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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Adeona : Laptop Thieves Beware
Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service. This means that you can install Adeona on your laptop and go — there's no need to rely on a single third party. What's more, Adeona addresses a critical privacy goal different from existing commercial offerings. It is privacy-preserving. This means that no one besides the owner (or an agent of the owner's choosing) can use Adeona to track a laptop. Unlike other systems, users of Adeona can rest assured that no one can abuse the system in order to track where they use their laptop.
Adeona is designed to use the Open Source OpenDHT distributed storage service to store location updates sent by a small software client installed on an owner's laptop. The client continually monitors the current location of the laptop, gathering information (such as IP addresses and local network topology) that can be used to identify its current location. The client then uses strong cryptographic mechanisms to not only encrypt the location data, but also ensure that the ciphertexts stored within OpenDHT are anonymous and unlinkable. At the same time, it is easy for an owner to retrieve location information.
How do you use it?
Using Adeona only requires downloading and installing a small software client. Adeona is free to use.
Why Adeona?
With the growing ubiquity of, and user reliance on, mobile computing devices (laptops, PDAs, smart phones, etc.), loss or theft of a device is increasingly likely, disruptive, and costly. Internet-based tracking systems provide a method for mitigating this risk. These tracking systems send, over the Internet, updates regarding the current location of the device to a remotely administered repository. If the device is lost or stolen, but maintains Internet connectivity and unmodified software, the tracking system can keep tabs on the current whereabouts of the device. This data could prove invaluable when the appropriate authorities attempt to recover the device.
Unfortunately, with current proprietary tracking systems users sacrifice location privacy. Indeed, even while the device is still in the rightful owner's possession, the tracking system is keeping tabs on the locations it (and its owner) visit. Even worse, with some commercial products, even outsiders (parties not affiliated with the tracking provider) can "piggy-back" on the tracking system's Internet traffic to uncover a mobile device user's private information and/or locations visited.
But if you're not as important that FBI wants to seek you out go ahead and try it ...I have too..you want to get your hands onto anyone who tries to rob you off your lappy , dont you ??
Adeona (click here to download)
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
“Cool”
Coolness in everything is time based occurrence. It is very difficult to say what is cool, more difficult than predicting earthquakes. Cool as in the appreciation or expression of being good, good NOT best. Many things can be cool, correction many antagonistic things can be cool; some at different instances of space time and some together.
Also coolness is a very endemic trait. What may be cool somewhere may be a taboo some place else. I am not talking about geographical places here, it may be any user/consumer/practitioner
group/sub-group/hypothetical set of thoughts, people or cultures.
Now, we may also reach a point where we ask what can be cool, YOU can be cool or nothing can be cool ! A “thing” can be cool or an action or mannerism (thingy) or just the absence of the same. If you can make anyone believe that it exists (other than you of course) then it can be cool or the opposite.
Depends on how you think about it. When many of us were young, imaginary friends were cool. They don't exist but still they were cool.
How to make something cool? Million dollar question half of the people working on the web 2.0/3.0 and many many more in the Hollywood will pay through their noses to know this answer. Not the answer I am sharing right now but a … hypothetical...actually true answer. The best way and the most easiest way to do this is to make others believe it is cool. This is by assumption that you can make other people believe. Many times being cool yourself (in the eyes of others) helps but being totally uncool may also help. How? …. lets see if you are totally uncool and you dont do the thing then it is not uncool , hence cool.
Many of us might be locked in an unending cycle of trying to be (make) cool. By the time we end up doing cool things they aren't cool anymore. I will not comment on this. I will just say this blog is going to be cool.
Yes I might add that, if you'd tried hard enough cant reach the “cool” state try making it “hot” or “good shit”.
Coolness in everything is time based occurrence. It is very difficult to say what is cool, more difficult than predicting earthquakes. Cool as in the appreciation or expression of being good, good NOT best. Many things can be cool, correction many antagonistic things can be cool; some at different instances of space time and some together.
