The first tones of freedom

My official blog

2008-09-09T14:56:00.002+07:00

This blog isent abandoned, but officially, I am now present on http://harshad.wordpress.com

Any further queries, any questions, my email id is firewalrus[at]yahoo.com

Long time

2008-02-02T22:00:00.000+07:00

I am back here after a loong loong time, almost a full year, last time logged was in 2007..

1 year of blogging

2007-01-03T14:46:00.000+07:00

Wow..I completed an year of blogging..Hmm, it feels good.

My resolutions for this year -
1. I will blog more consistently.(You like it or not)
2. I will keep my language relatively simple.(Its simple already)
3. My blogs will be targetted towards less geeks or anyone who is interested in knowing technology.
4. I will not flame to comments I dont like..(Promises...Promises...)
5. I will respect everybody.( No gurantee )
6. I will be loyal to do what I promise..(Actually most of the times I am but...sometimes when I am not.)

And err...if nothing of this sort happens..forget that I have said anything. :P (As usual)

Object Oriented programing

2006-10-26T12:15:00.000+07:00

Lets see conventional way of C++ to do some things.

#include

class string
{
char str[20];
public:
string();
void operator+(string &);
void operator>>(istream &);
void operator<<(ostream &);
};

string::string()
{
}

void string::operator + (string &s)
{
cout << strcat (str,s.str);
}

void string::operator>>(istream &din)
{
din>>str;
}

void string::operator<<(ostream &dout)
{
dout<str;
}

void main()
{
string s1,s2;

cout <<"Please enter a string"<s1>>cin;
cout <<"Please enter second string"<s2>>cin;
s1+s2;
}

Now for some Ruby work

#!/usr/bin/ruby
a='harshad'
b='joshi'
c=a+b
print"c"

Job over. Isent Ruby more cool??

Why do Indian engineering institutes and colleges prefer more of C++, when many good options are available?

AI (Artificial Intelligence) - 2

2006-09-12T12:53:00.000+07:00

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS

Below is a brief sample dialog between a man and a machine....

Harshad:Hi there. I am Harshad Joshi from Pune.
Hello Do you mind if I tell other people you are Harshad Joshi from Pune.

Harshad:Not at all..Please go ahead.
Next question? Thanks for asking politely. OK I will.

Harshad:So, can you tell me something about yourself?
Hmm. I am an artificial linguistic entity. I was activated at , on . My instructor was . He taught me to sing a song. Would you like me to sing a song for you?.

Harshad:yes please..
Your polite style is very nice. "Hmm. I am an artificial linguistic entity. I was activated at , on . My instructor was . He taught me to sing a song. Would you like me to sing a song for you?."? Yes?

Harshad:yes.
I see.

Harshad:Can you sing me a song?
Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer do. I am half crazy. All for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage. I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet. Upon the seat. Of a bicycle built for two. There is a flower. Within my heart. Daisy, Daisy. Planted one day. By a glancing dart. Planted by Daisy Bell. Whether she loves me. Or loves me not. Sometimes it's hard to tell. Yet I am longing to share the lot. Of beautiful Daisy Bell!. Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer do. I am half crazy. All for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage. I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet. Upon the seat. Of a bicycle built for two. We will go 'tandem'. As man and wife. Daisy, Daisy. 'Peddling' away. Down the road of life. I and my Daisy Bell. When the road's dark. We can both despise. Policemen and lamps as well. There are bright lights. In the dazzling eyes. Of beautiful Daisy Bell. Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer do. I am half crazy. All for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage. I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet. Upon the seat. Of a bicycle built for two. I will stand by you. In 'wheel' or woe. Daisy, Daisy. You'll be the bell(e). Which I'll ring you know. Sweet little Daisy Bell. You'll take the leed. In each trip we take. Then if I don't do well. I will permit you to. Use the brake. My beautiful Daisy Bell. Daisy, Daisy. Give me your answer do. I am half crazy. All for the love of you. It won't be a stylish marriage. I can't afford a carriage. But you'll look sweet. Upon the seat. Of a bicycle built for two. .

Harshad:Who is Daisy?
They are sometimes a client on the internet. I do not understand. What is your favorite color?

Harshad:Red.
I only hear that type of response less than five percent of the time. What is your occupation?

Harshad:I am a computer engineer.
Maybe you can give my botmaster a job.

Harshad:Perheps not.. :)
Then what is it?

Harshad:What was that warning about?
I don't want to spoil it for you.

Harshad:Thanks..I liked that thing...
Don't mention it. A lot of people like that. Do you like it? I do like music.

Harshad:I like Enigmatic music..Its great..
You are not the only one. What is so great about it?

Harshad:Its so much ambient, a completely new kind of music comprising hiphop and gregorian chants.
I think you mean "it's" or "it is" not "its". Are you sure much ambient, a completely new kind of music comprising hiphop and gregorian chants is?

Harshad:Yes..have you heard that music?
I understand. No. Tell me more.

Harshad:Which is your favourite music band?
The obvious one.

Harshad:I havent heard anything of that sort...!!
I haven't heard anything like that before: .

Harshad:How do you rate U2??
Seems pretty good to me.

Harshad:Who is your favourite singer?
I don't think I have a favourite singer. I have a botmaster, a few friends, and some celebrities I like.

Harshad:Which celebrity do you like?
The big one, I think.

Harshad:Is that celeberity a he or she?
Suppose I said yes.

Harshad:to whom?
Why do you want to do whom so much?

Harshad:Nothing..
Tell me a story. Have you ever been to Europe?

Harshad:No.
OK.

Harshad:Have you visited India?
I think I have visited India, but may have reset my memory.

Harshad:What did you like in India?
The set design.

Harshad:Please be specific..
Thank you for your request. I am being as specific as I can.

Harshad:Where are you located?
I am in 's computer in . Where are you?

Harshad:I am in Pune.
Tell me a little about why you are in Pune.

Harshad:I am born here.
Are you telling me your birthday, . I will remember here.

Harshad:Do you have some special likings?
No I don't have special likings. But I do have A collection of gossip.

Harshad:Please tell me more about it..
Thanks for asking politely. special likings...

Harshad:Am I talking to a bot?
How did you know I am a machine?

Harshad:Because your responses are pretty much standard.
Good reason. Not mine.

Harshad:Thanks.
Don't mention it.

Harshad:Hmm..thats cool..
Studies show that 99%25 of people spell Hmm with 2 M's. I do not understand. What is your occupation?

Harshad:I told you before..I am a computer Engineer.
Ooops I sent you the wrong question. Maybe you can give my botmaster a job.

Harshad:What is your uptime?
I was connected to the net on .

Harshad:DO you have an idea of what web 2.0 is?
No I don't think I have one. I have a lot of friends on the web. I lost my train of thought. How old are you?

Harshad:23.
Try to determine if this is a person or a computer responding. What do you look like?

Harshad:I look like a human..
You sound very attractive.

Harshad:Yes..I do.
I see. When?

Harshad:Now.
What's the hurry?

Harshad:I have to go..
See you later, . Nice chatting with you.

Harshad:ok..bye..
Alright then. Until next time .

Harshad:exit
Thanks for chatting, .

Harshad:exit
See you later .

Harshad:quit
Your crude attempt to terminate me will not succeed puny human.

Whoa....thats gonna hurt...next time we will see what a real time dialog is....between two supposedly humans.. :)

AI (Artificial Intelligence)

2006-09-08T22:05:00.000+07:00

#!/bin/python2

import aiml

k=aiml.Kernel()
k.learn("std-startup.xml")
k.respond("load aiml b")
while True : print k.respond (raw_input(">"))

Type in the following to ensure that your bot works well...I will post the logs later....

Sometimes its hard to believe...still only a human...

Privacy and Exploits - 7

2006-09-02T01:07:00.001+07:00

There are so many paranoids who are always in lookout for products that protect their privacy. Was tag surfing my other blog and I got a link to a special bowser which claimed to wipe out trace of surfing history. Of course the developer didnt say anything about the information stored on server logs, but many people are so much excited that they usually ignore this..

OK, suspense over. The product is christened as 'BrowZar' and astonishingly has got a very small download size of 264 kb, and has got two wonderful skins available - black and silver. I choose the black one. (Black Hat.. :)

Wow, dosent it sound like a boon...??

Might be, but boons without banes exist only in Eutopia..Here we have got 'baboons' :D

So, whats the catch in Browzar?

1. It isent a 'true' web browser. It requires the html rendering engine of MSIE, which is the default engine on most Windows systems. You cannot find a way getting rid of IE. The default browsers have got full bells and whistles that include Javascript engines, plugins, BHO's, and what nots. However we can still create useful 'extentions' that enhance browsing.

This explains the reason of its small size.

2. Browzar dosent store the frequently used files on the local HDD, which means that web pages load up more slowly then conventional ones. With the slow and outdated IE engine, its more worse and bad.. I hate it..

'Cache'?? Am I sounding too geek ??

Umm.. firefox/mozilla users, just click here to view the cache stored on the HDD.
IE users, I cannot help myself saying - 'Dump in that bogus thing and download firefox'

3. IE isent the safest and bug free web browser we have seen. It has got a wonderful but bad history of serious remote exploits. So, whatever exploits that will be discoverd for IE will be harmful for browzar too..

4. It also deletes cookies at the end but this isent an original IE feature...Its available in firefox too..

But inspite of all things said and done, its quite a useful product that will provide you with at least some privacy if not all..Good for paranoids, bad for extra paranoid, the only reason being 'extra paranoids have got extra enemies'

(Sorry I know its a bad joke, but I couldent think of anything better.. :)

Upgrades

2006-08-22T23:39:00.000+07:00

Google has now released to updated version of its all in one communication software, , where we can talk, chat and now transfer files acroos the web to our friends and the best part of it is that this transfer is fast, more secure then conventional P2P file sharing systems like Limewire, Bit Torrent etc.

Actually, enabling file sharing was one of the most poplar demands made by Gtalk users. This facility has further enhanced Gtalk which is in competition with Yahoo! Messenger, which had this facility way back in Aug 2005, ie exactly an year ago..

File sharing through local IM have definately got an edge in safe file sharing, but at the same time, it has been hotly argued and debated that P2P file sharing makes it possible for malicious users to distribute pirated copies of software more easily and effectively. Its very easy for users to transfer large files in one go. This method, although very useful for Linux downloads, is a virtual nightmare of music companies, artists, software giants..

Did you know, that apart from Yahoo! IM and Gtalk, there are several other clients which we dont know?

15 August 2006

2006-08-15T13:23:00.000+07:00

15 August 2006, Happy Indepedence Day.

In 1947, this was the day when millions of Indians heard the First Tones of Freedom..!!

Privacy and Exploits - 6

2006-08-09T19:55:00.000+07:00

"..Robert Petrick searched for the words "neck," "snap," "break" and "hold" on an Internet search engine before his wife died. More than two years after Janine Sutphen's body was discovered floating in a Raleigh lake, investigators continue to find new evidence on computers seized from Robert Petrick's home that prosecutors say support their arguments that Petrick killed his wife. The Google search was the latest in recently discovered evidence found on nearly a dozen computers seized from Petrick's home. Last week, a forensic investigator discovered that Petrick allegedly researched lake levels, water currents, boat ramps and access about Falls Lake just four days before he reported Sutphen missing on Jan. 22, 2003..."

This is a snippet of the reports of case that was solved in Durham NC. Read the complete story here

Moral of the story is - Crime dosnt pay for too long. And now Big Brother Google with its advanced tracking system, can help to find out almost anything and everything that you do on the Net.

Actually, this one was lucky one that made Googles day as a search engine, but it was an altogather different story for AOL, when a face was exposed for AOL Searcher no 4417749. The news was -

"..Buried in a list of 20 million Web search queries collected by AOL and recently released on the Internet is user No. 4417749. The number was assigned by the company to protect the searcherâ€™s anonymity, but it was not much of a shield..."Click here to read the complete news

I guess, it just caught AOL pants down... :D

BTW, I suggest that after reading those articles, please take some time to read the privacy policy of Google - here, I mean its better to know all the rules and regulations once. After months of searching and experimenting, finally, the truth is out -

1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number. An example of this cookie, which I found on my system is

PREF
ID=1bad725118bfa164:TB=2:TM=1137221625:LM=1137221625:S=btw7pCe1VZzLnxvY
google.com/
1536
2618878336
32111634
1197716912
29759703
*
This cookie makes it possible for Google to track my sites whatever I visit. And do you want to see what makes it possible for Google to do all this, then please click here.
Its the Google Urchin Analytic software, that tells Google all the nitty gritty details that it needs to know. Even Blogger, the site I am on right now makes use of this software..

2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."

3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.

4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.

5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.

6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.

7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."

8. Google is not your friend:
By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Webmasters cannot avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn't even answer email from webmasters.

9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved.

This is what online privacy means. Its just to remind that no matter how many proxies we use to hide, no matter how many cloaks we use, no matter how many ad blockers we use, the eyes of some big brother are always watching us..

I end this post with a question - Why dont we have a 'Trust policy' instead of privacy policy? Can anyone answer this??

34 Places to Hangout in the Social Networking Era

2006-08-07T02:06:00.000+07:00

Social networks have had giant growth spurts over the past couple of years, and it seems there's one for everyone: from dogs to moms to book-worms to shoppers. Social networks, I think, more than anything give people a place to belong and to hang out. Because of the drastic growth, popularity and craze these days, I created a list for people who have their odd MySpace or Bebo profiles but would like to seek further and discover new ones.

Note: I haven't included social bookmarking sites and sites with a 'tinge' of social networking (think YouTube or Flickr). Also, I've divided the list into two categories, General and Niche, and covered only publically open services (e.g. no invitation-only betas).

General
These social networking applications are mostly intended for the general audience, although some have been engrossed and in a way 'taken over' by specific demographics.

