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Written by Jalil
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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
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While surfing the immense waves of the internet, I came across this rather interesting website www.ziddu.com which offers file hosting just like rapidshare and other file hosts do. However, the interesting feature of this website is that it says that it will pay you real money when people download your files that you upload and share. How many unique downloads? you need at least 10,000 people downloading your files to earn $10. The more downloads the more money you get! A million downloads will earn you $1000. After all, this is only their claim. Whether they are honest in what they claim or not is a matter of trying their service and finding for yourself. That is why I am now thinking of a file that will be loved so much to be downloaded 10000 times and a place where to advertise the link to this file in order to reach those potential 10000 downloaders! What I see here is a very clever ad compain by this new service! They want to get as many people signed up and uploading and sharing files by tempting them to pay them. And once there are 5 million users or so! ziddu will earn millions if not billions of dollars from annoying ads and spyware! After all, they can just not pay you by manipulating the counters that keep track of how many people downloaded your files! So be carefull! |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 April 2008 )
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Written by Jalil
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
YES! it is possible to have a whole Linux operating system on your USB memory stick. There are many Linux distributions that have been tailored to fit into an affordable 1GB USB pen drive.
I have tried one myself and confirm that it works as if it was installed in your hard disk. The Linux distribution I tried is "BackTrack3" from www.remote-exploit.org
There was no effort what so ever required to run Linux from my USB pen drive, as the guys from BackTrack prepared everything for you. You only need to download the 900MB Rar archive file which contains the operating system and unpack it to the root of your usb stick. Once unpacked, you need to make the usb memory bootable and that is simply achieved by running a batch file which issues commands that modify the MBR of your usb drive so that it boots to the BackTrack Linux.
Now simply restart your computer with the usb stick still plugged in the port, and make sure that USB is first in the boot order (Under BIOS settings) and the Linux will run faster and smoother than with a Live CD image.
" LINUX ON USB " will save your computer when windows crashes for no reason! |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 20 March 2008 )
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