Google Proxy Unhacked

August 21st, 2005 When FireFox is used through AnalogX Proxy (a popular free proxy server) a strange error persistently happens if you have too many browser windows open. All of your requests get strangely redirected to the last opened site.

August 25th, 2006 Wget is a super-useful utility to download pages and automate all types of web related tasks. It works for HTTP as well as FTP URL's.

February 23rd, 2008 I recently came across an instance of Google Proxy hacking with one of my clients, which removed his index page and other pages from SERP (Search Engine Ranking & Positioning) and he lost the page ranks (went down to zero). We were asked to protect his site against Google Proxy hacking, a really dangerous technique which can not only cause you to loose page rank but also remove your pages from SERP, all because Google cannot properly identify original pages from duplicates.

February 10th, 2007 CVS is commonly used by open source project to provide access to their source code. Here is a simple way how you can connect to CVS server from behind a proxy server.

July 13th, 2006 As I informed earlier we made a major move to a new server in the last few days. All the websites have moved over.

June 25th, 2006 There are two Firefox extensions depending on your need. If you need to switch between different proxies quickly then you can use the SwitchProxy extension for Firefox.

May 11th, 2005 An attempt to demonstrate how such brain-dead schemes gets approved in a corporate setting looking to maximize shareholder values.

April 14th, 2009 You can either specify it on command line or within program code by setting three system properties as below: proxyHost=proxy_host_name proxyPort=proxy_port proxySet=true For example if a proxy is running on localhost at port 8080 then we can use: java -DproxyHost=localhost -DproxyPort=8080 -DproxySet=true YourProgram The same properties can be set within your Java program by System.getProperties().put(key, value); That's it folks!

January 8th, 2008 It has been several hours since Google search went down. Google services on google.com domain, including but not limited to GMail or Google Analytics, Google Adsense etc., are down too while blogsearch.google.com is up and running.

March 27th, 2008 You need to use shorewall, which in my experience is a highly capable and flexible firewall as well as Squid proxy to use this solution.

February 28th, 2007 You can access any blog / site under heavy load / attach / DNS resolution error by following one of the following four methods. For example here are four url's by which you can easily access this blog at any time: http://blog.taragana.com.nyud.net:8080/ - Coral Proxy will display the original page without any changes.

March 17th, 2005 What happened After my WordPress 1.5 upgrade and enabling of an option to reject comments from open proxy, no comments (over 100) were appearing on my blogs. Moreover they were silently discarded.

August 22nd, 2009 Oracle's billionaire CEO gets $84.5M pay packageSAN FRANCISCO — Oracle Corp.'s billionaire CEO Larry Ellison padded his fortune with a fiscal 2009 pay package the company valued at $84.5 million, down about $100,000 from the year before and made up mostly of stock options that haven't vested yet. On top of that, Ellison made $124.2 million by exercising 10 million stock options during the latest fiscal year, which ended May 31, according to the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based company's annual proxy filing Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

June 11th, 2005 I found something interesting: Google's SiteMap. This provides a handy reference to Google Tools which are increasing by the day.

February 24th, 2006 Google seems to have developed a habit of introducing new services and then withdrawing them due to high demand and reintroducing them selectively later. Google Web Accelerator, Google Analytics and now Google Pages, all follow this overused pattern.