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Living Room / Re: Google? Spam? Ads? No... No Conflict of Interest Here...

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 22, 2011, 08:57 AM »

Only way i can see things improving the search quality of any search engine is by - educating users. Give links to linkworthy sites, if we link to garbage we attract garbage. Never link to clothes site from developers forum or other non-niche site. For on-niche site, never link to low quality site(as in spam,plagiarized content). This type of activity if taken in religious point of view could create small content-rich chains (like DMOZ) which will help google or any search engine to improve results. It's also very hard to beat for those black-hatters because they prefer to automate things and expect minimum hardwork, which you rarely get from small content-rich sites hence easily gets tracked by google.

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Living Room / Re: Google? Spam? Ads? No... No Conflict of Interest Here...

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 22, 2011, 08:51 AM »

Why not report those sites?

Reporting never works. Because competitor will report each other for some random reasons and that way tons of requests are piling up. I have never seen google taking action against those people.

There is new trick(called autoblogs) that thieves use to increase the garbage, using your (okay our) content. They copy our content and give linkback at the bottom or within content to save their backside from legal hassles. And using backlinks and other SEO they rank over you and google simply ditches you. This technique is called as autoblogs and with affiliate ads and CPM ads people are earning lots of bucks with it. Some are even copying software .exe and creating lots of subdomains to rank on google for the soft download.

Now before google write the blog post like that to announce their algorithm's inability to detect thieves, i think they need to work on beating this tactic from thieves before claiming - do this or that to combat spam. They're doing nothing as far as i can see on the example, i mentioned here.

One simple innovation would be to have a thumbs up and a thumbs down link in the search results page for each link so that rubbish can easily be reported*.

There is a way to get around this, if someone codes a bot to thumbs up their own site across multiple IP's ? Trust me, google can't even detect autblogs, let alone catch multiple IP's.

It really worries me when forums like blackhat this-or-that comes to crack google's algorithm in their favor and do succeed in that. We assume google is too powerful but in reality it's just another algorithm made by humans so there is going to be a pattern in a way humans think, so the flaws.

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Living Room / Re: The Onion News Network - Funniest Satire Site on the Planet Lampoons the News

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 22, 2011, 05:16 AM »

Have to watch online if they make fun of FOX networks, especially beck. 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Microsoft's dropped feature is Linux's gain

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 21, 2011, 05:22 AM »

Just out of curiosity, which feature from MS desktop was dropped that was picked by linux recently ?

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC needs a fun game project that multiple people can contribute to

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 21, 2011, 04:20 AM »

Things are much clear now, so why not start with skills set ? I can do a bit python coding, story boarding (and little character graphics). In short i can help with test things, supportive coding and graphics.

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC needs a fun game project that multiple people can contribute to

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 21, 2011, 02:00 AM »

Okay, adventure game or TD ?
or cody as angry bird ?

I'm with idea of .NET based game (non-xna for crossplatform touch) because that way we can add multiple languages and can even port it to other OS. Let's first decide - type of game then plot and then tools. hussh! 

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wikidforum - New forum software with wiki and CMS support

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 20, 2011, 12:27 PM »

Command line user ?

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General Software Discussion / Re: Wikidforum - New forum software with wiki and CMS support

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 20, 2011, 12:11 PM »

@Stephen66515, thanks for the review. I also wasn't sure if it's ready for production level sites.

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Developer's Corner / Re: DC needs a fun game project that multiple people can contribute to

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 19, 2011, 04:46 AM »

Hmm, ya got me thinking on this now.  ;)I'll see if i can come up with rough mockup for game. My preference is tower defense or scrolling shooter game. I can't get into more complicated than these two.

By the way any ironpython users here want to jump into this ? 

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General Software Discussion / Re: The software awards scam

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 18, 2011, 04:22 AM »

Nothing wrong about affiliate deals, sharing is caring after all

With more customers opting for free software, adware and hidden affiliate deals is the only way developer can sometimes pay bandwidth bills. But atleast developers should not opt for the way softpedia is doing, they're simply stealing the software to host on their servers by giving awards.

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Activation/License/Language Help / Re: A piece of Sh**

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 18, 2011, 01:56 AM »

How about widget for license key ? I mean box where there is text-field for email id and name which will generate license key for program once email is entered and confirmed ? By the way i failed to understand his complaint, he's angry because there is no-nagging lifetime key or he got no way to find license key ?

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General Software Discussion / Wikidforum - New forum software with wiki and CMS support

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 17, 2011, 10:50 AM »

I found this forum while browsing fluxxbb related discussion. It can be integrated with wordpress to use the same usernames for author and forum users.

http://www.wikidforum.com/

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General Software Discussion / Re: LibreOffice UI Mockups (with sidebar)

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 17, 2011, 10:44 AM »

Looks good UI to me, but why people are abandoning old MS office 2003 style interface ?  That's very good UI IMO. I prefer more text options than icons.

