Paper in LEET 2008

Paper got in LEET 2008 -- Finally all the data collection was appreciated.

Check out the program here

See you at San Francisco ..

What to do

when your machine in lab is pinging, but not responding to ssh, you are at home and temperature is -5 Deg outside?

Orkut Vulnerability

Worm hits orkut

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140653-c,worms/article.html

The guy seems to be just a hacker (not a cracker) did not do anything malicious .. just replicated the scrap to all your frns in the friend list and added you to the community

Infectados pelo Vírus do Orkut
http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=44001818

Amazing feat ! Javascript checking filter not proper at orkut's end

Intern Apping

Found a very nice piece of collection of intern apping mails from a professor at IIT Bombay.
One example is really funny

Heighly honourable esteemable Sirji,
I, RRRR MMMM CCCC , son of Shri LLLL PPPP CCCC, am 3rd year student of information technology at BBBB BBBB AAAA University in LLLL. I saw your webpage on internet and I like it very much.

I like to go for higher studies in Berkly in us and I like to do research in same subject as you do. Some of the fields I am intrested are Bidirectional Expansion For Keyword Search on Graph Databases, Learning to rank networked entities, and general web search. You have good experience in such fields so respected honourable sirji I thought I could do 3 month project under your expert leadership in summer 2007. I like to go for higher studies in us and also like to take your reco if you think I deserve.

I hope you give me opertunity to serve you.

yours humbly
RRRR MMMM CCCC.

ps: My Tauji work in big position in Motrola in US and if you like I can send your resume to him.


Many such others at http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~soumen/media/images/pix-apkgkah/illiterate/

Sigcomm - Japan travel

Was at Japan for sigcomm - 07. A shuttle to chicago, a 13 hr flight to tokyo, 1 hr train to tokyo central station, 2 hr 15 min bullet train (nizomi shinkansen) to kyoto and a taxi to hotel. Full pics soon.

Bros wedding

Date was July 1, 2007 - Had fun in shoe robbery case - Pics are awesome - Full album soon

Alsa troubled me again - ubuntu

hey there

Last week, mplayer and vlc started complaining about video port being blocked by another process (no clue which one).

ps -A gave a quick look at a process which got defunct (has to do with some lockup issues). Explicitly killing that process (kill -9 ) solved the video problem. The video port got free and videos were back online. But a new problem started out. Sound was gone. Alsa complained that another process is blocking the sound card. Strange !! Sound just worked a few minutes back and now its gone.

After a long time looking out for what was the problem, got on this page (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-lib/+bug/85157). Apparently the process which was killed contained the shared memory access to the sound device and it died with that. So, none of the other process got the sound card.

The solution was simple, though one among the best solutions I have seen

$ strace -o /tmp/out mplayer -ao alsa file.mp3

$ grep shmget /tmp/out

get one important line:
shmget(5678293, 384, IPC_CREAT|0660) = 48824355

$ ipcrm -M 5678293

Phew, sound was back !