Bill Gates Biography

Bill Gates early childhood

William Henry Gates the III was born on October 28, 1955, to a lucky couple, Williams H Gates Sr. and Marry Max Well Gates, in Seattle, Washington. No one predicted that the new born boy baby would be the world’s richest person, one day. His father was a lawyer by profession and mother served in the board of directors for First Interstate BancSystem and in the united way. Gates has got one elder sister named Kristianne and an younger sister named Libby. Earlier in his life, Gates parents had a lawyer career in mind for him. But, that, dream went to side lines, when he was in the 8th grade.

Bill Gates Education

At the age of 13, bill enrolled for Lakeside school, an exclusively preparatory school, which is said to be a turning point. It all began to create a new page in the history, when the mothers club at the school used funds arisen out of profit from sale of some miscellaneous things collected in the club, to purchase an ASR-33 teletype terminal and also a block of General Electric computers for school students. Gates developed a special interest in GE terminal computer and went ahead to learn and develop programs using programming language BASIC. He was excused from attending the Maths classes, while doing so. He developed his first major program on his own, which is an implementation of game called as tic-tac-toe. This is, perhaps the turning point in his career. In fact, Gates was always thinking, how the machine could execute his program perfectly without giving any problems. I think, as a professional programmer, that also one way, helped Gates to understand computer programming better.

Laying first foundation stones, for a great distinguished career

Gates got a chance to work in Computer Center Corporation (CCC), along with three other Lakeside students banned by the same CCC for the summer, after it caught them exploring and misused the bugs found in CCC’s operating system, after the ban was lifted. The four students were, Gates himself, Paul Allen, Ric Weiland and Kent Evans. The four offered to debug CCC’s software in exchange for free computer time. Instead of using the system via teletype, Gates intentionally went personally to CCC’s offices and studied source code for various source code that were kept in their offices, which included Fortran, LISP, and finally the machine language. This arrangement went till 1970, when CCC winded up their business. The next year itself, Information Sciences Inc. hired these four students to write Payroll program in COBOL providing them the computer and royalties. After administrators came to know about the abilities, Gates was made to write the school’s computer program to schedule students in classes. To ones surprise, Gates later on, modified code so that he was placed in classes with most female students!

Coming in contact with Paul Allen…

At age 17, gates formed a team up with Paul Allen, to make traffic counters which was based on Intel 8088 processor, a project called as Traf-O-Data. That year they earned $20,000. The business slowed down because of Gate’s young under age. At age of 18, in 1973, Gates got graduated from Lakeside school, where he scored 1590 out of 1600, in the standardized tests for college admissions across the US.

Harvard student to Microsoft chairman…

In fall of 1973, Gates took admission at the Harvard University. It was he who met his future partner Steve Ballmer, here. He also met many great personalities here, including computer scientists of that time, with whom he worked with various algorithms. But, he had one problem, which in turn produced one of the greatest business man of the world. Gates did not have a definite study plan, which made him go on leave from 1975 on. But, to his grace, processor manufacturer Intel had released Intel 8088 CPU. It was his luck and he realized that it was the first computer chip which could run BASIC and could be affordable to run inside a personal computer. The cost of the chip was around $200 at that time. He realized the advantageous situation he earned at that moment, which many of us drop, fearing heavy losses, and started sharing his plans with his parents and decided to start a company with right spirits with Paul Allen.

Facts about Bill Gates

It was, after reading the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, Gates got a clear vision of what he is going to do in future. The magazine had demonstrated the Altair 8800 in this issue. Gates contacted the creators of Altair, the MITS, saying that, he and others are working on a BASIC interpreter for the same platform. In reality, Bill Gates and Allen did not prepare anything for the same nor had Altair with them. They were just gauging MITS’s interests. They were surprised, when MITS’s president Ed Roberts agreed to meet them for a demo. They then immediately started working on the project and within a few weeks, they designed and developed Altair emulator that ran on minicomputer and then of course, the BASIC interpreter. The very crucial demonstration of the project was held and it satisfied all including the MITS president, resulted in a deal with MITS to distribute the product as Altair BASIC. It also opened a big door for Bill Gates to become Millionaire of 1990’s and 2000’s. Paul Allen got absorbed into MITS. Bill took leave of absence from University of Harvard, and joined Paul Allen at MITS in Albuquerque during November 1975. They eventually named their partnership as “Micro-Soft” and worked together. One year later, they registered the trade name “Microsoft” (without the hyphen), with the United States Patents and Trademark Office (USPTO). Thus, a new era was born.

