Adblock: A firefox extension WHICH WILL KILL REVENUES ON INTERNET

You must be knowing about Mozilla Firefox, blazing fast new open source Web Browser. The real power of firefox is in the way it has been created. it allows anybody to write some piece of code which will have some functionality (popularly known as extensions).

One such popular and widely used extension is Adblock. After u install it, it will identify possible items on a web pages (like a flash movie, a banner) which are potential canditate of being an ad. You can then decide either to block it or leave it as it is. You can block anything that appears on the webpage ranging from an image to an iFrame. Amazing isn't. You just block hefty little flash files etc.. and your pages would start loading faster.

But it was only side of the story. There is a flip side to it. It is just killing ad revenues on internet. If you are smart enough to block the image/ifram properly you will not get ad from that link again. Now the ad companies will loose a lot of money for sure. Now web sites are smart enough to have ads from several links. But if you visit a site often like mail.yahoo.com within a few days you will be able to block most of the annoying ads that appear on top of the messages etc.. and slow down the actual downloading of the message.

Take case of google ad sense. all google adsense is done via Iframes which have the address http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com in the beginning. In order to blcok google ads from disturbing you, u just need to block the ifram http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/* which will block all good ads. Huge loss to google.. A large chunk of profit to google comes from google adsense itself..

The lesson to be learnt is that things like Adblocks cannot be avoided. And firefox is gaining popularity like anything and it is all set to become the most popular browser on earth. So ad agencies will loose money for sure. They need to come up with some new stategies for ads. May be have multiple domain names and change then regularly.. i don know..
Is google listening!!

height of co-incidence

Got this from my friend hemanth

These are facts.............



Height of coincidence!!

Just amazing to note that many of the earthquakes that

appeared all over the world in he recent past were

all on the date 26.



Year        Month and Date         Place of Earthquake

2001        January 26               Gujarat

2001        September 26             Chennai

2002        December 26              China

2003        January 26               Newzealand

2003        May 26                   Japan / Taiwan

2003        September 26             Japan(Hokaido)

2003        October 26               China (Sunsu)

2003        December 26              Iran

2004        December 26              South east Asia

Happy Holidays

This ascii art wishes happy holidays in many languages.
Origin unknown.

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"VESELE VANOCE"
"MELE KALIKIMAKA"
"NODLAG SONA DHUIT"
"BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA"
"GOD JUL
"BUON ANNO"
"FELIZ NATAL"
"FELIZ NAVIDAD"
"MERRY CHRISTMAS"
"KALA CHRISTOUGENA"
"VROLIJK KERSTFEEST"
"FROHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN"
"BUON NATALE-GODT NYTAR"
"HUAN YING SHENG TAN CHIEH"
"WESOLYCH SWIAT-SRETAN BOZIC"
"MOADIM LESIMH0-LINKSMU KALEDU"
"HAUSKAA JOULU0-AID SAID MOUBARK"
"'N PRETTIG KERSTMIS"
"ONNZLLISTA UUTTA VUOTTA"
"Z ROZHDESTYOM KHRYSTOVYM"
"NADOLIG LLAWEN-GOTT NYTTSAR"
"FELIC NADAL-GOJAN KRISTNASKON"
"S NOVYM GODOM-FELIZ ANO NUEVO"
"GLEDILEG JOL-NOELINIZ KUTLU OLSUM"
"EEN GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR-SRETAN BOSIC"
"KRIHSTLINDJA GEZUAR-KALA CHRISTOUGENA"
"SELAMAT HARI NATAL - LAHNINGU NAJU METU"
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26 Jan and now 26 Dec. Is something fishy with the dates??

26 Jan 2001, Gujarat is rocked by an earthquake, bringing with itself unprecedented damage. Several people lost their lives, and several others suffered losses of various kind.

Now, 26 Dec 2004, South India and some of the South East Asian is hit by a Tsunami, again causing massive loss of life, infrastructure. Nothing escaped the 750 Kmph, 35 m high Killer waves. Just within few minutes many cities were devasted. I recently read that India and Sri Lanka not the member of some Internation Organization(cannot recall its name) which gives notifications of any potential tsunami. Japan is a member that organization because japan is regularly hit by tsunamis. But, even if they are they are not member should the organization not have informed India and Sri Lanka, many lives could have been saved for sure. Many of the people who died were tourists, people who were jogging on sea shore and many other similar unfortunate people. The question is is that is it ethical that such organizations do not give information? No body including knew about the approaching tsunami! Otherwise the govt would have definitely alerted the palces in danger.. Like they caution fishermen when there are chances of something going wrong in sea?

