Ways to protect your adsense accounts from click bombing

 Clock bombing is a fraud activity of clicking on the adsense ads placed in a website continuously with a malicious intention of blocking the adsense account. So whenever google found the invalid clicks, they will ban the adsense account.

Here are some tips to prevent the adsense click bombing

• Never disclose your adsense revenue in to any public forums or social media. some people or your competitors may not like it.
• Watch the adsense report for clicks and CTR. You can sense the unusual activities like many clicks in less time, if its occurring often, that’s probably a click bombing attempt.
• Analyze with google analytics for suspicious traffic.  note down the IP and timing of suspicious activities
• Report click bombing to google, via Invalid clicks contact form ( Link : https://support.google.com/adsense/contact/invalid_clicks_contact?hl=en&rd=1 )

source - http://howto-howto.com/how-to-prevent-adsense-click-bombing/

How to uninstall a program in macbook

If you are coming from windows world, you may be puzzled by not seeing anything in apple mac equivalent to the ‘uninstall a program’ in windows operating system. But in Apple Mac it is very easy to uninstall / remove a program.

step1 – Open a finder window and search for the program you want to remove 

step 2 – once you found the program icon, right click the icon and select ‘move to trash’ 

Info courtesy - http://howto-howto.com/how-to-uninstall-a-program-in-mac/

How to invoke proxy settings dialog from the command line in windows?

in Run execute 
"inetcpl.cpl"

or if you want to switch to connections tab directly, execute 

"inetcpl.cpl ,4"

tested with windows 7

How to share windows folders with Ubuntu

There are two ways of doing this, as a regular user (available only to the person setting it up), and as root (the system administrator). Setting up the connection system-wide using the latter approach will allow read-only access by everyone on the system, but they won't be able to write to it.

Mounting the share in user space

1. Open the Files file manager.
2. Files » Connect to Server.
3. For the Server Address, enter the following (where HOSTNAME is the server name and SHARE is the share name):
   • smb://HOSTNAME/SHARE
4. Hit the Connect button.

The share will now be available in Files on the left sidebar under the Network section, and it will be available from the command-line interface (CLI) over at /run/user/$USER/gvfs/ where $USER is your local user name. I'd recommend adding softlink to more easily access your mounts:

• ln -s /run/user/$USER/gvfs ~/mounts

For more information, see:

• What's the easiest way to mount Windows share as a local folder in home directory?
• How do I mount Samba share as non-root user

Mounting the share system-wide

This needs be done as the superuser, but the share should be readable by everyone. It will add a package to work the target file system, create a local folder to house the files and finally mount the remote share locally.

1. sudo apt-get install cifs-utils
2. sudo mkdir /mnt/LOCAL_SHARE_NAME
3. sudo mount -t cifs //REMOTE_HOST_NAME/REMOTE_SHARE_NAME /mnt/LOCAL_SHARE_NAME

How to restart or shutdown Windows from command prompt

XP Ships with shutdown.exe, and is also found on Windows Server 2003. You can download a copy for Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 server as it is found in the AdminPak.msi suite of software. XP a& Win server 2003 ship with the .exe

the windows XP/2003 uses the "-" as the flag seperator, but windows 2000 uses the "/" as the flag seperator

for XP, go to the command prompt and type:

shutdown /?

this will show all of the available options. I use it all the time to reboot my servers in the middle of the night via a scheduled .bat file

this is a sample of how to reboot in 60 seconds, with a comment to the popup

shutdown -r -t 60 -c "Your message ( optional)"

to cancel, just type

shutdown -a

for shutdown

shutdown -s -t 60 -c "your message(optional)"