Facebook CEO’s Mark Zuckerburg Page Hacked

Read the Title?? Sounds Crazy ? What??. Well Yes its the reality. Since after first round for Facebook hacker cup ended a few days back, Suddenly yesterday an idiotic status came up at Mark Zuckerburg’s official page. The hacker posted a very unexpected status , Here it is :

Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn’t Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a social way? Why not transform Facebook into a ‘social business’ the way Nobel Price winner Muhammad Yunus described it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_business?h=d044aeb71f4e466a552708fc6e3863ef&thanksforthecup

The post had over 1,800 likes and nearly 500 comments, but as soon as the Facebook was informed about this , They pulled back Mark Zuckerburg’s page for a day.Hashtag resembles that it might be an update for twitter or some any other networking site using hashtags.But before it was restored back , We grabbed its screenshot.

Windows 8 Beta Screen Shots

We have reported earlier that Microsoft would be previewing a pre beta version of Windows 8 at worldwide partners conference which is scheduled to be be held from July 10 to July 14 at Los Angeles ,today two independent sources conformed the same. Further mswin is reporting that Microsoft would start working on windows 8 beta branch from July 14 exactly after WPC 2011.

According to more information available Microsoft would be releasing Windows 8 pre beta to Microsoft gold partners just after WPC 2011.

It has already been confirmed by multiple sources that Microsoft would be releasing Windows 8 beta during Build conference which is scheduled to held in September. Further according to rumors the RTM version of Windows 8 would be released in April 2012.

These are the Screen Shots of Leaked Version of Microsoft Windows 8 Beta.

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1st Run, Updating Registry

Boot Screen, Animated. That Dots are Animated

Installation Menu, Country & Region Selection

Windows 8 Beta Desktop

Windows 8 Beta System Information

All About Windows 8

Microsoft doing Windows 8 Partner Preview at Computex

Microsoft promised to preview the next-generation of Windows at Computex on Wednesday.
The software giant held its Computex keynote on Wednesday and promised a partner preview event for the next version of Windows. The event takes place at 10AM local time in Taipei on Thursday June 2 (see other time zones). Microsoft’s Steven Guggenheimer revealed the event on Wednesday during Microsoft’s Computex keynote, according to Engadget. The event will follow a Microsoft demonstration of Windows 8 during the All Things Digital D9 conference later today.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer teased that the company is planning a unique approach to Windows 8 tablets last week. The software giant is working on a “unique contribution” to tablets according to Ballmer. “More news about that in the not-too-distant future,” he said. Microsoft’s Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, is expected to demonstrate the company’s efforts with Windows 8 this week. Sinofsky is appearing at the All Things Digital D9 conference on Wednesday morning. Bill Gates introduced Microsoft’s Surface computer in 2007 and the company demonstrated Windows 7 multitouch in 2008 at the D conferences. Microsoft will show a “technology preview” of its Windows 8 Tablet experience at the conference later today.
Several Taiwan based PC manufacturers have reportedly complained that they have been excluded from early Windows 8 development programs. The software giant has reportedly held talks with Nvidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Intel and AMD to seek their participation in a special Integrated Development Program for Windows 8. Some companies have complained to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) in Taiwan to seek government involvement.
Microsoft is expected to detail further information on its next-generation of Windows at a developer event in September. The company is currently finishing Milestone builds of the software and is likely to deliver a beta copy of the operating system to developers in the fall. Microsoft’s partner preview event and D9 demo will only hint at the future of the platform, holding back vital information for a big unveil later this year. Windows 8 is expected to be released in late 2012, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised Windows 8 PCs, Tablets and Slates next year during a speech last week.

