pratham [dot] name

Nov
8th

Sat

Pakistan Declares Death Penalty for 'Cyber Terror'

Pakistani president Asif Ali Zardari signed a law making cyber terror a crime “punishable with death”, but executions will only be allowed if the hack attack “causes [the] death of any person”

1 year ago

Nov
7th

Fri

The police will form a special team to inquire into ICICI Bank’s complaint against a bear cartel of brokers for allegedly hammering down its share prices [using] malicious messages sent by a group SMS sending website called www.smsgupshup.com …

— No such thing as bad press ?

1 year ago

Nov
1st

Sat

Pepsi’s new logo.

1 year ago

Oct
21st

Tue

NYTimes’ much less annoying new double click query design.

1 year ago

Oct
5th

Sun

Using Tabs in Vim.

New tab - :tabe <filename>
Next tab - Ctrl + PageDown
Prev tab - Ctrl + PageUp

1 year ago

Sep
26th

Fri

Alexa Anti-Bot HTML.

Check out the HTML markup of the “Where people go on Domain.com” section of any Alexa traffic page.

m
<span class="cde4">18</span>
<span class="cfb5">80</span>
<span class="c7a7">ai</span>
l.googl
<span class="cbed">49</span>
e.
<span class="c3d5">co</span>
<span class="c99d">m</span>

The markup above is meant to display “mail.google.com”. I’m guessing it’s an anti-bot measure, since they insert this comment after every obscured piece of data.

Did you know? Alexa offers this data programmatically.  Visit http://aws.amazon.com/awis for more information about the Alexa Web Information Service.

1 year ago

Sep
25th

Thu

What part of legal immigration don’t you understand ? (via smaran)

1 year ago

Sep
17th

Wed

Bad Day ?

1 year ago

Sep
6th

Sat

To set multiple home pages (which open in separate tabs) in Firefox, separate the links by a pipe “|”.

1 year ago

A-Space, the social network for spies.

The CIA, FBI and the National Security Agency are encouraging their staff members to use a new social-networking site called A-Space.

1 year ago

Aug
10th

Sun

Google “[country] olympics” to get the medal count.

1 year ago

Aug
5th

Tue

Why IRCTC sucks.

IRCTC lady: So what is problem ?
Guy: The problem is that after I made my credit card payment, the screen just went blank.
IRCTC lady: Just a minute. (Pause.) Sir, was your ticket worth Rs 365 ?
Guy: Yes.
IRCTC lady: Don’t worry, sir, the money has been deducted.
Guy: Ah. Yes, well, but my ticket history is not showing that I’ve booked any ticket.
IRCTC lady: Yes sir. That is because the ticket has not been booked.
Guy: What? The money has been deducted from my account but the ticket hasn’t been booked ?
IRCTC lady: Yes sir. That happens. It is an online site, no ?
(via IndiaUncut)

1 year ago

The importance of domain names.

1 year ago

Aug
2nd

Sat

The Operation Aborted Bug strikes again.

The infamous Operation Aborted Bug, which was just recently fixed for IE8b1, has struck Sitemeter users, taking down thousands of sites which host this widget.

1 year ago

Aug
1st

Fri

India will witness a partial solar eclipse on Aug 1. The eclipse .. begins at 16:03:03 and ends at 17:56:07, [with] maximum [impact] at 17:02:05.

— Solar Eclipse in a few hours.

1 year ago