Orkut: Google's venture in Social NetworkingJanuary 22nd, 2004 Google decided to jump into the social networking bandwagon with the launching of Orkut. Social networking can have a big impact on search engine results as the user's home pages on social networking sites such as Ryze & Friendster are closely connected to each other.
9 Popular Social Networking Sites: Public Profile on LinkedIn, Pownce, Twitter, Facebook, Friendster, Hi5, Orkut, MySpace & RyzeSeptember 24th, 2007 My public profiles on 9 popular social networking sites:
LinkedIn - I have started adding my friends to this. Found some old IITians from this network.
Network Masks / Netmasks for DummiesOctober 16th, 2007 Network masks is a notation to group IP addresses. Let's take a familiar analogy.
How To Change Domain RegistrarsOctober 6th, 2007 I am changing my domain registrar of one of my domains from Network Solutions to GoDaddy. Changing domain registrar is definitely a non-trivial process for any non-web-savvy person.
How To Add Multiple IP Addresses On Linux / Fedora Core / FedoraSeptember 11th, 2007 Most guide to adding multiple IP addresses on Linux starts with the Microsoft-like solution of using ifconfig. While the solution is correct it doesn't survive a reboot or even a network restart.
How To Configure Windows Networks to Work with and Switch Between Static ip and DHCP Network AutomaticallyOctober 17th, 2008 Microsoft has come out with an Alternate Configuration functionality between two networks with Static IP and dynamic IP. It will detect the network switch automatically and will change the settings by its own, leaving you with no headache for manual configuration.
Use PayPal With SouthWest Airlines TooJuly 11th, 2007 UATP, the airline-owned global corporate travel payment network, is helping to enable PayPal payments for online airline ticket purchases and has successfully launched PayPal payment for Southwest Airlines. Through the UATP network of over 220 airlines around the globe, PayPal is able to use the network to connect to the airlines and process payments.
Never Restart Network on Multi-ADSL Connection Machine...November 23rd, 2007 I learned it the hard way. Our gateway machine with firewall (shorewall) has multiple ADSL connections configured with load balancing for more bandwidth and transparent fail-over.
Hacking MySpace AfterMath: Code, Explanations and PreventionOctober 18th, 2005 Update: You may also want to look at: MySpace Hack: How To View Any Users Private Videos. Recently Samy [samy at namb dot la] released a worm ["Samy worm" or "JS.Spacehero worm"] in MySpace, popular social networking platform like Friendster, which caused him to be added as hero to millions of MySpace users ("but most of all, samy is my hero.") as well as add him as their friend, all without their explicit permission.
World's First P2P DVR and Distributed DVRJanuary 29th, 2007 NDS, the company behind DirecTV PVR, came up with two very innovative products. The Distributed DVR from NDS allows users to use hard drives from anywhere on a home network instead of being restricted to a hard drive on a single PVR.
DragonBall Z Stops After 29th June, 2007 in Cartoon Network, IndiaMay 27th, 2007 Cartoon Network, stupidly as before, plans to stop DragonBall Z before Goku goes Super-Saiyan! As a commenter (Karthik) on my blog pointed out DragonBall Z isn't on display on June 30th (Saturday). In short this is plain stupid and ridiculous.
Enterprise Network Computing: OpenNMS Vs. Nagios: A Comparative StudyAugust 24th, 2009 OpenNMS is the first enterprise-grade network management platform to be developed under the open-source model. The goal is for OpenNMS to be a truly distributed, scalable platform for all aspects of the FCAPS network management model, and to make this platform available to both open source and commercial applications.
How To Disable IPv6 on Fedora / Linux & WhyAugust 21st, 2007 A guide to easily disable IPv6 support on your Linux workstation / server:
1. Add the two lines, if not already present, to /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
For Fedora 7 you should add the command to blacklist instead as shown below:
blacklist net-pf-10
Note: I haven't personally tested on Fedora 7.
ContactThem Network Perfects Distributed SpammingMarch 3rd, 2008 I have received dozens of spams from ContactThem Network affiliates who follow this simple template:
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Experiences With eBox Platform (Total Network Solution for Small Business)September 1st, 2007 eBox platform provides a mini-debian installation along with its modules to allow you to provide and manage network services on your corporate network. The key capabilities includes support for multiple external network interfaces with load balancing, traffic shaping, transparent proxy, firewall, content filters, DNS (domain name server), NTP (time server), mail server, Jabber Instant Messaging server, SAMBA for file sharing, DHCP and more.