Starting five years of Microsoft

Microsoft continued sales of BASIC interpreter, which was popular interpreter of all times at that time. Microsoft continued to develop programming languages, even after it departed ways with MITS. The company shifted its office from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington on January 1979 for an expansion. During these days, all employees had responsibility for company’s business strategies. Gates continued to develop coding for various projects and personally reviewed every line of code, which company shipped to its clients and often rewrote the part of the code, which got high magnitude of problems.

From BASIC to Operating System development

Actually, this was another turning point, in Bill Gates history, when Personal Computer manufacturer, IBM contacted Microsoft for making a version of BASIC for it’s upcoming personal computer, the then IBM PC. They were impressed by performance of Microsoft. So, they approached Microsoft for the development of operating system. Upon receiving the offer, Bill Gates put forth the idea of development of 86-DOS (QDOS). Microsoft made a deal with Seattle Computer Products (SCP) to develop the QDOS which was similar to the SCP’s CP/M. After developing and adapting the CP/M operating system, Microsoft delivered it to IBM as PC-DOS in exchange of one time fees of $80,000. Gates kept the copyright of PC-DOS with permission from IBM. Later, Microsoft re-modified the source code of PC-DOS and released MS-DOS which enjoyed great success, than PC-DOS, and MS-DOS development cycle went on till its version 6.22.

Gate opened windows… From MS-DOS to MS-Windows… It’s really amazing..

Gates was really happy to see the success of MS-DOS. He continued releasing its improved versions. I think that, Bill Gates had a vision of GUI OS in his mind and that’s what made him one of the greatest ever billionaire, not only in United States, but, also all over the world. During later part of 1985, gates realized that people wanted new set of easily accessible tools to popularize the use of computers and Microsoft released its first ever retail version of Windows to its users. Subsequently, the company stuck a deal with IBM to develop a separate GUI operating system called OS/2. Although Microsoft started developing the OS/2 project, some creativity differences terminated the partnership.
After that, Microsoft developed and released the newer versions of Windows, among it, 3.1 was great success. Due to this, Microsoft developed a new operating system itself, which was based on MS-DOS platform, the Windows 95. Windows 95 had a attractive Desktop, GUI of that time. People got more attracted to it. Even I too got more attracted to the design of Windows 95. During 1998, Microsoft improved Windows 95, and released Windows 98. He started to be figured in Forbes world’s richest persons, during this period and became number one during 1995, until 2008. Oh… 13 years… It’s really amazing run…
Apart from client sided operating systems, Microsoft has released many versions of server sided operating systems. Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows 2008 Server, are the server sided operating systems, the company has release so far.

Apart from windows, what?

Apart from Windows operating systems, the company has developed many system and office packages, database, and games programs. Microsoft developed MS-Office, which has grown to Office 2007 now. The relational database management system, SQL Server has been a main competitor to Oracle.

Personal Growth - Coffee with Greatness

What do great people have in common? Here, in their own words, and through the testimony of their lives, 10 of the greatest human beings who ever lived, share their secrets. Gather around

I rubbed my eyes hard. There, sitting around me in cane chairs, sipping coffee from white porcelain cups, were all the people I most revered. History makers who changed the way we lived and thought, artists whose immortal works had inspired and given joy to millions, sages whose wisdom, compassion and love had transformed thousands. Ringed around me, they waited patiently for me to ask, so they could reveal. I was to know the secret to their enormity, the guide to their greatness.

There was the great Mahatma Gandhi, wiping his glasses with his white, spotless dhoti, intently talking to Leo Tolstoy, the man whose writings influenced him. Mother Teresa was in deep conversation with the Dalai Lama; so animated were their expressions that it was hard to tell who was more inspired by the other. Ramana Maharshi, the great sage of Arunachala, sat in silence, a soft smile on his face; but around him was a palpable presence of stillness that seemed to pervade the room. Beethoven, with unruly hair and a top hat, drummed his fingers on his chair, lost in the world of music, while Shakespeare carefully observed his antics, as if he were considering him for a role in his next play. Confucius and Einstein were discussing religion, while Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, philanthropist, and educationist, sat with a gentle smile upon his handsome face, viewing the scene before him with great interest. Ten people. Ten phenomenal lives. Without wasting a second, I took a deep breath and began…

Were you born with the mark of greatness? Do we normal mortals, who have shown no indication of greatness yet, stand a chance of becoming history makers?

There was silence in the room. A reminiscing chuckle from Mother Teresa broke it, as she revealed that as a young nun with the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India, she had been called a mediocre nun, withdrawn and quiet, without potential, by a senior. Laughing sympathetically, Gandhiji remarked that he was a late bloomer as well. During his school years, he was so shy and fearful that he would run home as soon as school got over, lest older boys pick on him, and ask him a question or tease him.

