I give priority to becoming a web-content author over making a blog for myself. That is the way I think! To me, that means posting over the Internet regularly, be it my blog or another.

So when I am not blogging at Techarraz, you can find me at these blogs:

Techie Buzz

Techie Buzz is an Indian startup, a tech blog with a readers base well over 5000 and a group of authors writing on topics ranging from Linux to Gadgets, Cellphones, Windows hacks and tweaks, Software and awesome Web-apps to dirty cheap deals and breaking news.

Techie-Buzz has been accepted as an official Google News source and is also a part of the reputed 9 Rules network. Techie Buzz has featured on TuxRadar, Techmeme and  Huffington post. Need I say more?

At Techie Buzz, I am one of the Linux authors. You can see my posts at techie-buzz via this link:

Chinmoy Kanjilal’s Posts on Techie Buzz

Do not forget to visit Techie Buzz.com

Lostintech

Lostintechnology is a tech blog with experienced authors from the blogosphere. Lostintechnology specializes in software and web-services and brings you the best that is out there. At Lostintech, you will see a good number of detailed posts on everything you need to know about a software.

I write about software and web-services at Lostintech. you can see my posts at Lostintech via this link:

Chinmoy Kanjilal’s Posts on Lostintechnology

Do not forget to visit lostintechnology.com

Well, things have really started getting better, but  there is a wide lack of communication in this regard. The news of recession hit the media like a lightening in the night, waking them all up, making every household in every village of India aware of at least what recession is. That did enough to exaggerate the ever present fear, our villages have in anything to do with computers.

India is a place where people are far too afraid to go out of the line and think out of the box. For those who know the scope and the possibilities can achieve a lot being a part of the IT industry,  can exploit it to their fullest advantage. But for the greater part of the general Indian public, the IT industry is still seen as confined to those counted five IT companies who recruit freshers in huge numbers.

That negligence is the precise reason why parents in India are discouraging their children from selecting Computer Science as a career option. Instead, they are making their children opt for core branches. That sure is funny because the Americans think otherwise.

The enrollment in Computer Science in American Universities has seen the first rise of it’s kind since 2002 which is rated at around 6.6%. According to US students, computing is a prospective area in this slowdown of economic growth. Not only this, Computer Science has seen the highest rise in enrollment amongst all other mainstream courses offered across US Universities. The data has been aggregated by a non-profit organization named  Computer Research Organization.

The Department of Labor in the  US has predicted that the IT industry will be the fastest to recover from the crisis, and the demand for application programmers will double next year, with the number of IT staffs increasing by a third. So, Indian parents, stop panicking, become more aware, follow the US market and stop watching cheap Hindi news channels.

Starting yesterday, SMIT,the  advertised as ‘peaceful’ college, has turned into a playground of possibly political power, communal violence and total dismay.

My involvement in the matter although was minimal, I did enough to make sure I am not the silent sufferer. Our country’s corruption and political incorrectness has survived too long on the very sole hope of this silent suffering of the common man. But, I want to make sure that everyone who is reading this knows that this generation is not just a fun loving ignorant bunch of spoilt brats. When the need arrives, we can unite our voices and forces. The facts stated here are true to the best of my knowledge, and some of them, I have witnessed in live. If supplied with amply, information will be added as provided.

It all started from a simple matter which could have been settled easily and simply, had the guilty ones kept their ego at bay and acted wisely, i.e. accepted guilt. As we all know, in these situations, rumors spread wilder than fire, and this case is no exception. But of all the facts I could aggregate, the chronology of events (I have maintained the order, tried my best to state the time) stands as given below:

