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lol, good idea theking, but make sure you have options for getting out of the hole as well Just a quote from Times Online, UK...

uh man, please don't keep us in a suspense... reveal the secret now !

For using Windows applications on Linux, you can use WINE or VMware or Bochs or Win4Lin or the new CrossOver Office from CodeWeavers which is based on Wine. Wine, in turn, is an implementation of the Windows API on top of the Unix/Linux operating system family.

well... the government's reasoning is the fault here. As far as terrorists using blogs to exchange messages goes, it doesn't make much sense. Surely, they can find better safer ways, like some of you said. Besides, if they do want to exchange messages on a blog, they can still continue doing that very easily. Perhaps asking www.blogger.com to shut themselves down would have been wiser. I'm not asking them to do this, but if their logic was to stop terrorists (that too internet savvy terrorists!) from using the internet to exhange messages and hatred, then they should be banning the whole internet, which makes more sense, in my opinion Even more foolish is the Indian ISP community. They get instructed to block two or three blogs. And they block all of blogspot.com !

CNN IBN July 10, 2006 at 18:15 Sriharikota: In a major blow to India's space programme, the second operational flight of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle GSLV-F02 ended in a failure on Monday. Seconds after a perfect takeoff, the 49-metre-long launch vehicle, deviated from its trajectory and plunged into the Bay of Bengal. The three-stage 414-tonne launch vehicle of the ISRO, which lifted off from Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Monday evening, started under-performing right from the start and veered off its path after travelling a few kilometres into the sky. While there was no immedate reaction from ISRO on the fiasco, officials described it as a big setback. GSLV-F02 was carrying a 2,168-kg INSAT-4C, the latest satellite of the Indian Remote Sensing Satellite series, aimed at augmenting the Direct-To-Home television services, facilitate video picture transmission, digital satellite news gathering and provide VSAT connectivity to National Informatics Centre. INSAT-4C is the second satellite in the INSAT-4 series. The lift-off took place at 1738 hrs IST , exactly one hour behind schedule. The launch was originally scheduled at 1638 hrs IST. It was deferred till 1715 hrs IST, before it was fixed at 1738 hrs IST. It was not immediately known whether adverse weather conditions posed a threat as the sky remained overcast. ISRO Chairman G Madhavan Nair was to explain the reasons for the delay at the post-launch press conference. The much-awaited launch then came unsuccessful with the GSLV, carrying the satellite, deviating a little bit from its chartered path, ISRO sources said. After the vehicle lifted off from the launchpad at 1738 hrs IST, there was a slight deviation from its path, following which ISRO officials put the entire system on 'emergency condition.' ISRO immediately declared an emergency and several areas near the launch site were evacuated as a precvautionery measure. well, this could delay the launch of DTH again !

Reliance applies for GSM spectrum in 4 more circles The Financial Express Posted online: Monday, July 10, 2006 at 0000 hours IST NEW DELHI, JULY 9: Indicating that, it’s moving ahead with its plan to migrate from CDMA to GSM technology, Reliance Communications (RCL) has now applied for GSM spectrum in Chennai, Uttar Pradesh (east and west) and Jammu and Kashmir circles. The application has been sent to the wireless planning and coordination wing of the department of telecommunications (DoT). Last month, it had requested for GSM spectrum in Delhi and Mumbai. According to DoT officials, applications like the one for Delhi and Mumbai circles, have been made under RCL’s unified access service licence. DoT officials said that as in the earlier case they have once again written to Reliance to provide them with a detailed plan. Last week, a senior DoT official had clarified that there was no restriction on Reliance providing both CDMA and GSM services in the same circle as it already had a unified licence. RCL’s wholly owned subsidiary Reliance Telecom already provides GSM services in eight circles and in many of these RCL provides CDMA services. Similarly, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Ltd provide both GSM and CDMA services in the same circles. Earlier, DoT had taken the stand that in lieu of GSM spectrum, Reliance may have to vacate some of its CDMA spectrum. However, DoT officials clarified that there’s no such policy and the move was contemplated to tide over spectrum crunch. so abhay, it seems they can infact have CDMA & GSM in the same circles

Speed up FireFox and Google Earth ! Basically you disable ipV6 which apparently conflicts with ipV4 1. Open your Gnome Terminal/ KDE Konsole and type :- For Gnome or For KDE 2. Kate or Gedit will open and show you this file :- (scroll down to see what to copy and paste) 3. Now "Save" and "Reboot"There's another way too: instead of changing aliases file, create fie named bad_list in /etc/modprobe.d containing this line: This method will work even if /etc/modprobe.d/aliases get replaced at some update. Source: Ubuntu

1ghz processor, 30GB hard drive, 512mb RAM... thats fantastic ! Some offer going on now it seems: OQO model 01+ now $200 off, starting at only $1,699 - thats about Rs.76,500 which is not a bad deal if you have someone in USA to bring it here !