Einstein then spoke. He shared with a laugh that his problems began right from his birth when he was born, and his mother worried that his head was too large. His grandmother exclaimed that he was “much too fat”. As a child, he had no interest in formal education, and especially in languages. He failed in school, and his teacher allegedly remarked to his mother, “Albert is a dull child.” Tolstoy gave Einstein an understanding smile, and revealed that in 1844, when he began studying law and Oriental languages at Kazan University, teachers described him as “both unable and unwilling to learn.”

A loud chortle then came from the Dalai Lama as he shared his mother Diki Tsering’s, recollection of him in the book A Simple Monk. “Would you believe that this peaceful monk was once a one-year-old tyrant? When he toddled upon people quarrelling, he’d pick up a stick, and try to beat them!”

I laughed, reassured. These people were born like you and me – human, faltering, even unimpressive. However, obviously something had happened to transform them into super achievers and human beings. So what was the defining moment… how did an ordinary human being end up becoming so extraordinary?

Ramana Maharshi, quiet for so long, suddenly spoke: For the first 16 years of his life, he said, he had been an ordinary child. However, at a certain point, he became struck with an overwhelming fear of death. Lying in his own room, he became acutely aware of the inevitability of death, and the mortality of his body. This paralysing fear proved to be only transient. With another penetrating insight, he became aware that “I am not the Body”. The real “I” was beyond matter. He was the spirit. With this glimpse of a higher, immortal consciousness, he lost all interest in his worldly life, and plunged into a period of intense meditation, asking himself the question, “Who am I?”

Confucius told us a story. One day, he and his students passed a grave, where they saw a woman weeping at a gravestone. She told Confucius that her husband, her husband’s father, and her son, were killed by a tiger. When Confucius asked her why she didn’t leave such a fated spot, she answered that there was no oppressive government in this part of the country. This made Confucius realise that an oppressive government was fiercer and more feared than a tiger. Many of his theories on ethical government arose thereafter.

Gandhiji spoke of his defining moment. He told of the time when he was thrown out of the first-class compartment of a train in South Africa late at night, in the peak of winter, simply because he was a coloured man. He says, “Now the creative experience comes there… What was my duty? I asked myself. Should I go back to India, or should I go forward, with God as my helper, and face whatever was in store for me? I decided to stay and suffer. My active non-violence began from that day.”

I realised that although some had become great through some sort of a divine intervention, for many it was simply an instance, a small moment that created a deep impact. I realised that any moment, when viewed with a heightened sense of awareness, can become the defining moment. Whether it is viewing poverty outside her own school for Mother Teresa, or seeing a compass pointing to the north that created the first few science-based questions in Einstein’s mind, awareness, I understood, had been an important cursor in all these great people’s journey. Besides awareness, was there anything else that they believed that helped them in their journey to greatness?

Shakespeare seemed to arise out of his world of words, and spoke for the first time. I was amused to see that he still used Elizabethan English to make his point. Greatness required courage, he said, to do that which has not been done before. Through his superb creativity and insights into human nature, he had transformed English theatre, and raised the bar on what could be accomplished through characterisation, plot, action, language, and genre. The success of his plays also helped raise the status of popular theatre.

Giving a nod to Tolstoy, Gandiji shared that although Tolstoy had spoken of non-violence extensively, and inspired Gandhiji infinitely, there had never been a civilisation that had practically used the power of truth and non-violence to free itself of a powerful opponent. When he started out, he didn’t know he would reach this far. His ideas were rejected outright by many, he was criticised, and yet he kept faith, and went ahead with his ideals.

Beethoven’s loud booming voice was suddenly heard, asking us poignantly if we had ever heard of a deaf composer. I remember reading that this great composer had turned deaf during the later part of his life. Imagine a man whose life revolved around music, condemned to never hear a note. What a terrible punishment! He quoted his letter to his friend, saying, “How can I, a musician, say to people ‘I am deaf’? I shall, if I can, defy this fate, even though there will be times when I shall be the unhappiest of God’s creatures ...” But, he says, the deafness brought out the best in him; his indomitable spirit refused to be crushed. A letter he wrote to a friend during that time, said, ‘I will seize Fate by the throat. It will not wholly conquer me! Oh, how beautiful it is to live – and live a thousand times over!’ Indeed, some of his finest works were only created after he became deaf!

