If you want to install lynx, which is a command line browser, on your linux server, you can use following command to download and install lynx automatically in your system.

yum install lynx

Continents by size

#1 Asia – (44,579,000 sq km)
#2 Africa – (30,065,000 sq km)
#3 North America – (24,256,000 sq km)
#4 South America – (17,819,000 sq km)
#5 Antarctica – (13,209,000 sq km)
#6 Europe – (9,938,000 sq km)
#7 Australia/Oceania – (7,687,000 sq km)

Continents by population

#1 Asia – (3,674,000,000)
#2 Africa – (778,000,000)
#3 Europe – (732,000,000)
#4 North America – (483,000,000)
#5 South America – (342,000,000)
#6 Australia/Oceania – (31,000,000)

Continents by the number of countries

#1 Africa – (53)
#2 Europe – (46)
#3 Asia – (44)
#4 North America – (23)
#5 Australia/Oceania – (14)
#6 South America – (12)

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent

I had an ASP.Net 4 website in Web Forms it was working fine on local machine and on one of our Windows 2008 R2 server which had Framework 4.0. But when we moved to production machine which also had Windows 2008 R2 server, website started to generate Ajax client-side framework failed to load error on pages which had UpdatePanels. After searching for some time, found the solution. This was actually caused by the fact that the website had an application pool set to .NET 4.0 but the [Handler Mappings] for the *.axd files where not registered. I had to add following handlers in my Web.Config file.

<handlers>
<remove name="WebServiceHandlerFactory-Integrated"/>
<remove name="ScriptHandlerFactory"/>
<remove name="ScriptHandlerFactoryAppServices"/>
<remove name="ScriptResource"/>
<add name="ScriptHandlerFactory" verb="*" path="*.asmx" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add name="ScriptHandlerFactoryAppServices" verb="*" path="*_AppService.axd" preCondition="integratedMode" type="System.Web.Script.Services.ScriptHandlerFactory, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
<add name="ScriptResource" preCondition="integratedMode" verb="GET,HEAD" path="ScriptResource.axd" type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptResourceHandler, System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
</handlers>

After adding this its working perfectly. But I am still not sure, why these handlers are already added in our testing server and not on production.

I have seen many people who use sims of different networks and keep forgetting short-codes for checking balance and recharging their phones using scratch cards. So here I am collecting different short codes for all five mobile companies.

Microsoft has finally released final version of its browser IE9 and made available for download from beauty of web site. There are many exciting and new features in this awesome browser.

You can download latest version from here, this will be a small downloader that will later download updates from web. if you’re looking for offline installer for IE9 download it from below.

Here are final IE9 offline installer download links

IE9 (x86)  for Windows 7

IE9 (x64) for Windows 7

IE9 (x86) for Vista

IE9 (x64) for Vista

Earlier I told you an example where GEO news copied news content from AAJ News. Now I found another example where GEO has copied news contents from India Times’ sports news. See the images below. Click on photos to see large version.

I subscribed for the daily SMS bundle offer from zong by sending “sub” to 700. I received the following replies from zong.

1) “You have ordered package Daily SMS 500 for SMS_Bundle successful.”

2) “You have ordered package Daily SMS 500 For SMS Bundle successfully. The package is activated now. Keep enjoy with ZoNG.”

You see the simple English language mistakes in these replies? “successful” is used instead of “successfully” and in next message “Keep enjoy” is used instead of “Keep enjoying”
Should big companies like Zong, ignore such things?

Here is another misleading message from Zong. I had low credit in my Zong sim, to be exact seven (7) Rs.  I called to my brother’s phone and I heard a recorded voice saying

”You have insufficient balance left. please recharge.
aap ka balance na-kafi hay, brai meharbani recharge kar lain.”

As the message started, I thought my balance is over and I disconnected the call without talking to my brother. I used a different phone to make the call. Today, I checked my balance and I was surprised to see it was 7 Rs. I tried to make the call again, and noticed that after playing the the above message, Zong connected the call to my desired number.

But why they are playing this audio message? There is no reason for this. Especially the text of the voice message is completely misleading. The balance was sufficient for call, but still they said it’s insufficient ( na-kafi ).

I request Zong to remove such messages or at least change he wording of the recorded message.

Do you have similar experiences? Share in comments.

V-fone is wireless phone service by ptcl using CDMA2000 1X technology. They are covering over 10,000 urban, suburban and rural villages. The network is already enabled for Voice, Dialup-Internet access (153.6kbps) and EVDO Broadband.

