What’s with Republic day security in Delhi and arrest of militants from Seelampur? Not that I live there, or have a particular liking to that colony, but I feel it’s too obvious for anyone to have disbelief in reports of LeT men arrested in Seelampur every year, year after year. Either the local Police Station at Seelampur is too efficient in nabbing the so called terrorist suspects, or Seelampur is not a good place to hide as other places in Delhi are. So what distinguishes the infamous locality from others, provided it’s neither too close to Pakistan or Bangladesh border nor it has caves like Tora Bora to breed terrorists, is an interesting question to think about. The arrests in Seelampur are nothing but a prime example of how reputation precedes the reputed.
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Monthly Archive for January, 2007
Following a massive cleanup of my windows server at home, I realised I had deleted few important documents. Looking through various sites to use a free download program before I stretch out to Helix, I found quite a few of them on Lifehacker. Lifehacker has reviewed several data recovery softwares in the past. As with most of the other Lifehacker reviews, the information given in each of the reviews was just perfect for me to take my pick. 
Undelete Plus is a tool that I highly recommend for any one to recover accidentally deleted files, files removed from the Recycle Bin, in a DOS window, from a network drive, from Windows Explorer with the SHIFT key held down. Another cool tool with a cool interface is Recuva from Piriform – of CCleaner fame. I recovered almost all my data in about 20 mins. Excellent !
I can never have enough USB memory drives. From 64 MB in 2003, I recently moved to 2 GB. It’s unfortunate that although small and extremely useful, none of the USB memory sticks could satisfy my hunger. While looking at some expensive and designer drives, I found gold, silver and diamond studded drives on Chinese sites, which I can never afford. And then I found these ultra cool oooms memory sticks. Made out of hand-selected fine and polished wood, these look stunning when attached to a mac.
So there is a new bloggin platform in town – Habari. And a lot of people seem to be switching to it already.
Habari relies on PHP5 with PHP Data Objects (PDO), and your choice of SQL database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite). Habari is strongly object oriented, and implements the full suite of the Atom Publishing Protocol.
I can already smell another php based WordPress and Drupal competitor. Although I have no inclination to shift to a newer platform as I am too lazy to dirty my hands customizing it, I am sure quite a few designer-bloggers will stretch Habari to the maximum.
Talking about web, after glitches with Firefox 2 on Mac, I decided to give another chance to Safari. But before I could run it for barely 4 days, I was sure that there is something fundamentally wrong with Safari, it’s page rendering and it’s lack of ability to be used as a primary browser.
So Inderjeet decides to start blogging again, and introduces me to Klassic Krispy Kreme donuts he had. Going further he decides to write about Max Brenner where I personally added quite a few pounds to my growing belly by virtue of the excellent Danish hot chocolate.
One of the finest implementation of Rainbow Table based password cracking tool, now comes with support for NTLM Hash. Beats l0phtcrack on efficiency and accuracy. The tool comes as a windows installer or a linux based liveCD.
Ophcrack is a Windows password cracker based on rainbow tables. It is a very efficient implementation of rainbow tables done by the inventors of the method. It comes with a GTK+ Graphical User Interface and runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Intel CPU) as well as on Linux.
I have been using Firefox since it’s first release, and have been a fan of the browser when it worked like a charm on my Windows. Now that I have shifted to Mac for a year or so, I feel frustrated with Firefox’s performance compared to that of Camino or Safari. It’s either that I have installed too many plugins to bring down Firefox to the knees, or its just Mozilla’s inability to create a Mac based product. So for the third time I threw out Firefox from my dock and allowed Camino and Safari to breathe there.
I am Sumeet,an information security enthusiast, crazy about Coffee, iPod, everything mac, travelling, consuming rss and eating. I work for a large consulting firm where I usually rant about security best practices.