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Avoid getting scammed by some web hosts
Feb 15th
Nowadays, whether it’s in the real or virtual world, scammers and thefts are just about anywhere. They are always waiting for a victim to take their bait. I wouldn’t even go explaining why there are such people as I’m pretty sure it would be an endless discussion. Just a simple question as why is it hard for them to exert an effort doing a decent or legal business rather than scamming people is already a mind boggling thing to figure out.
And now, they have indeed found another way to scam people and get money from their pockets. By offering free web hosting services, they can easily lure people to sign up and eventually charge them with hidden fees. To register for a free web hosting company is pretty much easy these days. Though there are still, of course, legit free web hosts, everyone should still be careful signing up with a hosting company.
To avoid ending up with the wrong hosting provider, it’s important that you take into consideration how long the company has been doing business. It’s often safer to go with hosts that have been providing their services at least for more than a year or two. Doteasy is a hosting company that also provides domain name registration service. They are currently one of the best that offer free web hosting and have been in the business for around 10 years now. They provide an ad free site and guarantee 99.9% uptime. With their free web hosting package which is their basic plan, you get 100MB of disk space all for free. There’s no set up fee, monthly fee and no hidden charges. You get to have great web site builder to use in creating your site. Plus, you also get to use a cPanel which is only common with paid hosting. To sign up for a free hosting account is easy, just click here.
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How to write spam!
Jan 31st
I mean seriously, the people who write those spam emails got to be kidding us! A spam email just looks "so" much like spam it's just pathetic! I had to write this because I am fed up of stupid emails that make no sense and go directly to my trash folder without even reading them
First things first, the subject, I mean seriously, putting viagra? Free credit? If you want people to open a message, there are some things you must avoid in subjects:
- Website urls
- Words like free, gift, money, credit.. etc
- Please stop using FW:, it's like screaming you are a useless email!
Of course there are many more things, but the list is simple unending! Basically, if I wanted someone to open an email, I guess I would fake a reply or a comment, because those are the kind of emails that you don't expect, and still sometimes we open them to see the comment, as in youtube for example.
Now in the body, there are things called spam detectors! So cramming your email with 50 emails, and all of them with porn-related words, free stuff, or things like that doesn't help!
And the next big thing, is it really that hard to spell check the email? I have received things like "Dear mr sir Alex, We want informer you of free gift we give to you..." and so on...
The keyword here is to Look Professional. If you want to be taken seriously, do things seriously. Until you do that, you are just wasting your time!
Developing more intelligent algorithms
Nov 22nd
First of all, what do we call intelligence when talking about algorithms? Well, if we have an algorithm that is able to forecast when it is going to rain and when it will be sunny, we might call that intelligent, but it depends on some other variable, the time and effort it took for it to get those results. Thus the faster and lower number of variables our algorithm needs to return the same or even better results, the more intelligent it is.
That is a rule of thumb, but how do we do that?
Well, many scientists say "Copy nature", and that is indeed a good solution, why? Because nature know how to do perfect algorithms. I'll take simple animals to explain this, for example the ants. If we were to program ants, we would say it is too hard, but are we sure?
How nature did them was by "programming" the simplest possible set of rules (Apart from the moving/eating/basic functions), which put together create the complex societies we see them live in.
Say we want to program ourselves an animal, and we want it to always be safe. Then, instead of programming complex recognition software, or advanced algorithms that determine the surroundings, why don't we try nature's approach, the simplistic approach?
Of course we need to build some "complex" systems, for understanding certain objects, lighting conditions, wet/dry states... Now, we give its algorithms a set of rules, to call them somehow:
First, don't run out of battery. So it has to learn how to plug itself, or any other charging method right?
Second, escape from moving objects.
Third, shade is safer.
Another requirement is that we give the robot the ability to store information, so it can learn what places are better and which ones are not. Now if we set it to "on" and watch what happens, the robot will cautiously start moving toward safer environments, and whenever battery runs lower, it will leave the safe place to look for a plug.
This sounds ok right? Now from this base we could start building better intelligence, but the base is this. We need something basic, some sort of default behavior.
If I have time I will build a java applet or something of the sort to test this out,
Best regards,
Alex
Remote PC access software
Jul 18th
A couple days ago a friend of mine asked me to help him with his computer. Usually that is no problem, but he had really done something strange, and he lived too far for me to go there,
Surely there are several options out there when we are talking about remote access software, from the built-in technical assistance in windows to professional solutions, but there is one that I think stands out:
Proxy PRO 6:
The Proxy PRO 6 offers a lot of capabilities that standard software doesn't, first of all, security. You have 256-bit encryption – the highest in its class, which ensures the integrity of your data, along with strong authentication.
Along this, you can create rol-based groups, with different permissions or capabilities, making it a perfect solution for businesses and technicians.
As for the actual control, it offers a huge set of built-in stuff, like a chat, to talk with the client, bulk file transfer, multi-monitor... etc the list is so big I can't even remember all the items! But you can always go to their site to check the full list of features
So basically, if you are thinking about using some sort of remote control software, consider at least the Proxy PRO 6.