Busy.. Busy… Busy…

Phew! I’ve never been so busy in my whole life…

• Designing Poster for Unitech 09
• Buy a domain
• Building my new Blog(migration started. but not complete)
• Setup Google services
• Preparing for grand bassin
• Migrate from wordpress
• Change Msn Address
• Doing Homeworks
• Take care of dear friends
• Sum Up my whole life in a 10 minutes presentation(Yeah, im serious)
• Eating
• Wake up late.  and miss classes.

Damn… so many things in less than 48 hours. Didnt even get time to watch LOST EP6.

And more to come, in 4 hours i will be on the road walking towards Grand-Bassin. (were leaving 11pm tonight, from port louis)

That was all about me!

ORANGE DOUBLE NUMBERS

Now the blog post you wana read.

My friend called me just now.. been long time since i didn’t talk to her. I even changed my num. So she called me on my old number(Cellplus, at that time). And, guess what, a man picked up, and start swearing at her. Yes it was my number itself. we triple checked that. Then, via another friend she traced my current number and told me what had happen, i confirmed that the number was my old number(in fact, it was my dad’s num, he gave me then.. used that 3 years +).

What did just happen???

Another person has my number????? WTF?? And it has become a private number. What’s Going on??

Well, i will call up the dude and talk nicely to him when i refill my credit. And will blog about it. Have anyone had any similar situations?? Please Advice.

Grand Bassin

Well, i will make a post-coverage of the event, with loads of pictures. I promise that. 3 Days of leg pain ahead. Luckily its raining. I hoe we wont have to endure the sun all the way.(that why we’re leaving at nigh, we’ll reach there in 8 hours, at least i will. )

Sorry for the Lack Of Pics… Im in a hurry. Bizin al rod savat. tata bye bye…

see you on monday.

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Just stumbled upon this. The pictures speak for themselves.

Our Planet Looks Cool! Doesn’t it?

Jupiter is the Lead Role in this Movie.

Sun – Guess Who’s The Sun!

(Jupiter is about 1 pixel)

(Earth is invisible in this scale)

The Sun is 1 Pixel “big”.

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Where are You in all this????

God.. tussi great ho…

HARO HARA!

Today i went to Kaylason (The big kovil in St-Croix to help friends distribute juice to those pilgrims who walk for such a long distance.

As all Mauritians know, they pierce their body with pins.. hang lemons and lots of other stuff  and walk. They inflict suffering to their physical body in order to purify themselves(correct me if i am wrong).

So i stood there.. and seriously! more than 100 of those cavadee they carry passed in front of me. so obviously i took a lot of pics! You can view the album below.

Here are some pics summarizing the event:

They have to go three times around this kovil before they can relieve themselves from their cavadee.

  

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Another Post About Cavadee in Mauritius

I was in the Communications Skills Class and it was nearly 4pm(time to end the class), and Some guys came from outside and said its class 2, the lecture ends here. Damn!! Couldnt they have come earlier?? nevertheless… the lecture was damn interesting!

So i walked in the rain… as much as i could. My friends say i am crazy.. i dragged them too.. In front of Mc Donalds, i saw a girl, she resselbled a girl that i knw , and i touched her hand.. and damn! it wasnt her!!

Came home… after an adventurous journey home…

Some questions:

When its Cyclone Warning Class 2, Schools and Uni release because Class 2 is considered as dangerous. Right? So yeah.. release the students in the dangerous weather itself! Wot an intelligent decision!! Franc Franc tou!!

(not a judgement… just lighting room for improvement..)

Outcome : All Schools and Uni’s are released simultaneously, with consequence :  MASSIVE TRAFFIC JAM!!! When i saw MASSIVE,  I MEAN MASSIVE. From rochebois to port louis. Cars are moving like snails.

And finally when i came home! The joke of the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Check this out!

Seriously?? How was this supposed to inform me while i was in class??

Its nice that the use mass mail to communicate to students.. but come’on!!

its ridiculous!

For those who come from Mars, The name of the Cyclone is Gael and its coming head on MRU. I say, come baby come..

And Miss Chaya says i cant shine… there’s cyclone.. But i guess i’l continue to shine! in ur msn contact list! Jai ho!

Episode 1 :

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Webisode 1 : Going Postal

Release Date: 14 July 08

Episode 1 – A Nifty Trick
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Episode 2 – The House Guest
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Episode 3 – Let’s Talk
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Webisode 2 : Destiny

Release Date :  10 Nov 08

Episode 1 – Let Us Pray
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Episode 2 – Intervention
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Episode 3 – Capture
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Episode 4 – Escape
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Webisode 3: The Recruit

Release Date : 15 Dec

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Episode 2 – It Was Nothing
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Episode 3 – We Do What We Have To Do
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Episode 4 – Day of Reckoning
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Episode 5 – The Truth Within
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Webisode 4 : Hard Knox

Release Date: 22 Dec

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Episode 2 – Get Straight
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Episode 3 – Fear
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Episode 4 – The Main Man Now
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What an interesting topic! I was given the task to conduct a study circle in the religious centre near my house (for those who don’t know, Study circle is just like an interactive lecture on a pre-chosen topic where everybody share their opinions and view. Including children and aged people.)

