Blackberry Hidden Commands

Enterprise Activation (Options->Advanced)
ALT+CNFG - Settings for Enterprise Activation

Address BookALT+VALD - Validate the data structure and look for inconsistencies
ALT+RBLD - Force a data structure rebuild

from the Options menu, type the following (No ALT+ required)
RSET - Will prompt to erase & reload for a reload of the Address book from the BES
(n.b. this will wipe all entries, but you can goto SIM Phone Book & copy entries back afterwards)


Browser
ALT+RBVS - View web page source code

Calendar
Open up a Calendar item
ALT+VIEW Inside any Calendar item Show extra info for a Calendar event
(including message ID - handy for BES log troubleshooting)

from the Options menu, type the following (No ALT+ required)
SYNC - Enable Calendar slow sync
RSET - Will prompt for a reload of the calendar from the BES
RCFG - Request BES configuration
SCFG - Send device configuration
DCFG - Get CICAL configuration
SUPD - Enable detailed Cal. report for backup
SUPS - Disable detailed Cal. report for backup
SUPN - Disable Cal. report database
LUID - Enable view by UID
SRSL - Show Reminder status log

MessagingALT+VIEW - For messages, displays the RefId and FolderId for that particular message. For PIM items, displays only the RefId.

Search Application
ALT+ADVM Search Application Enabled Advanced Global Search

Home Screen
ALT(left)+Shift(right)+Del - Restart the Blackberry (only for full-keyboard Blackberries)
ALT+JKVV - Display cause of PDP reject
ALT+CAP+ H - Displays the Help Me screen
ALT + EACE - Displays the Help Me screen
ALT + ESCR - Displays the Help Me screen
ALT + NMLL - Switches the signal strength from bars to a numeric value.
ALT + LGLG - Displays the Java™ event log.

WLAN (WLAN wizard screen)
ALT-SMON WLAN - Enable simulated Wizard mode
ALT-SMOF WLAN - Disable simulated Wizard mode

Theme (from theme menu)
ALT-THMN - Change to no theme (B&W)
ALT-THMD - Change to default theme

Date/Time (Date/Time menu - No ALT+ required)
LOLO - Date/Time Show Network time values

SIM Card (Options->Advanced->SIM card - No ALT+ required)
MEPD - Display MEP info
MEP1 - Disable SIM personalization
MEP2 - Disable Network personalization
MEP3 - Disable Network subset personalization
MEP4 - Disable Service provider personalization
MEP5 - Disable Corporate personalization

Status (Options->Status)
BUYR - Data & Voice Usage
TEST - start a device test (Keyboard, GPS, RF, Audio (Handset,headset,bluetooth, Misc)

JVM Error 102 - Blackberry Bold 9700

I recently has an issue with my blackberry 9700 Bold. I found that my device not coming up properly and throwing an exception JVM Error 102 with a small reset button. If you click on reset button you land on same page. I found that one of the .Cod file got corrupted and the only way to recover it to wipe all your data and reinstall again.

Here are some common JVM error and their explanations:
102 -- Invalid code in file system The system has checked the .COD files in the handheld for modification, and determined that there is a problem with one or more .COD files. If all loads fail, it could indicate a build process error where there was a problem signing the codfiles. If some user action to the device caused this problem, the reset cycle will be continuous since the code in the filesystem has been corrupted. The only recovery method is to wipe the device and restore a new system


506 Uncaught Exception An uncaught Java exception was thrown in the initial VM Java thread thus ending the only live thread in the system. The eventlog contains the traceback for the exception.


507 Unsatisfied Link A dependency on a .COD file could not be satisfied because the .COD file is missing.

508 Invalid object A problem has been detected with a debugger command to the VM.

509 VM_PPO_INFINITE_LOOP: infinite loop in PPO phase of GC The maximum iteration count for the PPO phase of a GC must be the maximum number of file handles in the system. This error indicates that the iteration count has exceeded that count and hence there is a flaw in the PPO loop or a corrupted file system. The extra hex integer in the error string is the flash id of the current record where the infinite loop was detected.


What it comes down to is that the JVM 102 error means that a .cod file on your phone seems to be corrupt, so the phone refuses to load it. Why wipe everything for one bad file? You might not need to!