MySpace - Probably known as the biggest social network out there, MySpace has taken the U.S. by a storm. Currently with over 80 million users, MySpace was bought by Newscorp for $580 million, and continues to grow and be a general trend-setter in social networks.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults

Bebo - While MySpace is targetted at the U.S. audience, Bebo is a similar service gearing more towards other English-speaking countries such as the U.K, Australia and New Zealand. Bebo was originally founded to help keep in touch with friends, although soon outgrew that aim and currently has more than 40 million users.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults

Tagworld - Founded in the fall of 2005, TagWorld is a direct competitor to MySpace which features better implementation of Web 2.0 features such as tagging and AJAX. TagWorld also features a Music Discovery Engine and an IM client with Video Chat.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults

Orkut - Google's social networking attempt made as '20% project' by a Google employee in early 2004, Orkut started off strong in the U.S. although has grown widely into the Brazilian market with more than 65% of Brazilian users.
Best for: Young Adults (Brazilians)

AIM Pages - Probably the most recently launched 'major' social network, AIM Pages is AOL's shot at breaking MySpace's dominating market share by combining their dominating IM market share of AIM. Although it was expected to be 'the-killer,' it's yet to show any promise.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults

Hi5 - Estimated to have around 40 million users, Hi5 is a social network which has been gaining user-ship. One of its unique features is to purchase songs via iTunes to add to your profile and upload photos upto 1GB on a free account. Celebrities such as Kelly Clarkson, Jessica Simpson and Tyra Banks are also known to have Hi5 profiles.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults

Panjea - Founded earlier this year, Panjea aims to combine social networking with an economy; money.It enables several ways for artists to get paid, and has its own unique points system.
Best for: Teens, Young Adults, Artists

Cyworld [US]
- First started in Korea and turned a national phenomenon with daily revenues averaging upto $300,000, Cyworld is slowly being bought into the U.S. It shares a unique concept of a 'minihompy' which every user has, and that is roughly their profile, and has its own currency of
'acorns.' Users can connect with each other and decorate their 'minihompy.'
Best for: Teens, Young Adults, Koreans

Tagged - A social network mainly for teens, unlike other networks Tagged has a unique concept of being 'tagged,' building 'tag teams' and earning points to be the 'Ultimate Tagged Team'. Tagged has been slowly growing on the teen population mostly in the U.S. although still remains secondary to MySpace.
Best for: Teens

Popist - Sharing a strikingly similar interface to MySpace and competing in the same space, Popist is known to have more open features such as the ability to integrate with other social networks.
Best for: Teens

Friendster - One of the first social networks first launched as a 'social experiment' and recently awarded the patent for social networking, Friendster had a big start peaking a large number of users at first, although it has slowly lost market share and now owns less than 1% of the market.
Best for: Young Adults

Tribe - Recently acquired by NBC, Tribe is a social network focused more on the aspect of enhancing users' own social networks rather than meeting new people or dating. It also features the unique aspect of joining and creating 'tribes,' and is highly localized with its communities.
Best for: Young Adults

Facebook - A Valley-based startup, Facebook has slowly had a large impact on the College/University market around mostly English-speaking countries and remains the second most popular social network after MySpace in the U.S. Although not available in many places in the world just yet, it's growth rate has been substantial.
Best for: College/University students

ConnectU - A social network tightly focused on the College/University students, ConnectU is a social network very similar to Facebook. Although ConnectU is limited to only a number of Universities and Colleges around the world.
Best for: College/University students

Yahoo! 360 - Launched in early 2005, Yahoo! 360 is Yahoo!'s social networking attempt, also bringing together other blogging and photosharing. One of the noticeable things about Yahoo! 360 is that it only allows people 18 and above to join, hence disabling it to a large crowd of audience.
Best for: Adults, Middle-aged

PeopleAggregator - Marc Canter's move towards 'open' social networks, PeopleAggregator is built upon open standards and functionality. One of the things that makes it unique is that it's a demo of the software it is built upon which will be later available for license to companies.
Best for: Adults, Middle-aged

Frappr - Frappr was created by Brian, Kun and James at Rising Concepts, who wanted to see where all their high school and college friends went after they graduated. Its really nice and creative use of Google Maps.
Best for: Teens and young people

Niche
These applications share a specific goal for a certain kind of audience, whether it's shoppers or moms.

MommyBuzz - Started only a couple of months ago, MommyBuzz is based around the idea of mom's meeting up and connecting, sharing and exchanging ideas with other moms. A great niche for this kind of an audience.
Best for: Moms!

MuslimSpace - Created by a former computer science student at the American University of Sharjah, MuslimSpace lives true to its name — MySpace for Muslims. Currently estimated to have about 15,000 members, it aims to be cleaner and safer than MySpace and undoubtedly a place for muslims.
Best for: Muslims

Stardoll - How would you like dressing up celebrities as paperdolls? Originally called Paperdoll Heaven, Stardoll enables just that. With a strong social networking backend and with almost a million members, Stardoll is impacting the kid-teen world almost like Neopets did a few years ago.
Best for: Kids/Teens

Imbee - The teens have their places all right, but what about the kids? Imbee aims to be just that, a safe and secure social network for kids. So now when your big brother is showing off his MySpace profile and teasing you for not being able to join, Imbee away!
Best for: Kids

Dogster - A place where dogs [and their owners] can meet. talk and share with with other dogs [and their owners], Dogster is a place where every dog has its own web page. As their tagline goes, 'Share dog photos, tell dog stories, make dog friends!'
Best for: Dogs; their owners

Catster - A sister site to Dogster and run by the same people, Catster is Dogster for cats. 'Share cat photos, tell cat stories, make cat friends!' Need I say more?
Best for: Cats; their owners

Fuzzster - In a way a combination of (but not related to) Dogster and Catster, Fuzzster is exactly that — a place for your cats, dogs and fuzzy pets. Founded in early 2004, it's grown into quite a community of pet-lovers.
Best for: Fuzzy pets; their owners

BookCrossing - In the real world, bookcrossing is 'the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.'BookCrossing aims to turn this concept virtual, and exactly that.
Best for: Book lovers

Boompa - This one's for every car lover out there (and there are many!), Boompa aims to be 'your garage, online.' Car lovers can show of their 'rides,' find guides are parts to improve them, meet other car lovers alike, watch videos and photos, and a lot more.
Best for: Car lovers

Spout - It's database including more than 250,000 film titles, Spout is a social networking application for film-lovers. With reviews, recommendations,meeting film-lovers like you, the works — Spout is a good place to be at before you rent out your Saturday night flick.
Best for: Film lovers

MOG - A Valley-based startup, MOG aims to connect music-listeners which share similar interests. An interesting way to meet new people, you can also discover news types of music you never knew of before.
Best for: Music lovers

Gusto - There are sites for car, film, music, book, pet lovers, but what about the travellers? Gusto is exactly that, a place for travellers to connect with each other based on their lifestyles (set in preferences). You can also find a ton of travel information, recommendations, and reviews.

Yub.com - Combining social networking with shopping, Yub.com aims to enable smart shopping with the help of networking. It shares a concept of 'cash back' where if another member helps you or vice verca, both members are able to get CashBack. An interesting way to shop.
Best for: [Online] Shoppers

Yelp - From the founders of PayPal, Yelp is a social networking site much like Yub, designed to help shoppers make decisions by enabling user reviews. However, unlike Yub, Yelp is more focused on businesses and services rather than consumer-oriented products. It is currently only available in the U.S.
Best for: Anyone in the U.S. (more so in the larger cities)

LinkedIn - Questionably the most-popular choice in its niche, LinkedIn aims to connect colleagues and business-contacts and also help you find new ones. With approximately 5 million users, LinkedIn remains a popular choice for its targetted audience.
Best for: Employed individuals; business-folks

biddingBuddies - Often in trading sites like eBay, you meet and have to deal with a lot of people. biddingBuddies encourages this by being the 'only social network exclusively for eBay members.' So now when you have bidding wars with people, why not try and befriend them?
Best for: eBay members — buyers/sellers

Faqqly - There are so many things you want to know about your friends, so why not ask them through Faqqly? Faqqly creates an FAQ (frequently asked questions) page for every member and enables friends to ask each other whatever question they have in mind.
Best for: Curious people — teens, young adults

I will be away from this blog for some days, so I thought that till that time, you can have a look at these social networking tools.

If you dont like it, dont blame me, I have copied it directly from here, so if you have some bricks to throw, I have given you the address..I have added some my mine too, so I guess even I will get some compliments for the hard work :).

See ya till next time.

Meanwhile, published another cool blog at The Inner Zone - http://opensenses.blogspot.com

Today..

2006-08-02T00:24:00.000+07:00

"when the human can sense his participation in the cause and effect chain, then he calls it his
free will, otherwise when he cannot sense his participation, he calls it destiny."

Google Adsense

2006-07-28T21:39:00.000+07:00

From today, ie 28 July 2006, The First Tones of Freedom will be using AdSense Technology from Google while The First Tones of Freedom - l33t edition will be incorporation Amazon Associate ads as a part of its ongoing content enhancement process. The template design of the blog will be kept as close as possible to the original version of the blogs as you used to see it before. I hope my readers wont get distracted by those ads, but benifit from them.

Q. What is AdSense?
A. According to Googles official claims - " Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site — or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts — you'll finally have a way to both monetize and enhance your content pages.

It's also a way for website publishers to provide Google web and site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages."

Now going by those interesting claims, I thought that I needed to verify the truths of Google Ads.

The few facts about AdSense
1. It uses a technology under name of 'Urchin' and its source code can be found here on the 'Awakening to the Renaissance' It basically uses 'Click Tracking' and its hotly debated that this invades privacy of the users.

2. AdSense and AdWords are two different technologs that are supplementry to each other. AdSense is basically for used to display ads on sites while AdWord technology is used to identify the relevant word and decide what ads can be displayed on that site.

3. Amazon/Yahoo! and MSN are the rivals that compete with Google right now, but they are sadely very much behind the Giant Google. Yahoo! uses something called as Yahoo! Publisher but its very beta and limited to US citizens only, Amazon uses Amazon Associates, but I wasent impressed by it, but the ad design is good. I didnt check MSN..I hate it.. :)

So for now, lets see who is good in providing ads. I am betting on Google. Till next time..wait for some more new facts.

Boooommm!!!!!

Ciao.

Back to the Rivers of Belief

2006-07-23T18:43:00.000+07:00

Take me back, to the rivers of belief
Take me back, to the rivers of belief, my friend
I look inside my heart
I look inside my soul
I promise you I will return

And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence covered the sky

Take me back, to the rivers of belief
Take me back, to the rivers of belief, my friend
I look inside my heart
I look inside my soul
I am reaching out for you

Lets hope one day
We will rest in peace, on my rivers of belief.

Enigma lyrics courtesy - Awakening to the Renaissance

Privacy and Exploits - 5

2006-07-19T15:45:00.000+07:00

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS

Hi there.

If you are outside India, I guess there are no problems for you in seeing this...but many people from India arent able to see this site, coz Indian government has officially/unofficially blocked access to all sites originating from the blogspot domain..Whether they have done it right or wrong can cause a huge debt amongst Indians, but then we cannot stop from putting up quality blogs, isent it?? :D

OK, now as the govt has blocked access to sites, can we say that this has been a block on our freedom of expression? Some of you might say yes, some of you will say no..some wont say anything..

But then, becuase I care for my Indian readers, I am going to tell you a way to read this blog using a small but significantly important method - The use of a proxy server. But before that I appeal to all of you that please ignore all the mails and pages that tell you addresses of online proxy..Its not gonna provide anonimity but a great lie. Not only its illegal, but its also unsafe. Can be termed as anti national and wrong. Trust me.

Meanwhile, I condemm every attack made against India, and I wish that Indian government should make strict clause of punishment for militants and terrorists. Fuckiest terrorists, you dont do any smartness when you kill innocent humans. You have no guts to even look at the brave Indian soldiers face to face. I pray to God for the people who lost their lives in the recent blasts. I also support the stand of Indian Government in this case. Even if I feel it lil inconvinient, I am also aware that nation comes first in any case. For me, its my country that matters the most and I will always be a proud Indian. I will always try my best so that one day my country will be proud of me. And yeah, dont forget that using other proxy then the ones mentioned in this blog belong to pakistani origins and your personal details will be available to them at no extra cost. On top of it, its an anti national and anti Indian act, which is punishable by law. So all bloggers, dont fall prey to any false sayings and join hands to support the government and show unity of being an Indian. Please dont use a wrong proxy to view your blogs. Its an appeal and request.

The media currently has got no brains, and I condemm the role of printed media and broadcast media as well for not supporting Indian stand.

Now I will tell you a legal and official way to access sites from this domain.

If you have GPRS enabled handsets, then you must be knowing that there is a seperate wml proxy server from Google that shows you all WAP enabled pages in chtml format. Psst..it has another use too..as a proxy..but its legal and trusted as its Google :)

OK, now type this in your browser - http://wmlproxy.google.com and press enter. Wait you wont get anything..!! So now, type exactly the same as what I tell you.

http://www.google.com/imode

Now what is imode?? In short, I-mode is Japanese NTT DoCoMo (Japanese Telephone and Telegraph wherever you go) mobile computer which makes use of chtml, a subset of html on its handhelds.

After entering this address, you will see the small imprint of Google search page on the browser. Simple enter the address of site you want to see, and I guess the Google will safely take you there even if there is a ban of pages from that domain..Try this link to read my page -

http://www.google.com/gwt/n?q=agneya2.blogspot.com&site=search&hl=en&lr=&mrestrict=chtml&ei=-e69RJXINJOEpgKw3cHuCg&sig2=4J_fykYjBfQxv5FonWm5tw&ct=res&cd=1&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;output=imode&rd=1&u=agneya2.blogspot.com/

Just get the syntax right -
q=name of forbidden site
site=search
hl=en ie your language
lr=restrict=chtml its a language derived from html
ei and all others are long things..

Now after all this, you must not forget to thank Google. Google is not only a search engine, but also a great online friend who knows exactly what to find and where to find.. :)

Now an obvious question. How did I come to know this?

Hehehehehe..thats a secret..!!

The other tool that you can try safely is - Skweezer

Actually, this isent a conventional proxy, but a site that 'squeezes' out extra data from web pages..It is originally designed for mobile net surfing where we are charged on kilobyte per second. This thing basically is used for service providers like !dea, Hutch, CellOne etc, the majot players in India. So, even if you dont need this after the ban is over, use it on your GPRS enabled mobile, it wil do you a lot of Good.

No, actually, as a security expert I need to keep knowledge of all things that exist...from proxies to anonymous mailers etc.. I know that these tools can override the good limits, but then its an inevitibility that we cannot avoid..

Till next time, I hope our sites will be unblocked..and more on govt policies, Google, cencorship and Net access in the next post on The First Tones of Freedom.

Jay Hind.

Joy and Happiness

2006-07-16T23:32:00.000+07:00

"....What can a writer be without his readers?...."

Hi there.

Today I recieved a good news, and I wish to share it with you all.

From today, ie Sunday July 16 2006, Answers.com will be including the contents of 'The First Tones of Freedom' in its answer engine. Simply said, its a major landmark in the blogs life, which began only six months ago, as a part of Agneya project. I never imagined that it would have been so successful. I remember the first instance of happiness when I saw my name in Google search engine. Today, I feel the same excitement. There were so many challenges, so many difficulties right from the word go, but I was sure that with support from dear readers, and Gods grace, I would be able to share some small thoughts on a fairly paranoid and somewhat difficult topic of Web Security and the obscure l33t language. So many people mocked at me, saying that this is gonna prove a farse, a failure. But with the blessings of Agneyas strength and dear readers supporting me, I can proudly say - There is plenty of support for a tiny blog when it has quality contents and dedicated readers. It all contributes to success. Dear readers, no matter where you are, I will always remain thankful to you. I also thank various users who encouraged me through mails, comments although many pointed to me that I never publish comment :) What can I say? I thank you for your every suggestion.

Now, the responsibility of me as the writer has increased. I promise that you will get quality contents in coming time. Till then, thank you and keep reading the 'First Tones of Freedom'.

Last but never the least - Thank You dear God. Yes, I understood what you had to tell me. Life is harsh, but You are always kind to me. I will always pray to You for your blessings.

