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So gmail works either way — http://www.google.ca/mail or http://www.google.com/mail

But the new Buzz from google is buzz-less coming from Canada. And since my home computer refuses to go to http://www.google.com buzz is not available for me   All the searches on google are via .CA only !!

Thus http://www.google.ca/buzz goes nowhere, however using a proxy site I can visit it via http://www.google.com/buzz

Look at the buzzing screen shot !

Even before I could finish the first 2 lines of this email I received from a friend of mine, I rushed here to post it for, it is worth the posting and I must warn you if you know English will end up rolling on the floor laughing by the time you are done reading it It was suppose to be for some IAS exam but dunno if that is really true. But IAS exam stands for Indian Administrative Service Exam. Anyways google it up for more details… wont bore you any further continue reading …

You’ll forget English by the time you finish reading this. This is a true essay written by a Bihari candidate at the UPSC (IAS) Examinations. The candidate has written an essay on the Indian cow:

Indian Cow

HE IS THE COW. “The cow is a successful animal. Also he is 4 footed, And because he is female, he give milks, [but will do so when he is got child]. He is same like God, sacred to Hindus and useful to man. But he has got four legs together. Two are forward and two are afterwards. His whole body can be utilized for use. More so the milk. Milk comes from 4 taps attached to his basement.

[Horses don't have any such attachment] What can it do? Various ghee, butter, cream, curd, why and the condensed milk and so forth. Also he is useful to cobbler, waterman’s and mankind generally. His motion is slow only because he is of lazy species, Also his other motion.. gober* is much useful to trees, plants as well as for making flat cakes [like Pizza], in hand and drying in the sun.

Cow is the only animal that extricates his feeding after eating. Then afterwards she chews with his teeth that are situated in the inside of the mouth. He is incessantly in the meadows in the grass. His only attacking and defending organ is the horns, especially so when he is got child. This is done by knowing his head whereby he causes the weapons to be paralleled to the ground of the earth and instantly proceed with great velocity forwards. He has got tails also, situated in the backyard, but not like similar animals. It has hairs on the other end of the other side. This is done to frighten away the files.

The palms of his feet are soft unto the touch. So the grasses head is not crushed. At night time have poses by looking down on the ground and he shouts. His eyes and nose are like his other relatives. This is the cow……

We are informed that the candidate passed the exam, and is now an IAS, somewhere in Bihar.

NOTE: This is an article about english and how it works and not about Cows

*PS: ‘Gobar’ = Bullshit basically !

Amazing win, that you can never forget while playing L4D2 ever. Just look at the screenshot, win by 1 Point and over two thousand points scored by both teams. Let me assure you the game was very very very intense. We did however had an afk in the last round that took us down a bit, but still you will not get closer than this on a Versus game mode in Left 4 Dead 2 .

Everyone, probably, if they find time to go through their spam comments in wordpress, will find some comments very funny and few that reflect a lack of brain power of the commenter(s) (which apparently are either bots or someone hired idiots for spamming ).

Here is a nice little example of one of an idiotic comment.

For the topic : Swine Flu

this was one of the comment waiting approval in the junk box :

I was like please atleast spam in the right category, if you are going to spam in the first place !! Anyways feel free to email the person/bot mentioned above to use some brains next time.

There are others that make no sense either !

Example :

“I was reading something else about this on another blog. Interesting. Your position on it is diametrically opposed to what I read earlier. I am still contemplating over the various points of view, but I’m inclined heavily toward yours. And irrespective, that’s what is so super about modern democracy and the marketplace of ideas online.”

Posted on : My Dream Machine

And the list goes on and on, feel free to share your stupidest comments you seen from spammers on your blogs or articles, for there is no cure for Idiocy, but is rather entertaining at times, depending on the situation of-course.

With some tricks and messing with steam cvars I was able to put the game into an infinite loop, meaning the game will never “ever”  end, unless ofcourse the computer or the server crashes. I would not suggest this to you, cause it is going to make server owner pretty unhappy, which i am assuming will be yourself, cause this loop is not achived unless this important cvar is enabled for which you need to be admin

sv_regeneration_force_on 1

Rest you need is to get a Jockey or a smoker or someone that does not do too much damage, maybe hunter or charger will do too, 2 last remaining survivors ! How you get 2 down ? Simply Spawn a Tank or 2 get 2 in capped and save the last bot   – After all you are suppose to be a survivor !

Anyways the loop wont end as long as you do not quit or your computer don’t quit on you . Watch the video to see it in action.

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Sophos going downhill or Sophos vs Microsoft Security Essentials – which title suits this post i am not too sure but anyways read on and be the judge of that yourself !
At work both as a student and employee at the university we are suppose to be using Sophos for virus and Trojan protection… but I have had few notify me that sophos is failing to deliver… Windows Security Essentials (MSE codename Morro) is beating down hard on Sophos. .. More about the Security Essentials can be read from and also downloaded free of cost if I am not mistaken via : http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/

Since, I run XP 64 bit I am not able to try it out myself cause it does not apparently have an installer for that version of XP. It’s rather limited to XP 32 bit, Win 7 32/64 bit only. If it was just one person saying that “o windows essentials thingy found Trojan and malware that were not detected by sophos” I be more speculative about the situation, but I have about 3 or 4 users, all very well versed with computers and some quite versed with computer security, not afraid to say out loud “ Sophos Failed “ .

Looking around on the web, I read a rather interesting article at softpedia, stating this very interesting find [“With a detection rate of 56%, Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 managed to grab the fifth position, along with F-Secure, which delivered a similar performance. Only five products bested MSE, namely ESET NOD32 with a detection rate of 60%, Kaspersky with 64%, G Data with 66%, and Avira with 74%. However, at the same time, Microsoft Security Essentials 1.0 also delivered a very low number of false positives.

MSE mistook no more than 15 legitimate code samples for malware, while not the same can be said of Avira, Sophos, McAfee, TrustPort, Norman, and Kingsoft, which all had in excess of 15 false positives. This is why MSE received the highest possible certification from AV-Comparatives, along with additional security solutions that balanced a high detection rate with a low number of false positives. “] – source http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Security-Essentials-vs-Kaspersky-Nod32-BitDefender-Symantec-McAfee-128482.shtml

Now reading that article it was no surprise to me that users were coming to me complaining about how “Sophos Sucks” compared to MSE. It’s funny how Sophos wrote an article about Vulnerabilites in Windows 7 stating  “Lesson learned? You still need to run anti-virus on Windows 7. Microsoft, in the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report released yesterday, stated that “The infection rate of Windows Vista SP1 was 61.9 percent less than that of Windows XP SP3.” – source http://www.sophos.com/blogs/chetw/g/2009/11/03/windows-7-vulnerable-8-10-viruses . At the end of the article Sophos had a very nice conclusion: Read the rest of this entry »