Facebook symbols are not part of facebook but can be inserted into your facebook name, chat window, messages, status, comments etc..

♪ = Musical note
♫ = Big musical note
♥ = Black heart
☺= Smile face
☻ = Black smile face

There are two ways for use this symbols.

1. Copy from here and paste in your facebook name, status or message.
2. These characters can be typed on your keyboard using the ALT button.

Desktop computer instructions for ALT facebook symbols:
• Press and hold left Alt key on your keyboard.
• While holding Alt key enter one of the codes below to get the corresponding symbol.
• Important note: You need to use numbers on the right side of the keyboard for entering code, not the numbers on top, otherwise they won’t work.

Laptop instructions for ALT facebook symbols:
• Press and hold left Alt key on your keyboard.
• While holding Alt key also press and hold Fn key.
• While holding Alt and Fn key enter one of the codes below to get corresponding symbol.
• Important note: You need to use numbers on the right side of the keyboard for entering code (they are usually written next to letters U, I, O… and in different color), not the numbers on top, otherwise they won’t work.

Alt + 1 ☺
Alt + 2 ☻
Alt + 3 ♥
Alt + 4 ♦
Alt + 5 ♣
Alt + 6 ♠
Alt + 7 •
Alt + 8 ◘
Alt + 9 ○
Alt + 10 ◙
Alt + 11 ♂
Alt + 12 ♀
Alt + 13 ♪
Alt + 14 ♫
Alt + 15 ☼
Alt + 16 ►
Alt + 17 ◄
Alt + 18 ↕
Alt + 19 ‼
Alt + 20 ¶
Alt + 21 §
Alt + 22 ▬
Alt + 23 ↨
Alt + 24 ↑
Alt + 25 ↓
Alt + 26 →
Alt + 27 ←
Alt + 28 ∟
Alt + 29 ↔
Alt + 30 ▲
Alt + 31 ▼

Here is the complete list of symbols Unicode. You can copy and paste these for use in your messages

♠ ♣ ♥
♦ ♪ ♫ ■ □ ▪ ▫ ▬ ▲ ►
▼ ◄ ◊ ○ ● ◘ ◙ ◦ ☺ ☻
☼ ♀ ▪ ▫ ▬ ☻
☺ ◙ ◘ ▀ € ♥
♂ ▒

๏ ๐ ๑ ๒
๓ ๔ ๕๖ ๗ ๘ ๙ ๚ ๛ Ẁ
ẁ Ẃ ẃ Ẅ ẅ Ạ ạ Ả ả Ấ
ấ Ầ ầẨ ẩ Ẫ ẫ Ậ ậ Ắ
ắ Ằ ằ Ẳ ẳ Ẵ ẵ Ặ ặ Ẹ
ẹ Ẻ ẻ Ẽ ẽ Ế ế Ề ề Ể
ể Ễ ễ Ệ ệ Ỉ ỉ Ị ị Ọ
Æ ¢ ™ Ð ¹ º ç Þ ß ÿ æ â ã ¥ ¤ £ ¦ ©
ª « ¬ ­® ¯

Ì Í Î Ï Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô
Õ Ö × Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß à á â ã ä å æ ç è é
ê ë ì í î ï ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö ÷ ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ Āā
Ăă Ąą Ć ć ĉ Ċ ċ ő Œ œ Ŕ
ŕ Ŗ ŗ Ř ř Ś ś Ŝ ŝ Ş ş Š
š Ţ ţ Ť ť Ŧ ŧ Ũ ũ Ū ū Ŭ
ŭ Ů ů Ű ű Ų ų Ŵ ŵ Ŷ ŷ Ÿ
Ź ź Ż ż Ž ž ſ ƒ Ǻ ǻ Ǽ ǽ
Ǿ ǿ ˆ ˇ ˉ ˘˙ ˚ ˛ ˜ ˝ ;
΄