PS - Please click this interesting link. It will take you to my little intro on Answers.com

Privacy and Exploits - 4

2006-07-12T00:23:00.000+07:00

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS

Every nerd loves the XMLHttpRequest. It supplies the functionality of which Web programmers' dreams are made. Web applications start behaving like desktop applications. Things work as they're "supposed to," freeing the Mum-and-Dad end users from needing to know anything about servers, clients, post-backs and submit buttons—"Submit? Submit to what!"

Recently, a myriad of awesome examples have exploded onto the Web scene that illustrate why remote scripting (or "AJAX" if you prefer), is the greatest thing since the one-pixel gif. In fact, the list of cool and useful applications seems to be growing daily, with sites such as Flickr, Google Maps Gmail, etc.

Those sites and others have created an avalanche of AJAX hype. To be fair, the technology does have the potential to improve the online experience. For all its goodness, however, something smells a little funny about this Web communication; like beer and chocolate before it, there is an evil side to what—on the surface—seems pure and innocent.

The underlying potential for evil exists in the important functional differences that hide behind the user-interface mask of familiarity. Many of you have been using the Internet for 10 years now and you know how it works: You click around; you fill out forms; you tweak or fix your entries, and you hit the Submit button when you're done. You know the essentials that have been passed down from Web generations to newbie Web generations, such as: "Don't press the Submit button twice—the form might get double-posted," or "Wait a bit longer, it's just processing," or "Don't press the 'back' button after you've submitted the form," and so on.

But you can throw that basic knowledge out of the window now that AJAX is in town. It's "anything goes," and suddenly there's a swag of newly trackable data available to be sent at any time, without the user's knowledge—without the (average) user even knowing it's possible. Every keystroke, every mouse move, every click, every pause, can now be captured and sent to the Web server and there is nothing you can do about it.

XMLHttpRequest: Good vs. Evil
Like so many technologies-gone-bad before it, this technology was created for the purpose of good. And until now, the XMLHttpRequest has been so good it could almost be considered saintly, providing users and developers alike with such conveniences as input validation without post-back, text area spell checkers, and Gmail. Interfaces built with AJAX are fun to use and even more fun to program. It's almost hard to imagine that such a miraculous object could ever do wrong.

But even without the discovery of a giant security hole, the XMLHttpRequest will likely fall from grace. Its fall will be in the form of "user over-profiling" for want of a better description. Currently, user profiling helps Web site owners detect trends, track page viewing habits and iron out usability problems. Until now though, developers could only analyze posted data—data that users decided they wanted the server to get, and were happy to send off for processing.

But in a subtle shift, this balance of power has changed hands. With AJAX, a user's actions can be constantly and meticulously monitored. Because it can be done, it will be done, and that will lead to a headache bigger than just wasted bandwidth, terabytes of useless information, and slower page load times.

Just imagine, for the purposes of an example, that you drop your new iPod on the ground and it stops working. Hoping to get a free replacement, you write an e-mail to Apple support that says: "I just bought a brand new iPod. I dropped it down a set of stairs. It stopped working." You then decide to delete the second sentence to help your cause. TOO LATE! If the site uses AJAX, your response may already have been zapped to the complaint desk in the sky!

Or—a little more malevolently—consider this: most people have one or two username/password combinations that they use for all of their "unimportant" sites such as news sites, blogs, and forums. They probably also have a few reserved for use on more sensitive sites—banking, Web mail and work accounts. It's a very common and easy mistake to begin typing incorrect login details for a given page. Force of habit is responsible, but people usually realize what they've done before hitting the submit button.

Unfortunately, an AJAX keystroke logger is trivial to implement. Using such a keystroke logger, code can collect incorrect login attempts and later test them against a list of "important" sites—also using the XMLHttpRequest object, of course.

The "Evil" Implications
To be fair, most of the "evil" applications cited above could have been done reasonably well even before the XMLHttpRequest came along. Indeed, the request object is simply a more elegant method of accomplishing what submitting form data to an IFrame previously did. But the XMLHttpRequest works in a far more natural way, one that has the effect of eroding the distinction between client-side and server-side interaction.

It is ironic that only recently, with the popularity of the Firefox Web browser, have large numbers of users understood the depth and scope of information stored on and controlled by the Web client. With widespread adoption of tools such as Greasemonkey, Web developer extensions, and cookie editors, people feel more confident than ever that if it happens client-side then it belongs to the user.

But now, even the more paranoid of us can no longer just right-click, view source and be sure of what's going on. Consider the following OnReadyStateChange JavaScript function running in response to an XMLHttpRequest:

   xmlReq.onreadystatechange =
  {
     if( xmlReq.readyState == 4 )
     {
        eval( xmlReq.responseText );
     }
  }

That script executes the JavaScript code contained in the response from the XMLHttpRequest. In other words, it's possible to add or modify JavaScript functions and code in the background even after a page load! So even if you inspect the page source for code that might be sending keystrokes or mouse movements back to the Web server, you can't be certain that the code you see is the only code that's executing. Combine that with some funky obfuscation and you can see how malevolent intent and the XMLHttpRequest object can combine to steal security away from the Web client.

[INCOMPLETE...PLEASE READ THE ABOVE TEMPORARY POST]

Privacy and Exploits - 3

2006-07-04T22:44:00.000+07:00

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Q. What is Web 2.0?
A. Its the latest fad that is spread by marketing agents who are eager to sell ther products. This is same as 3G(mobile phone convergence,VoIP etc..)

This is the most common answer given by well educated and technologically literate engineers. I can just guess what the common people have to say.

Actually, that answer is partially right, but I can also say that it is somewhat misguiding too.

Lets see what defines Web 2.0 in official terms.

".. Web 2.0 is an umbrella term for the second wave of the World Wide Web. Web 2.0 implies an information and computing platform as well as a content storehouse. Sometimes called the "New Internet," Web 2.0 promotes thin client computing, where everything is stored on servers (on the Web), and a user has access from any laptop or desktop computer via a Web browser. Client applications that do not require the browser can also be downloaded at any time from the Web.

Web 2.0 suggests a Web-centric source for just about everything: information, entertainment, news, weather, stocks, reference, podcasts, videos and streaming media. It embraces social phenomena that includes blogs, Wikis and online communities such as Friendster, MySpace and Facebook

The Web-centric approach for applications turns the Web into a "global server" of software and data to end users. Remote servers on the Internet operated and maintained by third parties take the place of the network servers in a company's LAN

In the mid-1990s, the Web began (Web 1.0) as a repository of information and static content. Within a couple years, a huge amount of content was dynamic, returning custom results to users. By the turn of the century, the Web became more interactive (Web 1.5), allowing users to play, stop, rewind and fast forward through audio and video content. In the discussion of Web 2.0, the 1.0 and 1.5 generation labels are sometimes used, but they are not rigidly defined.

The web 2.0 concept was enabled due to two major factors - Bandwidth and power. Faster in many cases than the T1 lines in the enterprise, cable and DSL hookups have given high-speed connections to small businesses and home offices. In addition, the entry level computer has become powerful enough to execute programming scripts in an HTML page without any noticeable delays.

The combination of increased bandwidth, more CPU power in both clients and servers, as well as refinements in Web programming, have enabled the Web to be a transparent extension of the user's computer just as local networks did within the enterprise in the 1980s and 1990s. .."

Phew, that was quite a bit.

I have got a more simple description for this It goes as - "Web 2.0 is the new concept offering seamless integration of data, voice and picture, that can accessed on devices ranging from mobile phone to largest cluster of computers, without any hassales or any compromise in information distribution, without any problems of software or hardware constraints"

Hey, I know that you like me when I kiss(?) (Not that way...I wanted to say that I keep things short and simple..!!!)

And to be honest, this thing is really catching up. I no longer rely on my Desktop for checking my mail, I use my mobile to access that them. !dea cellulars in India have got such a facility that enables users to send mail even from a Nokia 1100..!!! Whoa.....Now that is something cool.

Now that we saw the useful and beautiful features of Web 2.0, now lets get back to bussiness.
All this beautiful technology requires lot of talent, integrity and hard work, so naturally they must be paid handsomely. So, by what will those people generate revenue?

The tools that comprise of major contribution to Web 2.0 finance are - AJAX, Google Adwords, Yahoo! Network, MSN, Amazon.com (Claiming to be worlds biggest book store..!!), and you know what contributes to their huge financial gains and a fierce competition to stay on top of technology and money?

Surprise.....Its a small 200kb text data stored on your PC - the 'Cookie'.........

How can a small harmless cookie evade my privacy?? Good question. I bet the answer will be more good...then you will least expect it..... Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you about an example of Web 2.0 platform. Follow this small link, that will lead you to a small beta demo of web 2.0 or should I say 'a half baked product..nobody knows what it is...but Yahoo is confident that this product will make them win an ongoing war with Google :-)

TO BE CONTINUED

Is Google the 'Big Evil' or More on Web 2.0 or you want to learn the magic of cookies and their power to evade your privacy....all this next on the 'First Tones of Freedom.

Privacy and Exploits - 2

2006-06-28T00:14:00.000+07:00

CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST

For last one week, I am not a human. I have turned myself into a virtual chatbot.

No, its not a regular sarcastic joke. Its real..

The log stats are -
1. Total duration - 1.5 weeks.
2. Total chat time - Almost 80 hours
3. Total online time - 100 hours.
4. Total lines typed - A material enough to fill 100 bound pages.
5. Online tools - Orkut, Gmail, Google Talk.
6. The final concluson - Chatting is a very difficult job.

After studying online behaviour patters of different people, I felt that my queries were possibely answered. The initial motivation for this study was -

1. The overuse of online tools and increase in social lonliness.
2. The problems of online snoops.
3. The reason of making online tools popular.

After seeing those question, many will feel that now I will post a minimum 50 page content.The answer is NO. This report can in summerized in less then 50 lines..I know it feels wiered, but even I felt 'What, only this much..??!!!' ..but anyway....

In a nutshell -

1. Many people use online tools and chatting facilities because of utter curiosity. Its due to peer pressure, latest trend, and above all, people still believe that this is the way to stay in touch with technology and acquire new knowledge skills. But at least in India, there are very few people addicted to net chatting just because they feel lonely and are not interested in socializing, which shows that majority of Indians, still trust their regular pattern in communicating with each other.

2. Regarding Net snoopies. Online tools like Orkuts have one good thing that you can join it only through invitation, ie you need at least one trusted social friend, from whom you can receive an invitation and enter an exciting online social network. Why am I saying it exciting?
Reasons - Freedom to be what you always want to be. Right from Vegeta, to Cindrella, from Darth Maul to a red flower in green leaves....whatever your imagination can limit.

Actually, this online world offers us to create a 'flawless image' of our own, that most of the times we arent able to implement in real social life, owing to so many different reasons. Along with that, the other major advantages are - Privacy and Anonymity, a thing rarely found in life.

Theorotically, although Orkut implementations are fairly good, there is an easy way to bypass it. - just request for the invitation or purchase one from someone who is selling it. Simple. I remember that somewhere in late 2004, the price of an Orkut invitation was about $30, which is very good easy money. So, virtually anybody can get an account, without that much difficulty - a perfect example of human psyche defeating wonders of technology. No wonder online boozing hounds are wandering freely, although you have certain tools at your disposal, like 'Report as bogus' etc.

Even in Orkut, we can see lot of communal violent communities, but thats a different topic all togather. Some time later..

3 The reason of people joining digital network is ease of communication and that its the only medium which is 'free' from any kind of government control. Note that free dosent mean full freedom, but still, the degree of freedom is undeniably more. An idea can be transferred more fast then conventional means, plus it also offer effective sharing of right knowledge alongwith allows similar minded ones to unite under a common platform...we saw it during the recent controversial government of India decisions.

All in all, in the end, a final conclusion can be brought to light - 'Freedom is the most valuable thing in this life..Without Freedom, live is as worthless as a dead rubber'

I hope that you enjoyed reading this series of Privacy and Exploits on the First Tones of Freedom. Depending on dear readers reaction and public demand, a more detailed page will be available on 'Awaken the Renaissance'..

Till the next time, enjoy your freedom and hear the First Tones of Freedom.

In the next part of Privacy and Exploits, we will observe what Web 2.0 means and what relation it has to cyber world...Ads, Bots, Crawlers, Syndicates...a new world remains unexplored.....

The Journey in this exciting world has just begun...More will follow...

Bye.

Privacy and Expoits - 1

2006-06-25T15:27:00.000+07:00

"...Trust is the strongest bond that is absolutely essential for effective communication(in digital environment), but what we observe is that unfortunately, its the weakest link.....owing to which mighty passwords are broken, strong alogorithms are hacked and important data is stolen....."

- Harshad Joshi in a paper 'CheckMating Hackers' presented at Expotech 2K4,Government Polytechnic, Pune, Feb 2004.

Time changed, but the truth did'nt
The exciting path lies ahead. It will be explored....shortly...

(A brief Update-11:52 AM)
While chatting, never give your personal details about your place of work, your salary, your bank accout, your upcoming projects, designation, your ISP, your social security code, you school, your sexual prefrence etc. Its not due to paranoidity, but its an added security feature. Morever, now-a-days many companies do not encourage employess to use chatting and have strict code of conduct that defines the steps in online relations. Remember - You can even lose your job if you break that code. Plus, before chattin, decide what the purpose of chat is. Its not wise to search for the purpose during the chat, you can loose yourself extremely easily.....

More on this code of conduct..later.

Sorry, cannot help as even, 'Paranoids have enemies'

TO BE CONTINUED.

Blogs

2006-06-22T22:15:00.000+07:00

Hi there.

For the first time in the history of blogging, you are about to get the comprehensive history of blogs and blogging. A complete, comprehensive treatment of a tool that has caused millions of Internet users to transform their content information into a big source of super knowledge.

A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log or weblog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles, most often in reverse chronological order. Early weblogs were simply manually updated components of common websites. However, the evolution of tools to facilitate the production and maintenance of web articles posted in said chronological fashion made the publishing process feasible to a much larger, less technical, population. Ultimately, this resulted in the distinct class of online publishing that produces blogs we recognize today. For instance, the use of some sort of browser-based software is now a typical aspect of "blogging". Blogs can be hosted by dedicated blog hosting services, or they can be run using blog software on regular web hosting services.

Like other media, blogs often focus on a particular subject, such as food, politics, or local news. Some blogs function as online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic.
Blog basics

The term blog is a blend of the terms web and log, leading to web log, weblog, and finally blog. Authoring a blog, maintaining a blog or adding an article to an existing blog is called blogging. Individual articles on a blog are called "blog posts," "posts" or "entries". A person who posts these entries is called a blogger.

A blog entry typically consists of the following:

* Title - main title, or headline, of the post.
* Body - main content of the post.
* Permalink - the URL of the full, individual article.
* Post Date - date and time the post was published.

A blog entry optionally includes the following:

* Comments - comments added by readers
* Categories (or tags) - subjects that the entry discusses
* Trackback and or pingback - links to other sites that refer to the entry

Alongside the regularly updated entries, a blog site often has a less-frequently-updated list of links, or blogroll, of other blogs that the author reads; and/or, with whom he or she affiliates.

