previous caption Shows how busy I Was :D

OK, guys, here it is…

After the last couple of posts I published here, someone (guess who?) found my humble writings 😉 interesting enough to read and offered me a new gig. Guess what? Now I’m the Editor of the upcoming C…C…DOTorg! Whooo hooo! …Oops, gotta behave myself now 😀 Anyway, I’m sorry, but I won’t reveal the site URL yet… it’s a surprise! Hopefully, I’ll share it in my next post. I think you guys can now see why I was so busy last week. I had to give it my all because we at C.C.org want to bring you the best. So, what’s so special about CC.org, you might ask?

Nothing special, except it’s being updated (daily, hopefully!) by a bunch of tech geeks who’d rather sit in front of their computers than do anything else, even during breakfast, lunch, or dinner 😀 But I’m sure these guys (myself included) will make sure you get the best from the web.

So, I think I’ve given you enough excuses for my sudden disappearance, and I’ve got to get back to work now because there’s a ton to do! Oh, did you notice? I didn’t even have time to caption my last post, but thanks to my blogging tool Performancing, it got auto-named “post1” 😀

C.J.

Forbidden side of a web site-See what web sites hide from you

Hi!

It seems my previous Firefox trick (or hack) has gotten a bit famous, hasn’t it? Anyway, here’s another hack! man… am I turning into a life hacker or what? 🙄 This one’s a really curious thing to check out.

We all know what search engines do, right? Yes, search! Baby, search! They scour everywhere for everything. And what do website owners do? They use all sorts of SEO (search engine optimization) tricks to make things easier for search engines, so the SEs can crawl the directories inside their sites smoothly and bring more traffic! Hm… Okay, C.J., enough with the technical stuff! why are you telling us all this? Here’s why…

Did you know there are some directories on websites that owners don’t want the general public to see? Yep, there are! So, what do they do to hide them from us? They don’t exactly bribe the search engines 😀 nah! what they do is add a text file listing the directory names that should be skipped during searches. Search engines read that file first and leave those bits out of the search results page…

But you know us geeks can’t stay out of trouble, right? Yep! There’s a way to peek at those hidden directories! All you have to do is tack on /robots.txt after the domain name and see what the site owners don’t want you to find 😈

How about checking out what Mr. Bill Gates is hiding from us? 😀 Here you go:

http://www.microsoft.com/robots.txt

And what about Larry and Sergei? Yep!

http://www.google.com/robots.txt

Oh, and guys (and gals), you’d better not try this with WordPress.com, or our good old buddy Matt might kick me out of WP 8O. He’s a pretty open guy and probably doesn’t have much to hide :D, but why risk it? 😆

C.J.

Disclaimer: This is totally for educational purposes, and I’m not responsible for any trouble you get into with this!

Firefox Logo on my front gate!

Hey! This crazy idea came to my mind while I was having an evening walk with Firy (Firefox’s pet name). Hm…. yeah! Yeah!! Yeah!!! I know what you’re going to say. How can you have a walk with Firefox, right? Well, it’s true that Firy can’t walk on the road or on the beach. But there’s a fantastic place where you can take Firy (Firefox) for a walk. Yes! The World Wide Web (WWW) 😀 Are there any better places to go with the most romantic browser of all? Anyway, this isn’t what I’m going to tell you about.

So, this is the idea that came to me. My dad’s going to have a new front gate for our garden, and he’s planning to put a design (maybe the symbol of our family :D) on it. And you’ve already guessed what I’m planning to have as the symbol, right? Yes, what else? The Firefox logo 😀 Wow! It rocks me when I imagine how the local geeks 😯 will react when they see the Ff logo on my gate 😈 I’m sure they’ll turn green with jealousy

But there are some problems in making this happen. I’m not sure whether the local gate manufacturers can redesign the Ff logo with metal. And the biggest one is convincing Dad to decide to use the Ff logo. Maybe I’ll overcome these problems and succeed, or maybe Dad will send me to a mental hospital for a brain check 🙄 Believe me, there’s a huge chance of that second one 😆

Oh! And I was wondering, are there any Firefox fans who’ve got the Firefox logo on their gate or front door? Or do I have to take the patent for this gorgeous idea? 🙄

Happy Hacking!

C.J.

Firefox Inside Firefox

Hellow Fellows!
You know that many of us spend lot of our computing time on the internet and most of that time we use Firefox tabs to open all our favorite sites and services inside Firefox right?, yes, Gmail inside Ff, Yahoo inside Ff, ebay inside Ff, Banking inside Ff ect. ect. ect… With all these favorites inside Firefox, How about opening Firefox inside Firefox? Not bad ha? and its really easy too! just type in this url in a new tab in Firefox and there you go! Firefox inside Firefox!

chrome://browser/content/browser.xul

Disclaimer: I guarantee that this will work with Firefox. But I have no responsibility of any damage that cause Internet Explorer users by Using this with IE to Open Firefox inside IE 😆
C.J.

update: feel free to visit my new blog http://seejay.net for more Firefox tricks!