Also coolness is a very endemic trait. What may be cool somewhere may be a taboo some place else. I am not talking about geographical places here, it may be any user/consumer/practitioner
group/sub-group/hypothetical set of thoughts, people or cultures.
Now, we may also reach a point where we ask what can be cool, YOU can be cool or nothing can be cool ! A “thing” can be cool or an action or mannerism (thingy) or just the absence of the same. If you can make anyone believe that it exists (other than you of course) then it can be cool or the opposite.
Depends on how you think about it. When many of us were young, imaginary friends were cool. They don't exist but still they were cool.
How to make something cool? Million dollar question half of the people working on the web 2.0/3.0 and many many more in the Hollywood will pay through their noses to know this answer. Not the answer I am sharing right now but a … hypothetical...actually true answer. The best way and the most easiest way to do this is to make others believe it is cool. This is by assumption that you can make other people believe. Many times being cool yourself (in the eyes of others) helps but being totally uncool may also help. How? …. lets see if you are totally uncool and you dont do the thing then it is not uncool , hence cool.
Many of us might be locked in an unending cycle of trying to be (make) cool. By the time we end up doing cool things they aren't cool anymore. I will not comment on this. I will just say this blog is going to be cool.
Yes I might add that, if you'd tried hard enough cant reach the “cool” state try making it “hot” or “good shit”.
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Folly In The Dark
Stepped, trampled and crushed to dust,
But would you find it unruly , unjust,
If you were to know, that it killed me too.
Folded, crumpled and torn apart,
But would you believe, that i wasn't acting smart,
If you were to know that i was befuddled too.
Burnt, depleted and turned to ash,
Should you peep around the corner and see,
The pyre, amid the scores of "me".
Askew, careening and off balance,
My lines of thought now fail to comply,
The eddies of emotions just absorb them in.
Sorry, distraut and glum, I am ;
Though it makes litttle sense or warrants pardon,
But its still a truth to behold and admonish
That i broke your heart once too many, Though
Its a Folly In The dark.
-Apurv Ray
Stepped, trampled and crushed to dust,
But would you find it unruly , unjust,
If you were to know, that it killed me too.
Folded, crumpled and torn apart,
But would you believe, that i wasn't acting smart,
If you were to know that i was befuddled too.
Burnt, depleted and turned to ash,
Should you peep around the corner and see,
The pyre, amid the scores of "me".
Askew, careening and off balance,
My lines of thought now fail to comply,
The eddies of emotions just absorb them in.
Sorry, distraut and glum, I am ;
Though it makes litttle sense or warrants pardon,
But its still a truth to behold and admonish
That i broke your heart once too many, Though
Its a Folly In The dark.
-Apurv Ray
Thursday, September 27, 2007
2 Months in SID
It hardly seems like two months now that its over but there have been times where evry hour seemed more than two years especially those wen you are forced to make 13 shades of grey with paint , something which i still maintain is better left to computers !!
I think i still have to adapt a lot to the institute, among the whassups , sups and howdies of my fellow students somewhere apurv ray of 2003 has surfaced again i wont rule that out as entirely bad but apurvrdx isnt entirely happy with it ! I need to experiment more with my surroundings particularly when i have a top of the line dell laptop with me . The more i try to escape the assignments the more they strangle me with monotony and boredom.
I have just started with Autodesk Max 9 32 bit and would like to tell you all to kee an eye on optickarma for further updates in 3d wizardry ... allthough i wont say theyll be spectacular from the begginning , you might have to look at hundreds of baic shapes before you could actually see a render equivalent to my photoshop works !
And an announcement i will be stating a podcast , when , thats a bit controversial but i can surely say it'll be soon fairly soon , atleast soon from my standards of laziness. Right now i am on a preparator mission for RGB 2007 an event organised by NID ahmedabad ... the evnts camera buff ie a short film competition ... ah i can see you guys stuck in engineering colleges getting jealous but dont worry ill give you enough of it on my forthcoming episodes of podcasts !! till that time ill give you a task lets see how many are up for it .. suggest names for my podcast , it has to be contemporary and somewhere connected to the field of design , althoughit ll be a diversified podcast not dedicated to design alone !!
lets see i think this post is large enough , next post from ahmedabdd or after coming back from it ! Tally -Ho !!
