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Michael Jackson has died at age 50

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:09:58 +0000

Michael Jackson has died at age 50 after being rushed to UCLA Medical Center, NBC News has confirmed.

Jackson had been due to start a series of comeback concerts in London on July 13 running until March 2010. The singer, whose hits included “Thriller” and “Billie Jean,” had been rehearsing in the Los Angeles area for the past two months.

Los Angeles Fire Department Capt. Steve Ruda told the L.A. Times that Jackson was not breathing when paramedics arrived at his home and CPR was performed.

TMZ.com reported that he may have suffered cardiac arrest.

The shows for the 50 London concerts sold out within minutes of going on sale in March.

His lifetime record sales tally is believed to be around 750 million, which, added to the 13 Grammy Awards he received, makes him one of the most successful entertainers of all time.

He lived as a virtual recluse since his acquittal in 2005 on charges of child molestation.

There were concerns about Jackson’s health in recent years but the promoters of the London shows, AEG Live, said in March that Jackson had passed a 4-1/2 hour physical examination with independent doctors.

“I am absolutely devastated at this tragic and unexpected news,” said Quincy Jones, a longtime friend of Jackson’s and producer of his “Thriller” album. “For Michael to be taken away from us so suddenly at such a young age, I just don’t have the words. … I’ve lost my little brother today, and part of my soul has gone with him.”

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Tracking 202 Pro - The ultimate Affiliate tool

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 02:08:44 +0000

If you ever wondered how to manage all your stats into one account, wait no more tracker 202 pro is here to the rescue.

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Credit CARD Act of 2009 (H.R. 627) Details

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:08:19 +0000

Here is what the new credit card act , Obama ruled on details:

4/30/2009–Passed House amended.

Credit Cardholders’ Bill of Rights Act of 2009 -

Section 2 -

Amends the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit a creditor from increasing any annual percentage rate of interest (APR) applicable to the existing balance on an open end consumer credit card account unless specified conditions are met.

Allows a creditor to increase an APR on the existing credit card balance only if the increase is due solely to: (1) a change in index; (2) expiration of the promotional rate; (3) payment not received during the 30-day grace period after the due date; or (4) consumer failure to comply with a workout plan. Prohibits any such APR increase from exceeding the APR applicable to the particular category of transactions on the day before the effective date of the workout plan.

Directs the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Federal Reserve Board) to prescribe standards governing such workout plan.

Requires a 45-day advance notice of: (1) credit card account rate increases, except one resulting from a change in index, and (2) significant contract changes. States that a notice of an account rate increase shall not be effective before the end of the one-year period beginning when the account is opened.

States that, in the case of a promotional rate, no written notice of an increase in the APR shall be effective before the end of a six-month period beginning from the date the promotional rate takes effect.

Requires a creditor to provide a 30-day advance notice of an account closure.

Section 3 -

Prohibits imposition of a finance charge, with certain exceptions, upon a credit card account balance that is based on balances for days in billing cycles preceding the most recent billing cycle (double billing cycle) as a result of the loss of any grace period.

Prohibits the imposition of a fee on an outstanding credit card balance, at the end of a billing period, that is attributable only to interest accrued during the preceding billing period on an outstanding balance fully repaid during that preceding billing period.

Requires each periodic statement of account to provide the toll-free telephone number, Internet address, and website at which the payoff balance may be requested, including statements of account issued by a small issuer (of fewer than 50,000 credit cards).

Grants a consumer the right to reject a new credit card after the creditor notifies a consumer reporting agency of its corresponding account.

Requires a creditor to remove information furnished to a consumer reporting agency concerning establishment of a newly opened credit card account if the consumer: (1) has not used or activated the account; and (2) contacts the creditor within 45 days of its establishment to close it.

Prescribes requirements for the terms of any credit card account, particularly fixed rate and prime rate, under any open end consumer credit plan.

Declares that, if two or more different APRs apply to different portions of an outstanding balance, the amount of any periodic payment beyond the required minimum payment shall be allocated first to the balance with the highest APR. Allocates any remaining portion to any other balance in descending order, based on the applicable APR each portion of such balance bears, from the highest rate to the lowest.

