What Will Die? Me or My Memories?

Another old poem from me. I written it about 2 years ago and if I remember correctly… I posted it on 2Wapworld (3rd may 2009). Written it in sad mood. Here I am posting it with little editing.

What will die when i am dead?
Will it be me or my memories which you have in your mind?

After death of me which one will be precious for you?
Me or memories of me?

What will die?
Me or my physical existence?

Is death of me means non existence of me?
Is all the bad-good of me will die with me?

What is death??
Does it mean end of me???

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Picture copyrights: Debbie Gonville Miller

Secret war against Iran's nuclear program

Came across another interesting article about  Iran’s nuclear program and ongoing secret war to prevent Iran from getting nuclear bomb. Published in haaretz website today, writer is Yossi Melman. When world is watching things every development very closely  there is already secret war going on. 

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Article title + Link: The war against Iran's nuclear program has already arrived

Author: Yossi Melman

Copyrights: Haaretz.com

Benjamin Netanyahu and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad / Photo: Alon Gaash

 

Explosions, deadly computer viruses and other sorts of 'accidents' - someone is targeting Iran's nuclear project: either the Western intelligence agencies, internal opposition groups, or both.

   

The war is under way, though no one declared it and no one will confirm it. This is the secret war against Iran's nuclear project. It did not start this week or last month. It has been under way for years, but only faint echoes have reached the public.

In June 2010, the press reported that the computer system operating the uranium enrichment centrifuges at Natanz had been infected with a virus. A deadly worm, known as Stuxnet, had infiltrated the controllers, manufactured by Siemens.

Two weeks ago, a huge blast ripped through a Revolutionary Guards military base 40 kilometers west of Tehran. The explosion could be heard as far away as the capital. Dozens of people were killed, including the head of Iran's missile development project, General Hassan Tehrani Moqaddam. This week, there was a powerful explosion in Isfahan, Iran's third-largest city, which has a uranium conversion plant on its outskirts. It is not yet clear what was damaged in the blast.

These incidents involved three key elements of Iran's nuclear program. The first is uranium conversion (which comes after the mineral has been mined), the second is enrichment, and the third is the delivery means.

Coupled with other incidents, including the assassination of several Iranian nuclear scientists, these events have worried the ayatollahs' regime, causing reactions ranging from embarrassment to anger. The public response usually follows a pattern: first a sweeping denial, then a limp and stuttering admission that "something happened," and finally the claim that it was an "accident." This shows that the regime does not know exactly what to say, and that its voice is not uniform. It also reflects the fierce dispute within the regime's top ranks. The leadership is divided, and the reactions come from a range of ministries, rival organizations and competing media outlets.

The kind of sabotage used in Iran requires sophistication, financial and technological resources, agents and precise intelligence. Someone, for example, had to know that General Moqaddam would be at the base that day to supervise a test, apparently of a new missile engine.

Infecting the computers required access to them: A person with a flash drive had to have plugged it into the system. The prevailing assumption is that foreign intelligence agencies are initiating, managing and executing the secret operations.

The Iranians, and international media outlets, believe these operations are the work of Israel's Mossad and possibly also a Western partner such as the CIA or Britain's MI6.

The Mossad's campaign to assassinate the Black September members behind the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre was code-named "Wrath of God." This week, when asked whether God had carried out the recent operations in Iran, former Mossad head Meir Dagan smilingly said yes. Dagan is known to be an ardent supporter of secret operations, as he told Yedioth Ahronoth explicitly this week. He believes it will be at least two years until Iran can assemble a functioning nuclear weapon. This assessment may be based on past secret operations and on Dagan's faith that future actions can indeed disrupt Iran's progress.

A senior American official went even farther. President Barack Obama's special assistant and coordinator for arms control and weapons of mass destruction, proliferation and terrorism, Gary Samore, said in May 2011, "I'm glad to hear they are having troubles with their centrifuge machines, and the U.S. and its allies are doing everything we can to make it more complicated." Do we need any clearer statement that humans are behind the "hand of God"?

Even if the Mossad or the CIA are not involved in these incidents, the speculation that they are serves Western intelligence bodies by enhancing their image as "omnipotent," and heightening the Iranian leadership's fear. This is known as psychological warfare.

Still, with all due respect for Western intelligence's great efforts - including what is probably unprecedented operational coordination - it is unlikely these operations could have succeeded without inside support, meaning from individuals or groups ready to help sabotage the ayatollahs' regime. It should be remembered that Iran is a mosaic of ethnic minorities, and almost all have reasons for disliking the regime; some have their own underground armed militias.

The theory about inside-help gains traction given that, in addition to the military targets, other sites - including oil facilities, gas pipelines, trains and military bases - were also damaged over the past year. Last year there was a considerable increase, of at least 10 percent, in "breakdowns" and "accidents" at Iran's strategic infrastructure sites. Some were caused by poor maintenance, due in part to the international sanctions, but the volume of these incidents may also indicate the "hand of God" was involved. If this is the case, then it's possible that internal Iranian opposition groups (as opposed to exiles) are stronger and even better organized than generally thought.

