Connecting the dots : Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech 2005

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

9 Interesting fact : Google

#1

The prime reason the Google home page is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn’t know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact it was noted that the submit button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.

#2

One of the biggest leap in search usage came about when they introduced their much improved spell checker giving birth to the “Did you mean…” feature. This instantly doubled their traffic, but they had some interesting discussions on how best to place that information, as most people simply tuned that out. But they discovered the placement at the bottom of the results was the most effective area.

Raindrops : Something Non-technological.

Someone told me that day "Life is a flashback".I heard it,nodded and looked through the windows of the train. What did he mean?Twelve seconds was all i could spare thinking his words until a dashing girl's thought came and diverted my mind.

Delete autorun.inf : virus cleaning

How to Delete autorun.inf virus or open with virus?

Autorun.inf is most common type of virus found in most of the systems. and often not detected by antivirus programs.

not every autorun.inf file is a virus. This file is commanly used in the CD’s for autoplaying the content of the CD.

Hide Information in Pics : Encryption

Have secret plans to take over the world that you don’t want anyone to be able to read? Encrypt those precious bytes with a custom password before disguising them as an ordinary picture that could fool anyone.

the unknowns : hacking NASA

Houston, we may have a hacking problem.

A new group of hackers calling themselves, 'The Unknowns,' hacked into NASA's database according to USA Today.

The group stole and published a list of passwords and documents reportedly belonging to NASA.

In their Pastebin post, they list other 'victims' of their hacks including, the US military, the US Air Force, the European Space Agency, the Thai Royal Navy and curiously, the Jordanian Yellow Pages.

JULIAN ASSANGE : WIKILEAKS

Julian Assange has been in the news almost on a daily basis, ever since top secret US military reports and innumerable diplomatic cables were leaked by him two years ago.

This move was courageous if not daring, and the general public ought to be grateful that so many secret documents within the US government machine have been made public, showing terrible evidence about the war in Iraq, treachery, wide-spread corruption, illegal spying. Yet there are more, many more compromising documents and scenarios waiting to see the light of day and the US government is making tremendous efforts to get Mr. Assange under their control.