₪ ₫ € ℅ l
№ ™ Ω e ⅛ ⅜ ⅝ ⅞ ∂ ∆ ∏
∑ – / · v 8 ∫ ˜ ≠ = = □ ▪ ▫ ◊
● ◦       
      fi fl ﬠ
שׁ שׂ שּׁ שּׂ אַ אָ אּ בּ גּ
דּהּ וּ זּ טּיּ ךּכּ לּ
מּנּ סּ ףּ פּ צּ קּרּ שּ
תּ וֹ בֿכֿ פֿ ﭏ ﭖ ﭗﭘ
ﭙ ﭺﭻ ﭼ

ﭽ ﮊ ﮋ
ﮎ ﮏ ﮐ ﮑ ﮒ ﮓ ﮔ ﮕ ﮤ
ﮥ ﯼ ﯽ ﯾ ﱞ ﱟ ﱠ ﱡ ﱢ
﴾ ﴿ ﷲ ﺀ ﺁ ﺂ ﺃ ﺄ ﺅ
ﺆ ﺇ ﺈ ﺉ ﺊ ﺋ ﺌ ﺍ ﺎ
ﺏﺐ ﺑ ﺒ ﺓ ﺔ ﺕ ﺖ ﺗ
ﺘ ﺙ ﺚ ﺛﺜ

ﺝ ﺞ ﺟ
ﺠ ﺡ ﺢ ﺣ ﺤ ﺥ ﺦ ﺧ ﺨ
ﺩﺪ ﺫ ﺬ ﺭ ﺮ ﺯ ﺰ
ﺱﺲ ﺳ ﺴ ﺵﺶ ﺷ ﺸﺹ
ﺺ ﺻ ﺼ ﺽﺾ ﺿ ﻀ ﻁ

ﻂ ﻃ
ﻄﻅ ﻆ ﻇ ﻈ ﻉﻊ ﻋ ﻌ
ﻍ ﻎ ﻏﻐ ﻑ ﻒ ﻓ ﻔ ﻕ
ﻖﻗ ﻘ ﻙ ﻚ ﻛ ﻜ ﻝﻞ
ﻟ ﻠ ﻡ ﻢ ﻣﻤ ﻥ ﻦ ﻧ
ﻨﻩ ﻪ ﻫ ﻬ ﻭ ﻮﻯ ﻰ
ﻱ ﻲ ﻳ ﻴﻵ ﻶ ﻷ ﻸﻹ
ﻺ ﻻ ﻼ

لم
ن ه و ى يً ٌ ٍ َ ُ
ِّ ْ % ٤ ٠ ١ ٢ ٣ ٥٦
٧ ٨ ٩ ﾎ 么 ﾒ _ ｬ `
ｦ _ ｶ ｼ ﾆ ♠ ♣
◄ ▬ ☻ ▬ ► ♣ ♠
Л п † ‡

█ ▌
▐ ░░▒▓
▓▒░░ ░░░▒▓
▓▒░░░

░▒▓
▓▒░ ▓▒░ ░▒▓
░░
▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄
▄▀▄▀▄▀

═ ╬ ╦ ╩ ╦
╣╝╠ ╧ ╨ ╫ ╪
╥ ╤ ╢╡╟╞ ╜

⌠⌡│┌
┐└ ┘├ ┤┬ ┴ ┼
╛╚╙╘╗╖╕╔╓╒║

╬ ╫ ╪ ╩
╨ ╧ ╦ ╥ ╤ ╣ ╢ ╡ ╠ ╟
╞ ╝ ╜ ╛ ╚ ╙ ╗ ╘ ╗ ╖
╕ ╔ ╓ ╒ ║ ═

Enjoy them!

The word “catastrophic success” holds a lot of meaning here. It means an unusual surge in traffic that can bring a website to a complete halt. You have been successful at bringing traffic to your website but it proved to be catastrophic.

This happens due to unanticipated levels of interest when thousands of users visit the website, but the webmaster is unable to cope with them. Sometimes, the service may not go down but gets so slow that it becomes non-responsive. Such problems can be overcome.

Other causes of website failure include DoS attack (denial of service), which can also cause congestion and overload; poorly configured system components and out-of-date updates and patches on web servers.

