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December 1st, 2008

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Rounding Currency


Many of my friends at University has request me to post the homework code of Vb.net that I have done on my blog. and here the simple Vb.net Console Application that i’m learning at University. So I hope that younger or older brother that learning in IT can see the simple code and correct or implement it together.

-The Code are focus on how to use “IF Condition” and “Do Loop”.
Here is the Rounding Currency Code In VB.net Console Application

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim ROUND As Double
Dim amount As Double
Dim selected As Integer
Dim modulus As Double
Dim yesno As String

Do
Console.Clear()
Console.WriteLine(”Rounding Currency Table”)
Console.WriteLine(”1.RIEL”)
Console.WriteLine(”2.USD”)
Console.WriteLine(”3.EURO”)
Console.WriteLine(”4.POUND”)
Console.WriteLine(”Please Select the Currency”)
selected = Console.ReadLine

If (selected = 1) Then
Console.Clear()
Console.WriteLine(”1.RIEL”)
Console.WriteLine(”Input Amount:”)
amount = Console.ReadLine
modulus = amount Mod 100

If (modulus = 50) Then
ROUND = amount
ElseIf (modulus > 50) Then
ROUND = (amount - modulus) + 100
ElseIf (modulus < 50) Then
ROUND = amount - modulus
End If
Console.WriteLine(”Rounded Amount={0}Riel”, ROUND)
ElseIf (selected = 2) Then
Console.Clear()
Console.WriteLine(”2.USD”)
Console.WriteLine(”Input Amount”)
amount = Console.ReadLine
Console.WriteLine(”Rounded Amount={0} USD”, amount)
ElseIf (selected = 3) Then
Console.Clear()
Console.WriteLine(”3.EURO”)
Console.WriteLine(”Input Amount”)
amount = Console.ReadLine
Console.WriteLine(”Rounded Amount={0} EURO”, amount)
ElseIf (selected = 4) Then
Console.Clear()
Console.WriteLine(”4.POUND”)
Console.WriteLine(”Input Amount”)
amount = Console.ReadLine
Console.WriteLine(”Rounded Amount={0} POUND”, amount)
Else
Console.WriteLine(”Wrong Selection”)
End If
Console.WriteLine(”Do you want to continue (Y|N)? “)
yesno = Console.ReadLine

Loop Until (yesno = “n”)

End Sub

End Module

If you have any problem of running the program or need to ask inside code, please fill free to ask me. I might be available from my best tried.

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Written by Myhouse on December 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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istartedsomething HP Magic Giveaway contest

Today, the HP Magic Giveaway is coming to this very corner of the web. Your chance to win $6000 of the best (sealed and unsmudged) geek toys for this holiday seasons from HP and Microsoft in just a couple of keystrokes and mouse clicks away. For Tablet PC users it’s just a few pen strokes and taps away.

Head over to the istartedsomething.com HP Magic Giveaway contest minisite for the prize package and entry information.

In keeping with the holiday spirit, where no one really has time or effort to do anything, it can’t get any easier than a simple sweepstake. Just register your name and email. But there’s a twist. Users of the Windows Vista (and newer) operating system are given the opportunity to claim a bonus entry. If you don’t use Vista (or tried Vista), might be a good time to head over to a friend’s house and check it out.

The competition runs for 7 days until Tuesday, 9th of December 2008. If the technology works, a winner will be drawn later that day. Good luck.

