In recent months we have noticed several news on corruption about GrammenPhone. They were involved to illegal VOIP business which was discovered by RAB and BTRC in 2008. It happened more than once. Last year we have also noticed they illegally sacked too many regular employees and employed low paying employees as replacement.

Today we have noticed a very formal complain about illegal retrenchment of 70 employees. The victims were asked to sign a white paper. When they asked the reason, they were informed that they were sacked from the company.  The victims then said they would attract media coverage against this illegal means. Then the so called authorities announced the devastating thing “We have bought the media by providing advertisement to the tune of lakhs of taka. So, your news would not be published or telecast in the print and electronic media”.

Honestly, they were giving huge advertisement in all electronic and print media. Even they were sponsor of our National Cricket Team. Their malicious hands of money even captured our national prides. So their such delivery is not unexpected. If they withdraw their advertisement from the media many newspaper and tv channel may fall in even loss. But after all, where is the commitment of the media? Is there any actually?

Special thanks to The Daily Independent for publishing the news. May be they have not sold yet!

Source: The Daily Indepedent

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All you know letting visitors/users invite their contacts is one of the cheapest but proven way of marketing. We can get it by placing a contact importer script in our site and requesting users to invite his/her friends by providing email address and password. The script will then contact the server and download contacts from the address book and finally will send a custom or preformatted email to bring them to our site.

But problem is the cost of such importer script. More than one year ago I have purchased such a script most probably at US$30. It can import from popular email services like Yahoo, Gmail, MSN etc. Later I have found some other scripts that can download contacts from a few more sites.

But throwing all them behind, lately I found the most fabulous, most fantastic, most robust and cheapest contact importing script titled “OpenInvite”. If may not believe the previous sentence until you visit their website. It can import contacts from nearly all major email services and social networking sites. I have counted about 48.  Read the rest of this post →

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Today I needed this trick. I was having some problem with one of my sites. I want to turn the site down while I am fixing it. But as the site is made with scatter html, php pages, it is not easy to centrally control maintenance mode. But I believed, this is possible by .htaccess trick. After searching a lot I have found a wonderful tutorial for it.

Here is the link of the tip/tutorial.

The tutorial is very easy to understand. If you understand .htaccess then here is the main part.

<Limit GET POST PUT>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from 123.456.789
</LIMIT>
ErrorDocument 403 /custom-message.html
<Files custom-message.html>
order allow,deny
allow from all
</Files>


It first deny all IPs’ access to the site (3rd line) then only allow the webmaster (4th line, you must put your own IP). At 6th line, we mention custom Forbidden (403) page. But it is worthless as we already denied all users (IPs) to all pages. So in next lines we exclusively allow all to our custom 403 page so that they can see only that page.

Hope it will help you like me :).

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All you know that we can make any site as our browser’s homepage so that the page is opened automatically when we start the browser. But what is the way when I want to like more than one page to be started along with the browser? Here is the solution.

Internet Explorer 7:
It is easiest one. Click Options from Tools menu. You will see a text box where you can put multiple homepage each in separate line.

http://www.flashgamz.info
http://binodon4all.com
http://www.yahoo.com

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Today I have purchased a new EDGE Modem for internet access as my previous modem died yesterday. The new modem’s brand is Histon. My old one was Anik modem. Today morning I visited Anik’s head office and showed my non-functioning modem. After a few minutes of testing, they said it is dead. But I it seemed to me that they could solve it as almost same problem occurred  one year back. That was within guarantee period. That time, they said “it is a small problem. My engineer is not available otherwise he/she could fix it momentarily. Then they have given me a replace. But not new one; they gave one old/used modem. I asked “why old one?”. A man replied “Should we give a new modem for a small problem?”. Then he replied the above line. Now the modem’s warranty period is expired so they don’t care it anymore.

I am not sure about the quality of Histon modem. But it takes longer to initialize and to become accessible than that of Anik’s modem. Don’t see any significant changes in browsing or downloading. Same freak about connection speed. What does it mean?

he he. Yes, Anik’s modem always been connected at 460kbps but it could never cross 228kbps. This modem shows 384kbps on its package and other places. But it connects at 460kbps. So don’t they know their modem’s connection speed? Why they put low on label? Very opaque.

Anyway, lets see how much it serves me. The worse thing is that this modem also does not work in Linux :(.

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I just returned home after completing a workshop titled “IT Project Management” which is organized by bdjobs. It was a day long workshop that was started from 9am and continued till 5pm. The workshop was conducted by Mr. Fahim Bhuiyan who is currently serving as a Manager in a leading strategy and technology consulting firm in the United States.

