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Last Blogger Post :(

2010-06-15T13:50:00.001-07:00

Goodbye to blogger :( This blog is moved to http://nextdoornerd.in/ permanently :)

Cheap & Safe Biometric Technology : Voice Verification

2010-03-30T11:55:00.000-07:00

As more and more people and organisations depend on computers to store and save their important documents and data, there is an increasing need for security, the establishment of an end-to-end trust is highly relevant and necessary for the success of businesses and organisations relying on transactions over networks, it increases the need for more adequate user security technologies.This article

Wikipedia is misteriously Down : Under attack or What ? !!!

2010-03-24T12:54:00.001-07:00

I can't access Wikipedia still (March 24, 2010), I can't still figure out why or how. I was trying to look up some material and all I was getting is an 'Address not found Error'.It turns out that the Wikipedia servers are turned off automatically due to the overheating in the European data center.Oops! see the massive impact of a heating problem and a broken fail over system. World is now living

World is no more closed !

2010-02-02T04:33:00.000-08:00

Most of the people confuse Open Source movement as something confined to the software and related areas, but in reality Open Source is not only the making of a license free software world, it's beyond that. Let's see how Open Source ideas are taken into fields other than computing and software.There are several Projects and Communities motivated by the Open Source ideology. Like Open Source

End of an Era ! Pirate Bay shuttered its Torrent Tracker

2009-11-17T18:21:00.000-08:00

Operators of The Pirate Bay shuttered the site’s BitTorrent tracker on Tuesday, six years after it was founded. Trackers — the servers that bootstrap each BitTorrent download — are no longer necessary with enhancements like DHT and PEX that allow peers to locate one another without accessing a central server, site operators wrote in the Bay’s blog.read more on Wired News

Finally the clouds are breaking up : Hannan An Inquiery into the truth

2009-10-07T09:55:00.000-07:00

A few weeks ago I have written an article about a news in one of the leading Malayalam newspapers - Matrubhumi (read my article here - Hannan : An enquiry into the Truth!) .The news was about a prodigy girl, who is appreciated by many well known scientists and graduated from NASA by the age of 14. However as I suggested in my previous article, the news was a scandal and a few days back

Making BSNL EVDO work in Ubuntu

2009-09-20T06:37:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine recently told me that she is not using Linux because she can't configure her BSNL EV-DO in her Linux Machine.See how I resolved the issue (She is using an Ubuntu Machine, so it is obvious that this tutorial is indented for those users with Ubuntu 8.04 or more).So how do we do it ?Plug the EV-DO to your USB port and then open your terminal (for those who don't know who to open a

Computer & Information Security Related Links

2009-09-18T01:30:00.000-07:00

I have found some of these links while searching for security topics in the Internet. It might be useful for some of you.Computer Network Securityhttp://security.internet2.edu/ internet2 security related stuffhttp://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-857Fall2003/CourseHome/ network and computer security MIT OCW course-warehttp://www.isecom.org/osstmm/ open source

Hannan - An enquiry into the Truth !

2009-09-14T22:21:00.000-07:00

I hope that many of you have seen the news in the Matrubhumi Daily (14th September 2009) - Front page (See the online version : http://bit.ly/2Iq2Rj , seems like Matrubhumi removed the online version today - 17 september 2009). The news is about a girl called Hannan Binth Hashim - a child prodigy on Astrophysics who is honoured by Nasa and other various Science and Technology Centres around the

Web Content Management Systems

2009-08-18T08:14:00.000-07:00

Content management systems are more popular these days, even those with little knowledge about Internet & Web making can create fully-fledged websites with the help of content management systems. This article intends to introduce some of the pioneer Open Source web content management systems.Wikipedia defines Web CMS systems as follows.web-content-management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is content

'Demystifying Google' - Search efficiently

2009-08-15T02:27:00.000-07:00

Google is the most advanced Internet search engine of our time. How many of us know that google search has more than that we think it can offer ?Here are some small tips for those who don't know how to search efficiently.Google has the ability to accept some predefined search queries for providing efficient search results.I'm going to discus some of those Special Commands and I'll explain each

Earlier than expected ? Apple could release Snow Leopard soon !

2009-08-13T20:08:00.001-07:00

Apple has wrapped up works on the Snow Leopard and rumours from various sources in the Internet predicts that they may release Snow Leopard sooner than the expected dates.John Gruber a famous blogger (http://daringfireball.net/) predicted that Snow Leopard might be on sale by Friday August 28. And various other Internet sources expect that Snow Leopard will be out by the last week of

Captivity of Connectivity

2009-07-08T02:59:00.000-07:00

I am a person who uses Internet all the time (Netizen), people like me always like to be connected, connected with the world, friends and special interest activists who share similar ideas and thoughts. And we can see there are a lot of people like this, that is why there are a lot of social networks and special interest groups coming up. So it is all about networking, and often people think

Talks of wisdom : Ted Talks

2009-06-14T06:35:00.000-07:00

Great ideas are the sources behind new ideas - but where do you get all these ideas for a new idea ?I was always fascinated by the Great People, their visions and ideas. I know that it is very easy to find ideas and thoughts of great people in this era of technology, however when I started watching the Ted Talks, I realized that it became more easier to listen to great thoughts broadcasted from

Switching to Linux : Part 2 [Linux Distributions]

2009-04-27T04:00:00.000-07:00

Distributions (often referred as distro) are different Linux flavors designed for specific purposes. Like Ubuntu is designed to be very easy to use, BackTrack is used for security checking (Penetration Testing), Fedora for power users, JeOS (a distro based on Ubuntu) for virtual appliances, Gentoo for customization freaks and for those who want maximum performance, etc. There are 1000+ number of

Switching to Linux : Part 1 [Introduction]

2009-04-27T03:16:00.000-07:00