The occasional outage is understandable and happens to all, but frequent downtime can cause delays in business. As we begin relying more on Web applications, Internet uptime is becoming more critical.

But there are things you can take care of to ensure you pave a smooth superhighway to your company’s website.

Content delivery networks (CDNs)

The public internet depends on content delivery networks to handle large amounts of media on huge sites like Amazon.com. Microsoft recently launched a free CDN to improve website performance. CDNs are made to route traffic onto private networks, thus removing the burden from the public website. In the absence of a CDN, sites with massive media files will be down immediately.

Better caching

One of the best and most popular ways of dealing with internet problems is to cache data that is frequently accessed. You can use Memcache or anything else and you will find several CMS packages that support this. But you must ensure you are careful with dynamic data.

Internet caching is similar to your computer memory caching, which holds the most popular content in a cached storage on the server to provide faster access. There are tier-caching products that help cache content within the website by making sure the content from the database is available even with there is a huge surge of traffic. This is one of the ways Twitter and Facebook deal with traffic surges.

Better programming

One of the new methods of dealing with traffic is to use better programming to withstand the sudden traffic spikes. Experts say that most websites cannot withstand any unanticipated traffic due to poor programming.

Using HTML5

Your website downtime is not always related to the hardware. HTML5 and other new standards have built-in mechanisms for increasing the reliability of websites. These involve advanced programming techniques. HTML5 is considered to be an important advance in browser capabilities.

Content optimization

You can optimize your static content by compressing images in order to make use of every kilobyte, but all the while making sure the visual quality does not get affected. You can also compress the content delivered by your web server. You can optimize your content management system by reducing the number of database calls you need to make for each page request. In Drupal, this is very simply done by disabling some of the modules. It is also advisable to separate the read and write databases.

Expires

One of the most important things is to add “expires” headers to content to ensure the same files are not downloaded continually as a user browses your website.

There is certainly no guarantee that your site will never go down. You will just have to find the right balance and implement what is necessary to ensure it has a high percentage of uptime.
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1. Advertise on the internet!

There is an ocean of opportunities through internet marketing, find what works for you.

- Pay Per Click advertising (Download and read the previous document in this section “What are pay per click search engines” ) is very popular and is becoming easier to use everyday. Here are the top 2 Pay Per Click Pages that you can use to advertise your web page.

Make sure to set a budget limit so that you don’t spend more then you can afford.

• Google AdWords
• Yahoo! Search Marketing
• Microsoft adCenter

- Online News Papers. Simply search for your country/citys local news paper and call them for information if you can’t learn how to place your advert from their web page.

-Job search companies

2. Classified Ads, Traditional Phone Number Marketing, Ad your Web Address on all your flyers, advert, posters.

You can choose to have a phone number and your web address or Just the Web Address. I recommend that you do both, many people are still not using computers and we do not want our advertising miss valuable prospect.

3. Signatures, Place your web address on all of your marketing materials – including business cards, stationary, your e-mail signature, SMS signature, SKYPE, MSN, Yahoo and other chat programs signature – any way that you contact potential recruits and customers!

4. Banners, Trading banners and banner exchanges are very popular. Most banners get horrible click thorough rates. Banners at the top of a page are more effective. Additionally, it is recommended to create a banner that says “click here” and is animated. If possible, use a program that allows only one banner ad per page.

5. Ask your friends, If they want to Link to your page via their page. (ask and you will know, they might say sure why not and a link to your page will appear on their page…. Maybe even for free!

6. Bulletin Boards (Forums), If you are active on various bulletin boards, your site will become better known. Offer your service. A standard way is to always end your notes with your Web site name and URL.

7. SMS and Email, send SMS and Emails to your hot and cold market with a note for them to become interested to look up your web page.

Example:

Own a PC? Put it To Work!
Go to www.YourDomainName.com

8. Go to a Local Email Café and ask the owner, if you can have post a note on each PC or if you can change so each PC start up with your Domain Name.