As a matter of fact, the topic is Truth & Righteousness(scheduled for next thursday). Pondering over this topic, some questions raised in my mind.

Truth and Righteousness are the Foundation for True Education

-:  Satya Sai

At First glance, do you agree with this quote? mayB yeah? mayB no?

Take a look at the following :

• Bereft of truth, righteousness, love and peace
  the value of all your education is zero;
• Bereft of truth, righteousness, love and peace
  the sanctity of all your acts of charity is zero;
• Bereft of truth, righteousness, love and peace
  the utility of the positions of power occupied is zero;
• Bereft of truth, righteousness, love and peace
  the result of all your good deeds is zero;

Bear in mind, this is not a religious lecture. Rather a Global topic. so lets continue. Met lamain lao, met lao!! met lamain dan lerein!!

(the previous line was a lame joke. I hope you guessed)

Lets get down on earth, in Mauritius. I believe its no miracle, if You follow the path of truth and righteousness, you are bound to have a super peaceful life, but i don’t think 99% of the people do it sincerely. Truth? Who never lied?? Who? You? Maybe you dont lie all the time.. but serisouly?

Righteousness?? Do every action such that you don’t hurt ANYBODY. i bet not. that’s a hard one to follow indeed. Coming back to education… Let me give you an example of how truth and righteousness is linked to education… Those who know about the Ramayana (non-hindus, don’t get scared, I’m talking English here. kip cool), There was a cool dude, Ram, and there was a Cooler dude, Rawan! Ram, was the incarnation of god, and Rawan was a super intelligent guy with 10 heads.  The only thing is, Mr Rawan used his intelligence in a wrong way and in the end got killed by god.

Lets put ourselves in this context. Recently there was a Donation collect @ UOM, for the Gaza Genocide. Some guys donated, because they had the feeling that they are helping in those victims. OTHER! donated, to impress girls around them *no offence* Is this righteousness? Yes you have helped, but, was that the intention? was that the truth? I wonder.

Obviously, i am not passsing judgement, these are just some food for thoughts..

Truth

Contradicts Righteousness???

Wondering?? mee too…  Lets take an example EVRY dude and chick will understand. It is a “famous manner”. Do not argue with elders.

What if, you are right, you speak the truth. And the elder person is not correct. Is it the RIGHT thing to do to continue argue with him/her?? What if the elder person is a stranger you met on the road?, a high profiled personality? a vandal? a common man? a sexy girl? or YOUR parent?

Would you, support the truthfulness(does this word even exist??) of your argument or just shut up or accept that you were wrong even though u know your are not? It depends on the situation? Remember , the situation here is YOU are right, and the elder person is wrong, from your point of view. I am not speaking of violence here. Just argument. War of words….

Thank you for reading.. Your comments below… Share you views..

Manchester United made history as they eased to victory against 10-man West Bromwich Albion.

United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar and his defenders made Premier League history as Sir Alex Ferguson’s side moved three points clear at the top.

The 38-year-old surpassed Chelsea stopper Petr Cech’s 2004/05 record of 925 minutes without conceding a goal and United also set a new record of 11 successive clean sheets, breaking the Blues’ record of four years ago.

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I was surfing my msn psm list… when i came across a strange psm lolling @ DDOS attack… I’ve heard of it lots of time.. but didn’t know what it was exactly.. so… i phoned Google.. and found this article.. i read it all.. and now its crystal clear.. just sharing it with all of you. credit to Mr. Larry Rogers, The Author.

What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack and What Can I Do About It?
by Larry Rogers

What is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

Have you ever tried to make a telephone call but couldn’t because all the telephone circuits were busy? This may happen on a major holiday and often happens on Mother’s Day. In fact, in the United States, telephone companies used to air commercials on television and radio that suggested you avoid peak calling times by making your calls early or late in the day.

The reason you couldn’t get through is because the telephone system is designed to handle a limited number of calls at a time. That limit was determined by weighing the cost of having all calls get through all the time with the amount of traffic the system receives. If the total number of calls is always high, it makes economic sense for the telephone company to provide more capacity to match that demand. However, if the number of calls is low compared to the holiday peaks, then the telephone company will build networks that accommodate only the lower off-peak number of callers and advise their customers to avoid peak calling times. It’s a basic matter of supply and demand.

Imagine that an intruder wanted to attack the telephone system and make the system unusable by telephone customers. How would they do this? One way would be to make call after call in an attempt to make all circuits busy. This type of attack is called a denial of service, or DoS, attack. In essence, the intruder has caused the telephone system to deny service to its customers. It is not likely that one caller working alone can tie up all telephone circuits. To do that would require making as many calls as possible from as many telephones as possible. This is called adistributed denial of service, or DDoS, attack.

Computer systems can also suffer DoS and DDoS attacks. For example, sending an extraordinary amount of electronic mail to someone could fill the computer disk where mail resides. This means that people who use the computer with the full disk cannot receive any new email until the situation changes. While this is an older style of DoS attack, it is still popular today.

