Any department of Indian government, which is willing to run any “e” service, has option for some exclusive tools and services.
GOV.IN / NIC.IN are couple of those exclusive domain extensions, which are only given to official government web sites.
When Internet / online phishing is a real time threat for any Internet user, there, these extensions play a crucial role to distinguish between an official web site and a fake one to help and user to save him / her self from phishing.
Central government of India has their own setup in terms if National Informetics Centre (NIC) under Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. An IT department which is quite capable enough to develop rich and interactive web services such as Indianrail.gov.in and software applications such as, application used by TAX Department of India for any state or central department.
When you find NIC doing its job quite fine then it comes as a shock when you find some alarming facts like some of the state departments are using services from 110mb.com along their sub domain to run an official government web service.
West Bengal Board of Madrasah Education
http://wbmadrasahboard.110mb.com/
An education board under State government of West Bengal isn’t even capable enough to procure a proper hosting for them self and runs their official web site under a sub domain of a free hosting services provider.
B. R. Singh Hospital (Eastern Railways)
http://brsingh.110mb.com/
Indian railways already using NIC extensively however a major hospital under their eastern division is once again using 110mb to run their official web site. Worst, they are using Google Ads !!!
Why I am against 110mb.com ?
Many may be thinking as, hey I am using 110mb.com and they are never a bad service. Then why is Choto Cheeta going against 110mb.com ?
Matter of fact, I am not going against 110mb.com because of their service of any such. I am against it only because of below reasons.
- Exclusive Domains, .GOV.IN / .NIC.IN are only authenticate way to identify a real web site over a fake one. For example, I or any other person can use a 110mb or any such free sub domain based free hosting, or even can buy a public domain also to create a fake web site to cheat an online user to steal information of use the web service to infect their PC with Malware. These exclusive extensions are an immediate identification mark for an authenticate web site.
- Service hosted by NIC.IN gives full control over the data, as because it is a GOV web site so it is bond to have sensitive information, which is in need to stay tamper proof.
- Come on, as a gov org, you can atleast afford to remove ads !!!!
Do drop in your comments as what is your thought in this matter of using such services to run a GOV web site ?
Don’t forget to update your flash player version as Adobe have just released the Flash Player 10. Its about 2 MB in download for IE where as another 2 MB is required for alternate browsers, like Opera / Mozilla / FireFox.
So what’s new about this version ?
Well, as Adobe says, one would need to get Adobe Flash Player 10 to view the feature tour.
Please note, Kaspersky Labs allows free product upgrade within your license term. Those who are still using Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 or AntiVirus 2009 (version 8.0), you may download a copy of KIS or KAV 2010 (version 9.0) and upgrade your existing installation of KIS / KAV 2009 to 2010 version free of charge.
One of my most trusted security application is Kaspersky product. Since its version 5.0 it has been one of my must install application for Windows installation.
There are many users around the world who are using and trusting Kaspersky products since version 5.0, there are many users and visitors of my blog and forums / DB / UG in which I am active also have shifted to Kaspersky while influenced by my advice.
A lot of these users are bombarding me with a question that many among them do not have active Internet connection or access to Internet on certain PCs in which they are running this application.
Till Version 7.0 Kaspersky LABs were kind enough to provide off-line update option in which an user could download the update and take it to a PC without Internet access to update the application. However from version 8.0 or rather in case of 2009 products they stopped providing off-line update download at their web site.
Having said that, the application it self is still supports updating from any offline source.
How to update Kaspersky Internet Security / AntiVirus 2009 (version 8.0) off-line ?
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It seems from the reports of Google Adsense users that, Google adsense programs payment system is been hit by a currency conversion bug.
Many users have found their August earnings are not being converted to their respective local currency . Google is doing the conversion in USD 1 = 1 unit of respective local currency format.
For example, a person who is waiting for USD 300 in India would get Rs. 300 instead of (300 x 45) Rs. 13500/- as Google payment system is calculating USD 1 = INR 1 instead of present market value of USD 1 = INR 45.
Google explains in their Adsense help forum,
Hi all,
Please be assured that we are aware of this issue, and are working to correct it as soon as possible.
We appreciate your patience in the meantime, and will be sure to keep you updated here.
Ashley
You may catch the 2010 Puja photo over the 2010 Durga Pooja picture gallery !!
Kolkata (Calcutta) is gearing up or its biggest event of the year. One can smell the excitement in the city air. Shopping malls are over flowing with shoppers to complete the last minute shopping as the Durga Puja is just around the corner.
Known puja committees are now doing over time to maintain their pride and reputation of delivering mind blowing art work where as many unknown and new comers are trying their best to dislodge the reputed ones from their chair in a friendly competition.
Like every year, Team Doorer Sathi would travel and work round the clock to capture and upload the pictures of Durga Pooja 2008 !!
So lets catch Durga Pooja 2008 via eyes of DoorerSathi.com, a picture album which would get regular updates of the puja and related topics (Durga Idol / Pandals / Decorations) as the event progresses !!,
Incidentally, one may check out previous year pictures / photos at Doorer Sathi.com. Durga Puja 2007, Durga Puja 2006, Kali Puja 2007, Kali Puja 2006.
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Yes, that’s a computer motherboard (Intel 845GVSR)
with a processor (Socket 478 Intel P-IV 1.8 GHz) attached to it.
It is expected that one may assume this is an abundant computer at some abundant warehouse or such, but matter of fact is, this is a PC which runs in an AC room.
The PC all of a sudden started to power-down it self in middle of work and trouble shooting immediately lead us to the fact of overheating. While all fans running at full capacity, the only culprit left was dust and as we removed the processor fan and heat-sink, this was what we saw in side !!
Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE) is just 3MB in size but does a wonderful job to make great panoramic images.
Download -> Microsoft Image Composite Editor (ICE)
What is Microsoft ICE ?
Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. You shoot a set of overlapping photographs of a scene from a single location, and Image Composite Editor creates a high-resolution panorama incorporating all your images at full resolution.
Lets give it a test
Recently I have gone to Bangalore for some work and I have taken few overlapped images of Bangalore Airport with my Nikon s51c. There are 5 separate images which I have taken while standing still at a same place.
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