• [ 06-09-09, 1315 hrs ] The events fired up with Diwas, probably a local student invited Ujjwal, a non-local into a one on one fight over a trivial football match, in his hostel room. On the same day, Anand Prakash was reportedly hit in the face by Kunga Bhutia when he was rudely asked to return a ball which went out of ground and Anand refused.
• [ 06-09-09 ] Diwas, once again driven by utter hatred and a clouded judgement called in Kunga, who’s history of involvements in fights goes back to before he came into this college.
• Kunga, who initially joined NIT Durgpur, by possible political influences, was actually rusticated from there due to his pugnacious nature. From there, he found immediate shelter at SMIT, with possible political aid, [Edit : Initially stated, "his mother being the education minister of the state" : The statement is not true. My apologies to all readers and those involved. ] , by the virtue of which, he gets to keep a motorbike, whereas any form of personal transportation is strictly prohibited to be kept by the college students.
• [ 07-09-09, sometime afternoon ] Kunga comes in, ready with his henchmen from outside the college and atleast 50 of them, who have been involved in numerous brawls with him, rough up Ujjwal, Gautam, Chandan and Jitendar and beat them up to the extent of them needing immediate medical attention. Surprisingly here, Gautam and Chandan were called in by the hostel attendant, Mr. Prakash, who had called them saying the hostel superintendant wanted to talk to them.
• [ 07-09-09, evening ] The four report to Kamal Thakur, our hostel superintendent who has a long infamous history in the college.
• Kamal Thakur, instead of calling any form of medical aid, thinks it wiser to call the police. Which is more valuable? Getting medical aid to students or getting the innocent into jail?
• Seeing the inaccurate judgement of Kamal Thakur and the college administration in the matter, the students call in an ambulance on their own. The ambulance arrives before the police, even though being called after them.
• The injured are being taken out of the college campus, but the guards deny them passage, when Kunga and group arrives for a second time, pull the injured out of the ambulance van, and assault them in open, in front of the guards. Not only this, they bring the four to Kamal Thakur’s office, assaulting them all the way, beat them up in front of Kamal Thakur, the Chief Hostel Warden Mr. G.C. Mishra and Mr. Amitava Ray, who resorts to acquiescence. What are these dummy posts for? They can only happily burst into our rooms to cut off LAN wires? what now?
• Students start gathering in front of the educational wing, and start a peace protest. Police comes in, takes the beaten ups into custody, so being the police we know of! Some peaceful people demand their release stating their innocence; get an immediate lathi-charge. What is the college’s response to this?
• [ 08-09-09 around 2400hrs ]Kunga is called to a disciplinary meeting, he arrives after already have beaten up an Assamese and threatening a senior MCA student of life. According to the threatened student, Kunga was carrying a potentially lethal weapon and put it to the senior’s throat while threatening him, clearly showing his disregard of human life and making his point of being powerful. The Assamese student, my classmate, was severely injured in the arm, which was hit probably by a rod. He reports to have seen knuckles and bar rods with Kunga and group. Kunga walks away midway in the meeting, gestures a middle finger to all the peace protesters and the teachers.
• [ 08-09-09 around 2400hrs ] The gathering gets bigger; students start a peace protest to get their innocent friends back. They hold ground all night occupying the roads in front of the educational wings. Teachers arrive occasionally to enjoy the show and stand there making a mockery of themselves.
• [ 08-09-09 between 2400hrs  and 0200 hrs] Police search the local mob, finds knives and other lethal weapons in numbers. Many college students reported to have seen waiters from nearby restaurants and eateries entering the college from above fences armed with kitchen knives and other sharp weapons.
• Demands put by student:

1. Release of the innocent students.
2. Rustication of Kunga from the college.

• Police arrives in full force. 3 Police jeeps and 1 RAF jeep is stationed. The injured four are denied any medical treatment, neither any contact. Doctors are arranged by students and sent to the injured.
• [ 0300 hrs ] Another RAF jeep arrives.
• [ Sometime later ] Amar Akshat volunteers to initiate talks with the police, but to no avail. In the meanwhile, police releases one of the injured, with ample threats from the SP (of destroying the four’s careers with some charge-sheet framing them of severe accusations). The student, obviously putting career before anything else, requests the mob to disperse. The mob co-operates. He also puts the demand that the four will be released only if the crowd is dispersed, which is seconded by the college Director. All promises eventually turn out to be fake. There is no release of students.
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• [ 08-09-09 0900 hrs ] After sometime, the peace protest seeing the turn of events, and feeling cheated by the Director turns into a violent mob. They take to arms and decide to fight for their justice.
• [ 08-09-09 1000 hrs to 1400 hrs ]They make three failed attempts to reach the local crowd which stands behind the police, with full protection from them. In the meanwhile, the news media which was initially disallowed entrance into the college, was allowed in to report all but the violent crowd of the non-local group, bringing shame to our college. As, all this continues, some locals form small guerrilla groups and attack people at random, possibly from the other hostel door.
• In the brawl and the tension that follows, police throws 3 tear gas cans, makes ruthless lathi-charge and protects the local populace all the way. [ Edit : There have been reports of locals getting lathi-charge from the police as well. The news reached me this late due to lack of communication from the other side. My source for this information is the news media and comments. ]
• [1600 hrs] Rain starts, mob gets thinner. People disperse as rain gets heavier. The innocent people are released. Just after we disperse, the RAF personnel get into the block where the first years stay and assault them mercilessly without any proper evidence or charges, let alone reason. It was a situation of total chaos. The police and armed forces could do no better than attack the innocent yet again and again.[ EDIT : One of my friends has reported to me saying the police did NOT attack him in spite of him being in close vicinity of them and in spite of being a non-local. ]

