How can malicious softwares go undetected for more than 2 years in a computer, especially of those high profile organization's? Ain't they supposed to be higly secured and regularly monitored?

Today, a news broke from Canadian News networks stating that more than 1,295 computers in 103 countries of high profile people and organizations have been breached. All the vital informations have been compromised.


The culprit, 'GhostNet' a 'Cyber espionage' network seemed originated from China according to Canadian Researcher Group. The Group also revealed that Dalai Lama was one of it's target.

On a similar note, there is Google's blunder circling around the globe about it's search cache which revealed more than 22,000 credit card numbers along with cardholder's addresses,phone numbers and all other minute details. Out of it, 19,000 card numbers were still active. These card numbers belonged to US and UK citizens. US's were outnumbered by UK's.

It is learned that all of those compromised credit card numbers are being canceled by the time I'm writing this note. Some of the card holders don't even know till now what's going on behind their back.

Google just corrected this one issue but there are still bunch of confidential data which can kneel down under powerful search string. Despite the cancellation of the cardholders account, the risk of identity theft still remains.


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Last week, I didn't know much but read very few words about Google's explicit display of people walking by in streets and alleys of UK. The news was just as boring as hell but the same evening, I read Google were forced to pull off those streetview images off it's Google Map feature which let people browse the cities and view the pictures of it. It felt little strange to me then because, Google were never forced to do something like that for some stupid reasons. Its reasonable that Google has shaded out certain areas on it's map because of national security issues. It should completely hide all those regions which could be easily exploited or which could be used for malicious purposes. And, it has been doing that for good sake.

If you've read news before when Google Map was reasoned for Mumbai Bomb blast, when Google Map is cussed and proved evil in the eyes of smugglers(whose smack-harvesting field was destroyed by security folks who took help of Google Map), then you would know those reasons were completely idiotic. This is the continuation of the same.

Look at the pictures below and you'd know why Britons are mad about their pictures being put on Google's Map.

busy at reading porn mag or what??


The guy walking out of the sex shop complained about this picture..


This guy throwing up in the street had problems with this picture


The owner of that house had problem with this picture


naked painting .???


Is this usual in UK?? well I guess YES.. They simply didn't want it to be seen

What a ruthless bystanders? Nobody gives damn care about who is dying or lying.

Well, these are the reasons for which Google pulled off some of the street's picture. There were more pictures but they were just as lame as their accusations. Didn't bother to put here.


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Recently, Australian Tech Magazine 'PC Authority' covered following cities as the world's TOP 10 IT junction. Check it Out.


1. Silicon Valley
Undoubtedly, San Jose, Sunny vale and San Mateo County is considered 'Silicon Valley' because all the major league of IT companies are headquartered in these areas. You name it, it's all here. HP, Sun, Oracle, Apple, Cisco, Google, Yahoo, Intel, McAfee, Symantec, AMD, eBay are few to name. Not only that, Silicon Valley has the long history for the development of IT industry.

2. Taiwan
I used to think, Taiwan is the only place where Computer RAM are fabricated and produced. Eventually, I was proved wrong but the truth is they've grasped the huge market in RAM manufacturing. Taiwan is established in the areas of consumer technology, enterprise technology and semiconductors and produces around 80% of the world's laptops and a significant proportion of other computer components. Among the big names calling Taiwan home are Asus and Acer and semiconductor firm TSMC. No other country or region in the world is as dependent on the IT industry for its economic well-being as Taiwan. Last week, the government of Taiwan even stepped in to prop up the country's ailing DRAM memory chip businesses.

3. Bangalore
This Indian Destination has come a long way from merely becoming cyber-coolie. It has now it's own technology to be proud of. Just like they've hollywood version of so called film industry known as bollywood, bangalore has become 'Silicon Valley' of India. I read once that one IT aware minister played a big role to make this place an IT destination. The Silicon Valley of India accounts for more than a third of all IT jobs in the country. It has also spawned local start-ups that are now so successful that they are buying up the IT infrastructure of bankrupted Western companies. The IT industries here employ millions directly and indirectly and has helped the Indian economy by bringing in billions in revenue.

