Hacker

Hacker (computer security) or cracker, who accesses a computer system by circumventing its security system
Hacker (programmer subculture), who shares an anti-authoritarian approach to software development now associated with the free software movement

Hacker is mostly widely used as a derogatory term for someone who is involved in illegal online activities.…

[Mar 29, 2012 4:00PM]… Twitter suspended my account (@vineetdhanawat)
I joined twitter on April 1, 2010. Almost 2 years of Happily Tweeting. I’m not sure why / how, But my account was simply suspended. No warning / notification email as well!

Today’s Incident of Facebook not opening in India made one thing clear: You cannot rely on default DNS of your ISP. Following ISPs were observed to block Facebook:

MTNL
BSNL
Tikona
Reliance
Airtel

Earlier, Indian Govt had requested Facebook and Google to screen the content. This time, No Public statement was released, but it was observed nationwide, but yes things were back to normal in a couple of hours!…

Recently one of my Friends Blog received 16000+ SPAM Comments in a span of just over a month.

TimeLine:
Jan 1: Checkpoint
Jan 23: Spam at its Peak
Jan 24: Corrective Measure Taken
Jan 31:… Checkpoint
 
WordPress 3.0 – No Plugins, Default Installation.

Today, I was trying to submit a URL to Google. As usual i simply opened Google and searched for “add url to google” , Google returned me the following results.

The Top Result https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url/ actually gives a 404 error (Jan 22, 2012 – 3.16 AM IST)

Surprisingly when you remove the / (forward slash) from the end of URL, it starts working https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url
The URL has been fixed on Google “Submit Your Content” Page, but search results are still returning old URL.…

Last week we saw a mass online Blackout (#WikipediaBlackout). We also implemented a 503 Status Code Outage.

Now several people suggested methods for blackout. Lets take each of them.
1. Delete The Content
Never do this mistake. Since you dont have any files on your web folder anymore, it will return a 404 error.…

[Updated]… 17/03/2012 : Included Rooting via HTCDev Bootloader Unlocking + Android Flasher Utility. Jump to Update
Recently i attended Droidcon India 2011 and had a quick chat with a team installing CyanogenMod for interested attendees there. I finally decided to give it a shot.

In this tutorial we’ll create a small app which displays a Toast Notification whenever GPS Coordinates changes. Start a new Project.
Project Name: HelloGps
Android Level: Android 2.1
Application Name: HelloGps
Package Name: com.vineetdhanawat.hellogps
Create Activity: HelloGps
Min SDK… Version: 7

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