I really dont know , what is happening to my machine . I am not able to open any site except google ones . I tried nsitonline.in , nsitlounge.in , rediff.com, santabanta.com and everyother site that i can think off . But in vain . And totally opposite , every google site is opening . Google Reader , blogger.com , google.com ( search is being dispplayed but i cant open any of the site ,very strangely , i am able to see the cached pages ) , orkut , etc . If any of you are having such problem,please tell me . I will really be very grateful to you .

P.S- I am now dead sure it was a virus , i tried running those websites on my other windows ( i hav 2 windows) and everything was fine on that window , i tried everything to resolve the error on main window (on which i work/play) but in vain . Anywayz i have now bought a new PC , it's P4 dual core 3.4 Ghz but unfortunately i cant use it right now as i am having some problem moving my old hard disk to merge into my new comp with new SATA hard drive . Actually my all installers are on my old harddisk and i dont want to download those from internet again . The data is so large that i just cant think of burning CD for them . BTW if any of you wants to buy a second hand P3 733Mhz along with CD writer, lan card , etc. at a very very low cost , u may contact me .

Goodbye Microsoft , google is here . Goobuntu or GooOS or whatever you like to call them is the news of today . Last few days , Us media spent sleep-less nights at google office to seek any info that they can have on google OS . Google OS which is supposed to be rolled out by 2010 is on fast track as said by most of the tech experts .

Google's money won't be made with search...that's small peanuts compared to selling access to the world's biggest, best, and most cleverly-utilized map of the web.

There are also some news about Gbrowser based on Mozilla which heavily feature loaded especially to work with all google based services like Gmail , Orkut , etc. Google could use their JavaScript expertise to build Mozilla applications. Built-in blogging tools. Built-in Gmail tools. Built-in search tools.

On April 26, 2004, Google registered gbrowser.com. Here's the relevent bit of the WHOIS for gbrowser.com:

Registrant:
Google Inc.
(DOM-1278108)
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View
CA
94043 US

Domain Name: gbrowser.com

Created on..............: 2004-Apr-26.
Expires on..............: 2006-Apr-26.
Record last updated on..: 2004-Apr-26 16:46:39.

Tech experts all over the world are making their own views on google Os like this one which states that google might give away 100GB space to its users

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/10096/A-Google-OS-by-2010/page1/

Also check a great post by Om Malik
http://gigaom.com/2005/08/26/google-the-ultimate-deflator/

Google has introduced services that clearly indicate their desire to build a comprehensive “platform,” one that challenges Microsoft’s dominance in this area head on (Gmail, Desktop Search, now GD2, and Google Talk). So what is Google’s master plan? I believe they are once again going counterintuitive, but in a manner that hits Microsoft where it hurts most. Google will make Microsoft’s entire strategic plan and mission, which revolves around the continued proliferation and dominance of the desktop PC operating system, obsolete by making Google itself the operating system. The model they are pursuing is very similar to Sun Microsystems’ (Jonathan Schwartz’s) vision of turning computing into a utility, like electricity. The only difference is that Google is already almost there.

Woof , this stanford graduate baby company will soon be the biggest one in the world , i hope it maintain its 'free to user' policy .

Hey friends , there is wonderful debate going on on rediff.com on "Is egg a vegeterian food? " . Check out some of the wonderful replies-:

• Egg is a non veg, just like milk. Milk is basically broken down cells from the body of a animal. But in India we are blissfully ignorant of this fact !!
• POULTRY eggs produced these days are LIFELESS. The HEN that hatches are different. These eggs can NEVER produce chick on incumbation. You can try yourself. So we can consider them as VEGETARIAN.The DESI egg which is produced from a DESI Murgi can produce chick on incumbation.
• The definition of veg and non-veg needs clarification: vegans, who eat no animal products, found that they have difficulty digesting food due to the lack of Vitamin B12, which is only found in animal foods. So biologically, we are non-vegetarians.
  Milk was chosen as a vegetarian food since it has vit B12 and presumably does not hurt the animal. However, the Mas'ai tribe in Africa believe that milking a cow is actually stealing the calf's food. They prefer to take blood from a neck vein from bulls. This hurts the bulls less than the loss of milk hurts the calf.
  Following the same definition, some hens lay an egg everyday. These are not fertilised, in fact the hen does not even incubate them. There are as good as excrement to the hen and hurts the hen a lot less than milk or blood hurts cattle. If unfertilised eggs are not eaten, they will rot. So it seems that the most vegetarian animal food is an unfertilised egg!
• Egg is not vegetarian just because it not made of vegetables. it is made of body cells of another creature. As Leo says, even milk is not vegetable, it is a blood product. In India divisions of vegetarian or non-vegetarian is falsely termed as meat eating or non-meat eating - that too base don religious beliefs. Pure vegetarians do not take egg or milk, both come out of a situation were an animal is deprived off its natural rights to life or living. we milk a cow by restricting its naturalness, and also deprive its cub of its right - drinking of its mothers milk
• egans/ vegetarinism has its root from Veg (which means plants giving rise to vegetables & fit for human consumption) Hence Brinjals are also called egg plants.
  