Sets forth special rules for accounts with promotional rate balances or deferred interest balances.

Prohibits a creditor from denying a cardholder a specified payment grace period if the cardholder takes advantage of a promotional rate balance or deferred interest rate balance.

Requires creditors to send a periodic credit card statement of account to the consumer at least 21 calendar days before the due date for the next payment on the outstanding balance.

Prohibits a creditor from treating as a late payment the receipt of a periodic payment by mail as of the creditor’s next business day if the date established by the creditor as the payment due date is a day on which mail is either not delivered or is not accepted by the creditor for processing.

Directs the Federal Reserve Board to suggest appropriate guidelines for creditors to follow with respect to credit card accounts to supply consumer cardholders with information regarding the availability of legitimate and accredited credit counseling services.

Section 4 -

Prohibits the charge of an over-the-limit fee unless the consumer permits the creditor to complete the relevant transaction (opt-in).

Allows imposition of an over-the-limit fee only once during a billing cycle. Prohibits its imposition in a subsequent billing cycle with respect to such excess credit, unless the consumer has obtained an additional extension of credit in excess of the credit limit during that subsequent cycle.

Prohibits imposition of any over-the-limit fee if the credit limit was exceeded because of a credit hold, unless the actual amount of the transaction for which the hold was placed would have resulted in the consumer’s exceeding such credit limit.

Section 5 -

Prescribes the contents of credit card price and availability information which the Board must collect and make public semiannually.

Section 6 -

Prescribes a standard for the initial issuance of subprime or “fee harvester” cards (accounts requiring first-year fee payments in excess of 25% of the total amount of credit authorized). Prohibits payment of any fee from the credit made available by the card (other than any late fee, any over-the-limit fee, or any fee for a payment returned for insufficient funds).

Section 7 -

Prohibits extensions of credit to consumers under age 18, unless they are emancipated under state law, or the consumer’s parent or legal guardian is designated as the primary account holder.

Prescribes procedures for the issuance of credit cards to full-time, traditional-aged college students. Limits the maximum amount of credit which may be extended to a college student for whom no one else assumes joint liability to the greater of: (1) 20% of the student’s annual gross income; or (2) $500. Limits the aggregate credit limits of all such credit cards to 30% of the student’s annual gross income in the most recently completed calendar year.

Requires: (1) parental approval to increase credit lines for accounts for which the parent is jointly liable; and (2) a creditor to require adequate proof of income, income history, and credit history before any college student credit card account may be opened by or on behalf of a student.

Prohibits a creditor from opening a credit card account for any college student who: (1) has no verifiable annual gross income; or (2) already maintains a credit card account with that creditor, or any affiliate.

Section 8 -

Prohibits a creditor from imposing a fee based on the manner in which payment on the account is made.

Allows a creditor to assess a fee, however, for crediting a payment to the obligor’s account if the obligor requests to make an expedited payment on a credit card account by telephone on the date that a payment is due or the immediately preceding day.

Section 9 -

Directs the Federal Reserve Board to prescribe regulations prohibiting creditors from making adverse reports to any consumer reporting agency regarding a credit card account held by an active duty military consumer or recently disabled veteran receiving compensation for a service-connected disability.

Section 10 -

Requires creditors to post on an Internet site the written agreement between the creditor and the consumer for each open-end consumer credit plan not secured by a dwelling that has a credit card feature.

Section 11 -

Revises and expands requirements for mandatory minimum payment disclosures which a creditor must furnish.

Section 12 -

Directs the Federal Reserve Board to review biennially, publish in the Federal Register, and report to Congress on specified aspects of the consumer credit card market.

Directs the federal banking agencies and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to report annually to the Board, and the Board to include in its annual report to Congress, on their supervisory and enforcement activities regarding credit card issuer compliance with federal consumer protection statutes and regulations.

Section 13 -

Requires credit card solicitations to include a warning on adverse effects of excessive credit inquiries.

Section 14 -

Prescribes a minimum type-size and font requirement for credit card applications and disclosures.

