Gran Paradiso : Firefox 3

Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is an early developer milestone for the next major version of Firefox that is being built on top of the next generation of Mozilla’s layout engine, Gecko 1.9. Gran Paradiso Alpha 1 is being made available for testing purposes only, and is intended for web application developers and testing community.

Gecko 1.9 Alpha 1 introduces several new features which can be tested by using Gran Paradiso Alpha 1:

• Cairo is now being used as the default graphics library, affecting all graphic and text rendering
• Cocoa Widgets are now used in OS X builds
• An updated threading model
• Changes to how DOM events are dispatched (see bug 234455)
• Changes to how <object> elements are loaded (see bug 1156)
• Changes to how web pages are painted
• New SVG elements and filters, and improved SVG specification compliance

read more at

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/3.0a1/releasenotes/

Baba Kalyani : Review (First on Net)

The story revolves around the conspiracy to conduct a massive terrorist attack in the sensitive areas of the country and as the officer of the Anti Terrorist Squad code named ‘ M 3 ‘ (no, SN Swamy was not inspired by Bond ! ), Baba Kalyani IPS (Mohan Lal) is in command of the situation and hunts down the terrorists.

Expecting another invincible police officer fighting terrorists and lots of high adrenaline pumping action.?…you are mistaken.The thrill ends with the story line, the actual implentation on the screen is a dragging movie, interspersed with a budding romance, shades of vendetta and lots of mafia (director’s fav).

SN Swamy seems to be loosing his midas touch.The downfall started with CBI 4 and continued with Balram and reached a culmination in Baba Kalyani.The story is easily predictable and lacks that tautness one usually feels in a Shaji Kailas movie.

Mohanlal has given his best and has lived upto the character given by his dir and script writer.The dialogues were blunt and lacked vigour.The movie seemed to get diverted in between and to kill time, Kailas brings up a romance and motherly love theme.Mamta,Murali,Innocent,Maniyanpilla Raju,Bindu Panicker,Vineeth all wasted in the movie.Jagathy with his unparalleled humour entertains the audience in the first half.The second half is more serious and deals with busting the terrorists.Indrajith and Saikumar came up with a note-worthy perfomance.

Rating : 5/10

Verdict : Go for the movie if you are a die hard Lalettan fan, otherwise there are better things to do.

Classmates : A Lateral Thought..

Hailed as the biggest hit in the Malayalam Film Industry and nearing its 100th day, the movie created a sort of revolution bringing the idiot box watching, ‘pirated’ (read thirrutu VCD watching !) malayalee to the box and saving the industry from a major crisis.
Let me share some thoughts that whizzed through me while watching the movie.The movie is set in the 1990-1991 period and Lal Jose has done justice to the film by placing the right ‘ time ‘ elements.Mobile phones were absent and most of the students wore mundu add to the authenticity of the movie.
But the director and the script writer did forget some very basic elements.The strangulation marks on the Prithvi’s neck should suggest a murder rather than a suicide.It was not hanging by the ceiling in which the person who commits suicide has no control after the process starts.Whereas in this case the person is alive after the so called suicide attempt which should definitely suggest a murder.Another point is the absence of the mention of choloroform in the post mortem report of Naren.The most interesting fact which left me laughing was the point when Prithvi confesses to attempting suicide to the police officer.The officer is happy over the fact that it was asuicide attempt and chides Balachandra Menon for his mentioning of possibility of a murder earlier in the film.

Definitely the citizen has the freedom to commit suicide but the officer forgot the fact that a suicide attempt is a punishable offence!.
Similar discussions at the Orkut Classmates Community:
http://www.orkut.com/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=20051765&tid=2502244184285110907&start=1

Nmap

Nmap is a powerful security scanner and getting acquainted with the usage of this software mite be your first step towards ur hacking career .

Nmap (“Network Mapper”) is a free open source utility for network exploration or security auditing. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, although it works fine against single hosts. Nmap uses raw IP packets in novel ways to determine what hosts are available on the network, what services (application name and version) those hosts are offering, what operating systems (and OS versions) they are running, what type of packet filters/firewalls are in use, and dozens of other characteristics. Nmap runs on most types of computers and both console and graphical versions are available. Nmap is free and open source (license).

read more at.. http://insecure.org/nmap/ 

Nmap featured in the Matrix Reloaded

We have all seen many movies like Hackers which pass off ridiculous 3D animated eye-candy scenes as hacking. So I was shocked to find that Trinity does it properly in The Matrix Reloaded [Under $10 at Amazon]. She whips out Nmap version 2.54BETA25, uses it to find a vulnerable SSH server, and then proceeds to exploit it using the SSH1 CRC32 exploit from 2001. Shame on them for being vulnerable (timing notes). Congratulations to everyone who has helped make Nmap successful! And thanks to Jason Algol, Titney, Thorsten Delbrouck, and others for sending pics! Click them for higher-res or see more pics here.

The Complete Trojan List

Many were requesting for this article…

the complete list with the port numbers :