1. Download JL_Cmder
2. Connect your phone to your PC using the USB cable that came with it.
3. Run JL_Cmder and select option 2 (event log)
4. Scroll to the bottom of the log and look for "JVM Error 102." The line before it should tell you exactly what file is causing the error. It might look something like this. Save the file name; you will need it later.
5. Go to Start > Run, and type "cmd" then press Enter.
6. Change directory to the JL_Cmder installation folder.
   e.g., type: cd "C:\Program Files\JL_Cmder\" and press enter
7. Type the following command to remove the offending file:
   javaloader.exe -u erase -f FILENAME
   where FILENAME is the name of the .cod file.
8. Disconnect your phone from your PC and restart it.

This might not be a permanent solution, but it should at least let you boot up your Blackberry so that you can back up all your data before reinstalling everything.

Another Approach is:
1) Open web browser and type www.att.com/bbdownloads
2) Select you handset device from the drop-down and click next , you will seesoftware for Bold will appear at the bottom.
3) Install As per the region you located.
4) Connect your phone to your PC using the USB cable that came with it.
5) Run the  loader.exe which by default after installation lies at C:\Program Files\Common Files\Research In Motion\AppLoader.
6) while installing you have to make sure to select a radio button, which asked to you wipe your data ( I am assuming that you take continuously back up and you have your backup copy handly ).
7) If you get an exception , you need to repeat same by removing the battery.

After following above step I am able to recover my Blackberry properly.

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Diwali explained by Indian Origin boy born in USA

A young second generation Indian Origin boy in the US was asked by his mother to explain the significance of "Diwali" to his younger brother, this is how he went about it...

 

"So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some national forest or something.... Since he was going, for like, something like more than 10 years or so..... he decided to get his wife and his bro along... you know...so that they could all chill out together. But Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary shit... really man.....they had monkeys and devils and shit like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked with darts and bows and arrows... so it was fine.

 

But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita) and lures her away to his hood. And boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman, pissed... all the gods were with him... So anyways, you don't mess with gods. So, Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys... Dude, don't ask me how they trained the damn monkeys... just go along with me, ok....

 

So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta's ass in his own hood.... Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest..... and anyways... it gets kinda boring, you know... no TV or malls or shit like that. So,they decided to hitch a ride back home.... and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home...they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice... and they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't take them out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and shit... and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also....so it was pretty cooool.... you know with all those fireworks.... Really, they even had some local band play along with the fireworks... and you know, what, dude, that was the very first, no kidding..., that was the very first music-synchronized fireworks... you know, like the 4th of July stuff, but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was how, like, this festival started."

The mother fainted...

What do women want? Reservation or equality?

India has lots of issue as Lalu said like price rise, unemployment, growing regionalism and threat to national security. I am not against the bill, can any confirm me whether the bill will be useful to handle the above serious issue what we are facing today. Second thing whether this will increase the Women’s presence in Indian polities? It will only increase the number of Women representative in assembly or parliament.

But why we can not imagine we can see more Rabri Devi like rubber stamp. I think the Women having real capability must get chance and opportunities to enter the assembly or parliament. Why we are forgetting India have some grate Women leader like Indira Gandi, Jayalatila, Mamata Banarjee, Basundra Raje, Shila Dekhit, Mehemuda Sahid , Meera Kumar , Susama Swaraj and many more. Most important all above leaders are in top label post in their party and holds top label position in Indian Democrat. I am totally against any label of reservation in any form. If you want to improve them, then spends your attention on their study and their growing up. Please my dear politician stop vote polities and abolish any form reservation either in employments, higher studies and house of representative.

I am all for women empowerment, but Reservation doesn't Solve any problem and It's a shame that we always look for shortcuts instead of sorting out the real problem in this case is giving tickets to the right candidates women or men, reservation is like denying or rather depriving a more capable person of its deserving position. we have reservation acts in the education system , reservation in medicine , Engineering, IIM , putting on future of our country on toss and making things worse.

What do women want? Reservation or equality?
It is their choice or something else is driving this , I feel its more like "better halves-in-power".
What's your take in this ?

