Ahsun Taquveem Chohan

Windows 7 (formerly known as Vienna and Blackcomb) is a complete new version in windows series introduced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including business PC’s. There is a close relation between security and usability, which the software developers often sacrifice for the other.

Microsoft is NO Exception.

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Anyone who knows anything about security knows that this kind of disaster was only a matter of time. Windows botnets are responsible for DDoS attacks and most of e-mail spam. You cannot secure Windows .

Continued here:
It’s time to get rid of Windows – Computerworld Blogs

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Speed and power have long been the most important criteria when judging a supercomputer’s worth as a number-crunching lab workhorse, but energy efficiency is fast catching up. The greenest supercomputers are those that can process the most scientific calculations per second while drawing the least power. [More]

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Power-hungry supercomputers going green

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Leo Davidson released a proof-of-concept showcasing Windows 7 User Account Control feature flaw elevating a command prompt window using the whitelisted explorer.exe process.

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Microsoft Security Essentials lists Windows 7 UAC hack as malware

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REGISTRY EDITINGS
To open Windows Registry:
1. Click Start and Run
2. type "regedit" (without quotes)

Configure Remote Access Client Account Lockout (Windows 2000/XP)
Configure Remote Access Client Account Lockout (Windows 2000/XP) You can use the remote access account lockout feature to specify how many times a remote access authentication has to fail against a valid user account before the user is denied access. Use this tweak to set the number of failed logins before the account is locked-out and the time before the lockout is reset.

 

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\RemoteAccess\Parameters\AccountLockout

Disable the Ability to Right Click on the Desktop (All Windows)

This tweak removes the context menu that would normally appear when the user right clicks on the desktop or in the Explorer right results pane.

Open your registry and find or create the key below. Create a new DWORD value, or modify the existing value, called "NoViewContextMenu" and set it according to the value data below.

Exit your registry, you may need to restart or log out of Windows for the change to take effect.

 

User Key: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]System Key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]Value Name: NoViewContextMenuData Type: REG_DWORD (DWORD Value)Value Data: (0 = disabled, 1 = enabled

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Hello everyone,
I’ve seen many people having problem in searching.
Here are few tips/tricks how to search using Google

Searching Google for Music – Advanced Guide

This How-To will teach you how to use google to find mp3s. This How-To
will be highly pragmatic and will focus on the hows and not the
wherefores of the various search strings.

Index
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0) Key
1) Directories
2) Xitami Servers
3) Directory Listing
4) Andromeda Servers
5) Zina Artists
6) Apache mp3 Servers
7) Individual Songs

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Hello everyone WolframAlpha is a computational knowledge engine: it generates output by doing computations from its own internal knowledge base, instead of searching the web and returning links and it is really cool and awesome.

Here you can see its demo

http://www.wolframalpha.com/screencast/introducingwolframalpha.html

From Here you can use it directly to compute anything (mathematical equations, business information, general information, anything you want) or simply visit the WolframAlpha by clicking here

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The future gadget

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The magician can know what your thinking..you actually need to play along for this to work…so cool!!!!

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Many mobile phones now come equipped with a Bluetooth modem which can be configured easily in Ubuntu to access the internet without installing proprietary drivers or software.

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