Confucius shared that at the time when he propounded his theories, collectively known as Confucianism, birth was given more importance than merit, and possessions than people, in China. It was at that time that he began to speak of moral and ethical government, and loudly proclaimed the words, “What one does not wish for oneself, one ought not to do to anyone else; what one recognises as desirable for oneself, one ought to be willing to grant to others.”

Rabindranath added, “I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door – or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”

Inspiring and so true. If one wants to leave the common herd, and aspire to fulfil one’s dreams and ideals, one must have the courage to go forward – alone, if need be. All these great men had faced rejection and ridicule before being revered. What was the secret of their courage and determination? What made them press ahead when circumstances were so bleakly against them?

Suddenly, everyone in the room started speaking. The gentlemen allowed Mother Teresa to get in a word first. She said, simply, “Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness.” Gandhiji followed suit, and said, “But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.” He added, “Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.” Also remember, “Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind, it dies.”

Rabindranath Tagore said, in his unique poetic style, “Faith is the bird that feels the light, and sings when the dawn is still dark." Confucius said, simply, “Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.”

Heightened awareness, self-belief, courage, faith and love! Indeed a superb recipe for greatness!

Einstein said it best, “My religiosity consists in a humble admiration of the infinitely superior spirit that reveals itself in the little that we, with our weak and transitory understanding, can comprehend of reality. Morality is of the highest importance – but for us, not for God.”

There was a murmur of agreement in the room. It was breathtaking to watch all these great people connect over the most beautiful and simple issues. Greatness seemed to begin with heightened awareness, spring into being by a definitive moment, be sustained by courage, strength and integrity, and be rooted in faith in God and one’s self. When all these conditions fused and merged, the individual became a force to reckon with, capable of creating a revolution. Had I finally got the formula for greatness? Tolstoy spoke up.

He reminded me that I had not taken into consideration the most important ingredient. He said, “Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.” Shakespeare added, “Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”

Mahatma Gandhi’s words resounded in the room, “Fear and love are contradictory terms. Love is reckless in giving away, oblivious as to what it gets in return. Love wrestles with the world as with the self, and ultimately gains mastery over all other feelings... Just as a scientist will work wonders out of various applications of the law of nature, even so a man who applies the law of love with scientific precision can work greater wonders.”

Mother Teresa had the last word, “It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them, that matters. Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.”

There was silence in the room. All countenances seemed to be beaming… love, for the self, for God, for people, seemed to be the common thread holding all these great people to their places... the light from their faces became brighter and brighter… And suddenly, the sunlight fell directly over my face, waking me from slumber, and awakening me to the secret ingredients that all the people we admire, shared – heightened awareness, self-belief, courage, faith and love! Indeed a superb recipe for greatness!

Top 10 Most Famous Hackers of All Time

Black Hat Crackers

The Internet abounds with hackers, known as crackers or "black hats," who work to exploit computer systems. They are the ones you've seen on the news being hauled away for cybercrimes. Some of them do it for fun and curiosity, while others are looking for personal gain. In this section we profile five of the most famous and interesting "black hat" hackers.

1.Jonathan James: James gained notoriety when he became the first juvenile to be sent to prison for hacking. He was sentenced at 16 years old. In an anonymous PBS interview, he professes, "I was just looking around, playing around. What was fun for me was a challenge to see what I could pull off."

James's major intrusions targeted high-profile organizations. He installed a backdoor into a Defense Threat Reduction Agency server. The DTRA is an agency of the Department of Defense charged with reducing the threat to the U.S. and its allies from nuclear, biological, chemical, conventional and special weapons. The backdoor he created enabled him to view sensitive emails and capture employee usernames and passwords.

James also cracked into NASA computers, stealing software worth approximately $1.7 million. According to the Department of Justice, "The software supported the International Space Station's physical environment, including control of the temperature and humidity within the living space." NASA was forced to shut down its computer systems, ultimately racking up a $41,000 cost. James explained that he downloaded the code to supplement his studies on C programming, but contended, "The code itself was crappy . . . certainly not worth $1.7 million like they claimed."

Given the extent of his intrusions, if James, also known as "c0mrade," had been an adult he likely would have served at least 10 years. Instead, he was banned from recreational computer use and was slated to serve a six-month sentence under house arrest with probation. However, he served six months in prison for violation of parole. Today, James asserts that he's learned his lesson and might start a computer security company.

2.Adrian Lamo: Lamo's claim to fame is his break-ins at major organizations like The New York Times and Microsoft. Dubbed the "homeless hacker," he used Internet connections at Kinko's, coffee shops and libraries to do his intrusions. In a profile article, "He Hacks by Day, Squats by Night," Lamo reflects, "I have a laptop in Pittsburgh, a change of clothes in D.C. It kind of redefines the term multi-jurisdictional."

