Did she fire the crypto ?

well, now Jul

Why Iphone ought to fail in India

The Apple Iphone is all set for launch in India. Steve Jobs’ Apple has been quite successful in retaining the hype about its flagship gadget.

Personally I’ve been a part of it, and a victim of the hype. Been using the Apple iPhone for the last 4 months, has quite disgruntled me for depending on the device.

1. 8 GBs is useless- You can’t save anything while browsing the internet on the iPhone. the WiFi works cool, surfing is great . But since we don’t have internet all around in India, iPhone users won’t be happy . There is no provision for downloading mp3s, or the cool jpeg you might have stumbled upon the web.

2. Worst speaker sound-  iPhone will disappoint anyone except those who don’t mind earphones plugged into their ears all the time . Even the ringtones are not audible properly. It seems Apple wanted users to keep it all the time in pockets with Vibration on, or you’ll miss the call. Don’t know what vested interest did Apple Co. had in this.

The net sound output from Iphone speakers is less than that of any phone I’ve ever used. I admit, the sound quality is great while using the Apple earphones, but you won’t even notice the song playing if you’re sitting in a room with fan on, or a local bus. Even the basic Nokia/Erricson models have 10x times better sound.

3. Itunes, you make me cry- You can’t download a song on iPhone if you don’t have iTunes installed, nice blackmail Jobs. I remember how easy it was to download songs on the Nokia phones, Plug it, detects as a PenDrive, and copy anything you won’t. Well sad to say the cute Apple Iphone doesn’t get detected by the computer that way. Install the bloatware Itunes, Sync it. Moreover, the previous library of songs will vanish if you’re syncing from a new machine

4. Camera Struggles- Just plain 2 megapixel camera. added features: NO ZOOM IN, NO video, POOR motion IMAGE QUALITY

5. Unstable OS: Well this one is controversial. I have upgraded from jailbroken 1.0.2 to 1.1.4 . Some days back i woke up to see my whole good 500 contacts phonebook disappeared. The only number stored was my own. Why doesn’t the Apple remove its propietry owenership from the Mac OSX phone ver like Android. There are developers around the world who can solve problems, that Apple can’t.

We all know Apple Iphone has Multi-touch, Sensors, and a solid appeal and market hype. Before shelling out the hard earned money, consider what the iPhone can’t do: no video shooting, no zoom in/out in camera, no 3gp, no call recording, no built-in MMS, hardly anything without Itunes. If you’re using GPRS, the iPhone won’t let you save your KBs, no feature to turn off images or disable plugins while surfing. So a gamle uncumber for those who using high cost prepaid data plans.

More coming up. hacking the iphone, adding Network Scanners to it

In dilemma!

Its unclear: to do what you “can do” , or do what you you “want to do”. Most of us will choose the second one for the fret of the reason.

Its been to days since my landing in Delhi. The GIS course has started at the IIT campus. Bhat sir was teaching well, i wanted to continue. But something confusing me still. There’s a nokia user research internship going of which i was assigned a web-dev cum photographer position. 

The multitouch project really excites me… I want to add networking capabilities to the same, and make something I have thought of The Image Processing lectures by Bhat sir would have added a lot of knowledge base required to accomplish it. On the contrary, The internship would give me the extra buck required to get me the royal enfield i am looking for . and the confusion comes when I find myself unable to prioritize between the two .

adios

zwanderer

I love phpBB, but love’s got bugs :)

phpbb is one of the most commonly used bullentin board CMSs around. With a large community and support they’ve build a very scalable and nice installation that can get a board running in 10 minutes ( you should have done the homework though ).

Though even the securest servers are cracked, and SVNs are poisoned with injections. i happed to find overflow that can send a phpbb board run in tizzy.

We take a lot for granted. A post coming from “xyz” id is meant to be posted by the maker of that id. Imagine if someone takes on another preexisting identity and starts posting. The Board will lose all integrity and faith that its users have. It will become a complete havoc, a mayhem.

Recently, I was surfing my board as a guest user and I happened to discover a nice cross-site bug. On trying it several times, i discovered it was working for my board. Just then I popped in another popular Delhi college’s forum URL and alas it worked there too.

I am writing a full disclosure report on that

Till i am in Delhi,

Anirudh

the namesake

Its my last day today before hols here in Rajasthan before holidays. I have a vivid set of tasks to be completed.

1. Go IISc Bangalore and wrap up the incomplete work at Intel IRIS antispam project. Hoping to create something like Akismet which’s guarding the blog right now

2. Multitouch is something that excites me, Iphone was good but the 3 touch limit leaves a lot to crave. Grabbing a Philips SP900n camera will solve the problem. My 6 year old cousin can then make the MT shoebox table for me then damn its so easy.

3. Nmap and OSSIM brushup for Google SoC.

4. A lot of beer with Bhasma and Physicsmonk in Delhi

Bon voyage me!

“zwanderer”

aka Anirudh Sharma

My dreams have changed

The post is non-technical one and full of myself ! comes a long time after a month long Google SoC sessions.

My dreams are changing. naa! Earlier they used to be about unfulfilled wishes of a dead mind. Somethings I used to find myself wandering inside trysts of Silcon Valley, or breaking into the securest Unix servers, other times modding my computer monitor to receive transmits from the extra terrestrial and displaying them as we see in the movies . Pretty puerile . eh!

Today I finished up with my semester exams. On a general note , almost all were bad and I am expecting about 2 supplementaries this time too. Anyway I am not talking my exam experience here.

The last time, I remember I saw myself juxtaposed to life’s serious worries . Getting an employment, being able to achieve the personal nirvana. All the fears came oozing out slowly and steadily through my dreams. Which makes me a somnambulist (kidding !).. I saw my mother die, myself drowning in a sea of tarcoal and still reaching out for my Ipod so that nothing bad enters it.

This is fear, I interpret. Fear of failure.

I fail a lot, in exams, in something the system demands and ego doesn’t. This part of failure had began the day I failed to respond back to my dear dad’s emototrauma, I came here- purposeless. Just for the sake of it.

Either I could have been a fish in the open waters, devouring or getting devoured. Nothing in between. Now it is more like a dog who might be wishing to rumshack and bite his master, but cannot since if he does so he will not be given his bread. My first year was full of scorch ridden agony due to random thoughts overpowering me.

Around 650 days have passed I am carrying this tag. And I don’t think I will lose it before my secret goal is reached

I am going to Kote gate now, I think some roadside walk and random photography with beer will be a great idea.