Wanna Learn Hacking? Part I

Hey guys! This is for all those wannabe hackers out there. There’s a great site for hackers, from newbies to l33ts. As the site admins call it, it’s a free, safe, and legal training ground for hackers to test their skills. Yes, it’s not just a hacker wargames site. The site’s community is huge, and it’s a living site for sure! Ok! Ok!! Without further ado, here’s the site.

I must be really thankful to my Linux guru, Ven. Ilgo, for sending me this site address. Thank you so much, Hamuduruwane! You are the best teacher ever!

C.J.

P.S.: I called this one “Hackin Part 1” ‘coz I’m gonna have many blog posts on hacking. But I just don’t know when to post another one of this kind. Maybe I’m always ready for my next hacking post 😉 Oh, and I’d like to help anyone who’s interested in hacking (but guys, I’m still not a l33t, ok). So stay tuned!
C.J.

ChanuX in myspace?

Hey! I found something interesting while browsing through my hard drive. But you’ve got to promise me you won’t tell my buddy ChanuX about this. 😀

It was a webpage saved by my friend ChanuX. Now, you might be wondering, “How on earth is it on your hard drive?” Well, here’s how:

There’s an event in our (me, ChanuX, Asa, and Randy) lives these days that we call “The Synchronization Day!” Yes, just as you’re thinking, it’s an ordinary LAN party organized by a bunch of techno freaks (as ChanuX likes to call it). We get together at Asa’s place and share everything among the four of us, from pirated games, films, and new visuals to eBooks and important web pages we’ve saved.

The last “Synchronization Day” was held at Asa’s place on Wednesday, April 4th, and I got loads of cool stuff from my buddies. And that’s how ChanuX’s saved web pages ended up on my hard drive.

Ok, enough backstory! What I found was a webpage (you already guessed that, right?). It was a MySpace homepage. And you already know who the owner is, don’t you? Yes, it’s ChanuX! At last, he’s revealed some private info about himself to the world.

So, here’s the MySpace address of ChanuX. It’s really fun to see his building blocks 😀 like cups of IT, another cup of WWW, etc., etc. You guys (and definitely gals 😉 ) can go check it out for yourselves and learn more about this great friend of mine.

C.J.

CJ-The Lazy Blogger

Ok! Ok!! I admit it. I’m the laziest of them all. But what can I do? The day just isn’t long enough for all my day-to-day stuff. Every day, I wake up around 10 or 11, have my breakfast, and then turn on the machine. I read some e-books, watch a few films, and before I know it, it’s time for lunch.

I hate spending time on these real-world things, but what can I do? I’ve got to get out of my cave (as my family members call it). So, I step out, eat some rice with curries, and then head straight back to the cyber world. Sometimes, my mom or dad finds me asleep in the chair in front of my PC, still wearing my glasses and earphones. Yes, I’m a nerd. 😯 (A good-looking nerd, of course! 🙂 ) But what can I say? I just feel sooooooo bored when I’m away from my computer.

Many people say I didn’t get selected for the Engineering Faculty because I spent too much time on my computer instead of studying for my A/Ls. Err! 😡 I hate it when people say that, and I always end up arguing with them. But deep down, I know it’s true. 😕 I just can’t stand it when stupid people blame computers for why dumb guys like me fail exams. 😆 Especially my mom’s colleagues and many of my dad’s friends. They’re always making statements like, “Computers ruin students’ futures.”

I think most school teachers make such statements because they don’t know much about IT. Even in our college, the IT teacher was so clueless. Once, he went to every A/L class in the school looking for the BIOS password that a student had changed, instead of just resetting the BIOS using the JP14 jumper on the motherboard. 😆

Anyway, I don’t feel sad anymore about not getting into the Engineering Faculty because I’m planning to join SLIIT. After all, we’re all alike! 😀 And now, I’m already a social engineer. 😉

So, if I’m spending most of my time in front of my computer, what the hell am I doing if I’m not posting on my blog? Well, the answer is simple: I’m just too busy improving my knowledge in networking, programming, and other cool subjects like hacking. You guys (and gals) already know I’m not new to that last subject. 😈

But lately, I’ve been feeling like I’m not taking good care of my blog. So, starting this week, I’m going to spend some time improving the quality and look of my blog. I’m also planning to post a couple of times a week in a new, more energetic way. 8) The first of those posts will be here in a few days (or maybe even a few hours!).

Until then,

Happy Hacking!
C.J.