Windows 8 Tablet UI to be demoed next week

Microsoft is due to showcase its Windows 8 tablet UI next week, according to reports.
The respected Bloomberg news agency confirmed on Thursday that Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky will demonstrate the company’s “immersive” touch screen UI running on hardware with an Nvidia Tegra chip. Microsoft is attempting to counter Apple’s domination of touch based mobile devices and tablets. Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, said the company is in a race during a speech in New Delhi today. “We are in a race,” he said. “We are not doing that badly, frankly. We are doing pretty well in that race. But the race is on to continue to push Windows to a variety of new form factors.”
Microsoft’s Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, is expected to demonstrate the company’s efforts with Windows 8 next week. WinRumors exclusively detailed the company’s plans earlier this week. Sinofsky is appearing at the All Things Digital D9 conference on Wednesday morning. The software giant confirmed Sinofsky’s appearance on Monday. Microsoft has a habit of introducing new technologies at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital Conference, which will run from May 31 to June 2 this year. Bill Gates introduced Microsoft’s Surface computer in 2007 and the company demonstrated Windows 7 multitouch in 2008. Microsoft will show a “technology preview” of its Windows 8 Tablet experience at the conference next week.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer promised Windows 8 PCs, Tablets and Slates next year during a speech earlier this week. Several Taiwan based PC manufacturers have reportedly complained that they have been excluded from early Windows 8 development programs. The software giant has reportedly talked with Nvidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Intel and AMD to seek their participation in a special Integrated Development Program for Windows 8. Some companies have complained to the Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) in Taiwan to seek government involvement.
Microsoft may introduce Windows 8 ARM based tablets ahead of a full desktop release according to reports. Microsoft’s competitive tablet strategy is believed to be further along than expected. Dell’s recently leaked Tablet Roadmap revealed that the OEM has marked Q1 2012 as its date for a Windows 8 based slate. WinRumors understands that Microsoft has been working on an ARM based version of Windows for nearly a year and that it is laboring hard to bring this to the market as soon as possible. Microsoft has previously promised a “major revamp” of Windows for slate applications, that will come in the next version, Windows 8.
Microsoft has so far been extremely quiet on the Windows 8 front. Windows Chief, Steven Sinofsky, took to the stage at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January to introduce a technology preview of Microsoft’s Windows ARM support and show off an early build of Windows 8. Microsoft is partnering with ARM-based manufactures NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments to produce new Tablet devices. Rumors suggest that Microsoft will create a dual-UI for Windows 8. A tile-based user interface codenamed “Mosh” will reportedly be included.
Steve Ballmer has described the next release of Windows as the company’s “riskiest product bet”. It is understood that Microsoft will feature deep cloud integration into the future OS to realise its vision of “three screens and a cloud”. One Microsoft employee recently said he believes Windows 8 will be the “most important Windows ever shipped.”

Windows 8 will come with “Windows 7 mode” feature, but why?

At Intel’s Investor Meeting 2011 at the company’s Santa Clara, California, headquarters on Tuesday, Intel software chief Renée James told her keynote audience that Windows 8 will come with a feature called “Windows 7 Mode”
Microsoft said that this information is ”factually inaccurate and unfortunately misleading.” but if we believe that this “rumor” is true, why exactly would Microsoft add such a feature to the upcoming OS that is said to be similar to Windows 7.
If Microsoft has actually added such a feature in Windows 8 there can only be one reason that there are some changes in the OS core that will make the OS incompatible with many applications we have been running on Windows 7.
I should mention that there is such feature in Windows 7 called “Windows XP mode” that allows users to run applications that are incompatible in Windows 7 but runs on windows XP.
There was a difference of about 10 years and many critical features between Windows XP and Windows 7 that made it easier for Microsoft to position Windows 7 among customers, but this difference is not that big between Windows 7 and Windows 8.
If this rumor is true Microsoft will have a hard time selling Windows 8 among Windows 7 users. (Source)

Write protect your USB/Thumb/Flash/Pen Drive

It happens with me many time that I had to copy some files from my pen drive to our college lab and the moment I plugged in my pen drive, it gets infected with dozens of viruses. Yes, its true that our college labs are too infected. Now before I can use the pen drive again, I need to make sure to clean it first so that the virus may not spread on more computers. I scan for my pen drive using NOD32 and no doubt it completely remove all traces of virus but it wastes my time as I always have over 2 GB of files that I carry with me all the time.

So I came to know of this trick of write protecting the drive so that I can safely copy things I want without the worry of virus being copied on my USB drive. Although you won’t be able to write any thing on your pen drive, its still very useful in case you want something to copy from your pen drive and don’t want to get infected. Before proceeding I must tell you that playing with the registry can be harmful for your Operating System (OS) and I advise you to take a backup of your registry in case anything goes wrong.

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This trick works only on XP SP2 and Later Versions, you need to have administrator privileges.

• Open Registry Editor by Start > Run.
• Type in regedit.
• Browse to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\  

Locate the sub-key StorageDevicePolicies. If it doesn’t exist then create it first. Create a new key under Control by right clicking on it so that you don’t create it elsewhere by mistake (as shown in the above screenshot).

Right click in the blank area of the sub key you just created and create a new DWORD value by the name WriteProtect.

Double-click it and set the value data as 1 (and 0 for disabling it).

• Click OK, close the Registry Editor and restart the PC.

The drawback of this trick is that you need to remember this trick by yourself and you need to restart the PC after applying this trick. Killing explorer.exe and restarting it will not do the job everytime. I am still looking for any other ways fo protecting your drives and I will post in on my blog if I found a better trick than this one. Share your thoughts in the comment.