Written by Long Zheng on December 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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Extra Antivir

Description of Extra Antivir and consequences of its residing on your PC

Extra Antivir 2.8 cannot deliver your PC from viruses and comprises viruses itself. This program has been concocted to make money from the air; well-studied though very popular trickery is used by people promoting Extra Antivir. Essential part of this trickery is a trialware. Saying that one needs to remove Extra Antivir experts usually have in mind to remove Extra Antivir trialware.
It does not mean, however, that there is no danger that comes from registered version and it is at least safe to let full version of Extra Antivir run free at your PC. Viruses included into Extra Antivir are just blocked by dll files which user receives after registration of Extra Antivir trialware, but such disabling is usually ineffective as it leads to system freezes and finally disorders hosting computer.
The trailware acts as adware, i.e. in practice it means that Extra Antivir is configured to start each time when user logs on to Windows and asks through scans and alerts to resister this copy as it is necessary to remove the threats exposed by  Extra Antivir. In reality, all so called threats emanate from the strong desire of hackers to possess several bucks from each user while the real challenge to your computer safety and privacy is Extra Antivir. Click here to start scanning computer free of charge and get rid of Extra Antivir.

Extra Antivir Technical Details

  • Full name: Extra Antivir 2.8, ExtraAntivir 2.8
  • Version: 2,8
  • Type: Rogue anti-spyware
  • Origin: Russian Federation

Extra Antivir Screenshot (click to enlarge):

Signs of being infected with Extra Antivir:

Extra Antivir, as a rule, starts to run simultaneously with Windows and shows you a pop-up with various active objects; the most important of them are free scan and registration options. It is thus hard to pay no attention to the presence of Extra Antivir when such pop-up is entitled “ExtraAntivir 2.8”. It may happen that pop-up fails to appear due to some circumstances, especially in case of shadowed installation and especially when it was a trojan that serves many malware that in this case installed Extra Antivir, because short version of Extra Antivir might be installed in such a case. If you have not seen any window entitled Extra Antivir, but there have been pop-ups and alerts invoking to resolve all your problems with security by installing certain software from Internet, or if your PC simply behaves in a strange manner, this could also be a reason to remove Extra Antivir; click here to identify malware and viruses at your PC and get rid of Extra Antivir and/or other dangerous residents found.

Automatic Removal of Extra Antivir from your PC:

Extra Antivir is not an orphan as there are RapidAntivirus and related malware items (all fake virus remover), which, speaking metaphorically, gave birth to   ExtraAntivir, still active. They share same trojans and webs-sites with malicious scripts, also may be installed together at one PC. It is hard to predict whether Extra Antivir removal is the only one malware removal operation needed for total system cleanup. When you remove Extra Antivir in automatic mode, there is a warranty that other rogues detected and removed. Follow the link below to get rid of Extra Antivir in a way that provides total system cleanup.

Download Extra Antivir Removal Tool

Manual Removal of Extra Antivir:

Be attentive removing Extra Antivir manually, especially when deleting Registry values. Any mistyping usually results in failure to remove Extra Antivir. Reboot PC before and after Extra Antivir manual removal. The right way to get rid of Extra Antivir would include reboot of operating system to ensure every problem is not active while Extra Antivir removal is in progress.

Remove Extra Antivir files and dll’s

install_511_MHwzNnwxMDAwMDAwMDAwfHx8fHx8fHw_
Extra Antivir.ini
base.dat
base2.dat
Desc.dat
spline.dat

Unregister Extra Antivir registry values:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Extra Antivir

Extra Antivir Remover with free scan

Written by admin on December 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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Beginning the Boot Loading Process in Ubuntu

Although the actual boot loading mechanism for Linux varies on different hardware platforms (such as the SPARC, Alpha, or PowerPC systems), Intel-based PCs running Ubuntu most often use the same mechanism throughout product lines. This process is accomplished through a Basic Input Output System, or BIOS. The BIOS is an application stored in a chip on the motherboard that initializes the hardware on the motherboard (and often the hardware that’s attached to the motherboard). The BIOS gets the system ready to load and run the software that we recognize as the operating system.