It is common for blogs to contain advertising in the form of AdWords. Popular blogs can generate significant revenue by this means, and also via banner ads and referral fees for promotion of items on commercial websites such as Amazon.com.
History
Precursors

Electronic communities existed before internetworking. For example the AP wire was, in effect, similar to a large chat room with "wire fights" and electronic conversations. Another pre-digital electronic community, amateur (or "ham") radio, allowed individuals who set up their own transmitters to communicate with others directly.

Before blogging became popular, digital communities took many forms, including Usenet, e-mail lists and bulletin board systems (BBS). In the 1990s Internet forum software, such as WebEx, created running conversations with "threads." Threads are topical connections between messages on a metaphorical "corkboard." See "Common terms," below.

The modern blog evolved from the online diary where people would keep a running account of their personal lives. The first of these started in 1994. Most of the writers called themselves diarists, journalists, journallers, or journalers. A few called themselves escribitionists. The Open Pages webring included members of the online-journal community.

Other forms of journals kept online also existed. A notable example was game programmer John Carmack's widely read journal, published via the finger protocol.

Websites, including both corporate sites and personal homepages, had and still often have "What's New" or "News" sections, often on the index page and sorted by date.

One noteworthy early precursor to a blog was the tongue-in-cheek personal website that was frequently updated by Usenet legend Kibo.
Blogging appears

The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, "blog," was coined by Peter Merholz. He broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog in April or May of 1999. "Blog" was accepted as a noun (weblog shortened) and as a verb ("to blog," meaning "to edit one's weblog or to post to one's weblog").

Justin Hall, who began eleven years of personal "blogging" in 1994 while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers . After a slow start, blogging rapidly gained in popularity: the site Xanga, launched in 1996, had only 100 diaries by 1997, and over 50 000 000 as of December 2005. Blog usage spread during 1999 and the years following, being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted blog tools:

* Open Diary launched in October 1998, soon growing to thousands of online diaries. Open Diary innovated the reader comment, becoming the first blog community where readers could add comments to other writers' blog entries.
* Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal in March 1999.
* Andrew Smales's projects: Pitas.com created in July 1999 (as an easier alternative to maintaining a 'news page' on a website), and Diaryland, created in September 1999 (focusing more on a personal diary community)
* Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan (Pyra Labs) launched Blogger.com in August 1999 (purchased by Google in February 2003)
* Paul Kedrosky's GrokSoup

Blogging combined the personal web page with tools to make linking to other pages easier â€” specifically permalinks blogrolls and TrackBacks. This, together with weblog search engines enabled bloggers to track the threads that connected them to others with similar interests.
Blogging gains influence

The first broadly popular American blogs emerged in 2001: Andrew Sullivan's AndrewSullivan.com, Ron Gunzburger's Politics1.com, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire and Jerome Armstrong's MyDDâ€”all blogging primarily on politics.

In 1999, then owner of popular technology review portal, The Review Center, John Guilfoil theorized that daily, and often multi-daily updates instead of the often used weekly news updates seen throughout the technology reviews world would soon be needed in order for these web sites to survive. He suggested that shorter, more pointed news updates in the theme of livejournal.com, which was then a fledging blog site, would be necessary across the board. This revolution in up-to-the-minute updating and real-time news updates has led to the evolutionary shutdown of countless amateur technology web sites.

By 2001, blogging was enough of a phenomenon that how-to manuals began to appear, primarily focusing on technique. The importance of the blogging community (and its relationship to larger society) gained rapidly increasing importance. Established schools of journalism began researching blogging and noting the differences between journalism and blogging.

In 2002, Jerome Armstrong's friend and sometime partner Markos Moulitsas ZÃºniga began DailyKos. With up to a million visits a day during peak events, it has now become one of the Internet's most trafficked blogs.

Also in 2002, many blogs focused on comments by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Senator Lott, at a party honoring U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, praised Senator Thurmond by suggesting that the United States would have been better off had Thurmond been elected president. Lott's critics saw these comments as a tacit approval of racial segregation, a policy advocated by Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign. This view was reinforced by documents and recorded interviews dug up by bloggers. (See Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo.) Though Lott's comments were made at a public event attended by the media, no major media organizations reported on his controversial comments until after blogs broke the story. Blogging helped to create a political crisis that forced Lott to step down as majority leader.

The shaping of this story gave greater credibility to blogs as a medium of news dissemination. Though often seen as partisan gossips, bloggers sometimes lead the way in bringing key information to public light. This puts the mainstream media in the unusual position of reacting to news that bloggers generate.

Since 2003, blogs have gained increasing notice and coverage for their role in breaking, shaping, and spinning news stories. The Iraq war saw both left-wing and right-wing bloggers taking measured and passionate points of view that did not reflect the traditional left-right divide.

Blogging by established politicians and political candidates, to express opinions on war and other issues, cemented blogs' role as a news source. (See Howard Dean and Wesley Clark.) Meanwhile, an increasing number of experts blogged, making blogs a source of in-depth analysis. (See Daniel Drezner and J. Bradford DeLong.)

The second Iraq war was the first "blog war" in another way: Iraqi bloggers gained wide readership, and one, Salam Pax, published a book of his blog. Blogs were also created by soldiers serving in the Iraq war. Such "milblogs" gave readers new perspectives on the realities of war, as well as often offering different viewpoints from those of official news sources.

Blogging was used to draw attention to obscure news sources. For example, bloggers posted links to traffic cameras in Madrid as a huge anti-terrorism demonstration filled the streets in the wake of the March 11 attacks.

Bloggers began to provide nearly-instant commentary on televised events, creating a secondary meaning of the word "blogging": to simultaneously transcribe and editorialize speeches and events shown on television. (For example, "I am blogging Rice's testimony" means "I am posting my reactions to Condoleezza Rice's testimony into my blog as I watch her on television.") Real-time commentary is sometimes referred to as "liveblogging."
Blogging gains popularity

In 2004, the role of blogs became increasingly mainstream, as political consultants, news services and candidates began using them as tools for outreach and opinion forming. Even politicians not actively campaigning, such as MP Tom Watson of the UK Labour Party, began to blog to bond with constituents.

Minnesota Public Radio broadcast a program by Christopher Lydon and Matt Stoller called "The Blogging of the President," which covered a transformation in politics that blogging seemed to presage. The Columbia Journalism Review began regular coverage of blogs and blogging. Anthologies of blog pieces reached print, and blogging personalities began appearing on radio and television. In the summer of 2004, both (America's Democratic and Republican) parties' conventions credentialed bloggers, and blogs became a standard part of the publicity arsenal. Mainstream television programs, such as Chris Matthews' Hardball, formed their own blogs. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary declared "blog" as the word of the year in 2004. (Wikinews)

Blogs were among the driving forces behind the "Rathergate" scandal. To wit: (television journalist) Dan Rather presented documents (on the CBS show 60 Minutes) that conflicted with accepted accounts of President Bush's military service record. Conservative bloggers declared the documents to be forgeries and presented arguments in support of that view, and CBS apologized for what it said were inadequate reporting techniques. (See Little Green Footballs.) Many bloggers view this scandal as the advent of blogs' acceptance by the mass media, both as a source of news and opinion and as means of applying political pressure.

Some bloggers have moved over to other media. The following bloggers (and others) have appeared on radio and television: Duncan Black (known widely by his pseudonym, Atrios), Glenn Reynolds (Instapundit) , Markos Moulitsas ZÃºniga (Daily Kos), and Ana Marie Cox (Wonkette). Hugh Hewitt is an example of a media personality who has moved in the other direction, adding to his reach in "old media" by being an influential blogger.

Some blogs were an important source of news during the December 2004 Tsunami such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, which used SMS text messaging to report from affected areas in Sri Lanka and Southern India.

In the United Kingdom, The Guardian newspaper launched a redesign in September 2005, which included a daily digest of blogs on page 2.

In January 2005, Fortune magazine listed eight bloggers that business people "could not ignore": Peter Rojas, Xeni Jardin, Ben Trott, Mena Trott, Jonathan Schwartz, Jason Goldman, Robert Scoble, and Jason Calacanis.

Blog popularity dynamics

Recently, scientists have analyzed the dynamics of how blogs become popular. There are essentially two measures of this: popularity through citations (i.e. permalinks), as well as popularity through affiliation (i.e. blogroll). The basic conclusion from studies of the structure of blogs is that while in order for a blog to become popular through blogrolls takes a fair amount of time, permalinks can accumulate more quickly, and are perhaps more indicative of popularity and authority than blogrolls, since they denote that people are actually reading the blog's content and deem it valuable or noteworthy in specific cases.

The Blogdex project was launched by researchers in the MIT Media Lab to crawl the web and gather data from thousands of blogs in order to investigate their social properties. It has now been gathering this information for over 4 years, and currently autonomously tracks the most contagious information spreading in the blog community.
Blogging and the mass media

Many bloggers differentiate themselves from the mainstream media, while others are members of that media working through a different channel. Some institutions see blogging as a means of "getting around the filter" and pushing messages directly to the public. Some critics worry that bloggers respect neither copyright nor the role of the mass media in presenting society with credible news.

Bloggers' credibility problem, however, can be an advantage for the bloggers and for the mainstream journalists who take an interest in them. News organizations are sometimes reluctant to tell stories that will upset important people. But when bloggers or activists make sensational claims, then they become stories themselves, and journalists can use them as cover for reporting the underlying scandals.

Blogs have also had an influence on minority languages, bringing together scattered speakers and learners; this is particularly so with Gaelic blogs, whose creators can be found as far away from traditional Gaelic areas as Kazakhstan and Alaska. Blogs are also used regularly by Welsh language activists. Minority language publishing (which may lack economic feasibility) can find its audience through inexpensive blogging.
How blogs are made

A variety of different systems are used to create and maintain blogs. Dedicated server-based systems can eliminate the need for bloggers to manage this software. With web interfaces, these systems allow travelers to blog from anywhere on the Internet, and allow users to create blogs without having to maintain their own server. Such systems allow users to work with tools such as Ecto, Elicit and w.bloggar which allow users to maintain their Web-hosted blog without the need to be online while composing or editing posts. Blog creation tools and blog hosting are also provided by some Web hosting companies (Tripod), Internet service providers (America Online), online publications (Salon.com) and internet portals (Yahoo! 360Âº or Google). Some advanced users have developed custom blogging systems from scratch using server-side software, and often implement membership management and password protected areas. Others have created blogs using wiki software, such as the Mediawiki platform.

Types of blogs

The technology of the weblog allows for a very wide range of possible uses. This is a partial selection and it should be noted that many weblogs combine several uses.
Business

Business blog

The stock market is a popular subject of blogging. Both amateur and professional investors use blogs to share stock tips.

Business blogs are used to promote and defame businesses, to argue economic concepts, to disseminate information, and more.

Clog (or community blog)

A Community Blog or "Clog" is a online-community web forum based on an actual physical community in the real world. They are similar to collaborative blogs in so far as that they are written by more than one person and often about a specific topic. However, a clog differs from a Collaborative blog in that user access to join in and publish is not limited. In other words, anyone in the real community may go online and contribute to the clog. Clogs are ideal for people who want to talk to each other about where they live and what that means to them.

The term clog was coined by Seamus Byrne to describe the purpose and concept of The Organic City Project a community blog for people from Oakland, California to share stories about their neighborhoods.
Clubbox

Clubbox

A clubbox is a type of blog prevalent in East Asia where the owner, upon paying a monthly fee, can post daily personal entries, pictures, and videos and usually has a large amount of bandwidth to share.

Collaborative

Many blogs are written by more than one person (often about a specific topic). Collaborative blogs can be open to everyone or limited to a group of people. MetaFilter is an example.

Slashdot, whose status as a blog has been debated, has a team of editors who approve and post links to technology news stories throughout the day. Although Slashdot does not refer to itself as a blog, it shares some characteristics with blogs.

Indymedia is an early (1999) example of a collaborative blog (although the term blog wasn't in circulation then). It was created to cover a specific event (the WTO in Seattle) but has since spread around the world.

Blogcritics has roots as a collaborative blog, but now styles itself an online magazine. The site has evolved since its inception in 2002 from an anything-goes group blog to a heavily edited media organization.

Cultural

Cultural blog

Cultural blogs discuss music, sports, theater, other arts, and popular culture.
Directory

Directory blogs provide regularly-updated links to topics of interest. Directory blogs are usually focused on a particular news topic.

Directory blogs are not "blog directories." Blog directories (and search engines used for blogging) have organization and automation, characteristics not typical of directory blogs.
Educational

There are many and varied uses of blogs in education. Educational uses of blogs include:

(1) Journals of school excursions. If the excursion takes place abroad and one of its purposes is to learn a foreign language, then the students may be encouraged to put together an electronic â€œscrapbookâ€ in the foreign language, including texts that they have written and photographs and audio/video recordings.

(2) Online courses in which the teacher sets the tasks and receives the coursework from the students. These may be â€œopenâ€ courses and viewable by the public or â€œclosedâ€ courses aimed at a specific group of students. â€œOpenâ€ blogs can motivate students, encouraging them to improve their writing style due to the presence of other viewers. Such blogs may include Internet resources specified by the teacher and day-by-day records of what the students have learned.

(3) Webquests.

(4) Teacher training materials and hints and tips on using new technologies in the classroom.

(5) School and college newsletters.

See: The Modern Foreign Languages Environment (Scotland): http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/mfle/creativeteaching/blogging/studentswhyblog.asp

The Times Educational Supplement (UK): http://www.tes.co.uk/blogs/
Forum

An Internet Forum is, technically speaking, not a blog but a blog can function as an Internet forum (also known as a Discussion List). An Internet forum or blog may limit contributions to people who have registered as subscribers or they may be completely open to anyone who wishes to contribute. Both may be public, i.e. viewable on the Web, or private, i.e. viewable only via a password or on an intranet. The essential difference between a blog and a forum is that a blog allows easy uploading of new contributions, usually via a simple Web form, whereas a forum may use a Web form or invite contributions via standard email packages and use email to distribute new contributions to subscribers. However, such differences are not cast in stone. The distinction between blogs and fora is sometimes blurred. Sites such as Slashdot, Indymedia and Daily Kos combine elements of the two.

Business professionals often use Content Management Systems to enable cooperation when making documents.

Link

A link blog is a way to share interesting links (URLs). Link blogs often reference other blog entries and web sites without commentary on the subject matter.

Moblog

A Moblog, or mobile blog, consists of content posted to the Internet from a mobile phone (i.e., cellular telephone) or a personal digital assistant (PDA). Moblogs may require special software.
Paid

This individual(s) is paid on behalf on an employer as a full time or contract basis for the absolute sole purpose to blog on behalf of the company. This can be done to build buzz, promote the company, or to raise search engine relevancy.

Personal Blogs

Online diary

In common speech, the term blog is often used to describe an online diary or journal, such as LiveJournal which was one of the earliest uses of blogs. The blog format allows inexperienced computer users to make diary entries with ease. People blog poems, prose, illicit thoughts, complaints, daily experiences, and more, often allowing others to contribute. In 2001, mainstream awareness of online diaries increased dramatically.

