When it comes to web hosting, you should be very sure on whom you are selecting to trust your website with. Your website would contain huge databases or contact inforation of so many people in case you are running a blog or a forum, and though you try to maintain a very strict Privacy policy if your host steals your data, you are dead.

Well, so how do you choose a hosting company? You need to follow a system that is present everywehre, something like a web hosting rating system that classifies the actual service of a company without any partiality and give the actual picture of the company to the public who look for top rated hosting companies.

Webhostingrating.com is one such company, and it gives out web hosting awards once in a while to top performing web hosting companies in the world. It also contains quite a lot of web hosting tutorials which are designed to guide the users as well as newbie web hosting companies on giving quality services to clients, and for clients to know on what to expect from hosting companies, and knowing your rights and stuff.

The electricity department headed by Arcot Veerasamy in India is propagating a strange sort of message these days. To save power, let your Fans run with your AC, and that way the air circulation will be better and therefore your power bills will be low. What a foolish message to speread out. Well, a person induvidually might be smart and intelligent, but collectively, people are dumb. Especially Indians.

When you let the Ceiling Fan running along with the AC, the AC has to take the trouble of cooling the heat produced by the Fan, as well, and the fan’s air flow will be vertical while the ACs airflow will be horizontal, and that would disrupt the airflow completely, and the room will not be evenly cooled, and that will make the thermostat switch malfunction, and thus one part of your room will be really cool while another part would be completely hot.

Doing so would only waste even more electricity. The best way to save electricity is to set the AC at 24 degrees and let it run without switching it off, and thus the room temperature will be maintained in 24, and the AC would not have to take pains in managint the fluctuating temeratures. if you really want to save power, make sure that your room is well insulated and that no air leaks out, and make sure that you do not open or close the doors or windows often when the AC is running.

It appears that Linux and Mac are no harder than Windows, and that they too are prone to viruses. It is just that about 90% of the world’s PCs are run by windows, and that the hackers have no fun in hacking the remaining 10% of the PCs of the world.

The number of viruses in Linux are limited. And they too seem to be simple viruses, not any more complicated than the ones that are attacking windows. People these days use Linux since there are not many viruses that attack linux, and the viruses that are out there ready to fuck windows pcs will do no harm to linux.

Mac holds a very small percentage of the PCs in the world, and no one has to fear about it getting hacked as long as it doesnt become popular and take a bigger market share. Though about 80% of the servers are on Linux, there is nothing there for the virus writers to write about in there, as everything there would be web based programs, and what ever you do there would be called malware, and I have had a good number of malware attacks on the files that I have hosted on my linux servers as well as have had a 1 very big hacking incedint too on my linux servers.

The only good thing is that Linux and Mac are stable, and they dont get bugged easily or crash as often as windows. Open source people are just being noisy, and as long as the windows PC is not infected, and has got 2 or 3 virus scanners active at all times, you are safe. The only problem is that the speed of the system will go down by about 80%. So what? You still have got about 20%, get one more processor if required, and you can boast that you are running Windwos on a dual processor system.

The term Open Source was coined by Bruce Perens, for the debian project, where the users get the complete code of the software, and they get to modify it, use it and redistribute it.

In genera, an open source license is expected to meet the folowing 10 conditions.

1. Free Redistribution: the software can be freely given away or sold. (This was intended to encourage sharing and use of the software on a legal basis.)
2. Source Code: the source code must either be included or freely obtainable. (Without source code, making changes or modifications can be impossible.)
3. Derived Works: redistribution of modifications must be allowed. (To allow legal sharing and to permit new features or repairs.)
4. Integrity of The Author’s Source Code: licenses may require that modifications are redistributed only as patches.
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups: no one can be locked out.
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor: commercial users cannot be excluded.
7. Distribution of License: The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the program is redistributed without the need for execution of an additional license by those parties.
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product: the program cannot be licensed only as part of a larger distribution.
9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software: the license cannot insist that any other software it is distributed with must also be open source.
10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral: no click-wrap licenses or other medium-specific ways of accepting the license must be required.

While the term applied originally only to the source code of software,[4] it is now being applied to many other areas such as open source ecology, a movement to decentralize technologies so that any human can use them. However, it is often misapplied to other areas which have different and competing principles, which overlap only partially.

Opponents of the spread of the label “open source,” including Richard Stallman, argue that the requirements and restrictions ensure the continuation of the effort, and resist attempts to redefine the labels. He argues also that most supporters of open source are actually supporters of much more equitable agreements and support re-integration of derived works and that most contributors do not intend to release their work to others who can extend it, hide the extensions, patent those very extensions, and demand royalties or restrict the use of all other users—all while not violating the open source principles with respect to the initial code they acquired.