9. Hang a banner from your balcony with your Domain Name and advert on it (ask the house owner first 

10. Advertise on your car, that is for free.

11. Bonus: Be Creative!!!!!

Hello TELKOM SPEEDY!

Its been (almost) 1 month, the connections were like this.

I NEED MY FAST CONNECTION BACK!!!!!!

Here are my ping result:
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=914ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=1051ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=993ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=939ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=763ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=1280ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=1386ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=772ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=936ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=627ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=881ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=923ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=990ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=746ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=819ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=1006ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=642ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=923ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=917ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=861ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=985ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=787ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=1057ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=746ms TTL=52
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=789ms TTL=52
Reply from 209.131.36.158: bytes=32 time=708ms TTL=52

Ping statistics for 209.131.36.158:
Packets: Sent = 3713, Received = 3498, Lost = 215 (5% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 275ms, Maximum = 2174ms, Average = 557ms

We have 2 ways, to get this done. You just need to choose, which way is suitable for you

Long Way:

1. Log in to your Account Manager.

2. Visit: https://certs.godaddy.com/ManageProducts.do

3. On “Manage SSL Certificates”, click on your domain name.

4. Click on “SITE SEAL” tab to manage your site seal

5. Choose “Site Seal Image Size”

6. Click on Submit button.

7. On the right side box, copy-paste the javascript provided, into your sidebar website.

8. Done.

Easy way:

1. Log in to your Account Manager.

2. Visit Manage Site Seal page: https://certs.godaddy.com/ManageSiteSeal.do

3. Choose “Site Seal Image Size”

4. Click on Submit button.

5. On the right side box, copy-paste the javascript provided, into your sidebar website.

6. Done.

It is thought the FLAG FEA, SMW4, and SMW3 lines, near the Alexandria cable station in Egypt, have all been cut.

A fault was also reported on the GO submarine cable 130km off Sicily.

Experts warned that it may be days before the fault is fixed and said the knock on effect could have serious repercussions on regional economies.

In a statement released in relation to one of the breaks, France Telecom said: “The causes of the cut, which is located in the Mediterranean between Sicily and Tunisia, on sections linking Sicily to Egypt, remain unclear.”

The French firm said it was sending a ship out to fix the line between Italy and Egypt, although it could take until 31 December to fully repair the line.

The main damage is to the four submarine cables running across the Mediterranean and through the Suez Canal.

It is thought that 65% of traffic to India was down, while services to Singapore, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Taiwan and Pakistan have also been severely affected.

Earlier this year, the same line was damaged in the same area – off the Egyptian coast – although only two lines were snapped then.

“We’ve lost three out of four lines. If the fourth cable breaks, we’re looking at a total blackout in the Middle East,” said Mr Wright.

“These three circuits account for 90% of the traffic and we’re going to see more international phone calls dropping and a huge degradation in the quality of local internet,” he added.

“Normally you would expect to see one major break per cable per year. With four you should have an insurance policy. For this to happen twice in one year, on the same cable, is a serious cause for concern.”

A selection of your comments on this story:

Over weekend 13th to 16th December had considerable delays and time-outs reaching my email server in Germany and various homepages in Switzerland and the UK. I suspected that a breakdown somewhere was at fault but was surprised to be unable to get any info from Google etc. You can check your ADSL speed easily but finding the speed of a connection from one continent to another seems to be lacking.
John Russell, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia

I began downloading something this afternoon but late this evening it suddenly became six or seven times slower. I now know why.
Max, Wallasey, UK

I teach English at a high school in Sisaket. The last few days our connections have been very, very slow. Yesterday, when I was trying to teach some students how to use Limewire to download movies and songs, the connection seemed to be nearly non-existent. We thought that maybe the wire to our building had been damaged.
Les Blane, Sisaket, Thailand

I work at a call centre. We are unable to make calls as the latency is too high which only ends up in dropping of every call that we dial and the internet speed has been downgraded like anything. I hope this gets fixed by Sunday (December 21), otherwise we will be in total blackout and will suffer in great loss of business in this high time.
Adeel Awan, Karachi, Pakistan