It hardly seems like two months now that its over but there have been times where evry hour seemed more than two years especially those wen you are forced to make 13 shades of grey with paint , something which i still maintain is better left to computers !!
I think i still have to adapt a lot to the institute, among the whassups , sups and howdies of my fellow students somewhere apurv ray of 2003 has surfaced again i wont rule that out as entirely bad but apurvrdx isnt entirely happy with it ! I need to experiment more with my surroundings particularly when i have a top of the line dell laptop with me . The more i try to escape the assignments the more they strangle me with monotony and boredom.
I have just started with Autodesk Max 9 32 bit and would like to tell you all to kee an eye on optickarma for further updates in 3d wizardry ... allthough i wont say theyll be spectacular from the begginning , you might have to look at hundreds of baic shapes before you could actually see a render equivalent to my photoshop works !
And an announcement i will be stating a podcast , when , thats a bit controversial but i can surely say it'll be soon fairly soon , atleast soon from my standards of laziness. Right now i am on a preparator mission for RGB 2007 an event organised by NID ahmedabad ... the evnts camera buff ie a short film competition ... ah i can see you guys stuck in engineering colleges getting jealous but dont worry ill give you enough of it on my forthcoming episodes of podcasts !! till that time ill give you a task lets see how many are up for it .. suggest names for my podcast , it has to be contemporary and somewhere connected to the field of design , althoughit ll be a diversified podcast not dedicated to design alone !!
lets see i think this post is large enough , next post from ahmedabdd or after coming back from it ! Tally -Ho !!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Scholars and their FollyI was in a foul mood when i stumbled upon the website of this competition about a couple of months back... I cant really recollect the reason why but i was pretty pissed off. Then came this barage of questions some of which seemed shamefully simple and some were abyssimally dificult. Clicking at will I completed it the first time in about 34 minutes or so ...and then i saw that i was allowed to give thrice in the next 24 hours ... I decided to try my luck and ventured into the sme co-ordinates of cyber-space ..... what came next left me speechless ..exactly the same questions with their order changed....!!!!
So this time I used the mouse as a rail gun firing off answers at break neck speed..and whoosh i completed it in less than four minutes..and that after taking half a minute for the communication latency between my pc and the server !
The next round was a bit of surprise ..although i knew this was a reality show i didnt think that they would film this round too. But that was proved wrong no sooner than i entered the registration area ... Huge placards or display boards proclaimed the sponsors as well as the Cardiff university was showcasing their finest mugshots ....lol. Of course i wasnt prepared for my first television appearance.... I was this scrawny chum with stubble growing like moss ver my face ... i wont be surprised if the eyes roll off my presence in the show.
For anything else that you might want to know ... catch the show on NDTV but i dont know when ...keep checking the comments if any ...for the dates ...!!
Saturday, April 28, 2007
I AM Back , (now dont cry please !)
First of all a heartfelt apology for being off the blogging circuit for so long , you see i was busy with the pernucopia of of options that daunt every indian teenager after his 12th standard exams and then an unforseen accident that nearly putAcromantula to a sorry state of comma or actually worse a permanent slumber. But as long as apurvrdx wants he will keep any piece of demented hardware alive (sorry acromantula that was not for you !)
So i have spanking new processor and a motherboard which i believe has a better bus architecture and thus ASUS wins over MSI ! processor is still the same old AMD 64 3000+ sheesh!!
