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Microsoft helps kill spammers

अच्छी तरह से, not really kill, just bring down. But it makes the title sound nice.

In other news, Microsoft has finally done something right by bringing down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers and caused them to send massive amounts of spam. Rustock was one of the (if not the) biggest spam networks in the world.

माइक्रोसॉफ्ट (and some feds) raided some hosting facilities in the US and took down the servers that instructed infected computers to send spam.

You can read more at cnet.

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Labyrinth

As usual, I got bored so I wrote a game in JavaScript. It’s a role-playing game called Labyrinth (you can find it here) which follows a guy who gets lost in a cave. You have to collect sticks to destroy barrels, planks to cross water, keys for colored doors, and more.

Here’s what Labyrinth looks like:

Playing Level 10 of Labyrinth
Playing Level 10 of Labyrinth

I know it’s horribly drawn, but I drew everything myself. I’m such a bad artist that it’s a miracle that the key even looked like a key. And that glowing yellow/orange/red thing is a lantern.

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इंटरनेट अंवेषक 9 is out

Well done, Bill, you’ve finally done something right. इंटरनेट अंवेषक 9 is now out and can be downloaded from microsoft.com. Here’s the catch: it only works on Windows Vista and 7.

Let me repeat that:

It only works in Vista and 7. It doesn’t work in XP.

Thoughts on the new browser

For one thing, it’s a lot better than Internet Explorer 8, although that isn’t saying much. To be honest, it’s actually decent; Internet Explorer can now compete with the other popular browsers like Firefox and Chrome.

Here’s what really matters:

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जावास्क्रिप्ट संचालित कैलकुलेटर

I was bored (and my calculator was out of batteries), so I figured I’d take a crack at developing a web-based calculator. (You can find it at hathix.com/etc/calculator. Basically, you can enter some commands (variable declarations or function calls) and the calculator will use JavaScript power to find the answer.

The neatest thing about the calculator is that it has some built-in functions (anything from finding a number’s square root to finding the LCM of two numbers to finding the solutions to a quadratic equation.)

Here are some commands you can enter into the calculator and what they do:

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7-ज़िप: फ़ाइलें खोल देना करने के लिए एक नि: शुल्क रास्ता

मेरे माता पिता अभी से एक ज़िपित फ़ाइल डाउनलोड इंटरनेट (यह क्या था यकीन नहीं, मैं एक इंस्टॉलर या कुछ लगता है.) लेकिन उस बिंदु के पास है, महत्वपूर्ण बात यह है कि वे अंदर फ़ाइलों का उपयोग कर सकता है ताकि इसे खोल देना करने की जरूरत है. वे डाउनलोड WinZip, आप फ़ाइलों को खोलना जो देता है.

सभी की अच्छा, सही? समस्या सिर्फ यह एक बहुत खर्च करता है. $30, वास्तव में. यही कारण है कि बहुत तरह प्रतीत नहीं होता, लेकिन सॉफ्टवेयर के साथ अंगूठे के सामान्य नियम है:

आप कुछ डाउनलोड करने के लिए अपने क्रेडिट कार्ड को बाहर निकाला तो, आप शायद बहुत ज्यादा भुगतान किया.

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