Gone are the days when geeks or nerds were thought of as a totally different species of human beings, who were unappealing, disgusting irritating.

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This interesting video shows 3-4 reasons to a non-geek or simple guy “Why a Geek Will Steal Your Girlfriend in 2008″…..and believe me the arguments given in favor of the topic look appealing and genuine, if you like me watch it from a geek’s point of view

One site that is referred to in the video is Geeksaresexy.com where the so called “controversial”, article was posted on which the video is based upon, is another interesting site to browse through, which genuinely tries to shout “GEEKS ARE SEXY”

After watching this video, i hope all the hot girls would definitely be thinking of spending their time, in front of a computer with sexy geek, like me. (I wish some girl would term even me as sexy….oh !! )

And all boys, just be aware or the geeky boy-next-door, could steal your girlfriend…for the reasons you know now.

Even i always wondered like any other man using an assembled computer that “Can’t I assemble a Laptop the same way?”The answer i have found is yes, i got an interesting article at famous site for hardware, Tomshardware

The article is located here

A must read for any hardware buff, or people crazy enough to assemble laptops for themselves, because one thing that’s pointed clearly in the article is that “it is not going to be cheap, as assembling a Desktop”.

The following post is based on Gmail file-system developed by Richard Jones, taken from his website http://richard.jones.name :

GmailFS supports most file operations such as read, write, open, close, stat, symlink, link, unlink, truncate and rename. This means that you can use all your favorite unix command line tools to operate on files stored on Gmail (e.g. cp, ls, mv, rm, ln, grep etc. etc.).

Installation:

• Make sure you have Python 2.3 (or later) installed. Most Linux distributions will have their own package for this (you’ll also need the appropriate python2.3-dev packages).
• Recent kernels include FUSE by default. If you run an older kernel you will need to install version 2.x of FUSE. Some Linux distributions (such as Debian) come with a package. If your distro doesn’t, you can find the source at FUSE’s SourceForge download page. Depending on your platform you may have to copy fusermount to /usr/bin for correct operation.
• Download the Python FUSE bindings from FUSE’s CVS repository. Checkout the python module using:
  cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@fuse.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fuse co -P python
  Then follow the instructions in python/INSTALL.
• Download a copy of libgmail. Recent releases currently work however if you experience problems you may wish to grab the CVS version of libgmail by following the instructions here. After downloading (or checking out) the file, copy libgmail.py and lgconstants.py to somewhere Python can find them (/usr/local/lib/python2.3/site-packages/ works for Debian, others may vary).
• Download gmailfs-0.8.0.tar.gz. After untarring, copy gmailfs.py to somewhere easily accessible (for example, /usr/local/bin/gmailfs.py). Copy mount.gmailfs to the /sbin directory.

Using:

• You can mount your Gmail filesystem either via fstab or on the command line using mount.To use fstab, create an entry /etc/fstab that looks something like: /usr/local/bin/gmailfs.py /path/of/mount/point gmailfs noauto,username=gmailuser, password=gmailpass, fsname=zOlRRa
  Note: If you cut and paste this entry remember to remove the spaces after the commasThe username and password fields speak for themselves. The fsname is the name of this Gmail filesystem. It is important to choose a hard-to-guess name here - because if others can guess the fsname, they can corrupt your Gmail filesystem by injecting spurious messages into your Inbox.To mount from the command line, do: mount -t gmailfs /usr/local/bin/gmailfs.py /path/of/mount/point -o username=gmailuser, password=gmailpass, fsname=zOlRRa
  Note: If you cut and paste this entry remember to remove the spaces after the commasWarning: both of these methods have serious security issues. If you run a multi-user system, others can easily see your Gmail username and password. As of version 0.4 Gmail Filesystem supports an external configuration file for setting most of the options mentioned above, as well as defining your proxy settings if you require them. You can see an example gmailfs.conf file in the distribution, edit it appropriately and copy it to /etc/gmailfs.conf. Note that to use the Gmail filesystem through a proxy you must have the appropriate SSL packages installed, under Debian installing the package named python2.3-pyopenssl will ensure you have the correct dependencies installed. If your distribution doesn’t have a package you can download it from the pyOpenSSL webpage (you will also need the OpenSSL libraries). You will also need to download pyOpenSSLProxy and follow the installation instructions in the README. Note that HTTPS proxy support is optional, if you don’t need it then Gmail Filesystem will work fine without these extra packages.
• GmailFS also has a blocksize option. The default blocksize is 5MB. Files smaller than the minimum blocksize will only use the amount of space required to store the file, NOT the full blocksize. Note that any files created during a previous mount with a different blocksize will retain their original blocksize until deleted. For most applications you will make best use of your bandwidth by keeping the blocksize as large as possible.
• When you delete files, GmailFS will place the files in the trash. libgmail does not currently support purging items from the trash, so you will have to do this manually when logged into your Gmail account.
• To avoid seeing the messages created for your Gmail filesystem you probably want to create a filter which automatically archives GmailFS messages as they come into your Inbox. The best approach is probably to search for the fsname value; it’ll be in the subject of all GmailFS messages.

