Guess What is this?

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Its a hard disk in 1956....The Volume and Size of 5MB memory storage in 1956.In September 1956 IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD). The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data.

Gaming

1: World of Warcraft
Blizzard Entertainment
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2: Unreal Tournament 2004
Atari
www.unrealtournament.com

3: The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape From Butcher Bay - Developer's Cut
VU Games
www.riddickgame.com

4: Sid Meier's Pirates!
Atari
www.atari.com/pirates

5: Half-Life 2
VU Games
www.half-life2.com

6: Far Cry
Ubisoft
www.farcry-thegame.com

7: Rome:
Total War Activision
www.totalwar.com/game

8: World Soccer Winning Eleven 7
VU Games
pc.gamezone.com/gamesell/p23032.htm

9: Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Pandora
Ubisoft
www.splintercell.com

10: Rise of Nations: Thrones & Patriots
Microsoft
www.microsoft.com/games/thronesandpatriots/

happY gaminG*

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Broadband Facility for Faculty Members/ Students/ Staff [Updated]

*We have fixed problem in registration of the above mentioned service. Now GCU Staff and Students can apply by clicking the link below from the university network:

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The Higher Education Commission has taken a number of initiatives for broadening the reach of Information Technology to meet the IT challenges of the country, especially for the education sector. The Higher Education Commission has recently signed a MoU with PTCL for the provisioning of Broadband DSL connections to students, faculty members and administrative staff at substantially subsidized rates at their residence. This DSL facility/service under this MoU offers Broadband connection at 256 kbps, 512 kbps and 1 Mbps with a 30% discount on prevailing PTCL commercial rates against each capacity.

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Applicants can apply online through this link, http://bncc.ptcl.net.pk:88/

Please note that this link can only be accessible from university/institution network.

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A Poor Family [ FunnY ]

.:: A Poor Family ::.

Teacher asked all students to write an essay on the topic "A Poor Family".
One student gets the lowest marks for writing that essay.
The student happens to be the richest girl in the entire class,
and her essay goes on as.......She wrote:Ek baar ek bahut hee gareeb family thi, husband aur wife dono gareeb they, do bachey they, woh bhi bahut gareeb they!!Ghar ke saare naukar bhi gareeb they, ghar ka maali, driver, aur guard bhi bahut gareeb they, Ghar ke 4 kuttey bhi gareeb they, 2 din sey chicken nahi khaaya tha.3 mercedeez cars thin, unki bahut time se servicing nahi hui thi, ghar ka A.C bhi theek nahi chalta tha, aur uppar se ghar mein 1 saal se paint nahi hua tha!!Family ko holiday ke liye foregin country gaye bhi 6 mahiney ho gaye they,
Ghar ke 5 mein sey 2 TV to chaltey hee nahi they
All in all, bahut hi gareeb family thi....

Source: Sunil Sabir

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The White Lies ISPs Tell About Broadband Speeds

The White Lies ISPs Tell About Broadband Speeds

Guaranteeing a fixed-rate speed to any location on the Internet is not possible, nor was the Internet ever meant to be such a conduit. It has always been a best-effort mechanism. The larger companies have their own internal network staff, and hence I have no specific knowledge of how they deal with oversold conditions, if they deliberately oversell, and, if so, by how much. Common business sense leads me to believe they must oversell to some extent in order to be profitable. But, again, this isn't something It can be proved.

A matter of expectations

How would you feel if you pumped a gallon of gas only to find out that the service station's meter was off by 10 percent in its favor? Obviously you would want the owners exposed immediately and demand a refund, and possibly even lodge a criminal complaint against the station. So, why does the consumer tolerate such shenanigans with their ISP?

Put simply, it's a matter of expectations.

ISPs know that new and existing customers are largely comparing their Internet-speed experiences to dial-up connections, which often barely sustain 28 Kbit/s. So, even at 150 Kbits/s, customers are getting a seven-fold increase in speed, which is like the difference between flying in a jet and driving your car. With the baseline established by dial up being so slow, most ISPs really don't need to deliver a true sustained three megabits to be successful.

As a consumer, reliable information is the key to making good decisions in the marketplace. Below are some important questions you may want to ask your provider about their connection speeds. It is unlikely the sales rep will know the answers, or even have access to them, but perhaps over time, with some insistence, details will be made available.

Five Questions to Ask Your ISP

1.) What is the contention ratio in my neighborhood?
At the core of all Internet service is a balancing act between the number of people that are sharing a resource and how much of that resource is available.

For example, a typical provider starts out with a big pipe of Internet access that is shared via exchange points with other large providers. They then subdivide this access out to their customers in ever smaller chunks -- perhaps starting with a gigabit exchange point and then narrowing down to a 10 megabit local pipe that is shared with customers across a subdivision or area of town.

