Archive for the ‘Security’ Category
Independence Day
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 15, 2009
Yesterday, our forfathers fought against the evil british empire..
Today..we have to fight against the evil corrupted system that they have left behind..
The battle isent over…
Happy Independence Day, India..
Swine flue in Pune, India, some reasons and questions
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 12, 2009
Everything is justified.
However, India is more prone to any kind of epidemics because of the inherent unclean habits the common people have.
Add to it the careless attitude of people who actually are supposed to work on complex issues. The recent epidemic wouldent have had been so grave if the airport authorities would have done a [...]
A sneek peek
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 4, 2009
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Thats the first preview of India Force Linux Desktop. Stay Tuned…
Here it comes..
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 6, 2009
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6 years ago, I had my first ever tryst with Linux. One step towards the goal. Coming here was a task I dont want to remember. Still, I will reach to the top.
Here comes Agneya. The first release from India Force Linux.
Happy Birthday Google..
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 27, 2008
- In: Future| General| India| Mass Communication| Media| Orkut| Python| Security| Technology| Yahoo!
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Google completes its 10 years, 28 September 1998 – 28 September 2008..
Starting from what was called as ‘Dont be Evil’, Google today is the world’s largest database holding tonnes of secrets about people, their habbits, their thinking, their culture et al..
In the first 10 years, Google has introduced several user oriented web softwares that helped [...]
Shivraj Patil, a height of political incompetence
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 16, 2008
Breaking News – Sunday 30 Nov 2008 12:15 pm
After an eventful 3 days of Mumbai attacks, the bastard Sivraj Patil has finally decided to resign form the post of Union Home Minister.
Son of a bitch..!!
Update on 28/11/2008
1. NSG commondos has surrounded Nariman House.
2, The Oberoi and Taj skirmish still continues, a blast is reported..
3. USA [...]
Tips for Safe Chatting
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 21, 2008
- In: AJAX| General| Globalization| Google| India| Mass Communication| Media| Orkut| Security| Technology| USA| Yahoo!| web 2.0
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Don’t chat about things that could enable a stranger to locate you. That includes your last name, the name of your school or workplace, the city you live in, and where you hang out.
Protect your info. Don’t put identifiable information in your user profile, including photos. What’s uploaded to the Internet can be downloaded and [...]
TRAI okays net telephony in India
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 18, 2008
The Telecom regulator in India, TRAI on Monday allowed ISPs to offer unrestricted internet telephony services, a move that will further boost competition in the domestic long distance segment and lower STD tariffs.
“It is envisaged that customers will ultimately benefit from cost effective and innovative internet telephony service.
These recommendations will put Indian telecom sector in [...]
Beijing Olympics 2008 kicks off
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 8, 2008
The Beijing Olympics 2008 ceremony has kicked off and officially, for next 20 days, we are going to see an exciting series of old records broken, new records being set. Top leaders from almost 80 countries are visiting Beijing for this extravaganza. Here’s a joke thats being passed here in India.
Dubya, the George Bush Jr, [...]
How to write a kludgy news crawler in Python and challenge Google News to its limits
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 17, 2008
- In: FSF| Future| GNU| Google| Humour| India| Linux| Mass Communication| Media| Programming| Python| Security| Technology| USA| Yahoo!| web 2.0
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A kludge (or, alternatively, kluge) is a clumsy or inelegant solution to a problem or difficulty. In engineering, a kludge is a workaround, typically using unrelated parts cobbled together. Especially in computer programs, a kludge is often used to fix an unanticipated problem in an earlier kludge; this is essentially a kind of cruft.
I was [...]
Good Grief
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 22, 2008
This heartbreak hangover has continued for fairly long time, I mean its more then a week I havent been able to pick my spirits up. In one point of view, everything appears as a dead end, especially in this fast globalized ultramodern age, with so much technology and gadgets around, who would bother to wait [...]
Liberate Tibet from China
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 23, 2008
Chinese government is crushing the freedom of Tibetians and there are chances that more Tibetians are suffering from Chinese atrocities. I support the Tibetians in their quest for Freedom.
