Author Archives: Shishir Sharma 'criss'

About Shishir Sharma 'criss'

Shishir is a hacker, software developer and a bachelor of electronics & communication engineering. He is a problem solver, technology enthusiast. He can speak in Java, Python, Perl, PHP, Curl etc; Fluent in C, C++, GNU/Linux. He is moderator at LUG-Jaipur and contributor of wordMint. He loves action movies and Counter Strike.

Prevent Googlebot following links in Gmail

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How to prevent googlebot following links in gmail messages? Well bad news is “Googlebot is following links sent to subscribers of a mailing list by email and it is causing those subscribers to receive an unsubscribe meesage or a added download from the list or server”.

Bigger Bad news is that age old trick will NOT work here, we can not solve this simply by adding

<a href="signin.php" rel="nofollow">sign in</a>

Best way in my opinion is to reject download count based on the user agent. Which is Googlebot in case of Google Crawler.

find long answer here.

 

Clan War – Let it begin

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slideshare is famous as a presentation and document sharing platform. But very few people around know about slideshare‘s love for first persone shooters. It’s a daily evening trend now. If slideshare is not down then there must be a UrT match going on in delhi office. It has reached to the extent that now we have two in-house clans, each consisting of five players. It has opened possibility of five verses five clan matches.

Jeba(graydot), Pranav(silent_horror), Jai(*thunder), Tushar(zombi), Kanav(Ka_boom) and I(cpt) are in one team and Prafulla(Element), Sahil(Engassa), Arpit(cctv), Shirsendu(Toy_da_virus) and Ankur(danger) are in the other one. Kapil(anachronox) will use auto join. :)

Suggest me names guys.

 

Net neutrality

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I was shocked to find that DOT (Department of Technology, India) has blocked major file sharing websites. This clearly is a failure of democracy in india. This proves either india does not care about Internet neutrality or India does not have infra to take right action.

Thank god I live in India. These efforts are not very effective. But they are philosophically wrong. What is this? school! where they police what we will do on internet.

Some will say this is only way to counter piracy, but I feel this is primitive and caveman’s way of moderating a civilized society. What do you say.

Tmux – Gnu Screen alternative

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I am a very old user of Gnu Screen, actually I am one of those who will suggest noobs to use these better tools for servers. Gnu Screen is awesome tool. It has helped me of good help always and it will. But It very hard to configure and explore for new possibilities. Recently I found a replacement of my age old tool.

If a tool is unmaintained for a long time it gets outdated. Tmux is really great and very easy to use. Best part is you can set all your old shortcuts here too. :)

 

WordPress v3.2

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I am just trying out this new WordPress version 3.2, It has a awesome full screen editor. It lets you focus on your writing. You can really write in peace with a blank screen. Gives you a great feel. I really liked it. This is by far the best WordPress you can get.