14th Jul 2010

Harsha.COM now hardlinked to Harsha.NET.IN and Harsha.MS

Too Many Crooks spoil the game, too cooks spoil the dinner, hmm… too many domains spoil the website. Well, if you ask where was the site ? again I have no answer…

But anyway.. I have configured Nameserver, domain servers now, let me think what I can do…

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09th Jul 2010

Waiting for Harsha.Com

After waiting for 12 long years, and from last 14 months with constant watch and many back orders and 3 days of public action and 34 bidders, and 1785$ bid after keyboard slip, domain harsha.com action is now won after shelling out 13K.
Finally I’m waiting for registry transfer to my domain hosting service. Those confused with .ms extension can breath easy.

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16th Jan 2010

Nexus One is here

This blog is from Google Nexus One phone except battery drain so far so good.

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09th Jan 2010

online on twitter @harshamaster

My new twitter address is http://twitter.com/harshamaster

I’m newbie on twitter, its quite sometime since I signed up any new service. Plans to integrate twitter APIs on this site. Blog notifications should be done automatically.

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09th Jan 2010

Google Nexus One

My new phone Google’s Nexus One is on the way from US.. wait till next week for update on my new phone

Google Nexus One

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03rd Oct 2009

Identify Authenticity Before Signup

For whatever reasons, if you have decided to signup for new a web account or application, be SURE of authencity of that website. We humans always follow some patterns in giving out information, for example using same passwords in multiple sites, passwords matching some identity common to website, name or personal data. A fraudulent sites might collect your password or sensitive data and may able reproduce passwords for your email, bank account, web applications. Technically this is called as “identity theft”.

Before you signup in any website, which may be recommended by your closest friend, do an authenticity cross check. Simple identity checks that would save you from an identity recovery pain.

  • Check for website contact address, how do you expect contact-less website to be guenine ?
  • Check correctness of the contact information, a guenine website will always a phone/contact number and city/address, You do not need to dial number, but can check whether number is fake or real. Use your intelligence.
  • Search for web alert on sick sites. Do a web search with keyword as website name, you can readily distinguish popularity and community respect for website.
  • Contact information should also match with Domain registration details, Do a whois/name-service lookup for website name. Note most fraudulent websites keep their “DNS” records secured and locked, if no sufficient information is not displayed on WHOIS lookup, then website has an either weak technical experts or smart spammers. Just avoid these websites.
  • If you suspect lot more ? then just step back :)

Some website has 3 field signup (Name, Email and Password), do not think they do not need more information. Once you login first time, there may page length information you need to fill-in before opening website. The idea behind this short signup is “not to loose chance to miss new guests”.

Alternatively there also exists a open authorizing system in internet called OpenID which can help to protect your authenticating and personal information. Even though openID since 2005, common user acceptance is still low; may be because not every website support this method.

Before any decision, understand yourself, what you are doing. If you are signing up for every requests your friends sending or exploring all websites by signing up or if you are not trusting your Junk/Spam filters without reading them or if you are regular/highly active on more than one social networking websites, then I would easily guess you are culprit of “information influenza”.

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01st Oct 2009

Not Just Another Day

Today is one more cheering and joyful day, when my wife Deepa gave birth to second child. Everyone’s comment was new baby boy is photocopy of me; my first child is like his mother.

Home is getting ready to give a warm welcome; I’m looking forward his Naming Ceremony.

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08th Sep 2009

2600 crores for memorials

source: MSN News

SC says,

As per the reports you (UP Govt) are spending Rs 2,600 crore. Your state GDP is only around 2 per cent. We may ask the government as to how such a colossal expenditure can be incurred.

and Mr. Mishra as Mayawati’s defence, argue

The memorials constructed for various national leaders including ex-Prime Ministers and four members of one family (Nehru) at an estimated cost of Rs 10,000 crore.

If thousand of crores for memorials after dead, and another thousand of crores while living, and levying one third of common man’s earning, then I believe shooting these bloody idiots at point blank range is no crime.

Why don’t we send these stupids to school for primary education ?

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08th Sep 2009

Why do politicians give lengthy speeches

source: LiveScience.com

In 85 percent of cases, interviewees were slower when they lied.

I was wondering all these years, why do politicians give lengthy speeches ? ironically, Indian government’s punch line is “sathyamheva jayathey” meaning truth always wins.

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07th Sep 2009

Automative Black-box

source: MSN News

Very practical device. I wish and dream on one day; all comfortably sized vehicles including light, mid and heavy fitted with black-box kind of devices. Today Post Accidents reports contain mostly who was right, who was wrong, and rarely what went wrong. Fitting black-box adds different prospective to investigation; it will clear “innocents” being unnecessarily torched. Unlike countries, priority after accident is give bumps on living driver. It will also educate owner how drive safe and manufactures can think of how to improve system in place to avoid mishaps.

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