.Net Geek: A blog by Aakash Jain

" The Logo for the XIX Commonwealth Games Delhi 2010 is inspired by the Chakra, The National Symbol of Freedom, of Unity and Power. Spiraling Upwards, it depicts the Growth of India into a Proud, vibrant nation, her billion people coming together to fulfill their true destinies. India's journey from tradition to modernity, her economic transformation into a super power ... Reaching out to the world and leading the way, even as she enthusiastically embraces all the 71 CCGA nations and territories of the commonwealth to become one and host the best ever commonwealth Games in India. In Delhi. In 2010 "

SPAM. Every one hate it and Why not? No one wish to waste his/her time in searching through all messages for a few legitimate messages. I have been receiving lot of SPAM comments before I find an effective way to stop it. (God knows why they were trying to sell Viagra and what not on my blog) To fight it, I have had enabled CAPTCHA for comments on my blog. Enabling the CAPTCHA discouraged SPAM and amount of SPAM goes down significantly, but the genuine posts were also reduced. I believe that visitors don’t want to bear the pain of entering the security words while posting comments. I can understand this because even I feel discouraged leaving comment where someone has enabled CAPTCHA on their blogs. I really wanted to stop SPAM but not at the cost of comments of my dear readers. Other possible way to spam is to blacklist IPs responsible for SPAM messages. However, you just can’t create a list of black listed IPs and keep adding as you encounter the new one. They are very clever and keep changing their IPs frequently.

Finally, I found Akismet is one other good (may be best) service which is helping the bloggers to fight SPAM. "Akismet is an automated spam blocking service which blocks Spam as it learns from its users/community marking SPAM Comments as "SPAM". Luckily, dasBlog (my blog runs on dasBlog engine.) have implemented the Akismet service and can be enabled by entering the API Key under “Configuration” of dasBlog. Anyone, using dasBlog can enable this service as shown in picture below.

It's been two months I am using their service and I am very happy with it. I like them so much (possibly I'm so confident now) that, now I am deleting any SPAM straightaway without moderation. I found Akismet most effective than CAPTCHA and Blacklist IPs. What are you people using?

OMI stands for “Open mind Index”, as they said it. Here this utility can actually help you to calculate your openness for the variety of music.  All you need to enter your last.fm username to generate this graphical statistic given below.

For this, of course you need to have a profile on last.fm, those who don’t know what last.fm is, it’s a social music site where you send data of about whatever you listen on your computer. This is done with the help of a small plug-in available for download after you sign up for service.  When you enter the username, your music data (most specifically, top artist of last 12 months) is downloaded from the last.fm site and used for calculation.

Here is a counter to those people who look down at Indian IT industry and think it is producing software of  low quality. I have read people discussing in forums about the low cost in Indian software market. They end up with the conclusion that India produces Inferior software with low cost. That is groundless opinion, I’d say.

On the contrary, Indian companies have won the faith of clients all over the world. Most of the big banking projects are handled by domestic Indian companies. Lets not go too far, Consider Microsoft’s Vista operating system which is launched in the market recently. Almost 40 patents have been filed my Microsoft India, Hyderabad where about 330 software engineers developed important features of operating system. And this is not first time.

Iraqi kids running for mineral water bottle. No wonder they (american soilders) are doing good there yet again. no?

You are the one for me.

I guess Brett Lee should keep stick with Cricket only and Asha should keep away from this kindda weird stuff. A Very Funny Video.

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More than 3500 people have been died in the Southern India as Tsunamis (pronounced su-NAH-mee) hit the South Asia Region. More than 11000 people have been died in South Asia (India, Srilanka, Malasiya, Indonesia) till this writing. Toll is expected to rise as more reports come. No-one can expect this Sea surges just after a 25th day.

Jesus Bless 'em !

James Gosling was the first designer of "Oak", the high level programming language, greatly known as Java. Gosling implement its original compiler and virtual machine as a part to Green project at Sun.