4. Japan
Well, Japan is Japan. Westerners are still awestruck by their latest technology when they visit Japan. Japan leads the world in robotics, green technology, intelligent software, consumer electronics and is also advanced in areas like gaming consoles and smartphones. Most of the gadgets are not being exported may be because the Japanese manufacturers are convinced that western countries are so far behind the times that they wouldn't even know what to do with these things.

5. San Francisco
This is a beautiful city and I really like San Francisco so much, I can't express it in words. Most probably, the most wired city in America and the home to companies such as Salesforce and Craigslist, Twitter and small services/startup businesses. If you remember DOT COM boom, you can still see the remnants right here.

6. Zhongguancun, China
This "Beijing High-Technology Industry Development Experimental Zone" is the hub of China's IT industry and is built around 7 technology hubs and is home to companies like Lenovo and Baidu as well as Western imports. Microsoft is building its Chinese headquarters here.

7. Finland
Home to Linux, Nokia, Software security vendor F-Secure. Finland has proven a generator of IT innovation that far outweighs its population or size. Part of this is due to the fact that education is largely free there, leading to a highly skilled and technical population.

8. Fort Meade, Maryland
Maryland gets this spot on the list because of the presence of US National Security Agency (NSA) here.

9. Romania
Plenty of programming talent exist in this country with savvy programmers seasoned in writing and working with large, complex programs. Romania has built up a reputation as a hotspot for malware writers and other online criminals as well as some very smart security researchers. Romanian developers have often taken the forefront in such things as heuristics and vulnerability detection. Microsoft even acquired an Romanian antivirus company GeCAD in 2003.

10. Boston
The Cambridge area has educated and inspired some of the finest minds in IT, including the founders of Intel,Microsoft, Texas Instruments, 3Com and Qualcomm. Harvard and MIT are both at the pinnacle of educational excellence which shows in the alumini.

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I don't make much mistakes but I've seen people cussing themselves like 'darn it', 'Oh shit!!!', 'What the f** did I do", .. these are some of the common phrases that you must have heard once in a while when they make mistakes. When it comes to sending emails, I thoroughly check twice before hitting 'SEND' buttons. Lots of people don't do. For them, here's the life saver feature that Google has recently added to it's Gmail. It's 'Undo' feature.

It's not activated by default. First, activate it.
- Check out the top most area in Gmail after logged in, click 'Settings', click 'Labs' and enable the 'Undo' feature. (click the image below to see how it looks)

Once activated, sign out, sign in. Voila, the 'Undo' option will be right there as soon as we send emails.

I tried to send dummy email..welllll.. to myself.

As soon as I clicked 'SEND' button, I saw 'Undo' link. Cheers!!!!! I clicked the 'Undo'.
And, my sending has been undone.It then took me to a 'compose mail' screen from where I disposed the mail simply clicking the 'discard' button.

Took a deep breathe, sipped in luke-warm red clover tea and felt glad to have this feature On.


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I was heading to my work but before that, instinctively checked some news and read Microsoft released their much expected IE8. They cut off their 'beta' tag off it. Way to work, I was thinking about it's features.

Back to home in the evening,I opened up my VMware(sandbox for me), I fired up the firefox and downloaded IE8. It looked very beautiful and installation required me to reboot. I was in an ecstasy to ditch firefox and carry on with Microsoft's latest IE8.


They have this new features like Search Suggestions which retrieve information as we type,another feature called accelerators let us preview online services just by pointing mouse at them,another feature called suggested Sites which is discover websites based on websites visited and lot others focused on security issues.

As I went with surfing sites, it felt pretty cool, I checked their other submenus under Tools menu and things that they've changed, to be true, all the ideas seemed borrowed from here and there. They've got this 'developers tool' integrated which lets your check the site's core.

