Party time.

Changing face of party. Lighting by 420ex in slave mode and LED flashlight.

Sony is feeling the heat amid winter chill

It's been a while that Sony BMG was busted for their sniffing technology impregneted in some of the best selling music CDs. It was first made to the public almost a month ago and since then the company was slammed over and over again by privacy consious user groups. The evil program, called rootkit is well known for its evasive behaviour. There is not many means to detect it from windows environment other than a few programs like chkrootkit. More on rootkit can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit . As part of my Dell laptop, rootkit came preinstalled in my PC as a security feature an dthankfully enough it was documented in the manual.
Even more funnier fact is Sony's use of Open Source technology to implement DRM. Researchers found at least 5 functionalities in Sony's rootkit technology, already a part of LAME, an OpenSource product (ref:- http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5960222.html). It will be interesting to see how Sony is going to defend the rising lawsuits in several different states in future. At the same time, it will be a good lesson for music industry who are typically getting an upperhand in tracking down and closing P2P softwares like Napstar and Kazaa.

Healthy Weight:- here is the standard.

How much do you think reasonable? Check out the title link. Sad or funny? Stupidity? or negligence? Whatever.

Toilet

I was at Chicago last October to meet my lincolnian friends. Went to Devon as it is a must do for Indians visiting the windy city. Unfortunately, I had to go to restroom and I found something quite amazing. "lota" in US! Look at the right bottom part of the photo, next to poo station. Not to mention it was quite filthy, probably my second worst toilet experience here, just next to a rural gas station in Nebraska.

Things moving so slow today

Yaw! today is the first day after marathon vacation of last week. So far, th eday is quite slow. Quite a few folks at work still at vacation. Jeff is not around. Superwomen Marianna is there, but she is kinda quite today. It's a good day for me though. Got some 2gm of a target compound, which was actually teh result of 2 weeks effort. Gee! orgchem sux at times.

Rupa at work 

Rup Ki Rani 

So here is she!

Ehhe! cute huh!

Physics Dept, RKMV. The dept looks the same.

sarswati Puja, RKMV