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		<title>Chrome browser climbs over Safari for No. 3 spot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 08:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shyam</dc:creator>
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Google’s Chrome browser has only been on the market for 16 months, but it has already taken a good share of the market and beat out Safari for the number three spot. Safari, for the first time ever, is now ranked fourth. By the end of December, Chrome was up at 4.63% market share whereas [...]]]></description>
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<p>Google’s Chrome browser has only been on the market for 16 months, but it has already taken a good share of the market and beat out Safari for the number three spot. Safari, for the first time ever, is now ranked fourth. By the end of December, Chrome was up at 4.63% market share whereas Safari fell to about 4.46%. Of course, the big boost likely came from the fact that Chrome Beta became officially available for Mac and Linux. Top dogs are still Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, with IE8 still at the top but failing to see any real growth. So tell us, what browser are you currently using and why (speed, extensions, apps, etc)?</p>
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		<title>Religious websites getting Hacked &#8212; some solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shyam</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Recently there has been major hack terror attact by some Muslim militant outfits attacking a lot of Religious as well as social websites in United States. Our <a href="http://newvrindaban.com">New Vrindaban community</a> website <a href="http://www.shyiam.com/archives/63">got hacked</a> hence my service provider provided me with some of the vital steps to prevent that. This mornign I saw that <a href="http://iskconnews.net">iskconnews.net</a> &#8211; an unofficial ISKCON news provider, also got hacked and thus I called <a href="http://walkingthefenceline.blogspot.com/">Mr. Madhva Ghosh</a> to let him know whats happening and <a href="http://walkingthefenceline.blogspot.com/">he</a> suggested to me that I should blog this solution on <a href="http://shyiam.com">my site</a>. I hope it may help you all too.</p>
<p>Most account compromises are initiated by using a remote command inclusion vulnerability within an existing web application. This issue was likely the result of poor or lack of security on the part of one or more user accounts, including shared or weak passwords, insecure permissions on important configuration files ( allowing full read access globally ), and other factors. Please be sure that the following steps are taken to assist in preventing further intrusions:</p>
<p>-Perform a complete audit of your account and applications. Ensure that all content available was made available only by yourself and that any information, including applications login credentials that don&#8217;t match up are removed.</p>
<p>- Any PHP scripts should be chmod 600 at the very least. Any PHP scripts that contain important information, such as MySQL database connection information should be chmod 400. By default these files are likely permissioned to 644 which will allow global read access to the file by any user on the system.</p>
<p>- Any applications that are connecting to MySQL database should be doing so with their own individual MySQL database login credentials. Never should a set of credentials be recycled or used elsewhere. You should also avoid using your system username and password as an authorization point for these applications.</p>
<p>- Passwords should be 16+ characters in length and contain a mixed case of letters and numbers and should be modified on a regular basis ( twice monthly at the very least ). A password should never be used for more than one service or provider, ever!</p>
<p>- Any 3rd party or custom PHP, Perl and other web applications should be kept up to date at all times. Subscribe to the software vendors security or update notifications mailing list. If an application is no longer required or in use, remove it completely. Disabling the application is not always a sure fire means of disallowing intrusion attempts.</p>
<p>If you have trouble keeping track of your passwords, you may want to look into using a solution such as the following, which I personally find to be quite useful in both generating passwords and securely saving these details: <a target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://keepass.sourceforge.net/">http://keepass.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
<p>Wordpress owners: Please update your word press to the latest security fix version. The latest stable release of WordPress (Version 2.0.4) is <a href="http://wordpress.org/latest.zip">available here for download</a>.</p>
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		<title>Office 2007 comes to video &#8212; get a glimpse</title>
		<link>http://www.shyiam.com/archives/47</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shyam</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2006 21:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Just got this baby today and feel like this is what I was looking for. You can see the config  below.</p>
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<p>The Aspire™ 9300 powers its way through demanding media to deliver an awesome mobile entertainment experience. Features include AMD Turion Mobile Technology, wireless connectivity and a 17&#8243; wide-screen display with Acer® CrystalBrite Technology.</p>
<p>The Aspire 9300-5317 Notebook is a Windows Vista Premium Ready PC.</p>
<p>Processor Brand:    AMD<br />
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Drive Controllers:    IDE (Ultra ATA/DMA)<br />
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 02:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had really a tough time today&#8230;I start my day and happen to hear that there is W32 virus around on my network and we were able to traceout and excluded the infected machine.
