Archive for August, 2006
Thursday, August 10th, 2006 This tutorial will guide you to download files using a download manager called "Free Download Manager (FDM)"Why using FDM (or any other download manager)? Because it allows you to resume downloads if you get disconnected and much more features including a faster download.As the name says FDM is a totally free download manager. No ads, nag screen or limitation.You can download Free Download Manager (FDM) from www.freedownloadmanager.orgLets download and install it first!Go to www.freedownloadmanager.orgClick on the "Download" link.Download and install it.How to install? Save it to a location and run the downloaded installer. Follow instructions.Now when we have it installed, ...
(read more) Friday, August 4th, 2006 The Washington Post on Wednesday carried a story headlined “A new hub for terrorism?: In Bangladesh, an Islamic movement with al-Qaeda ties is on the rise.”Following is the full text of the article by Selig S Harrison:While the United States dithers, a growing Islamic fundamentalist movement linked to al-Qaeda and Pakistani intelligence agencies is steadily converting the strategically located nation of Bangladesh into a new regional hub for terrorist operations that reach into India and Southeast Asia.With 147 million people, largely Muslim Bangladesh has substantial Hindu and Christian minorities and is nominally a secular democracy. But the ruling ...
(read more) Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 Flaws in the software that runs wireless-networking hardware could let an attacker break into a PC over Wi-Fi, security researchers warned Wednesday.An attacker could gain complete control over a laptop by sending malformed network traffic to a vulnerable computer, David Maynor, a senior researcher at security service provider SecureWorks, said in a presentation at the Black Hat security event here.Maynor, along with researcher Jon "Johnny Cache" Ellch, showed a video of a successful attack on a MacBook, made by Apple Computer. However, the attack is possible also on other computers, both laptops and desktops, and not just MacBooks, ...
(read more) Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 RemoveWGA 2.1 enables you to remove the Microsoft "Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications" tool, which is calling home and connect to Microsoft servers every time you boot. Once the WGA Notification tool has checked your OS and has confirmed you had a legit copy, there is no decent point or reason to check it again and again every boot.Also, Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications is different than Windows Genuine Advantage Validation. RemoveWGA only removes the notification part, phoning home, and does not touch the Validation part. As the time I'm writting this, the Validation part is mandatory for some not critical downloads ...
(read more) Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Launched .bd Whois Service www.whois.com.bd, the 1st dedicated .bd whois service.Along with .bd the whois service also covers a total of 120 TLDs and IP Whois.The service gives you more information than just registrant information. Current features are:- Directly accessable whois result. http://www.whois.com.bd/domain.com.bd (domain) http://www.whois.com.bd/209.58.24.3 (IP)- IP Address lookup of main domain, www and mail- Reverse IP Lookup of main domain, www and mail- IP Location of main domain, www and mail- Port Scan for Ports 80 (web) 110 (POP) 25 (SMTP) and 21 (FTP) (to check if the services are running)- HTTP Status- Page Title of the Web ...
(read more) Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 Launched my Bangladesh News site www.BangladeshNews.com.bdThe site is to provide daily updated Bangladesh News with RSS Feeds. The news are being collected from The Daily Star, a leading bangladeshi news paper.Why another news site? well... basically i found some "essential" features missing in the present bangladeshi news sites like RSS, News Comments, Searching, Archiving, Trackback, Tagging, del.icio.us and digg.com integration, Google Reader, My MSN, My Yahoo button integration, Mobile Device Friendly XHTML... in short... the modern web features.Now u can keep yourself updated with the latest happenings in Bangladesh right from your favourite RSS Reader.If you are a ...
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