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…

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!

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!

Hello everybody… long time no se… no no.. i wasn’t @ Rodrigues… i was just somewhere.. trying to figure out something.. So Today’s blog is a bout something very very paradoxal.. and a sign of HOPE might we say? The Mauritius B#$%^& Corporation is turning into the Mauritius Broadcasting Cooperation! Yes! Are you thinking that I’ve gone crazy? Last month, there were a lot of big FOOTBALL fixtures… and none were available for Mauritians on the National Channel.(except for some unknown Team from some unknown League.  {© Tushal} )And i criticized them a lot. Coz indeed.. They surely deserved it..

For the past two weeks.. I noticed that more than 5 matches were broadcasted live (4 of them featured Man UTD and Liverpool).

So Dude! I Don’t care if u produce super crappy and boring Shows like Sega Hungama and say its a super hit… i don’t care if the presentation of you sports review of the week talks like he’s presenting  “avis de deces” , I don’t care if ur gna continue with the JTN everyday(Journal Televiser de Navin), and i really dent care if your new meteo presenter doesn’t have a proper French accent!!!

You give me GOOD football to watch! That’s all there is to it!

Yeah Yeah.. i know there maybe a lot of you people who might disagree with me..   But that’s ok… And i HOPE THAT this trend will continue and maintained during the Champions League in February! Keep it up!

Your views, and reviews.. below!

PS: If any guy responsible of the MBC website is reading this, your website doesn’t work well with Chrome. Perhaps u should fix that.

Ladies And Gentlemen, Presenting, only on S4ndeep.WordPress.com, pre-match analysis of The Clash of the Month : Man UTD v/s Chelsea

This result of this match will have great impact on the big 4! (Liverpool, Chelsea, Man U, Aston Villa). This is an opportunity for the red devils and the blues to get closer to the leader, and its as well an opportunity for the kop to get further from both!

Stats from the past 23 Matches played :

Chelsea 5 – 0 Man Utd (Premiership: 03-10-1999)

Man Utd 3 – 2 Chelsea (Premiership: 24-04-2000)

Chelsea 2 – 0 Man Utd (FA Community Shield: 13-08-2000)

Man Utd 3 – 3 Chelsea (Premiership: 23-09-2000)

Chelsea 1 – 1 Man Utd (Premiership: 10-02-2001)

Man Utd 0 – 3 Chelsea (Premiership: 01-12-2001)

Chelsea 0 – 3 Man Utd (Premiership: 20-04-2002)

Chelsea 2 – 2 Man Utd (Premiership: 23-08-2002)

Man Utd 1 – 0 Chelsea (League Cup: 17-12-2002)

Man Utd 2 – 1 Chelsea (Premiership: 18-01-2003)

Chelsea 1 – 0 Man Utd (Premiership: 30-11-2003)

Man Utd 1 – 1 Chelsea (Premiership: 08-05-2004)

Chelsea 0-0 Man Utd (League Cup: 12-01-2005)

Man Utd 1-2 Chelsea (League Cup: 26-01-2005)

Man Utd 1-3 Chelsea (Premiership: 10-05-2005)

Man Utd 1-0 Chelsea (Premiership: 06-11-2005)

Chelsea 3-0 Man Utd (Premiership: 29-04-2006)

Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea (English Premier: 26-11-2006)

Chelsea 0-0 Man Utd (English Premier: 09-05-2007)

Chelsea 1-0 Man Utd (English FA Cup: 19-05-2007)

Man Utd 2-0 Chelsea (English Premier: 23-09-2007)

Chelsea 2-1 Man Utd (English Premier: 26-04-2008)

Man Utd 1-1 Chelsea (European Cup: 21-05-2008)

Summary :

Man U – 6 Wins

Chelsea – 9 Wins

8 Draws

As you all know football is not played on paper.. its played on that green thing out there in front of you and I (the pitch). And whatever History says, a football match is played in the pitch and is not over until the referee blows the final Whistle. A Dream Fixture in the Theatre Of dreams. A Match not to Be missed at any cost!

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Now lets praise our Dear National Television Channel a bit.

When was the last time you had the chance to watch a nice football match on TV? Any idea? oh… maybe it was the Champions League final! and after that?? u don’t remember ? right? That’s our Dear Channel! The Hype themselves so much! and still.. shit!

Whenever there’s a big fixture coming up, they get so silent about football.. it feels like they don’t want the populations to know there a big match of football upcoming. They say nothing about it! Not just that. Several times I’ve noticed, after the match they don’t even show the goals and match review, they just say, the score, and they are finished with you!

There was a time when such fixtures were being played, you’d sit with your dad, uncles and cousin! All of them dressed up in their respective teams T-shirt(or same color T-shirt). And with a little “Gajack” spend some family time together! But nowadays if you want to spend such family times, you HAVE TO GET satellite channels.(except if you are a Celtic FC fan) But not everybody can afford that. Can they?

I agree that the cost of these matches are so high, but then, they should not make long speeches and hype themselves! DAMN!! MAURITIANS DONT WANT TO SEE CELTIC FC Matches!!! WE WANT MAN U! LFC! CFC!! even sunderland will do.. not some unknown clod from an unknown league with unknown player! I hope they do understand why we watch football one day.

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So Lets com back to our calm state.

What is your Prognostic!?

 

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Match is Scheduled on Sunday 11 Jan @ 16.00GMT

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Crazy Xmas? Xmas Mubarak? Xmas Abhinandan! (did u notice u can rewrite xmas as Xams!!)

Everybody.. please excuse me today… this post is totally crap.. and by reading it.. you will not attain any higher goals in your life.. niether will you  learn something good, noble,decent out of it. Yet, you will want to read it.. simply because.. uhh.. even i dont know why. Well then… I asked santa.. dear santa.. santa(did u notice you can rewrite santa like SATAN).. yeah so.. dear santa.. merry cristmas to you and your family. I hope that you are all well and you are aware of the global recession. Please stay home and let us save money. Be original santa. Give gifts.. gifts are call gifts when they are recieved without having to pay for them. anyways….

For my xmas.. i want.. a new PC. with the following specs:

Essential:

Processor : PentAMD R8. Audi Inside.

Memory : 650 Decibels

Hard Drive : Permofix 350GB

Additional :

Pacific Lan card

Samsung Mouse +  Mitsubishi Keyboard (Made in Mitsubishi)

Dolby Dgital 9.12 Head Phone

mTML Internet connection of 5.2 Megapixel

Softwares :

Google Vistapple 1995

Fifa Warhead

Happiness Office Suite

Buggy Debugger 2.0

Kubuntu Live 3.0

Moodle Maps

No… i am not drunk… hmm… ok..  mayB just a little…….   i hope that… Mr Satan.. uhh.. santa.. fullfill my dreams.. 

Message to everybody! Happy Divali.. and for santa’s sake!

Choose : Either you Drink  or you Drive.

Dont do both. its like.. like.. uhh..   its like wen u drink and drive.. you see.. you should not do both..

Rock on…. im off… muah.. 

Hello everybody! Its with great pleasure that i announce that s4ndeep.wordpress.com has reached 10000+ views/hits! though i’m still a petit poucet amongst all the great Mauritian Bloggers out there, I hope to go far and consider this “stat” at a first step. thank you all for reading my articles.

Its been exactly 112 days since this blog was created.

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