NASA's space shuttle Discovery landed down safely at the Edward's airforce base, California at 5:12 PM PDT on 9 August. NASA's infrared cameras followed discovery's each move, till its landing. Until 7000 feet, the shuttle was under the command of NASA mission control and then the Shuttle commander Eillen Collins took the control. The landing was smooth and the shuttle will be made free of gases and other substances that might have clung onto it during the descend.

Source : BBC NEWS (LIVE TV)

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I just noticed that my news site http://newzpile.com reported this even before Google news did! I still dont see this news on Google! Wow, way to go newzpile!

Firefox is a good browser (some say its the best) and I personally use it. But there are certain things about Firefox that I don't like. One is it messing with the page contents.

Here is an example. Try putting this somewhere on your page

Notice an major flaw? An unclosed <script> . When viewing such a page on IE, you see nothing after the <script> tag, i.e, "The rest of the page contents" and all go invisible. Seeing that, you can figure out that something is wrong with the page and inturn, debug it. But weird enough, Firefox fixes this by itself and renders the page as normal :S And you never come to know about the flaw. This has happened to me, big time.

Then a second example. Put this code somewhere in your html page.

Open the page in firefox and view the page's source.

You'll see this

See an extra ">", that's the weird firefox's weird act

We have seen virus spread through a number of means, emails, infected programs, via backdoors. But toady I was surprised to see a "new" tactic. I got a mail, disguised to be coming from Kaspersky labs, with the title "Virus Removal Tools". It said "Kaspersky Labs has developed free virus removal tools. If your computer has been infected by any of the viruses listed below, you can download a free removal utility here".

The email consisted of download instructions for a so called virus removal utility "fix_virus.exe" or "fix_virus.zip", with direct download links, complete with ten mirrors ! (Netherlands, Germany, Russia, USA). The email claimed that the virus removal utility could destroys W32.Kelvir ,W32.Mytob.AR@mm , W32.Mytob@mm , W32.Sasser , W32.Mydoom@mm , W32.Reatle@mm , Trojan.Jasbom , W32.Beagle@mm , W32.Kelvir and W32.Bropi.

I am not sure whether it is a virus, a backdoor or even spyware. But the email is for sure, fascinating and amusin. Its fun to see the bad guys changing tracks and trying new and better methods Not to forget the hundreds and hudreds phishing emails i recieve every day.

Here's a screenshot

The Yahoo! photomail is small program that boasts of making sending photos easier. It is The program has a Photo search feature that scans your computer for picture files. The whole concept is simple, a quicker way to send your photos.

Now the story begins. After reading about photomail somewhere, I first logged into my Yahoo mail. What i got was an "Account Deactivated" message. That was obvious because i never log in to yahoo mail, I never even use my yahoo mail id, except for the messenger.

The page gave me two simple choices.

( Pure marketing! By the way, who pays for email these days ? ! )
Reactivate my account without protection
I don't want to risk losing important messages and contact information stored in my mail account. I would like to subscribe to Yahoo! Mail Plus so that my account will not be deactivated again in the future if I don't use it for four months.

Reactivate and protect my Yahoo! Mail account in the future
I know that my account will be deactivated again in the future if I do not log in for a four-month period. I understand that I will risk losing valuable email messages and other important information.

Isn't the second option kind of threatening. It sure creates a slight fear for an average user. The text sounds dumb too

Without any thinking, I moved forward with the second option. Then weird enough, I got a page saying that " Sorry, we cant log you in blah blah... Please try refreshing blah.. blah..". I tried refreshing atleast ten times and I ended up logging in with IE, it worked fine then. Then I again tried with Firefox and it worked this time.

A page full of ads welcomed me, no improvement, same mailbox as before three years Next I went to photomail.yahoo.com and to my surprise, I saw this there ! We're sorry, but your computer doesn't currently meet the system requirements for PhotoMail What in the heavens !! Yeah, it required IE 5.5+ , it even had a link to IE's download site. Nevermind, a user has to bear everything the provider imposes. Anyway, I finally installed the client (it was a browser install).

Now the dumbest thing of all, after a successfull installation, I first looked on my desktop and the programs menu, but could find no traces of the installation. I then went to Yahoo! mail and open the compose page. I then tried the attach files option but could find no signs of the photomail client there.

WHERE in the heavens is this thing! Is it there or am I dumb??

Has anyone heard of the movie ticket bug in PHP 4 ! ? Check it out : http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=27952

Yeah, here's a couple of screen shots from the upcoming Microsoft Windows Longhorn OS. I was fortunate enough to have a beta CD mailed by Bill Gates, personally Naah, just kidding. I found this on the flexbeta.com forum i think, dont quite remember. Anyway, the graphics interface looks pretty cool. I can tell from the screenshots that this OS is gonna be a resource hungry one ! You'll need atleast 1GB of ram to satisfy its thirst

How fascinating our world is! Just a few hours after NASA's probe hit the comet, a Russian astrologist has come forward claiming that NASA's mission altered his horoscope ! :S How whacky is that!? He is suing the U.S space agency for damages of $300 million