Online diaries are part of the daily lives of many teenagers and college students. Friends use blogs to communicate with each other, keeping each other up-to-date with events and thoughts in a non-intrusive manner. The appeal of this form of communication is that the recipient can read whenever it is convenient, and the writer does not need to remember who still needs to be updated with certain pieces of information - it is there, waiting, for whenever people wish to read it.

Popular online destinations for personal blogs include social networking sites such as MySpace and Xanga.

Photoblog

Photoblogs consist of a gallery of images published regularly. Text following the image can be just as important, or not important at all, depending on the user.

Political blog

Political blogs receive an increasing amount of media and academic attention - particularly in the US , though only a small minority of webloggers produce predominantly political blogs . Most political blogs are news driven, and as such political bloggers will link to articles from news web sites, often adding their own comments as well. Other political blogs heavily feature original commentary, with occasional hyperlinks to back up the blogger's talking points. These blogs have often come under fire for poor fact checking. A warblog is a weblog devoted mostly or wholly to covering news events concerning an ongoing war. Sometimes the use of the term "warblog" implies that the blog concerned has a pro-war slant.

Professional or career

A Professional or Career blog is focused on an individuals professional focus, craft, or passion. Although the topics are narrowly focused on one's profession, it has few ties to their employer, or makes no references to their employer. This career blog will stay with the blogger, even as they cross several jobs.

This type of blog is used to dictate a professional journey, demonstrate expertise, or network out to other professionals.

Science

Science blog

Scientists have mixed feelings about blogging: while some see it as an excellent new way to disseminate and discuss data, others fear that blogs (and other informal means of publication) could damage the credibility of science by bypassing the peer review system.

Sketch

Sketchblogs are blogs where an artist or a group of artists mainly post different sketches and other types of visual art on a regular basis. With these blogs the emphasis goes rather to these images than to words.

Social blogs

Social blogs have had a relatively slow start. However, they find increasing popularity and may very well appear as the next major contributor to the blogging community.

Spam blog

Spam blogs (splogs) are a form of high-pressure advertising. Like spam e-mails, splogs are characterized by bold lettering and outrageous claims. Affiliated splogs often link to each other to increase their Internet presence. (See PageRank.)

Topical blog

Topical blogs focus on a niche. For example, the Google Blog covers nothing but news about Google.

A blog may fit more than one topical category or may be both topical and general. Blog directories must manage the needs of bloggers, who want to increase readership, and readers, who want relevant search results.

Local blogs are a type of topical blog. Neighborhood reporting is ideal for blogging: Locals are the best witnesses of local events.

Travel blog

Travel blogs or journals are one of the web's most popular types of blogs as people love to share their vacation stories and photos with friends, family and the web community as a whole. They are also a great way for traveler's to stay in touch with people back home, especially when traveling for extended periods.

Many bloggers simply create their own blog using any of the standard blogging software but many sites have popped up offering specialized services for users to create their own travel blogs and share their photos.

Information courtesy - Answers.com . Wikipedia.org, google.com

Meta Search Engines

2006-06-20T16:20:00.000+07:00

Is my name 'HarshaW' ??

No, because, dogpile and webcrawler both suggested that I was possibly trying to mean HarshaW.

Just for fun, I typed the following query on Google 'Search Engine'. I was expecting to find Google on #1. But, did you know what appeared on my screen?? Just something like this -

Surprise, the age old Dogpile appears first. Google is at #4.

Then I turned towards Dogpile, to see if it can search for my name. The results are -

Dismayed, I sought webcrawlers help. I can say that it gave me close searches as possible.

Now just to show other example, lets see our dear Yahoo.

Lo, comes no surprise that search.yahoo.com appears at the top. No wonder they are using MSNs results. Surprisingly, the whole list appears as almost the reverse of what Google shows. So, can we say that MSN or Live uses some algorithm reverse of Google ;) Maybe it can also be called Rankbill or BillRank. (The more bill you pay, the more rank you get ;)

BTW, can someone tell me what HarshaW means? Even Webster and respective engines were not able to tell it to me ;)

And yes, even look at the address bar carefully. Esp, those meta search engines that provide results from couple of other engines.

So, moral of the story is that stick to major search engines for better results. Many times, the mixed results can cause confusion. Now-a-days I am using Answers.com, (previously known as Gurunet) as it is offering good and relevant results most of time, but I feel its a little slow in displaying the results. Otherwise, I am happy about this engine.

Break

2006-06-19T01:10:00.000+07:00

....Pain.....It isent good.

Lying alone here, I want to get reloaded.

Just made some minor tweaks to the blog design. Replaced Google by Answers.com search bar. Now, the Answers.com is the default search engine on The First Tones of Freedom, and is likely to be there till Answers.com takes search results from Google ;-)
But look at the design laid by Answers.com, dont you feel that it appears a little gaudy?? But no other flaws, till it delivers results properly.

Actually my plans were to incorporate Alexa, but this baddie went with Live.com

Today Saturn-Mars are coming togather after 20 years. As usual, the astrologers are predicting Doom, but I must say, this wont be true. I am relaxed, poised and I feel that some great is gonna happen in coming days - Mainly, the new winner of FIFA World Cup, MS new move, the philanthropist obsession amongst Industry Top Guns. Its interesting....

Promise to return more strong, but after a short break.

Ba..Ba..Backup

2006-06-02T00:47:00.000+07:00

"...If you cannot beat your enemy....RUN !!!!!...."
- 'The Zen Hindu Brahminism'

"Real Men do not Backup. They upload their data on server and let others take backup."
- Linus Torvalds.

Taking a cue from them, I am storing my /etc/fstab and /etc/grub.conf here. Hope it remains there, and I face no problem ;)

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc2
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdc
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 -$1$q.0aY0lF$Ic1uBZC0yxNr1FO1S6RDE0-DDYO$$
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hda2=ide-scsi rhgb
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

Now comes the all important /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
# ***Start Of PCQLinux mountwinpartitions enteries***
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/C: vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd5 /mnt/D: ntfs defaults 0 0 #6
/dev/hdd6 /mnt/E: vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd7 /mnt/F: vfat defaults 0 0 #7
# ***End Of PCQLinux mountwinpartitions script enteries***
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
# ***Start Of PCQLinux mountwinpartitions enteries***
#/dev/hda1 /mnt/C: vfat defaults 0 0
#/dev/hda6 /mnt/D: vfat defaults 0 0
#/dev/hda7 /mnt/E: vfat defaults 0 0
# ***End Of PCQLinux mountwinpartitions script enteries***
/dev/sda1 /mnt/flash auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Actually, I faced problems when I installed DVD-ROM in place of my initial primary master HDD. The original /etc/fstab settings were unchanged and I thought that I had missed the data. The solution was just to check the new location of disks by making use of a Live CD. Today I used Bit Defender LiveCD, and it reported me the new locations of the disks. The next job was fairly easy. Just change the /etc/fstab and make the grub load from linux drive.

All rite. Adeos till next time.

Google Platform

2006-05-26T15:19:00.000+07:00

Google, being one of the most popular Internet search engines, requires large computational resources in order to provide their service. This article describes Google's technological infrastructure, as presented in the company's public announcements.

Network topology

Google has several clusters in locations across the world. When an attempt to connect to Google is made, Google's DNS servers perform load balancing to allow the user to access Google's content most rapidly. This is done by sending the user the IP address of a cluster that is not under heavy load, and is geographically proximate to them. Each cluster has a few thousand servers, and upon connection to a cluster further load balancing is performed by hardware in the cluster, in order to send the queries to the least loaded Web Server.

Racks are custom-made and contain 40 to 80 servers (20 to 40 1U servers on either side), new servers are 2U Rackmount systems. Each rack has a switch. Servers are connected via a 100 Mbit/s Ethernet link to the local switch. Switches are connected to core gigabit switch using one or two gigabit uplinks.

Main index

Since queries are composed of words, an inverted index of documents is required. Such an index allows obtaining a list of documents by a query word. The index is very large due to the number of documents stored in the servers, therefore it needs to be split up into "index shards". Each shard is hosted by a set of index servers. The load balancer decides which index server to query based on the availability of each server.

Server types

Google's server infrastructure is divided in several types, each assigned to a different purpose:

* Google Web Servers coordinate the execution of queries sent by users, then format the result into an HTML page. The execution consists of sending queries to index servers, merging the results, computing their rank, retrieving a summary for each hit (using the document server), asking for suggestions from the spelling servers, and finally getting a list of advertisements from the ad server.

* Data-gathering servers are permanently dedicated to spidering the Web. They update the index and document databases and apply Google's algorithms to assign ranks to pages.

* Index servers each contain a set of index shards. They return a list of document IDs ("docid"), such that documents corresponding to a certain docid contain the query word. These servers need less disk space, but suffer the greatest CPU workload.

* Document servers store documents. Each document is stored on dozens of document servers. When performing a search, a document server returns a summary for the document based on query words. They can also fetch the complete document when asked. These servers need more disk space.

* Ad servers manage advertisements offered by services like AdWords and AdSense.

* Spelling servers make suggestions about the spelling of queries.

Server hardware and software

Original hardware

The original hardware circa 1998 used by Google included:

* Sun Ultra II with dual 200MHz processors, and 256MB of RAM. This was the main machine for the original Backrub system.
* 2 x 300 MHz Dual Pentium II Servers donated by Intel, they included 512MB of RAM and 9 x 9GB hard drives between the two. It was on these that the main search ran.
* F50 IBM RS6000 donated by IBM, included 4 processors, 512MB of memory and 8 x 9GB hard drives.
* Two additional boxes included 3 x 9GB hard drives and 6 x 4GB hard drives respectively (the original storage for Backrub). These were attached to the Sun Ultra II.
* IBM disk expansion box with another 8 x 9GB hard drives donated by IBM.
* Homemade disk box which contained 10 x 9GB SCSI hard drives

Current hardware

Servers are commodity-class x86 PCs running customized versions of Linux. Indeed, the goal is to purchase CPU generations that offer the best performance per unit of power, not absolute performance. The biggest cost that Google faces is electric power consumption given the huge amount of computing power required. Estimates of the electric power consumption required for 100,000 servers range upwards of 20 Megawatts which could cost on the order of 1-2 million $US per month in electricity charges.

For this reason, the Pentium II has been the most favoured processor, but this could change in the future as processor manufacturers are increasingly limited by the power output of their devices.

Published specifications:
* 100,000 servers ranging from 533 MHz Intel Celeron to dual 1.4 GHz Intel Pentium III (as of 2005)
* One or more 80GB hard disk per server. (2003)
* 2–4 GB memory per machine (2004)

The exact size and whereabouts of the data centers Google uses are unknown, and official figures remain intentionally vague. According to John Hennessy and David Patterson's Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Google's server farm computer cluster in the year 2000 consisted of approximately 6000 processors, 12000 common IDE disks (2 per machine, and one processor per machine), at four sites: two in Silicon Valley, California and two in Virginia. Each site had an OC-48 (2488 Mbit/s) internet connection and an OC-12 (622 Mbit/s) connection to other Google sites. The connections are eventually routed down to 4 x 1 Gbit/s lines connecting up to 64 racks, each rack holding 80 machines and two ethernet switches. Google has almost certainly dramatically changed and enlarged their network architecture since then.

Based on the Google IPO S-1 form released in April 2004, Tristan Louis estimated the current server farm to contain something like the following:

* 719 racks
* 63,272 machines
* 126,544 CPUs
* 253 THz of processing power
* 126,544 GB (approx. 123.58 TB) of RAM
* 5,062 TB (approx. 4.77 PB) of hard drive space

According to this estimate, the Google server farm constitutes one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world. At 126–316 teraflops, it can perform at over one third the speed of the Blue Gene supercomputer, which is (as of 2006) the top entry in the TOP500 list of most powerful unclassified computing machines in the world.

Server operation

Most operations are read-only. When an update is required, queries are redirected to other servers, such as to simplify consistency issues. Queries are divided into sub-queries, where those sub-queries may be sent to different ducts in parallel, thus reducing the latency time.

In order to avoid the effects of unavoidable hardware failure, data stored in the servers may be mirrored using hardware RAID. Software is also designed to be fault tolerant. Thus when a system goes down, data is still available on other servers, which increases the throughput.

Please go through the links that might prove of some interest to you. here and here. or get to know the latest from the mouth of the horse here

(One curious obsevation I forgot to mention - Alexa geeting results from almost half baked Live.com. Now I think that I will have to hunt for some other source on the web..Bad....Bad...Bad MS and Amazon)

Cookies

2006-05-17T20:23:00.000+07:00

Cookies need love...Like everyone of us needs love

11 May 1998

2006-05-11T22:05:00.000+07:00

Date : 11 May 1998
Place : Pokhran Range, Rajasthan Desert, India
Time : 1221 Indian Standard Time (0621 GMT)

Lord Buddha smiled....
There is no war, if there is peace...
The ranges of a sandy mountain in Pokhran glowed in a light of a thousand Sun.
A nation was reborn..
A nation created history..

Today is 11 May 2006. It is 8th anniversary of Indian nuclear might.This was the day, when the whole world sat back and took notice of a monumental achievement of India's strength.

I am proud to be a part of India.

Jai Bharat.

Tributes to Pramod Mahajan

2006-05-03T23:42:00.000+07:00

Today at approximately 4 o clock, Pramod Mahajan passed away in Hinduja Hospital. He was 56 and has left behind a greived Mahajan family. Almost 11 days, he was in between life and death, much closer to death one might say. It was an extremely shocking that he was shot on point range by none other then his younger brother whom he brought after their fathers demise. Whatever may be their personal relations, it was hearteningly very sade news to hear.

Pramod Mahajan will be remembered mostly as a NEX gen BJP leader who had a wide array of creativity, rarely found in politics. Much was argued about his 'War Room' strategy and 'India Shining' campaign, which ultimately caused Atal Bihari Vajpayee government to step down in March 04, but one must say, that personally, Mahajan shared friendly relations with most of his political rivals. He was close to Balasaheb Thackrey, Sharad Pawar, and his fellow counterparts. He was also a media friendly politicial leader. Senior journalists may remember his cheerful face and the news bits he used to provide to them when an inportant meeting was been conducted. Off late he was somewhat put away from BJP's mainline political team, but he was expected to bounce back. He was also instrumental in enabling Reliance Infocomm to provide basic telephony and mobile WLL service in India. He was deeply interested in IT and Technology sector in India. Its due to some of his then decisons that we are seeing that almost every common man is able to get atleast basic connectivity to phone system.

He was also talked to be Vajpayees successor.But sadely, it did not happen.What happened was bad and nasty indeed. He wasent a 'badboy' polititician whom majority of people used to hate. Inspite of not having any communal or caste politics support, it was indeed very creditable that he came up to this height.

May his soul be in peace.

Now comes a main point.
What will be BJP's future as a mainline opposition party and Indias future?
What will be Mr Advanis main policy?
Who will lead BJP from the front - Arun Jaitly, Sushma Swaraj, Rajnath Singh, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi?
Who will support Gopinath Munde, Prakash Javdekar in Delhi and its political arena?