The whole day we have learned many fundamental to medium level concepts of Project Management (PM) and did many practical works. The workshop was conducted group wise as PM itself is a group work. We have formed 7 groups and carried out many objectives given by the conductor.

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Yesterday I have got the mail from cPanel about some changes in cPanel. Though the changes were applied in CURRENT & EDGE tree, yesterday they entered into RELEASE tree. As I use RELEASE tree I have immediately updated the cPanel’s version. I have monitored the server almost whole day.

They claimed they have released the second version of VPS Optimized which saves 12-15MB RAM. But at what cost?

I am monitoring one of my VPSes from yesterday. Still I am observing that the server load is consistently more than double than before. So, did they save memory at cost of CPU? Usually my VPS’s load always (except special tasks like backup) remained under 1.0 and mostly below 0.6. But now it is always more than 1.5 and mostly 2.0+.

In VPS arena, RAM is easily upgradeable but not the CPU. Many company provides equal CPU share. So, when needed, we can upgrade the RAM but can’t upgrade the CPU share easily and cost effectively.

So, I am really frustrated with this version of cPanel.

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How to submit a form using PHP

There are situations when you want to send data using POST to a URL, either local or remote. Why would you want to do this? Probably you want to submit data to an optin form, but without taking a valuable visitor away from your site. Or maybe you want to send data to several applications for various purposes, which would be impossible to do in the usual manner. So how can we deal with this problem?

Simulate submitting a form using cURL

So what is cURL anyway? cURL stands for “Client URL”, and it is a library of functions that can be used to connect and communicate to a wide range of servers, such as HTTP, FTP, telnet and so on. cURL also speaks HTTPS, so it can be used to communicate with secure servers.

What are we going to use are cURL HTTP capabilities. cURL supports POST and GET methods, file uploads, cookies, user/password authentications, even using proxy servers for connecting.
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May be nothing to be exicited. But its still a moment to remember. Today I have published my latest plugin in WordPress plugin repository. Though I have made two more open source plugins, I did not put them in the repo. But I wanted to put my latest plugin (Blog Post Reordering) to the repo to extend its users. As a result, yesterday I have applied for SVN access and today I got approval.

I have immediately uploaded the files. Now just waiting to get users’ feedback. As I have released RC1 of that plugin, I am waiting for users’ feedback to fix bugs. After fixing these, I will release the final 1.0.

Click here to visit the page in repo.

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Until this plugin takes birth, the blog posts of WordPress were arranged on post’s date/time basis. The latest post will be in front and the earlier posts will sink.

From a few days, I was planning about this plugin. I am excited at this beta release of it.

Usage:
Using this plugin, posts can be reordered or reorganized. Now you can set how blog posts should come one after another. By default, the posts are displayed on time basis. The latest created post comes at first. But now you can set the order in a array of ways. You can also define custom ordering. Read the rest of this post →

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Today one of my online junior friend requested me to install and configure SHOUTcast for him. Though I had no previous experience on it, I became interested to take the challenge. Before starting, I dug internet a bit and found a helpful tutorial. I started the work and found it is very easy. It took not more than 30 minutes to complete the study & setup.

Here is the steps I followed in shell:
#useradd shoutcast
#cd /home/shoutcast
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Several times I have tried to install Red5 Streaming server in my linux box and I successfully failed during every try.

Today from morning I again started to try as success was my sheer determination. I planed I would surely find out a positive result. But no hope. I again failed to install it.

Later, while searching online, I have found a magic script. i instantly downloaded the file and executed it. Within a few minutes, Red5 is installed successfully. Thats really magic. I just run service red5 start and its started.

To get details visit: http://forums.hostv.com/showthread.php?t=134

To download the magic file click here.

Make it executable (755) and execute it (./red5_install). And count for success. Thanks a lot to the author for a fantastic script.

Optionally I have upload that script here for backup storage. You can download from here.

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Just now Hasin Hayder, author of multiple books, has published a blog post how to host any wordpress.com blog virtually anywhere you wish. Using this simple script, you can host any wordpress.com blog in your own domain.

He wrote a simple proxy script and some codes in .htaccess file. Then the proxy script will fetch all contents from your original blog and show in your site.

Suppose, you have a blog in Wordpress.com which URL is www.rajuru.wordpress.com. Using this script, you can host this same blog to somewhere like www.yourdomain.com.

The script does not yet support commenting. Currently it will redirect you to original blog for comment. But the author has just confirmed me that he will implement this part very soon.

For details, visit Hasin Hayder’s Blog

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