It is almost certain that Tehran's patience is about to run out. This was evidenced by the student mob's "conquest" of the British embassy this week. This was not spontaneous rage: It was a warning from a regime that realizes someone has declared war on it without leaving marks or fingerprints.

Sooner or later, the ayatollahs' regime will decide to react and will order its secret intelligence and operational units to retaliate. If and when this happens, Iran will take steps to conceal its involvement in such activities. However, past experience proves that despite the caution and sophistication of the Iranian secret services, they have often failed in obscuring their fingerprints.

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Thoughtful article in neighbor’s newspaper!!

Those who read my earlier post about The nation's editorial might think that my attitude towards Pakistan's  media is negative,  but that’s not true.

Here in this post… I posting very thoughtful and fair article of Abbas Nasir. Article is published in Dawn newspaper’s website on 26th November of this year. Writer of that article is a former editor of Dawn. Though I am not agree with all the things he said in the article but still its worthy enough to be appreciated.

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Title + Link of the article: Colour-blind accountability
Published: November 26, 2011 in Opinion section.

THE Kargil conflict was raging and I was sitting in the office when the switchboard put a call through. The call was to dramatically alter my perception of that Himalayan conflagration.

After all it was following a long internal debate that the BBC coined the phrase `Pakistan-backed forces` for the combatants. These armed men had occupied the commanding heights, enabling them to sever the strategically important Srinagar-Leh Highway as it now lay within their range of fire.

Tension was mounting as Delhi was insisting that those occupying the heights on its side of the Line of Control were infiltrating Pakistan Army regulars. Pakistan was sticking to its guns that it was Kashmiri guerrillas fighting to free their land.

Therefore, the BBC had to evolve the terminology which enabled it to refer to the conflict in a neutral manner. This was warranted anyway as the harsh terrain and the dizzying altitude meant the theatre of the conflict was inaccessible to journalists.

All we could do was to report the conflict based on the claims and counter-claims of the two parties involved. Every effort was made to diligently and clearly attribute the claims to the side making them.

Tension was mounting. The situation wasn`t helped at all by the fact that it had hardly been a year since India had carried out nuclear tests, forcing tit-for-tat nuclear explosions by Pakistan. There were fears of a possible nuclear clash. It was around this time that I received the call.

After identifying himself, the frantic caller told me he was calling from Sharjah airport, was en route to Pakistan and needed the help of BBC Urdu Service which, he had been told, had carried the news of his brother`s death in Kargil.

Within minutes, I was on the line to our Srinagar correspondent Altaf Hussain who told me the Indian army had brought some bodies from Kargil to Srinagar and showed them to the media.

The Indians wanted to reinforce their claim that it was not Kashmiri militants but Pakistan regulars fighting in Kargil to retain control of the heights they had stealthily captured in early spring after their adversaries had vacated these ahead of the last harsh winter.

Altaf described the young officer and said he`d been identified by a signed letter in his pocket ostensibly written by his sister. I called back the Sharjah mobile and gave all the details including the letter`s contents and the sender`s name.

The person at the other end went quiet but quickly recovered his composure to say: “That is most certainly my younger brother, Captain Karnal Sher Khan. My sister did tell me about the letter and no one else would have known her name.

“I will forever be grateful to you for letting us know. Our own government tells us nothing. In fact, they haven`t told us anything for several months since he first went away on this long assignment. He was last posted to the NLI (Northern Light Infantry).

“We have a right to know. Don`t get me wrong we are several brothers and each one of us will gladly give his life for Pakistan. But why doesn`t our government own its shaheeds ? They may not be proud of our brother`s sacrifice but we are. He beat us to it.”

Wouldn`t you be lost for words? I didn`t quite know how to react, what to say. In a sense, it was a relief when the call ended. This one call had confirmed to me that regulars were engaged in Kargil.

When the fallen soldier`s brother complained of being kept in the dark I obviously put it down to operational reasons. It was to emerge later that even the air force and naval chiefs were not told.

The then prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, also says he didn`t approve the operation nor was he informed. This claim is refuted by Gen Musharraf who along with a handful of his trusted generals had himself planned it and gave it the go-ahead.

The operation first hailed by some Pakistani defence analysts as “tactically brilliant”, soon turned out to be a strategic nightmare as the planners had no exit strategy especially since the scenario they had predicated it on was all wrong.

The Indians refused to talk and despite taking a heavy loss of life (said to be 3:1)* responded robustly, bringing in heavy artillery and slowly retaking some of their lost positions after cutting the supply lines, where any existed.

For its part, the international community felt Pakistan hadn`t acted as a “responsible” nuclear power should and called on it to withdraw its forces. Even China reportedly remained adamant that Islamabad was in the wrong and should pull out.

This isolation spelt disaster for the military planners who wanted to take the Indians “by the scruff of their neck” and, at the very least, secure their pullout from the Siachen Glacier.Fearful of what a spiral would mean, the US became proactive. Sharif was asked to fly to Washington. President Clinton met him on a national holiday and issued a call to `restore the Line of Control`. Pakistan was offered nothing in return.

