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Let us talk about the killer features which will make such networks stand out from the rest of the pack.

For Ad Publishers
Note: More important features are towards the top.
1. Publisher should be able to set minimum price per click for

Autoexec.bat is a legacy file in Windows which is executed every time you start Windows. Commands you want to run with startup of windows, and applicable to all users, are added to autoexec.bat. Let’s see how you can do the

This post will be used to track people’s opinion on nofollow. If you have posted any article on nofollow, please provide me the link in the comments. The posts are in reverse-chronological order (latest post first).

A group of Japanese scientists has used gene therapy to deliver three insulin transcription factors, MafA, PDX-1, and NeuroD, to the livers of diabetic mice. As a result, the mice experienced an increase in insulin gene expression and insulin production,

I was browsing through the breed of IoC (Inversion of Control) Frameworks like PicoContainer & Spring. I have one simple question for the proponents of these frameworks.

I come from the old camp where we merrily use Service Locator Pattern for

Fedora project has created a simple script to install Fedora 7 on a USB Drive with 1GB+ capacity. To use the script you will need two things:
1. A working Fedora 7 installation. You can download the Fedora 7 DVD iso

This question was posed by a visitor of this site. Here is how you can change the default home page location in Firefox and everything you can do with it.

Go to Preferences (normally under Edit or Tools menu) and click

I always wondered what made people get addicted to a game. Now I know. Battle for Wesnoth is an amazing, free, cross-platform (Windows, Mac & Linux), turn-based strategy game with a fantasy theme that will surely get you hooked for

Let us assume that you have already setup your NFS and NIS server. Now you need to configure your clients. Here are the steps you can follow to configure them in 5 minutes or less:

Configuring NFS Client
Run:
chkconfig portmap on
chkconfig ypbind

We plan to release a version of our popular Translator Plugin Pro for Movable Type blogs. Currently it is available only for WordPress blogs.

If you are a MovableType user, I would appreciate if you can provide us suggestions on

Matt Cutts, Google’s famous search engineer, answers several often asked search engine optimization questions, in video this time. If you are developing any kind of web sites or blogs you should benefit from reading this. There is a wealth of

British MP. Galloway blisters USA on Iraq (video).

Selected Transcripts:
“As a matter of fact, I have met Saddam Hussein exactly the same number of times as Donald Rumsfeld met him. The difference is Donald Rumsfeld met him to sell him guns

I did an image search for angsuman. The results are startling. Here are the top six images:

Can you spot the commonality and the basis of Google’s algorithm?

Is Yahoo image search any better?
Finally!
At least Yahoo got one image right. But

Seriously, these Mac ads need to tone down their smugness and this spoof is a good first attempt. Looking forward to see more of these. Hope Apple gets the hint. Ignore the commercial of the company, who created it, at

Three lessons I learned the hard way while developing a PHP based product, Translator Plugin Pro for WordPress. Let me know if you find them useful.

1. PHP is no Java.
I don’t intend to be sarcastic. In reality I sorely

View first two movies of Back To The Future series side-by-side in overlapping segments. I enjoyed it and I think so will you, if you have seen the movies before.

Found at BinaryBonsai via MacManx.

Today I had an interesting conversation with my ex-Boss and good friend. He asked me to summarize the current state of Java world these days as he was busy with databases and scientific computing. Here is my short take on

WordPress provides an easy way to display archives of any year. For example here are the archives of this blog for 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 & 2008. Here is the archive of Stem Cell blog for 2007.

The idea

I have been unable to submit a comment in a site with spam karma enabled. So I wrote a comment in the spam karma plugin site. Wonder of wonder’s the spam karma filter trigerred again! And then it took me

HSQLD is a mature, high-performant database written in Java. It is used in several high profile popular commercial and open source products like Open Office 2.0 (Office productivity suite; competitor of MS Office), JBoss (Application Server), JFox (Application Server), Jonas

Microsoft Corp. has started a new program aimed at severely limiting the ways people using pirated copies of its Windows operating system can get software updates.

When a Windows operating system user starts to download updates, the new program, called Windows

A wedding in hell?

I never thought I would see the day when Sun would marry Microsoft! But stranger things have happened, specially with Sun’s low fortunes these days.. I am not too surprised.

What next? Java abandoned in favor of

This is sure to cheer up your monday morning. What happens when Popeye meets Japanese Anime character’s in a quest to save the Earth (what else?).

via MacManx

I have heard that Python is a great programming language which is so much superior to everything around etc.

The following code in python is touted as the world’s smallest p2p client & server.

# tinyp2p.py 1.0 (documentation at http://freedom-to-tinker.com/tinyp2p.html)
import sys,

A simple favelet to

Yahoo (with their Instant Messenger product), in apparent desperation, is treading the fine line between adware/malware and legitimate software. I think it has crossed the line. You decide.

