RTFM ? Nah “Go look at my employers website”

Posted on June 10, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

RTFM == ? Well if you dont know about it already.. Prolly you *should* not know about it :D

But for those who do, getting shot by questions that makes us tempt to answer “RTFM” or “JFGIT”!!

Today while talking to Barry Carlyon, a programmer friend on the GSoC channel, after an hour of discussion or less than that, he made a statement in the end,

” You can use our employers website to find the information you need. lol”

And I replied “Where did it come from?” as in, what made him say that…

“Our Employer is Google“

yAy!!! :D

Yea right, even though it is a part time its a full time employment It’s a bit complicated though, we are currently employed by Google officially :D for the whole of Summer 2008. [Thanks r0bby for the correction, i figured we are full time on it for the Summer]

So guys, you might well want to change that statement… from JFGIT to

“Go look at my employers website for the information you need” ;-)

/me should now get back to code wars

PS: If you couldn’t figure out the keywords in this blog post, you might well want to look for that information on my employers website ;-)

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Accepted in Google Summer of Code 2008!!

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

Google Summer of Code 2008

This year I proposed an idea as a part of the Google Summer of Code 2008 program which Google has been organizing since 2005 to promote Free and Open Source Development by sponsoring FOSS based organizations in their projects.

My idea got Accepted!!

My idea was to add a feature to the Sahana Disaster Management System. Read more about what Sahana is here.

I will write more about it soon!!….

For now, here is the link to my idea – http://code.google.com/soc/2008/sahana/about.html

#6 above.

Direct link: For application.

This is a sponsorship by Google which promotes Open Source Development each year by paying each idea a stipend amount to the Organization/Project and the student developer upon successful completion.

Some stats:

  • Total Number of Applications/Ideas received by Google – 7090
  • Accepted Ideas this year – 1125
  • Sahana Applications – 59
  • Selected in Sahana – 9
  • My Rank @ Sahana – 6th
  • India #2 – Source

Looking forward for a great coded Summer!! :-)

Happy hAcKing to all fellow GSoC students!!

Hail gEeKdOm!! :D

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Orkut Logout Embedded Script Bug – Workaround.

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Ajay Kumar

Yesterday a friend of mine told me a problem he was facing with his Scrapbook in his orkut account whereby, he or anyone accessing his scrapbook was being logged out as soon as any link was clicked or even if the page was closed.

After having a close look at the source code I found that it was a simple HTML Tag inserted in the scrapbook which had the link to Logout orkut.

http://www.orkut.com/GLogin.aspx?cmd=logout

This was the link embedded in the scrap.

What this does:

  • As soon as you open your scrapbook the link is accessed.
  • It logs you out at that very moment when you opened your scrapbook. As the logout link is accessed.
  • You still see your scrapbook but in the background you are already logged out.

What it NOT does:

  • It does not compromise your account in any way. Like changing password or tampering with any data related to your account like Scraps etc. So your safe!! Do not panic.
  • It is a plain HTML Code which calls the logout link. Thats it. Continue reading →

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The Free Network Project – Freenet

Posted on August 25, 2006 by Ajay Kumar

THE FREE NETWORK PROJECT

The future is OPEN!!

Free Network Project - Freenet

“I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say ‘Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?’”
–Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation

What is Freenet?

Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous. Without anonymity there can never be true freedom of speech, and without decentralization the network will be vulnerable to attack.

Communications by Freenet nodes are encrypted and are “routed-through” other nodes to make it extremely difficult to determine who is requesting the information and what its content is.

Users contribute to the network by giving bandwidth and a portion of their hard drive (called the “data store”) for storing files. Unlike other peer-to-peer file sharing networks, Freenet does not let the user control what is stored in the data store. Instead, files are kept or deleted depending on how popular they are, with the least popular being discarded to make way for newer or more popular content. Files in the data store are encrypted to reduce the likelihood of prosecution by persons wishing to censor Freenet content.

The network can be used in a number of different ways and isn’t restricted to just sharing files like other peer-to-peer networks. It acts more like an Internet within an Internet. For example Freenet can be used for:

  • Publishing websites or ‘freesites’
  • Communicating via message boards
  • Content distribution Continue reading →

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