Sharif`s July intervention may have prevented a full-blown war, even a nuclear exchange, but it was to irreparably damage his relations with his out-of-line army chief. By September, the prime minister`s brother Shahbaz was in the US successfully soliciting a statement against a military takeover.

When Capt Karnal Sher Khan`s body was being returned to Pakistan, even the Indians talked of his valour; of how the young officer on a mission impossible did the honourable thing: fight to the very end. Finally, Pakistan also extended recognition: it awarded him the Nishan-i-Haider.

But those who had sent this valiant young man and hundreds of others like him to die in a pointless conflict, shamed the nation and overthrew an elected government have not been held to account. Our khaki-colour-blind accountability process remains unmoved to this day.

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Article Copyright: 2011 DAWN.COM

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* India's official casualty figures is 527 dead and 1363 injured. Pakistan confirmed that 453 soldiers were killed. Number of people injured is at least more than 400 according to Pakistan army's website.

PAK-FA’s Painting

Good photograph, Good softwares & Little painting skills can produce nice looking digital art. Below is one example of such digital art (Painting). Though I am not satisfied with the painting but its just because I finished it in hurry and my 100% effort is lacking in the painting.

I used PAK-FA’s photograph which is taken by ‘Vladislav Hokum Perminov’ during the MAKS 2011 Airshow.  I not draw everything in details and also engines of the plan is drawn differently to make the PAK-FA looks good. Also color scheme is not same as in the photograph.

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Russian PAK-FA (T-50)  during the MAKS 2011.

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Painting of Russian PAK-FA (T-50).

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I used ‘Paint.NET v3.5.8’ for initial line drawing of PAK-FA and after that I used ‘TwistedBrush Pro Studio v17.00’ for coloring it.

What does IAEA’s new report says about Iran’s Nuclear intentions?

What does IAEA’s (International Atomic Energy Agency) new report says about Iran's nuclear program's intentions. Here is excerpts of IAEA’s report on IRAN's nuclear activities:

This report addresses developments since the last report (GOV/2011/54, 2 September 2011), as well as issues of longer standing, and, in line with the Director General’s opening remarks to the Board of Governors on 12 September 2011, contains an Annex setting out in more detail the basis for the Agency’s concerns about possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme.

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Under its Safeguards Agreement, Iran has declared to the Agency 15 nuclear facilities and nine locations outside facilities where nuclear material is customarily used (LOFs).

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Since 2002, the Agency has become increasingly concerned about the possible existence in Iran of undisclosed nuclear related activities involving military related organizations, including activities related to the development of a nuclear payload for a missile, about which the Agency has regularly received new information.

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The information indicates that Iran has carried out the following activities that are relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device:

• Efforts, some successful, to procure nuclear related and dual use equipment and materials by military related individuals and entities (Annex, Sections C.1 and C.2);
• Efforts to develop undeclared pathways for the production of nuclear material (Annex, Section C.3);
• The acquisition of nuclear weapons development information and documentation from a clandestine nuclear supply network (Annex, Section C.4); and
• Work on the development of an indigenous design of a nuclear weapon including the testing of components (Annex, Sections C.5–C.12).

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While some of the activities identified in the Annex have civilian as well as military applications, others are specific to nuclear weapons.

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The information indicates that prior to the end of 2003 the above activities took place under a structured programme. There are also indications that some activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device continued after 2003, and that some may still be ongoing.

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Contrary to the relevant resolutions of the Board of Governors and the Security Council, Iran is not implementing its Additional Protocol. The Agency will not be in a position to provide credible assurance about the absence of undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran unless and until Iran provides the necessary cooperation with the Agency, including by implementing its Additional Protocol.

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The Agency has serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme. After assessing carefully and critically the extensive information available to it, the Agency finds the information to be, overall, credible. The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device. The information also indicates that prior to the end of 2003, these activities took place under a structured programme, and that some activities may still be ongoing.

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The Agency has continued to receive, collect and evaluate information relevant to possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme. As additional information has become available to the Agency, the Agency has been able, notwithstanding Iran’s lack of engagement, to refine its analysis of possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear programme.

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According to the Agency’s assessment of the information contained in that documentation, the green salt project (identified as Project 5.13) was part of a larger project (identified as Project 5) to provide a source of uranium suitable for use in an undisclosed enrichment programme. The product of this programme would be converted into metal for use in the new warhead which was the subject of the missile re-entry vehicle studies (identified as Project 111). As of May 2008, the Agency was not in a position to demonstrate to Iran the connection between Project 5 and Project 111. However, subsequently, the Agency was shown documents which established a connection between Project 5 and Project 111, and hence a link between nuclear material and a new payload development programme.

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Under the AMAD Plan, Iran’s efforts to procure goods and services allegedly involved a number of ostensibly private companies which were able to provide cover for the real purpose of the procurements.

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In addition, throughout the entire timeline, instances of procurement and attempted procurement by individuals associated with the AMAD Plan of equipment, materials and services which, although having other civilian applications, would be useful in the development of a nuclear explosive device, have either been uncovered by the Agency itself or been made known to it.