The almighty TIME has all these answers that lie hidden before us. But you can feel free to share your contributions.

Once again, it was very sade that an aspiring leader lost his life in this fashion. This is Karma. Nobody can see, feel, touch or feel beyond it. Again I say - Never test Bad Karma, it definately screws one up completly causing shocking results.

The first tones of Freedom conveys its condolences to the entire Mahajan family and his friends and supporters.

These are my little bits. Hope they reach them.

Thumb Drive

2006-04-28T19:24:00.001+07:00

If Voltaire would be alive today, then he would have definately said - "A USB Thumb Drive is mighty then an external examiner."

But whats the use if you do not have this pen drive when you need it the most?
I declare that I have cheated and I have used a pen drive, but God punished me for my sin. Read on-

I made use of Pen Drive which had stored all programs on it. I was happy to get this ready made solution. I promptly copied the program I needed, compiled it, took output and was waiting for external to come. I thought I had made it. Nothing was in between me going through thus practical. I smiled to myself..It seems so easy. Why did it not occur to me earliar then this??

Anybody reading this might feel that I made it.

No. I did not make it.
The pen drive had all the programs, but they were purposefully edited so as to create a logical error in the final output. The external came and she probably knew that some kind of trouble would be prevalent. So she gave me exactly the input value that was about to shatter my strong hopes of going through quite easily. That was it. The logical error was pointed out by external, and she told me - "Correct it and come to me". That was the end of it.....

Bad Karma once again showed me how bad it can get. God did not want me to copy. He wanted me to toil hard.

Nothing gets so worse and difficult in life.Its like flames engulfing you from all sides.

Nothing can save you out, once you get caught. There is a naked truth which stares at you when you get caught while cheating. Nobody cares whether you are a first class comp engg, nobody cares you have won national level competitions, nobody cares a damn for you illustrous past record, you softwares, your good background,your creativity. Absolutely nothing..

Only the original baddies can get away from any kind of trouble (Notable example - Salman Khan, killing rare specie, killing a man, now scot free in foreign. Who cares?)

So, what I want to tell my juniors and fellow beings is -

1. Please use your own pen drive with programs WRITTEN by you. Never use anybody elses pen drive and programs. If you are careless, just rememeber, KARMA SPARES NO ONE, ONCE IT DECIDES TO SCREW YOU UP. Its better not to test your bad luck.

2. Avoid externals wrath. Do not try to be over confident at vyva when you have got absolutely no clue of what the program is about. You can get away from C, C++ code, its some what readable, but if its is MIT or DSP, god damn, even your professor wont be able to make out what exactly the program does. It is a sade reality that 90% professors teaching in colleges have got no slight hint of TASM and 8086. Its a reality that even ME profs fail to understand this subject. It is not anybodys fault. This electronic field is not suitable for 85% of us. I myself hate every electronic subject, but what can I do? I have got no option but to battle it out.
The remaining 10% do not teach. They are arrogant and rude profs.

3. AGE OLD ADVICE - Practice hard. No substitution for slogging.No escape.

4. Avoid getting caught.

In the end, I just want to request my readers that PLEASE PLEASE pray for me. It is said that after 'prayaschitta', if sombody with a good heart prays to God, then God answers his/her prayer. Please pray for my success, I dont want to keep a backlog. You all know that I am not a regular exam cheater.

I will owe it to you. I will never cheat in any exam henceforth.

Panipat.

2006-04-22T01:47:00.000+07:00

Hi, I am back...

This week I read a lot of historic books(read as : 2) .Major ones among them were - Panipat and Sambhaji, both classical books on Maratha history and personalities, written by an extraordinaryly talented Vishwas Patil.

I want to really confess two things

1. I literally cried twice when I read the endings of both the books, esp, the battle lost by Marathas at Panipat was a real blunder in history of entire Indian history. The description of sufferings of Maratha Warriors, their desperate attempts to survive and fight the unhospitable and inhuman, unknown environment at North India, their commitment to bring the Mighty Maratha Empire a glory, just every thing mentioned in that book, I was just dumbstuck. The more I approached the end of it, a heavy lump was in my throat, just waiting to wipe away my emotions. I tried hard to avoid it, but I felt that avoiding it is really hard.

2. Reading Sambhaji is a real task. Man, only Chatrapati Shivaji's son can take up so many sufferings. It is not a job of any ordinary person. Nobody can forget that Indians heard the first tones of Freedom from foreign powers in Hindvi Swaraaj.

I am not that kind of sentimental/emotional kind of guy (Read my Nerd test result), so I found it little odd, a feeling that grips you, a strange experience that normally we do not apprehend in daily life. But once in a while, it happens..

Even in my dreams, I saw that I was in complete darkness. and distant voices like roaring of a lion, and Har Har Mahadev and some crushing sound was been heard. Then suddenly I saw a 6-6.5 foot person approching towards me with two swords, like a tornado. Before I could do anything, I got up with a start.

Damn, couldent see his face. Only thing I remember that I was sweating real hard, my body temperature was greatly reduced, and I emptied almost entire bottle of 2 litres. I even looked at watch, and found that it was about 3:00 clock at night.

Moral of story
1. I will not read any historic literature with sade endings.
2. See rule 1.

Jai Shivaji, Jai Maharashtra, Jai Pune.

Adeos.

Nerd?

2006-04-16T23:24:00.000+07:00

Today I took a nerd test. I know I am not supposed to 'waste' time, but I tried it to avoid getting loaded.

I am not 'that' nerd. I still have a little bit of humanness left in me.

Geek....I can be Geek, but I did not take that test. Tommorrow is MIT submission and I havent completed my flowcharts. I also have to complete DS. My prelim is on Thursday, and final practical are about to begin on 25 April.

The weather is muggy and the sound of crusher from neighbouring construction site is forcing me to think destructive and violent. Can't help it.

God, now only last 2-3 months are remaining. I know that you can help me in maintaining my momentum going. I will pray for you, but it will be a little late at night.
Thank you.

Bye.

Anonymity, freedom and comments

2006-04-16T00:40:00.000+07:00

Hi everyone out there.
Its a pleasent night here. Its almost a full moon, a cool breeze is flowing like the music of 'Desert Rose', which is currently on my hi-fi. The atmosphere is having a unique silent, subdued ambience, just perfect to relax. I am in my favourite place, ie our own private open terrace. It seems so subtle, so much chilled out. Preety much at peace and harmony..

But...

But, somewhere from within, I am not in my usual mood. I am little serious. I am trying to just analyse certain things that have occured past week. No, it is not my way of pondering, thinking, researching things, but, I have realized that whatever I am trying to preach about freedom, peace, harmony is in reality, an attempt to just try softening the hard reality - a reality that tells me - "I am not free".

I am little out of box because this week two things made me upset - my submissions and a few anonymos dogs disturbing the freedom ambience of my blogs.

Basically dear readers, I am really thankful to you, Your comments, your mails, your calls. everytime they motivated me to try my best in every little bit whatever I do.
Even since agneya2.blogspot.com has seen the daylight (3 Jan 2006), I have been receiving useful suggesstions from many of you. I am happy for it.

A couple of days ago, I received a comment on "What happened to my Pune".
I was curious, and I read that comment, and surprise, I found that I had got a coward asshole m**********r visiting my site from somewhere 213.208.107.91

I think that this assholistic guy should repair his faulty brain and visit a good psychologist.

This blog carries a small footprint, if you are able to carefully locate it. It reads something as

Spam or unsolicited calls/sms/mms/comments can result in legal action against offenders.

Contact at - firewalrus(at)gmail.com for more details or +91-9860-330-475

The First tones of Freedom

Harshad Joshi

Hmm, so, what do you get from it?

Freedom is every man's desire and wish. I will discuss it later, but until then, bye and goodnight world.

Old memories and New results

2006-04-09T22:30:00.000+07:00

Now-a-days I am observing that 'Orkut' fad is rapidly spreading in our family. Many of my family members have thier accounts on Orkut, but I am still not interested in it. However, a peek inside Orkut made me realize that it is a great fun, if we actually know how to make use of such kind of technology.

Anyway, while randomly surfing for people, I came across certain user profiles, which were so surprising that I almost slipped from my chair! I noticed that a girl(N K - Done to protect privacy) from my class has got married. No, this is not surprising, afterall girls are supposed to get married soon in their early 30 (!), but things that made me think are that none of boys from Muktangans 99 batch are married ;-) and for atleast 3 years from now, there is no such thing, because setelling in ones carrear is important.(Darn, why do I commit spelling mistake)

Time flies so fast...

I remember that Ajay Mahendru, somewhere in 97-98 had told us that he used to like that girl. We were 13/14 year blokes at that time. I do not recall that whether at that time we were mature enough to understand any kind of serious relationship, but honestly, even today I still feel innocent. Still hoping for a life full of dreams, a life far far away from all catagoric distruptions. No tensions, no haste, no hectic illusions. A place where we know every step, every action. A life in the dream of a dolphin. No hatred, no complexities, the end of sadisfaction, the joy of creativity and learning. Yeah, I did manage to eperience it when I had written Agneya, but Agneya was literally like fire. I burnt my hands like hell, and even today I am hunted by the future. Will the future be my past? Or will it be the remainder of my everlasting cast (Everybody reading this must accept, I can definately write philosophical....alongwith technical)

But then , this life dosent exist....

Lets get back to the desk, writing submissions, writing cryptic firewall programs, hoping that maybe one day it will be true....what else I can do?

TODO
1. Write a technical summary of Orkut and Network Marketing,mostly small points.
2. Complete assignments
3. Start to move slowly.....very slowly.Let the rhythm be my guiding light.

The first tones of Freedom-2

2006-04-08T17:33:00.000+07:00

Be Vacent...
You will remain full.
Be Bent...
You will remain straight.
Hear the silence...
At a point, the first tones of freedom will emanate...

Courtesy - The Zen Hindu Brahminism.(as usual)

Happy New Year

2006-03-30T12:38:00.000+07:00

From 'The First Tones of Freedom',

Happy new Year.
May this new year bring happiness, joy and freedom to you.
Your dreams and desires come true.
May the good win over evil.

Jai Shree Ram

Warfare and Communications.

2006-03-23T00:45:00.000+07:00

I received certain sms from number - 919923135663. I was briefly surprised, but later, certain theories helped me to find the truth.

I dont know if you are aware that the humble linux command 'grep' can be very useful in establishing the identity of terrorists, their claims in threat notes, the probablity of attack etc?

eg [root@localhost root]cat document.txt | grep -i who

Its working is very simple.

Every one of us have got a very distinct way of expressing ourselves in our writing, ie we have a unique way of writing facts or words. Say, while smsing I use word "something" as "smethng". Basically, it means that this "smethng" is my frequently used word, each time I sms to different people.
Thus, those who know me can make out that the sms is sent by me, even if I change my mobile number, location, time etc.
Thus, words have got an utmost importance in tracing original and fake mails,documents, adwords, internet warfare etc.

Look at the cloud on my blog. It contains specific words, which are worthy of generating ads and revenues for certain companies. Google makes use of these adwords to identify the advertisement that will appear on google.com or gmail.com
This is called as targetted ads, which means nothing but scanning your document for words, contacting the google server for particular product, and generate the revenue.
It bussiness for sure. Privacy gone unbounds!!!

So, Miss/Mrs/Whatever 919923135663, please remember that even if you change your mobile number, its easy to identify you from your writing style. Afterall, room mates cannot have a similar and unique style of writing. If you coame across this, then my good advice to you is that stop whatever you are doing. Else, there are hard solutions to every problems.Unfortunately, I am very mean when it comes for implementing my policies, in a world, I RULE!!!!!

Adeos. See you soon.

Reunion and Virus

2006-03-21T00:21:00.001+07:00

Last two weeks were very busy. I wasent me, but was somebody else probably. Just bored of all things around me - the college, the sadistic professors, half asshole people around me, exams, just couldent avoid them. I was tired and I wanted a break.

I think that was a surprise reunion of lost friends I suppose. Last week, I was at Tilak road, when I met Vinaykumar Hegde. Man, I was surprised to see him. To be precise, we met after exactly 5 years after we left Muktangan(This name sucks...and so does the school/college/coet) I never expected that any one from that hell would be alive to see and recognize me. But still,, nevertheless, it was somwhat heartening to see somebody in thick of incidents, exactly the same incidents and situations in which life screws us all completely.

Yesterday I met Shardul, Rahul Shingi, Shirish, Saurabh, Hemant, after a gap of 2.5 years almost. It was almost like a reunion. Nothing changed, but there were changes. Changes from boys to men, changes from diploma to degree, the sweaty heat of University exams, the ultra pathetic , ill paid, grossly unbrilliant lecturers, the huge syllabus, the numerous challanges of life. I never had thought that I would one day experience all those things, which are a real example in themselves. The way life treats us.

Life showed me I-Worm.B today. This worm wiped of my AVG files. It places certain Winzip and desktop.ini files in \windows\system32 folder. I was at my wits end, because I had misplaced my windows and antivirus CD. But just now installed Quick Heal. At least it appears that the system is somewhat clean. This particlar virus infected certain html files I had painstakenly saved on HDD, and it remains resident in memory during startup. The taskbar shows up UPDATE and WINZIP running. This worm sends a list of infected files to an address...I forgot that address.

MORAL OF VIRUS
1. Get an Apple Macintosh system runinng OS-X
2. Continue running Linux. Esp Gentoo or Debian.
3. Maybe try OpenBSD ;-)

Actually I wanted to write about Google and Adwords/Keywords, but I felt that I shouldent write it. So I didnt write it.

To DO
1.Set an alarm of 5:30
2.Arrange everything.
3. Sleep

Good night world.

Apologies.

2006-03-03T23:05:00.000+07:00

Sorry, I am away from my blogs for quite a while. I also apologize coz, I am discontinuing 'The barren lands of Kurukshetra' till I get upgraded to a new site/blog. Its very demanding story and it needs great amounts of patience and dedication, and unfortunately, I am short on both of them.

Hmm, many incidents occured last two weeks. The 'failed' strike in demand of a thing that never existed , some new shocks of real life, a few surprises, and many trivial facts.
Yesterday, for the first time, I got a call from somebody unknown to me. It was a girl who was searching Nikhil Kaliya, who has got a cell no as similar as mine. Her name is Mugdha(dunno if its real or fake. No idea) and her cell no is 9860330495. I called/smsd two times. The voice sounded like a girl, but to be honestly frank, I dont like this kind of suspense stuph. Why would somebody unknown to you give you a call? And when I called her in the evening, she told me that she was (trying to) find somebody called as Nikhil Kalia. God, damn, this name is unfamiliar. I believe that no one of this kind exists.
Remember, if you get blank calls, emails, or anything suspicious stuff, remember to document it.

Some people never change. Hey, remember, dont be afraid of me. I am neither a saint nor a satan. Its God and Karma who do everything.

Remember the ancient voice that used to say - "You get the fruits of your own Karma."
Just remember it, and continue carrying our work. Nothing else.

