Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

how can the money online


In the era of the all computers today, who does not know the internet. I'm sure most of the people of Indonesia come to know very well what it already heard of the internet although the extent of the people residing in remote and far from the reach of information about media. The last few years since the rise of social networking trend then it can not be dammed again exploit people's desire to participate. Starting from the child who knows a little bit about typing on computer keyboard letters to parents, since it started to have fun playing with social networking sites like facebook in particular.

Monday, March 11, 2013

How to Quickly Create a Website Free For Beginners


Although it has been many articles written about making Free Website For Beginners, but there are still tables that do not know, so this time Trickinfocom deliberately writes about How To Make A Website For Beginners Gratisan. Well to make it we will menggukan a provider of Web site Gratisan commonly referred to Blog, there are 10 providers that I know of anyway blog following list,
1. Blogger.com

2. WordPress.com

3. Blogsome.com

4. Multiply.com

5. Livejournal.com

6. Spaces.msn.com

7. Journalspace.com

8. my.Opera.com / community

9. 360.yahoo.com

10. weebly.com

But this time we discuss about how to create a blog from blogger.com blog providers, glance information when blogger.com is owned by champion google.Untuk how to create free website provided by others later trickinfocom jelasin scar, patient yah ..
Okay buddy Trickinfocom, just direct us how to make it well,
First, because blogger is owned by Google so that champion to create an account on blogger buddy trickinfocom must have an account on the google Gmail, already have a dong? have not had the time?, okay well maybe my friend has an account on yahoo trickinfocom time yah .. for who do not have this ya please register www.gmail.com,

English musician. After "Space Oddity"


David Bowie (born 1947) is an English musician. After "Space Oddity" reached the top five of the UK Singles Chart in 1969, he re-emerged during the glam rock era with "Starman" and the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. In 1975, Bowie achieved his first major American crossover success with the number-one single "Fame" and the album Young Americans. The soul-inspired sound was a radical shift in style that initially alienated many of his UK devotees. He then recorded the critically acclaimed "Berlin Trilogy" of albums with Brian Eno, all of which reached the UK top five. After uneven commercial success in the late 1970s, Bowie had UK number ones in the early 1980s with "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps), "Under Pressure" (a collaboration with Queen) and Let's Dance, which yielded several hit singles. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Bowie continued to experiment with musical styles. He has not toured since the 2003–04 Reality Tour and has not performed live since 2006. Throughout his career, he has sold an estimated 140 million albums. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him 23rd on their list of the best singers of all time. (Full article...)

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In Asia, tide slowly turning against shark

BANGKOK, Thailand — More auspicious than delicious, shark fin is rubbery in both taste and texture. While its flavor is muted, a bowl of shark fin soup says plenty in traditional Chinese culture: The hosts have money and they’re generous enough to spread it around.

But in Asia, the soup’s culinary home turf, the dish is increasingly regarded as, well, tasteless. Anti-finning advocates, armed with gruesome facts about threatened shark species, are attacking shark fin’s reputation as a status-boosting delicacy. Their mission: to see the culinary tradition die off before the sharks do.

“These shark fin restaurants are everywhere in Asia,” said Iris Ho, a campaign manager with Humane Society International. “But the issue has picked up speed because people more easily come into contact with shark fin soup than, say, tiger bone wine or rhino horns. Not eating it is a choice they can easily make.”

Islamists Kill 7 Captives in Nigeria


DAKAR, Senegal — Radical Islamists in northern Nigeria have killed seven foreign construction workers who were kidnapped in February, a significant escalation of extremist violence in Nigeria’s continuing jihadist insurgency.

The killings were announced Saturday by an obscure splinter group, Ansaru, and confirmed by European foreign ministries on Sunday. The seven — an Italian, a Greek, an Englishman and four from the Middle East, including Lebanon — were seized on Feb. 16 from the compound of Setraco, a Lebanese construction company operating in Nigeria’s Bauchi State, in a well-planned nighttime assault. A grainy photo released by the group showed a gunman standing by a number of corpses.

