RUET Network on FB

At last RUET Network is created on FB. Credit goes to enormous efforts from Rifat Bhai (EEE 02). Here is the details of what actually happened (I’m copying the mail body here that he sent on “ruetian” google group):

Dear RUETians,

At last I have succesfully convinced facebook to add RUET network. But they have given 24 hour to join only. Please see the following mail. But the spelling is wrong. They have made it “Rajshahi University of Engineering and Rechnology” instead of “Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology”.

I am sending them another mail to correct the spelling.

Rifat

02′EEE

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: The Facebook Team <networkrequest+dmczzmx@facebook.com>
Date: Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: Rajshahi University of Science and Technology
To: iurifat@gmail.com

Hi Istiaque,

This network has been added to the site, but may not appear for 24 hours. Once this network appears on the site, you will be able to join the network by selecting “Account Settings” from the Settings drop-down menu and going to the Networks tab. Let me know if you have any further questions.

Thanks for contacting Facebook,

Avery
User Operations
Facebook

—–Original Message to Facebook—–
From: Istiaque uddin Rifat (iurifat@gmail.com)
To: The Facebook Team
Subject: Rajshahi University of Science and Technology

Dear Facebook,

Please open a Network with following details. Our university doesn’t provide
any email addresses.

1. Full name of your school: Rajshahi University of Science and Technology
2. City: Rajshahi
3. State, Country: Rajshahi, Bangladesh
4. School’s website: www.ruet.ac.bd
5. Whether your school provides email addresses to students: NO
6. Graduation year : 2007

My login email address is : iurifat@gmail.com and the email facebook sent
regarding this is given below:

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: The Facebook Team <info+nmczxjr@facebook.com<info%2Bnmczxjr@facebook.com>
>
Date: Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: My College/University Network Doesn’t Exist on Facebook Yet
To: iurifat@gmail.com

Hi,

Facebook currently supports high school, college, and workplace networks.

If you would like us to create a network for your high school or college,
please send an email from your school email address (if you have one) to
networkrequest@facebook.com with the following information:
1. Full name of your school
2. City
3. State, country
4. Your school’s website
5. Whether your school provides email addresses to students (yes or no)
6. Your graduation year
7. Please also copy and paste this email (which should include your login
email address associated with your account)

If you would like us to create a network for your workplace, please send an
email from your work email address to networkrequest@facebook.com with:
1. The name of your workplace
2. The official website of your workplace
3. Your official work email address (unfortunately if your company does not
distribute official email addresses to employees, we will be unable to
create a network for you)
4. A copy of this email (which should include your login email address
associated with your account)

Once we receive this information, we will be able to assist you.

Thanks,

The Facebook Team
—–End Original Message to Facebook—–

An easy to remember login URL for WordPress

Often people finds wordpress login URL hard to remember or at least hazardous to type on the browser. I found a very nice tip on internet and I’d like to share it here. Thanks to the author for the awesome tip.

http://outthinkgroup.com/2008/12/10/wordpress-tip-make-an-easy-to-remember-login-url/

Happy Blogging

Publicize in WordPress

WordPress.com sends the published blog posts to several places to automatically promote them for the author. This is called as “Publicize”.

One can also choose to send the posts to any of several third party services. Currently, WordPress.com Publicize supports the following.

• Yahoo! Profiles via Yahoo! Updates
  
• Twitter
  

I found this while surfing through wordpress features. Following link has these details:

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Happy sharing

WiseStamp- Email Signatures

WiseStamp is a Firefox extension that empowers your email signature on any popular webmail service platforms (Gmail ,Yahoo Mail ,AOL, Hotmail, Google App.)Easily customize, Include IM & Social profiles, Automatically share your Blog posts, Quotes, News, Bookmarks and more. You can also separate preset signatures for your personal and business email interactions.

With WiseStamp you can:

• Customize your signature - Design style, Font, Size, Color, images etc.

• Add Rss feeds - Automatically Share blog posts, bookmarks, videos, daily quotes and many more.

• Easily add your social services – IM Services, LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr and many more..

• Use multiple signatures - Create business & personal signatures to insert in your emails.

Wisestamp Supports:

• AOL Mail.
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• Yahoo.
• Gmail.

