At the stroke of twelve we see the birth of a new-born year crying and screaming of joy.Its a time of free flowing wishes, of nascent resolutions, of new promises. For many it might just be a change of a calendar, just another day…for few others it is a new beginning, a new chapter in the book of life.Its a time where you stop every now n then then in your life to punctuate your descent through it ,as time has crawled on your wristwatch so much so to send a whole year behind.As days keep climbing the mountain of years..



May you see new sucesses with every sunrise.

May you indulge in lifes little pleasures.

May you laugh till you cry and cry only out of joy.

May your pillows know only peacful slumber.

May you love selflessly and receive plenty of love when you need it the most.

May your teeth,hair and account balance never fall

May your blood pressure, cholestrol and mortgage interest never rise.

May all your yesterdays create special memories for you.

May all your Nows be fully lived

May the path you take lead to beautiful tomorrows.

May you appreciate all the wonderful things about you and others.

May your dreams do their best to come true.

May you get the best of everything that you so well deserve.



HAPPY NEW YEAR!



The meaning of ‘Happy new year’ will come true when at the end of the year onestates,” ….and it had been a happy year”.Therefore I hereby resolve to be my best self and make this year a truly HAPPY one for me and everyone around!

My face is calm. It is peaceful. No signs of the turmoil. No indication of the storm. Raging inside me. I am angry. Very angry. Very angry.

I am beyond the questions. They have betrayed me. I want to shout. No, scream. But, I just took a resolution. I will stay calm. Yes, I will stay calm. My face is calm. It is peaceful. No signs of the turmoil. No indication of the storm. Raging inside me.

The flashbulbs will go off. Without me. The newspapers will talk. Not about me. A household name. Not me. It’s seething inside me. But I will stay calm. I need to. For their sake at least. Why should I be the gentleman. I hate them. I hate them. I hate them. Their living guts. And all you fuckers too. Fuck you all. Fuck You……

I am angry. I promised to stay calm. I am calm. Can I be calm. I’ll meet those phoneys. I’ll be calm. My face is calm. It is peaceful. No signs of the turmoil. No indication of the storm. Raging inside me.

No, not because it is a new year.

A single chat changes your mood totally. Can’t tell anything more. And yeah…

CONGRATS. :) :) :)

I’m so so so so glad now. :-)

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As 2008 comes to a end, I thought I could share this amazing video with all you people. Definitely watch it!

All details on how this video was made, another video of these images and a place to download all the footage here.

The images are creative commons licensed and available for you to download and play with.

The name says it all. Israeli energy company ‘Innowattech’ has created a new type of road that generates electricity as cars drive on it. Here’s the tech talk:

The supercharged surface is embedded with piezoelectric crystals, which transform kinetic energy from passing vehicles into an electrical current. With widespread adoption, the technology could feed energy back into the nation’s burgeoning electric vehicle grid, transforming congested roadways into a clean green source of energy.

The amount of electricity produced isn’t that much (400 kilowatts per kilometer or 645/mi), and there’s no mention on how cost effective it would be. But given the sheer amount of roadways present, it’s an interesting albeit niche approach to generate electricity.

Don’t you think technology is cool? What do you have to offer? Get over to NIT Trichy between the 12th and 15th of February and dive into the future with Pragyan ‘09!

To all you cyber techies out there! You think you’re good at hacking? Then take a look at this: hackers have completely broken SSL using 200 PS3s. A team of security researchers and academics has broken a core piece of internet technology. They made their work public at the 25th Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin today. The team was able to create a rogue certificate authority and use it to issue valid SSL certificates for any site they want. The user would have no indication that their HTTPS connection was being monitored/modified.

Ever heard of Digital Fortress? It’s a great place to put your hacking skills to the test right here at Pragyan ‘09! Click here for more details.

And, for those who want more details, read on below..





This attack is possible because of a flaw in MD5. MD5 is a hashing algorithm; each unique file has a unique hash. In 2004, a team of Chinese researchers demonstrated creating two different files that had the same MD5 hash. In 2007, another team showed theoretical attacks that took advantage of these collisions. The team focused on SSL certificates signed with MD5 for their exploit.

The first step was doing some broad scans to see what certificate authorities (CA) were issuing MD5 signed certs. They collected 30K certs from Firefox trusted CAs. 9K of them were MD5 signed. 97% of those came from RapidSSL.

Having selected their target, the team needed to generate their rogue certificate to transfer the signature to. They employed the processing power of 200 Playstation 3s to get the job done. For this task, it’s the equivalent of 8000 standard CPU cores or $20K of Amazon EC2 time. The task takes ~1-2 days to calculate. The tricky part was knowing the content of the certificate that would be issued by RapidSSL. They needed to predict two variables: the serial number and the timestamp. RapidSSL’s serial numbers were all sequential. From testing, they knew that RapidSSL would always sign six seconds after the order was acknowledged. Knowing these two facts they were able to generate a certificate in advance and then purchase the exact certificate they wanted. They’d purchase certificates to advance the serial number and then buy on the exact time they calculated.

The cert was issued to their particular domain, but since they controlled the content, they changed the flags to make themselves an intermediate certificate authority. That gave them authority to issue any certificate they wanted. All of these ‘valid’ certs were signed using SHA-1.

Another quirkiness in Revit.

Here is a simple project, with a cropped view. Two of the elevation tags are missing.

When I uncrop the view, the elevation tag show up like:

The elevation tags themselves are within the crop boundary. When I select the triangle of the elevation tag, Revit shows the elevation cut line and extent that are lying outside the crop boundary like:

Ironically, this happens irrespective of the annotation crop boundary, for eg.:

Also, if the Elevation cut plane extends beyond the annotation crop, but the no problem – Revit still shows it.

The Lesson:

The elevation tag will show as long as its cut plane cuts through the view crop boundary. (this is the same as other views) The cutline itself is not affected by the annotation crop boundary. (But the elevation tag is affected by the annotation crop boundary)

One has to move the elevation cut plane so that it passes through the view boundary to make the elevation tag visible.