Lamo's intrusions consisted mainly of penetration testing, in which he found flaws in security, exploited them and then informed companies of their shortcomings. His hits include Yahoo!, Bank of America, Citigroup and Cingular. When white hat hackers are hired by companies to do penetration testing, it's legal. What Lamo did is not.

When he broke into The New York Times' intranet, things got serious. He added himself to a list of experts and viewed personal information on contributors, including Social Security numbers. Lamo also hacked into The Times' LexisNexis account to research high-profile subject matter.

For his intrusion at The New York Times, Lamo was ordered to pay approximately $65,000 in restitution. He was also sentenced to six months of home confinement and two years of probation, which expired January 16, 2007. Lamo is currently working as an award-winning journalist and public speaker.

3.Kevin Mitnick: A self-proclaimed "hacker poster boy," Mitnick went through a highly publicized pursuit by authorities. His mischief was hyped by the media but his actual offenses may be less notable than his notoriety suggests. The Department of Justice describes him as "the most wanted computer criminal in United States history." His exploits were detailed in two movies: Freedom Downtime and Takedown.

Mitnick had a bit of hacking experience before committing the offenses that made him famous. He started out exploiting the Los Angeles bus punch card system to get free rides. Then, like Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, dabbled in phone phreaking. Although there were numerous offenses, Mitnick was ultimately convicted for breaking into the Digital Equipment Corporation's computer network and stealing software.

Mitnick's mischief got serious when he went on a two and a half year "coast-to-coast hacking spree." The CNN article, "Legendary computer hacker released from prison," explains that "he hacked into computers, stole corporate secrets, scrambled phone networks and broke into the national defense warning system." He then hacked into computer expert and fellow hacker Tsutomu Shimomura's home computer, which led to his undoing.

Today, Mitnick has been able to move past his role as a black hat hacker and become a productive member of society. He served five years, about 8 months of it in solitary confinement, and is now a computer security consultant, author and speaker.

4.Kevin Poulsen: Also known as Dark Dante, Poulsen gained recognition for his hack of LA radio's KIIS-FM phone lines, which earned him a brand new Porsche, among other items. Law enforcement dubbed him "the Hannibal Lecter of computer crime."

Authorities began to pursue Poulsen after he hacked into a federal investigation database. During this pursuit, he further drew the ire of the FBI by hacking into federal computers for wiretap information.

His hacking specialty, however, revolved around telephones. Poulsen's most famous hack, KIIS-FM, was accomplished by taking over all of the station's phone lines. In a related feat, Poulsen also "reactivated old Yellow Page escort telephone numbers for an acquaintance who then ran a virtual escort agency." Later, when his photo came up on the show Unsolved Mysteries, 1-800 phone lines for the program crashed. Ultimately, Poulsen was captured in a supermarket and served a sentence of five years.

Since serving time, Poulsen has worked as a journalist. He is now a senior editor for Wired News. His most prominent article details his work on identifying 744 sex offenders with MySpace profiles.

5.Robert Tappan Morris: Morris, son of former National Security Agency scientist Robert Morris, is known as the creator of the Morris Worm, the first computer worm to be unleashed on the Internet. As a result of this crime, he was the first person prosecuted under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Morris wrote the code for the worm while he was a student at Cornell. He asserts that he intended to use it to see how large the Internet was. The worm, however, replicated itself excessively, slowing computers down so that they were no longer usable. It is not possible to know exactly how many computers were affected, but experts estimate an impact of 6,000 machines. He was sentenced to three years' probation, 400 hours of community service and a fined $10,500.

Morris is currently working as a tenured professor at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He principally researches computer network architectures including distributed hash tables such as Chord and wireless mesh networks such as Roofnet.

White Hat Hackers

Hackers that use their skills for good are classified as "white hat." These white hats often work as certified "Ethical Hackers," hired by companies to test the integrity of their systems. Others, operate without company permission by bending but not breaking laws and in the process have created some really cool stuff. In this section we profile five white hat hackers and the technologies they have developed.

1.Stephen Wozniak: "Woz" is famous for being the "other Steve" of Apple. Wozniak, along with current Apple CEO Steve Jobs, co-founded Apple Computer. He has been awarded with the National Medal of Technology as well as honorary doctorates from Kettering University and Nova Southeastern University. Additionally, Woz was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in September 2000.

Woz got his start in hacking making blue boxes, devices that bypass telephone-switching mechanisms to make free long-distance calls. After reading an article about phone phreaking in Esquire, Wozniak called up his buddy Jobs. The pair did research on frequencies, then built and sold blue boxes to their classmates in college. Wozniak even used a blue box to call the Pope while pretending to be Henry Kissinger.