The deaths signal a shift in tactics by the radical Islamists who have been battling the Nigerian government for nearly four years in the country’s impoverished north. The Islamist group Boko Haram has previously attacked, for the most part, officials and institutions associated with the federal and local authorities, though plenty of civilians have been killed along the way

“Overpaid and Underworked”


The Washington Post has a sympathetic article today on federal workers who consider themselves unfair victims of the sequester. Unfortunately, the article does not consider data and evidence, instead characterizing criticism of federal worker compensation as mere assertion, jealous emotionalism, or politicking.

Federal employees are upset about “perceptions” of government work, according to the people interviewed for the story. They have to defend themselves from “arguments” about excessive compensation and short working hours. They are “the target of popular rage” because the private sector is “frustrated, even jealous.” There is a “drumbeat” of negativity, “ritual denunciation,” and “bashing” of federal workers.

These sentiments supposedly come from “talk radio and websites devoted to bashing the government.” They’re driven by “a small minority of vociferous people.”

A reality check is needed here. Numerous independent analyses—including from The Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute, and the Congressional Budget Office—find that compensation for federal employees is higher than for comparable private-sector workers. The Government Accountability Office recently summarized the results of these studies

Thursday, January 6, 2011

How to install Unreal 3.2.7 IRCd

How to install Unreal 3.2.7 IRCd

Welcome to the Tolerant Solutions installation guide for installing
the Unreal 3.2.7 IRCd on our shell servers. To retrieve the latest
version of the Unreal IRC daemon-- you can connect to our public FTP
server:


wget ftp://ftp.tolerant.ca/pub/ircd/Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz



The above line will retrieve Unreal IRCd version 3.2.7. Now that it
is downloaded, you need to unzip the file by typing:


tar -zxvf Unreal3.2.7.tar.gz



You will see a stream of lines displaying-- that's the compressed
package unzipping to your shell. Now you can jump into the IRCd
directory by typing:


cd Unreal3.2.7



Now that you are in the directory, you need to configure your IRCd.
You can type the following (within the Unreal3.2.7 directory) to begin
configuring your IRCd options:


./Config



NOTE: To select the default configuration options
(recommended), simply hit enter. If you are an advanced user and would
like to change configuration options, you may do so using the ./Config
utitilty.

Then type the following commands... (allowing each to run once):


make



then...


make install



Now we recommend that you edit an example of a working configuration
file... Download this in your directory by typing:


wget ftp://ftp.tolerant.ca/pub/ircd/conf-examples/unrealircd.conf



And edit it...


pico unrealircd.conf



Or simply download it and replace it... after doing this, you may
edit your ircd.motd located in ~/Unreal3.2.7/ircd.motd and run!



./unreal start

Installation psybnc

Installation psybnc
Maybe it's a lot of tutoring on how to install psybnc:
here I will share installation psybnc and also as a record for me snediri too.
The first entry into our machine shell
then

we wget http://www.psybnc.net/psyBNC-2.3.2-7.tar.gz
after that extract the files above:
tar-zxvf psyBNC-2.3.2-7.tar.gz

extract the ongoing process to produce the directory psyBNC-2.3.2-7
change its name dir from psyBNC-2.3.2-7 into psybnc (all small name)
because linux distinguish uppercase and lowercase letters

Joomla installation.

Before the installation you need to complete
few applications that would be used so that Joomla dapat
operated on your computer. This is a list of applications
and preparations to be made before
Joomla installation.



Joomla 1.0.3, can be downloaded at http://www.joomla.org
Apache Server, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin, for
This installation allows you to use XAMPP application
for windows that are available and can be downloaded at
http://www.apachefriends.org. You just simply follow
installation instructions only. With the installation of
XAMPP your computer will automatically install Apache Server,
PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin.

Joomla Installation

Before the installation you need to complete
some applications that will be used so that Joomla can
operated on your computer. This is a list of applications
and preparations to be made before
Joomla installation

Joomla 1.0.3, can be downloaded at http://www.joomla.org
Apache Server, PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin, for
This installation allows you to use XAMPP application
for windows that are available and can be downloaded at
http://www.apachefriends.org. You just simply follow
installation instructions only. With the installation of
XAMPP your computer will automatically install Apache Server,
PHP, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin.

