Ajay Kumar Singh

Posted by Ajay Singh on May 14th, 2008 in Microsoft

Someone sent you a .docx or .pptx format files and you are wondering what on the Earth they are and how to view them?

Well it is simple it is another stupidity from Microsoft forcing you to buy new software or become extinct.

To view/work them and  Microsoft compatibility pack which can be downloaded from following links. Bookmark this page for easy access otherwise you will end up spending you whole life searching for it.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en

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Posted by Ajay Singh on April 9th, 2008 in Dumb Stories

1) I posted a job on a freelance website. One yank applied for $5 an hour. The task involved to create an account on a search engine and add keywords against some of my websites.

The answer I got from yank was “Why do I create account on a website which I don’t know”.

Are people really so dumb in America?

2) I was taking to this Ukrainian Beauty on chat. I asked her to translate a web page in Russian. The answer I got from her was a real stunner.

She said, point blank, that she doesn’t do such kind of job. I was perplexed. She does translation then why she can’t do this job.

I asked her why.

Her reply was like dropping atom bomb over Hiroshima. She replied

“I don’t do translation for gambling content”

I was just stunned. Not knowing what to say, I asked

“Why what is wrong with that”

“Gambling makes people bad”, she replied, innocently or proudly or in dumb way I can’t tell as I was on chat and couldn’t see her face.

I was just speechless on her dumbness. I think the dumbness balance is restored for today.

I found one dumb in America and to restore it I found another in far Russia.

Balance is restored and world is out of danger

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Posted by Ajay Singh on April 6th, 2008 in Outsourcing

Outsourcing to USA is new trend. Grab the opportunity before it is overcrowded.

Frustrated with outsourcing to India? Fed up with excuses you get from outsourcing Sweatshops?

Try outsourcing to USA.

What USA? You must be kidding!!!

No I’m not.

Being in the UK and riding the power of mighty British Pounds I find USA the best place to outsource.

I’ve been outsourcing a lot of Mundane work such as Data Entry writing work, web design and even Web Development work to USA and found it quite successful. As economy shows downwards trend, jobs are lost, unemployment rises the mighty superpower opens up window of opportunity for outsourcing. Availability of plenty of Outsourcing portal and jobs sites makes it easier to find providers in USA.

I find a lot of advantages in outsourcing to USA which are

- They do understand English

- Being a mature economy and good education, I find workers there quite mature, with very little instruction and guidance they complete the task

- They are sincere and take responsibility and complete the work without much fuss

However there are some disadvantages too

- They are not flexible with timings and more than 8 hours is not acceptable to them

- They will work in their working time and can’t give you extra hours beyond that duration

- No scope of bargain. Either you accept their rate or move on

I’m not the only one following this trend here in UK and I’ve found most of UK businesses following the same trend after a unsuccessful innings with India.

A typical Data Entry job can go as low as $1/hr if you know how to find suitable professionals.

You can get a writer to do you online writing job for as low as $5/250 words.

A single web page design will cost you as low as $15.

These are just the tip of iceberg.

So what are you waiting for grab this opportunity and start outsourcing to USA!!

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Posted by Ajay Singh on March 6th, 2008 in Dutch Spammers

You might have heard of Dutch Courage and Dutch this, Dutch that, everything associated with cowardice, impotence and stupidity has Dutch prefixed with it.

Here is new Dutch prefixed term “Dutch Spammer”

For past few weeks I’ve been spammed by a Dutch company, sending me Euro Company Registration.

Here is what the e-mail looks like

From: Euro Company Registration [mailto:mail@eurobusinessguide.net]
Sent: 06 March 2008 15:10
To: me

Subject: European company registration 2008

Dear Sirs,

If you like to have your company registered in the registry of European companies for 2008;

Please print out the enclosed form (PDF file), fill it and send it back to:

Euro Business Guide
P.O. Box 2021
3500 GA UTRECHT
The Netherlands

Updating is free of charge!!

If you want to unsubscribe send an email to unsubscribe@eurobusinessguide.net.

I asked them to remove my e-mail id but instead of removing they doubled the spamming, why not after all they have to keep up with their national identity.

Their website http://www.eurobusinessguide.net looks Dutch, a real true scam Dutch style.

The Company eurobusinessguide is governed by law of a country which I never heard of, their address says they are Dutch.

Who is for the domain gives

Domain Name: eurobusinessguide.net

Status: clientDeleteProhibited, clientTransferProhibited

Registrar: ENOM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.enom.com
Referral URL: http://www.enom.com

Expiration Date: 2008-09-17
Creation Date: 2006-09-17
Last Update Date: 2006-11-13

Name Servers:
ns1.fibertm.ro
ns2.fibertm.ro

IP Address: 212.146.81.2
IP Location: Romania
Website Status: active
Server Type: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-18
Alexa Trend/Rank: 1 Month: 1,176,457 3 Month: 953,702
Page Views per Visit: 1 Month: 6.0 3 Month: 4.8
Cache Date: 2008-03-06 03:11:23 MST
Compare Archived Data: 2007-05-11

So the server is located in Romania, obviously, where else it could have been?

I’m wondering if Dutch have signed a treaty with Romanians to spam the whole world? Or it is Nigerian-Romanian-Dutch triangle?

I traced their e-mail

Return-Path: <mail@eurobusinessguide.net>
Delivery-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:10:13 +0100
Received: from mail_bs2.eurobusinessguide.org ([81.181.25.35])
by …  id 0MKr6C-1JXHjV3ioK-0000Zp for me; Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:10:13 +0100
Received: from mail5 (localhost.eurobusinessguide.org [127.0.0.1])
by mail_bs2.eurobusinessguide.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6FAA357F4F
for me; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:10:08 +0200 (EET)
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: Euro Company Registration <mail@eurobusinessguide.net>
Subject: European company registration 2008
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary=”=_f6735c82a5e7d6bd25c3c5e71bd6afc7″
Message-ID: <jx5×58.gxgmzw@mail2.eurobusinessguide.org>
To: me

Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 17:10:08 +0200 (EET)
Envelope-To: me

X-MSK: BYS=0.000000,RUL=4.500000

A search for mail2.eurobusinessguide.org gives only one result http://groups.google.com/group/news.admin.net-abuse.sightings/browse_thread/thread/deeb9497eed7bd72

So I would assume they are just born and yet to be cursed by cyber society.

the domain eurobusinessguide.org belongs to a web design company with dodgy existence created for just that purpose.

Trace IP reveals more

   ciprian@goodnet.ro
   SC GOODNET SRL Aleea Gorunului nr.3 bl.E33 apt.14 Caras-Severin Resita Romania

E-mail Header trace reveals more

 Network Contact Information: The following details refer to the network that the system is on.

   ciprian@goodnet.ro
   SC GOODNET SRL Aleea Gorunului nr.3 bl.E33 apt.14 Caras-Severin Resita Romania

   Click here to show the in-depth information on this email (more info)   Click here to hide the in-depth information on this email (more info)

So finally I got the spammer, seems to be a Romanian Fraud done in the name of Dutch?

The network belong to http://www.dominet.ro, The website looks pretty much similar to eurobusinessguide.org.

I’ve sent e-mail to contact@dominet.ro and awaiting reply. They seem to have partnered with Orange (For what spamming the world?)

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Posted by Ajay Singh on February 13th, 2008 in PHP

1) Factory Method Pattern

2) Singleton Pattern

3) Observer Pattern

4) Chain-of-command Pattern

5) The Strategy Pattern

6) The Model-View-Controller (MVC) Design Pattern

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