The speed you, the customer, can attain is limited to how many people might be sharing that 10 megabit local pipe at any one time. If you are promised one megabit service, it is likely that your provider would have you share your trunk with more than 10 subscribers and take advantage of the natural usage behavior, which assumes that not all users are active at one time.

The exact contention ratio will vary widely from area to area, but from experience, your provider will want to maximize the number of subscribers who can share the pipe, while minimizing service complaints due to a slow network. In some cases, I have seen as many as 1,000 subscribers sharing 10 megabits. This is a bit extreme, but even with a ratio as high as this, subscribers will average much faster speeds when compared to dial up.

2.) Does your ISP's exchange point with other providers get saturated?

Even if your neighborhood link remains clear, your provider's connection can become saturated at its exchange point. The Internet is made up of different provider networks and backbones. If you send an e-mail to a friend who receives service from a company other than your provider, then your ISP must send that data on to another network at an exchange point. The speed of an exchange point is not infinite, but is dictated by the type of switching equipment. If the exchange point traffic exceeds the capacity of the switch or receiving carrier, then traffic will slow.

3.) Does your provider give preferential treatment to speed test sites?

As we alluded to earlier, it is possible for an ISP to give preferential treatment to individual speed test sites. Providers have all sorts of tools at their disposal to allow and disallow certain kinds of traffic. It seems rather odd to me that in the previously cited PC Magazine test, which used highly recognized Web sites, the speed results were consistently well under advertised connection speeds. One explanation for this is that providers give full speed only when going to common speed test Web sites.

4.) Are file-sharing queries confined to your provider network?

Another common tactic to save resources at the exchange points of a provider is to re-route file-sharing requests to stay within their network. For example, if you were using a common file-sharing application such as BitTorrent, and you were looking some non-copyrighted material, it would be in your best interest to contact resources all over the world to ensure the fastest download.
However, if your provider can keep you on their network, they can avoid clogging their exchange points. Since companies keep tabs on how much traffic they exchange in a balance sheet, making up for surpluses with cash, it is in their interest to keep traffic confined to their network, if possible.

5.) Does your provider perform any usage-based throttling?

The ability to increase bandwidth for a short period of time and then slow you down if you persist at downloading is another trick ISPs can use. Sometimes they call this burst speed, which can mean speeds being increased up to five megabits, and they make this sort of behavior look like a consumer benefit. Perhaps Internet usage will seem a bit faster, but it is really a marketing tool that allows ISPs to advertise higher connection speeds – even though these speeds can be sporadic and short-lived.

For example, you may only be able to attain five megabits at 12:00 a.m. on Tuesdays, or some other random unknown times. Your provider is likely just letting users have access to higher speeds at times of low usage. On the other hand, during busier times of day, it is rare that these higher speeds will be available.
In writing this article, my intention was not to create a conspiracy theory about unscrupulous providers. Any market with two or more choices ensures that the consumer will benefit. Before you ask for a Congressional investigation, keep in mind that ISPs' marketing tactics are no different than those of other industries, meaning they will generally cite best-case scenarios when promoting their products. Federal regulation would only thwart the very spirit of the Internet, which, as said before, has always been a best-effort infrastructure.

But, with the information above, it is your job as a consumer to comparison shop and seek answers. Your choices are what drive the market and asking questions such as these are what will point ISPs in the right direction.

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SVICHOSSST.exe Virus - Guide

Guide to Fix SVICHOST.exe or SVICHOSSST.exe

Hello Everyone!
Today I'm going to tell you about how to FIX your computer if it is infected with the virus.

This Virus is detected by only the following Antiviral Softwares:

1- BitDefender .. it detects it with the name "Win32.Worm.Sohanat.S"

2- Dr.Web .. it detected it with the name "Win32.HLLW.Hang"
3- FortiNet .. it detects as "W32/Dloader!tr.dldr"
4- Kaspersky Anti-Virus .. it detects as "IM-Worm.Win32.Sohanad.t"
5- Norton Anti-Virus 2007 (fully updated) .. detects it as "Win32.FunLove.4099"

I Got Norton Anti-Virus 2007 (fully updated till 5th July 2007 virus definition), still this virus infected my system!

As soon as my inserted my friends USB, NORTON DETECTED THE VIRUS and gave me the message. Problem fully resolved. (as per my habit, before opening any USB from outsider I first run a virus scan on it and then open it. It detected SVICHOSSST.exe in almost all the folders of the USB, plus, it detected NEW FOLDER.exe and then all the folders had a file inside them with the same name as the folder's name.

