Do you know when the first domain was registered and what was it? Do you think it was microsoft.com? Or maybe att.com? ibm.com? Not exactly. The first one was symbolics.com registered at 15-Mar-1985. Below is the list of oldest domains ever:
15-mar-1985 symbolics.com
24-apr-1985 bbn.com
24-may-1985 think.com
11-jul-1985 mcc.com
30-sep-1985 dec.com
07-nov-1985 northrop.com
09-jan-1986 xerox.com
17-jan-1986 sri.com
03-mar-1986 hp.com
05-mar-1986 bellcore.com
19-mar-1986 ibm.com
19-mar-1986 sun.com
25-mar-1986 intel.com
25-mar-1986 ti.com
25-apr-1986 att.com
08-may-1986 gmr.com
08-may-1986 tek.com
10-jul-1986 fmc.com
10-jul-1986 ub.com
05-aug-1986 bell-atl.com
As you can see some notable nowadays ones are missing. So, here are their registration dates:
10-may-1994 linux.org
19-sep-1994 freebsd.org
13-jan-2001 wikipedia.org
15-sep-1997 google.com
18-jan-1995 yahoo.com
10-nov-1994 msn.com
15-jul-1999 paypal.com
02-may-1991 microsoft.com
07-mar-1997 w3c.org
22-nov-1988 dell.com
17-nov-1986 amd.com
22-sep-1993 cnn.com
20-oct-1998 ask.com
15-jul-1989 bbc.com
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Great news: LHC was cracked before it could destroy the world
Well a shocking but true story has come out. Whether LHC makes black hole in earth or not a Greek hacker found a hole in the LHC network. He successfully entered and fiddled with their network. Great isn't it, guess what will happen if he tries out a few experiments of his own.
According to The Telegraph newspaper, the group, calling itself the “Greek Security Team,” left behind a half a dozen files on the system and damaged one CERN file.
At least we won't need to go to college anymore. :)
According to The Telegraph newspaper, the group, calling itself the “Greek Security Team,” left behind a half a dozen files on the system and damaged one CERN file.
At least we won't need to go to college anymore. :)
Friday, September 12, 2008
Google Chrome
Little late to write this. I am sure by now most of you would have read and heard about the new Google Chrome Browser. But here are a few things that you may not know. Check it out anyway.
It gives away a lot of features. I have copied the context of this from site:
1.New Tab Page: For the first look it looks much like a Opera feature. According to Google, new tab page let's you see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs.
2.Application Shortcuts: This feature directly loads your favorite online applications. You can create a shortcut as follows:
#Go to Page menu and select Create application shortcuts
#Select the checkboxes where you want shortcuts to be placed on your computer(Desktop,Start Menu, Quick Launch Bar).
3.Dynamic Tabs: This is really an awesome feature. Dynamic Tab feature let's you drag tabs out of the browser to create a new window. You can even gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs according to your wish.
4.Crash Control: In the Google Chrome each tab run independently in the browser, there by reducing the chances of crash of all the tabs if one application crashes at any time.
5.Incognito Mode: Web pages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito won't be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window.
6.Safe Browsing: By the help of this feature, Chrome warns the user if the user is opening a unsafe website.
7.Task Manager: Google Chrome has it's own Task Manager which lets you kill any non-responsive tabs instantly.
Now the above crap is everywhere else, but read the following:
Just copied from some forum
Chrome is a shameless copy.
The speed dial - Opera
The address bar - IE 8 + FF3
Incognito - Safari & IE 8
Tabs as separate processes - IE 8
The name Chrome - Microsoft's codename for a multimedia browser years back.
Chrome consumes less memory (really very less) as compared to the resource hog - Firefox 3.
Shortcuts, if you like
Control + Shift + N: Opens the famous “incognito” windows. Thanks to it you will be able to surf without leaving any footprint on your PC (cookes, history etc.)
You can also open a website in an “incognito” window by right-clicking on a link and selecting: Open link in incognito window.
Alt + Home: Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites.
Control + T: Opens a new Tab.
Control + Shift + T: Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened.
Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. : Lets you jump to different tabs.
Control + Tabs: Lets you open tabs in order.
As in Fireofx 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab.
Control +B: Hides or shows the bookmark’s bar.
Control + H: Opens the History page.
Control + J: Opens the download page.
To delete an item from the download page, right-click on the selected item and click Remove.
Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it running.
About:plugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using.
About:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like.
To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands:
about:stats, about:network, about:histograms, about:memory, about:cache, about:internets.
To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…
Shift + Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.
The other great thing is it runs well in WINE. So *nix users can use it as well.
