Hamed Banaei has written a great article about Steganography in Farsi.You can read it here.Do a google to know what it is !

". . . As I tested our interop against the Microsoft dialup PPP support in Chicago -- which became Windows 95 -- I remember a conversation with their lead engineer (I seem to recall his name was Andy, and he wore cowboy boots; strange the things you remember). He told me that the interop was very important for the community, because Microsoft, even in 1994, was quite the software juggernaut. Any flaws in their PPP software would become the new de-facto standards." Read More . . .

Final game of UEFA Champions League will be held tonight between two famous Italian teams, AC Milan and Juventus.This can be a dream game for both teams' fans and it will be held in Old Trafford.Read game preview here and follow the game here.Bad news for Arsenal fans, seems Wenger is going to leave Arsenal to Real Madrid according to this article.

Well, you all know that SARS is a big threat to humanity but hopefully as I have heard, they have controlled it somehow and although infection is still growing but the amount of victims are becoming lower.Here you can learn how to use your messenger to prevent infection of SARS!!

We are making some changes in this week on Second News, so be patient, we bring what you want to ready step by step.

". . . Java and C# are inherently complex. Each contains a pantheon of objects and libraries that can be used by the developer to accomplish many tasks. Anyone who has programmed in Java or C# knows that the same goal can usually be accomplished many different ways, depending on the developer. Often a complex language spawns complex solutions --and complex code can be difficult to debug, update, and pass on to new developers. Here's where F# comes to the rescue: a simple subtle language designed to solve simple, subtle problems." Read More . . .

Sorry for not post during yesterday, I am at home (Fridays are holiday for Iran) and Iran Telecommunication Company is making some changes in my area phone lines and since I have asked for another line, my previous line is not functioning anymore either.Till tomorrow!

Second News, the project which I and Hamed Banaei were working on it for a long time became public today.This project grabs news from all over the 'net and categorize them in a good way and show them on one page so you don't have to do any further search for news.It's language is Farsi right now, but I can promise English language as the second one so you can read your news on Second News too, support us, send your suggestions and ideas to me on mailbox@aliparvaresh.com .

According to what Jayme Davis said in his weblog, Randy Ridge is working on porting NeHe OpenGL tutorials to .NET. Read more . . .

First ranked news in Sci/Tech news of Google News says, Microsoft planning to buy SCO Unix! Will they?

"Microsoft threw its weight behind SCO Group's battle against Linux Monday by declaring that it would license Unix technology from SCO in order to "ensure intellectual property compliance across all Microsoft solutions."" Read More . . .

Around 3 months ago, Iran's SMS system established lastly (yes, 3 months ago, Iran's SMS wasn't enabled till then, is it strange!?) and we all were happy here for getting rid of calling each other every time for small things and also getting busy lines, no answer, etc... .Iran's SMS system was made by chinese people and it was functioning well rather than an small problem which messages weren't delivered very often.Now as they have claimed in an interview with CCW Magazine (persian magazine), we can send message to Yahoo Messenger using our cellular phones through SMS.I am very happy for this inspite it is too late, but being late is better than not being.

Great article by microdoc-news.

"The Google Search Engine operates on clusters of inexpensive, low quality unreliable computer processors. What builds reliability into the system is the hard working and impeccable software using multiple copies of the same indexes so that if the commodity-class hardware fails, the software can redistribute the job to other replications of the same data. Microdoc News provides excerpts from a recently released article published by the IEEE Computer Society titled "Web Search for a Planet: The Google Cluster Architecture"." Read More . . .

Another great article from GotDotNet, it is about how to move from .NET Framework v1.0 to v1.1 and you can reach it here.Thanks to SBC DotNet Weblog for the link.

Good for Iraq! We in Iran don't have a good 56k connection and Iraq is going to have a wireless connection after war from WorldCom the bankrupt telephone company.Lets move to Iraq!

"PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Bankrupt telephone company WorldCom Inc. WCOEQ.PK MCWEQ.PK said on Thursday it won a contract to build a wireless telephone network in Iraq as the post-war country tries to rebuild and restore communications and other basic services." Read More . . .