Some sites including mine were rendered very badly. I found that the script used on my site is not complaint with IE8 standard and they're very unforgiving at showing pages like that. As soon as I loaded my page, IE8 got crashed. IE7 shows my site without any error. Even if it(IE7) shows some other sites with error, it wouldn't crash. IE8 needs to be lenient when it comes to tolerate minor script errors. Nah, it's not, IE8 is strict about being perfect.

All the features, that I've seen on firefox and chrome can be seen in IE8. Nothing much of difference to me except few. I'll stick to firefox and chrome.


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Few weeks ago in UK, four years old Apple Macbook exploded for no reason though nobody was hurt. I was kind of astonished that how could highly acclaimed and expensive Apple Macbook explode like cheap-shit.


It's just 3-4 days ago, Apple Ipod touch exploded in a Cincinnati youngster's pocket and nearly burnt his package. It could've rendered him useless man for his life. He should thank his luck, he was left only with melted underwear and leg burns,nothing happened to his crouch. His mother is suing Apple for selling high-priced third-class product. The mother is asking for $150,000 total plus attorney fees for the child's bills and emotional distress.

This is indeed not a good news for Apple and it's fan or whoever owns Apple's product. Their reputation is at stake.


Somewhat Good News for iTunes users, Apple removed their very unpopular DRM feature off iTunes software. DRM(Digital Right Management) was their way of protecting songs which never let anyone to copy their music(to and fro PCs,other devices) once purchased. If someone looses iPod or their drive crashes irrecoverable , then their owned music is gone without no backup. Apple really acted like a dictator when it came to digital property management. It was indeed a good news for all iTunes users but again Apple did something with the song's pricing. They set it variable. More popular the song is, the higher the rate will be. Evil Apple.

Apple recently launched a new version of voice-enabled iPod Shuffle. Some diehard fans must be crazy happy to hear this news because, the tiny player would tell them how much power is left on their battery, tell them current playing song and upcoming song and artists names etc. This definitely proves that Apple is innovative and trend-setter. There is no speech-enabled music player till date yet and it's obvious that others will follow the suit in coming days. Good news.

Lets talk about their another new iPod Shuffle they released recently. They are limiting these new iPods to be workable only to Apple-Branded headphones. You put expensive headphone other than Apple's and it wouldn't work at all. Apple is playing monopoly game here who blames Microsoft same all the time. This is total turnoff.


Internet group like Dev-team are pain in ass for Apple who always keep jailbreaking/unlocking Apple's newest product. Good news for all those iPod 2nd Generation users, who had been using tethered jailbreak on their players. That jailbreak was not complete and kept restricting them from restarting the device. If battery drained and needed to restart, they needed to activate with their PCs. It was way cumbersome. Alas, finally ultimate jailbreak for Apple iPod Touch second generation is released. My brother's iPod now doesn't need any PC to have it restarted all the time in Jailbroken mode.


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Lithium ion batteries pack in so much energy in them, so they are mostly used on portable electronic devices. We can get hours of operation. This is well known truth, one obstacle though; charging the battery for few hours to get devices work for hours. That was totally uncool. Not anymore now, scientists have come up with a way to charge the battery in 10 seconds and you are good to go for hours of operation. Seems like too good to be true but that's happening.


Dr. Cedar and group with MIT are to be honored for this invention. They believe that this will definitely gonna bring the big positive changes in lifestyles and the consumer market. Electrically chargeable cars are the one going to be the most benefited from this invention.

Way around here and there,I also discovered that there is huge power consumption to charge battery up in 10 seconds which I personally think is abnormal. Don't know if this is just a factsheet or myth, but this site claims that it'll increase the power usage than usual.


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It's been a while that I've not posted anything under my blog's fun category. So, here it goes. These shots are obnoxious in a sense, something turns a normal looking snaps into subject of laugh stock.