Stupid Common Man

I am someone who is afraid to get into a bus or a train these days.
I am someone whose wife thinks is going to war..
.. while I am actually going to my work.
She is afraid that I may not return.
She calls up every two hours. To find if I had my tea.
To find if I have lunched.
Actually she wants to find out whether I am still alive.
I am someone who sometimes gets stuck in the rain or in the blasts.
I am someone who suspects the person carrying a rosary.
I am also the one who is afraid to grow his beard and wear a cap.
If I buy a shop I am afraid to choose a name as..
.. someone might see the name and burn it during the riots.
No matter which two parties are fighting..
.. I am the first one to get killed.
You must have seen a crowd. Choose a person from it.
I am that person.
I am just the stupid common wanting to clean his house.
Do you want me to live my life and die every moment of it?
I just did not get the time to do it.
In the process of earning my daily bread this work got neglected.
But it’s better late than never.
last time they were killed in a train..
.. this time it will be somewhere else.
They will keep on killing until we learn to give a solid reply.
has nothing to do with my religion.
There is.
I told you, I am just a stupid common man.

Doesnt it sound so much more true!

Google Buzz: How it will work

The world's No. 1 search engine Google has rolled out another app that will expand its Web presence. Called Google Buzz, the feature will pit it against social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Google Buzz will allow users to quickly share messages, Web links and photos with friends within its popular email service Gmail.

Google Buzz comes after the company's several not-so-successful attempts to strengthen its position in the hotly-contested social networking space.

Here's what Google Buzz will do for users.

As soon as Google Buzz service becomes active in a user's Gmail account, they can find a tab for Buzz below their inbox. On clicking the tab, users can read status updates, photos and video. Buzz updates will also show up directly in user's inbox as well as in a tab within Gmail.

According to Buzz product manager Todd Jackson, "You can open an item to comment directly because it’s a live object with an open connection to the server that gets updates in all time.

According to Google, 40 people whom users talk to through Gmail and Gchat will be automatically added as friends.

Buzz uses information from the existing email accounts of users to automatically show updates and media from people they talk to regularly. However, it will also allow users to share information privately if they want.Status messages that users publish on Google Buzz and flag as viewable to everyone will be automatically indexed by Google's search engine and be available within Google's recently launched real-time search results.

Google said users can also keep messages private by sharing only with customized groups of friends and colleagues.

Like other social services, Buzz allows users to post status updates that include text; photos from services like Google’s Picasa and Yahoo’s Flickr; videos from YouTube; and messages from Twitter. Analysts say many of its features mimic those of Facebook.

This means Buzz will eliminate the need for people to visit sites like Twitter to post updates or see those sent by people they have selected to follow.

google executives said that Google Buzz is currently not able to display messages that originated on Facebook, the world's No. 1 social network with 400 million active users.

According to Jackson, Buzz goes beyond status updates by letting people "pull in" images, video or other data from websites including Picasa, Flickr, Twitter and Google Reader.

Google Buzz will also pull in updates from outside your immediate group, such as an active conversation involving some friends and some people you aren't following. However, though users can view Twitter messages within Buzz, they will not be able to publish new messages to Twitter's service.

Mumbai For All ... Really ??????

I live in democratic country , Where every one has a right to speak and write , let me use my rights :)

We all know what happening in Mumbai, The Shiv Sena is at it again and now its sharukh khan , rahul gandhi ,sonia gandhi , Ambani's , sachin tendulkar, and many many more . Hope you all remember what happened to  all those people who had gone Mumbai for railways entrance test , Bihari/Up taxi drivers , shop keepers who are forced to change their shop Name. 

Basically, we the people of India are fooled easily. That is the reason why people like Thackeray can ignite a row on the issues of religion, language, place and states and casts. I really differ the what they thing and say , but yes truly admit that there are many of us who really worship them.

Soon the Thackeray family will start asking for Maharashtra to be a separate country and one will need VISA to go there. They are just dividing the society for their own benefit and making the most of public interest. This is definitely not for publicity as they are already well or notoriously known. If their intentions are not curbed soon, this infectious thought will spread to other states too.

What is the difference between Australians and the Thackerays. Australia is out of our country, but the Sena is within our purview, some thing has to be done to control such act of hooliganism.