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However, ... , information contained in the alleged studies documentation suggests that Iran was working on a project to secure a source of uranium suitable for use in an undisclosed enrichment programme, the product of which would be converted into metal for use in the new warhead which was the subject of the missile re-entry vehicle studies.

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The uranium metal document is known to have been available to the clandestine nuclear supply network that provided Iran with assistance in developing its centrifuge enrichment capability, and is also known to be part of a larger package of information which includes elements of a nuclear explosive design. A similar package of information, which surfaced in 2003, was provided by the same network to Libya.

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In an interview in 2007 with a member of the clandestine nuclear supply network, the Agency was told that Iran had been provided with nuclear explosive design information. From information provided to the Agency during that interview, the Agency is concerned that Iran may have obtained more advanced design information than the information identified in 2004 as having been provided to Libya by the nuclear supply network.

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As the conversion of HEU compounds into metal and the fabrication of HEU metal components suitable in size and quality are steps in the development of an HEU nuclear explosive device, clarification by Iran is needed in connection with the above.

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Information which the Agency has been provided by Member States, some of which the Agency has been able to examine directly, indicates that Iran has manufactured simulated nuclear explosive components using high density materials such as tungsten.

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The Agency has information provided by a Member State that Iran may have planned and undertaken preparatory experimentation which would be useful were Iran to carry out a test of a nuclear explosive device. In particular, the Agency has information that Iran has conducted a number of practical tests to see whether its EBW firing equipment would function satisfactorily over long distances between a firing point and a test device located down a deep shaft. Additionally, among the alleged studies documentation provided by that Member State, is a document, in Farsi, which relates directly to the logistics and safety arrangements that would be necessary for conducting a nuclear test. The Agency has been informed by a different Member State that these arrangements directly reflect those which have been used in nuclear tests conducted by nuclear-weapon States.

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The alleged studies documentation contains extensive information regarding work which is alleged to have been conducted by Iran during the period 2002 to 2003 under what was known as Project 111. From that information, the project appears to have consisted of a structured and comprehensive programme of engineering studies to examine how to integrate a new spherical payload into the existing payload chamber which would be mounted in the re-entry vehicle of the Shahab 3 missile.

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While the activities described as those of Project 111 may be relevant to the development of a non-nuclear payload, they are highly relevant to a nuclear weapon programme.

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Full Report can be accessed from below links:

Link 1: IAEA report on IRAN's nuclear activities, November 2011

Link 2: IAEA report on IRAN's nuclear activities, November 2011

Note: Both the links is of same report.

O mother... O mother... Let me born.

Written by me in 11th December 2008 and 1st posted at 2Wapworld where I am member of the site. Posting it here after little spell corrections.

O mother... O mother... Let me born...
Let me breathe in open air.
O mother... O mother... Let me see your face.
Let me touch your gentle hands.

O mother... O mother... Let me born...
O mother... O mother... Why you r so quiet?
Why u crying at nights?
O mother... O mother... I am scared.
Deep inside you... in darkness... i want to hear your gentle voice.

O mother... O mother... Let me born...
To make you smile again...
To make you happy again.

O mother... O mother... Let me born.

 

Picture from: http://scienceray.com

Muammar Gaddafi… Moments before he get killed.

Amateur video: Muammar Gaddafi get beaten and killed. Disturbing images, viewers discretion is advised.

All versions of the Microsoft .NET Framework

Sometimes you download a software & find that its not working in your Computer. Many times software gives an error that Microsoft .NET Framework needs to be installed or sometimes the developer of software mentions that you need Microsoft .NET Framework installed in your PC to be able to use the software.

.NET Framework creates the required software environment to provide the appropriate runtime requirements to the software. In simple terms some softwares runs only if your PC has Microsoft .NET Framework installed.

There are many .NET Framework versions available. Some are included in some Windows OS by default.

Released versions of .NET Framework is:
• .NET Framework 1.0
• .NET Framework 1.1 (pre-installed in Windows Server 2003)
• .NET Framework 2.0
• .NET Framework 3.0 (pre-installed in Windows Vista & Server 2008)
• .NET Framework 3.5 (pre-installed in Windows 7 & Server 2008 R2)
• .NET Framework 4.0

So below is the official Microsoft download links of each version of .NET Framework:
1. Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 / SP3
2. Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 / SP1
3. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x86 / SP1 / SP2
4. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 x64 / SP1 / SP2
5. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 x86
6. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 x64
7. Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 / SP1
8. Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 for x86, x64 & ia64

.NET Framework can be installed in Windows NT, 98, Me, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, Server 2008 and 7.

What Happens When Humanity Dies & Violence Erupts on Name of Religion?

While searching for some pictures on internet… I come across some of the most disturbing pictures of riots which taken place in Calcutta(India) during August 1946. All photographs is taken by Margaret Bourke-White. Each picture speaks it self about how much and what kind of violence happened before partition of India. This is What Happens When Humanity Dies & Violence Erupts on Name of Religion. 