In addition, intruders have turned their efforts toward denying people the services provided by networked computers. Examples of frequently attacked services are the World Wide Web¹, file sharing services and, more recently, the Domain Name Service². Because so many of our computers are connected through the Internet, attacking one of these services can have a significant impact on the whole Internet community. For example, by launching a DoS attack on a popular merchant during a high sales period, the intruder affects not only that merchant, but everyone who is then unable to buy their products.

To deny these services to prospective users of a computer service, intruders run specially written computer programs that send extraordinary volumes of Internet "calls" to one of the computers that provides that service, similar to the way that an intruder can tie up the telephone system.

When a computer answers such a call, most often there’s no one on the other end, so answering the call turned out to be a waste of time. Unfortunately, the attacked service cannot tell this in advance, so it has to answer all calls placed to it. Answering each call takes time, and there’s only so much time available. It’s the supply and demand issue all over again.

In addition, the volume of traffic may be so high that the networks connecting the attacking computers to the victim’s computer may also suffer from lower performance. Just like the telephone system and service computers, these networks cannot handle traffic beyond a certain limit. Users wanting services from computers on those networks are denied those services, too. Those networks are also considered victims of a DDoS attack.

How do intruders wage a DDoS attack against a victim’s computer?

First, they build a network of computers that will be used to produce the volume of traffic needed to deny services to computer users. We’ll call this an attack network.

To build this attack network, intruders look for computers that are poorly secured, such as those that have not been properly patched, or those with out-of-date or non-existent anti-virus software. When the intruders find such computers, they install new programs on the computers that they can remotely control to carry out the attack.

Intruders used to hand-select the computers that made up the attack network. These days, however, the process of building an attack network has been automated through self-propagating programs. These programs automatically find vulnerable computers, attack them, and then install the necessary programs. The process begins again as those newly compromised computers look for still other vulnerable computers. Once a DDoS program has been installed on a computer, that program identifies the computer as a member of the attack network. Because of this self-propagation, large attack networks can be built very quickly. A by-product of the network-building phase is yet another DDoS attack, because searching for other vulnerable computers creates significant traffic as well.

Once an attack network is built, the intruder is ready to attack the chosen victim or victims. Some information security experts believe that many attack networks currently exist and are dormant, passively waiting for the command to launch an attack against a victim’s computers. Others believe that once a victim has been identified, the attack network is built and the attack launched soon afterward.

To reduce their chances of being discovered, intruders distribute their attack across computers in different time zones, different legal jurisdictions, and with different systems administrators. Intruders also make the electronic traffic they create appear to be from a computer different from the one that actually created it. This is called IP spoofing, and it is a commonly used method to disguise where an attack is really coming from. If the source of the attack is unknown, it is difficult to stop it, giving intruders free reign with a high likelihood of successfully remaining anonymous.

The MyDoom virus is an example of building such a DDoS attack network. In this case, the attack network was built not through technological vulnerabilities but rather through operational vulnerabilities. Computer system users were coaxed into executing a malicious program that was either sent as an email attachment or as a file downloaded through a Point-To-Point network connection, effectively enrolling their computer system into the attack network. However, instead of remotely controlling the newly installed malicious program as previously described, the intruder designed it to automatically send significant amounts of traffic to www.sco.com³ on February 1, 2004 and www.microsoft.com on February 3, 2004. See Technical Cyber Security Alert TA04-028A for a detailed explanation of MyDoom. This alert also lists steps that can be taken to remove it from an infected computer system.

What can be done about DDoS attacks?

There are no short-term solutions to eliminate DDoS attacks. Today’s best practices involve making computers and networks more resilient in the face of an attack. We call this survivability.

All systems have their limits. One way to make a system more survivable is to increase these limits; the more resources there are, the better the chances are that the system will survive an increased demand for use. To increase the telephone system’s limits, the telephone company adds more circuits. For a web service, the webmaster might increase the number of connections that a web service can accept; for example, a site could add more web servers. This spreads the increased load over more computers and helps to ensure that no one computer operates too near its limit. The higher the limits of all the potentially affected systems – the network and the computers on that network – the better the chances that network will survive a DDoS attack.

You can do your part to ensure that your computers are never part of a DDoS attack network by following security best practices, such as those inHome Computer Security. Then, be alert to changes in your computer or network performance.

Ask yourself the following questions:

• Are your computers running noticeably slower than usual?
• Is your Internet connection slower than usual?
• Are the activity lights on your high-speed (cable or DSL) modem solid, or on almost all of the time?

Any of these could indicate that your computer system may be a participant in a DDoS attack network. If this happens to you, contact your Internet service provider (ISP) and follow their recommendations. Also, you should strongly consider turning off your computer system or your high speed modem. That will certainly stop the flow of DDoS traffic, though this is only a temporary solution.

If your computer system was a participant in a DDoS attack network, your system was compromised, and attack tools were installed on your computer. You’ll need to determine what the intruders did and then repair the damage. The article There IS an Intruder in My Computer – What Now?describes how to recover from an intrusion on your home computer.

Distributed denial of service attacks are a significant problem. These attacks will be with us for a while, though there is ongoing research on how to reduce them (see the More reading section below). Until then, DDoS is no (tele)phoney baloney!