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Online guide to dissing unwanted callers

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You get calls at odd times and that too repeatedly from unwanted caller.Here is a list of few ways you can dis them.

1.Keep your caller tune as “The person you have called is currently busy”. And don’t pick the call.

2.But the problem with 1 is that all your callers will get it.So if your connection provider has feature for customized caller tunes.Keep it only for the person you don’t want to hear from.

3.If 2 is satisfied.Keep your caller tune as “The person you called will always be busy.”

4.There are lot more possibility to play with caller tunes but alas it will cost you.So we will find ways without costing you.

5.Pick up the call and say in Nayagan accent “neenga nallavara kettavara”

6.Pick up the call and say “please press 1 to continue.Please press your yahoo password to continue.Please remove your battery,put it again and call.Please scratch your head to continue”

7.And yes there is this legendary way for the non fun loving people : say hello,hello,hello for 5 to 6 times and cut it.

Feel free to add to the list.

Written by subbu

April 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm

Posted in DIY, fun, humor, humourous thoughts, people

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Wikipedia and Orkut Scripts

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User script for hiding the donation banner for Wikimedia on Wikipedia pages.
Install This Script

User script for stripped down version of Orkut:
Removes the glaring headings,footer,images and an unnecessary invite friends box.Along with giving it a cool gray scale theme.
Install This Script

Ps:You need to have Greasemonkey Add-on installed on Firefox to install these.

I wrote these 2 scripts sometime back to get the job done.(Which essentially means code ugliness ;) ) You could change it yourself if you want something more to be done.

Written by subbu

November 23, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Recipe for a dashing Firefox

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Firefox thats as dashing as superstar and as versatile as kamal hassan is just 5 min away from you.

Ingredients needed:

1:a good measure of patience and enthusiasm

2:a good decent internet connection

3:All the time in the world to explore the extensions.

so here we go:

  • go to tools->addons in your firefox browser
  • click on get more extensions link
  • search for harley davidson theme and install it.
  • go to recommended addons in the page
  • install everything thats inevitable for you.

thats it.You have a bloated beast at your service.

Some addons you might consider other than the recommanded ones:

1:IETab you can switch between how the page will look in IE and FF

2:Tab Effect to give a flip effect when moving between tabs.

This was how my ff looked when i installed all that i required:

firefox

Written by subbu

March 9, 2007 at 8:46 am

Posted in DIY, fun, tech funda

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How to send eMail as BillGates and other things

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It is easy to spoof email because SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) lacks authentication. If a site has configured the mail server to allow connections to the SMTP port, anyone can connect to the SMTP port of a site and (in accordance with that protocol) issue commands that will send email that appears to be from the address of the individual’s choice; this can be a valid email address or a fictitious address that is correctly formatted.
So here’s how one can send spoof mail acting as Bill Gates or whoever for that matter:

1.find your target!.square in on the person to whom you will be ending the spoof mail.for example let us take the person’s mail id as exampleid@examplesite.com.Take note of the domain name(i.e., the part of the mail id that follows @).Here in our example it is examplesite.com.
2.We have to find a mail exchange servers for this domain for which we can use nslookup.This is how you do a nslookup:
open command prompt in windows, type nslookup and

enter.Now you would see a prompt like >.Type set type= mx

and enter.Now type the part of the mail id you noted down

earlier.ie.,in the example its examplesite.com
you would get a response similar to this:

Non authoritative answer:
examplesite.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger =
server3.mx.examplesite.com
examplesite.com MX preference = 20, mail exchanger =
server2.mx.examplesite.com

pick one of those servers and note it down.In the example case

it is server2.mx.examplesite.com.type exit and come back to

command prompt.
3.So now you have the Mail Exchange server to which you have to connect to.

4.To connect to the server we can use telnet.So type
telnet <servername> 25 and enter.In example case it is

telnet server2.mx.examplesite.com 25
you would get a 250 response which means OK state.And some custom message from the mail server.

5.From here on you need to type in fast and without mistakes,i would suggest typing in notepad before and pasting it when required.
type MAIL FROM: email address you want to spoof as>

for eg case:

MAIL FROM: billgates@microsoft.com
you would get a 250 response then type the following:

RCPT TO: <recipient email id>
for eg case:
RCPT TO: exampleid@examplesite.com
again you would get a 250 response.Now type DATA and press enter.Here you would type the header details of the mail you want to send.Type in the following details note down the spaces and colon also.

Subject: anything you want as subject goes here
To: put the Name and address of the recipient here.
From: Your Name can be as long as you want, but must be followed by an address.
Reply-To: Your Name can be as long as you want, but must be followed by an address.

for example case:
Subject: I am giving away Microsoft to you
To: exampleid <exampleid@examplesite.com>
From: Bill Gates <billgates@microsoft.com>
Reply-To: Bill Gates <billgates@microsoft.com>

Now press enter and start typing your message as soon as you

finished typing in the message press an enter and a .(The period

character is the SMTP terminate Character)
then type QUIT

for example case:
Hey buddy i got bored with my Microsoft so i am giving away it for you.
.
QUIT

yippee you have sent your first spoof mail by now.

Written by subbu

February 28, 2007 at 6:32 am

Posted in DIY, tech, tech funda