As a last step, the BIOS code looks for a special program known as the boot loader or boot code. The instructions in this little bit of code tell the BIOS where the Linux kernel is located, how it should be loaded into memory, and how it should be started. If all goes well, the BIOS looks for a bootable volume such as a floppy disk, CD-ROM, hard drive, RAM disk, or other media. The bootable volume contains a special hexadecimal value written to the volume by the boot loader application (likely either GRUB or LILO, although LILO is not provided with Ubuntu) when the boot loader code was first installed in the system’s drives. The BIOS searches volumes in the order established by the BIOS settings (for example, the floppy first, followed by a CD-ROM, and then a hard drive) and then boots from the first bootable volume it finds. Modern BIOS’s allow considerable flexibility in choosing the device used for booting the system.

Next, the BIOS looks on the bootable volume for boot code in the partition boot sector
also known as the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the first hard disk. The MBR contains the boot loader code and the partition table—think of it as an index for a book, plus a few comments on how to start reading the book. If the BIOS finds a boot loader, it loads the boot loader code into memory. At that point, the BIOS’s job is completed, and it passes control of the system to the boot loader.

The boot loader locates the Linux kernel on the disk and loads it into memory. After that task is completed, the boot loader passes control of the system to the Linux kernel. You can see how one process builds on another in an approach that enables many different operating systems to work with the same hardware.

If the BIOS detects a hardware problem, the boot process will fail and the BIOS will generate a few beeps from the system speaker. These “beep codes” indicate the nature of the problem the BIOS has encountered. The codes vary among manufacturers, and the diagnosis of problems occurring during this phase of the boot process is beyond the scope of this book and does not involve Linux. If you encounter a problem, you should consult the motherboard manual or contact the manufacturer of the motherboard.

Linux is very flexible and can be booted from multiple images on a CD-ROM, over a network using PXE (pronounced “pixie”) or NetBoot, or on a headless server with the console display sent over a serial or network connection. Work is even underway to create a special Linux BIOS at http://www.coreboot.org/ that will expedite the boot process because Linux does not need many of the services offered by the typical BIOS.
This kind of flexibility enables Linux to be used in a variety of ways, such as remote servers or diskless workstations, which are not generally seen in personal home use.

Source of Information : Sams Ubuntu Unleashed 2008 Edition

Written by magakos on December 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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Windows Vista SP2 will be available to Download by March

News of the upcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista! Microsoft is doing their best to rush out Service Pack 2(SP2) for Windows Vista so there will be additional incentive for folks to upgrade to Window Vista now, instead of waiting for Windows 7. So the latest schedule should come as no surprise.
A confidential source has revealed that Microsoft will deliver a Release Candidate in February, 2009 with the final SP2 binary scheduled for RTM (Release To Manufacturing) in April, 2009.[Via Tech ARP]

Written by ShaDow on December 1st, 2008 with 1 comment.
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Microsofts Warns of Worm Attack

Security researchers at Microsoft last week warned of a significant increase in exploits of the SMB flaw in Windows. The flaw was patched with an emergency fix last month. Microsoft again urged users to install the patch if they have not already done so.

The patch can be found here

Microsoft’s malware protection center said an increase in attacks began last weekend. This is right in line with the rumor I posted a while back that indicated this would happen near the Thanksgiving holiday.

The latest maleware to exploit this flaw is called “Conficker.a” by Microsoft, and “Downloadup” by Symantec. It exploits the flaw in SMB and then installs itself on the target machine. The purpose of the maleware is not clear yet, but it has been studied by security researchers. This is what they have found so far

-It Avoids Ukrainian IP address ranges. This possibly means it was created by someone in this area of the world. It is a common tactic used to reduce the chance of action by local authorities.

-Even more interesting, the worm patches the flaw. This is done so other viruses cannot take the place of it.

-The worm resets the machine’s restore point. Which will make it difficult or impossible to “roll back” windows from a pre-infection state.

It is clear that if you have installed the patch, you are safe. If you have not installed the patch yet I would suggest getting to it as fast as you can. In addition, as a precaution you should always make sure that your SMB services are not available from the public Internet - you never know what other flaws are still hiding in this very old part of Windows.

Written by intelliadmin on December 1st, 2008 with no comments.
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