Joomla Installation

Preparation prior to installation of Joomla

Extract the files to the folder Joomla 1.0.3
C: \ apachefriends \ xampp \ htdocs \ Joomlaku.
Enable Apache Server, PHP, and MySQL. Run application
XAMPP is installed and press the Start button on
Apache and MySQL to the Start button changes to
Stop. If not, you try to disable IIS or
Personal Web Server you.
After all has been prepared, let us begin the installation
Joomla. Follow the steps below:

Open a web browser and type in http://localhost/Joomlaku. Web
You will show the view like in this picture.
Ensure that all installation requirements are met and press
Next button>> to continue.
On this page will be shown that the agreement should
You obey if you want to use Joomla. Press the button
Next>> to continue.
Enter the MySQL database configuration.
Description of the MySQL database configuration:

Host Name, the name of the host name, usually filled with localhost
MySQL User Name, username used to access
MySQL, usually filled root or a username provided by the web
Your hosting
MySQL Password, the password used to access
MySQL, use the password to your web security.
MySQL Database Name, the name of the database for Joomla.
MySQL Table Prefix, prefix used for table
your database.
When you have filled in all proceed with the click of a button
Next>>. A moment later a message will appear asking
configuration confirmation that you have entered. When
all is correct, press the OK button.

On this page you are prompted to name your web.
Give the name and press the Next button>> to continue.
Please do confirm the URL, an absolute directory, e-
mail admin and directory chmods. Enter your e-mail address
and password for your admin. Press Next>>.
Congratulations you have managed to install Joomla
Do not forget to remove the installation directory at
your Joomla directory.

Web Page and Administrator

After successful installation let's try
Joomla Web access.

Visit your Joomla web at the address
http://localhost/joomlaku/. If you have not deleted
installation directory on the web directory of your Joomla
Your web administrator and will display a message
warning.
Visit your Joomla web at the address
http://localhost/joomlaku/administrator.
Login with the username 'admin' and your admin password.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Eggdrop


What is Eggdrop?Eggdrop IRC bot is the most popular, most a lot of uses, and is the best software for BOT. Eggdrop software can be retrieved / downloaded freely. Eggdrop Structure flexible in user files, can be accessed via dcc chat, and Eggdrop can in the link between one another, so that the user should be talking to each other in 'partyline / botnet'. TCL scripts needed for its development and a lot of websites that provide it or you can create your own.- Examples tcl - download in (here)In general, "eggdrop" can be referred to as BOT, please download Files eggdrop here.Installing EggdropTake for example eggdrop source (eggdrop1.6.4.tar.gz) anywhere you like.There are two ways to retrieve files:1. With telnet use the command: wget http://chrisna.biz/eggdrop1.6.4.tar.gz2. By using WS_FTP or CuteFTP and can upload the file.Once the file is available in a new shell you do exstrac files / Tar by:a. gunzip eggdrop.1.6.4.tar.gzb. tar-zxvf eggdrop1.6.4.tar.gzLog into your eggdrop directory, by the way cd dir-name-your-eggdroptype:. / Configuremake configmakemake installafter all is done you can start editing (do not forget your eggdrop folder).Editing config filesRename the file according to nick her boots recommended eggdrop.conf.distSet your irc server and channel.Listen port is 3333 instead of the port which has been provided between 8000-65536Chanel Set:channel add # Anet-Hub {set global-flood-chan 5:10set global-flood-deop 3:10set global-flood-ctcp 3:10set global-flood-kick 5:10set global-flood-join 5:10}Set Server:set servers {irc.telkom.net.idirc.incaf.netaloha.us.indocafe.orgirc.interaksi.co.id}- Examples of config - download in (here)Running eggdropafter compile install and configure eggdrop you, it's time to run your eggdrop. Go to the directory where you installed eggdrop then typing. / Eggdrop-m config-you, eggdrop will enter the server and will appear in the IRC. The first time you enter the server boots it is important to introduce yourself to the bot.Msg boots with the words 'hello' (for default) or your own words that you have set the config, this way you will become owner of the bot page. after that you will be required to set your password in a way msg bot 'pass-your password', then DCC chat to the bot.

UNDERSTANDING THE WEBSITE OR THE SITE.

In seeking information from the Internet, users will lead to a unique Internet address (eg: www.namawebsite.com) called the domain name (Domain Name / URL - Uniform Resource Locator) and find the information in the form of text, still or moving images, animation moves , sound or video in a media, which called the site or sites. This website is opened via a browser program (browser) on a computer. Explorer program that can be used in computers are: IE (Internet Explorer), Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape, Opera.