So now onto the real deal , I am in ahmedabad !! yay (apurvrdx singles a jingle and then dances putting both justin timberlake and prabhudeva to shame!) And i am here because i got through in the NID written test (does the same thing and the ceiling starts crumbling ) okay so no more dancing !! The place is phenomenal , i mean after travelling on " 'crater'saurus " infested roads of mumbai , the roads here seem to be of an elven demeanour i mean if someone can skateboard its here !! yeahi see you getting the point and yes theres no derath of malls and all as i had miscontructed perception kept projecting. Also i mad a journey closest to an airline ravel well it was India's TGV class the Shatabdi Express and boy oh boy this was great !! But before that ill have to tell you the conspiracies of the greast indian railways to keep me away from this beautiful place !!
Lets start at 3 45 am IST i got and got ready waiting for the ricshaw wala to pick me up and till 4 o clock there was no sign of any three wheeler !!so i hastened onto my activa my mom in tow andputting the relatively small bag of mine in the front i startedtowards the railway station ,i reachedthere well in time for my 4 16 local but then the railways werent giving up that easy !!
The bloody *&^&^ local didnt budge till 4 35 and then the fucking announcement comes that this train has been cancelled and please move onto platform no 5 for he 4 38 train no w if youd know the shatabdi waves the mumbai central off at 635 and it doesnt stop at dadar !! i know thats cruel but !! thethe 4 38 trains starts crawling to wards its destination and drops me off at the dadar station at 6 04 man , i run with the luggage across the mamothbridge intermittently fumbling because of the oncoming rush and finally catch the churchgate local at 6 10 seconds before its motors roar into life!! then i reach mumbai central and literally sprint up the foot-ower-bridgeo catch shatabdi getting inside it ust 116 seconds before it departs !!
Now if thats not a journey just tell me one !!
anyways today i have a date , a date with NID , yeah ill go to the campus , check outhe dayime emperature , the exten of sunburn that is perpetuaed by this ahmedabadi sun and also checkout a fundoo icecream parlour ive heard of now thats a great plan dontcha think !!
So till the next time sayonara !! and yes the FOW you see on th railway station really means foot-over-bridge i swear !!
First of all a heartfelt apology for being off the blogging circuit for so long , you see i was busy with the pernucopia of of options that daunt every indian teenager after his 12th standard exams and then an unforseen accident that nearly putAcromantula to a sorry state of comma or actually worse a permanent slumber. But as long as apurvrdx wants he will keep any piece of demented hardware alive (sorry acromantula that was not for you !)
So i have spanking new processor and a motherboard which i believe has a better bus architecture and thus ASUS wins over MSI ! processor is still the same old AMD 64 3000+ sheesh!!
So now onto the real deal , I am in ahmedabad !! yay (apurvrdx singles a jingle and then dances putting both justin timberlake and prabhudeva to shame!) And i am here because i got through in the NID written test (does the same thing and the ceiling starts crumbling ) okay so no more dancing !! The place is phenomenal , i mean after travelling on " 'crater'saurus " infested roads of mumbai , the roads here seem to be of an elven demeanour i mean if someone can skateboard its here !! yeahi see you getting the point and yes theres no derath of malls and all as i had miscontructed perception kept projecting. Also i mad a journey closest to an airline ravel well it was India's TGV class the Shatabdi Express and boy oh boy this was great !! But before that ill have to tell you the conspiracies of the greast indian railways to keep me away from this beautiful place !!
Lets start at 3 45 am IST i got and got ready waiting for the ricshaw wala to pick me up and till 4 o clock there was no sign of any three wheeler !!so i hastened onto my activa my mom in tow andputting the relatively small bag of mine in the front i startedtowards the railway station ,i reachedthere well in time for my 4 16 local but then the railways werent giving up that easy !!
The bloody *&^&^ local didnt budge till 4 35 and then the fucking announcement comes that this train has been cancelled and please move onto platform no 5 for he 4 38 train no w if youd know the shatabdi waves the mumbai central off at 635 and it doesnt stop at dadar !! i know thats cruel but !! thethe 4 38 trains starts crawling to wards its destination and drops me off at the dadar station at 6 04 man , i run with the luggage across the mamothbridge intermittently fumbling because of the oncoming rush and finally catch the churchgate local at 6 10 seconds before its motors roar into life!! then i reach mumbai central and literally sprint up the foot-ower-bridgeo catch shatabdi getting inside it ust 116 seconds before it departs !!