Yesterday’s cuts in Malta were a big hassle to all GO subscribers. One here seems to all of a sudden realise how dependent we all are on internet. At least alternative measures have been taken in Malta by GO in conjunction with another internet service provider which was not affected, and therefore today almost all Malta is back to normal – albeit with slower connections.
George Bugeja, Zebbug, Malta

Internet is very slow. I could not connect to any sites except by using a socks server I installed on one of my servers located in USA. I wonder why they do not use separated cables with separated routes? Why are the four main cables located with each other? It is just like putting all eggs in the same basket.
Walaa Waguih, Alexandria, Egypt

Currently staying in Brazil – cannot access virginmedia.com – don´t know if this has anything to do with the above.
Roger Francomb, Sao Paulo

One of my favourite sites was unavailable earlier. It’s back up, but from conversations there are still others who cannot access the site, some in the same country as the site’s servers.
Michael Harvey, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States

I had trouble with the net from earlier today which I thought had something to do with the local SP. The link gets disconnected frequently and even when you are connected it is terribly slow.
Josekutty, Doha, Qatar

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Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world’s computer user

Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer are being urged by experts to switch to a rival until a serious security flaw has been fixed.

The flaw in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer could allow criminals to take control of people’s computers and steal their passwords, internet experts say.

Microsoft urged people to be vigilant while it investigated and prepared an emergency patch to resolve it.

Internet Explorer is used by the vast majority of the world’s computer users.

It’s a shame Microsoft have not been able to fix this more quickly Darien Graham-Smith PC Pro magazine Q&A: Stay safe online

“Microsoft is continuing its investigation of public reports of attacks against a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer,” said the firm in a security advisory alert about the flaw.

Microsoft says it has detected attacks against IE 7.0 but said the “underlying vulnerability” was present in all versions of the browser.

Other browsers, such as Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Safari, are not vulnerable to the flaw Microsoft has identified.

Browser bait

“In this case, hackers found the hole before Microsoft did,” said Rick Ferguson, senior security advisor at Trend Micro. “This is never a good thing.”

As many as 10,000 websites have been compromised since the vulnerability was discovered, he said.

“What we’ve seen from the exploit so far is it stealing game passwords, but it’s inevitable that it will be adapted by criminals,” he said. “It’s just a question of modifying the payload the trojan installs.”

MICROSOFT SECURITY ADVICE Change IE security settings to high (Look under Tools/Internet Options) Switch to a Windows user account with limited rights to change a PC’s settings With IE7 or 8 on Vista turn on Protected Mode Ensure your PC is updated Keep anti-virus and anti-spyware software up to date

Said Mr Ferguson: “If users can find an alternative browser, then that’s good mitigation against the threat.”

But Microsoft counselled against taking such action.

“I cannot recommend people switch due to this one flaw,” said John Curran, head of Microsoft UK’s Windows group.

He added: “We’re trying to get this resolved as soon as possible.

“At present, this exploit only seems to affect 0.02% of internet sites,” said Mr Curran. “In terms of vulnerability, it only seems to be affecting IE7 users at the moment, but could well encompass other versions in time.”

Richard Cox, chief information officer of anti-spam body The Spamhaus Project and an expert on privacy and cyber security, echoed Trend Micro’s warning.

“It won’t be long before someone reverse engineers this exploit for more fraudulent purposes. Trend Mico’s advice [of switching to an alternative web browser] is very sensible,” he said.

This could be the moment when the minnows in the browser wars finally score a significant victory Rory Cellan-Jones BBC technology editor Read the dot.life blog in full

PC Pro magazine’s security editor, Darien Graham-Smith, said that there was a virtual arms race going on, with hackers always on the look out for new vulnerabilities.

“The message needs to get out that this malicious code can be planted on any web site, so simple careful browsing isn’t enough.”

“It’s a shame Microsoft have not been able to fix this more quickly, but letting people know about this flaw was the right thing to do. If you keep flaws like this quiet, people are put at risk without knowing it.”

“Every browser is susceptible to vulnerabilities from time to time. It’s fine to say ‘don’t use Internet Explorer’ for now, but other browsers may well find themselves in a similar situation,” he added.

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