tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38995932012-02-16T01:21:08.003-05:00Security, Networking, New technologies, whatever it takes to make internet a better place. An attempt to fight against bad guys, spammers and spyware.<br> To send feedback, send me an email at mukul_d@yahoo.comMukulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01377153054048101034noreply@blogger.comBlogger651100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3899593.post-36978803485278045102010-10-21T16:30:00.001-04:002010-10-21T16:36:52.436-04:00

As the first test match of the recently concluded series between India and Australia entered and then progressed through the final day, I went from feeling hopeful to despair to anguish to disgust to tense and finally to euphoria. I can't remember the last time I went through so many emotions in a single day (or night in my case). At a point in time when VVS Laxman and Ishant Sharma were playing,

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At least temporarily till my internet service is back up. I have had a long outage in my internet service from Comcast. My internet service inexplicably went down last week sometime on Tuesday & it is still not up. That has directly affected my website & I am hosting my website at my home on my own web server. I was hoping that I will get my internet service back up and running quickly. But I

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Effective 11 March 2006, we have moved to our own website at http://www.dharwadkar.com.We no longer will post at this location unless except our webserver goes down for any reason and for extended period. Thank you for visiting us here and if you liked the content we put up here, please do visit us at www.dharwadkar.comThanks.

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If you have not yet tried out MyGoogle / Google Fusion (whatever you want to call it.) then you definitely are missing something. It is one of the coolest things Google has offered after Google Earth. You have to have a Google account to use that, of course. Once you have that you can customize it to your heart's content. It also gives a development kit for techie guys to develop their own

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Its been almost 3 months since my last post. No, I have not been idling away. In fact I have put up my own website and will be moving this to the website very soon. Last couple of months have been a frenzy to catch up on a lot of things. Setting up the website, configuring the webserver, putting up content. I have not yet managed to put up enough content or design it completely and I thought I

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Hello. After a long hiatus of more than a month, I am back at blogging. It's been a crazy month. By the way, did you know that 30th November was celebrated as Computer Security Day? I guess not many of you know about it. Even the site (www.computersecurityday.org) does not have a lot of stuff to talk about.ISACA, of which I am a member is a sponsor and even ISACA does not advertise it as

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Managing data moving in and out of an organization through removable media was easy in the good old days of floppy disk drives. You just disable the drive. Or even better, remove it from the computer. As the technology advanced (read OS and applications got fatter) floppy disks become unviable and obsolete and slowly went away from the workplace PCs.Then came CD writers, becoming more and more

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I had posted my thoughts about having a common software flaw rating system in October. The National Infrastructure Advisory Council, a group of 30 companies that advises President Bush, commissioned a Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). The CVSS is the first step towards what I had said. The system needs to mature over several cycles and should have the support of the entire industry to

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One of the biggest selling point of Mozilla Firefox browser was that it was more secure than Microsoft Internet Explorer. No more! There have been documented vulnerabilities in Firefox not dissimilar to that exist in IE. The link above takes to a report from Symantec that slams Firefox. How much should we read into that remains to be seen as Symantec is a known Microsoft supporter. But we cannot

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This is for the first time I am able to follow-up on some of my posts. I just couldn't stand not writing about this. Barely a week after my last post and spending enough time pondering on that approach, I picked up the latest copy of Network World (www.nww.com). This week's issue is all about the current industry buzz (http://www.networkworld.com/buzz/2005/?ts) in various industries and areas of

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I was reading through this article by Marcus Ranum and was startled by the approach the author took. But as I read on I realised that most of the ideas and concepts make sense. Fighting against cyber crime is like fighting against the mythological Hydra where as soon as you cut one head a new ones appear from there. So how do we fight against such a monster? I concur with the author here; we

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I was one of the recipients of the Nigeria 419 scam and although the emails and the offers are very tempting I abstained from responding and was saved. However, this was not the only email scam I received. I received some highly plausible emails from people in Zimbabwe (?) at the height of the Robert Mugage against white people in Zimbabwe episode asking me to provide for a bank account where