A. UNDERSTANDING THE WEBSITE OR THE SITE.
Web site or sites can be interpreted as a collection of pages that display information on text data, still or motion picture data, animation data, voice, video and / or a combination of these, whether they are static or dynamic that formed a series of interconnected buildings where each connected with networks page (hyperlink). Is static if the contents of the website information and equipment, rarely changed, and the contents of the information in the direction only from the website owner. Is dynamic if the contents of the website information is always changing, and the contents of an interactive two-way information derived from the owners and users of the website. Examples of static websites is to contain the company profile, while dynamic website is like Friendster, Multiply, etc.. In a side development, static website can only be updated by owner only, whereas dynamic website can be updated by the user or owner.

B. ELEMENTS IN THE PROVISION OF OR WEB SITE.
To provide a website, it should be available supporting elements, is as follows:

1. The domain name (Domain name / URL - Uniform Resource Locator)
The domain name or commonly called the Domain Name or URL is the unique address in the Internet world that are used to identify a website, or in other words the domain name is the address used to locate a website on the internet. Example: http://www.baliorange.net
Domain names are bought and sold freely on the internet with an annual rental status. Once the Domain Name was purchased at one of the registration service providers, then the user is provided a control panel for administration. If user forget / not renew the lease term, then the domain name will be on the loose again its availability to the public. The domain name itself has identified extensions / suffixes in accordance with the interests and the location of the website. Examples of domain name extension is the international air-com, net, org, info, biz, name, ws. Examples of domain name extensions were Indonesian State locations are:

-. Co.id: For enterprises that have a valid legal entity
-. Ac.id: For Educational Institutions
-. Go.id: Special for the Republic of Indonesia Government Institutions
-. Mil.id: Especially for Military Institutions of the Republic of Indonesia
-. Or.id: For all kinds of organizations yand not included in the category "ac.id", "co.id", "go.id", "mil.id" etc.
-. War.net.id: for internet cafe industry in Indonesia
-. Sch.id: specifically for education institutions that provide education such as elementary, junior high or high school and
-. Web.id: Intended for business entities, organizations or individuals who perform activities on the World Wide Web.

2. The house where the website (Web hosting)
Web Hosting can be defined as the space contained in the hard drive to store various data, files, images, video, email data, statistics, databases and so forth that will be displayed on the website. The amount of data that can be added depending on the size of web hosting that is rented / owned, the greater the greater the web hosting data that can be entered and displayed in the website.
Web Hosting also be obtained by renting. Users will gain the control panel is protected with a username and password for the administration website. The amount of disk space hosting determined by the size in MB (Mega Bytes) or GB (Giga Byte). Old web hosting rental average is calculated per year. Rental hosting done from tenant companies web hosting that are often found in both Indonesia and Foreign Affairs. The location of the laying of the data center (datacenter) web hosting manifold. There are in Jakarta, Singapore, Britain, America, etc. with rental prices vary.

3. Language Programs (Scripts Program).
It is the language used to translate each command in a website that when accessed. Types of language courses is to determine the static, dynamic or interactive web site. More and more variety of language programs that use it will show the website more dynamic and interactive as well as look good.
A variety of programming languages currently exists to support quality websites. Type type programming language that is widely used by website designers, among others, HTML, ASP, PHP, JSP, Java Scripts, Java applets, XML, Ajax and so on. The basic language used every site is HTML and the PHP, ASP, JSP and others are supporting language that acts as a regulator of dynamic and interactive websites.
ASP programming language, PHP, JSP or other can be made yourself. Language courses are normally used to build a portal of news, articles, discussion forums, guest books, members of the organization, email, mailing lists and others that require an update every time.

4. Website design.
After making the lease the domain name and web hosting as well as mastery of language programs (scripts programs), an important element and the main website is the design. Website design determines the quality and beauty of a website. The design is very influential to the assessment of visitors will be good or not a website.
To create a website can usually be done alone or hire a website designer. At present very many web designers services, especially in big cities. Please note that the quality of the site is determined by the quality of the designer. More and more web designers mastery of a variety of programs / software support site development it will produce more high quality sites, and vice versa. Services are web designers who generally require the highest cost of the entire cost of construction of the site and everything it depends on the quality of the designer. Website design programs one of them is Macromedia Firework, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Microsoft FrontPage, etc..

