Digg’s entire CDN is down. So, Dont blame Digg. it is just network.

Command to change Linux server time to IST

# ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Calcutta localtime

You can check by the below command

#date

Well, Today is the craziest day for Bitdefender. This looks like a climax of the movie iRobot. Thousands of windows users install bitdefender for securing their machine. But, Unfortunately a lame update file from bitdefender started killing itself(literally).

Today, All Windows7 64bit users received a threat alert called “Trojan.Fakealert.5″.

And it detected all DLL files / EXEs of my windows machine as a trojan and started deleting them. You know how frustrates it? I really have a paid account for Bit Defender Internet Security 2010. I ignored my nerd friend’s words about installing a 3000 days crack for bitdefender and I called myself as “I dont want to steal someone’s work”.

But today, My taskmanager, explorer & almost everything got quarantine. I didnt paid to bitdefender for this lame mistake.

What is the cause of Trojan.FakeAlert.5?

There was a wrong update from bitdefender caused this issue.

How to fixTrojan.FakeAlert.5?

Disable the realtime protection

Antivirus -> Shield -> Disable Real-time protection.

Do not run any scans. Disable if there is any scheduled scans.

Try to do a “System Restore” or restore the “Quarantine” files.

There a big thread at bitdefender forums with thousands of active frustrated users(including me) shouting bitdefender for this lame problem.

Note: My friend & Secure Slash co-editor Mr. PaimPozhil said to me that, There is a “real” trojan in that same name. So, Do not just disable bitdefender!  Scan your computer using “SpyBot Search & Destroy” it will find the exact trojan alone as well. Thanks Paim

While DeVaan is adamant that 95% of PCs now have good driver support, Microsoft doesn’t want a repeat of that experience when Windows 7 comes around, and thus constantly emphasised the need to cooperate with hardware builders. “Ecosystem readiness is a super-important part of the lessons learned,” DeVaan said.

That may be slightly easier because Windows 7 represents a less radical evolution for hardware companies. “In Vista, we changed a lot of our device driver models and other things at low levels of the system,” DeVaan said. “For Windows 7, we have the tenet that if something works on Vista, it really should work on Windows 7.”

Indeed, while Windows 7 has an enhanced driver installation model that is designed to simplify installation, many of its features are implemented via XML and other information stored in what’s known as the Device Display Object. In theory, hardware manufacturers can simply add those components to their existing Vista driver rather than rewriting the entire code base.

However, the window of opportunity (ahem) for relatively private testing won’t be wide. Windows vice president Steven Sinofsky confirmed that Microsoft hopes to have a widespread release of an official Windows 7 beta in early 2009. Although widely available both via its PDC and WinHEC appearances and through numerous illegal torrent sites, the current Windows 7 release is the internal M3 candidate, which is missing many new UI features and isn’t being touted as feature-complete, but rather as a pre-beta. (Most of the demos at WinHEC, incidentally, were on later internal builds.)

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Sunday:

One day a lamer installed his Vista Ultimate x86 just after adding 1Gig DDR ram. He noticed that installation was smooth and OEM Emulator also went nice. His installation passed in “Genuine” check too. Great!!

Monday:

I hate installating OS in my live machine. It will lead us to install all of our applications, Firewall, Antivirus (I dont use “total security”, A primary Firewall only software is 5 times better than ALL Security shits here software). But Mr.Lamer is eager to download all of his day to day applications like (MSOffice, Winamp, WinRar, RoadRash, VCD Cutter, Yahoo Messenger, uTorrent & etc).

Tuesday:

Everything was smooth. But, Suddenly he got Sky and some birds on monitor. LOL Yes, Blue Screen!

It says some xxx_POOL_Error & Memory dump … He dont know why.

Wednesday:

He become very sad, Yes He already spent 5 days for downloading Vista from a ThePirateBay torrent. He started blaming Vista, Microsoft & almost all microsoft products. He started explaing his experience with his friend. We know that all lamers has a better lamer as their friends. He too experienced same Sky & Birds problem.