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I have been meaning to write about this for a long time and as always procrastination has been my best friend all along... Anyways now that I have come around to write this, let me go into this before I start wandering off everywhere.Indian government has received recommendations from a committee setup for reviewing the Information Technology act. (http://www.mit.gov.in/itact2000/ITAct.doc). The

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See what comes out of procrastination? I have been meaning to write this post for some time now but always used to procrastinate. I have been playing with Google Earth for sometime now. Firstly I was so fascinated by the power and everyday used to locate my house over here in the US and back in India, just for the fun of it (Read one of my earlier posts). Once the initial novelty wore off, I

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While researching and looking at various IT security companies like F-Secure, ISS, McAfee or even companies like Microsoft, Oracle or other companies, there was one thing I noticed and felt very strongly about. Every company has their own ways to rate a particular threat or vulnerability. For example, Microsoft labels vulnerabilities, threats as Critical, Important, Moderate, etc; McAfee rates as

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I know this is way out of context and does not really gel well with the subject of my weblog. But so do (don't) the previous 2. It's just that I am not able to concentrate hard and those two subjects (in addition to this) were too good to let pass. I had infact decided to mention my 50th post separately, just to commemorate 50 posts and 3 years of sporadic blogging. I have been much more active

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Today is India's 58th independance day. On 15th August 1947, India threw away the shackles of British Rule and began its tryst with destiny. In these short 58 years India has risen to number 12 in the list of world top economies. Of course the list is 5 years old and this definitely would have changed by now. But the point is India is ahead of the "rich" countries. But the aim should be to topple

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I may be really late on commenting on Firefox, but here it is anyways. Firefox has been a real hit with the markets and internet surfers. The users go on increasing with every moment. I was reading a couple of online articles on the next release and increasing adoption of Firefox as an option to Microsoft Internet Explorer and the numbers startled me. The report dated July 22 claimed 50 million

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After a long and nail-biting wait for the results of the CISA exam, I am relieved to know that I have passed the exam successfully. It had been some very difficult months for me leading up to the exams. You see I was back in India at the I registered for the exam and I had registered for it in Washington DC in anticipation of my assignment in the US starting sometime February this year. The trip

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I had my first very serious bout with Spyware. And sadly enough, it won the war. I won the first round by identifying the Spyware, but the originator had hid it very well and would have taken me some more time to get to the root of it. But this was the computer in a corporate organization where re-installation is not a big deal and to top it, the computer was the home computer of the President of

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Microsoft yesterday launched a new product called Virtual Earth, which is being called as Microsoft's answer to Google Maps (which by the way is very impressive). Virtual Earth is still not available on Microsoft's website, only in some forums. No definitive information yet. But they are late, very late. Google has launched another product called Google Earth which while working off the internet

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Microsoft has changed the name of the latest in the line of Windows family of Operating system to Windows Vista. As everybody knows it was code named as Windows Longhorn (which seemed funny to me). The good part seems to be Microsoft finally seems to be moving away from the ridiculous year based naming convention they were following since Windows 95. First it was Windows XP and now it is Windows

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In today's electronic world where hackers are always on the prowl to break you network "sniffing" around and looking for a vulnerability, how do you ensure that your network is protected and hidden away from the hackers and the bad guys? One of the options could be honeypots. Honeypots are essentially decoys put in place to lure attackers away from the paydirt and are closely monitored for

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This is an article that appeared on Network World. Although this is not very much related to what I want to post on my weblog, but I could not hold back posting this. Please see the part about the guy, Anil wanting to do well in his studies. Well no surprises there. Everybody wants to do well in their studies. But why does he wants to do so well? So that companies from foreign countries can

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Imagine your home without fencing. Traditionally we have been putting fences (compound walls) around our house to deter unwelcome visitors and make it hard for them to get inside and also to demarcate the property we own. What would happen if we take away the wall? There would be no boundary, no restrictions to prevent anyone from entering into our premises. Right? That's what we would think.Now