5. The program transfers data to the data center.
The web designers working on dikomputernya own website. Various programming languages, data text information, images, video, and sound files have become supporters of the website. These files can be opened using the explorer program (browser) that saw a whole website within your own computer (offline). But the files are necessary to put the house for hosting the online version accessible to the whole world. Users will be given access to FTP (File Transfer Protocol) after ordering a web hosting to move the website files to the web hosting data center. To be able to use FTP needed an FTP program, such as WAS FTP, Smart FTP, Cute FTP, etc.. FTP program is mostly found on the internet with the status of the use of free or must pay. The web designers can use the FTP facility that is integrated with authoring tools, such as Adobe Dreamweaver.

6. Publications website.
The existence of the website is useless built without visited or known by the public or visitors to the internet. Because the site is effective or not depends on the size of incoming visitors and comments. To introduce the site to the public requires a so-called publicity or promotion.
Publication sites in the community can be done in various ways such as with Pamphlets contain-Pamphlets contain, flyers, billboards, business cards and so forth but this way can be said is less effective and very limited. The way that usually do and most effective with unlimited space or time is a direct publication on the internet via search engines, search engines (search engines, like Yahoo, Google, MSN, Search Indonesia, etc.).
How to publications in search engines is free and some are paid. What is free is usually limited and long enough to get in and be recognized on search engines like Yahoo or Google. An effective way is by paying publication, despite having a little issue but the site will quickly get into search engines and is known by visitors.

C. WEBSITE MAINTENANCE.

To support the continuation of site maintenance is required every time the desired result such as the addition of information, news, articles, links, images, or so forth. Without proper maintenance the site will seem boring or monotonous also will soon be left visitors.

Site maintenance can be done per specified period such as every day, every week or every month regularly once or periodically just depends on the needs (not routine). Regular maintenance is typically used by news websites, articles provider, organization or government agency. Meanwhile, periodic maintenance usually for personal sites, sales / e-commerce, and so forth.

D. EXTENSION OF THE RENTAL DOMAIN NAME AND WEB HOSTING.

It should be understood that the domain name and web hosting hired status. During the two things are paid out of the lease extension, then you are entitled to have it and use it. Many cases of forgetfulness in the extension of the lease term, or difficult to contact third parties (web designers) as an intermediary for initial registration, it will be fatal. You will lose the domain name as an identity in the internet world. Make sure you remember to extend the lease term. The significance of the domain name you need to understand.

UNDERSTANDING DOMAIN

UNDERSTANDING DOMAIN
What is a Domain?. Digital tutorials this time will try to express to you about Understanding Domain. The meaning of the Domain and the function of these domains. Presumably what has been stated below can be helpful as well to answer your curiosity about the meaning of the Domain, goals and objectives.

Understanding Domain according to wikipedia:

The domain name (domain name) is given a unique name to identify the name of the server computer as a web server or email server on a computer network or the Internet. The domain name serves to facilitate the users on the internet when access to the server, and also used to remember the name servers that you visit without having to know complicated series of numbers known as IP addresses. This domain name is also known as a unity from a website such as for example "wikipedia.org". The domain name is sometimes also referred to as URLs, or Web site addresses.
source: Wikipedia

Understanding Digital Domain According Tutorial:

Domain is a name formatted letter of the alphabet (a, b, c, d, e, and so on) and numbers (1,2,3, etc.) and symbols (-) to name the website url address instead of a row of numbers from the address format IP client server web hosting where files are placed.

Example: IP address for example a web server where we stored the file is actually 77.165.90.89 77.165.90.89 we can just type directly in the browser to access our website, but it certainly is not good for memory recall, especially those visitors who access our website. Since everyone of course will be easier to remember the row of words rather than a row of numbers. For this domain is required in order to replace a row of numbers for a row of words that would easily diingat.misal: namadomain.com will be easier to remember than numbers 77.165.90.89

Sunday, December 19, 2010

PetaLinux SDK v1.3 released

PetaLogix today announced the immediate availability of PetaLinux SDK1.3, now including PowerPC440 support, and support for the MicroBlaze AXI-4 architecture

Since its release in 2009, PetaLinux SDK has quickly established itself as the industry-standard development environment for Embedded Linux on Xilinx FPGAs.