And then I had to install Norton Internet Security on my machine to check if i was infested and I ran the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had really a tough time today&#8230;I start my day and happen to hear that there is W32 virus around on my network and we were able to traceout and excluded the infected machine.</p>
<p>And then I had to install Norton Internet Security on my machine to check if i was infested and I ran the setup and it asked for restart and there it goes&#8230;whooooop</p>
<p>I see that my boot.ini is sc****d up and also file called hal.dll is gone bad too and then I had to get back to my DOS days and had to pull out Hiren&#8217;s Boot Disk 6 and then started to play around. After a long try, it din work&#8230;then had to Google hal.dll and came across a good fix for this problem on about.com site.</p>
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<p>How do I repair a missing or damaged hal.dll error message?</p>
<p>The cause of this error message can be varied.  A major <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/glossary/g/virus.htm">virus</a> or malware infestation can lead to this error.  Installing and/or uninstalling software that is <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/glossary/g/spyware.htm">spyware</a> laden, such as so many peer to peer (P2P) file sharing programs, or a faulty <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcbasics/g/harddrive.htm">hard drive</a>
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<p>  can also lead to this error.</p>
<p>Recently, one of my clients came to me with this problem. The computer that I had just upgraded for him the week before will not start. All he got was the error message: <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/glossary/g/windows.htm">Windows</a> could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: /system32.hal.dll</p>
<p>In this case it was a combination of events that led to this error.</p>
<p>he most common causes of this error are:</p>
<ol>
<li>A missing or corrupt boot.ini file</li>
<li>A missing or damaged hal.dll file</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>What is the boot.ini file and how do I repair it?</strong></p>
<p>This is the file that is used that identifies the location of Windows. It is a hidden system file located in the root partition of the primary hard drive (C). It identifies which hard drive, which partition on the drive and the folder where Windows is installed.</p>
<p>The steps to repair a missing or corrupt boot.ini file are:</p>
<ol>
<li>Insert and <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/cs/support101/g/boot.htm">boot</a> from your Windows XP CD.</li>
<li>When you receive the &#8220;Press any key to boot from CD&#8221; message, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/cs/support101/g/CD_ROM.htm">CD-ROM</a>.</li>
<li>When you receive the &#8220;Welcome to Setup&#8221; message, press R to start the <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcrepair/a/recoveryconsole.htm">Recovery Console</a>.</li>
<li>Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair, typically this will be #1.</li>
<li>Type bootcfg /list to show the current entries in the BOOT.INI file. At this point you may get a message telling you that the boot.ini file does not exist. The next step will correct this error.</li>
<li>Type bootcfg /rebuild to repair it. This will scan your hard dives for installations of Windows XP, 2000 or NT and display the results. Follow the on-screen instructions to add your Windows installations to the boot.ini file. Those step will be:
<ol>
<li>Total Identified Windows Installs: 1<br />
(1) C:\Windows<br />
Add installation to boot list? (Yes/No/All)<br />
Type y and hit enter</li>
<li>Enter Load Identifier<br />
This is the name of the operating system. When you receive this message, type the name of your operating system, and then press ENTER.</li>
<li>Enter OS Load options<br />
When you receive this message, type /fastdetect, and then press ENTER.<strong>Note:</strong> The instructions that appear on your screen may be different, depending on the configuration of your computer.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>Take out the CD ROM and type exit.</li>
</ol>
<p><strong>What is the hal.dll file and how do I repair or replace it?</strong></p>
<p>HAL is an acronym for hardware abstraction layer. The hal.dll file is a Windows NT file that is used by windows when communicating with your computer&#8217;s hardware. It enables hardware from different vendors to allow them to accept a common set of Windows commands. If it is missing Windows will not function.</p>
<p>In situations where it has become damaged, either from virus activity or hardware failure, it may be necessary to replace it with an undamaged copy. Here are the steps necessary to replace the hal.dll file with an undamaged copy from the Windows CD:</p>
<ol>
<li>As above, insert and boot from your Windows XP CD.</li>
<li>When you receive the &#8220;Press any key to boot from CD&#8221; message, press a key to start your computer from the Windows XP CD-ROM.</li>
<li>When you receive the &#8220;Welcome to Setup&#8221; message, press R to start the <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcrepair/a/recoveryconsole.htm">Recovery Console</a>.</li>
<li>Press the number that corresponds to the correct location for the installation of Windows you want to repair, typically this will be #1.</li>
<li>At the command prompt type: expand d:\i386\hal.dl_ c:\windows\system32\hal.dll. (where d: is the drive letter of your CD and c:\windows is the location for your Windows installation folder.) If prompted for permission to overwrite an existing version of the hal.dll file select yes.</li>
<li>Once you have expanded the file type &#8220;exit&#8221; to exit the Recovery Console and restart the computer.</li>
</ol>
<p>In rare cases this will not replace the hal.dll file.  In those cases you have three choices.</p>
<ol>
<li>Remove your hard drive and install it in another computer with the same <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/glossary/g/os.htm">OS</a> as a slave or D drive, so that you can copy an undamaged hal.dll file from that system to your hard drive. In this case Hal.dll may or may not be found in: <em>D:\WINDOWS\System32</em> but regardless if found it will need to be replaced.  A working copy of hal.dll will be found in: <em>C:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386</em>.  Copy that version of the file to: <em>D:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386\hal.dll</em> as well as the <em>D:\WINDOWS\System32</em> folder; if it asks to overwrite say YES.</li>
<li>Perform a <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcrepair/a/reinstallxp.htm">repair installation of Windows</a>.</li>
<li><a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcbasics/g/format.htm">Reformat</a> and perform a <a href="http://pcsupport.about.com/od/pcrepair/a/installxp.htm">complete installation of Windows</a>.</li>
</ol>
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