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The issue has again cropped its ugly head again. Whether outsourcing to India is safe or not? In my opinion, it is safe, very safe. Probably even more safer than getting the job done in-house. Why? Some of the reasons are listed in the email I sent to the author and the publisher. I am not sure whether they will publish my email or not, but I just want to publish it on my blog.Here is how it goes

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I have been working (at least trying) on Linux for some time now. On and Off. But it never stops to fascinate me. It has matured a lot from the time I first used Red hat linux when it was version 6.0. It has grown remarkably. But still Linux still feels scratchy to use, a bit rough at the edges if you compare with Windows.Incidently I have been using MS products right from when it was in DOS

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I put Google Adsense on my blog and am waiting to earn money.. Great!! But how do I increase the hits to my blog? Simple!! Visit other peoples blogs. Yes its really that simple. The technological advances, and ingenuity of people never stops to fascinate me. Really!!!I got the link for BlogExplosion from the ads by Google AdSense and I clicked out of curiosity. My blog not the hottest of all so

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I caught Google AdSense on one of the website I was just surfing through and was immediately interested to know more about it. So I went to google, searched adsense and was shown the details of signing up to Adsense and I signed up. Its really that simple.I signed up and I have sent the necessary documentation required to process my payments and and waiting for it to get activated. In the

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I have been blogging in fits and starts. I blog (I was tempted to say write, but I am not that good enough, yet...) regularly for some time and then there is nothing for 6-8 months. There is no apparent reason for this. It just happens like that. In the meantime the desire to blog just burns and when the flame is big is enough, I post...I thought maybe when I came to the US, I would get more time

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OK!!! So finally I took the plunge after almost a year of dilly-dallying about it. I finally registered my own domain name www.dharwadkar.com. Nothing's up yet, its just a domain name and a starter page giving out introduction and contact information. I plan to move this blog to my website pretty soon when I design and host it somewhere. Right now I have registered it with Yahoo! domains where I

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Happy Birthday Lotus Notes! Lotus Notes turns 15 years this year. It has been an incredible journey for the first and original groupware (Interestingly Groupware term was coined by Lotus). From being a bug report tool started way back in 1973 to the start of development of Lotus Notes in 1984 by Ray Ozzie, funded by Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus and the purchase of Notes by Lotus in 1987 to the

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A beautiful monsoon evening

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Me and my son

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Ain't I cute?

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Bangalore Diary - 12th November 2004. For the past couple of months, residents in Bangalore which is without doubt the IT capital of India, have been protesting against the poor infrastructure in the city. The road condition is pathetic, the government's promise of uninterrupted power is nowhere near reality, the traffic situation is worsening day after day. Which brings me to think, for the

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Phishing for new ways to attack Till recently, sending virus /worm laden emails was the prevalent mode of attacking for malicious people. The extent and the targets of the attacks was limited to mainly the corporates and very rarely targetted towards the individual users. The malicious intent was mainly to bring down the corporate networks and prevent access to the website and make the

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Moving Backwards... At incredible speed!!! UPA government in India has declared that they want job reservations for the backward classes in the private sector also. According to me it is a great leap backwards. India is fast developing country with equality for all being one of the main values of the country. Agreed that the backwards need assistance to get rid of the shackles & rise up. But are

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Online?? More like INLINE... After a long time I had to go to a government office for some work. To be precise, I had to get my son's passport. I was overjoyed to see that the Passport office in Bangalore has launched a website to assist the application process. We can submit the application (basic information) online & then go after the rush is over to submit the actual form. I thought that I

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We got a son!!!! Last 15 to 20 days have been quite superb for us (me and my wife). We were blessed by a very beautiful & healthy baby boy. I am not calling him beautiful just because he is my son, but he really is. Everyone to whom I have sent his pictures has said that. Like whom he looks like remains to be seen. Some have said that he looks like me and some say that he looks like his mother.