The aftermath :

Our college has been closed down for the moment a long time till the 5th of October, some say for a period of 10 days, many unsure of the truth in the fact. The local populace at Rangpo did not even let the CRPF into Sikkim. What concerns us most is that with the police unable of guaranteeing their entry into the Sikkim, and the local mob standing right beside the armed RAF with arms, who do we appeal to for safety. The matter has gone political now as the Health Minister of Assam is reported to be visiting Sikkim regarding the security of the Assamese students in SMIT, numbering at least 800. Nitish Kumar from Bihar has talked to the CM of Sikkim regarding the same matter.

If you do not already know, our college has never allowed student unions inside of the college feeling political involvement, but today’s event has proved that we do not really need a students union to be united. All we need is a just cause. We are the next generation. We can stand against evil and once again, we won’t be the silent sufferers.

Update 1:

For previous security reasons, I could not aggregate the facts from the other side of the story. If anyone in the locals have any  information to share with me or any news you want published here, please send it to my email possibly with a photographs and your phone number. I will be more than happy to accept it. I want to state the truth and not any communal hatred as suggested from this one-sided report.

Also, if any of you feel it wise and necessary to get your view out to the public, you can post a comment. Please do not use any abusive language.

Update 2:

News channels have already started reporting on this. There have been false reports of rubber bullets being fired. Please do not post half stated facts and stories from only one half of the incident. The matter is already communal.

Update 3:

We were assured fully protected escort, which was not provided, or maybe not properly provided. We were being sent in lots, and news is, one of the first three lots were apprehended midway by the locals. Any further information is pending.

Update 4:

I am safely back home. There was no sight of police or any defensive aid from anywhere to escort us as stated everywhere. I am currently reading all threats I got in the comments everywhere.

Update 5:

Here is another report by a local student Dipesh Pradhan. This report once again, blames the administration for turning a blind eye to the matter. There is evidently a lot of fact missing in between the two reports, mine and his. But there one thing we agree on.

Read the other side of the story here : Dipesh’s Blog

Update 6:

Here is an interesting comment on this post at Voice Of Sikkim:

The reasons why Engineers fight in SMIT
1. They are here not because they want it but their parents want it
2. They are not here to understand Engineering but good placements
3. Many students want Attention and they don’t’ get it so they resort to fighting
4. The local students have big attitude problem as they are spoon fed by everybody
5. The Non Locals (Not International) have big problem as they are inefficient in all fields except Mathematics and that too Mugging up.
6. The teachers don’t’ know what they are doing……….Highly Incapable of many things
7.The administration wants money and nothing else so students from all useless categories come here to dwell
8.The management keeps on changing like Call girls
9. No body cares for the College

Update 7:

What parents had to say on the matter :
Read here : Parents on SMIT incident

Born at a brainstorming session of an application development event, it has the complete potential of going to the next level. Some of the reasons why hi.im can be the next big thing:

1. The domain, it is extremely catchy, easy to remember, small and completely relevant to the context.
2. The landing page is extremely well designed, and attractive.
3. Your homepage shows your picture, with links to your blogs and websites.
4. Besides that, you can connect your Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Digg, Youtube, Flickr, FriendFeed and other accounts to your hi.im page.
5. Your homepage also shows updates from these accounts, you visitors also get an overview of what you are doing at all of your networks, on one single page.

