Monday, January 14, 2013

Get rid of that yahoo search in firefox


I was unable to change the search engine in my Firefox. I had changed it several times but the next time with all the surprises I would see it reverted back to the default Yahoo search, that is actually not useful to me. I found it very annoying though. Anyway I did some googling to find a way out, but not that useful! so here is a solution finally got me out of it.

1- open firefox and enter "about:config" in the address bar. here you can see the configuration parameters.
2- search the word "yahoo"in the search box in upper part search bar.
3- change the value of the parameter "browser.search.defaultenginename" to "Google".
4- change the value of the parameter "searchreset.backup.browser.search.defaultenginename" to "Google".
5- change the value of the parameter "searchreset.backup.keyword.URL" to "http://www.google.com/search?lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=&#8221".
6- done!


Yahoo search is not that bad but I personally prefer Google, beside when you want to do some search in Persian, it just sucks man! but in return Google handle it very good. so why should I use Yahoo!

Sunday, January 13, 2013

Honeypots in MANETs

Hi
long time, no post!
Recently I was busy with my study and  also work! so no posts here!
In November 2012 I published an article titled "Use of Honeypots along with IDS in Cluster-Based MANETs" in American journal of Scientific Research (AJSR). and here is a link to it:

http://www.eurojournals.com/AJSR_80_15.pdf

While this is just a conceptual model, but I intend to work on the details and realization and also implementation. But for now I'm working on a project in cloud computing. It turns out I have to do it as my MSc final theze. Anyway if you had anything to say you can comment here!
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update:

since there are some changing going on in the website, the above link is not valid right now. so here is a link to the pdf file:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B93zoqVE85xNWk5aQlJXblpQTEk/edit?usp=sharing