GooGLE ChroME and Easter Eggs !!

Today while I was getting bored I just started experimenting with Google Chrome and came up with an interesting find .While I was trying Google Chrome for various about pages like about:config(which came up with no result) and next I mistyped “about:internet” to “about:internets” and came up with an old windows screensaver.

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Just type in the following text in your google chrome address bar and hit enter :-

about:internets

I google for it and came up with this.It also described about more about pages

about:memory

about:stats

about:network

about:internets

about:histograms

about:dns

about:cache

about:plugins

about:version

Cracking Passwords !! :) :)

As a part of a new series ...i am starting to put up some lil info of Network Security :) :)

Hope u guys enjoy it :) If u find it useful ....Comment !..that ll keep me going !! :)

Let me start by demonstrating how to crack MD5 password hashes. MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5) is a hash function commonly used by websites to encrypt passwords. MD5 is a one-way hash; therefore, to crack the password you most try every possible dictionary word and if that does not work, every possible letter/number/symbol combination. The programs I use to crack the passwords are Cain and MDCrack-NG.

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The next in the series will be SQL Injection Attacks ! ....

UninsTALLED Firefox 3 !

Like millions of internet craziacs worldwide I greeted the news of a newer and faster version of Firefox with anticipation. What's more, their campaign to be part of a world record for the most downloads in a day was something novel, to say the least. However, after a month of use, I had to uninstall Firefox 3.

Immediately after installing Firefox 3 last month I looked for traces of its promise, that "increased security, blinding speed and cool new features that will change the way we use the Web." I found none. Maybe it takes something more than mere installation, I told myself. Besides, I'm not much of a techie to know these things. I continued to use Firefox 3 and hoped that it would improve as the days passed and I learned more of its features. However, rather that the blinding speed it promised, I noticed that Firefox 3 was getting slower by the day. There were times when the tabs wouldn't work, or the right click stalled. Thinking that it was more of a registry problem (my diagnosis sucks huh?) I then proceeded to clean the registry. After all, who would suspect that the vaunted new software
was the culprit. Still there was no improvement. I then checked if others had similar problems and was surprised that there have been reported bugs in Firefox 3. Many such cases litter the internet. Even so, I didn't want to uninstall hoping that there would soon be a solution to this problem. I then re-installed Firefox 3 hoping that it would help. Wrong ...

I continued to use Firefox 3 until this morning, when the impatient control-freak in me just couldn't stand it anymore. The right click continued to stall and would take minutes to recover, and that blinding speed of a turtle was making me crazy! I decided to get rid of it immediately. However, uninstalling was not simple. Every time I tried to uninstall I got the following message: "Close Firefox before uninstalling." WTF, it IS closed! I was ready to give up until I found a solution online. And that's where I also learned that Mozilla has removed the download links from their site making it harder to go back Firefox 2. Hmm, sneaky. Luckily, oldapps.com has the complete line Firefox 2 download links. Whew, I thought I had no choice but to go back to IE (yuck!).

I am now back to Firefox 2 and loving it. My browsing is much faster and everything works! I'm not closing my door on Firefox 3 though. But I'm only going back to it after all the bugs have been fixed, maybe next year. And if you're having the same problems with Firefox 3, uninstall it and go back to its younger sibling like I did. Here's the procedure if you'll encounter the same uninstall problems like mine:

Restart your computer. Do not open Firefox 3!

Try uninstalling again.

If it still can't uninstall go to your Task Manager (press clt + alt + delete) and press the Processes tab. Then find Firefox.exe on the list. Right click on it and select End Process. Try uninstalling again

Once you get it uninstalled, don't reinstall Firefox 3 again. Instead, go to oldapps.com and click on the Firefox link. Choose from the many versions of Firefox 2 (I chose Firefox 2.0.0.12) and install it.

Moral of the story? Don't install untested newly-released software versions. They're bound to have bugs and you'll end up regretting it in the end.

Update: Firefox has release a new version (Firefox 3.0.1) and users say, some of the bugs in the earlier version have been fixed. Hope it's true. For now, I'll just have to wait and see.

They have also added a link to their older versions (Firefox 2.0.x) on their downlaod page.

ComPuTeRS....

Men think that computers should be referred to as female, just like ships, because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The language in which they communicate among themselves is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. The message "Bad command or File Name" is about as informative as "if you don't know why I'm mad at you, I'm certainly not going to tell you !"
4. Your smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for later retrieval.
5. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you spend half your paycheck on accessories for it.
6. You do the same thing for years, and suddenly it's wrong.

Women think computers are male because:

1. They have lots of data, but are still clueless.
2. They are supposed to solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem.
3. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had only waited a bit longer, you could have had a better model.
4. To get their attention, you have to "turn them on".
5. A big "power-surge" will knock them out for the rest of the night !
6. It is always necessary to have a backup.
7. They'll do whatever you say if you push the right buttons.
8. Size does matter.

C++ and S*X !

How C++ is like teenage s*x:

1. It is on everyone's mind all the time.
2. Everyone talks about it all the time.
3. Everyone thinks everyone else is doing it.
4. Almost no one is really doing it.
5. The few who are doing it are: A. Doing it poorly. B. Sure it will be better next time. C. Not practising it safely

— Murphy's Laws of Computing---

1. When computing, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
2. When you get to the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
3. The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you least expect to find it.
4. When the going gets tough, upgrade.
5. For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
6. To err is human... to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, it is downright natural.
7. He who laughs last probably made a back-up.
8. If at first you do not succeed, blame your computer.
9. A complex system that does not work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
10. The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
11. A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want to do.

WoW ==WorDs Of WisDoM !! :D :D

~~>Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning....

~~>"The definition of a hacker ? Someone who, after installing a new program, goes immediately into the [Tools][Options] menu." — Me.

~~>/* You are not expected to understand this */

~~>It only takes three commands to install Gentoo: cfdisk /dev/hda && mkfs.xfs /dev/hda1 && mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/ && chroot /mnt/gentoo/ && env-update && . /etc/profile && emerge sync && cd /usr/portage && scripts/bootsrap.sh && emerge system && emerge vim && vi /etc/fstab && emerge gentoo-dev-sources && cd /usr/src/linux && make menuconfig && make install modules_install && emerge gnome mozilla-firefox openoffice && emerge grub && cp /boot/grub/grub.conf.sample /boot/grub/grub.conf && vi /boot/grub/grub.conf && grub && init 6
That's the first one....!!

~~>"Linux is only free if your time is worthless."

~~>"To define recursion, we must first define recursion."...

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