  According to this root word egg originates from birds, animals (egg as in female sex cell) hence egg would not be veg/ vegan food.
  If this question is for religious reasons - one may note few brahmins( East India) consume fish, few Buddhists around south-east Asia include animal based diet in their intake, Early Maldivians who were Buddhists had fish has their staple diet (as it was the only plentiful food avbl in the islands). and mythology has that Sage Agathiya once had a feast of tender lamb (a demon in form of lamb - who was supposed to tear open the sage's tummy and exit thereby killing him) and the sage digested the demon before he could perform the act of evil. So in accordance to the situation one can consume any proper food as long it is consumable (Islam classifies this as Halaal food)

If you want to have your presence in India , you cant just ignore India's security concerns . Google might have understood this and now they have finally agreed to talk with indian officials . Google Earth was criticized a lot for showing strategic indian locations which are considered as soft targets for terrorist attacks which includes parliament .

The Indian government has often expressed concern that the information provided on Google Earth could be misused by terrorists and India’s enemies. The easy availability online of detailed maps of countries from services such as Google Earth can be misused by terrorists, India's President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam said as early as 2005.

Google's orkut was also criticized for ignoring public outcry over hate-india communities . One of them was "i hate india" started by a group of pakistanis which was shut for few days but now it is online again . Orkut was almost on the verge of getting banned .

hi friends , today i want to tell something about RSS feeds to dummies . And by dummies i dont mean fools , dummies are those who just don't know know about this topic . First , what is this RSS , many of you must have seen icons like above .

RSS is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated digital content, such as blogs, news feeds or podcasts.

Users of RSS content use programs called feed 'readers' or 'aggregators': the user 'subscribes' to a feed by supplying to their reader a link to the feed; the reader can then check the user's subscribed feeds to see if any of those feeds have new content since the last time it checked, and if so, retrieve that content and present it to the user.

Ok , so how can you use it . You need a feed reader for using RSS . There are many many feed reders available in the market , most of them are free . I will discuss only the google here . Google Reader is an excellent tool for using RSS feeds . Go to www.google.com/reader . If you are a first time user , you need select your preferences , how you want see your RSS feeds . Now , on next page . You can see a small option of "add a subscription" . Try foxytech.blogspot.com in it . Volla ! Done . Now whenever you will visit your google reader , you can see the new posts on foxytech.blogspot.com rightaway on your google reader . Right now , there are millions of websites which have a option of RSS feeds , infact you can find this feeds on every blogspot and wordpress powered websites . The best way to know if your a site has a rss feed or not is to see the RSS icon on the address bar . You can also subscribe to site's RSS feed by using firefox . I will also advise you to set google reader as your rss reader via firefox permanently . Go to tools->options->rss and set google reader

Hi friends
Orkut is one of the most rapidly developing site most of us encounter everyday . Now google have also added a new feature called video favorites , with the help of which you can set your favorite Google or you tube videos and link them to your friends . Unfortunately this will apply only to Google or you tube videos .

Post from Google official blog
We've all been obsessed lately with watching videos on the web. And when we come across something that strikes our fancy, we can't wait to share it with our friends. That got us thinking: rather than sending multiple emails and IMs to share the video URL, wouldn't it be nice to have a feature for sharing videos on orkut?

From now on, when you see that crazy video you feel is a must see for all your friends, now you can create your own video playlist on orkut to share with anyone who visits your profile. Just copy the video URL from your favorite YouTube or Google Video hosted videos, and your friends can enjoy watching your top videos through orkut. And because we know your friends will love your videos as much as you do, we've added an "Add to my favorites" button that lets you easily make your friend's favorite videos appear on your list.

Now there is another feature down the line which most of will love but right now it is available only to brazil

With orkut's new SMS feature, you can scrap your friends, look up their contact information and receive scrap notifications. Now you can send scraps from the bus, bar or bathroom, and your friends can get notified of those scraps when on bicycle, beach or bed. Along with the standard orkut features, we've included a few hidden goodies for the adventurous to find.

Orkut is already so much addictive and they are ready to make it more . God bless us all from this orkut dope .

P.S-- i just realized that orkut have also improved on its time/dating system . Till now scarp date or time was not based upon user local time zone but now it is . Thankyou orkut !!