I use AVG too, and its a lot better than the bloated Norton AV or McAfee AV. Good to see they have now merged up with Ewido Networks. Check out Ewido Network's online scan for spywares.

The old proverb can now be re-written as: "A Browser Flaw a Day Keeps Hackers at Play"

For your reference, here are the winners announced in last month's Digit magazine... Budget Phines: Best Buy - Nokia 6030 Runner Up - Nokia 2600 Mid Range Phones: Best Buy - Motorola L7 Runner Up: LG C2500 Feature rich Phones: Best Buy - Sony Ericsson K750i Runner Up - Samsung X700 I haven't included the prices since the prices mentioned in the magazine seems to be higher, you should be able to get them at lower prices elsewhere.

Super Splendor has the advantage... but I would go for the TVS Apache ! 150 cc, black mag wheels, contoured fuel tank, Heptagonal 3D arrow-head shaped headlight with side eyes, and good pickup too !

source: moneycontrol.com - 2006-05-24 well, you never know what can happen... read on... Credit card fraud is rampant and without you quite knowing how it is done, you could be cheated out of your money. One swipe is all it takes. A gadget, no bigger than the size of your palm is wreaking havoc across the globe. When you hand over your credit card to make a payment or insert it into an ATM machine, you stand the risk of being the next victim of an international crime called skimming. Once your card is cloned, you could be drained of your money in a foreign land. What's more, this fraud has hit Indian shores and threatens every consumer who owns a credit card. One such criminial was already operating in Chennai, around the vicinity of the HDFC Bank, which has 17 ATM machines across Chennai. Every day, thousands of people walk in and out of these centres with cash in their hands. But the night of May 12 was different. The Chennai police had been watching for him and finally they snared their man. He is a 38 year old Burmese national, Gunasekaran, who had been withdrawing money from one such ATM. When arrested, he had 43 international credit cards on him, through which he planned to withdraw Rs 4 crore. Gunasekharan's game was audacious to say the least. Every day after sundown, he would make several withdrawals using multiple international credit cards. The transactions would come within a span of seconds of each other. It seemed as if a single person was using an array of cards to withdraw money from the ATM, which was more than enough, to put the fraud cell of the bank on alert. Head of Risk Control, HDFC Bank, Mahesh Rajaraman told CNBC-TV18, "We have an inbuilt mechanism in the bank, that moitors a customer's transactions. The moment we find something unusual in the activity, we immediately put it on scrutiny." Even as bank officials considered calling the police, the transactions continued. All the amounts withdrawn were well within limits for a day - Rs 15,000 - but when it reached Rs 5 lakhs, bank officials decided they had waited long enough and they called the police. To not take any chances, the police asked security guards at all the ATM centres in the area, to be on alert for someone who came in at night and stayed on for longer than required at the machine. San Thome Road is a half-hour drive from the main city, on the outskirts of Chennai. On the night of May 12, Gunasekaran walked into this ATM and began what had become for him a daily exercise - withdrawing money with first one card and then another. The police caught him redhanded with 40 cloned credit cards. But Gunasekaran told the police he was just following instructions. The international nexus was wider than the police had imagined. He claimed, he had been given the cards by a gang based in Britain and Apac is an anti-fraud expert group in the UK, and knows exactly how the cards had been faked. Corporate Communications Executive, Apac, Mark Bowerman explains, "The fraudsters use a gadget that fits in over the ATM machine card slot. The moment your credit card passes through it, a chip in the device reads the magnetic strip. At the same time, there is a pinhole camera placed over the area, where you type in your pin number. After a substantial number of people have swiped their cards the fraudsters remove the device and they then go back to their factory and create clones of the original credit cards." This showed that Gunasekaran was merely the middleman and the Chennai police believe he might not have been the only one. An alert has been sent out for more nocturnal visitors. Most banks have a monitoring system, that tracks customers credit card usage and any abnormal behaviour alerts them. General Manager, ICICI Bank, Rajiv Sabharwal says, "We are always on the lookout for unusual activity. If we find that someone has spent Rs 25,000 at a grocery store, then immediately that would qualify as unusual." But security experts feel, crimes of this nature are worrisome because of the ease with which the operations are run. IT expert, Vijay Mukhi agrees, "What is worrisome is that I hand my card not to someone at the level of a general manager but to a waiter. Now it takes him just a minute to swipe my card and there is no way I can trace where the crime actually happened." Till now, we had heard reports of how gangs abroad were running fake credit card rackets but now India is fast turning into their prime hunting ground. The deal is to forge cards abroad and encash them in India. This was proved when two days later, Mumbai was hit by a similar fraudster. A Malaysian national Khoo Kee Sheng was arrested by police in Mumbai. Sheng had been on a