July 2006


What is byte ?
A byte is a unit of measure for digital information. A single byte
contains eight consecutive bits, and is capable of storing a single ASCII
character.

- What do you mean by ASCII ?

American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Standard 8 bit code used in data communications. Many files interchanged from one software program to another and from IBM to Mac formats go through translation into ASCII.

1 Kilo-Byte : 8 bits
A kilobyte (KB) is 1,024 bytes.
Mega-Byte : 1 MB = 1024 KB
Giga-Byte : 1 GB = 1024 MB
Tera-Byte : 1 TB = 1024 GB
Peta-Byte : 1 PB = 1024 TB
Exa-Byte : 1 EB = 1024 PB
Zentta-Byte : 1 Zb = 1024 EB
Yotta-Byte : 1 YB = 1024 ZB

Unit Equivalent
1 kilobyte (KB) 1,024 bytes
1 megabyte (MB) 1,048,576 bytes
1 gigabyte (GB) 1,073,741,824 bytes
1 terabyte (TB) 1,099,511,627,776 bytes
1 petabyte (PB) 1,125,899,906,842,624 bytes

What is spam ?

To indiscriminately send unsolicited, unwanted, irrelevant, or inappropriate messages, especially commercial advertising in mass quantities. Noun: electronic “junk mail”.

To avoid spam

Good ways to avoid spam are:

* Only give your email address to trusted friends.-
- Do not reveal your Email ID to unknown person
- Don’t publish your email address more widely than necessary. You can use a comments form on your web pages.

* Don’t open email messages that are from people you don’t know if you don’t know why the email was sent to you.

* If you do open a spam message, don’t reply to it, and don’t click on any links in it.
- if by mistake you open the spam message do not respond to it.

* Don’t ever buy anything from a spammer, the only reason spam exists is that it gets people to spread there network

* Most spam email comes with an invitation to ‘remove’ yourself from the list. Don’t believe it! These almost always bounce, and apparently might also be used to harvest new addresses.

* Use spam filters

If you wish to execute cgi scripts outside cgi-bin then you will need to add following code in your .htaccess :-

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi py

If you wish to execute cgi scripts outside cgi-bin then you add following code to your .htaccess :-

Options +ExecCGI
AddHandler cgi-script cgi pl