I will say Why only Thackarey? All our political leaders are adopting the dirty way to achieve their narrow interest. Sometime in the name of caste, in the name of province, language, religion and what not? The basic rule of the land to be thoroughly altered to check the menace. In the absence of a national party, and because of weakness of national leaders all regional political parties play the nasty game. All to be banned and punished. But who is to bell the cat? The so called national parties are also forming alliance with those regional parties only to gain power. Let us ban the multiparty system. Two party system should be introduced

INDIA FOR ALL

Undo your send emails/Recover delete files

Undo your send emails:

Oops, hit "Send" too soon? Stop messages from being sent for a few seconds after hitting the send button.
You can actually Undo the email you have send , this feature is right now present in only Gmail .

Google strives to make the world's information useful. Mail you send late night on the weekends may be useful but you may regret it the next morning. Solve some simple math problems and you're good to go. Otherwise, get a good night's sleep and try again in the morning. After enabling this feature, you can adjust the schedule in the "General" settings page.


Way to Enable this :
1. Login to you Gmail account
2. Go to seeting

3. Select the Lab tab from all the given tabs
4. Enable Undo Send or Mail Goggles.

How To Protect/Hide Your Files Easily:

1) Right click , go to properties and select Hidden

2)  zip the file by using any compression software , while compression got to advance you can find , set password , secure , password protected .

3) check out free Open source http://www.truecrypt.org/.

Its create a virtual drive and you can put all your inportant stuff their.

Want to Recover delete files;

Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Check out .. www.recuva.com. Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it's free!

Yes Bank mops up Rs 1034 crore

Yes Bank raised $225 million (about Rs 1,034 crore) through private placement of shares to institutional investors. "The issue of $225 million, was oversubscribed on strong demand from foreign institutional investors and domestic mutual funds," said Yes Bank in a statement. The bank will issue 3.84 crores equity shares at Rs 269.5 per equity share. The issuance of fresh equity will be equivalent to 11.33% of the expanded capital base. The share price of the company closed at Rs 245.6 on Thursday.

The fund infusion will increases the capital adequacy to over 20% and Tier I Capital Adequacy to over 13%, based on assets as on December 31, 2009. Total shareholders' fund will touch Rs 3,000 crore and the total capital fund Rs 5,070 crore after the QIP and an additional placement of Rs 300 crore of Tier II debt on January 22, 2010, the statement said.

In the third quarter of 2009-10, the banks earned a net profit of Rs 125.9 crore. Its credit grew at 71.1% in the quarter as against the same period last year. ‘‘The fresh capital infusion will be further augment the capital adequacy, and enhance the long-term resources of the bank. With this capital raising, Yes Bank's total capital fund has crossed Rs 5,000 crore,". Morgan Stanley, CLSA and Goldman Sachs were the joint global coordinates and book running lead managers to the QIP issue.

The 60st Republic Day of India will be celebrated all over the country on 26th January 2010. The chief guest for this year’s Republic Day celebration in India will be Lee Myung bak, the President of the Republic of Korea.

On this occasion, we’ll have a little recap about this day as many of our own ancestors are from India. On 15th August 1947, India obtained its independence. However the country did not have its own constitution but was rather using a modified one of the previous colonial government.

After a long time, and lots of controversies, the existing constitution of India came into effect on the 26th January 1950. That followed the election of Rajendra Prasad as the President of the country. 26 January is one of 3 national level holidays in India.

This day is celebrated as a joy of freedom. Freedom from Power Mongers! Happy Republic Day India.

Check out the latest version of "Phir Mile Sur".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBIKtAa3zBs&feature=player_embedded

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 – Best PC Game 2009!

Modern Warfare 2 is all set to be the best game of 2009 with an amazing $550 million in sales in its first week of release itself! Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is the game of the moment. It is the game that all self respected player need to get their mouse on.

As such even I will be investing into upgrading my old home pc to be able to play Modern Warfare 2 soon. For now I use a laptop which is not really suitable for hardcore game.
The much awaited PC game of the year 2009,  on its first day itself the sales were…unimaginable! That was a record breaker and the trend is not over yet. Records are falling into piece as Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 sales keep boosting.

$550 million in sales in 5 days only! Activision Blizzard Inc, the group behind this game is more than just amazed. This is much more than an Harry Potter movie would bring.

