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Recently we saw a couple of earthquakes, cyclones and tornadoes and similar natural disasters. These things can happen to anyone at any time. Here is what you should do to stay safe. You need to build yourself a disaster kit. Usually it takes several hours, at times even days, before vital services are restored. A [...]
TechCrunch is on the precipice. As soon as tomorrow, Mike may be thrown out of the company he founded. Or he may not. No one knows. And if he is, he will be replaced by — well, again, no one knows. No one knows much of anything. Certainly no one at TechCrunch. This site is about to change forever and we’re in the total fucking dark. I’ve been able to piece together little bits of information here and there, and it’s not looking good. Hence, this post.
Theregister.co.uk one of the biggest tech-news site got hacked yesterday by Turkish hacker Turkguvenligi popularly known as Tg.
Many other sites such as Vodafone,National Geographic,Acer and betfair.com got hacked by him simultaneously.The hack was done by dns hijacking method.What he did in the hack was that he replaced the nameservers of the original site with the one he has control over.One the defaced site it was written
h4ck1n9 is not a cr1m3. 4 Sept. We TurkGuvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day – Have fun 
h4ck y0u”.
Recently we came across a brilliant piece of software named Four Seasons of Code. It is a project management system which was built by Gaurav Menghani under the mentorship of Shreyank Gupta, a Red Hat employee and Fedora Contributor. Recently we had an opportunity to talk with Gaurav about FSoC and FOSS in general. Here [...]
Gizmodo‘s recent “Google Is Scaring Me” post got me thinking about Google’s stance on its “Don’t Be Evil” mantra. I have never been the biggest fan of Google but to the company’s credit, their search is still the best in the market. Yahoo, Bing and everybody else need to do a lot of catching up [...]
The Economic Times recently published an article about a “full-fledged underground marketplace on the Web” where all your personal data which you might consider as private and confidential is up for sale. The Economic Times claims that everything including your online banking ids and passwords and credit card numbers are being sold in this unknown [...]
Open Source India Tech Days is one of the largest open source event which is organized every year by Forum for Open Source Initiative in India. The event last year saw over 2500 participants coming from different regions of the world. The conference not only promotes the Open Source usage but also reflects the benefits of Open Source Business Model.
This post is not coming out because of my Technical interests. I am writing this post because I had to write it. India is a developing country. We have a large pool of doctors, scientists and engineers. Still a very huge population in rural India is illiterate with female illiteracy rate touching alarmingly high marks. [...]
Mozilla has just released Firefox 3.6.4 and this time you are going to love it even more. Firefox has been our favourite web browser so far but I really hated it when something would crash and would take the entire browser with it into dumps. Google Chrome understood this problem and provided a solution by keeping different processes for different tabs. This way entire browser would never crash, only a tab would do “aw snap!”
Firefox 3.6.4 is shipping with the capability to protect its user against third party plugin crashes.
Caffeine is Google’s new indexing system which is said to provide 50% fresher results for web searches than the previous iteration of their indexing system. According to Google, their previous indexing system comprised of different levels, some refreshed at faster rate than others and to refresh a layer they had to analyze the whole web [...]