I have found many people around who have lost their CDs which come with Huawei sets, provided by PTCL in their V-Wireless ( V-Phone ) package. So I decided to put it on web for easy search.

Please download the setup from http://www.dotriz.com/wp-content/uploads/huawei_ptcl-v-wireless.zip

Installation guide for PTCL v-wireless is available on their website. You can view these instructions at http://www.ptcl.com.pk/contentp.php?NID=118

Originally posted by Aamir Atta at ProPakistani blog.

We all know that people on internet are legitimately earning thousands of dollars per month through Adsense – of course this is nothing new to you and we have discussed many case studies before on this topic.

But today, I am going to reveal those individuals and teams which are exploiting youngsters to earn illegally through Adsense. These teams are formally working in an organized manner, through which they prepare a team of around 1000 members -  where every member cross clicks other’s website and ultimately everyone earns money.

For the purpose, two investigative teams visited such so-called companies separately, and findings were really shocking for me at-least.

By the way, all this was exposed to me when I saw a classified advertisement in “Daily Jang” on Sunday, March 22, 2009; which read “You can earn from 8,000 to 30,000 per month with spending just few hours on internet, for details visit Google Link (company’s name)”

Consequently when I visited this place, I was shocked to see how crazily and eagerly innocent youngsters were gathered there to snatch their chance of earning money through internet. I am sure they didn’t know that they are going to fraudulently earn money through an illegal way. On other side, Kabeer Khan, GM of Google Link, was very expertly revealing hidden truths of Google Adsense.

He falsely claimed that he is member of Google Company; in fact he called himself distributor of Google. Furthermore, he said that Google give out free website to those who click their ads and so on…

Below is the audio that we (secretly) recorded, while Kabeer Khan was briefing a bunch of fellow. (Sorry for low audio quality – Please use headphone to clearly listen to Kabeer Khan)

Other company is called PakEarn.com they have a specialized website with Franchises throughout country. They have thousands of people in their Group and are exploiting and forcing people to earn through Adsense.

How and What These people do?

• First of All a member is asked to get a 3 day training, for what they charge members Rs. 1,000.
• Once training is done, they make Blogspot blog for their members with adsense account as well
• Afterwards, they give out a list of 1000 Yahoo IDs to each member, and ask them to stay in touch with them for cross clicking
• Out of 1000, members are asked to interact with specific members on a specific day of month – this way, each member will click a website after 7 days, to avoid fraud click detection
• Members are asked to pay the company 10 percent of their first month revenues

Message for FIA

Guys get in action; this is your area as these people are misleading innocent Pakistanis. And believe me, people signing up for their membership are really innocent (they were asking Kabeer Khan, if he will pay them monthly or bi-monthly; they even didn’t know that Kabeer hasn’t got the guts to pay them at all, instead he is compelling them to make money for him)

I am uploading their website and postal address details in this ZIP file (Size: 1.43 MB) for FIA to download and grab these people.

Message for Pakistanis

Don’t go to such companies at all. Google Policy does not allow you to fraudulently click on ads individually or collectively. You can find Google’s Policy (rules) for Adsense here:https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=48182

Still you can earn thousands of dollars by legitimate ways, just like many other people on internet (from Pakistan). Also note that if you can not make website, leave this thing – and work in the area of your interest. It is just like that i can’t be a jeweler, while I know they earn huge money.

Allah has written your livelihood and you gonna get it anyway; either though good or bad means; so its better if we get it through good means only.

Message for Bloggers

Please spread the word, and save this country as,

• If these groups mature, Google may think of blocking Adsense in Pakistan as whole – and we all may end up with empty hands
• Also those advertisers, who are achieving their targets through Adsense – are loosing their money; save them as well

Pakistani news channels and news websites are really hot these days due to continuous crisis in country. I mostly read news on BBCUrdu.com. But whenever I want to get almost real-time news online, I mostly see Geo / Aaj TV websites.

Today I found an interesting thing, News about Punjab assembly session on stairs out side Assembly Hall. Yes .. it is itself quite interesting but my topic is little different. I noticed that textual news on Geo and Aaj TV websites was 100% same. Not even a comma or full-stop difference.

See below and read text of both images. First one is from GEO and second one is from AAJ TV. Screenshots taken on Thursday Feb 26, 2009 from GEO and Aaj Tv websites.

Do you see any difference in text? Suggest a title for this in your comments.