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Google : Web alerts will become ‘Everything’ alerts

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:51:03 +0000

Google has decided to retire Web alerts because (1) they are used by very few people and (2) an alert of type Everything will find the same results.

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Phishing is not Hacking!

Syam Kumar R — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 09:37:31 +0000

Just after the chat with the hacker wannabe, I googled and found many articles in Indian “tech” sites about “Hacking”. These guys think that phishing is a sophisticated way of Hacking!

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Linode, Ubuntu and Me

Syam Kumar R — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:01:11 +0000

Linode‘s recent network outage happened when I was in the middle of upgrading the OS. And when the issue got resolved, I found my VPS broken.

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Chat With A Hacker Wannabe

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 28 May 2010 17:17:54 +0000

hacker wannabe :

hi

any software for sql injection?

me:

Software to do sql injection or software to protect your sites from sql injection? ;-)

wannabe:

for hacking

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2010 Predictions and Resolutions

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 13:32:12 +0000

The Web Design, Development and Technology

SEO

Social Media

and more…

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All About 2009

Syam Kumar R — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:03:43 +0000

Design, Development and Hacks

Social media – Facebook, Twitter, and the rest

Linux, Open Source and Free Software

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft

Failures

and more…

PS 2009 on Wikipedia

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It’s BarCamp Time Once Again!

Syam Kumar R — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:30:50 +0000

We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20^th of December 2009 at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Chethipuzha, Changanassery, Kottayam.! If you are in Kerala and you call yourself a techie, BCK7 is a must attend event for you.

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OpenDNS vs. Google Public DNS

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:00:58 +0000

Google launched a Public DNS service yesterday. They claim that by using their public DNS, you can:

Speed up your browsing experience.
Improve your security.
Get the results you expect with absolutely no redirection.

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How to Move Your WordPress Feeds to a Sub-domain

Syam Kumar R — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:57:31 +0000

You can easily offload your feeds to an a external service like Feedburner. But what if you want to serve feeds for categories, tags, authors and single posts, just like WordPress by default does? This article explains how I moved all feeds to feed.webmasterview.com. This is not offloading, feeds are still in the same server, but this helps you to have separate web logs for feeds and keep your main apache access log uncluttered with feed requests.

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Setup a separate sub-domain for media files in WordPress

Syam Kumar R — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 19:11:02 +0000

You can move everything in your wp-content to a separate domain or sub-domain (for example: media.example.com ) hosted in the same server. For this, create a sub-domain first, using your web control panel or by editing apache configuration and adding A records to DNS manually. After DNS propagated, copy all directories from your existing wp-content to the document root of your new (sub)domain. Set WP_CONTENT_DIR and WP_CONTENT_URL in your wp-config.php

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