I-pooood

This one is for ladies craving for some bendover

1,2,3,4 and

Gawd..

where the hell did mr islander come from

whatta contrast!!! one is sunbathing almost naked and other one taking dip with clothes on???huh

Some spontaneous smiles are scary like shit...proof?? look at the third girl in a row and mr. smiley(must be thinking himself Mr Tom Cruise giving such a laugh)

Future and Present: Saga of every woman's Vaginal Itch ..

well, that's a cute face..ummm

beware of jerk like this,..

here comes the winner

Don't you think somebody just poked something in that SOB's ass

blessingss...


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My little district in Kathmandu, Gairidhara, surrounds Nepal's main Saraswati Temple. Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of music and learning, and every year on her festival day thousands of kids flock to the shrine to get their pens and notebooks blessed.

It's one of those neighborhoods where you can find just about anything, from skin-lightening cream to motorcycle seat reupholstering shops.

This suits me well - because whenever I return to Nepal, I prepare to take advantage of a quality that has not changed a bit since my Buddha-shopping days: the Nepalese ability to fix anything. In the late 1980s, I delighted in snapping photos - admiring photos - of umbrella repair stands and disposable lighter refilling stations. For a few years I sheepishly brought my old lighters back to Nepal to be reconditioned, although I never got as far as umbrellas.

Since then, I've abandoned all pretense of shame and usually fill a suitcase with items that would have to be thrown out, or replaced, in the United States. Among the personal possessions rehabilitated on this journey: a $65 ThermaRest pad, leaking at the seams (repaired at a bicycle tire mender for 15 rupees, about 20 cents); my Timberland expedition hiking shoes, which, though incredibly comfortable, are separating at the soles (20 rupees); my carry-on computer case, in need of a new leather carrying handle (60 rupees); and my $125 Sennheiser collapsible noise-canceling headphones, with amazing electronics but wires so cheap they're worn down to a few copper threads. The minimum repair charge for these babies on the Sennheiser site is $55, plus postage. I paid my friendly Gairidhara electrician (who fixes everything from toasters to laser printers) 50 rupees, no bargaining involved.

There's a strange sense of liberation that comes from knowing that anything can be fixed, and that a beloved jacket, or pair of shoes, is essentially immortal. During my stopover in Bangkok, my friend Jock pulled an ancient down jacket - his companion on uncounted Himalayan odysseys - out of the closet. It was leaking feathers like a ruptured pillow. I took it to a Kathmandu trekking gear shop, where a bemused Sherpini named Shona told me to come back in three days. I picked it up, good as new, for the price of a used CD.

Emboldened by that success, I brought an old pair of shorts to the neighborhood tailor. They were the most comfortable shorts I'd ever owned. I wore them here in 2002, and I was wearing them still - mainly in private, as the crotch area was worn through and keeping no secrets. Back in Oakland, you can't get an ice cream cone for 85 cents; but that's what it cost to bring those shorts back from the dead.

But enough of the small stuff. A couple of years ago, my friend Chrissie - one of Kathmandu's most gifted yoga teachers - developed a cataract in her left eye. Cataracts are endemic to the Himalayas, where smoke, dust and a high level of ultraviolet light may all contribute to the clouding of the eye's sensitive lens. Last week, Chrissie visited a local eye surgeon - trained in Melbourne - and had her lens replaced. The cost was 9,000 rupees: $120. Asked to choose between the American-made replacement lens and the locally-made variety, she chose the Nepali: "It's made to last 120 years," she said, "that should be about long enough."

Just for kicks, I'm thinking of getting an MRI. There's a place that does them right down the block, between the open-air vegetable market and a popular breakfast joint.

Honorable as the passion for re-use may be, it's easier to appreciate from a distance. Last week, 12 Indian day laborers took over the vacant field beneath my living room window. Within days, the former flower bed had been turned into a scrap metal reclamation center. Where pastoral views and bird calls once accompanied my morning coffee, I now watch bicycles roll up laden with old oil cans, bent bicycle rims, used wheelchairs, tin cans, obsolete disk brakes and acres of rusty tin roofing sheets.