About 9 million copies of the game have already been dispatched in the world. The approximate price of the game is $60 per copy and really based on all the review I have read, YOU NEED to get this game.

Promised to all My reader ,I will get this in coming week :)

7 million lost jobs: Gone forever?

A two-year string of job losses appears to be near an end, if it hasn't ended already.

When the government releases its jobs report for December on Friday morning, some believe it will show an increase in hiring. That would be the first rise in payrolls in two years, although the consensus of economists surveyed by Briefing.com is for another loss of 35,000 jobs.

Most economists don't expect the employment picture to significantly improve anytime this year -- or over the next few years for that matter.

The unemployment rate, which stood at 10% in November, is expected to stay uncomfortably high for the foreseeable future. Some experts even suggest that the labor market won't be able to fully recover from the 7.2 million jobs lost since the start of 2008 before another recession and round of job losses.

This probably won't be a jobless recovery, like the 21-month period that followed the 2001 recession during which an additional 1.1 million jobs were lost. Most economists are looking for employers to start adding to U.S. payrolls early this year.
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The first step of climbing out of the job hole is to stop digging. So a positive payroll number would be significant. But the hole the economy fell into during the Great Recession is so deep, the return of hiring won't do much to significantly fix the weak job market.

"The problem is recovery doesn't mean recovered," said Lakshman Achuthan, managing director of Economic Cycle Research Institute. "We need a long recovery to get back 7 million jobs."

Achuthan believes even if there is decent growth this year, there will be slow growth over the course of the expansion. That means it could take as long as 10 years to recover all the lost jobs -- and that assumes that there isn't another recession in that time frame. Achuthan believes another recession later this decade is likely.

Unless there is a huge shift in government policy to cutting spending, we will not get back to 5% unemployment anytime in the foreseeable future," he said. To top of page

Log in to Yahoo! Messenger with multi account within the same time

I have good news for those who like chatting by using Yahoo! Messenger. We usually have more than one account . In default, if we log in to Yahoo! Messenger on our computer, we cannot log in again with another account. If we try to log in with another account, automatically, the previously logged-in-account will be logged out, in other words, we can only log in with one account.

Is there a way to be able to log in with multi account within the same time? Well, actually there is the way to log in with multiple accounts in the same time. Want to know? Below are the steps (for Windows XP)

1. Click Start on your computer
2. Click Run…
3. Write : regedit
4. Click OK
5. When window registry editor open, find HKEY_CURRENT_USER
6. Open this: HKEY_CURRENT_USER ⇒ Software ⇒ Yahoo ⇒ Pager ⇒ Test.
7. Right click at the folder Test ⇒ New ⇒ DWORD Value



8 Rename the New Value #1 becomes : Plural
9 Right click at Plural ⇒ Modify



10 Change Value Data becomes 1, Base choose at decimal. Click OK



11 Close your Window Registry editor
12 Done

Good News -- Stars Helping Haiti

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Give $1 Million
In the wake of the 7.0-magnitude quake that left Haiti in ruins, the superstar couple were among the first Hollywood figures to respond, giving $1 million to Doctors Without Borders, to aid emergency medical operations. "It is incredibly horrible to see a catastrophe of this size hit a people who have been suffering from extreme poverty, violence and unrest for so many decades," Jolie said.

Wyclef Jean Gives His All
Haitian-born Wyclef Jean has always been a supporter of the island nation; he started the Yele Haiti Foundation in 2005, to fund scholarships, rebuild after hurricanes, and support cultural efforts. Immediately after the quake, he urged the international community for aid, setting up a simple text-message donation system (text "Yele" to 501501 to give $5). He's reportedly raised $1 million so far. But he's also giving his manpower: Jean arrived in Port-au-Prince to help in rescue efforts.

Wyclef's Friend Shakira
Via her website, the "Hips Don't Lie" singer has urged her fans to donate to UNICEF and to Wyclef's Yele Foundation. She's just one of many stars who have taken to the Internet to campaign for donations: Lindsay Lohan, P. Diddy, Ashton Kutcher, Lenny Kravitz, and Adam Lambert have all taken to Twitter to bring awareness to Haiti's time of need.

Oprah Winfrey
The hugely influential talk show host took a moment Wednesday to ask viewers to donate to the Red Cross. The organization has reportedly raised $4 million so far.