Section 15 -

Directs the Federal Reserve Board to report to certain congressional committees on the extent to which creditors have reduced credit limits or raised interest rates applicable to credit card accounts based on specified factors, including the geographical location of a credit transaction, the identity of the merchant involved, the consumer’s credit transactions, or the identity of a consumer’s mortgage creditor.

Section 16 -

Directs the Federal Reserve Board to prescribe regulations to require any creditor to establish procedures to ensure that any administrator of an estate of any deceased obligor can resolve outstanding credit balances of the estate in a timely manner.

Section 18 -

Sets forth a requirement for disclosure signs on the premises of stores accepting credit card account applications.

Section 19 -

Declares the effective date for this Act as the earlier of either: (1) the end of the 12-month period beginning on the date of enactment; or (2) June 30, 2010.

Directs the Board to prescribe final implementing regulations before the earlier of: (1) the end of the five-month period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act; or (2) June 1, 2010.

Prohibits any increase in an APR from taking effect during the period beginning 90 days after enactment of this Act and ending on the effective date of all the amendments under this Act, unless the creditor provides written notice to the consumer at least 45 days before such increase, and fully and conspicuously describes the change and how it applies to an existing balance.

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Voip Reviews and Voip Compare provider

admin — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:50:07 +0000

Hi,

Last week, while search for a voip provider, i stumbled upon a voip compare site , it made my life easy to compare all voip providers that are dominant in this industry. my final pick was a sip provider called contacttel.

Unlike the others on that voip providers site , it seemed to have all the pro’s wihtout the con’s.

If you are thinking about moving from traditional telephony, you need to bookmark that review site, it
will save you alot of headaches in the long run.

2 thumbs up !!!

Mike

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And that’s when the fight started….

admin — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:01:00 +0000

My wife sat down on the couch next to me as I was flipping channels.
She asked, ‘What’s on TV?’
I said, ‘Dust.’
And then the fight started…

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming
anniversary. She said, ‘I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 150 in about 3 seconds.’
I bought her a scale.
And then the fight started…

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her someplace expensive…
so, I took her to a gas station.
And then the fight started…

After retiring, I went to the Social Security office to apply for Social Security. The woman behind the counter asked me for my driver’s license to verify my age. I looked in my pockets and realized I had left my wallet at home. I told the woman that I was very sorry, but I would have to go home and come back later.
The woman said, ‘Unbutton your shirt’. So I opened my shirt revealing my curly silver hair.
She said, ‘That silver hair on your chest is proof enough for me’ and she processed my Social Security application.
When I got home, I excitedly told my wife about my experience at the Social Security office.
She said, ‘You should have dropped your pants. You might have gotten disability, too.’
And then the fight started…

My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table.
My wife asked, ‘Do you know her?’
Yes,’ I sighed, ‘She’s my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn’t been sober since.’
My God!’ says my wife, ‘who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?’
And then the fight started…

I took my wife to a restaurant. The waiter, for some reason, took my order first.
“I’ll have the strip steak, medium rare, please.”
He said, “Aren’t you worried about the mad cow?”"
Nah, she can order for herself.”
And then the fight started…

A woman is standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She is not happy with what she sees and says to her husband, ‘I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me a compliment.’
The husband replies, ‘Your eyesight’s damn near perfect.’
And then the fight started…..

I tried to talk my wife into buying a case of Miller Light for $14.95.
Instead, she bought a jar of cold cream for $7.95.
I told her the beer would make her look better at night than the cold cream.
And then the fight started….

My wife asked me if a certain dress made her butt look big. I told her not as much as the dress she wore yesterday

and then the fight started…..

I asked my wife, “Where do you want to go for our anniversary?”
It warmed my heart to see her face melt in sweet appreciation.
“Somewhere I haven’t been in a long time!” she said.
So I suggested, “How about the kitchen?”
And that’s when the fight started….

My wife and I are watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, “Do you want to have sex?”
“No,” she answered. I then said, “Is that your final answer?” She didn’t even look at me this time, simply saying “Yes.” So I said,
“Then I’d like to phone a friend.”
And that’s when the fight started….