From dawn to dark-thirty the workers attack this booty with huge mallets and iron chisels, reducing everything to its atomic components. It's like living next to the rehearsal room of a amateur junkyard band. I'm all for recycling - but not in my lap, please.

In general, the endless recycling is both admirable and necessary - especially in a country where the per capita income hovers around $150 a year. That's not to say the Nepalese don't like new things. Right now, in the days before the huge Dashain holiday (honoring the goddess Durga, who rides a tiger and in some depictions wears a necklace of severed heads), the shopping centers are packed with families buying new clothes, new appliances, and other upscale holiday gifts.

But as fast as items like iPods and CFC-free refrigerators hit the market, the crafty repairmen tucked into ramshackle shops will learn how they work, and how to fix their complex circuits with a touch of solder, a rubber washer and the tiny spokes from a broken toy truck.

Which brings me back to my long-held conviction that millions of dollars could be saved if the United States government got a clue, and started a variation of what the British did with the Gurkhas in the 19th century. The most ingenious and efficient Nepalese street repairmen should be found, and recruited - not as soldiers, but as astronauts. In orbit, they could repair anything - from faulty space station toilets to the Hubble Space Telescope - using needle nose pliers and few paper clips, for about the cost of a new toaster.

The sad truth is, the Chinese will probably get to them first.

Meroguff:These(above) are the time-proof words published(about Kathmandu and people recycling electronic stuffs) on San Francisco Chronicle last year on October and written by Jeff Greenwald. I've had couple of email exchange with the writer and he sounded profound Nepal lover. He already gave me the permission then to publish his article on my blog, but it's my fault that I never got any chance to turn it in. Finally, here with his wonderful article about Kathmandu and it's people and how they recycle electronic stuff.

To reach Jeff Greenwald, visit his blog here.


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Have you ever felt that the thoughts you've had sometime deepened inside your heart being spoken out by somebody else and all of a sudden, feeling like you're not alone having the same feeling when nobody had ever cared to agree with you what you said before? It has happened to me a lot at some point of my life.

I've been having this strange feelings deepened within myself on why and how Microsoft keeps continuing it's OS legacy and when I read the last paragraph of someone name John Dvorak's article from PCMag, I couldn't help but chuckle. Nothing funny, but that's how I always been thinking about Microsoft Saga. It's human nature to chuckle for nothing, I guess.

Here we go(excerpt from the main article):

Microsoft preannounces a new version of Windows and gives it some weird name that initiates discussion as people try to decipher it's deeper meaning or what it references. Chicago,Longhorn,Blackcomb,7. The specification is revealed, with the goal being to "fix the problems with.. the previous version."

Beta code always leaks out, and people get a good look. A buzz ensues. Microsoft decides to ship the beta and let the public chime in, so the company opens the servers and lets everyone play with it. The product has no legacy hooks or real security, so it just rocks on a computer and people comment on how much better it is. The word is that it's a winner.

Naysayers and critics are shouted down.

There are then a series of mixed messages regarding the ship date. The company claims it will be early, but it's late.


The release comes, and people are shown on the local news lined up at some store camping out overnight to buy the thing. The final product, it turns out, gets crammed with security fixes, stability code and built-in drivers, and soon becomes as slow as the products that came before. Critical reviews appear, and the complaining begins. The company then reports it's working on the next "better than ever, made from scratch" OS, which will go through the same process.

Precisely, you may be interested to check these two links(Warning: Don't drink while you watch these two videos):
1. Bill Gates Parody
2. See how Steve Balmer Marketed Windows.


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Apple PowerBook is the new ticking timebomb. As most of the Apple Fan believed their Apple computers as time-tested,highly efficient and far superior than others, it's a big punch on their belief. Last week on Thursday, as reported by The Inquirer, the Apple PowerBook exploded for no reason inside the office of local UK-based Marketing company. Luckily no one was hurt.