It gives away a lot of features. I have copied the context of this from site:
1.New Tab Page: For the first look it looks much like a Opera feature. According to Google, new tab page let's you see a visual sampling of your most visited sites, most used search engines, and recently bookmarked pages and closed tabs.
2.Application Shortcuts: This feature directly loads your favorite online applications. You can create a shortcut as follows:
#Go to Page menu and select Create application shortcuts
#Select the checkboxes where you want shortcuts to be placed on your computer(Desktop,Start Menu, Quick Launch Bar).
3.Dynamic Tabs: This is really an awesome feature. Dynamic Tab feature let's you drag tabs out of the browser to create a new window. You can even gather multiple tabs into one window or arrange your tabs according to your wish.
4.Crash Control: In the Google Chrome each tab run independently in the browser, there by reducing the chances of crash of all the tabs if one application crashes at any time.
5.Incognito Mode: Web pages that you open and files downloaded while you are incognito won't be logged in your browsing and download histories; all new cookies are deleted after you close the incognito window.
6.Safe Browsing: By the help of this feature, Chrome warns the user if the user is opening a unsafe website.
7.Task Manager: Google Chrome has it's own Task Manager which lets you kill any non-responsive tabs instantly.
Now the above crap is everywhere else, but read the following:
Just copied from some forum
Chrome is a shameless copy.
The speed dial - Opera
The address bar - IE 8 + FF3
Incognito - Safari & IE 8
Tabs as separate processes - IE 8
The name Chrome - Microsoft's codename for a multimedia browser years back.
Chrome consumes less memory (really very less) as compared to the resource hog - Firefox 3.
Shortcuts, if you like
Control + Shift + N: Opens the famous “incognito” windows. Thanks to it you will be able to surf without leaving any footprint on your PC (cookes, history etc.)
You can also open a website in an “incognito” window by right-clicking on a link and selecting: Open link in incognito window.
Alt + Home: Loads your Google Chrome home page along with thumbnails of your most visited sites.
Control + T: Opens a new Tab.
Control + Shift + T: Opens your most recently closed tab. Press this key combination again to open the tab closed before the one you just opened.
Control + 1, Control + 2, Control + 3, etc. : Lets you jump to different tabs.
Control + Tabs: Lets you open tabs in order.
As in Fireofx 3, you can drag a link onto a tab to it , or drop it between two tabs to open a new tab.
Control +B: Hides or shows the bookmark’s bar.
Control + H: Opens the History page.
Control + J: Opens the download page.
To delete an item from the download page, right-click on the selected item and click Remove.
Right-click the top of the browser window, select Task manager to find out how much memory tabs and plug-ins are taking from your computer to work. Select one of them and click End process to stop it running.
About:plugins (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what plug-in you are using.
About:crash (write it in the address bar): Lets you see what a crashed tab looks like.
To know more information about Google Chrome you can also type in the address bar the following commands:
about:stats, about:network, about:histograms, about:memory, about:cache, about:internets.
To delete all of your data stored into Google Chrome: click the Tools icon and select Clear browsing data…
Shift + Escape: Lets you bring up the Google Chrome Task manager.
The other great thing is it runs well in WINE. So *nix users can use it as well.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
A few good things
Here are a few good sites:
1. http://www.paulgraham.com/
2. http://words4mind.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.gnucitizen.org/
4. http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/hide-files-inside-of-jpeg
-images-282119.php
A lovely article. Anyone who wants to become an entrepreneur most read this.
http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
Here's something interested. May be some of you have heard of it. GIFAR, it is a new type of file, that the creative BlackHats came up with. It's a jar embedded in gif image. What's so special about it? Well, someday you will see me giving the address of my orkut (which doesn't yet exist) and you may happily visit it. You'll see some lovely images jumping around. But all those lovely images jumping (the gif files) will actually be jar files, copying your orkut, yahoo passwords, downloading trojans to your computer and stuff without you knowing. You will smile thinking after so many words, he bent down and started using orkut without realising you just lost all your data.
Can I do this? May be not. I don't know enough to program something to do that. But be careful with the sites you will be visiting. Especially the crack, torrent and ???? sites.
To understand it better, log on to http://blog.internetnews.com/
skerner/2008/08/black-hat-beware-of-gifar.html
I know, some of you have already started thinking how to make a gifar. Here's a video on that:
http://riosec.com/how-to-create-a-gifar
That video uses linux, but a little knowledge of dos commands and the fourth link is all you will need. It also shows how to add the jar file to a docx file, it should work with a doc, odt files as well. I think it will work with any file that is based on zip. Keep trying.
The thing I like about GIFAR is it embeds a Java ARchive, thus it is platform independent.