With users across the aerospace, biomedical, consumer and industrial electronics sectors, PetaLinux SDK allows developers to leverage the flexibility and performance of a Xilinx FPGA processor platform, with the broad and deep software platform support of Embedded Linux.

With the availability of version 1.3, PetaLinux SDK now supports an even broader range of systems. Major features of this release include

* PowerPC440 support in Xilinx Virtex-5 FXT FPGA families.
* MicroBlaze AXI-4 beta support, for users transitioning to new MicroBlaze/AXI and Xilinx Extensible Processing Platform (EPP) architectures
* New tools and runtime support for firmware upgrade - don't spend time developing this capability, just use it out of the box instead.
* Xilinx 12.3 tool support

Availability

PetaLinux SDK v1.3 is available immediately.

Existing users will automatically receive an update notification.

Contact PetaLogix today to kick-start your next FPGA-based Embedded Processor project.

# petalogix.com

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

GnackTrack RC2 Has Just Been Released

After a mad rush over the last few days we have managed to get GnackTrackR2 ready as a direct replacement for GnackTrackFinal. We have updated many of the tools within the feed and have also installed the 2.6.35 kernel with patched wireless drivers.

This version, and version here after, will unfortunately not include Nessus but you can still download your copy from the NessusTenable website. Lets hope in the future Tenable will give us permission to re-integrate it.




Click here to download the live CD GnackTrackR2.iso

e3d144f39b3f912a508c6654656d8b88 GnackTrackR2.iso


Or here to download the VMWare image GnackTrackR2.7z

93566c5bcd8260f7dc8c2cc1e4bee6b6 GnackTrackR2.7z

PayPal banned WikiLeaks after US gov intervention

A PayPal executive said his company's decision to suspend payments to Wikileaks came after the US State Department said the whistle-blower site was engaged in illegal activity. The comment came shortly before PayPal agreed to release the remaining funds in the WikiLeaks fund-raising account.

Press accounts from The Guardian and TechCrunch differ, but both claim that PayPal's move was influenced by statements from the State Department.

“State Dept told us these were illegal activities,” PayPal VP of platform Osama Bedier told the LeWeb conference in Paris, according to this report from The Guardian. “It was straightforward. We ... comply with regulations around the world, making sure that we protect our brand.”


TechCrunch reported much the same thing but later updated its post to say: “After talking to Bedier backstage, he clarified that the State Department did not directly talk to PayPal.” He went on to say that the online payment service was influenced by a November 27 letter State Department officials sent Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and his attorney.

“As you know, if any of the materials you intend to publish were provided by any government officials, or any intermediary without proper authorization, they were provided in violation of US law and without regard for the the grave consequences of this action,” the letter, signed by State Department legal adviser Hongju Koh, stated. “As long as WikiLeaks holds such material, the violation of the law is ongoing.”

The letter didn't cite any specific US statutes WikiLeaks was violating.

WikiLeaks went on to release a trove of State Department memos that aired confidential diplomatic communications.

PayPal representatives didn't respond to emails seeking clarification about the influence of the State Department.

But late on Wednesday, PayPal General Counsel John Muller said: “While the account will remain restricted, PayPal will release all remaining funds in the account to the foundation that was raising funds for WikiLeaks. According to The Washington Post, there was about $80,000 in the account.

Muller went on to defend the permanent closure of the account by saying the online payment site is “required to comply with laws around the world.”

“Ultimately, our difficult decision was based on a belief that the WikiLeaks website was encouraging sources to release classified material, which is likely a violation of law by the source,” he continued.

Muller's argument made no mention of organizations such as the International Tibet Network, which continues to solicit donations through PayPal even though some of their activities almost surely violate Chinese laws.

Over the past few days, other financial services, including Visa, MasterCard, and the Swiss bank Post Finance, have also suspended services to Wikileaks and Assange. The move has prompted criticism on Twitter and elsewhere by users who point out that Visa and MasterCard still permit payments to Ku Klux Klan groups but not to a group that so far has been charged with no crime.

Distributed denial of service attacks by people sympathetic to Wikileaks soon took out MasterCard and were also reported against EveryDNS.net, which suspended one of WikiLeaks domain names. US Senator Joe Lieberman and Sarah Palin – both outspoken WikiLeaks critics – and Swedish prosecutors, who are investigating Assange for alleged sexual offenses, have also been targeted, according to reports. A PayPal blog was also disrupted by attacks.