Sandra Bullock Gives $1 Million
The actress gave money to Doctors Without Borders. "I wanted to ensure that my donation would be used immediately to meet the needs of the Haitian people affected by this catastrophic event," she said.

Even Tiger Woods Donates, According to Reports
Despite his ongoing personal scandal, Woods is rumored to have opened his wallet big-time to aid the victims of Haiti's quake. According to Russell Simmons, the intensely private golfer is giving $3 million to Wyclef Jean's Yele Foundation, and sending a mobile hospital with 50 EMTs.

and the list continues........Wonder where our Bollywood Stars

When Haiti Was Young

Haiti has never been simple. While it's the only nation in the Western Hemisphere to boast a successful slave rebellion (during the Haitian Revolution of the late 18th century), the freedom wrested from colonial rule hardly brought the full blessings of liberty to the island nation's residents. For much of its history, Haiti has consistently been among the world's poorest countries, and today it is, by all measures, the poorest country in the Americas. (Like so many places in the Caribbean, it's also a land of rare, intense natural beauty.)

Politically, the country has had its share of drama -- little of it positive. While (at least nominally) a republic, the country has frequently been ruled by the worst possible examples of the classic, corrupt "strongman" stereotype -- with the most famous among them, perhaps, being François "Papa Doc" Duvalier. From his quite-likely rigged election as president in 1957 through his death in 1971, Duvalier ruled Haiti with a brutality notable even among the many other brutally repressive regimes blighting the Americas at the time. In 1964, in a referendum asking whether Papa Doc should be made "President for Life," nearly 3 million Haitians (reportedly) voted "yes," while 3,000 voted "no." For the next several years, life in Haiti grew, if possible, even more hellish for Duvalier's opponents. Thousands were murdered; thousands more fled. Papa Doc, meanwhile, maintained that he had been chosen by God to lead.

In January, 2010, a massive earthquake devastated the country, killing tens of thousands (with some estimates closer to 200,000), and leaving millions more homeless. As of this writing, relief agencies are struggling to cope with the quake's apocalypitc aftermath, and Haitians are again facing a future that seems far from bright.

Twitter disables widgets over security flaw

Twitter has temporarily disabled one of the features on its website, after a security researcher warned of a programming flaw, that left the login
credentials of its users vulnerable to hackers.

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an email that the company had temporarily cut off access to a feature that lets users display Twitter updates on their websites by using Flash technology. "Our team has disabled the Flash widget while we look into the problem," Stone said.

Mike Bailey, a senior security analyst with Foreground Security of Orlando, Florida, said that the problem exploits a widely known vulnerability in Adobe Systems Inc's Flash programming language. Adobe has told programmers how to address the vulnerability, which was first discovered in 2006, Bailey added, but noted the operators of many websites have failed to respond to those warnings.

The microblogging site's huge popularity has made it a prime target for hackers looking to spread malicious software to Twitter's millions of users. "As simple as the attack is, I've been finding them all over the place," Bailey said.

Officials with Adobe declined to comment. A hacker last month briefly hijacked the Twitter site and redirected it to one that claimed to represent a group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army. The attack -- by a perpetrator who stole credentials to the account that Twitter uses to route its traffic -- did not compromise credentials of any Twitter users.

Bailey said his analysis of the Twitter site showed that it could have been vulnerable to attacks for more than a year, but that it was impossible to know whether hackers had actually exploited the Adobe flaw. He is scheduled to discuss his research on the Twitter flaw at the Black Hat DC security research conference in Washington, which begins on February 2nd

Pride and Prejudice

Who carries you on a rickshaw or an autorickshaw in Delhi? Biharis. Who drives the cars of Delhiites? Biharis. Who built the Delhi Metro? Biharis. (You may not agree with the last one.)

Who is building the new houses and the expanding suburbs of Delhi? Biharis. Who made Punjab the most prosperous state in the country? The answer again is Biharis. (Here too you may not agree.)

The credit for building the Delhi Metro or making Punjab prosperous will never go to Biharis. Does anyone ever say that blacks built America?

