5 Simple Rules to be happy

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.

Finally, he decided the animal was old,and the well needed to be covered up anyway;it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well.

At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly.Then, to everyone’s amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well.

He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back,the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up.

As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal,he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon,everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and happily trotted off!

MORAL :
Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up.Each of our troubles is a steppingstone.We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping,never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
1. Free your heart from hatred – Forgive.
2. Free your mind from worries – Most never happen.
3. Live simply and appreciate what you have.
4. Give more.
5. Expect less

Source/Credits:
From a LinkedIn member within Saudi Jobs Group

Using Google to discover “things” that might interest you!

Google, as we know offers lot of feature including; document translation, browsing free and not free images or stock,underground articles, private files and many other things. However, some uses it to discover new things or stuff that might interest them; example I’m using it to find references needed at work by using Google advance syntax/parameter. Anyway, should you happen to administer a server or involve in managing a server exposed in internet(public IP)…make sure that your site,directory or private files not “INDEXED” else people can freely “get” something which is not intended for public.

I’ve remember once at PHPUGPH.COM when we had the discussion on one Philippine manning/agency site which our founding member AJ reported it to site owner because it exposes our fellow “Kababayan” personal identity. Why bother reporting it? because the site itself hosted all scanned documents that they processed that have; passport and VISA information,resume/cover letter,credentials and other personal notes of a specific person. Unfortunately, we had a very unusual and unexpected reply…lol.

Fig. 1 Email to the Agency/Manning Site

Fig. 2 Unusual Reply(Probably an Automated Reply…)

Anyway, what are the things that we can find at Google by using advance syntax of what often referred to by media as “Google Hacking”?
1. Files (index.of? pdf)

Fig. 3 Free Ebooks

2.Default Installation that anybody can make fun of?!! (xampp “inurl:xampp/index)

Fig. 4 XAMPP

3. Informative Stuff and many other things by using other syntax/search query that anybody can try:

inurl:Proxy.txt

intitle:index.of administrators.pwd

Index of phpMyAdmin
Notes:
* To search for a phrase, supply the phrase surrounded by double quotes (” “).
* A period (.) serves as a single-character wildcard.
* The index.of: operator instructs Google to search for a term that Google had indexed.
* The inurl: operator instructs Google to search only within the URL (web address) of a document.

I’d recommend to check the book by Johnny Long or type in “Google Hacking” within Google search and it will tell you more!

Resources:
Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_hacking

Johnny Long

http://www.amazon.com/Google-Hacking-Penetration-Testers-1/dp/1931836361

http://www.hackersforcharity.org

Sulit turns 4, the leading free ad site in the Philippines!

Hear yea, hear yea…Sulit is indeed turning 4 years this year! I remember very well at PHPUGPH when its owner/developer RJ David posted asking for feedback on how his site was when it was first lunch, it received a lot of technical and usability feedback.Now after years have passed, the site and its community finally became the leading online marketplace and ads site in the the Philippines.

Sulit.com.ph is the leading buy and sell website in the Philippines. Post advertisements or find great deals at Sulit.com.ph.

Celebrate Sulit.com.ph 4th Anniversary! Join the Sulit Banner Making Contest for July and get a chance to win cool gadgets from Sulit.com.ph, Blackberryzuela.com, and GadgetGrocery. com!

*** For whatever reason, all my post was broken after changing theme…anyway, since based on contest rule that only 1 banner per domain; I’ve removed the first 2 entries.