Sunday, January 3, 2010

Texas Holdem Starting Hands - a Deeper Look

Before reading this little article, review the starting hand table here. It is obvious that AA is a better starting hand then A2 but why are some hands strong in certain situations and why are some hands not? Extremes are always easy but most the game is spent in the muggy middle. Let's try to clear it up some.

For example, would you be surprised if your pocket aces lost when 9 other people were against you? Would you prefer another hand, like a suited connector, in that situation? Why is it that K7s is not a very good hand but something like 87s is?

If you have already played holdem for sometime then these answers may pop right out; it isn't obvious though to a beginner and it is funny that many people who have been playing for decades still can't seem to get it straight. Certain hands perform better in certain situations then they would in others.

Why do hands like K7s, J4s, J7s, Q7s, T6s suck?


The reason a hand like K7s sucks is because it has very little chance to win (obviously! you are probably thinking, but the question is why). The ways it can win are either very unlikely to happen, or you won't be able to play with much strength when they do. What exactly are you trying to catch when you play a hand like K7s? If you catch your King, then most likely your 7 kicker will be beaten. If you catch your 7 as top pair, you will most likely lose to overcards hitting on the turn or river. Remember the odds of catching a flush draw on the flop aren't high either (check the probabilities table here). This hand also can't make a straight unless it is only one card. To catch two pair with it or to make trips in a weird way is also very unlikely. So the bottom line is, these hands don't make money unless you get lucky and luck doesn't pan out often (or it wouldn't be called luck). So with these kinds of crappy cards you really want to watch out. Either avoid them completely or only play them out of your blinds when it is very cheap.

Why do I not play anything below AT offsuit? Why do I prefer playing A5s and below or ATs and above over something in the middle like A8s?



Any Ace unsuited hand below AT is in my book a trouble hand. Some people might even consider AT and AJ trouble hands too but for the games you are going to be playing in they are adequate starting hands. The reason A8, A7, A5 all suck is because you really can't hit much to win. Take A8 for example. Your kicker isn't that great, the 8, and you have no chance of hitting any straights or flushes. The only way you can win really is to hope that they have a weaker Ace then you do and you catch one. Like I mentioned in another article on here, playing poker well is like investing. You want to put your money in good opportunities that have a chance for a nice return and A8 off isn't that. Now to answer the question of ATs and above and A5s and below versus A9s A8s A7s A6s, I like the first ones because you can also make a straight with them. I would take A5s over A8s because the A and the 5 can work together to make a straight, unlike the A8s. When you play weak Aces though like A5s, you have to be extra cautious if you catch an Ace on the flop. You won't be sure if your kicker is good or not so you'll have to use some more thinking. Playing these only in later positions can help you make better decisions because people will check most likely if they don't have the A or that hand beat.

Why do hands like AA, KK, QQ, AK, AQ like fewer opponents?



Remember the scenario above when you were in the big blind, everyone is in the hand so far, and you look down and see two beautiful black Aces looking up at you? My heart usually starts going a mile a minute and then I look up to see that everyone has already called and my chances to win are slim. Big hands like this rarely win when there are that many people calling preflop. The reason is that it is very hard for AA to improve to anything more then just one pair. And in those big multi-way pots usually two pair or greater drags the chips. In that situation I may actually try to check raise on the flop instead of betting right now. The idea would be to try to cut off some people in the middle and make them fold. Limiting the field increases my chances to win with that hand.

Why do hands like JTs, 89s, QJs, KTs, 79s, 46s prefer lots of opponents?



I love little suited connectors in low limit holdem. The reason is that I rarely get into trouble with them. When I hit something, it is usually really strong and when I miss it is an easy fold. This untrue for hands like AA and KK. With those you are pretty much married to the pot unless someone really makes it apparent that you are the loser. A hand like JTs and 89s are ideal for playing against big multi-action.

The best situation would be if you are on the button or even in the big blind and every person calls before you. I would even raise there a lot of the time to just get more money in the pot. The reason these play well and favor large pots is because they are drawing to flushes and straights. They need lots of people in the hand to justify the cost of playing them. And they do well in that situation because when they make their hand they are hard to beat.

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