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Dear all,

This blog is moved to my domain eNamaskar.

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Thanks for supporting this blog - all along...

Anil Kurnool

ICICI Online Banking Security Breach...

Take a look at the image...

Even a novice can say on which AppServer the online banking portal of ICICI is running...

Any perverted geek, who knows any security loop hole in the AppServer (Pramati) can cause the entire portal unsafe....

Seems, we Indians are too technie to leave things as they are...

PS: I blacked out my employer's name... least it causes embarrased moment to them

Beware of Master, the dog is ok...

Once I had a pet dog (or should I call him a street dog, that used to come to my place for food?).

It was always around in the compound of my place and ran away the moment he saw a visitor.

One day, it happened that a theif tried coming into the house after jumping the gate, during early hours of the day. He (the dog) barked and woke me up. The theif took a stick and hit him, but he (doggie) stood its ground and continued to bark. When I rushed out with a stick in my hand, that the dog ran away - thinking that I too wanted to hit him, but I went with the stick outside only to hit that theif. The fellow ran away the way he came from, by jumping the gate.

The next day when I told my friends about the incident, they promptly put a board saying "Beware of Master, the dog is ok".

Strange are the ways of life...

"Bumper Offer" Telugu Movie :: "Bogus Offer"

The thing is, our elder have said it correctly – 'Never judge a book by its cover' and similarly today we can amend it to suit the cine-goers – 'Never watch a movie, based on the banner or a hit song'.

In last few days, every radio channel played that "Ravanamma" song ad nasuem. The song is about the plight of jobless software folks due to the recession. Except for that song, there is nothing new in the film.

I watched the movie in Ameerpet's Big Cinema, which was crowded by many software folks – esp there to see the movie. As the banner is "Vaishno Academy", the expectations were very high.

Few minutes after the "Ravanamma" song, the movie becomes a déjà vu. After a while, you can start telling dialogues too, as if you are the writer. 

My take:

If you have more money to spend and time to waste, go to that movie. For the serious folks, wait till it is on the TV.

 

Question to Puri Jagannath:

           When can we expect you to give your style of movies at your standards?

Forget the great things – were you drunk when you agreed to produce this movie and when you wrote this dumb story.

 

Cigarette

Cigarette: Fire at one end, with fool at the other.

Cigarette: Burns at one end, with bitch at the other.

:-)

AP floods

In the context of floods in A.P. there are few points that strike our apathy. (Our = Govt. of AP/India or what is generally called the "system").

 

1. When CWC executives went to Kurnool collector on Thursday (Oct-1), why did he not act on the information immediately?
2. When on Friday (2-Oct) 6 choppers were sent to resuce, 4 were grounded in Kurnool - due to lack of adequate fuel!!! Who sent half-baked choppers?
3. The Sunkesala dam(?) got washed away - what happened to the crores of money spent in "maintenance"?
4. The iron chains used to lift the dam-doors of Srisailam broke. Again where is the money?
5. The first rescue worker to reach the locations were - Sai (Baba) Seva Samithi, not any Army/Police/Administrative personnel!
6. A local MLA who fancies a title Maha-Data (great donar) was no where to be seen/heard. The first one to rush to Jagannatha Katta (a local hillock) for safety.

We (as in "our" defined above) are ill equipped to handle disasters.

 

"Our" system is built only for happy-day scenarios, no DR sites provided, no proper "testing" done to the system to handle failures, fault tolerance. 

 

Your Truly's notes are based on the accounts of rescue operators and his own experiance of being a volunteer as a help-line operator for the flood victims. (The cries for help still ring in ears.)

 

The rescue operations are currently in full swing, but it is not enough. Like a candle against Sun light. The workers are less, as the area is unapproachable and can only be approached by air.

 

The Acron : MUD, not MAD

http://acorn.nationalinterest.in/2009/08/31/mud-not-mad/

 

IMHO - we need not worry about any nuclear attacks.... assume one N-warhead would kill one million and Pak drops 100 warheads... we are still left with 90 odd crore hungry stomachs.

 

Like the Chinese, who gave one rifle to 5 soldiers, during Sino-India war of 1962 - we are way ahead for any gun/bomb to annihilate us. 

 

Even then, our spineless PM would offer "evidence" to Zardari, that the N-bombs are from Pak.

 

Media conveniently forgot about the Nov-11 attacks and may be they will set up a night-long candle vigil at the border this year on Nov-11.