Wozniak dropped out of college and came up with the computer that eventually made him famous. Jobs had the bright idea to sell the computer as a fully assembled PC board. The Steves sold Wozniak's cherished scientific calculator and Jobs' VW van for capital and got to work assembling prototypes in Jobs' garage. Wozniak designed the hardware and most of the software. In the Letters section of Woz.org, he recalls doing "what Ed Roberts and Bill Gates and Paul Allen did and tons more, with no help." Wozniak and Jobs sold the first 100 of the Apple I to a local dealer for $666.66 each.

Woz no longer works full time for Apple, focusing primarily on philanthropy instead. Most notable is his function as fairy godfather to the Los Gatos, Calif. School District. "Wozniak 'adopted' the Los Gatos School District, providing students and teachers with hands-on teaching and donations of state-of-the-art technology equipment."

2.Tim Berners-Lee: Berners-Lee is famed as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the system that we use to access sites, documents and files on the Internet. He has received numerous recognitions, most notably the Millennium Technology Prize.

While a student at Oxford University, Berners-Lee was caught hacking access with a friend and subsequently banned from University computers. w3.org reports, "Whilst [at Oxford], he built his first computer with a soldering iron, TTL gates, an M6800 processor and an old television." Technological innovation seems to have run in his genes, as Berners-Lee's parents were mathematicians who worked on the Manchester Mark1, one of the earliest electronic computers.

While working with CERN, a European nuclear research organization, Berners-Lee created a hypertext prototype system that helped researchers share and update information easily. He later realized that hypertext could be joined with the Internet. Berners-Lee recounts how he put them together: "I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and – ta-da! – the World Wide Web."

Since his creation of the World Wide Web, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium at MIT. The W3C describes itself as "an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff and the public work together to develop Web standards." Berners-Lee's World Wide Web idea, as well as standards from the W3C, is distributed freely with no patent or royalties due.

3.Linus Torvalds: Torvalds fathered Linux, the very popular Unix-based operating system. He calls himself "an engineer," and has said that his aspirations are simple, "I just want to have fun making the best damn operating system I can."

Torvalds got his start in computers with a Commodore VIC-20, an 8-bit home computer. He then moved on to a Sinclair QL. Wikipedia reports that he modified the Sinclair "extensively, especially its operating system." Specifically, Torvalds hacks included "an assembler and a text editor…as well as a few games."

Torvalds created the Linux kernel in 1991, using the Minix operating system as inspiration. He started with a task switcher in Intel 80386 assembly and a terminal driver. After that, he put out a call for others to contribute code, which they did. Currently, only about 2 percent of the current Linux kernel is written by Torvalds himself. The success of this public invitation to contribute code for Linux is touted as one of the most prominent examples of free/open source software.

Currently, Torvalds serves as the Linux ringleader, coordinating the code that volunteer programmers contribute to the kernel. He has had an asteroid named after him and received honorary doctorates from Stockholm University and University of Helsinki. He was also featured in Time Magazine's "60 Years of Heroes."

4.Richard Stallman: Stallman's fame derives from the GNU Project, which he founded to develop a free operating system. For this, he's known as the father of free software. His "Serious Bio" asserts, "Non-free software keeps users divided and helpless, forbidden to share it and unable to change it. A free operating system is essential for people to be able to use computers in freedom."

Stallman, who prefers to be called rms, got his start hacking at MIT. He worked as a "staff hacker" on the Emacs project and others. He was a critic of restricted computer access in the lab. When a password system was installed, Stallman broke it down, resetting passwords to null strings, then sent users messages informing them of the removal of the password system.

Stallman's crusade for free software started with a printer. At the MIT lab, he and other hackers were allowed to modify code on printers so that they sent convenient alert messages. However, a new printer came along – one that they were not allowed to modify. It was located away from the lab and the absence of the alerts presented an inconvenience. It was at this point that he was "convinced…of the ethical need to require free software."

With this inspiration, he began work on GNU. Stallman wrote an essay, "The GNU Project," in which he recalls choosing to work on an operating system because it's a foundation, "the crucial software to use a computer." At this time, the GNU/Linux version of the operating system uses the Linux kernel started by Torvalds. GNU is distributed under "copyleft," a method that employs copyright law to allow users to use, modify, copy and distribute the software.

Stallman's life continues to revolve around the promotion of free software. He works against movements like Digital Rights Management (or as he prefers, Digital Restrictions Management) through organizations like Free Software Foundation and League for Programming Freedom. He has received extensive recognition for his work, including awards, fellowships and four honorary doctorates.