shopping spree in the city. He had shopped at five star hotels, malls and jewellery stores using cloned credit cards. No one knows exactly when the 38 year-old Sheng arrived in India. The only records available to the police and bank officials begin from the day he made his first purchase using the fake credit cards. DCP Mumbai Police, Amitabh Gupta says, "We found forty fake credit cards on this person and along with it, the gold jewellery that he had bought in the city. Sometime after he arrived in Mumbai, Sheng checked into the Hyatt Regency with an accomplice Che Ling Kim and then the duo set their plan into action. They hit jewellery stores, shopping malls, five star hotels. Within a short period of time, they had run up a shopping bill of Rs 17 lakhs. They were smart enough to ensure their purchases were below the maximum credit limits. The minimum purchase that Sheng and his accomplice made was for Rs 40.000. Sheng's favourite on his shopping list was jewellery, something that would lead the police to him. On May 9th, Khoo Kee Sheng headed for a popular jewellery store in a Mumbai suburb. He picked a gold chain that was worth Rs 70,000. When the salesperson swiped the card, the payment was rejected. Unfazed, Sheng produced another credit card and this time it worked. but unknowingly Sheng had made a mistake. Alerted by the activity on the credit cards being used by Sheng, HSBC had placed the accounts on watch. Bank officals made a call to the jewellers, saying the transaction was void as the credit card used was suspect. Then the police set a trap for Sheng. They spoke to the jewellers and asked them to be on the alert in case sheng returned in the next few days and they didn't have to wait long. On May 10, at 3 o clock in the afternoon, Sheng was back. This time to a jeweller next door to the previous one. Sheng was arrested but his accomplice managed to escape. The police found credit cards belonging to German, Canadian and British nationals in Sheng's posession, which makes them suspect, he had commmitted similar crimes in other countries. So, just how did Sheng get hold of these credit cards. Under interrogation, Sheng revealed his modis operandi. Sheng worked as a manager in a hotel in Malaysia, which is a favourite haunt for international tourists. Most tourists would make payments through their credit cards and it was there, that Sheng began his plans. He kept with him a tiny device that would serve his purpose within a minute. In the world of new age credit card fraud, experts call it a skimmer. Bowerman explains the 'skimming' process. He says, "Compared to the previous mode of operation, this is far easier. The credit card is passed through a skimmer, which is a tiny gadget that fits in the palm of your hand. The moment you run the card through the skimmer, a chip in the gadget reads the magnetic strip at the back of the card and you can then later upload it to your PC and make a clone of the original." So, everytime an unsuspecting tourist would hand over a credit card to him, Sheng would slide it through the skimmer. Within a month, he had built himself a collection and then it was time for him to take a vacation and visit India and it was this trip to India, that brought about his downfall. But experiments with a skimmer have only just begun in India. Experts say international crime of this nature will reach Indian shores in just a matter of days and banks are now beginning to face the heat. Especially, when Indians like Kuljeet have cracked the code. Kuljeet ran a travel agency called 'Lucky Travels' from Lucknow but he was involved in more than travel plans. Kuljeet and his accomplices would receive IDs for international credit cards from operators abroad. Kuljeet used these cards to book plane tickets. He would then cancel the tickets and direct the refund to his current account. The sudden spurt of transactions alerted the bank officials, who in turn alerted the police. In 18 days, Kuldeep's bank account had accumulated Rs 15 lakhs. He was arrested on April 2 and police are yet trying to find out if Kuldeep had actually managed to skim credit cards of unsuspecting tourists in India, while they were in his shop. It's difficult for fradusters to actually tamper manned ATM machines in India. But it just takes a swipe to compromise the security of your card. A foreign vacation to Malaysia or Europe and your card could be exposed. Risk assessors say that, after a fraud is discovered, what measures can the Indian consumer take, is an area where much needs to be done. Sabharwal of ICICI Bank says, "We have been facing a few cases of credit card cloning in the country already. Although the cases are not as rampant as it is in the West, but they have begun to crop up in India as well." But estimates and the extent of the crime vary, as security experts say all banks are not as open to revealing the occurrence of these crimes. Partner, Ernst & Young, Sunil Chandiramani says, "A lot of banks already have mechanisms in place to alert themselves, the moment any suspect activity hapens but having said that, there are still many banks who are yet to do so." He adds, "Today the onus of proving the fraud is on the customer. He needs to prove that the transaction that took place was actually fraudulent." But here's how you can minimise your chances of being hit by a fraudster: 1) Do not let your credit card out of your sight. 2) Do not give your pin number to any other person. 3) If you carry out transactions on the internet, then make sure you do it from a card that has a very low credit limit.