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Thinking ahead, way ahead.... Talk about think ahead. Virus writers have recently released a virus for 64 bit computing platform as reported on silicon.com. The virus is called as W64.Shruggle by Symantec. What is most astonishing is that there is still not enough software support for the 64 bit computing platform and the virus writers have already started writing virus for it. Although the

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Corruption at its best Bannerghatta road in Bangalore - India is fast becoming the one of the busiest road in the city with both residential & industrial areas being there. HSBC data center has been there for long & recently Accenture has opened a center there. The road was dug up sometime in July 2003 & was in a very bad shape. For some reasons the road remained unrepaired and neglected till

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Capital Punishment India meted out capital punishment after 11 years to Dhananjoy Chatterjee who was convicted in 1991 for raping & murdering 14 year old Hetal Parekh. The President also rejected his mercy plea. And rightfully so. A rapist & a murderer has no right to live in our society. Dhananjoy was hanged in the early hours of 14th August 2004. What astonished me of the whole affair was

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How secure is your Windows? I was reading through a security related article that referenced Windows Update & prompted to check my PC was updated for all the latest patches or not. I used the Windows Update service the Windows XP provides & scanned for updates. Windows update found 22 in all of them & guess what... all were security related. Ranging from Windows Media Player to IE 6.0 to core OS

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I was just reading through some articles on Linux when I happened to come across an article on a distribution of Linux called UnitedLinux that caught my attention. Not that this was a little known distribution. I recall reading about it sometime back in 2002 but at that time, I was more interested in getting my feet wet in this industry & fascinated by Red Hat Linux (I still am...). What made

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India lost in the finals of Asia cup cricket tournament today, again... As per the statistics, India has lost in 10 finals, shared 2 & won only 1 in the last two years. But that is not the point. The point I am trying to make here is that the debate will again come up that whether Tendulkar is a match winner or is he just a run-machine. Looking at the match, the memories of the Indian team in

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Linux markets hot up in Asia Adding to the already numerous flavours of Linux available today, Oracle has come out with Asianux, a flavour specifically targeted at Asian markets which already had a strong demand for Linux in Enterprise Server Systems. Oracle claims it is ready for the market (http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,94637,00.html). Asianux was

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As Linux gets more and more popular & finds a large user base, we can be sure that the creators of virus programs will turn their attention towards it sooner than later. Already there have been some outbreaks of virus aimed at Linux. Most notable among them are: 1. Linux/Slapper 2. Linux/Lion 3. Linux/Ramen Not much was heard about the outbreaks of these viruses as is generally experienced with

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Bangalore Diary - 28 July 2004 Some more signboards I was wrong, I admit it I was wrong. I thought this world cannot become weirder. My belief was shattered in less than a week. I had gone to the Income Tax office in Bangalore to file my annual returns... What a pain it is!!! Anyhow cribbing about the difficulty of filling SARAL (which incidently means easy) is not the point of writing this.

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I have learnt this over a period of time. You should be careful in who you call as your best friend. Calling a person as your best friend brings in a set of expectations. A best friend tries to fulfil those expectations always no matter what & there is not phrase like impossible. A best friend is always there for you when you need someone alongside you. I think its best not to have a best

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Bangalore Diary - 20 July 2004   Being from Pune, I thought I had seen them all. Pune boasts about some of the weirdest signs in this words. I am talking about the signs that you put on your doors / gates like: "Beware of Dog" or "Salesmen not allowed". But my belief was shattered day before yesterday when I saw a sign on a house in J. P. Nagar in Bangalore which said: "Beware of Coconuts".

