Jack, a smart businessman, talks to his son
Jack: I want you to marry a girl of my choice
Son : “I will choose my own bride”.
Jack: “But the girl is Bill Gates`s daughter.”
Son : “Well, in that case…”

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Next Jack approaches Bill Gates
Jack: “I have a husband for your daughter.”
Bill Gates : “But my daughter is too young to marry.”
Jack: “But this young man is a vice-president of the World Bank.”
Bill Gates : “Ah, in that case…”

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Finally Jack goes to see the president of the World Bank.
Jack: “I have a young man to be recommended as a vice-president.”
President : “But I already have more vice-presidents than I need.”
Jack: “But this young man is Bill Gates`s son-in-law.”
President : “Ah, in that case…..”

This is how an entrepreneur do business!!

There was phising (email fraud) , there was wi-phising ( fraud through wifi), there was vishing ( fraud through bogus phone numbers), and now there is smishing ( phising through cell phone text messaging)

Cell phone users should watch out for text messages containing a Web site link which, when visited, could download a Trojan horse, security experts have warned.

Some cell phone users have started receiving an SMS that reads: “We’re confirming you’ve signed up for our dating service. You will be charged $2/day unless you cancel your order,” David Rayhawk wrote in the McAfee Avert Labs blog.

The message includes a URL which, if clicked on, downloads a Trojan horse that could allow a Web-enabled phone to be controlled by hackers.  More …

My wife has informed me that I have a very bad habit of shutting down the notebook which may damage the hard disk.  NOrmally I used the notebook which is configured to automatically hibernate after I shut down the lid. The problem is that I always shut down the lid, and immediately start moving the notebook ( start putting it inside the bag- while it is still in the process of hibernating). 

As we may know, the process of hibernating means the computer is writing data from the memory to the hard disk.  It is at this moment, therefore, that the hard disk is most vulnerable and should not be moved.

So, don’t be impatient.  Shut down, or hibernate your notebook, and wait after the the lights went off before moving it!

I remember long ago when there was yet no fax, texting, or email, and telegrams/telex was still the main form of communication that it would be written in all capital keys. That was then, and there was good reason for it. Because there was limited ‘bandwidth’ so to speak to transmit, so in general, they wanted the choice to be as few as possible, and during that time, a capital E was good as a small letter e.

Then I read this article in Wired which says that amongst the keys in the keyboard, the caps lock key Read the rest of this entry »