IP Address Changes…

October 16th, 2007 Network masks is a notation to group IP addresses. Let's take a familiar analogy.

June 23rd, 2008 Would you believe if I said that GMail does not provide an email address to report spam? After some investigation I found how you can report GMail spam to Google. You have received spam from GMail user in your GMail account This one is simple to address.

July 17th, 2006 Share Firefox with a friend. If your friend downloads Firefox before September 15, you’ll both be immortalized in Firefox 2.

February 7th, 2007 I had few reports of inability to access my blog with its url http://blog.taragana.com/ because the ISP's DNS service isn't resolving properly. I have checked, double-checked and triple-checked my DNS and everythings looks fine.

June 3rd, 2008 Recovering Google AdSense password is now relatively easy because of its recent integration with Google Account. I have provided a step-by-step guide to recover your AdSense password for every situation.

January 3rd, 2007 Over the last couple of weeks I have been inundated with spam comments. I identified the culprits.

July 16th, 2007 Some of you have come to me saying WordPress recommends BlueHost and so why it isn't working well for them, their implicit expectation being that because WordPress recommends BlueHost, it must be the best for WordPress. That is far from truth.

February 7th, 2009 Setting up a DNS server (with software like Bind) has two major components, the first being setting up the server itself and adding all the records. I will not delve into it as it has been discussed ad-nauseum on the net.

June 14th, 2006 You can forcibly bind to the same address and port to which there is an open server socket by using SO_REUSEADDR option (ServerSocket.setReuseAddress(boolean on) in Java). Such reuse can be exploited by malicious applications to disrupt the functioning of the original server application and worse.

July 8th, 2005 I received a strange comment (spam) from an user nicknamed John complimenting this blog. He provided his web address as www.yahoo.com and gave his email as john@yahoo.com.

November 1st, 2004 After 8 months I restarted by old faithful PC with a new internet provider (Reliance). I found that I can access websites using their IP address, yet cannot access them using their name like www.yahoo.com.

February 27th, 2006 Google has newly introduced Google Pages which allows you to create your webpages with AJAX interface (Web 2.0?). It is quite a slick product, provides 100MB of space, file uploading etc.

September 19th, 2006 "Hi there, I am a brithsh businessman and I contact you for a business proposal. I want to to be my co-worker.

June 22nd, 2008 The Linksys Compact Wireless-G Internet Video Camera WVC54GC is a Linux based wireless webcam with its own streaming web server built in. Windows users can view the video stream through their browser without the need to install any extra software other than allowing the supplied Active-X control to run.

November 7th, 2005 On the internet almost everyone asks for your email address. I used to give in good faith and in return I received tons of spam.