Let there be a free Tibet..
Shame and Sadeness!
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: August 20, 2007
Today the Sanjay Dutt was released on bail…A criminal got out without any major hitch…the politicos backed a criminal Sanjay Dutt, like …Its a very shameful and sade day of Indian Judicial System…The pain of 1993 Mumbai Bomb blast victims is increased..What a humanless and poor example..!!
All Hails to the pathetic dogs..!!!
320 GB of terrorism – Exploring a terrorists hard disk
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: July 10, 2007
Appearances are deceiving. A meek looking and soft spoken individual turned out be an ace terrorist in the making, can one believe this fact easily? Nope..
Todays paper had a news that explored the 320 GB ‘terrorist’ hard disk. The detailed stats are,
1. The disk contained well over 12000 files,
2. 5000 e-mails,
3. Videos of Osama bin [...]
A practical approach for blocking Orkut and saving trouble
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: June 12, 2007
From the past few days theIndian media is in all sorts of frenzy, displaying the news and reports telling that Indian government has instructed CERT India to ‘ban’ Orkut access primarily because,
1. Indian authorities believe that Orkut allowes creation of flame communities that pack enough ammunation to set cities on fire and a punch [...]
The secret behind Bob Woolmers untimely death
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: March 22, 2007
On 18 March 2007 (the day after Pakistan’s unexpected defeat to Ireland) Bob Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston, Jamaica. He was taken to the nearby University Hospital but it was later confirmed that he had died.
It was a bizzaire news for the most, but there are some very secret motives [...]
Police planning to ban Orkut in India
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: February 22, 2007
According to media reports, the Pune police is in full swing to ban Orkut, the Google owned digital social networking tool following its controversial communities and its probable role in anti social activities.
To a certain extent, I feel that there is a ‘real’ need in maintaining Orkut. Given its liberal policies, a madman can create [...]
Google provided email ids to spammers – The reality behind the closed doors.
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: February 13, 2007
- In: Google| India| Linux| Management| Mass Communication| Pune| Security| Technology| Ubuntu
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I got this mail a few hours ago.
hi there,
i believe we are in the same boat.
this is in regard to the mail i received from deepta from google and i understand u folks too have got the same. this was on 25th of Jan. later on 26th of Jan, once again i received a mail [...]
How do we rise above racism towards respect and tolerance in society?
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 24, 2007
Political movements in certain parts of the world openly expound racist ideas. The dissemination of racist ideas is tolerated in the name of freedom of expression. The Internet is misused to propagate racial hatred. Globalization, which has so much potential to spread prosperity, can also result in economic disparity, cultural homogenization and marginalization of certain [...]
1 year of blogging
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 19, 2007
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Gosh..Its my blogs 1st birthday today. Happy birthday little blog.
100 things we didn’t know last year(2006)
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: January 5, 2007
- In: General| Globalization| Humour| India| Mass Communication| Media| Security| Technology| USA| web 2.0
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This is the (unexhaustive) list of 100 things that most of us ignored or didnt notice in 2006.Depends
1. Pele has always hated his nickname, which he says sounds like “baby-talk in Portuguese”.
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2. There are 200 million blogs which are no longer being updated, say technology analysts.
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3. Urban birds have developed a short, [...]
AppArmor
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: December 13, 2006
- In: Linux| Security| Ubuntu
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I am tempted to use this distro..has got more sleek graphical features as compared to ubuntu, and also has got AppArmor
AppArmor is an application security tool designed to provide an easy-to-use security framework for applications. AppArmor proactively protects the operating system and applications from external or internal threats, even zero-day attacks, by enforcing good behavior [...]
An overview of free and open software(part 1)
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 21, 2006
I support and use GNU/Linux kernel and open source software mainly due to following factors.
1. Its free. Nothing can beat that.
2. Its stable and seldomly crashes. Memory management is more efficient.
3.Most of the documentation is available for free either online or offline.
