Windows Search 4 preview
March 28, 2008
If you are a Windows Vista User, then you’d know how painfully it is slow to search files on your desktop. Seriously, I’ve been using Google Desktop search but that too been giving me headache most of the time due to some unresolved local DNS stuffs and sometimes, crooked Firewall setups. Really it’s so sluggish search system in Vista, I’ve to admit.
Windows Search 4 is the latest updates to Vista according to vista blog. It’s 33% faster, improved indexing, it even indexes web mails, bugs fixed blah blah blah. Searching has never been so easier before Window Search 4. It’s them saying, not me. I’ve gotta try it yet. Last time, I updated my system with SP1 on my vista and my system went berserk. My laptop didn’t connected to internet, it didn’t even detected my router. I dunno what went wrong but It’s for sure that everything happened after the updates. Evil updates. I tried everything to my knowledge to overcome but wasted many hours without satisfactory updates. Finally had to resort back with the system restore. At least I like system restore, it’s something which gets deleted files back to life, real resurrection .
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Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 released
March 19, 2008
After lots of hassles and buzz, finally Microsoft Corp released much hyped and awaited Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 for download.
All the major issues have been fixed according to Microsoft. And, the hardware incompatibilities were lessened to much extent which obviously means that automatic plugNplay devices would be of no problem anymore to run on Vista SP1 enabled system. Driver support for over 54,000 devices has been added that means, no more ‘drivers not found’ messages. Lots of security and drive encryption features were improved. It looks really alluring. Albeit, some big corporation are not yet ready for this update. For them, Microsoft has provided a tool called : Windows Service Pack Blocker
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How to fix your computer when it crashes
March 10, 2008
If you don’t have your data backed up on a daily basis, you are yourself and your precious work is in danger! It is inevitable that a hard drive will crash. It happens to everyone. Why do you think your computer is packed with the Restoration CD in the first place? You should expect it because it’s only a matter of time.
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Microsoft wants Yahoo at any cost
February 21, 2008
After the denial of offer placed by Microsoft to acquire Yahoo for some $41 dollar along with Microsoft’s own share and stocks, things are getting pretty hard for both sides. Microsoft’s appeal has been declined which made Microsoft think different way. We all know Microsoft,Money and Monopoly, they’re somewhat synonym to each other. Microsoft has money power and it’s using this power.
Yahoo think they’ve been undervalued, whereas, Microsoft think the offer was reasonable. If you ask me, I think Microsoft’s offer was appropriate for Yahoo. There is nothing wrong with the acquisition offer,after all, it’s $41 billion. The main objective of Microsoft is to get some stand in the search engine business. That’s not possible unless there are lots of fishes in the same pond. Microsoft can’t think of gulping Google, because, Google is as huge as whale and to leap forward, Microsoft has to start with other contending fishes. By the way, this is just my mere analogy and that’s how I’m seeing the present scenario between these companies.
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Gmail is not Secure!!! How to be secured??
February 14, 2008
These are snapshots of group discussion that I borrowed from one Nepalese Hacker’s google group. These people are talking about how and why GMAIL is not secure and How to use Gmail than conventional way, to ensure your privacy and security. If you care about your privacy and security, read this else it’s your choice.
Surmandal : Recently, I saw that gmail session is not encrypted. First i hit the gmail.com then enter the username and password. during this stage it is https but after login to mailbox page it is http only. that means whole session is not encrypted. what do you think?? but hitting https://mail.google.com remains https. 
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Emails like this
February 11, 2008
I never cared about junk mails, they just sit there and eventually get deleted but some mails, which just seem so convincing and nice, they sometimes, manage to pop in inbox. The mail looks convincing and what’s next, it’s written by a woman if you are a man or by a man if you are a woman.
The mail would look something like this below, which I thought before deleting, should share with people.
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Firefox upgrading/updating in Windows Vista
February 10, 2008
Even though I hated firefox before, I’m loving it truly these days. Firefox got it’s recent version released which was 2.0.0.12 and being cautious in nature, I tried to update my old 2.0.0.11 Mozilla firefox to latest one. I was thinking it’s a one shot and I felt like it’s updated after giving approval to UAC pop-ups in Windows Vista and so.
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Dot Com Way
February 10, 2008
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Richard M Stallman and OLPC
February 9, 2008
Couple of days back, in Kathmandu, CAN Infotech 2008, an IT related tech show was held. There was a stall by OLPC Nepal. OLPC stands for One Laptop Per Child project whose main motto is the transformation of education by providing all the children around the world with low cost, high efficient laptop. These laptops are basically estimated to be used at $100 and usually projected as Green Colored Laptop. The project driven by equal opportunity and equal education to all the children around the world is mainly focused towards the children in underdeveloped and developing countries. OLPC Nepal is just the regional part of this project and some folks from OLPC Nepal managed to take a short Interview with Richard M Stallman aka RMS in India.
Read more Tag:$100 laptop, GPL, laptop, Laptop per child, laptops, linux, mit, negroponte, nicholas negroponte, OLPC, OLPC NEPAL, one laptop per child, OpenSource, Richard M Stallman, RMS, technology, xo
Antivirus Company - host of Virus
February 9, 2008
What happens when download server of antivirus company turns into host of virus and malwares. That happened to one New delhi based Indian Antivirus company where hackers exploited the iFrame vulnerability and redirected the antivirus def downloaders to malicious sites. I don’t know how that happened really but anyone who has been using product of that company called AvSoft Technologies were surely doomed, god knows what havoc has caused this to their systems.
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