Overview:

All meta-information in the GmailFS is stored in the subject of emails sent by the Gmail user to themselves. This was not as good an idea as I’d first thought. The idea was that I could speed things up by grabbing the message summary without having to download the entire message; however, as Gmail elides the subjects to fit on screen, I need to get the full message anyway (the message bodies are empty, but it does add considerable latency to operations such as ls -l on a large directory).

The actual file data is stored in attachments, and files can span several attachments allowing file sizes greater than the maximum Gmail attachment (filesize should only be limited by the amount of free space in your Gmail account).

There are three types of important structures in the GmailFS:

1. Directory and file entry structures hold the parent path and name of files or directories. Symlink information is also kept here. These structures have a reference to the file’s or directory’s inode.
2. Inode structures hold the kind of information usually found in a unix inode such as mode, uid, gid, size etc.
3. Data block structures are messages which hold the attachment data for a file. The subject of the messages holding these structures contains a reference to the file’s inode as well as the current blocknumber.

All subject lines have a fsname (filesystem name) field which has two purposes:

1. It prevents the injection of spurious data into the filesystem by external attackers. As such, the fsname should be chosen with the care you would exercise in choosing a user password.
2. It allows multiple filesystems to be stored on a single Gmail account. By mounting with different fsname options set, the user can create distinct filesystems.

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This blog has been around for a while, and has in fact covered everything about Orkut in such depth and detail, that it should be termed as official site for Orkut .

Everything about orkut can be found here ex: Scrapbook flooders, scrap-all-at-once, new useful orkut scripts, orkut tools like Scrapboy, Orkut toolbar, Orkut messenger, and the most famous Greasemonkey script(for Firefox).

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Verdict: A frequently must-visit site for all orkutters.

Technology is Funny !!

Most of you people won’t believe or agree, but technology and the whole world around it has its own funny side. I was just wondering to make an article over it. I want to prove this fact by three ways:

1. I was checking out some forums, Unix/Linux pages, and I found some funny signatures.
   Signatures:
   1) One picture is worth 128K words.

   2)The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to
   hang yourself. And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure.

   3)The difference between Microsoft and ‘Jurassic Park’:
   In one, a crazy businessman makes a lot of money with beasts that should be
   extinct. The other one is a film.

   4)The gates in my computer are AND, OR and NOT; they are not Bill.

   5)Windows 98: Not Plug & Play, but Bug & Pay!

   6)Windows 98: Use for 98 days and throw it away!

   7)Linux doesn’t need no viruses. The users fuck up the system by themselves.

   8)Keyboard not found…….!!! Press any key to continue, or any other key to cancel.

   9)Why do geeks think Halloween and Christmas occur on the same day?
   Because 31oct = 25dec!

   10)There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary
   and those who don’t.

   11)This is an object-oriented system. If we change anything, the users object.

   12)C++ is a loaded machine gun pointed at your feet with the safety off.

2. Serious yet funny web-sites:I am taking the example of Digg.com, which most of netizens are familiar to. This huge traffic drawing site is mostly dedicated to digging of new, most popular and latest stories, which are submitted by users all around the globe, sometimes 100’s or 1000’s in a second, so many of them could be similar.First fo all when submitting a new story to digg, in the Captcha verification it asks:
   
   It asks “Are you human? Sorry we have to ask” ….i haven’t seen any better way to ask for verification.After submission it checks for duplicate, and if found displays the duplicate stories and gives a button “Totally original, i swear”, to confirm.
3. Some of the funniest web-sites on world wide web:
   1. Pictures od walls
      This website displays pics of funny writings on the walls. Even on its homepage its written:
      
   2. overheardinnewyork
      This website displays strange, pun intending and lots more voices recorded from various places in new york, an example:
      
   3. foundmagazine
      This is some appealing theme and graceful looking website, my favorite, which as website tells “We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids’ homework, to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles - anything that gives a glimpse into someone
      else’s life. Anything goes…”
      
   4. engrish
      This site is unique in its own way.What it does and what “engrish” is all about is made pretty clear in its FAQ section on the web-site which is infact, Funny section:P
      

I hope, that through this article, even the readers will be convinced that Technology is not serious everytime, infact it is lots more funny.

I-am-bored

A web-site, in a way completely dedicated to hard working people of geeko arena (means in technical fields related to computers and web). It doesn’t straightly conveys all its content for tech-crowd, but for that fact that most of its content is derived from the web and all categories, which are in fact most appealing to the same crowd.

This web-site being in a dark-background, brings forward the best and wackiest, most humorous and interesting content on the whole world wide web, so that whenever you feel bored, you can just go there and jump into to get out of your bored-situation.

So all the geeks, whenever you start feeling bored of your work or development, and are ready to catch on all funny things on cyberspace, as the website says ” Here’s a list of sites for when you’re feeling bored. Updated daily, so check back whenever you’re bored. “

I found a hierarchical map of all the distributions in big, vast and mostly silent Linux family, while browsing. It is quite interesting and shows all the hybrids and distributions and the parent distributions, from which they originated….cool stuff

click on the image to zoom

Even Linux has got a big family!

source:http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/04/mind-map-of-linux-distributions.html

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