A lot of votes are coming for Hacking & stuff, but for some reason, I hesitate to write on that topic.
1. http://www.paulgraham.com/
2. http://words4mind.blogspot.com/
3. http://www.gnucitizen.org/
4. http://lifehacker.com/software/how-to/hide-files-inside-of-jpeg
-images-282119.php
A lovely article. Anyone who wants to become an entrepreneur most read this.
http://www.paulgraham.com/fundraising.html
Here's something interested. May be some of you have heard of it. GIFAR, it is a new type of file, that the creative BlackHats came up with. It's a jar embedded in gif image. What's so special about it? Well, someday you will see me giving the address of my orkut (which doesn't yet exist) and you may happily visit it. You'll see some lovely images jumping around. But all those lovely images jumping (the gif files) will actually be jar files, copying your orkut, yahoo passwords, downloading trojans to your computer and stuff without you knowing. You will smile thinking after so many words, he bent down and started using orkut without realising you just lost all your data.
Can I do this? May be not. I don't know enough to program something to do that. But be careful with the sites you will be visiting. Especially the crack, torrent and ???? sites.
To understand it better, log on to http://blog.internetnews.com/
skerner/2008/08/black-hat-beware-of-gifar.html
I know, some of you have already started thinking how to make a gifar. Here's a video on that:
http://riosec.com/how-to-create-a-gifar
That video uses linux, but a little knowledge of dos commands and the fourth link is all you will need. It also shows how to add the jar file to a docx file, it should work with a doc, odt files as well. I think it will work with any file that is based on zip. Keep trying.
The thing I like about GIFAR is it embeds a Java ARchive, thus it is platform independent.
A lot of votes are coming for Hacking & stuff, but for some reason, I hesitate to write on that topic.
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Prevention from trojans
We all are always troubled by the Trojans. Put a pendrive in, and the misery starts. So here are a few things you could do in order to be safe from the trojans.
Lets first identify the ways trojans spread:
1. By allowing pendrives to autorun
2. By receiving trojans from infected computer on the same network
3. By being stupid
The third point is the most important one. Most people get fooled by the trojans. The best example for this is the NewFolder.exe trojan. It shows a folder icon named the same as its parent directory. Its one of my favourites.
Lets solve the above problems one by one:
1. Goto http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/power toys/Xppowertoys.mspx and download TweakUI. Install it. To run it go to start -> run, in there type tweakui. You will see the tweakui window, in there is an option to disable autorun for usb devices.
Some people say if you press the left SHIFT key when inserting the pendrive, it stops the autorun (Never worked for me though)
2. Download the Flash Disinfector. It creates an undeleteable folder named autorun.inf in all drives thus blocks trojans from spreading.
3. Better don't open pendrives by double clicking the drive. Go to Start -> Run and open the drive. Suppose it's the f: then type f: and run.
You may also see, some restrictions like unable to see Folder Option, Task Manager, Control Panel,etc. You can use the Restriction Removal Tool (RRT) to remove these restrictions. First install an antivirus, update it, remove all your viruses then run it. Also install Spybot Search & Destroy. Update it, check your system for problems. Another great tool is Noob.Killer, it allows you to remove some common trojans.
Which antivirus is a big question. I would recommend Nod32, Kaspersky, BitDefender 10. Nod32 had always worked for me. To get the username and password needed to update Nod32(new versions), goto this site: http://nod32.areone.cn
You can buy Kaspersky Internet Security for Rs. 999 at any store or you can get it for free from other sources.
Coming to the point of being fooled by the trojan. Go to the Folder Option, and uncheck the "Hide the extension of known filetypes." And think twice before running anything that has a .exe extension if the icon is something else.
Wish you luck with this.
There is one other way of being safe from the trojans and other viruses.
Come to the free and open world of Linux.
Did I miss something? Add a comment.
Lets first identify the ways trojans spread:
1. By allowing pendrives to autorun
2. By receiving trojans from infected computer on the same network
3. By being stupid
The third point is the most important one. Most people get fooled by the trojans. The best example for this is the NewFolder.exe trojan. It shows a folder icon named the same as its parent directory. Its one of my favourites.
Lets solve the above problems one by one:
1. Goto http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/Downloads/power toys/Xppowertoys.mspx and download TweakUI. Install it. To run it go to start -> run, in there type tweakui. You will see the tweakui window, in there is an option to disable autorun for usb devices.
Some people say if you press the left SHIFT key when inserting the pendrive, it stops the autorun (Never worked for me though)
2. Download the Flash Disinfector. It creates an undeleteable folder named autorun.inf in all drives thus blocks trojans from spreading.
3. Better don't open pendrives by double clicking the drive. Go to Start -> Run and open the drive. Suppose it's the f: then type f: and run.