Norton Anti-virus 2007 detected all the infected files, gave me the report that all FIXED. But nothing was fixed!

First of all, symptoms of this Virus:

- TaskMgr disabled

- RegistryTools disabled

- NoFolderOptions- Command Prompt(CMD) sometimes disabled one minimized when you attempt to open it

- Slow Windows performance, boot, shutdown
- new Folder look-alike files in your removable storage devices, eg.Pendrive, Ex-HD,etc

Ok so here is the GUIDE HOW TO FIX SVICHOSSST.EXE or SVICHOST.exe

1- You need a tool called "HiJack This!" (Click here to Download it)

2- Run it and click "DO A SYSTEM SCAN ONLY". With that you can see all the current processes on your system (as task manager is disabled so you are not able to see the processes from there).

3- You will find these three following things in there.

F2 - REG:system.ini: Shell=Explorer.exe SVICHOSSST.exe

O4 - HKCU\..\Run: [Yahoo Messengger] C:\WINDOWS\system32\SVICHOSSST.exe

O7 - HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System, DisableRegedit=1

Check these three and click "FIX" button. It will remove these entries from your Processes.

4- Restart your system (its not yet fixed).

5- Now you would be able to run REGEDIT.

Goto START MENU > RUN and type REGEDIT and press enter.

6- Okay, next, open Regedit, by navigating to Start > Run > Regedit

Then go to :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>System

&

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Policies>Explorer

Look for values like No FolderOptions, DisableRegistryTools, DisableTaskMgr and so on on the left side of the Regedit.

The REG_DWORD value of these would be '0x00000001 (1)' Right-click it and use the option MODIFY and make the value '0'. Now you would see it as '0x00000000'

7- Next go to :

HKEY_CURRENT_USER>Software>Microsoft>Windows>CurrentVersion>Run

Locate the entry 'Yahoo Messengger', note the wrong spelling of 'Yahoo Messenger'? Delete it right away. Leave the other keys alone. The fake 'Yahoo' entry tells the system to run the virus everytime you boot(start) Windows.

8- Now goto the EDIT menu and choose FIND.

Search the keyword 'SVICHOST' and then try 'SVICHOSSST'

If you find any entry with this following keyword, simply remove it! and close Registery Editor.

(Still we have work to do! Don't be so happy)

9- Right click on your MY COMPUTER and choose "EXPLORE"

Goto the menu TOOL > FOLDER OPTIONS >VIEW and select "SHOW HIDDEN FILES AND FOLDERS" and uncheck "HIDE EXSTENSION FOR KNOWN FILE TYPES" and press OK.

NOW REMEMBER ... whenever ask you to goto some folder or drive. USE THE MENU AT YOUR LEFT SIDE. DO NOT DOUBLE CLICK THE FOLDER OR DRIVE ON YOUR RIGHT SIDE.

.:: Click Here to Enalrge ::.

Goto C:\WINDOWS and locate the files named SVICHOST and SVICHOSSST (first thing I said LOCATED, I never said SEARCH so donot use the SEARCH feature. You have to manually open the drive or folder and look for these files) (secondly both the files looks like a folder, their ICON is of a folder and you will feel like its a folder but its not a folder its a file)
Delete them using SHIFT+DEL (so that it does not go into your recycle bin).

Now goto C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 and look for both the files again and delete them if found. (again using Shift+DEL)

10- Ok we are almost there ;) but dont be excited what to do with the infected USB or Removable device drive which infected your computer?Ok so same goes for it. Goto your remove able device drive. (Remember using the LEFT SIDE OF THE EXPLORE, donot double click on the right side). Locate the files SVICHOST.exe and SVICHOSSST.exe and delete them (using SHIFT+DEL).

Voila! You are done! TO HELL WITH SVICHOSSST virus ;) Restart your system and enjoy your life :)

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Avril[Lums] in Imagine Cup Finals

icrosoft Pakistan held the Pakistan rounds of the Imagine Cup 2007 software competition at Bahria University, Karachi. Best student projects from universities all over the country were competing for The Cup. LUMS, Lahore was being represented by a team from B.Sc. 2007 with their project AVRiL, which is their CS Senior Project. This project and several others were later on display around the LUMS central courtyard for the benefit of the wider LUMS community.

The AVRiL team will now be representing Pakistan at the Imagine Cup in Korea in August. This is the first time LUMS will be going to the Imagine Cup finals to hopefully bring fame to Pakistan. Red more and watch a quick video about AVRiL @ http://digg.com/microsoft/Microsoft_Imagine_Cup_2007_Wishing_best_of_luck_to_AVRiL_from_Pakistan