Thursday:

Mr.Lamer heard that most of his friends(ofcourse lamers) blamed vista. So he decided to go back to Xp Pro.

Friday:
Windows XP Professional – WoW This is what I call stable OS!! Vista Sucks!! Vista Sucks!!

Well, I see lots of my classmates still blaming Vista.

How not to be a Lamer?

First Understand what is happening inside your hardware & software.

First of all they have to understand onething that, Latest version is always better than older versions.
No matter what powerful Processor you use. But You must need 2GB minimum ram.
40% of RAM comes with “Failure” issue. If you are inserting two rams in your mobo then both of their FSB must be same.

If you use 333mhz & 800mhz rams then you may expect “Auto restart” or Blue Screen problems.

Next one is your drivers. If you have installed a new modem, graphics card, audio device recently then you must check its installation status. An unsuccessful installation may lead BlueScreen errors.

Memory & Drivers cause most of the blue screen problems. If you want to go deeper then download & install Win Debug www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/debugging/ and analyze your DMP files.

It is an excellent tool to figure out your hardware issues.

Most of the lamers use pirated copy, They deserve 0$ and expects millions. You can find an another big lamer group in Digg.com they usually digg it & comment bad on all microsoft related topics. They thinks themsevels as Linus, Larry Wall, GNU & others. All they are JUST LAMERS.

lamers never analyze things, They stick with Peer group. They never find solutions. If you do the same then do not do it more. Find the solutions & stop being a lamer.

Lamers can not find the exact problem and solution. All they can say is

“I suck last night, Vista does now!”.

Know the basic features of Google’s own browser Chrome here . It may be cool for beginner level internet users and google fans. But I am unable to migrate from FF’s Firebug.

To create Administrator Account using command prompt:
First  goto Start —> Run and type cmd

First Command:
c:/>net user secureslash /add shortcut
secureslash is the name of the user
shortcut is the password for the user secureslash
First Command Creates a normal user under a name secureslash

Second Command:
c:/>net localgroup administrators secureslash /add
Second Command changes the normal user to a administrator user

To check the number to administrators user type
c:/>net localgroup administrators

Windows Password Expert is a program to reset Windows 2000 /XP/ 2003 Passwords if Administrator password is lost.

Features:
* 100% recovery rate
* New accounts could be created ,so other accounts can be brute-forced later on
* Resets passwords directly from a bootable CD-ROM, no floppy drive required
* Windows 2003 Server is supported
* Windows XP Home and Professional Editions are supported
* Windows 2000 Professional, Server and Advanced Server are supported
* All Service Packs are supported
* Active Directory supported
* Windows Vista(Beta Version) is supported
Click here to download – Download

Password:secureslash

Phpdev is a bundle of PHP/Apache/MySQL/PERL/phpMyAdmin/PHP-GTK preconfigured to run on the win32 platform.

First of all phpdev wants to be installed on the default port of HTTP servers ie port 80.If you where using IIS on port 80, you need to change the IIS port before installing phpdev.

Steps to change the IIS port
1.Click Start > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services.
2.Expand the console tree to reveal the Default Web Site.
3.Right-click Default Web Site and choose Properties.
4.Enter an unused port number in the TCP Port text box and click OK. (We can chose 8080, but if you’re running Tomcat on 8080, you should enter another unused port.)


5.To verify the changes goto the browser and type “http://localhost:
/yoursite/”

Following are the Steps to install Phpdev:
1.Download phpdev from SourceForge.net to a folder on your computer.
2.Double-click the executable file, phpdev423.exe, to launch the installer.
3.You can change the drive of your wish to install phpdev by the the browser button.

4.Click Install.
5.The installer copies the required files into the installation directory.
6.When the installation is complete, the following command prompt appears.