You may also see, some restrictions like unable to see Folder Option, Task Manager, Control Panel,etc. You can use the Restriction Removal Tool (RRT) to remove these restrictions. First install an antivirus, update it, remove all your viruses then run it. Also install Spybot Search & Destroy. Update it, check your system for problems. Another great tool is Noob.Killer, it allows you to remove some common trojans.
Which antivirus is a big question. I would recommend Nod32, Kaspersky, BitDefender 10. Nod32 had always worked for me. To get the username and password needed to update Nod32(new versions), goto this site: http://nod32.areone.cn
You can buy Kaspersky Internet Security for Rs. 999 at any store or you can get it for free from other sources.
Coming to the point of being fooled by the trojan. Go to the Folder Option, and uncheck the "Hide the extension of known filetypes." And think twice before running anything that has a .exe extension if the icon is something else.
Wish you luck with this.
There is one other way of being safe from the trojans and other viruses.
Come to the free and open world of Linux.
Did I miss something? Add a comment.
Friday, September 5, 2008
Operating System
Hi guys,
Well, I heard the Ms Windows guys are giving away their Windows Vista dvds for free. Well I don't think many people would take it even for free. Despite all promises from the Big Guy about improvements in the service pack 1. We fail to see anything. It is a big flop but what can we do, its the future.
Some people think Linux is the answer, Mac still wants a piece but we should not forget the BSD. PC-BSD was bought and is going to be transformed from a boring security oriented operating system to the challenging new desktop environment. Hope the best. I am totally bored and sick of using the Linux.
But still, if you are remotely interested in Linux. I can help. I have cds and dvds of many distributions of GNU/linux.
And a little know how on how to use them.
Choose openSuSe or Mandriva if you know nothing about linux. openSuSe 11 is a great distribution but it is slightly slower than it was before. :(
Mandriva is the best you can get, simple and easy to use. Mandriva Control Center (mcc) rocks the linux world, though not as good as openSuSe's yast, it is powerful and easy to use.
Most people have trouble using net in linux. If you can get your net working in linux, you will love it.
Mandriva and openSuSe both have good number of applications that you may need. Starting from pidgin messenger to pdfedit.
Though jokingly Linus Torvalds goes around calling the BSD guys Mas......ing Monkeys, you should try the PC-BSD, its way better than Linux, more stable and it has the double click and install option just like Ms Windows.
Do whatever, don't use Mac. It's a beautiful system. But you will never learn anything about the computer. It has so much of abstraction that most Mac users don't know where the terminal/console/X11 (Mac version of cmd) is. At least the Windows guys know what the cmd does.
** Nokia is sick. Just because Motorola was using qt for its linux based mobile phones, Nokia went and bought Trolltech, the company that owned qt.
We all know linux is just the kernel. Is there a need to say GNU/Linux operating system? I don't think so.
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Well, I heard the Ms Windows guys are giving away their Windows Vista dvds for free. Well I don't think many people would take it even for free. Despite all promises from the Big Guy about improvements in the service pack 1. We fail to see anything. It is a big flop but what can we do, its the future.
Some people think Linux is the answer, Mac still wants a piece but we should not forget the BSD. PC-BSD was bought and is going to be transformed from a boring security oriented operating system to the challenging new desktop environment. Hope the best. I am totally bored and sick of using the Linux.
But still, if you are remotely interested in Linux. I can help. I have cds and dvds of many distributions of GNU/linux.
And a little know how on how to use them.
Choose openSuSe or Mandriva if you know nothing about linux. openSuSe 11 is a great distribution but it is slightly slower than it was before. :(
Mandriva is the best you can get, simple and easy to use. Mandriva Control Center (mcc) rocks the linux world, though not as good as openSuSe's yast, it is powerful and easy to use.
Most people have trouble using net in linux. If you can get your net working in linux, you will love it.
Mandriva and openSuSe both have good number of applications that you may need. Starting from pidgin messenger to pdfedit.
Though jokingly Linus Torvalds goes around calling the BSD guys Mas......ing Monkeys, you should try the PC-BSD, its way better than Linux, more stable and it has the double click and install option just like Ms Windows.
Do whatever, don't use Mac. It's a beautiful system. But you will never learn anything about the computer. It has so much of abstraction that most Mac users don't know where the terminal/console/X11 (Mac version of cmd) is. At least the Windows guys know what the cmd does.
** Nokia is sick. Just because Motorola was using qt for its linux based mobile phones, Nokia went and bought Trolltech, the company that owned qt.
We all know linux is just the kernel. Is there a need to say GNU/Linux operating system? I don't think so.
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