 

~ STREETS OF CALCUTTA – August 1946:

 

~ TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM CALCUTTA – August 1946:

 

Copyrights: Time Inc. / LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Three Useful Notepad Tricks

1. TESTING ANTI-VIRUS EFFECTIVENESS:

You can test your anti virus program for its effectiveness via this Notepad trick. To check your anti-virus:

Open Notepad. Copy the code give below in the notepad file:

X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*

Save it with an .exe extension, like testvirus.exe.

Soon as you save this file, your anti virus program will detect the file (test virus) immediately and will attempt to delete it. If this happens then your Antivirus is working properly. If not, then its time for you to change your PC anti virus program.

This EICAR test file is a 16-bit application & can't be run on 64-bit versions of Windows.

My PC Anti-virus given above warning soon after creating that test file.

 

2. FLUSH DNS CACHE:

Most operating systems and DNS clients automatically cache IP Addresses & other DNS results, this is done in order to speed up subsequent requests to the same hostname. Sometimes bad results will be cached & need to be cleared from the cache in order for you to communicate with the host correctly. All major operating systems allow you to force this process. Copy the code given below in notepad:

@echo off
echo ipconfig /flushdns
ipconfig /flushdns
echo ipconfig /release
ipconfig /release
echo ipconfig /renew
ipconfig /renew

And save it as flushdns.bat.

Now click on that file whenever you need to clear DNS cache.

You can do clear DNS cache via  Command Prompt too. Just Click the Start button>  Accessories> Command Prompt> Right click on it & open it as Administrator.

Type ipconfig /flushdns in the command prompt & hit enter, It will clear DNS cache. You can flush DNS cache on computers running... Windows 2000,  Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.

 

3. CREATING PERSONAL DIARY OR A LOG-BOOK:

We can use Notepad as a simple digital diary or a personal Log-Book. Follow the below mentioned steps to make Diary or Log-Book for yourself:

Open Notepad.., Type .LOG (in capital letters) and press Enter. Save it with any name and close it. That's it... your Diary is created.

From now on... Whenever you open that Notepad file you will see the current date and time being inserted automatically after the .LOG line. This will happen automatically every time you open that notepad file. So there will be no need to manually enter date and time whenever you write something in that file.

Screen shot of the Notepad Diary which is created using above trick.

Riven by corruption, Indian police is unprepared to tackle modern terror

By: Sandeep Unnithan & Kiran Tare with Amarnath K. Menon, Bhavna Vij-Aurora & Mihir Srivastava
Published: September 16, 2011 / India Today

One week after a blast ripped through the Delhi High Court premises killing 17 people, sleuths from the National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the National Security Guard are yet to decide on the type of explosive used. Forensic laboratories in Delhi, Chandigarh and Hyderabad gave three different reports on the bomb component. The Union home ministry has now sent the reports to a fourth laboratory at Gandhinagar to 'reconcile' the findings.

Barely had the smoke cleared when the Delhi Police released sketches of suspects that were so laughably obscure that if taken seriously, could have led to the detention of large numbers of the city's adult male population. If that wasn't enough, a frenetic blame game began between the home minister and the Lt Governor, both of whom control the city police. P. Chidambaram insisted Lt Governor Tejendra Khanna had been warned of an impending attack. Khanna denied having received any warning. The NIA swung in and arrested four persons from Kishtwar, Jammu and Kashmir for sending a threatening email soon after the blast from a cybercafe. It turned out that they were schoolboys from a nearby higher secondary school. This was the scene in the capital, which got a shot in the arm with a Rs 1,350-crore police modernisation grant in 2009 ahead of the Commonwealth Games.

The situation is no different in Mumbai. In the July 13 blast that killed 26 persons, forensic teams were unable to even reconstruct the bomb because at least two agencies walked away with fragments. Both unsolved blasts have left the police groping in the dark and citizens wounded.

India's police force is in disarray. Years of accumulated neglect have resulted in a force barely able to respond to a 10.9 per cent increase in crime each decade. It is incapable of an effective response to threats like terrorism. Six bomb attacks in 18 months still remain unsolved. The 20 lakh-strong force is short of nearly 5 lakh policemen. It will take another decade to make up this shortfall. India already has among the world's worst police to public ratios. Just 128 policemen per 100,000 population (the UN mandates a minimum of 222 policemen). Yet as internal security expert Ajai Sahni points out, a manpower surge may not be enough. "Police need to transform their profile through better training, equipment, orientation and deployment."

But the police are starved of budgetary support and consequently invest little in training and even basic crime-fighting technology like facial recognition software to create police sketches. Corruption has now become so endemic that the police, the first responders, are seen as unapproachable. In fact, as the arrests in the Malegaon blast case in 2006 show, the ordinary citizen may no longer be safe. Days after the September 8, 2006, Malegaon blasts which killed 36 people, the Maharashtra Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) arrested six Muslim youths. The case changed hands from the ATS to the CBI and now finally, the NIA. The six youths have been in the Arthur Road jail for over five years without bail despite there being no evidence to convict them.