5.Tsutomu Shimomura: Shimomura reached fame in an unfortunate manner: he was hacked by Kevin Mitnick. Following this personal attack, he made it his cause to help the FBI capture him.

Shimomura's work to catch Mitnick is commendable, but he is not without his own dark side. Author Bruce Sterling recalls: "He pulls out this AT&T cellphone, pulls it out of the shrinkwrap, finger-hacks it, and starts monitoring phone calls going up and down Capitol Hill while an FBI agent is standing at his shoulder, listening to him."

Shimomura out-hacked Mitnick to bring him down. Shortly after finding out about the intrusion, he rallied a team and got to work finding Mitnick. Using Mitnick's cell phone, they tracked him near Raleigh-Durham International Airport. The article, "SDSC Computer Experts Help FBI Capture Computer Terrorist" recounts how Shimomura pinpointed Mitnick's location. Armed with a technician from the phone company, Shimomura "used a cellular frequency direction-finding antenna hooked up to a laptop to narrow the search to an apartment complex." Mitnick was arrested shortly thereafter. Following the pursuit, Shimomura wrote a book about the incident with journalist John Markoff, which was later turned into a movie.

Another way How Do Uninstall Deep Freezer If I Lost Password?

1. Just goto bios setup and change the date 3 years backward from now because deep freeze doesn't exist that year save it and restart your computer.

2. After restarting your computer press F8 to select the boot option. Select Windows Debugging mode.

3. When the welcome screen appear be ready place your finger at the CTRL + ALT + DEL or shortcut key to task manager.

4. When desktop appear hit the three keys quickly. The windows task manager should appear when you hit CTRL +ALT + DEL.

5. Quickly kill this process DF5Serv.Exe press DEL to kill this process. If the process DF5Serv.Exe it's done.

6. Restart your computer and change the date to present date. Then boot up your computer. There you can see the deep freeze task icon mark as X means it is disable. Use deep freeze installer to uninstall deep freeze and install it again if you like.

Enjoy!

How to Uninstall Deep Freeze for Windows 2000/XP/Vista

Warning:- this trick may damage your computer so use this trick at your own risk.if any damage or problem arrives than i am not responsible for that.