Thousands of life Vs A petty tie up with an organization??

If you notice carefully, both the massacres occured on 26th of the month.. If the pattern continues.. the world(most likely INDIA) may see something on 26 Nov 2007. God knows the best.

Portable Firefox 1.0 (USB Drive-Friendly)

Portable Firefox is a fully functional package of Firefox optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers. It will also work from a CDRW drive (in packet mode), ZIP drives, external hard drives, some MP3 players, flash RAM cards and more (Note: It will not run from read-only media like a CD-R). This grew out of a mozillaZine forum topic back in June of 2004. Any comments or questions can be directed there. If you don't get an answer there, you can also john haller, but please read the forum postings and check Google for an answer to your question first. You may also be interested in learning about Portable Thunderbird, Portable Sunbird and Portable NVU.

FIREFOX: Nice trick to move focus to textboxes/checkboxes/links in a webpage

Firefox has a sleek search facility.. It can search very well and find te exact phrase you are looking for... Here is a Tip on using this facility to your advantage..

Interestingly you can use this facility to move focus to textboxes/radio buttons and similar objects embedded in a HTML page. And more importantly you can totally avoid use of mouse to click on the text box to type in something..

Say i want to login into my rediffmail account..So i open rediffmail.com .. Rediff does not shift the focus to username textbox to help you login.. So we have our age old method of using the mouse and click on the username textbox... Time consuming... Isn't it.. After all we geeky guys always want to have a leg up..


So we press /(to say browser that we are going to search).. Now type "user name" ("user" will do with current rediff.com site).. This will highlight "User Name"... Now!! just press the TAB key and you are done... Please login... Saves time... Not difficult (good for those who hate using mouse again and again for clicking here and there)... Go ahead and try it out.. Its interesting...

How is it Anand??

You can also use this search facility to visit a URL present on the web... Say u want to go on URL saying "India Score 348 again Bangladesh". Just search for text appearing in the URL until the text containing the right link is higlighted (bcoz same text can occur and many places SO YOU NEED TO TYPE METICULOUSLY).. Once the higligthing is done.. just press enter... and you are done...


Also Instead of pressing Enter press Ctrl+Enter ... This will open the link in new tab...

One more thing.. What will you do if a textbox is already in focus(you can't use the firefox search using "/" anymore).. just press TAB/shift TAB untill focus is shifted to something which is not a textbox... Now you can use the search as before...

Some scenarious where you can use these features

• Log in to various sites and your mail boxes..
• Jump to links while browsing (especially while reading), very helpful
• Navigating though your mail box (opening messages, sign out, delete messages)
• You are limited only by your thinking...

Microsoft's IE doesn't stand a chance against Firefox... as fat as this feature is concerned...

Welcome to the era of faster, effective and hassle free browsing..

Thank God.. finally my code is working

It has been a good day for me.. I have been trying for whole last week to write a working code for reading from Smart Card.. Atlast my perseverance paid and i got my code to work.. I was on verge my upper limit of frustation when the code just worked..
Thank God!!!

Funny RFC's

The Requests for Comments (RFC) document series is a set of technical and organizational notes about the Internet (originally the ARPANET), beginning in 1969. Memos in the RFC series discuss many aspects of computer networking, including protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, as well as meeting notes, opinions, and sometimes humor.

But, unlike RFC's, the following RFC's are rather funny and are a must read. People with no technical background will also enjoy them.

RFC2324 Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol

Abstract: This document describes HTCPCP, a protocol for controlling, monitoring, and diagnosing coffee pots.

There is coffee all over the world. Increasingly, in a world in which computing is ubiquitous, the computists want to make coffee. Coffee brewing is an art, but the distributed intelligence of the web- connected world transcends art. Thus, there is a strong, dark, rich requirement for a protocol designed espressoly for the brewing of coffee. Coffee is brewed using coffee pots. Networked coffee pots require a control protocol if they are to be controlled.

RFC2324 The Infinite Monkey Protocol Suite (IMPS)

Abstract: This memo describes a protocol suite which supports an infinite number of monkeys that sit at an infinite number of typewriters in order to determine when they have either produced the entire works of William Shakespeare or a good television show. The suite includes communications and control protocols for monkeys and the organizations that interact with them.

RFC2549 IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service

Abstract: This memo amends RFC 1149, "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers", with Quality of Service information. This is an experimental, not recommended standard.
The following quality of service levels are available: Concorde, First, Business, and Coach. Concorde class offers expedited data delivery. One major benefit to using Avian Carriers is that this is the only networking technology that earns frequent flyer miles, plus the Concorde and First classes of service earn 50% bonus miles per packet. Ostriches are an alternate carrier that have much greater bulk transfer capability but provide slower delivery, and require the use of bridges between domains.


