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TwitterA worldwide computer infection known as Conficker.C has been slowly infecting government and pesonal computer networks across the globe. It has been appearing since October of 2008 and has an infected over 15 million computers. You probably haven’t noticed. Not a big deal… it hasn’t affected you yet.
Well, Some call it a trogian, some call it a virus. CNN coined the term “sleeper cell virus”, and that’s exactly what it is.
On April 1, 2009, Conficker, which means configuration fuck in Gernan, will be turned on. It will allegedly wreak lots of havoc upon the internet world. Everything from DNS updates to Windows DLL overrides will take place in a simultaneous attack.
This is a big deal. Microsoft Corporation is offering $5,000,000 to anyone who can identify the creator of this virus.
Worried about your network?
To test your network for Conficker.C, run the following Command for nmap:
nmap -PN -T4 -p139,445 -n -v --script=smb-check-vulns --script-args safe=1 [insert router ip here]-255
Before your eyes will stream a list of all the computers on your network and the infection status of each of them.
Here are the Exact details on Conficker.c.
Maybe now, the world will switch to *nix operating systems. 
There are winds of change everywhere! From the political arena to the geek scene 
everything seems to catch that phrase “Change is Always Good” and so it is. There is a high probability that Google is going to announce support for Java on their http://www.programmerfish.com/category/app-engine-google/’ target=’_blank’>http://www.programmerfish.com/category/app-engine-google/’ target=’_blank’>App Engine and when it happens, it’s going to create a gold rush for sure keeping in view the Java community, the ease of use and most of all the reliability is gives to the application. All these things combines will create an explosive combination! It will of course be warmly received by the industry and there are developers like me who are waiting for Java Support since like ages now…
Is it not becoming more of a “BiasedCrunch” rather then what it actually started as, a place for crunching startups and everything related to them. But recently, am sure you people would also have noticed, it has become more of a place to advertise third-grade startups (and you know what’s the way to get a review for your third grade startup: Pay them!) and this is something which Michael bashed about not too long ago when someone contacted him to offer an incentive to promote his rubbish and Michael went way too far but I think it was more of a Media exercise rather then a real practice.
For desktop development of low performance PCs that can’t run WPF forms smoothly, or just for simplicity, programmers opt for Windows Forms. But one can’t deny the coolness of WPF controls. How about an application that uses WPF controls in Windows Forms application? The advantage is performance of Windows Forms on low end PCs and WPF controls are shown when needed.
In this tutorial we will make a simple windows form application that uses the Data Grid control of WPF toolkit in a Windows Form application.
Popular Programming Languages which resulted in a whole paradigm shift and changed the way we program our problems. Here are some of the photos of the creators of these Programming languges. Hope you enjoy them:
And yes, if you are more interested then you can read the history of how these languages were created. Links are provided with each title.
1. Java (James Gosling)
This guest post is written by Jawad Masood of HardwareInsight
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Do you know that Semantic Web is the next generation of web? Semantic web is a technology/concept that gives ‘computer understandable’ meaning to the web content. By this, that data can be easily processed by systems like artificial intelligence, behavior targeting and filters etc. This video explains what exactly semantic web is and how it is going to change the web:
Video is created by DigitalBazar and more details can be found here
At Mix09 on day 1, Microsoft announced a major update for Windows http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure SDKs. Windows http://www.programmerfish.com/category/windows-azure-microsoft/’ target=’_blank’>Azure is Microsoft’s Cloud Computing platform that enables you to create and deploy highly scalable web applications on Cloud. Following are details of this update:
When Google Chrome was launched, it included a powerful JavaScript engine, V8 that delivers faster Java script performance on Google Chrome. Google Chrome team has now done some fun fun fun experiments with it’s Java Script engine to show the power of their web browser. According to Google:
Microsoft has announced Silverlight 3 details at MIX09. New version of Silverlight has got great improvements with support of being able run out of the browser. And now Silverlight out of the web browser applications can run on Mac OSX too. This creates strong competition for Adobe Air.
Following is list of what’s new in Silverlight 3:
The biggest and most irritating challenge for a web developer today is to face the compatibility issues across multiple browsers and solving them. Expression Web SuperPreview is a tool coming with Expression Web 3 that enables web designers to check compatibility of their web sites in multiple browsers. It allows to debug the lags easily that are causing incompatibility.
Right now it’s only available for Internet Explorer: You can try by checking compatibility of your website in IE 7 and IE 8 with the version that is available right now.
ASP.NET AJAX 4.0 Preview 4 has been announced with new exciting features . ASP.NET AJAX can be leveraged in a complete client-side environment, to easily develop rich web applications. Video demonstrates the new client templates, data binding and command bubbling behavior that makes creating data-centric applications using JavaScript simpler. Also ADO.NET Data Services integration which makes performing CRUD operations, complete with change-tracking, very trivial.
Being the programmers that we are, design isn’t always listed as one of our stronger abilities. Every programmer should have a sense of design, however. Otherwise, every application you would ever use would be far less useful and be much less appealing. Aesthetics is everything.
ColorSchemeDesigner allows any user to create breathtaking Color Schemes for any purpose in it’s quick and easy-to-use interface. It allows you to use the color wheel to make precisely correct schemes. Options include: monochrome, complimentary, traids, tetrads, analogical, and accented analogical schemes. All are fully customizable and mathematically correct.
Have you ever had the problem of losing an installation CD? This happened to me the other day when I needed to install Microsoft Office 2007. I found an easy solution, however, and I’d like to share it with you: Direct Downloads of Microsoft Office 2007 in all flavors. Completely legal! All you need is your legitimate key to install!
Microsoft Office 2007 Installer Direct Downloads
- Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
- Microsoft Office Professional 2007
- Microsoft Office Small Business 2007
- Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
- Microsoft Office Standard 2007
- Microsoft Office Accounting Professional 2007
- Microsoft Office Groove 2007
- Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
- Microsoft Office Publisher 2007
- Microsoft Office Visio Professional 2007
Enjoy!
NOTE: this is for legal installs only! You need a key to use any of these installers! If no key is provided, it will still be fully functional, but will be working in trial-mode for a total of 30 runs.
Cloud Computing is one of the hottest thing right now in discussion around the web. Companies like Microsoft and Google have invested Billions of dollars to establish their Cloud Computing platforms.
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I have written an article on PakCrunch blog that explains why developing countries like Pakistan need Cloud Computing. Article explains how Cloud Computing can provide benefit to countries where web infrastructure isn’t mature enough to establish large data centers … click here to read