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Living Room / Re: Forum / Thread Etiquette

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 17, 2011, 10:37 AM »

It's Manchester United, not MANU. Now start the fight.   

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Living Room / Re: When you make your 100'th Post

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 15, 2011, 01:53 PM »

500   

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Developer's Corner / Please Test this Wordpress Theme

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 15, 2011, 01:51 PM »

Hi, I'm trying to get this minimalistic theme done for doco users and i need your opinion.    Not going to stuff much into this theme but soon going to add more features in dashboard later. Please try this theme and let me know the feedback.  

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General Software Discussion / Re: Programs close when switching to battery power (Win 7)?

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 09, 2011, 03:53 AM »

I doubt if it's related to power settings, but in any case why not ask at superuser.com. Maybe someone from there knows about this.

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Living Room / Re: Fantastic Rant ...

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 09, 2011, 01:47 AM »

Is it just me or the link in first post is not working anymore ?

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Living Room / Re: Fast/Responsive programs: An official SuperboyAC list

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 09, 2011, 01:43 AM »

Unfortunately for old XP users with FAT32 have no option to use voidtools.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 09, 2011, 12:10 AM »

@rssapphire

It's still the duty of consumers in a free market to push the prices as low as possible (which means as close to free as they can get them).

We're not in free market, we pay for our stuff be it food, medicine and other stuff. Free market doesn't exist in world where we pay for things. Point is about people who dream about free market shouldn't take down paid products or chase them to release it for free.

That's not stealing, that's the way a free market is supposed to work.

Please read my earlier post again, i said 'stealing' is the only action that separates pirates and Free philosophy people. What common is between these two is both of these types force product creators to release stuff for free because either they are lazy, free-bie sucker or simply don't want to pay for someone's hard work, they have no respect.

If consumers aren't pressing for the lowest price they can get, the market is broken in favor of producers.

And if consumers are only asking for free things in then there is no marketplace to exist to begin with, it';s just like some random tree with fruits hanging and anyone can come and pluck it type of world. Nobody cares for garden and gardener type of world. Such free thinking from consumers is breaking the marketplace.

And free is a price.

No. Free is where price is divisible by 0. Which makes it just another concept of infinity where people don't care at all about price of someone's hardwork but more of their own GTD. Value, morals are reduced to 0 when anything is tagged as Free.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to program for all 3 platforms at once

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 06, 2011, 01:21 AM »

QT allows licensing as LGPL, which is fine for commercial development.

Does LGPL allows developers to restrict source-code distribution ? Sorry, i'm not much aware of it's legal sides.

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Developer's Corner / Re: How to program for all 3 platforms at once

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 06, 2011, 01:07 AM »

Some better options than java-

BASIC  - Mono.net (Visualbasic.net), Gambas, Borlands basic(don't know where they are now)

Python - Ironpython(which works on all platforms with .NET framework)

C# - using mono

Wxwidgets is also used by some people to code cross-platform but learning curve is steep. QT has some license issues for commercial apps so no point in investing time with them.

Edit - ron, tested ruby shoes it's small GUI tookit and there isn't much in it. But for web based desktop apps can still be coded with it.

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 06, 2011, 12:12 AM »

@ mahesh2k:
Fair points; I think you've made your case a bit better this time around.
That first reply was a bit snarky, in my opinion, and sounded more like a backhand than answers.

It wasn't snarky IMO edward, but more answer to the way that list was formed. Lists are usually over-generalized no matter who do it (windows or linux fan boys).I'm not religious(in any way actually) when it comes to programming language or OS, like i said we care for bringing food on table and solving problems for customers. I do understand that i should get into linux coding during early phases but due to economy in this part of the world, it's hard to afford it and people here hardly pay for software so if this approach remains then there is no other option than cloud or subscription model. GNU/FSF people are actually shutting down all the financial models of software business (refer to how thesis theme owner got slammed by wordpress foundation because he charged for free software), these things in turn give linux or any other usable software a bad name when such lists come into blogs.

@rssapphire,

Therefore, I don't think it is any more rude for a consumer to ask for free than it is for a producer to raise prices.

Asking for free price to any product is no different than piracy. GNU/FSF model just forces paid developers to put their hard work for free and pirates steal it and release it for free. 'Stealing' is the only action that separates pirates and GNU/FSF people, at the end result is same, developers get slammed because of dropping their price of product to 0.

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Living Room / Re: Anyone want to write an eBook in 2011?

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 02, 2011, 10:54 PM »

Interesting. Once i finish with wordpress theme for DC, i'll see if i can help contribute. 

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Living Room / Re: Are You Ready to Switch to GNU/Linux?

« Last post by mahesh2k on January 02, 2011, 10:52 PM »

I think it's too risky to spend time on device apps with mono, i doubt if they even exist for symbian and maemo/android.

Problem with QT is that for entry level programmers they either need to port it under GPL or pay for license(which is huge for individual developer), which restricts many solo-dev commercial apps. Thanks for the link, i'll take a look at qt4dotnet.