In colonial days, Bihar supplied the "girmitiya", or indentured, labour force that built countries like Mauritius, Suriname and Fiji. A bulk of the labour employed in the Raj capital of Calcutta came from Bihar. After Independence, as opportunities grew, Bihari workers flocked to places like Delhi, Punjab and Mumbai.


At the same time, Biharis excelled in other fields. Many of them became great political leaders, ICS and IAS
officers, scientists, doctors, engineers, writers and artists. Delhi and other Indian cities attracted huge white-collar Bihari populations and Biharis formed a large part of the Indian diaspora of professionals.

But in the eyes of the rest of India, "Bihari" had come to mean a labourer, a person doing menial jobs. It had become a term of scorn and contempt. In their anglicized lingo, places like Delhi University turned the word into "Harry", but the pejorative tone remained unmistakable.

Heaping scorn on the working classes is a universal phenomenon. That is how words like Negro, Paki (used for Pakistanis and Indians in Britain) and some of the words denoting dalit castes in India earned contemptuous connotations.

In fact, while Biharis were getting their hands dirty on Punjab's farms, Punjabis were migrating in hordes to the US, Canada, the UK and Australia. Never mind that they would take up blue-collar jobs as taxi drivers, petrol pump attendants and waiters in those faraway lands.

As the years passed, many of the Biharis who had come to Punjab or Mumbai as manual labourers started moving up the economic ladder as did the blue-collar Indian emigrants abroad. A usually unnoticed aspect of the so-called racial attacks against Indians abroad is the threat the rise of working classes poses to the entrenched social order. This accentuates the contempt they face. Viewed thus, the attacks on Biharis in Punjab, and Mumbai, and the attacks on Indians abroad are manifestations of the same phenomenon.

What stopped Biharis from bringing about a green revolution or building a Metro in Bihar? The answer is geography and history. Geography, because ravaged by floods, the land of Bihar was unable to feed its growing population. And history, because what was the centre of the biggest Indian empire in ancient times was reduced to an obscure provincial existence. The skewed landownership system introduced by the British rulers worsened the situation.

It is a story of a couple of hundred years. Things could have improved after Independence had the political leadership of Bihar been able to exert influence on the rulers in New Delhi to get enough funds for development projects and set off a process of industrialization in the state.

On the contrary, Bihar continued to live the same, conveniently ignored, provincial existence. A system built on casteism, nepotism, corruption and crime came to dominate the state. It spawned a neo-rich class of netas, babus, contractors and government engineers who would build palatial houses for themselves with the money meant for dams, power projects, ration for the poor or even fodder for cattle.

The money meant for roads, other infrastructure and public amenities would go into their bank accounts. No wonder, the roads - supposed to be built with public money - in front of those houses would be full of ditches and become the playground of pigs every monsoon.

With limited options of higher education and hardly any employment opportunities in the state, the youth of Bihar started looking out. They flooded places like Delhi University and Jawaharlal Nehru University. They started dominating the country's toughest competitive tests like the IIT Joint Entrance Examination and the UPSC's civil services examination. With this success, Biharis started believing that they were the brainiest. As for others, they at least began to acknowledge that Biharis were inferior to none when it came to brainpower.

The academic success, however, did not do much to rid the word "Bihari" of the scorn it had gathered. People in Delhi continued to laugh at those who spoke with a Bihari accent. Those who spoke without an accent would get this compliment: "Oh, you are from Bihar? But you don't sound like a Bihari."

Biharis, meanwhile, were retreating into a shell, with little but the glory of ancient and medieval heroes like Buddha, Mahavira, Chandragupta, Chanakya, Ashoka, Aryabhatta, Guru Gobind Singh and Sher Shah to bask in. Now comes 11% growth. The state can recover from the damage it has suffered over hundreds of years only if such a high rate of growth can be sustained for many, many years. Then Biharis would not have to till others' land or build cities and countries elsewhere.

this is strange that india is started dividing into casts and religion. We should stop this and concentrate on making our great nation a develop country .

Internet Controversies of the Past Decade

The Internet has been a breeding ground for controversy from the start. Part of this is a result of the fact that the Internet is the great neutralizer; it empowers everyone to have a voice

The Great Firewall of China

Censorship has always been a hot button issue in society. China is probably the most notorious country to practice strict online censorship garnering the moniker, “The Great Firewall of China'

Other sites have cropped up to try to get around the censorship and provide access to blocked sites. There are also sites that let you test whether your site is blocked.