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Friends Gems may be precious, but friends are priceless. --Unknown Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don't say. --Unknown Friendship is one mind in two bodies. --Mencius I was just reading through some of the friendship quote & these are some of them that touched me. I felt I identify with these statements a lot. I guess I happen to

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Undercutting the Undercutter A leading ERP & e-business vendor in China has recently been quoted saying that it can get things done for less money than its Indian counterparts. This follows closely on the heels of its starting a new outsourcing branch targeting the US market. Not surprisinly enough, the average annual salaries of an average Chinese programmer is anywhere between $5248 to $9000,

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Zidane's Magic (?) Had it been a cricket match; especially between India & Pakistan, people would have cried foul immediately after the match would have ended in such a tight finish and speculated about match fixing. But it was football, Euro 2004 Group B opening match between England and France. England after leading 1-0 for all the match, inexplicably lost (threw?) the match to lose 2-1. Not

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There has been a lot written about the fiasco of the Olympic torch run that happened in New Delhi last week. I was really ashamed to see the list of best athletes missing from the names of the people who were the torch bearers representing India. No doubt the Indian Olympic cause can do with a little bit of publicity, but certainly not at the cost of athletes who have sweated their blood for the

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I was trying to install Oracle 9i Release 2 database on my Linux (Fedora Core 1) computer at home. Consistently I was getting an error which referred to Java VM. The exact message was: "/u01/tmp/oraInstall/jre/1.4.2/bin../lib/i686/green_threads/libzip.so: symbol errno, version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time reference (libzip.so) Unable to initialize threads: cannot fint

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Magnetise your RAM; literally Have you ever felt frustrated when you boot up your PC at the time the OS takes to boot up? If yes, then you can start rejoicing, as the solution is just aroung the corner. Although the processing power of the PCs have increased manifold over the past few years, the footprint of the OS has also grown heavier so that it offsets the increase in speed and processing

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I was just browsing the net to collect some information about the Wi-Fi standards 802.11 and I came across a really cool tutorial on 802.11 which I thought I would post it here. Please note that, I am not the author of the same and in no way am I taking credit for the same. I am just publishing it here for the benefit of bloggers who might be interested in Wi-Fi. Also please note here that I am

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As I was saying the other day about Wi-Fi, there are two standards on which Wi-Fi works. The standard, 802.11b gives a throughput of 11Mbps (Bits) and the standard 802.11g gives a throughput of 54 Mbps. For normal end-users, this kind of bandwidth should be sufficient where the application of the wireless connection would be to access your files. emails, calendar etc in a meeting, on the move etc

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WI-FI: The new age of technology I was recently reading an article in a magazine which was running Wi-Fi as their cover story. They say it heralds a new age of communication and connectivity. Actually end-user mobility has been there in the networks for a long time now. But the cost of mobility was very high, almost prohibitive. What really struck me in the article was the ease of configuration

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Is the US pro-India or pro-Pakistan? A debate over the subject ran in the Sunday times dated April 27 2003. One of the commentators very rightly pointed out that the US is pro-America. How, otherwise can it justify the policy of declaring a war against terror, while supporting President Pervez Musharraf, funding Afghan war-lords who supposedly have links to the Taliban. India has (once again)

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THE GOLDEN RATIO THE GOLDEN RATIO Along with the number PI (value 3.14) scientists and mathematicians have been fascinated by another number PHI (Value 1.618). So much so that it is called as the golden ratio. It has been said that almost all the things in the universe and the world are governed by the golden ratio or the golder proportion. A classic example that mathematicians quote is of the

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War on Terrorism After 9/11 America has declared a global war on terrorism. As a part of the war on terrorism, and as an effort to bring peace to the world, the USA wanted to disarm Saddam Hussien of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Given the aggression shown by Saddam Hussien in 1991 by invading Kuwait, and the resolution 687 passed in the UN, and the defiance of Saddam in refusing to

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Abortion and Child Bearing in Welfare. A very heated discussion is going on in recently in the USA regarding abortion rights and the increased payment to families on welfare on childbirth. What I mean to say here is the decision by the government to deny welfare payments to families who decide to have children when on Welfare. There are two facets to this discussion: 1. The basic right of

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Hi all, I have started this blog solely to cater to the needs of the IT fraternity. More so of the System Administrator guys. However, this does not mean that the other guys won't get help or information here. I want to make this as a last stop or a one stop shop for all us IT guys.. Feel free to post any comments, articles, news bits on this blog. NO PORN MATERIAL, PERSONAL ABUSES AND ABUSIVE

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