Just surf here and follow the  instructions to set it up and go

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WHO-HOSTS – Who hosts which!

Who-Hosts.com is an online tool that helps you easily find out who hosts a web site. Simply enter the desired domain name and let who hosts reveal to you who is the host of a this domain.

Just Visit :

http://who-hosts.com/

Yahoo! Mail for mobile web

Just browse this kink in your mobile’s web browser:

new.m.yahoo.com/r/mail

Experience the ultimate

Catch-all

A Catch-all for email, usually refers to a mailbox on a domain that will “catch all” of the emails addressed to the domain that do not exist in the mail server. Configuring a catch-all address can help avoid losing emails due to misspelling.

For example: if jamee@jaamee.com is configured to be the catch-all email address on jaamee.com, then any email sent to an undefined@jaamee.com email address will be forwarded to jamee@jaamee.com instead of being rejected as an Undeliverable message or Unknown User error.

You can only set one catch-all email address per domain. So it’s better to set the Administrator email address as the catch-all.

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PHP

Version 5.1.6

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PHPMyAdmin

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Advanced MySQL database management.

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Sub-Domains

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You can use your own domain on the hosting

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Web based MySQL management or simply use PHPMyAdmin

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Provides free community based support

Account Settings

Change various settings including E-Mail, password, etc

Happy hosting

Configure Putty & Firefox To Use SSH SOCKS Proxy Tunnel

On the previous posts I’ve talked about using SSH SOCKS Proxy Tunneling. But that was possible when you have a Linux or Unix OS running on your machine. What about the Windows lovers :p. No worries you’re on Windows!!! You still can do this. Things you need for this are:

1. PuTTY SSH Client.
2. Firefox Web Browser.
3. SSH access to a unix/linux server.

Now, first run PuTTY. You should be on the “PuTTY Configuration” window. On the “Host Name (or IP address)” field, type the hostname or IP address of your remote server. And select “Connection type” as “SSH“. The port should get automatically selected to 22.

Then, in the left-hand menu, click on “SSH“. In “Protocol options“, tick “enable compression” and set your preferred SSH version to “2“.

Now expand the “SSH” menu and select the “Tunnels” sub-menu.

Now under the “Tunnels” menu (Options controlling SSH port forwarding), in the “Source port” field, type in a source port. Here I am using 4567. But you can use anything. Then select “Dynamic” as “Destination” and click the “Add” button.

After clicking the “Add” button the newly added forwarded port should get listed under “Forwarded ports” list.

Now, go back to the “Session” tab at the top of the menu, give the new connection a name (here i used My SSH Proxy) and click on the “Save” button.

Congrats! we are done with the PuTTY configuration.

Now do the rest as same like previous posts. You’re done on using SOCKS Proxy Tunneling in Windows.

Tunnel DNS Lookups in SOCKS Proxy on Firefox

SSH SOCKS option is a great way to quickly tunnel web traffic. A word of caution for  that is all DNS traffic is still in the clear. While the web traffic and URLs aren’t sniffable any more, curious people can still get a sense for what kinds of stuff you’re browsing, based on domain names. (And for the really really paranoid: if you’re on open wireless, your DNS lookups could get hijacked, causing you to browse to look-alike sites ready to phish your login credentials.)

Luckily, with SOCKS5 Firefox can control which side of the proxy handles DNS lookups. By default, it does the lookups locally resulting in the scenario above. To change this, set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns = true in about:config. This makes the SOCKS proxy more like a regular proxy, where DNS is handled by the remote end of the tunnel. Do the following for this:

1. In the browser location bar (the place where you type web addresses), type about:config and press Enter. This opens a different set of Firefox preferences.
2. Where it says ‘Filter:’ at the top, type network.proxy.socks. The list of preferences will automatically change to show your proxy preferences.
3. Highlight ‘network.proxy.socks_remote_dns’ by clicking it only once. Then, right-click it. This opens a small pull-down menu. Select ‘Toggle’ from the menu to change its value to ‘true’. This adds privacy by preventing DNS queries from leaking. This is the reason why Firefox is recommended over other browsers for using this service.
4. Close Firefox and restart it.