The Constitution says law and order is a state subject and states zealously guard this turf. They go to the extent of disobeying the Supreme Court which has pushed for police reforms-its landmark 2006 verdict asked states to break away from the outdated Indian Police Act of 1861 and implement a new Model Police Act. These changes include greater autonomy for the police, security from transfer raj and a police commission for merit-based appointments. In 2010, the court issued showcause notices to the worst offenders-Karnataka, Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal-who refused to implement reforms. On September 15, heads of all state police forces will converge in Delhi for a three-day annual conference. The problems are known, the solution evades implementation.

Never Ready

The Mumbai police does not have a Total Containment Vessel (TCV) a hemispherical steel container that is mandatory for bomb disposal. Here is what police will do when confronted with a bomb emergency: dial the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport to bring in their TCV. It will take them at least two hours to drive this five-tonne equipment to south Mumbai through traffic.

A corruption scandal has stalled the purchase of Mumbai police's TCV. The police paid Rs 6.5 crore for the vessel in 2008; Mumbai International Airport Ltd, the private consortium which runs the airport, bought one for Rs 4 crore. When the disparity was noticed, the state government stopped the procurement. Nobody has been held accountable. State Home Minister R.R. Patil says the Mumbai airport will loan the TCV to the police. This is not the only instance of terror preparedness being compromised by corruption. In 2010, the Mumbai police bought 12 bomb disposal suits at inflated prices. A PIL has stalled their acquisition. The suits lie in a godown in Malad.

Corupt To The Core

There is a good reason why the police are perceived to be among the most corrupt government departments. In Maharashtra, policemen comprise 23 per cent of government servants netted for bribe-taking over the past six years. Experts say the figure could well be a national average. Police corruption takes the form of extortion: bribes are taken for not enforcing the law. Policemen wield immense powers relating to the life and liberty of citizens, implement legislation relating to gambling, prostitution, dance bars, hotels, economic offences, and in some states, prohibition. They are tasked with checking activities having the potential to generate black money. Even simple measures like free registration of First Information Reports (FIR) is not adopted.

A check of the complaints register at any police station usually reveals hundreds of unregistered cases. Nobody is punished for such lapses. Law and order gets priority over crime and corruption thrives. Graft is so endemic to the force and the opportunities for retail corruption so many, that bribes are paid for recruitment. Three months ago, the Andhra Pradesh cid arrested five police sub inspectors for using impersonators to clear their recruitment test. In 2008, nearly 40 sub-inspectors morphed photographs of post-graduate students onto their hall tickets and paid each student Rs 4 lakh to write their test.

Their investment has to be quickly recovered once in the force. "Police leadership is to be blamed for its failure to check corruption. Everything takes place with their knowledge and officers know what can advance their career. There are no innovations in police working," explains Ashok Dhamija, a former ips officer-turned-lawyer. Former dgp of Maharashtra Arvind Inamdar believes levels of corruption increase with rank. Conscious of this, politicians connive to auction plum posts to share the loot. A plum post in the Mumbai police commissionerate varies between Rs 25 lakh and Rs 1.5 crore depending upon its 'importance' or potential for corruption.

Misplaced Priorities

Strangely, Rs 1.5 crore is also the figure that Maharashtra has spent on training India's second largest police force of 1.7 lakh personnel in the past decade, the least in the country. The state is short of 284 technicians in its forensic labs. It has just one forensic lab in Mumbai as against a requirement of three. The state does not even have 1,500 bulletproof jackets to meet the bare minimum of modernisation guidelines.

These are not isolated instances. Over the years, state governments have neglected the police force and diverted money meant for police modernisation. Over 90 per cent of an average state police budget is spent on paying salaries. The remainder is used to pay for running the force. There is no money left for building police accommodation, buying vehicles, weapons or radio sets. It comes from a fundamental budgetary bias: police is treated as a non-plan expenditure head or, implicitly, an expenditure that does not result in any tangible benefits for the state. States hence live on modernisation doles handed out by the home ministry. These are often grossly inadequate.

Under the megacity policing policy, the Mumbai police needed portable X-ray machines, vehicle scanners and a vehicle tracking system costing Rs 300 crore in 2008. It has got only Rs 160 crore for these from the home ministry in the past five years. When money is made available, it is not claimed. Maharashtra is yet to claim its share of Rs 223 crore, earmarked for it by the Centre this year. The excuse is that the state's proposal to spend the funds is not yet ready. A home department source blames lack of coordination between the police and the government.

Where resources are required, they are not made available. In the aftermath of the 2006 Nithari murders, the Delhi-based Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (IGIB) agreed to build a national DNA databank. Four years later, the home ministry is yet to sanction Rs 10 crore meant for the project.

The Weakest Link

The Delhi Police's 650-strong special cell, its spear-tip against terrorism, is now reduced to chasing petty criminals. The reason? Terrorists have switched to secure communication like email dead-drops and do not use cellphones. The special cell is paying a price for its excessive reliance on wiretaps. This has made the job of the lowly police constables all the more important, admit senior police offcials. "The police have no option but to strengthen their constabulary and develop human intelligence,'' says a senior police official. The reality speaks otherwise.