7.The command prompt instructs you to run the appropriate batch file to start Apache and MySQL. Before you do this, open the file in Notepad (e.g., C:\phpdev\2K-NT-XP-phpdev_start.bat). The Windows NT/2000/XP version contains the following code:
cd c:\phpdev\apache
start apache -k start
cd c:\phpdev\
start apachemonitor.exe
cd c:\phpdev\mysql\bin
start mysqld-nt.exe –standalone
start http://localhost/
exit
8.Ensure that the paths in the batch file are correct. If not, revise them and save the file.
9.Double-click the batch file for your platform to start Apache and MySQL.
This opens the phpdev home page in your browser:

Which shows the phpdev home page lists the files and folders in your web root (e.g., C:\phpdev\www). In addition, this page links to phpMyAdmin and two sample applications: phpWebSite and Invision Discussion Board (IBForums).

Here are the most common abbreviations that you might come across in IM’s or simply Surfing the net.

AFAIC – As far as I’m concerned
AFAIK – As Far As I Know
AFK – Away From Keyboard
ASAP – As Soon As Possible
BBL – Be Back Later
BBN – Bye Bye Now
BBS – Be Back Soon
BF – Boyfriend
BRB – Be Right Back
BTW – By The Way
BWL – Bursting With Laughter
CID – Crying In Disgrace
CYA – See You (Seeya)
CYAL8R – See You Later (Seeyalata)
EMSG – Email Message
FC – Fingers Crossed
FTBOMH – From The Bottom Of My Heart
FYI – For Your Information
GAL – Get A Life

GF – Girlfriend
GFN – Gone For Now
GMTA – Great Minds Think Alike
GTSY – Glad To See You
H&K – Hug and Kiss
HAGN- Have A Good Night
HHIS – Hanging Head in Shame
IAE – In Any Event
IC – I See
IMNSHO – In My Not So Humble Opinion
IMO – In My Opinion
IMHO – In My Humble Opinion
IOW – In Other Words
JMO – Just My Opinion
KIT – Keep In Touch
L8R – Later
LHM – Lord Help Me
LMAO – Laughing My A$$ Off
LOL – Laugh Out Loud
LTNS – Long Time No See
MTF – More To Follow
NRN – No Reply Necessary
OIC – Oh, I See
OTOH – On The Other Hand
PM – Private Message
ROFL – Rolling On Floor Laughing
SO – Significant Other
SOT – Short Of Time
SWL – Screaming with Laughter
SYS – See You Soon
TA – Thanks Again
TGIF – Thank God It’s Friday
TCOY – Take Care Of Yourself
TNT – Till Next Time
TOY – Thinking Of You
TTFN – Ta Ta For Now
TTYL – Talk To You Later
YBS – You’ll Be Sorry

MS WORD

Go Back to Where You Left Off in a Document or To return to the place where you last edited a Word document, press Shift+F5.

Quick Word Deletion
You can delete entire words with your keyboard. Just put your cursor at the beginning of the word and press Ctrl+Del together. This is very useful when editing.

Customize Line Spacing and Alignment
The Ctrl key is your best buddy when you want to experiment with line spacing and alignment variations. Ctrl+1 provides single spacing, Ctrl+2 provides double spacing and Ctrl+5 provides 1-1/2 line spacing. Ctrl+R right aligns a paragraph.

MS EXCEL

Instant in-cell graphs
Use the repeat (REPT) function in Excel to create a bar graph inside cells. REPT looks like this: =REPT(“text”; number_of_times). For instance, REPT(“X”; 10) gives you “XXXXXXXXXX”. For in-cell bar charts, the trick is to repeat a single bar “|”. When formatted in 8 point Arial font, single bars look like bar graphs. Of course, number_of_times can also be substituted with a cell number.

MS POWERPOINT

Annotate during Presentations
While giving a slide show presentation, right-click in the active window then choose an annotation item from the Pointer Options submenu, such as Felt Tip Pen or Ballpoint Pen. You can write directly on the slides: underline words, draw a picture, whatever. To return to normal use, and move onto the next slide, select Arrow from the submenu.