Censored material includes sites that incite Chinese citizens to resist or break their constitution, criticism of laws or regulations of the Chinese government, sexually suggestive material, talk about gambling and violence, and more.

The censorship has come under fire from governments around the world. President Obama has openly criticized China’s censorship programs. The biggest event that brought the situation to light occurred during the recent Beijing Olympics, where foreign journalists’ ability to report freely was blighted.

More coverage of the controversy:

• The Great Firewall of China – BusinessWeek
• Opera Plugs Hole in Great Firewall of China – The Register
• Slipping Over the Great Firewall of China – The New York Times

2. Internet Service Providers throttle bandwidth consumption

Bandwidth throttling is a common practice among some ISPs to restrict excessive consumption of service resources, specifically when they’re using file-sharing services. ISPs proclaim that it helps ensure all their customers have reasonable bandwidth access, but critics assert that it’s unethical and unfair to consumers that have to pay the same price for less service.

More coverage of the controversy:

• Google Launches Tools to Test for Bandwidth Throttling – Sitepoint
• Comcast to Throttle Biggest Bandwidth Hogs – PCWorld
• 5 Questions About Comcast’s New Bandwidth Throttling Plan – GigaOm

3. Facebook’s Privacy Policy changes

In February 2009, Facebook altered their Terms of Service to allow them to use and retain any content posted to user accounts indefinitely and without limitation, claiming ownership of its user’s content once it’s uploaded to their site even after a user’s account is deleted.

Unsurprisingly, this caused quite a stir among users. Others formed groups on the site itself, calling for the ToS to be reverted back.

Facebook asserts that they never intended for the change to be that far-reaching, and that it was a misinterpretation of the new terms.

Users weren’t buying it, and in the end, Facebook changed the ToS back to the original version, and has seen sought user input before implementing changes.

More coverage of the controversy:

• Facebook Changes Terms of Service to Control More User Data – CNET
• Changes to Facebook Terms of Service Outrage Users – Mlive.com
• Facebook Yields to User Outrage, Reverts to Old Terms of Service – Macworld

Conclusion

It’s unlikely the Internet will ever be controversy-free. And would we really want it to be? Many Internet users enjoy (at least in part) the controversy that is so prevalent on the web. We all have a chance to be heard, whether it’s in matters of global importance or the latest celebrity gossip.

If we missed something, tell us in the comments and let’s have the last great Internet controversy of this decade.

Few Saddest Pictures in The World

Humans are best creations; they are most intelligent in all existing species on the earth. With this intelligence they ruled the world and destroyed it too. Here are the few pictures which tell our sad past.

In the morning September 11, 2001, two hijacked passenger jets crashed into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. This was no accident, but rather a series of attacks done by suicide bombers engaged with the Al-Qaeda terrorist group.

The attacks killed all the passengers on board the hijacked planes, and took away 2,974 innocent lives at the World Trade Center. More than 90 countries lost citizens in the attack, and the stock market was closed for a week.

Nagasaki Hiroshima Masroon Clouds:

This is the picture of the “mushroom cloud” showing the enormous quantity of energy. The first atomic bomb was released on August 6 in Hiroshima (Japan) and killed about 80,000 people. On August 9 another bomb was released above Nagasaki. The effects of the second bomb were even more devastating – 150,000 people were killed or injured. But the powerful wind, the extremely high temperature and radiation caused enormous long term damage.

Starving Boy:

World Press Photo of the Year: 1980 Mike Wells, United Kingdom. Karamoja district, Uganda, April 1980. Starving boy and a missionary. About the image Wells felt indignant that the same publication that sat on his picture for five months without publishing it, while people were dying, entered it into a competition. He was embarrassed to win as he never entered the competition himself, and was against winning prizes with pictures of people starving to death.

Nilgunyalcin Child Vulture:
Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture nearby. It is quite obvious that the child was starving to death, while the vulture was patiently waiting for the toddler to die so he can have a good meal.

Nobody knows what happened to the child, who crawled his way to a United Nations food camp. Photographer Kevin Carter won a Pulitzer Prize for this shocking picture, but he eventually committed suicide three months after he took the shot.