The police constable-the most important link in the fight against terror- is equated to an unskilled worker. Constables constitute over 85 per cent of the police force. A government clerk is treated as a skilled worker and gets overtime for each additional hour of work. A constable has no fixed working hours, works for up to 14 hours a day and takes just one holiday a month. The constabulary is given rudimentary field training in drill and physical fitness and classes on basic law. They are alloted 20 rounds per year as part of firearm training on World War II vintage .303 rifles but a policeman can go through his entire career without firing a weapon. Modern policing techniques like riot control, bomb disposal, disaster management, evacuation, fire drills and search are imparted only to special units. There is no incentive to acquire specialisation as it is not linked to promotions.

Constables have poor housing facilities and hence commute long distances to work. A bulk of Delhi Police constables travel into the city from Sonepat, Haryana, 65 km away or Alwar, Rajasthan, 150 km away. This is because only 18 per cent of the 70,000 strong police force has housing against a national police average of 22 per cent. The work pressure and acute shortage of personnel have had a severe impact on police effectiveness. A rise in police deaths owing to weapon misfires points to on-job stress, poor training and therefore, accident-prone policemen. It's a tragedy playing out as farce.

 

Copyright: 2011, India Today Group.

URL for the article: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/terror-strikes-ill-equipped-corrupt-police-force-india/1/151582.html

Another digital art from me

Another digital art from me. I used  Paint.NET(v3.5) and TwistedBrush Pro Studio(v17) for this drawing.

Photograph which i used for my painting: 

My painting based on above photograph: 

After coloring the drawing.

Today i finished coloring that drawing. I used 'TwistedBrush Pro Studio v17' to coloring the drawing (which i draw on 22 September 2011 and posted here).

Below is final version of my painting:

 

My 1st drawing on Paint.NET

Yesterday i finished my 1st serious attempt of draw something with help of  Paint.NET(v3.5) software. I used photograph to draw it and its taken about 8 hours to finished it, and result is good. Though Paint.NET is not a special software for drawing. Paint.NET is free image and photo editing software for computers that run Windows OS.

Below is the photograph which is used for my drawing:

And this is what i created from it:

I not yet decided to color it. Maybe i will do that later.

Multiple Facebook account with single email

Is it possible? Yes… it is. How?? Just read ahead.

You can make multiple Facebook account with single email address if you have a Gmail account. What you will need is a Gmail Username which have dot(.) in it. For example: james.allen@gmail.com.

Don’t know why but Gmail ignores the dot(.) position in the Gmail username. For example Even after changing dot(.) positions… Gmail treat following email usernames as same email account:

james.allen@gmail.com

jam.esallen@gmail.com

jamesall.en@gmail.com

j.amesallen@gmail.com

If you have a Gmail username with dot(.) in it than you can test it yourself by sending email to your address changing the positions of dot. I tested it my self.  

Now if you want to take advantage of this existing Gmail Bug than sign up to Facebook with your Gmail email address by changing the positions of dot(.). All those Facebook accounts will be associated with only a single Gmail account. This trick will work only till Facebook knows about this Gmail bug.

Inimical US overstay. Really??

On 16 September 2011... During my routine news reading i came across Pakistan's The Nation newspaper’s website  editorial. I always read our good ;) neighbor's news papers to understand them batter. After reading The Nation's editorial i decided to post it here with my thoughts between the lines. Below is the 16th September Editorial, i posted my views in Brackets. Hope you will enjoy reading it and don't laugh(i mean smile) between the lines. :) 

Title of the editorial: Inimical US overstay, 

Published: September 16, 2011, Home, Opinions, Inimical-US-overstay, Editorial. 

The Americans are ''reportedly''(According to Pakistani sources) busy these days trying to give a concrete shape to their ''main motive''(Motive of staying in Afghanistan-Iraq?) behind the façade(Really?) of the war on terror, in pursuit of Deputy Under Secretary of Defence Michele Flournoy’s statement about two months back that the US intended to maintain long-term presence in Afghanistan, beyond President Obama’s stated position of a pull-out by 2014. Thus, ''a plan to establish permanent military bases in Afghanistan as well as in Iraq is afoot''(Advance thinking or i should say prediction). According to a press report, this has raised Pakistan’s hackles ''because US continued stay next door would be a source of instability and ''friction in the region''(Don't expect that editor to say... Friction with Pakistan for supporting terrorism in Afghanistan) and is rightly perceived to be a ''threat to our national interests''(Interests of ISI and company. Also how can they tolerate government which is against Pakistan, Taliban & company). One should not, therefore, be surprised to see our leaders mounting a campaign to lobby regional powers like ''China, Iran and Russia to bring them on board against the US move''(Don't disturb, let editor to dream about Russian support to Pakistan). Pakistan has had, it must be recalled, ''repeated experience of US betrayal''(US not supported Pakistan against INDIA during Kargil war, they also killed laden even without consulting Pakistan etc.). 