OnSpeed is a Web Accelerator software. What it does is to re-route internet your traffic (like web page requests) via its own servers, compressing the data on the fly prior to sending it onwards to your PC. A small program then decompresses the data, so that you can view it in the normal way via your browser or email client. However, note that some file types like MP3 also cannot yet be compressed, its basically for web pages and images. Image quality is often reduced but the compression for this can be improved, though with an adverse effect on the speed of course. They used to give 14 days trial earlier, but they've now changed it to 14 days money back after you pay Rs.2100 per year. Anyway many users do say that it works well

True. Up your budget to 40k+ and try for Acer models. For those with 65k budget, check out the HP Pavilion dv5118TX

For employing someone, there shouldn't be any difficulty if you are offering industry standard wages. Better post your offer with some job agency in your local area (Thane/Mumbai should be having lots of 'em). Job agencies won't charge you much since they take profit/commission from the job seeker.

Normail Airmail would require about 8 to 15 days to reach USA/UK from India. The best option to Airmail is using India Post's Surface Air Lifted service which delivers within a week's time. International Speed Post will be even more quicker.

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Besides being a direct affront to Microsoft this deal leads the way for Google to create a Linux based OS and drop it onto Dell computers. Being that Google is so proficient in creating browser-based applications, my obvious slant here is that a Google Linux should become the base for Dell PCs. This would eliminate the hassle of online/offline applications and means that PC makers can get out from under the M$ thumb. For the moment Google is still far less evil than Microsoft. BTW, Google launched Picasa for Linux yesterday.

I am totally against reservation. Why the hell should some people be given PG seats after receiving UG seats on a platter? After reaching UG level, they made equal and receive same exposure. Reservation at higher level and elite education institute is a total injustice to open category students. If the OBC/SC/ST cannot compete others at college level, even after getting an admission there on the basis of quota itself, how do they justify of doing well at higher level. Are they biologically or psychologically different from open category people? If the govt has not been able to upgrade the present infrastructure of education in last 50 years, how is it going to do this magic in another 3 years? How are the politicians going to know the importance of working hard ann then securing admission in good institutes as their wards must have got admission always by politicians quota. Arjun singh is just trying to divide the country and get his votes. Now onwards one will look at the caste first n then visit the doctor.

well, thats like saying.. you do not use a helmet when travelling on a two wheeler. Many people don't use helmets when riding a bike and they have been surviving without any problem. But better be safe than sorry later. For instance... some of your friend unknowingly uses an infected floppy/CD and a virus enters your PC (when you are not at home) and destroys all your valuable data... then there would be no point in boasting that you survived without an AV for years

'Excel'lent !!! works well and updated with new series/operators too !

ewww, not very professional in my opinion, looks too plain and simple thanks for sharing the new logo akshat !

thats cool Suresh ! Guess I should get a LG RD 2530 too (as per your profile) for R-Connect !

Ah, that was a much wanted addition, will get the new version now ! Here's a plugin for your Google Desktop Search: Live Cricket Scores but only for matches involving India. Keep it handy for the West Indies tour