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What is voip ?

admin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:35:31 +0000

Introduction

VOIP is an acronym for Voice Over Internet Protocol, or in more common terms phone service over the Internet.
If you have a reasonable quality Internet connection you can get phone service delivered through your Internet connection instead of from your local phone company.
Some people use VOIP in addition to their traditional phone service, since VOIP service providers usually offer lower rates than traditional phone companies, but sometimes doesn’t offer
911 service, phone directory listings, 411 service, or other common phone services. While many VoIP providers offer these services, consistent industry-wide means of offering these are
still developing.

How does VOIP work?
A way is required to turn analog phone signals into digital signals that can be sent over the Internet.
This function can either be included into the phone itself or in a separate box like an ATA .

Applications using VOIP
Traditional telephony applications, such as outbound call center applications and inbound IVR applications, normally can be run on VOIP.
VOIP connecting directly.

It is also possible to bypass a VOIP Service Provider and directly connect to another VOIP user. However, if the VOIP devices are behind NAT routers, there may be problems with this
approach.

Voip Service providers
There are many providers out there, skype is a style of voip without all the control you would get with a company like contacttel.com
Why use VOIP?
There are two major reasons to use VOIP

* Lower Cost
* Increased functionality

Lower Cost

In general phone service via VOIP costs less than equivalent service from traditional sources. This is largely a function of traditional phone services either being monopolies or
government entities. There are also some cost savings due to using a single network to carry voice and data. This is especially true when users have existing under-utilized network capacity that they can use for VOIP without any additional costs.

In the most extreme case, users see VOIP phone calls (even international) as FREE. While there is a cost for their Internet service, using VOIP over this service may not involve any
extra charges, so the users view the calls as free. There are a number of services that have sprung up to facilitate this type of “free” VOIP call. Examples are: Free World Dialup ,ContactTel and
Skype.

Increased Functionality

VOIP makes easy some things that are difficult to impossible with traditional phone networks.
* Incoming phone calls are automatically routed to your VOIP phone where ever you plug it into the network. Take your VOIP phone with you on a trip, and anywhere you connect it to the Internet, you can receive your incoming calls.
* Call center agents using VOIP phones can easily work from anywhere with a good Internet connection.

Check out : contacttel.com

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OTR proxy and Trillian

admin — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:15:32 +0000

As promised a while ago I created an Installation and Setup Guide for OTR proxy and Trillian.

I quickly registered an AIM and an ICQ account, got myself the new 0.3.0 OTR proxy and 3.1 Trillian software and went on a;

Tech-Quest : OTR proxy 0.3.0 and Trillian 3.1 Basic (and Pro)

Overview

Overview

Off-the-Record (OTR) Messaging allows you to have private conversations over instant messaging by providing:

Encryption No one else can read your instant messages.
Authentication You are assured the correspondent is who you think it is.
Deniability The messages you send do not have digital signatures that are checkable by a third party.
Anyone can forge messages after a conversation to make them look like they came from you.
However, during a conversation, your correspondent is assured the messages he sees are authentic and unmodified.
Perfect forward secrecy If you lose control of your private keys, no previous conversation is compromised.

1. Install OTR proxy

Get OTR proxy here. Verify the .exe with the signature.

After verifying it start the .exe and install it anywhere you like.

2. Start OTR proxy

If you did not start OTR Proxy at the last step while installing OTR Proxy you have to do that now.

Remember that you always should have OTR Proxy running before you start Trillian if you want to use

the IM protocols you configured to use the OTR Proxy.

(Howto configure Trillian to use OTR Proxy for AIM/ICQ will be explained in step 4

If you go to the preferences of OTR proxy;

You will notice that there are no fingerprints yet of your buddies.

Starting and Ending Private Conversations is something you can do here but usually you do that in your IM client (here Trillian).

You will also notice that there are none of -your- IM accounts available yet to generate keys for or view the fingerprint for authentication purposes.

3. Install Trillian

Get Trillian and just do the install the way you like it.

After that add the IM accounts you like to use, just remember that at the moment OTR Proxy only supports AIM and ICQ.

4. Configure Trillian

Start Trillian. Select in the upper left corner ‘Trillian’ and from the dropdown menu select ‘Trillian Preferences’.