You can do clustering using the great virtual machine software from VMWare, GSX Server.Available clustering softwares include:

Microsoft Clustering Service (MSCS)
Microsoft Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Veritas Clustering Service (VCS)

Read more about this future of VMWare GSX Server here.

Nikhilk, development lead on the ASP.NET team at Microsoft has recently started blogging, you can read his brief introduction on his blog.You can read here see what he says about M&M.

Real Madrid is out of UEFA champions league with all starts it got.Juventus just did three good attacks and they won the game in the simplest way.Money doesn't play any role in soccer anymore, Real Madrid better to think of its defend line.The worst news for Juventus fans is that, Pavel Nedved missed the final game for nothing!

Why Iran was chosen by Microdoc for the matter! I don't know but I have been visiting this great blog every now and then and today I planned to subscribe its RSS and I suddenly saw this topic! First I got shocked but after reading it, got what he meant.Read it yourself so you get what am talking about.Before the while, I didn't get there using any search engine.

"This is the perfect online headline. Let me walk you through why this headline was created and what is expected will happen when this headline hits the Internet. Machinery is great, but we must not lose sight of the human element which is still needed to guide development of the Internet so that it still makes sense." Read More . . .

I watched the game last night and it was boring one since Italian teams are all playing defensively this year. And Inter Milan with Cuper is the defensive game leader in Italy! I don't like AC Milan as well because their coach doesn't allow Rivaldo to play! Read full time report of the game on ESPNSoccernet.

I was reading theinquirer today and saw this funny article, read it and judge yourself whether the man is right or not !

"Microsoft's concept of an iLoo – a toilet that gives you Internet access – is far from original, a British man has claimed.Andrew Cubitt wrote to the INQUIRER after reading an article about the MSN iLoo, and said Microsoft's idea, which he designed and made two years ago, "sounds remarkably similar" to his own." Read More . . .

We all are willing to get more information about Google, now you can check this web site for the purpose.Thanks to Ahmad Anvari for the link.

According to this article, Google is adding international news sites so you don't have to do keyword search for getting your local news in English.The ones that has been created till now are :

http://news.google.co.uk/
http://news.google.com.au/
http://news.google.ca/
http://news.google.co.nz/
http://news.google.us/

I am not a movie fan, but the only movie that am willing to see as soon as possible is The Matrix Reloaded, if you think more on The Matrix and compare it to the real world, you may come into good conclusions.Read what NYTime says about The Matrix and its future.

"MAYBE it was the moment when Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss) leapt in the air and froze, legs akimbo, fingers like talons, a bird of prey in black vinyl, while the camera arced around her in normal time: that was when movies as we knew them changed." Read More . . .

We all were looking see what Google will do lastly to Blogger.Now is the time for Blogger to be like Deja, another button for googling blogs.Means blogs will most probably be removed from main search engine.You like it or not this will be the way.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt : " . . . It isn't clear if weblogs will be removed from the main search results, but precedent suggests they will be. After Google acquired Usenet groups from Deja.com, it developed a unique user interface and a refined search engine, and removed the groups from the main index. After a sticky start, Usenet veterans welcomed the new interface. Google recently acquired Blogger, and sources suggest this is the most likely option." Read More . . .

Do you news.google for your tech news? Try this great site which you can customize its look.It retrieves all tech news from around 200 tech sites and bring them to you very fast, I think they only use RSS not crawling as what news.google does.So, you can be sure that get news right on the time they arrive.Check the site here : http://www.dailyrotation.com/

For those who want to participate in Windows Server 2003 exams and haven't seen the announcement yet like me, Microsoft announced its exam dates and exam numbers as follow, you can get more information from here.

Exam 70-290: Beta , June; public , August.
Exam 70-291: Beta , June; public , August.
Exam 70-292: Final date to be announced.
Exam 70-293: Beta , June; public , August.
Exam 70-294: Beta , June; public , August.
Exam 70-296: Beta , June; public , to be announced.
Exam 70-297: Beta , August; public October.
Exam 70-298: Beta , September; public , December.