How to Uninstall Deep Freeze for Windows 2000/XP/Vista without the password.
Note: Without a complete uninstallation you may not be able to reinstall Deep Freeze on your system.
What we are going to do is edit the registry and delete the startup references to Deep Freeze. This will prevent the Deep Freeze driver from starting up the next time you boot. (c:\windows\system32\drivers\deepfrz.sys)
1. First we need a way to edit the registry. The way to do this depends on your situation. If your computer is thawed you can simply use Regedit. If your computer is frozen or if it doesn't boot you'll need to find another way. Here are some alternatives:
If you have a multiboot computer with another copy of Windows 2K/XP you can boot from there. Or, you can physically mount the disk on another computer that uses Windows 2K/XP.
You will probably use a tool that lets you boot and edit the registry. A good example of this is PE Builder that lets you build a Windows PE CD and boot Windows from there. Or use Bart's, http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ or Winternals ERD Commander. There are several, including some USB memory sticks capable of booting like a CD. The goal here is to boot separately from your hard drive and access it while it is "asleep".
2. If your computer is thawed run Regedit. If it's not thawed follow one of the alternatives described above, and run Regedit (or Regedt32 on Windows 2K).
3. On the Find dialog box type UpperFilters and check only the Values checkbox. Then click Find Next.
4. The program will find a value with the name UpperFilters. Open this value and if there's a line with the name of the Deep Freeze driver (DeepFrz or DepFrzLo) delete it including the return, leaving the rest of the lines intact. Also, if you are using ThawSpace and you want to get rid of it delete that line too (ThwSpace), if you want to keep the ThawSpace leave it there. Press F3 to find the next match and repeat the operation until you have fixed all the UpperFilters values inside the HKLM\MySystem key.
5. Navigate to HKLM\MySystem\Select and check the value with the name Default. It has the number of the control set key that the system will use when booted. If it is 1 the control set is ControlSet001, if it is 2 the control set is ControlSet002, and so on. We'll assume the control set is ControlSet001 but you should use the one specified by the value Default.
6. Now go to HKLM\MySystem\ControlSet001\Services and delete the keys with the name of the Deep Freeze drivers (DeepFrz or DepFrzLo and DepFrzHi). Also, if you decided to get rid of the ThawSpace delete the key with the name of the ThawSpace driver (ThwSpace).
7. That's it. Now reboot and Deep Freeze will not load.
QUESTION: What if the BIOS settings prevent me from booting from CD or USB? Answer: Deep Freeze prevents you from decrypting the BIOS password, but it does not prevent removing it, if you have the right tool! Most of the BIOS hacking programs will not work to remove the BIOS password on a Deep Freeze protected computer, but CmosPwd by Christophe Grenier does.
You'll need to know how to use a command line and install the driver. Yes, it uses a driver to remove the BIOS password. But it works, even on Deep Freeze protected computers. Use CmosPwd to remove the BIOS password and reset the default BIOS settings. Then you'll be able to boot from CD or USB and edit your computer's registry and remove the DeepFrz, DepFrzLo, and DepFrzHi references which start Deep Freeze.
Now here is a little known secret: Faronics (the makers of Deep Freeze) uses a special driver to remove broken or malicious Deep Freeze installations. They do not have any backdoor passwords, so they use a special driver to remove a Deep Freeze installation where the password is not known or that someone is having trouble with. Will they send it to you, or even admit to you that they have it? I don't know. But, even if you do have it, you will still have to boot separately from the hard drive and replace the existing Deep Freeze driver with the special one and reboot. And after that, you need to use a Deep Freeze installation file to fully uninstall Deep Freeze (it will be thawed when you boot up with the special driver). If you want to re-install Deep Freeze, you'll have to first delete the special driver too.
Only a few people have this driver. It is the only solution Faronics has for those who need to remove Deep Freeze without the password. And, like I said, you will have to be able to boot from CD or USB and access the NTFS hard drive. If the boot-up order is locked (hard drive first and only) in BIOS settings, use CmosPwd to reset BIOS and boot order. Then you can boot from CD or USB.
Booting from CD or USB and removing the registry references works also, but then you should uninstall Deep Freeze with an installation file once you are able to boot thawed.
If you are dealing with a trial version of Deep Freeze, just forward the BIOS date past 60 days and then restart.
If anyone is wondering if Deep Freeze has ever been hacked, the answer is "yes" it has, several times over the years. Most of the time these were weaknesses that Faronics was able to quickly fix or prevent. However, there was one hacker that really, REALLY gave them headaches. His name was Emiiano Scavuzzo from Argentina. He was really good at low level programming and used OllyDbg to come up with about five versions of his "Deep Unfreezer" which gave Faronics their greatest challenge to date. Deep Unfreezer now only works on older versions of Deep Freeze.
Faronics is doing very, very well right now (as of 2008). They sold Apple Computer their Mac version of Deep Freeze, which, if you know how to look for it in the Applications folder on a Mac, is used in all the Apple Stores on both their desktops and their laptops. So, if you're ever in a Mac store playing around with PhotoBooth or whatever, and the computer settings are all messed up, just restart the Mac and thank Deep Freeze.

Selected Teachings of Swami Vivekananda

Selected Teachings of Swami Vivekananda


1. My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

2.Education is the manifestation of the perfection already in man.

3.We want that education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet.

4.So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.

5.Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

6.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological gods, … and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you. Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

7.Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

8.The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new Gospel.

9. Purity, patience, and perseverance are the three essentials to success, and above all, love.

10.Religion is realization; not talk, not doctrine, nor theories, however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming changed into what it believes.

11.Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

12.Teach yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call uon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity will come, and everything that is excellent will come when this sleeping soul is roused to self-conscious activity.

13.They alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.

14.This is the gist of all worship – to be pure and to do good to others.

15.It is love and love alone that I preach, and I base my teaching on the great Vedantic truth of the sameness and omnipresence of the Soul of the Universe.

15 Laws of Life From Swami Vivekananda

15 Laws of Life
What You Need to Keep in Mind


1. Love Is The Law Of Life: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore, love for love's sake, because it is law of life, just as you breathe to live.

2. It's Your Outlook That Matters: It is our own mental attitude, which makes the world what it is for us. Our thoughts make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

3. Life is Beautiful: First, believe in this world - that there is meaning behind everything. Everything in the world is good, is holy and beautiful. If you see something evil, think that you do not understand it in the right light. Throw the burden on yourselves!

4. It's The Way You Feel: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God.

5. Set Yourself Free: The moment I have realised God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

6. Don't Play The Blame Game: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.

7. Help Others: If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

8. Uphold Your Ideals: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

9. Listen To Your Soul: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul.

10. Be Yourself: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

11. Nothing Is Impossible: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin - to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

12. You Have The Power: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

13. Learn Everyday: The goal of mankind is knowledge... now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.

14. Be Truthful: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything.

15. Think Different: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.