This kind of incidents of self-exploding battery-powered gadgets are not new. Many reputed cellphones have exploded in the past. Few weeks ago, A Chinese man was killed by the cellphone explosion. As always, companies blamed on low-quality cheap battery used.

But, what's up with this Apple Powerbook? That had genuine battery and it's one of the expensive thing of it's time comparatively. So much to pay for crap-happening like this?? Whatever,Apple is in the bandwagon after Nokia,Ericsson ..


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A recent study has shown that more and more underage are exposing themselves towards online porn. With the proliferation of online porn websites, now even a small kid as young as 8-9 years can access them anytime, anywhere easily doesn't matter if he/she has any idea of sex. Their curious nature could put them into risk or might jeopardize their health and future in some cases. Everyone who has advocated for sex education and somehow didn't care much about parental software/Guidance to implement inside their house, now is the time to buckle up and think seriously to prevent their immature kids getting into porn viewing.


These kids who frequently visited porn sites tend to develop a sort of non-human feelings eventually; they take women as sex objects and men as sex toys. Lots of these porn websites are broadcasting unethical and socially disturbing and unacceptable sexual practices. Negative sexual attitude and unhealthy sexual behavior could be the outcome which could be psychologically destructive as well as any conduct associated could risk his/her future and society's welfare.

Installing parental control software on their computers has helped a lot to block and filter illicit sites but it's still not a perfect solution. In this case, parents must be the acting agent here to prevent this by guiding them properly, giving them moral support and monitoring their circle of friends time to time.


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Microsoft Office Labs has envisioned the way people would be communicating in the near future. They've created a video montage(see below) on how people would be using the devices and how devices would evolve eventually.

As I checked this video, I was awestruck by the way Microsoft is preparing to change mankind's lifestyle. The video shows all the technologies Microsoft has in their pocket and which they think would be available for people within a decade of research and development.

<a href="http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-GB&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:a517b260-bb6b-48b9-87ac-8e2743a28ec5&showPlaylist=true&from=shared" target="_new" title="Future Vision Montage">Video: Future Vision Montage</a>

Foldable display unit(digital news paper),transparent interactive walls, interactive surface, digital ID, revolutionary way of communicating, etc are just felt like cutscenes from some sci-fi flick but to be true, they are destined to be a reality in near future. Just give them, say 10 more years. You'll be seeing all this near you.


src: here

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Last week, I got my Acer Aspire One netbook in Blue Sapphire color with N270 processor. Atom processors are built for low-power consumption on portable devices. I was about to buy ASUS Eee PC with latest N280 processor but I dropped the idea of buying it because of it's 10 " screen size. I was looking for smaller screen size and this Acer Aspire One AOA150-1447 was unmatched. Asus is the only one to have latest N280 as a processor on it's netbook for now. Price factor wasn't a big deal, it was just $25 dollars more if I had pre-ordered but I'm so glad that I got my Acer Aspire One with such a nice screen size. Besides, it's extremely portable.


This is me, unboxing Acer Aspire One Netbook

The sound quality is not good enough right off it's speaker but with headphones, it's justified. I do lots of reading on this netbook, I do surf internet around the wifi spots and it's pretty cool to have it. So many people still don't know what are netbooks.

Having no-cd drive might be turn-off for some folks, but that's not a big issue. We can have things back and forth on the network.

The other thing to backup the entire OS, one has to make a bootable USB drive with it's image put onto it. I'll put it's video on how to do that, because, it's very important and they didn't include any recovery CD or something like that just in case if hard-drive itself went kaput. This netbook has Acer-recovery software installed which will turn back all the OS to it's factory default but only till when hard drive is working.

ACER is charging some $20+shipping for recovery CD.

Guys, you should have it's image put onto your USB to help yourself from any future trouble.

Other than that, this is a great netbook.

I was shocked to see a DVD player software when this thing has no CD/DVD drive to play. There are few crapwares like these inside, which I instantly removed.

If you are looking for very portable media player, ebook reader, small net-surfing companion, this is the thing to own.


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