From Afghanistan, the US intends checking the expansion of Beijing’s influence in energy-rich Central Asia – a virtually ''impossible task''(Always hopeful and positive attitude. Sometimes even chines fails to be that much hopeful-positive) on two counts. First, the sharply rising Chinese economic strength inevitably constitutes a strong mutual pull for Central Asian Republics, on the one hand, and China, on the other; and, secondly, the equally sharply declining economic might of the US would deter it from making the kind of investment in the region that a more reliable and ''friendlier neighbor could come up with''(Don't ask about chines friendship to Vietnam, japan, India etc.).  

Nevertheless, the US leaders are making desperate efforts to find some way of establishing their hegemony in the region, even if they have to ''violate their own international commitments''(Did they?) about nuclear non-proliferation. ‘’The nuclear deal with India is a case in point’’(Don't expect friendly attitude towards India). ''India is Pakistan’s sworn enemy''(What a choice of words from a news paper editor) that poses it an existential threat with intransigent attitude on Kashmir and stealth of water that legally belongs to it. In the US perception, that would cut both ways: military might backing up India’s flourishing economy would enable it to serve as a bulwark against China; and, at the same time, nullify the role that ''Pakistan, the Beijing’s best friend in the region''(No doubt about that), could play in defence of China’s interests. ''There are also systematic US moves to destabilise Pakistan, cripple it economically and socially by instigating local dissident leaders to create trouble''(According to most reliable Pakistani sources). ''From Iraq, the US wishes to protect the Israeli interests, keep a check on Iran''(Don't ask why US can't do that from Israel) and ensure the flow of Middle Eastern oil to run its economy. 

In the light of these dangers, it is but ''inevitable that the countries in the region would come round Pakistan to work against the US''(Will they?) attempt to build bases in Afghanistan and Iraq and affirm that by adopting suitable policies they can best solve the problem of militancy in the region. These countries along with Turkey and Saudi Arabia must make it clear to the US that beyond 2014 they would not tolerate its presence here, which has done ''immeasurable harm to the countries in the region''(Editor means Pakistan).

Stuxnet… Most sophisticated cyber weapon ever deployed

Today I read very interesting article on The New York Times webite. Below is some parts of that article. Hope you will like it.

Iran's Nuclear Facilities

Stuxnet is the name given to a computer worm, or malicious computer program, that began to spread in mid-2009. It may the most sophisticated cyber weapon ever deployed.

Stuxnet turned up in industrial programs around the world. But experts dissecting it soon determined that it had been precisely calibrated in a way that would send nuclear centrifuges wildly out of control, adding to suspicions that it was meant to sabotage Iran’s nuclear program.

It appears to have wiped out roughly a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges and helped delay, though not destroy, Tehran’s ability to make its first nuclear arms. After its spread, intelligence officials began to talk of setbacks in Iran's program that could delay the day it is able to produce a nuclear weapon.

Many mysteries remain, chief among them, exactly who constructed a computer worm that appears to have several authors on several continents. But the digital trail is littered with intriguing bits of evidence, many of which suggest that the virus was designed as an American-Israeli project to sabotage the Iranian program.

The worm itself now appears to have included two major components. One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control. Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart.

Stuxnet at natanz

The attacks were not fully successful: Some parts of Iran’s operations ground to a halt, while others survived, according to the reports of international nuclear inspectors. Nor is it clear the attacks are over: Some experts who have examined the code believe it contains the seeds for yet more versions and assaults.

Dimona Nuclear Facility

The Dimona complex in the Negev desert, the heavily guarded heart of Israel’s never-acknowledged nuclear arms program, became a critical testing ground in a joint American and Israeli effort to undermine Iran’s efforts to make a bomb of its own.

Behind Dimona’s barbed wire, the experts say, Israel spun nuclear centrifuges virtually identical to Iran’s at Natanz, where Iranian scientists are struggling to enrich uranium. They say Dimona tested the effectiveness of the computer worm, a critical step in honing its effectiveness.

The paternity of the worm is still in dispute, but officials from Israel have broken into wide smiles when asked whether Israel was behind the attack, or knew who was. Several obscure hints hidden deep within its code suggest a possible Israeli origin -- or an attempt to deceive investigators.

Article copyrights:  The New York Times
Pictures copyrights: Various Sources

Want to Download Windows 8 Developer Preview?

Yesterday Microsoft launched pre-beta version of Windows 8 for developers. The next version of Windows is now available to anyone who wants it. So if you want to download Windows 8 developer preview than you can download it. Read ahead for that. :)

Before you download it is important to note that this early builds is far from final and unstable. A disclaimer on the Microsoft site says, "These downloads include prerelease software that may change without notice. The software is provided as is, and you bear the risk of using it. It may not be stable, operate correctly or work the way the final version of the software will. It should not be used in a production environment."

~ Windows Developer Preview with developer tools English, 64-bit, 4.8GB: 

Download from here.

~ Windows Developer Preview English, 64-bit, 3.6GB:

Download from here.

~ Windows Developer Preview English, 32-bit, 2.8GB:

Download from here

~ System Requirements:

• 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

• 1 GB RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

• 16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

• DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

For further info go to Microsoft's developer site

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