Select ‘Advanced Preferences’.

Select ‘Proxy Server’.

This is how you configure your AIM environment in Trillian so it uses the OTR Proxy to talk to the outside.

This way OTR Proxy can encrypt your AIM conversations when it notice the other side is OTR

capable and leave other AIM conversations unencrypted when that buddy is not OTR capable. Almost magic !

You will notice I configured both AIM and ICQ to use Socks5, please note that OTR Proxy also supports HTTPS and HTTP.

The prefered order for you to try this is :

Socks5 on port 1080
HTTPS on port 8080
HTTP on port 8080

These are in order of “simplicity of protocol”, which corresponds to “probability of correct implementation”.

This is how you configure your ICQ environment in Trillian so it uses the OTR Proxy to talk to the outside.

This way OTR Proxy can encrypt your ICQ conversations when it notice the other side is OTR capable

and leave other ICQ conversations unencrypted when that buddy is not OTR capable. Almost magic !

This screenshot to show you should -not- configure other protocols next to AIM and ICQ to use the OTR Proxy.

5. Howto Establish an OTR enabled IM session

This describes howto establish an OTR enabled IM session without going into the nitty gritty details.

If you like more details please read this and this.

I initiated an IM chat with a buddy by typing ‘ping’, you see with the left arrow that OTR Proxy ’sees’ this buddy.

As both sides were OTR capable I got the fingerprint of the buddy from the other side of the internet). (Right arrow.)

In the background OTR proxy on my side generated on the fly a fingerprint for my side and sent it to my buddy. (Not shown here).

The moment I acknowledge the fingerprint of the buddy on the other side the conversation

gets encrypted and the buddy moves to the Private Connections’ of OTR Proxy. (Left arrow.)

I also get one more popup window telling me that we have established and encrypted conversation. (Right arrow.)

This screenshot is to show you how the screen looks like after OTR Proxy did its work and the secure connection has been established.

Here you see how the buddy from the other side responds (with pong).

or more documentation please visit the OTR website

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A PayPal Alternative - Moneybookers

admin — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:38:04 +0000

Since PayPal isn’t developing their online payment services and the list of countries you need to search for alternative services to PayPal. I have seen many people complaining about PayPal, because they are supporting merchants only in big countries and people from smaller countries can’t use the full PayPal service package.Here comes money bookers.. I personally used them for years and you actually have service.

Go check moneybookers.

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Mail googles: Stop sending mail you later regret

admin — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:02:11 +0000

Sometimes I send messages I shouldn’t send. Like the time I told that girl I had a crush on her over text message. Or the time I sent that late night email to my ex-girlfriend that we should get back together. Gmail can’t always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, but today we’re launching a new Labs feature I wrote called Mail Goggles which may help.

When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you’re really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you’re in the right state of mind?

By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you’re most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it’s active in the General settings.

Hopefully Mail Goggles will prevent many of you out there from sending messages you wish you hadn’t. Like that late night memo — I mean mission statement — to the entire firm.

To activate to your google account: http://mail.google.com/mail/#settings/labs

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Qmail refusing to create virtual domains

admin — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:24:49 +0000

Had a weird problem here. It complained that I could not assign a password to my user, as the domain could not be created (!?).

This was weird - I wasn’t doing anything strange… so I tried it from the console, logged in through SSH:

[root@webworks domains]# ../bin/vadddomain domain.com
Please enter password for postmaster:
enter password again:
Failure while attempting to remove_line() the locals file
Error. Failed to add domain to assign file
Error: Could not update file

The solution is vaguely indicated there. All you need to do is this:

[root@webworks domains]# touch /var/qmail/control/locals

Then, remove the failed domain, ignoring the errors:

[root@webworks domains]# ../bin/vdeldomain domain.com
Warning: Could not access (/home/vpopmail/domains/domain.com)
Warning: Failed while attempting to delete domain from auth backend
Warning: Failed to delete directory tree: domain.com

And recreate it:

[root@webworks domains]# ../bin/vadddomain domain.com
Please enter password for postmaster:
enter password again:

All Done

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