November 2007
13 posts
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Google’s Google - Facebook ?
Google is a great company. It sure is. What ever Microsoft has done to IBM twenty years ago (I’ve no clue about it as I was three years that time, but I read this a lot of times whenever I read about Google. Being a hardcore fan of Google, I believed it) Google has done to Microsoft few/five years before. Now, Google is the same awkward position in which Microsoft was(is). Google has lost...
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Funny way for XSS
Well, its just not funny way, but very funny way. Neither through a HTTP GET nor a HTTP POST. But, it’s through a header. I haven’t read about this method of XSS up to now, but seriously, its silly and common. Usually webmasters read about the traffic of their websites and Referrer, User-Agent are very common headers they analyze to know the type of visitors and from which site they...
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Google Apps - A Challenge
[The following information is collected from various sources, believe at your own risk] Google made it easier for companies to migrate their legacy email systems to Google Apps by offering an Email Migration API. This is what Google tells about their API The Email Migration API enables you to migrate email from any data source into Google Apps. You can write extraction code which operates against...
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Sachin’s Century Jinx
Number 42 is going perfectly wrong with Sachin. He missed yet another century today in his 90s. Sachin looked at his best in today’s match playing all over the field but couldn’t convert it into a century. He missed a century for the 6th time in last 21 innings while he was on his nineties. Three of them, he was out for 99. He is dismissed in nineties for the 14th time in his career...
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K World Turns One Year Old
Last year, on 11th of November, I started blogging @ K World, with my “Hello World” post. I started blogging because everyone else were blogging. Later it turned out to be a good place to share my thoughts.
Time went very fast. I haven’t achieved any thing great this year - absolutely nothing. I was nothing when I started blogging last year and I’m nothing even now. But, I...
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Happiness Vs Disappointment
There was a photography competition held by a group at my work place. I submitted one of the photos I took. I knew that its not good enough to win, but I just wanted to try. Finally, the results are released and as I expected, I didn’t see the photo I submitted. All my anxiety was to look at the winning photos. If you know your competition, there are good chances of winning atleast the next...
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Fire of Love
Fire is love and love is fire; And the fire is within me, Burning brightly - lighting my way Every day. I know now where heaven is on earth; And it is in your arms, warm and soft - Full of the fire that burns our soul, Making us one, making us whole. Hold me beneath your wings, my angel; And we’ll fly away together. Fly far away into our own secret place, Where you and I can share this...
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Finnish student repeats a Virginia Tech
An 18-year-old student gone nuts and killed Eight, more than 10 injured in Jokela High in Tuusala, Finland. As per a Finnish friend of mine, he was taken down by Karhu (something like SWAT of Finland) and now he is in a critical condition. This is what he wrote about himself on dreamland.
I am a cynical existentialist, antihuman humanist, antisocial socialdarwinist, realistic idealist and...
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Update … Set …
When I wrote this post, I told that I was learning about Cross Site Scripting. I use to report the sites that I find vulnerable for XSS at XSSed. When I use to do that, I had a target that - I should reach the Top Submitters page to consider myself making a good progress. After a month of hunt, and thanks to Rediff, I managed to reach the Top Submitters page. After that, I’ve stopped looking...
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Blog moved to a new host
Old host is having issues with cPanel and Apache. cPanel is removing the entry for my domain some how from the httpd.conf file again and again. So, I moved (just the blog - karteek.selfdabba.com) to the new host.
I’m thinking about maintaining a mirror at http://karteek.mondayphobia.com which will reside on the old host. Need to take a look at xmlrpc of wordpress to do that. Guys, if you...
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Being Google is Good ;)
A funny feature (or mod) in vBulletin Boards, possibly in other message board scripts too. Have you ever faced this kind of situation ?
You need to download something
You search in Google and you get some relevant results
You click on that and you go to that site
You see that the content (or the link to the download) which you needed is not shown instead a message like “This part...
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MySpace joins Google’s Force in fighting Facebook
In the recently declared Google’s war on Facebook named OpenSocial API, MySpace joined the allies list of Google. TechCrunch quoted that “Suddenly, within just the last couple of days, the entire social networking world has announced that they are ganging up to take on Facebook, and Google is their Quarterback in the big game” Guess, the social networking world didn’t...
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Started : Self Dabba
The Band of Bloggers - Self Dabba is finally started on Nov 1st, AP Formation Day. Best wishes to all guys from Andhra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala as all these states are formed on 1st Nov only. And about Self Dabba, Sumanoj and I are going blog in the band for sometime. Some of my friends would be joining the band very soon. Sumanoj is yet another software guy who loves to do self-dabba....