This web application is a must check out for all social network junkies.

Visit the hi.im homepage and register here: Hi.Im homepage.

AnalogX Dll Archiver comes to your rescue. It lets you take the backseat and do just that for your whole PC. With AnalogX Dll Archiver, you can scan and remove all unused dll files on your computer and tune up your system to a huge extent. Now, as the name suggests, when you perform a cleanup for your system, your dll files are not actually deleted but simply archived by the software. This means that you can safely replace them back if you feel that the dll is important.

The search for unused dlls is extremely fast and sized at simply 345 KB, this software is totally free and a must have applications.

Download AnalogX dll Archiver here : AnalogX dll Archiver Download

Compatibility : Compatible with all versions of windows, including Windows7.

User Scripts are so cool, you might become completely addicted to them. But this addiction pays when you are away from your PC and access the Internet from somewhere else.

But here is a way out, so instead of looking up and remembering all your Greasemonkey Userscripts, you can simply carry them around with you as ready to install Firefox extensions.

Userscript Compiler

To convert an user Script into a Firefox extension, go to the Userscript Compiler Page.

Now,  enter the javaScript code for the User Script in the field marked as User Script. Enter the other fields marked as Creator Name, Extension Homepage, Version etc..

Hit the Compile button and download the compiled addon generated from the application. Now you can share it with others and carry it with you wherever you go.

According to me, the most important one of these is the response time. An Antivirus with a good response time will have a better detection capacity and effectiveness. This time can be checked with a small method.

This is called the EICAR  test. EICAR is the European Institute For Computer Antivirus Research. At the research facility, they have devised a test string for antiviruses. The test string is :

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

All you need to do is copy the text into a file and save the file as a .com file. The file is a Windows executable and simply displays “EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!” on running. This is a perfect example of self modifying code. Your antivirus should detect it as a virus immediately.

I primarily use Avira Antivir. Otherwise, most antiviruses I tested, fared well in the response test.

Well, obviously, I gave a big no to that until I came across this amazing software which proved me wrong. A WiFi network is possible between more than two computers without a dedicated server or even any gateway, and it is fast enough to play games, share files, chat and work collaboratively. Wipeer has made it possible.

Wipeer is an amazing free software and was born as a research project at the Israel Institute of technology. Sized at only 4.4 MB, this software lets us create serverless peer to peer networks, but thats not all. The other interesting features of Wipeer are:

Connect to friends on the same network

With Wipeer, you can connect to your friends on the same network and also create your own mini localized social network.

Share files irrespective of OS

Be it windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7  Wipeer lets you share files between operating systems without any restrictions. You can share both files and folders. The indexing of shared files is fast and search for files can be performed on the whole network.

Chat when bored

Wipeer also lets you chat with friends when you are bored. Chat sessions can be private as well as in public chat rooms managed by individuals on the network.

Make friends and never lose them

Say you made a friend yesterday and want to talk to him/her again sometime. Wipeer will not let you lose your friends as you can track your friend’s presence on the network. As soon as the friend is back online, you are the first to be notified.

With all these features packed into one single application, Wipeer is a must have app at boring workplaces with pesky bosses, classrooms with blabbering teachers and at meetings where dozing off is too risky.
Wipeer hopemage : Wipeer homepage.
Download Wipeer here : Wipeer download.

Wave- Google, Microsoft and Adobe

Here is a short surf on the three waves I know of :

Google Wave

Google is one company which always comes up with ideas which stand out and are the need of the moment. A few days back, my roommate Pallab showed me the much hyped about Google Wave video. The video clearly marks the upcoming trends in web technology. For those in the dark, Google has an application in store, for live collaborative editing, sharing, authoring and editing of data and they are calling it the Wave. And the best thing is that it was based on html5, JavaScript and css – all open source scripting. That gives us an insight of the amount of power web-developers have with the new html standard. Invites are currently open, and you can sign-up for a free invite assuring you will be informed timely around the product launch.

Microsoft Wave

Yes. That is true. Microsoft has got a wave of it’s own too. But this one is different from Google Wave. This is just another typical Microsoft attempt to promote their products, but this time they did it in style and with a lot of professionalism. For one thing, the website looks quite well done. Although the objective of the website is not clear, it seems they tried to say a lot of things without revealing much! One thing is for sure, is that it is a direct copy of Google labs, where Microsoft will talk about it’s latest products to be launched and also the ones in development.