Now if thats not a journey just tell me one !!
anyways today i have a date , a date with NID , yeah ill go to the campus , check outhe dayime emperature , the exten of sunburn that is perpetuaed by this ahmedabadi sun and also checkout a fundoo icecream parlour ive heard of now thats a great plan dontcha think !!
So till the next time sayonara !! and yes the FOW you see on th railway station really means foot-over-bridge i swear !!
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
If anyone in INDIA can put it more succintly !!.Yes Windows Vista is here with a bang but its gonna cost us every single penny that Microsoft has put in over the last 5 years. Personally i am not too exited about jumping on to this new software cause india will have to wait a long long time for new appsfer this OS also a vista enabled PC here costs atlest twice as much a normal PC so Vista will have to wait, by the way my PC is vista ready but the other cost that entail are way to much at this juncture so the 15000 i will have to shell out are better of in a Mutual Fund than this new (read incomplete!!) OS .
but it 'll still have the apurvrdx recommends tag for those who have the deep pockets !!
Product: Windows Vista Ultimaterdx Recommends !!
Monday, January 22, 2007
SEXING UP KBC
The first episode of KBC went on air today and i would say its not bad actually not bad at all, Shahrukh khan has it all wrapped up in his charisma and his metrosexual jittery-titteries !! His own blog says it all i mean heres a web savvy host and a snippet Shahrukh Khan was the first person in mumbai to own an internet connection at home!! picked this up from one of his interviews.
The most hilarious thing was his act of giving nicknames to the contestants So some venkatesh puttu became venky and a gugguli became guggi !! He was really pissed off him i guess cause he said he didnt like films or filmstars and then he pops out the name of George Clooney , sure a looney little contestant by the way what the fu%^ was stars selection team thinking of while taking in this hominid deprived of all entertainment in his life !! who the hell doesnt know that a red coin in the game of carrom is called a queen !! he was calling it a king !! hmmmm i think its part of an ad gimmick. What he was really trying to do was advertising his skill in gender change operations, someone give bobby darling his name please and yes whatever you wanna pronounce it please dont denounce it as GUGGI !!
I think i would see a couple of more episodes of this new avataar of KBC for amitabh bachans sake and maybe if I find it good enough ill continue fer the metrosexuals sake i meant shahrukh btw. so ciao and yes please dont give nicknames to people who dont understand what you are really doing poor little venky i mean Venkatesh Putty ;-)
The first episode of KBC went on air today and i would say its not bad actually not bad at all, Shahrukh khan has it all wrapped up in his charisma and his metrosexual jittery-titteries !! His own blog says it all i mean heres a web savvy host and a snippet Shahrukh Khan was the first person in mumbai to own an internet connection at home!! picked this up from one of his interviews.
The most hilarious thing was his act of giving nicknames to the contestants So some venkatesh puttu became venky and a gugguli became guggi !! He was really pissed off him i guess cause he said he didnt like films or filmstars and then he pops out the name of George Clooney , sure a looney little contestant by the way what the fu%^ was stars selection team thinking of while taking in this hominid deprived of all entertainment in his life !! who the hell doesnt know that a red coin in the game of carrom is called a queen !! he was calling it a king !! hmmmm i think its part of an ad gimmick. What he was really trying to do was advertising his skill in gender change operations, someone give bobby darling his name please and yes whatever you wanna pronounce it please dont denounce it as GUGGI !!
I think i would see a couple of more episodes of this new avataar of KBC for amitabh bachans sake and maybe if I find it good enough ill continue fer the metrosexuals sake i meant shahrukh btw. so ciao and yes please dont give nicknames to people who dont understand what you are really doing poor little venky i mean Venkatesh Putty ;-)
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