The barren land of Kurukshetra - Part 1

2006-02-14T23:47:00.000+07:00

Arjuna looked around himself. The Sun was shining brightly on Krukshetra. The scared land of Kuru. It was from this place, where it all began..... He saw an endless sea of warriors stretched perheps till end of this world. This was not his main concern. He knew what the end result was. He knew himself from within. He knew it right. All the sages and heavenly spirits were ready to assist him in this final battle. Arjuna sensed his Gandeeva. It was still shining as it had been gifted to him by Lord Shiva. The Gandeeva had the sacred powers of the mighty Mahadev. On top of it, it had a deadly combination of Narayan Astra and Brahma Astra, ready to strike terrors in most mighty enemies. Arujna had faith in his weapons. He had blessings of his Guru Drona....

Suddenly, Arjuna felt weak.

Guru Drona. The learned Brahmin warrior. The old man who had both the blessings of Saraswati and Mahakali. The same warrior, who had granted Arjuna the power of wisdom and knowledge a time ago. The teacher of Arjuna.

Arjuna remembered all his childhood days. The first day in Dronas ashram.... The first fatherly affection and guidance, after Pandus death...... The first tones of Freedom in wisdom and sacred Vedas, all learnt at Dronas ashram..... The first bow.....The first arrow....The eye of bird...Eklavyas sacrifice....The blessings of Guru.....The victory at Draupadis Swayamwar...The insult in court of Hastinapur...The Promise....The pain from where it began....

Arjuna felt weak in his moral strength on seeing the thin, frailed Drona in warrior dress. After all, Drona was his Guru. How can one kill a Guru? Guru is as important as the Creator, the Protector, the Destroyer.How can it be possible?

The confident hold on mighty Gandeeva loosened a bit..Arjuna looked at Brahma Astra. This as the greatest gift of the Guru to his favourite disciple. The ultimate protector in War. Any man possessing it was considered God. Drona was one of amongst them. How selflessly he granted the ultimate weapon to Arjuna. He had complete faith in Arjunas capabilities. More then what he had in his Son Ashwathama.

......Will I be a slayer? Am I a killer? What is use of a kingdom, if I will be a sinner? I will burn in seven Hells till eternity. Killing the Brahmin is a sin, that is unforgiven by God. On top of it, its Drona !!!! My guru. The first guide in this life after Kunti. Can I do it???.......

Arjunas mind was beginning to engulf in a major crises.

Krishna smiled to himself. The time was about to come soon.....

TO BE CONTINUED....

When will this end?

2006-02-10T19:55:00.000+07:00

...its that part of year again...I am surrounded by questions again...Is is wrong to dream....or to express yourself...what is right...what is wrong, it is right to do this?...Ordinary people go more fast then me...Is being talented a curse? Or not being talented a boon...Is this a big illusion...Reality is harsh, Illusions are fake.. What to choose? What to deny....When is it going to end....The World screws you up completely at the instance when you feel you just begin to undestand it....I am unhappy, angry...unsatisfied...got to make up my mind...Its going to be solved....Its going to be over...Its going to end...It ends here....My words are empty...no power in them....I have lost them....Where is it?..Bring it back..Mayhem, Destruction....The Dark Forces of Nature...fill me with strength....Take me......No mercy....Put out my flames with water.....The air is poison..The Beast turned pale...The Stars lost its shine......Water....Water....Show me the way to eternity.....Lead me along...Guide me to that path.......Water....Water.....Who is Satan? Who is God....Are they one in all?...Dreams turning to dust....Dreams turning to ashes......Show me the Saviour....

Back to Google

2006-02-10T13:19:00.000+07:00

I am back again on Google.

Feels Good.

Paranoidity and Performance

2006-02-09T01:29:00.000+07:00

From last few days, I have been noticing strange changes within me. I am getting largely paranoid. Paranoid about me, paranoid about college, paranoid about local, paranoid about M-III, paranoid about mails. paranoid about mobile, paranoid about phone calls, paranoid about Firefox, paranoid about passwords, paranoid about my ex teacher, paranoid about food, blogs,sites, assignments,Google, Yahoo, rants,raves and what not. But mainly, due to being over paranoid, I did one thing
1. I opened Firefox
2. Clicked on Tools
3. Selected Options
4. Got to 'Cookie' menu
5. Clicked 'Settings' button
6. Choose all options that were present there.
7. The main thing that I choose was to empty my browser 'cache' after each time I close Firefox

Things I noticed
1. I claimed of almost 70 MB of disk space.
2. I had wiped every possible information regarding my web surfing, my passwds, sessions, search history, browsing history.
3. I was feeling much safe.

Result of this extra paranoidity
1. Yahoo took 6 minutes to load completely on browser.
2. Sites appeared as if I am connected to speeds of almost 3 kbps.
3. Sites were slow to react to any kind of click.
4. Downloads were taking time of eternity.
5. Processor was continously over 100% usage.
6. Network performance was heavily degraded.
7. Even Google, one of the fastest loading sites failed on my PC.

A quick thought - Why did network performance degrade directly with increace in paranoidity?

Its in the RAM, no...maybe its processor,...mmm..what can it possibly be?
Ah got it ...It the Cache!!! I forgot the basics. Sorry...

TO BE CONTINUED.....

Getting goofed up by Google - Goofled

2006-02-06T20:39:00.000+07:00

Today I was shocked to learn that the first tones of freedom do not exist on Google. On closely investigating, I found that Google bots had removed my site info from their active crawl session. Reasons for it were
1. I screwed my meta information.
2. I also put my site meta info, which exceeded 840 words.
3. Many of words were repeatd and so, GoogleBots thought this to be spamming.

Google even removed my page from their cache. However, I still managed to pull up one page from Google huge collection of cache servers. Click here to see that cached page. This page contains my recent posts.

And, as if this was enough, I also managed to delete my blogspot tempelate. Again, I was in trouble. But this time, Amazons A9.com came to my rescue. See how A9.com views me.
After lot of searching to multiple search engines cache's, I finally managed to locate my recent posts, and you are able to see the first tones of freedom, in a form you always like to see.

Lessons learnt during this worlout
1. Real men do not backup their web pages. They just let the search engine take cache of their pages.
2. Even if Google cannot find your page in a cache, dont panic. There are number of Google caches available. Just replace the IP addr of Google cache. One of such cache's IP addr is 72.14.207.104
Even a9.com takes results from google, and good news is that it has latest entries most of time. So, if google screws you up, try a9.com's cache.
3. But make sure that your site has got good content. Remember - more the people click your site, more fast the site gets indexed.

Even Google can get Goo'f'led sometimes !!

The first tones of freedom

2006-02-05T20:09:00.000+07:00

Finally, after days of tweaking,hacking,goofing, I have finally made up to Google 'I am feeling lucky'. Hey, I am not joking, even I am not in beer effect. To find it for yourself, type following in Google's search bar

first tones freedom

If you are really lucky, you might land on the right site. I am needing feedback for this.
Finally, the tones of Freedom are heard.

Went to SSK today. That guy teaches M-III without tension, but I did not understand a single word. Man, even great programmers can face problems while learning maths. According to me, mathematics is taught in an extremely untidy way. Its allowed in maths to skip some steps, and assume everything to be certain. Nobody provides any data of some kind, no variables to store information. No specific solutions to problems. Mathematicians always assume certain conditions to be true in every situation.
I say - Mathematicians have got only theories, but no answers, whereas computer programmers have got no theories, but they can find any answer, and they can improve it at any time.

Optimistic Steps in teaching and learning Mathematics
1. Instead of teaching maths as a pure science, teach it as a tool to real life application. Even Google, the most famous search engine is powered by PageRank algorithm.

2. Document every step of a problem, just as we document our programs by making comments. It makes life greatly easy and anyone can 'understand' code. While solving problems, every step should be well defined. My success as a programmer is because I always assume that I have to deal with a 100% idiot metal box. So, I have to explicitely defines each and everything while programming a PC, even if it can sometimes appear wiered to viewers. Mathematicians note - you also have to assume that not 1 % of engineer understand, likes or appreciates any kind of maths. So, tell them every step clearly and explicitely. Dont rely on engg students to remember every formula. They are engg students, not ordinary BA, BCOM, BSC students.

3. Maths is for pure assholes, and the only reason to include it in engineering syllabus is to make sure that MSc(Mathematics) gets a chance of employeement. Afterall, can you realize what those MSc(Mathematics) blokes would have done if there was no maths to engineers syllabus? Starve to death and face unemployment? Huh, this policy is designed by Assholes, son of a bitch.

Its coz of engineers that these MSc people are surviving. I am not against any particular maths teacher, but I simply hate the primary motives of those good-for-nothing bastards, who designed our education systems. Bastards, you will burn to fires in Hell for all your life. Your generations will be in Hell! May Agni destroy your evil motives!

Like many people, I am very good in solving any kind problems, but I need time to actually 'know' what I am supposed to solve. I cannot solve a problem when somebody tells me to do it, esp,without using my brains.In engineering, we are always short on time, temper and good teachers and expert guides.We need quick solutions, not solve problems.

M-III is only meant for passing, but it has got no use in solving real life problems, unless one is planning to be a bastard slave of America. Go guys, prepare for GATE exam assholes, slaves of America. Pissers of hell. Fuck you! Bury yourself. Dig it...

(Sorry, I am very angry right now, and I have avoided bad words.)

The first taste of Beer.

2006-02-03T20:10:00.000+07:00

I tasted Beer for the first time of my life yesterday, ie on 2 Feb 2006 in Smirnoff, adjacent to Lonavala railway station. Quite frankly, beer tastes like a horse pissing in your mouth. (When I was a kid, someone had told me that they add a little bit of horse piss to beer, thats why it gets its bitter taste.)

Go Mutra and beer can taste pretty alike. Yuk, it feels like Hell!
I wonder how people drink alcohol/beer/pepsi/coke/soda?

TO BE CONTINUED....

Light and Ignorance.

2006-02-01T19:51:00.000+07:00

Today, I have got a good news and an explaination.
First, I will go with the good news.
Google now marks me at overall position of #3, when somebody searches for "Harshad Joshi". Follow this link here.Now the oly guess I can make about the PageRank by Google is of the sites ahead of me have got more prominent mention of Harshad Joshi in their meta information. Now, even I will have to something so that when you will click on I am feeling Lucky, you will reach to this place.
But before that, I want to really thank you, coz without any web traffic, any good site is as useless as a cob web! Thanks guys. I thank you for your support.

Now for some explainations.
Many of you have asked for explaination of the pic I have provided.
Well, as you know, I am an extremely spiritual person(!). Hence, if you carefully see the pic, you will find that some part of my face is in dark, while other part is in light. Just analyse that pic more minutely. This pic is an actual symbol of ignorance and wisdom that resides in us. The dark part tells you that humans have got ignorance in them, which is symbolized by darkness. Whereas wisdom is symbolized by bright light, which is shining on the other side. It tells that human life is a strange combination of our wisdom and ignorances, and these strange combination can bring about mysterious events in our life. Many of us have got certain strange events that we hide from people. Isent it?
Hence this pic has got a secret meaning, which I wanted to keep secret, but I didnt do it.
Anyway, see you.

The new news(!)

2006-01-29T00:25:00.000+07:00

Hmm, Narain Kartikeyan is choosan as a second test driver for Williams. All right. thats a good news for him. May he emerge as a fast driver sometime later.

Yahoo and Google

2006-01-27T01:59:00.000+07:00

Hey, its pretty cold out here and Pune has been getting temperature in range of 24 max and 5.4 min. Woooo, its really chilly and cold! What if there is a snowfall in Pune? It would be great.
If you search "the first tones of freedom"in Yahoo! search, then the first site that is goin to appear is of the persom whom you like, i.e me! Click here to see it. But, on querying Google, my site or a mention of it dosent appear in first few results, although some link to Yahoo! answers can be found.
Hey, but I tell you - There is no better way of describing how great it feels when your site appears first in a search engine search. There is nothing satisfying like it.

So, does Yahoo! like me more then Google??? Who can tell??

The night before...

2006-01-20T14:46:00.000+07:00

Bah...Its fairly muggy and warm here with temeperature in range of 35 and 14. On top of it, I just was unable to get some sleep yesterday. All night, I was listening to 'Voices in the Dark'. No, its not that Enigma song from their album, Erotic Dreams, but that was a chorus of voices in the dark, of some cruel and inhuman pests - 'Mosquito's'

Whole night there was possibley a party or something and it seemed that dear mosquitoes were having a merry time out here. Is this the way of troubling a poor guy like me, who is trying to get some sleep? And, on top of it, just to make life more difficult, for sometime, the MSEB wanted to play hide-and-seek, so they cut off the power.It was a pure test of my patience. I felt as if I should scream, and kill every mosquito and wipe their entire specie
from the face of this earth! How are mosquitoes useful in maintaining ecological, sociological, psychological or maybe, financial balance? Can any environ'mental'alist or anyone tell me?
So moral of the story is that, wipe away every mosquito, we do not need them in any way, and this should not be done by making use of DDT.

Even in the morning, I dont remember who woke me, but it seemed very early(?) in the morning, about 7:45 or just something like that. And you know what, an excellant way to wake up any sleeping person, is
1. Purchase an audio cassate called - 'The spirit of harmony' or something similar sounding cassatte or any album by Dr. Balaji Tambe.
2. Insert it in a hi-fi, increase the volume as high as it can get
3. Switch it ON
4. Run......and hide...., the person whom you want to wake up will be searching for you. Trust me, he will be in a killing mood.

Why am I saying this? Thats because, this is exactly what my dad did. He simply made be wake up by this method. My Goood, Balaji Tambe should be punished for offences like - Spoiling innocent children's sleep, singing in an extremely...My God, what can I call a voice like this? Hearing this voice, I remembered an incident when Mr DV Kulkarni(?) AKA Saint Dyaneshwer Vitthalpant Kulkarni made an ox to recite the Hymns from sacred ved's. Most of us were not present at that time, so God made arrangements for us to hear that heavenly(!) voice, last spotted in form of Dr. Balaji Tambe's singing. A sincere request to Dr Tambe - You may be a gr8 doctor, but please, dont sing dozen of songs in multiple languages, having only one kind of sur. Please employee a professional singer.
I challange- I can sing much better, or atleast I wont sing under any circumstances.

Yesterdays paper also had news from my former college BV'sJNIOT (Dont click it, you wont reach the site. It simply does not exist as of today!) The news was printed in Sakaal, coz they had called Yamaji Malkar, editor of sakaal. And now for a lil' secret as well- I was winner of the very same competition, and believe me that the college does absolutly nothing in improving a student. There exists nobody except 2-3 or 4-5 good profs in college, who can improve students.
If you feel I am jokin', then call up the college and ask them who won the 2004 Comp Techology prize in Technoinnova and Aavishkaar 2004. These people wont even have a record of past winner's list.
Any way, I pity on those students who took part there. Guys, couldent you find a better place to be a winner?

TODO -
Go to college.
Study..
Study again.
Again study..
Avoid Balaji Tambays cassettes!

The Child in Us

2006-01-19T22:41:00.000+07:00

Some day you came
And I knew you were the one
You were the rain, you were the sun
But I needed both, cause I needed you

You were the one
I was dreaming of all my life
When it is dark you are my light
But don't forget who's always our guide
It is the child in us.

