Life is Beautiful

A man feared his wife wasn’t hearing as well as she used to and he thought she might need a hearing aid. Not quite sure how to approach her, he called the family Doctor to discuss the problem. The Doctor told him there is a simple informal test the husband could perform to give the Doctor a better idea about her hearing loss.

Here’s what you do,” said the Doctor, “stand about 40 feet away from her, and in a normal conversational speaking tone see if she hears you. If not, go to 30 feet, then 20 feet, and s o on until you get a response.

“That evening, the wife is in her bedroom and he was in the den. He says to himself, “I’m about 40 feet away, let’s see what happens.” then in a romantic tone he asks, ‘Honey, do you wana make love tonight?” No response. So the husband moves to closer to the room, about 30 feet from his wife and
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You must have seen this warning on many sites that you shouldn’t select “remember password” on a shared computer. Do you know exactly why they ask you to do that ?  I would like to talk about one good reason why you should not be doing that.

Lets see how its dangerous in firefox when you select “Remember password” for any site.

When you click on “Remember” in the above image, anybody can see your username and password(in clear text) on your computer. If you want to confirm it , try this in Firefox . Click on tools->options . Select the “Security” tab and then click on “Show Password”
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Yesterday I was looking at the traffic on www.shwetagupta.com and found that lot of people from myspace and other domains are referring to images hosted on my server and hence eating up my bandwidth. I was getting 40% of the requests(for images) from myspace domain. Yes! they have a huge traffic. If one has to use the images then they should download them and host them on their server instead of hotlinking to someone else site. “Hotlinking” or “Bandwidth theft” is direct linking to a web site’s files (images, video, etc.). An example would be using an <img> tag to display an image you found on someone else’s web page so it will appear on your own site, weblog, forum message post, etc. Usually personal sites don’t have that much of bandwidth to allow hotlinking of images. Also I observed that lot of people these days not only copy the content from your site but also the the images (still being served from your server i.e. leeching your bandwidth)

You can do two things to discourage hotlinking of content on your site

I Making changes in .htaccess file

Suppose all your images are in images folders ( mine are in http://www.shwetagupta.com/blog/images) then create .htaccess file in that folder with following content so that request for any image on shwetagupta.com (on any domain other than shwetagupta.com) will cause it to display a substitute image (stolen.jpg) i.e

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I have at times loved to be in invisible mode on Yahoo messenger and chat with people as per my convenience. Last week I was in invisible mode at 7 am in the morning and one window popped up ” Hey Shweta, how are you” . I asked that friend of mine “How do you always know when I am online ? ” . She replied ” xeeber. Its xeeber.com ” .

I checked out the site and wow you just need to type the user id of the person and xeeber.com tells you the status
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Yesterday I was reading a article about pligg on techcrunch and thought of giving pligg a shot. I was amazed that it took me less than 10 minutes to set up a digg clone. Check out the - digg clone I set up using pligg

It has lot of nice features like
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Have you ever wondered as to what makes you tired ?

Physical work? Mental work or the work which you don’t like? If you think about it you will realize that its the
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A super hilarious video. You gotta watch it !!!

Well I never thought when I left bay area that I will get a chance to go there again. But you never know. Now I am going back there tomorrow though only for two weeks. I wil be working from our US office which is in Emeryville. I am too too excited
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Saksham(My nephew) and Sanya(my niece) both showing their excitement for christmas.
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Its been almost three months now since I have moved from US to India. As a habit, I keep on observing lot of things around me and try to analyse them. Some of these things make me happy , some sad and some of them just amuse me. There is no doubt that there have been huge improvements in India in the past four years especially in the metropolitan cities. People are predicting that if India continues to grow at this rate then it will soon be world power number 3.

Now let me start with the things which make me sad so that I can talk about happy things at the end to have a happy ending ;). Since I stay near Delhi so
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