Enjoy reading them...

Padhoge Likhoge Bano ke Kharab, Kheloge Koodoge to Banoge Navab

Sagar jitna coursehai
Nadiya jitna pad pate hain
Balti jitna yaad rehta hai
Mugge jitna likh pate hain
Aur chullu bhar marks aate hain
Aur usme doob ke mar jaate hain
Lamha Lamha waqt guzar jayega
Chand lamhon mein exam aa jayega
Abhi bhi waqt hai yaroon,do panktiyoon(line) pe nigah daal lo..


This is ofcourse not written by me. I am a studious guy after all. :-)

how did fountains work in older times

i recently watch Mughal-e-Azam, superhit Boolywood Blockbuster. It shows fountains running all over the palace of Akbar (around 400 years before from now). There are evidences supporting existence of fountains in ancient times.

My question is that how did the fountains work in those times? If we notice fountains today, they are driven by electricity. but there was no such thing in ancient times which could support fountains. so how did they work?? I can't think of a possible answer. Do you have an explanation for that!!!

Assitance for Linux Administrators

I have recently started a wiki which will assist linux administrators world wide by helping them in some of their tasks. It can be visited at http://202.138.119.197:8084/wiki
This wiki is result of some active discussion with linux administrators on linux-admin mailing list (http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-admin).
Any one who wishes to contribute to it can do it. That is the power of wiki.

First Convocation DA-IICT

DA-IICT had its first convocation on XI Dec MMIV. Mr Kapil Sibbal was the cheif guest. It was attended by the Board of Governers of DA-IICT which includes emeninent names like Mr. Sam Pitroda, Prof. Paulraj (stanford university) and Mr. Mukeh Ambani (Reliance Industries). It was a great success. Check out the following links for more on convocation.

http://www.blonnet.com/2004/12/12/stories/2004121201970100.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/955871.cms
http://www.blonnet.com/2004/12/12/stories/2004121201970100.htm

will soon upload some pictures of the commencement.

NEWS: be careful dudes!! Dangers of Laptop

Laptop positioning seen as risk to male fertility A recent study's findings, published in the journal "Human Reproduction," raise concern with how laptops are being used by men,specifically regarding increased temperature in the scrotal area. State University of New York researchers found that the laptops' heat, combined with how men tend to sit with their legs together while using them, increases the temperature in the genital area.

During the study of 29 volunteers aged 21 to 35, the researchers saw the laptops' surface temperature rise ~16 degrees (87.8 to 104 degrees Fahrenheit) after an hour of use, and 1.8 degrees after just the first 15 minutes. This temperature rise goes on top of the fact that when men just sit with their legs together they create an average scrotal temperature increase of almost four degrees Fahrenheit. Adding a laptop increased the temperature even more: 4.7 degrees to the left of the scrotum, and 5 degrees to the right.

Increased temperature in the area is directly correlated with a low sperm count, and thus fertility issues.

Oh My God!!!!!!

Two men tie up cow, rape, stab it

programmer's song

It is in hindi ( Can somebody help me in putting up english version it)
Song from the heart of a Programmer...
I got it from my friend (who got it from a yahoo group)
M e r i - M a r z i


Mera source code Padh kar hasanaa nahi,

Ise chalta dekh tum fasanaa nahi....

Main testing karataa hun Boss ki Kasam,

Bina piye Whiskey, Beer ya Rum....

------ MUSIC --------

Bill Gates milaa muze raste mein,

Beche Windows humne saste mein,

Usne kaha "Tuze CCEO banaoo"

Ghar tere aake Operator ban jaaoo

Bill Gates ko kaha mere ghar na aanaa

Bill Joy ko bol diyaa naa baba naa

Chaahe Boston me dede muze BMW car

Ya H-1 pe dede muze dollar Das Hazaar

Par development ke liye main to kachchaa hun

Dus saal se Porting me Achchaa hun....

------ MUSIC --------

(slow)

Mere daddoo , likhe Software

Bina use kiye , koi Hardware

Meri Beti , banegi AuNTy

Jab tak install , hoga NT

(fast)

Release ho raha hai mera Software nayaa

Unix ko DOS pe hai port kiyaa

Microsoft ne jab meraa H-1 kiyaa

Bug Free Windows maine release kiyaa..

My first blog at last

Atlast, after repeated efforts by my friend Anand Agarwal, i am finally starting out blogging. My end semester exams have just ended. The show begins, now. watch out.