4. It has got great desktops and allows one to fully customize the environment [...]
Google Co-op Search Engine
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: November 3, 2006
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I think I am a little late on this topic,but anyway…
This is my new Google Co-op Search Engine over here.
Feel free to experiment, but note that it dosent index thousand/million/billion pages. However, it does incorporate nice links and good content for technology/food/linux/Web 2.0 fans and users. And following Googles method, its currently in beta.
Direct [...]
Google Code Search
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: October 7, 2006
- In: Freedom| Future| GNU| General| Google| Linux| Mass Communication| Media| Security| Technology| Yahoo!
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It really seems that Google is on fire. It has definately taken search engine’s utility to a new level. Google Labs has got a new beta tool in its arsenal – ‘Google Code Search‘.
Developed by Russ Cox Google Code crawler gives programmers a single place to search publicly accessible source code. It includes:
Support for [...]
The future of Google and conventional computing(beta version 0.01)
Posted by: Harshad Joshi on: September 27, 2006
- In: Broadband| Finance| Freedom| Future| GNU| Google| India| Linux| Mass Communication| Media| Security| Technology| USA| web 2.0
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Today I had a nice closer look at . Infact, I must say that it is a nice product, definately a good competition to its paid and bloated counterpart MS Word.
Going by current product releases by Google, it seems that now the paradigm is slowly but surely shifting from offline, desktop based apps to online, [...]
Zen Haiku
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Google News
- Telangana: Shutdown in Andhra Pradesh, 102 legislators quit - Economic Times
- What's it like to win the Nobel Peace Prize? - BBC News
- MEA uses Headley to renew pressure on Pak - Economic Times
- Nations seek climate financing for poor countries - The Associated Press
- Clamour for new states - Express Buzz
- Cops violate human rights the most, says SHRC chief - Times of India
- US investigating how five of its men landed in Pakistan - Times of India
- US rules out mediation on Kashmir - Times of India
- Tendulkar panel claims every third Indian is poor - IBNLive.com
- NDFB faction triggers two blasts in Assam - Economic Times
GigaOm
- Quintura Says Google Infringes Search Interface Patent
- Why Mozilla’s Deal With Google Gets Ever Shakier
- How Apple’s New Music Strategy Reflects a Paradigm Shift
- Skype Beta Calls on Symbian Phones
- How AT&T May Limit Your Mobile Data
- Yahoo Adds Tweets to Search, But Not in Real Time
- 4G in the U.S.: Tale of the Tape
- Copenhagen: Google Launches Forest Monitoring Tool
- The Small Cable Co. Squeeze
- Coming Soon to Your HD Home Theater…7Gbps
Slashdot
- Russia Confirms Failed Missile Launch Caused Norway's Light Show
- DRBD To Be Included In Linux Kernel 2.6.33
- "Universal Jigsaw Puzzle" Hits Stores In Japan
- Anticipated Closure of BitTorrent Sites Spurs Panic Downloads In China
- Best Way To Clear Your Name Online?
- USPTO Asking For Ideas To Enhance Patent Quality
- Fast Wi-Fi's Slow Road To Standardization
- FTC Says Virtual Worlds Bad For Minors
- Quebec Data Center Built In a Silo
- Microsoft Finally Open Sources Windows 7 Tool
Yahoo! Answers
- [ Motorcycles ] Open Question : would 100lbs make a big difference in a cars performance?
- [ China ] Open Question : How much religious persecution is there in China?
- [ Country ] Open Question : Flatt and Scruggs question?
- [ Chemistry ] Open Question : How hard is Anatomy................?
- [ Law Enforcement & Police ] Open Question : if two kids had underage sex and one was 13 and the other was 14 would they go to jail?
- [ Singles & Dating ] Open Question : Easiest way to move on?
- [ Korea ] Open Question : Anti English Spectrum issues in Korea?
- [ Horoscopes ] Open Question : How big is his penis (Based on birth chart)?
- [ Diet & Fitness ] Open Question : Why haven't I lost weight?
- [ Polls & Surveys ] Open Question : Shawty wanna thug...?
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