once activated, a token is received on that particular set. Normally, that token is reserved only to one iPhone.

Hackers attempt let that token to activate so many other iPhones without actually using iTunes(connection to Apples server) but hackers tool called DeCSS. Using DeCSS, one can activate his/her iPhone with the help of known token and without using iTunes. Hackers are not providing tokens with the tool. But whatever it's, 50 % job is done. May be very soon, they'll release a tool or way with which even a token might not be needed.

And one more thing, iPhone is priced at around $599. Some engineers dissected it and found out that the materials,chips used within barely cost more than $250. So, Apple Inc is making double the actual rate of profit.

Belows are the screenshots of iPhone being operated.