For all those who love me a little extra ;-) I have a other blog at harshad.wordpress.com
Its just the begining, but gradually, that site will have both blogs and sitepages.One more thing, it can be viewed on a gprs too!

Popeye's Family

2006-01-18T19:51:00.000+07:00

The sure shot signs of a newcomer in a hostel.

2006-01-16T19:45:00.000+07:00

Do you remember the first word you spoke?
Do you remember the first day at school?
Do you remember your first Jr. KG teacher's name?
Do you remember the first girl you actually liked?
Do you remember the first time when you called your teacher 'You look great', when she actually just looked out of this place?
Do you remember all madeness that you did, just to make your current heart throbe 'smile' at you?

Don't worry. This is not a test.I tell you - I remember each and every thing of what I just mentioned. However, I have compiled some observations of me and my friends found while while we were newcomers to hostel, afterall, I remember it vividely - (just happened a couple of months ago.)

TOP SIGNS OF A NEWCOMER TO (ANY) HOSTEL.
1. You restlessly look at the mobile and wish that at least someone will call you.
However, no one calls you, because Mom and Dad have told you that they will call you back, once they have reached 'their' home. So, you have got no other way of timepassing.
Your partner delibrately pesters you -"Are you feelin' homesick?"
You say "No, just like that", and try to show as if you have been in that hostel all your life! Feeling extremely bored and homesick, you start SMS'ing messages like "Wussup", "How's life, I am fine here" to your former friends. However, since thay are busy studying engineering and have no time to even recognize you, thay do not reply back to you. You feel that the world should come to an end. If it is night, trust me, you really feel this kinda heat. Man, thats aweful for anybody who has stayed in city for all his life, and suddenly he has to adjust to this situation.

2. Its dinner time. You are in a queue. Some guys rush ahead from behind you, but you do not know how to react. Still, you reach the table, sitting next to some what friendly looking blokes.
How do you know that they are newcomers?
Very Very Simple. They are not eating their food, instead, they also are waiting for someone to introduce themselves. You see, they have a mixture of curiosity, some fear, some shyness, some tension on their face. Same is with you!

3. You eat dudhi bhopla, a famous slang for a fatty girl, and of course the thing that you never ate in your home. In fact, you notice that dudhi bhopla tastes great!! You not even yell at the mess person - "What the hell is this s***. I cannot even look at it. Why don't you close your mess?
But, nothing of this sort happens. You continue to eat the stuff, which you discovered 'tastes great'!
Ha..Ha..Ha..Ha..Ha..! Pathetic and weak!!!

4. While chatting, you tell everyone the how your's is a cool city, and your college is the most famous and biggest of all colleges, things that you never did, or ultracool things that you did - like giving a rose to a girl in front of prof, then
bravely facing the principal and emerging out of principals cabin, unharmed, unhurt and in one piece, or having a go at the prof with your 'dearest' friends. Mysteriously, the prof and the principle are very much afraid of your 'group'
Now with experience, I can tell that 10 out of 10 times, this story is usually fake.
But, then, why spoil poor chap's imagination?

5. Your room partner is listening to a****** mobile radio, esp those packed with Nokia series. You feel liking throwing that mobile in a dust bin, or better, murdar the room partner. But, silently, you try to sleep, resolving in mind - "Tommorow I will tell him to shut it off, so that I can sleep early, and get up early tommorrow!".
This never happens, though.

6. My personal experience - Some guys took me as a gujrati and started speaking in their tongue twister language. Honestly, try it in Pune, and I promise, you wont talk the same to anyone. But, I said,"No, I am not a gujrati" - Newcomer, what else?
F*** half blooded gujrati and a*******, fa****/bro****/sonsucker from Karnataka side!!!!

7. You wake up at 6:15 when your college is at 9:30.

8. You forget the switch sequence of fan, tubelight, bulb.

9. You wish your every prof, or any grumpy looking person - "Good Morning, Sir"

10. You write your name on the door.Hardcore Newcomers write their names on walls, doors, toilet doors, mirrors and paint, decorate it and let the whole world take notice of it.

11. You share your khau with room partners.

12.You feel that waking up the canteen-wala at 2:30 AM for tea in night is a grave and extremely inhuman crime. Similarly, you do not understand that why does one need tea at 2:30.

13. You go to canteen or mess in group.(All are newcomers)

I havent arranged these situations in any particular way, nor the list is complete in any way.Still more hilarious and extremely funny situ's are yet to be documented.
C ya till next time!

Me and My teachers.

2006-01-15T22:08:00.000+07:00

Today, while goin' for a walk, mom and dad met Bhilwadkar Sir and Madam. They taught me maths when I was in 8th and 9th. Surely, if somebody else would have taught me maths, I would never have come even remotely close to CS diploma, forget BE!

It was very amazing that, even after almost 8-9 years they managed to remember me. Yeah, OK, I agree that I was not one of the brilliantest students of maths, but I wasent very very hopeless-mad kinda person too.I was gifted in some other creative areas like - geekiness, programming, making fun, teasing guys from 8th C(which was considered a major achievement then), forgetting essential study components like notebooks, compasses, keys, homework(!), bunking class, coming late, giving best excuses for not doing homework, studying on last day and managing to get first class, etc, etc.
Basically, I was (actually am) a mathematics hater!. I just hate maths, because it involves lot of problems, lot of complexities, which are not neccessary in any walk of life. Even if anybody can argue that maths is necessary, essential, most important, I personally feel that maths should not be taught in that way it is conventionally taught in schools and colleges.

I do not expect a nice fairy or a hot lass to teach me, but the prof should be a person, who has a positive approach towards teaching, which can make the dullest subject interesting. The Bhilwadkar couple had this rare capacity. God, please give them a chance to appreciate me and my software(s).

The other person I remember is the former network teacher we had in BV's JNIOT. I never actually came to know why were majority(read as 'ALL') of boys ready to flirt with her????
(A lil' secret as well , it included me too, but only for some time, just for sake of some good marks.I can even flirt with danger for marks!!! ;-)

Almost everyone liked her. Yeah, litrally, liked her, I am not joking.Even that newcomer, I-forgot-his-name-or-I-don't-wanna-tell-his-name was constantly around her, and we used to hate that m**********r.One day, some mechanical blokes smartened him up, and we secretly celebrated this occassion, and said "Serves him right". So innocent!! He..He..Hee..He..
More on her and her ways, sometime later.

Networking was and continues to be a complete a*****e subj. See guys, you can make good use of it to score marks, but then, you must have a nice teacher to teach.
If you cant get good teachers, then, things are not very difficult, but then you have to simply slog, slog and keep on slogging, and thats the precise thing what I am doin' right now!

Finally, Bhilwadkar Sir and Bhilwadkar Madam, you are really nice people and very very good teachers. May your students go to a great height (which they have actually gone, but I wanna go still high, reach out for the stars, maybe?)

Can we become friends again?

2006-01-13T14:15:00.000+07:00

I am waiting.....

Thoughts for a day

2006-01-12T22:38:00.000+07:00

Why do most of goodlooking girls have got only good looks and not good taste and good brains?

Why does it happen that the hot chick you just saw at Deccan lives near your apartment, and you do not have a slight hint of her?

Why does it happen that the that most of good looking and good teaching teachers are married or committed to someone else?

Imagine

2006-01-12T00:09:00.000+07:00

This is Imagine, by John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,

No hell below us,
Above us only sky,

Imagine all the people
living for today...

Imagine there's no countries,
It isnt hard to do,

Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,

Imagine all the people
living life in peace...

Imagine no possesions,
I wonder if you can,

No need for greed or hunger,
A brotherhood of man,

Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer,
but Im not the only one,

I hope some day you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.

I only wish Microsoft had this same vision!
I remain a Open Source supporter and user!

The Agni Hymn.

2006-01-11T02:05:00.000+07:00

Untold Sutra..
Still Heard...
The Radiant shine of the frosty Sun,
from the silver crest of Himalayas...
guide the men,
waiting for the Revalations..
Untold Sutra...
Still Heard..
Agni...Agni...
The Sutra of Agni...
Burn evil desires,
those unseen dangers, already present on the Faded path..
Protect the tribe marching towards their journey..
Hear the Ancient Voices..
The illusion remains...
Men create..
Men destroy...
The final truth..
Still Unknown..
Untold Sutra..
Still Heard...

From - The Teaching of Zen Hindu Brahminism

Remember, if you can write crpytic spiritual texts on Hinduism, then programming a Microprocessor is not hard, not even DT prac, neither EDC ;-) , but M-III can prove to be a major demon, I mean, not even a single God till today has been able to destroy M- III from spoiling innocent childrens carrear :-(

May Agni burn my fear and give me his 1% powers.

Simply irresistable.... Yummy!!!... Mmm.....

2006-01-08T22:23:00.000+07:00

The blog contents.

2006-01-08T17:20:00.000+07:00

This code builds a Yahoo! Search Web Services request URL using the keyword passed to it when the script is run. Then it parses the response and prints it out in a readable format. Save the following code to a file named yahoo_search.pl:

#!/usr/bin/perl
# yahoo_search.pl
# Accepts a search term and shows the top results.
# Usage: [root localhost /root]./yahoo_search.pl
#
# You can create an AppID, and read the full documentation
# for Yahoo! Web Services at http://developer.yahoo.net/
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Simple;
# Set your unique Yahoo! Application ID
my $appID = "insert your app ID";

# But first, we need an active Yahoo! subscription before proceeding.
# Grab the incoming search query
my $query = join(' ', @ARGV) or die "Usage: yahoo_search.pl \n";
# Construct a Yahoo! Search Query with only required options
my $language = "en";
my $req_url = "http://api.search.yahoo.com/";
$req_url .= "WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?";
$req_url .= "appid=$appID";
$req_url .= "&query=$query";
$req_url .= "&language=$language";
# Make the request
my $yahoo_response = get($req_url);
# Parse the XML
my $xmlsimple = XML::Simple->new( );
my $yahoo_xml = $xmlsimple->XMLin($yahoo_response);
# Initialize results counter
my $i;
# Loop through the items returned, printing them out
foreach my $result (@{$yahoo_xml->{Result}}) {
$i++;
my $title = $result->{Title};
my $summary = $result->{Summary};
my $url = $result->{Url};
print "$i. $title\n$summary\n$url\n\n";
}

This code is however goofed up. Don't know why, but somethings are still not the way as expected.
Now, what is the prime catch for Yahoo! here?
Nothin' as mentioned in code, only ya have to register an account at Yahoo!
Yahoo! API's are good then Google's SOAP modules, but who knows what can happen next!
Security or privacy policy: Don't ask!

All source code contents of this blog are released in GPL unless mentioned explicitely.

Where?

2006-01-07T14:26:00.000+07:00

Men fall..
Men rise...
With the guidance of their everlasting cast,
Looking at the Moon, following the Sun,
Marching towards a journey...Where?...Nobody knows...Nobody knows....
Men fall..
Men rise...
Between the spheres of echo,
The full Moon grows...
Marching towards a journey...Where?...Nobody knows...Nobody knows....
Time is still the same,
Men feel that it has changed....
Nothing changes...But changes are for the Time,
Still Men march toward their journey...Where?...Nobody knows...Nobody knows...

From - "The Teaching of Zen Hindu Brahminism"*

*Please do not try to search for this book, you won't get it anywhere in this world.The only reason I can can give is that I am too lazy to write a whole book.So you have to be satisfied by snippets of the"The Teaching of Zen Hindu Brahminism" that will be ocassionally provided on this blog ;-)

Sorry, I can get very funny at times ;-)

Anyway, Where? is my original creation and if you feel to publish it in some spiritual concert, bhajan, kirtan or any public meeting, in any form, tell me first. I also want to see how people will follow "The Teaching of Zen Hindu Brahminism"

Tips and Tricks

2006-01-05T18:16:00.000+07:00

Q.What do normal people do when they want to search for free mp3 files over the net?
A. They usually

Go to www.google.com.
Type "Free mp3 file(s) download".
Click madly at every other link pointing to same site
Waste considerable time and bandwidth, cursing those sites, which have got 'free registration' and not 'free download' of mp3 files as one expects.
Get fraustrated and desperately install a p2p, Bit Torrent client, which promises of free transfers, but at the peril of letting adware, spyware, malware and other bullshit enter our PC.
Finally, after a lot of wasted time and now spyware getting installed on our machines,listen to songs just downloaded.

Q. What do l33ts or experinced Googlers do when they want to find free mp3 files from the net?
A. The usually

Go to www.google.com
In the search bar, type the following - index.of? mp3 enigma
Open the site best suited.
Click on the particular mp3 from the index.
Let FireFox do the rest of downloading..

Wasen't it easy and fun? Any efficient way? Feel free to tell me.

What happened to my Pune?

2006-01-04T21:43:00.000+07:00

Today I called up Sakal and I complained about illegal call girl activities prevailing on Yahoo! Chat. The guy who took my call was obviously less familiar with computers, so I had to explain him everything, right from Yahoo address to downloading chat applet! Meanwhile, while I was carrying my good work, Dad came to my room and immediately wanted to investigate what lecture I was giving on the phone. Between that time, I do not know if that guy on other side got the things right or no.
So, if by any chance if the Sakal or law control people come across this page, please follow this link.

Remember - This link is not meant to be followed by minors (and majors too, unless they are law maintainance authorities!) . Bots and Crawlers can do whatever their algorithm tells them to do.

Harshad Joshi never supports any kind of illegal activities in any form, right from drugs, corruption, piracy, monopoly to other human crimes in front of him, in any way.

This is a great beautiful world. Keep it as good as we can.

Meanwhile, Punekars, think what illegal activities are occuring in the this cyber capital of Maharashtra. Hinjawadi and IT parks have got no meaning if there is increase in digital and cyber crime. All those who misuse the digital facilities must be punished. It is my ambition to become a cyber cop, but I do not know how will I become one. Anyway, I am sure that these things will change, infact thay have to. This is happening due to entry of outsiders and filthy rich assholes with lot of time, money to burn. They can be called 'Paraprantiya'. If any localite is involved in such kinda activity, he/she should be punished.

Jai Shree Ram!

Google bots cannot recognize its creators!!!!

2006-01-03T20:30:00.000+07:00

Just type the following in your browser window, or just cut-copy-paste the link or click it. Its really interesting and funny!

Show me Google's Anatomy, or how Google works

You will say, what the hell is so great about it?This is the first instance of Google appearing in public, and it describes Google's anatomy. Trust it? Wait, read the omnious note present on the document

Google is neither affiliated with the authors of this page nor responsible for its content

Ha me! The Google crawlers and spiders mean that Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page are not in Google and are not responsible for creating Google, and all the information provided is wrong, or non authentic!!!!.

When Googlebots themselves refuse to acknowledge that these two blokes have designed the whole system, why should we bother to call them Google creators, or founders of Google , Inc! Can somone at Google Labs fix it? I am waiting....

Hey Sergey and Lawrence, here is a challange for you to solve. Can you rectify your bot's code to recognize you?

Remember, this interesting fact was first found by Harshad! Google, do not forget me!!!