First Yahoo updater automatically checks the internet for the new version and then

Assorted List of Productivity Boosters for Firefox users (without plugins). These tips are for everyone.

Use middle-click on your mouse to open a link in new tab.
Use middle-click on your mouse on a tab to close it.
You can set all the

A bookmarklet for anonymous browsing using the services of anonymizer.com.
I have tested it on both Mozilla & IE recent versions. Save or drag the link here as your bookmark: Anonymize. This uses the services of anonymizer.com. Personally I feel

Who tags ringtone or ringtones? … sploggers, who else? Ringtone and ringtones are two of the most popular tags on technorati and displayed on its front page. It makes me wonder if anyone actually looks at what information is displayed

A good article from JavaWorld which describes how you can build intelligent robots that can learn and show emergent behavior. It uses artificial neural networks.

This article describes the backpropagation algorithm, a basic neural network, and its implementation on a

The sad case of Ms. Paris Hilton’s personal information, stored in her mobile, made publicly available by some cracker (yes I believe he is using it with a profit motive) is known to all. We will look at the lessons

Advanced Micro Devices’ Opteron chip soared up the latest ranking of the top 500 supercomputers in the world with 81 of the servers, up dramatically from 25 systems last year.

Intel’s processors can be found in 301 (down from 333 in

Major international bank HSBC will standardize its Linux deployments on Novell’s SUSE distribution, with Microsoft’s premium support.

The HSBC deal requires Microsoft to supply the bank with three-year priority support subscriptions to Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

HSBC, which has more than

I have started a page dedicated to WordPress users only.

Here you will find links to latest WordPress plugins, news, information, tips, how-to and guidelines. In short everything WordPress related.

Future WordPress projects (in pipeline) will be announced here first. Check

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s! - I found it in Craigslist thanks to John C. Dvorak.

What the post doesn’t mention is that such kids were also not on Ritalin and they did fine.

Google is asking for participants for their user studies. They will pay handsomely - 75 $ / hour. Google is a reliable company and so you can be sure that there is no scam as with many other survey offers.

I have been thinking about the optimum number of posts / articles (summary) on the front page. I have it currently set at 10. I am not sure if it is the right number. What do you think would be

Google is also known for its interesting interview questions. Enjoy this one and my solution. Suppose you have two eggs. These are special eggs—they can take much more punishment than you average chicken egg. The question is exactly just how

This is a very interesting presentation (see below) on the technologies used to make Digg, the challenges faced along the way and how they overcame it. I would recommend it to any Web 2.0 startup architects.

In short Digg uses multiple

WordPress has the nasty habit, thanks to numerous filters, of converting two consecutive - to different ascii characters. This causes big problem for code fragments where people often tend to cut and paste the displayed code from browsers.

Here is how

Scientist at UCSC thinks that playing video games helps learning early that success is a game.

As if we didn’t have enough way to divide the world yet!
Mr. Beck and Mr. Wade divide the world into two groups: those

Dean asked me:
Hello, im 21 looking to build a website for the first time. I’ve been looking into adsense and have been interested for a while. I was wondering if you built your website for that sole reason? to make

I have been trying hard to update all of our existing customers with the latest version of Translator Plugin Pro. It is a hard and time consuming effort (and without any remuneration).

There are essentially two challenges to this. First of

A Dell laptop sudenly exploded into flames, in what could have been a deadly accident, at a Japanese conference.

“The damn thing was on fire and produced several explosions for more than five minutes”
via The Inquirer

I suspect it is the battery.

iPhone Magic

AT&T iPhone Bill (30 pages)

iPhone versus ePhone

iPhone Calamiri Commercial Parody

iPhone Shuffle

Leave Steve Jobs Alone!

A much dreaded MySQL error message during queries is “MySQL server has gone away”. An alternative message is “Lost connection to server during query”. This is a strange problem which afflicts a wide variety of PHP software including but not

Often we come across procedures which need to be performed by issuing commands in a telnet session. It is relatively easy to do it manually but is definitely not suitable for automation. Let’s see how you can easily automate such

According to Forrester:

The majority of enterprises worry most about reliability when acquiring security technologies — thus, only 19% experience shaky deployments.

In contrast, just 13% consider cost a top priority when buying, which means that more than one-third suffer from

Researchers have identified excessive gambling as a side effect of a treatment for Parkinson’s disease. Some patients who are prescribed medication known as dopamine agonists developed the problem within three months of starting treatment, even though they had previously gambled

India should stop developing a gas pipeline with Iran because Iran is bad
US gives no commitment about India’s seat in UN permanent council
US will go ahead with sale of F-16’s to Pakistan desite Pakistan being a well known terrorist heaven

Pretty