Adobe Wave

Adobe Wave is another wave feature from Adobe featuring the SaaS (Software as a Service) ideology of Cloud Computing. It creates feed style updates for a group of users. So you can place an adobe wave connect button on your website just like an RSS feed link or a twitter follow badge. The information being sent on wave is reliably delivered to the receiver even if it is not stored in any of the user accounts. Adobe wave addresses the problems of managing communities of users effectively. It will also save spamming and phising attacks. All you need is adobe wave publisher account and you are ready to go.

So finally, with so many waves around, are you surfing enough?

Just follow the following steps to do so:

• Download and extract the file : http://www.mediafire.com/file/y4wmoh4hm4j/N97 splashscreen.rar

• Put C_sys_hash_domainsrv.exe in c:/sys/hash. Rename this file to ‘domainsrv.exe’

• Put F_sys_bin_domainsrv.exe in f/sys/bin and rename it ‘domainsrv.exe’

• Reboot your phone.

• Go to c/sys/bin and rename ‘RPAutostart.exe’ to ‘0RPAutostart.exe’ (the number 0)

• Put c2z4bin_THUMB.rmp in e/patches. Apply it with autostart

• Put SplashScreen.exe in c/sys/bin

• Put SplashScreen.mif in c/resource/apps

Reboot your phone and enjoy.

Theme Authenticity Checker

Theme Authenticity Checker is a Wordpress plugin which supposedly lets you check the authenticity of a wordpress theme. It check the theme for any hidden or obfuscated external links, and any encoded links stealing away your traffic or using your web-server as a bot server. But Theme Authenticity Checker does not correct the problems.

Now the good question is what to do with a vulnerability?

Well, to start with you can contact the theme author for details of the link. Otherwise, Theme Authenticity Checker also directs you to the Wordpress Theme Editor, with the file opened.

For more information on TAC visit : TAC homepage

Html Help

HelpSmith has an interface pretty similar to the Microsoft Visual Studio, and has an excellent integration with Microsoft Html Help. You can give it a try here.

Some special reasons for you to use the software are :

1. Creation of chm, html and pdf documents from the project is possible.
2. The text-area is a Unicode text field with support for user templates.
3. The IDE has an inbuilt support for styling documents.
4. The IDE has support for including advanced videos and images.

With all these features, the software is a masterpiece of work. You can also try out the software before buying it. There is a 30-days trial period.

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To try/buy/download HelpSmith Visit : Here.
For more information on HelpSmith Visit : Here.

Faster Firefox

• To start with Firefox has improved the JavaSript rendering in Firefox 3.6.  Andreas Gal, the developer of the TraceMonkey JavaScript rendering engine, which came out in Firefox 3.5 has claimed that there are new improvements in TraceMonkey, which makes the new it upto 15% faster, and this is just an alpha! So by the time the RC comes out, we will be in for a much faster Firefox.
• Firefox has also improved many of it’s CSS features. Besides, it has also included the CSS gradient feature. With this new feature, the background can be given a multi-colour gradient in a few easy steps. This new feature makes use of an html5 property. Otherwise, the gradient feature was implemented in WebKit an year ago.
• The new release is also said to have improved focusing and scrolling performance. Rumors are that multiprocessing of tabs is also being tested to be included in the nearest release possible.
• More new features include tab previews when you switch tabs with ctrl+tab, and improved startup time.

With all these teasers queued up and Firefox downloads crossing a billion, we can expect a lot out of this free Open Source Software.

For download of the 3.6 Alpha, visit here.

Offisync

The application is available for download as a beta release.

Offisync, uses Microsoft Office as the front-end, accessible and usable by the client as a desktop software with Google services like Google docs, and Google search as back-end to run the network synchronization. This, gives the software it’s power of usage. The application has made embedding documents, networking, transferring files and collaborative editing of documents, a matter of fun.

Documents can be saved on both your PC, and on Google docs. It supports options for save, open and delete right from the desktop Office Interface.

This makes it a proper cloud application in every concept of it. Try it out at : Offisync Homepage