Read this article from The New York Times so you get how internet advances are going on and don't forget us ! We in Iran still seeking for a perfect 56k connection without any success !!!

". . .Wi-Fi, for "wireless fidelity," allows fast wireless connections with the Internet using a protocol called 802.11. Wi-Fi is finding its way into airports, hotels, universities, truck stops and cafes, especially Starbucks, which charges for connections through T-Mobile, a wireless carrier. Even McDonald's is experimenting with Wi-Fi in Manhattan. All that is needed is a laptop or mobile device equipped for Wi-Fi or retrofitted with a Wi-Fi card, and proximity to a Wi-Fi beacon known as a hot spot." Read More . . .

I found these three guides from Microsoft for its new operating system, Windows 2003.Download them and try them, they know their products better !

Windows Server 2003 Security Guide : The Windows Server 2003 Security Guide provides levels of guidance for a number of server roles in multiple different client environments. This guidance includes steps to harden Domain Controllers, Infrastructure servers, File servers, Print servers, IIS servers, IAS servers.

Threats and Countermeasures Guide : The Threats and Countermeasures Guide contains detailed information about relevant security settings that can be configured on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. This guide details the different threats, potential countermeasures, and the potential impact of configuring these settings.

Guide to Application Compatibility Changes in Windows Server 2003 : This paper describes the categories of common application compatibility issues for applications written for Windows Server 2003, and for legacy applications that will be run on this platform.

Actually my field of study is mathematics and I really like it.I do iT jobs near my study.I have faced a hard question in statistics which you may be able to solve it ! Leave comments if you got an idea.

Consider a reliability inspection policy where n items are put "on test" and the first r failure times, T1,T2,. . .,Tr are recorded. Assume the pdf ( probability density function ) describing the response variable is exponential with parameter Lamda.Write down the appropriate joint pdf, differentiate it and show that MLE ( Maximum Likelihood Estimation ) for Lamda is given by : (1/r)*(T1+T2+. . .+Tr)+(n-r)*Tr.

You may all use Google news as your main news resource.Now you can use Google news on your news aggregators.If you use AmphetaDesk (A perl-based desktop reader, that runs in the browser. Windows, Linux and MacOS versions available) , you can have all the latest desired Google news on it too.Just go to Gnews2RSS at VoidStar.com and simply enter your search keyword, get the url of xml file and add it to your news aggregator ! In this simple way, you will have Google news on your desktop.

". . . The files are served okay, but I notice one seemingly minor difference from IIS behavior: static files served by ASP.NET have an "Expires:" header on them, but static files served by IIS do not." Read More . . .

"Following Microsoft's April 24 launch of Windows Server 2003 at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked with InformationWeek senior editor-at-large John Foley and senior writer Aaron Ricadela. Here's an excerpt from their discussion." Read More . . .

"The fact that Linux is free software is intriguing to many computer users fed up with their current operating systems, but one obstacle many users face when they decide to try Linux is figuring out how get started. Sure, you can run down to the local retailer and drop $29.95 on a retail SKU, or even order a cheap CD from the Web, but that's not free. A better option for getting one's feet wet with Linux is to download a distro, burn it to a CD, and install it from there." Read More . . .

This has been my question for a long time and finally I found an answer for it last night ! Simply, open your control panel, go to Network Connections then choose your ethernet connection.Go to its properties, double click on Internet Protocol(TCP/IP) and click on Advanced... .This is where you can assign more IP addresses to your ethernet.

I lastly decided to start an english weblog.I have been writing one in persian for around a month and I enjoyed it very much but updating it daily was hard for me since it was used only for giving out headline news related to iT industry.Now I started this english blog powered by Blogger so I won't have to be worried about how to make an archive,coding and etc...Just for your information : what I will post here won't be only around tech for sure, it will be about Iran and what I deal with in daily life as well.
I hope what I write here will be useful for you.