Hacker or Cracker

As I can remember last Friday I was bit free from my office work and wondering what to do..?? Finally I thought to browse the net, then the next question pop up… what’s the topic..???? I tried "hacking". I wanted to read some articles about 'how to become a hacker'. My main intention was to intrude someone’s PC or a network. Google search gave some useful links and I read few articles of that. But one article catched my attention than others, that article is totaly different from the other links and I thought to add that to my blog.

I started reading the content of that article and it changed my mind about hackers (real hackers). Mostly what we call “crackers” as hackers. We think people who have excellent knowledge about programming and networking can turn into hackers. Everyday we see and hear some news about hacker attacks to many organizations and the destruction that they have caused.

How can we call them, hackers or crackers? read this http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html

1GB Kingston MMC

I purchased 1GB Kingston MMC Mobile for my new Nokia 6230i. Before I purchased, I asked from few of my friends who are using 1GB MMCs on their Nokia 6230i. Nokia does not recommend using 1GB MMCs, but as my friends said their MMCs are working without causing havoc. But unfortunately my Kingston MMC Mobile started to give me headache. These are the problems,

· Suddenly MMCs name changed to “Memory Card” (Normally it appeared as Kingston)
· Can not open any of the folders in MMC
· Size of the MMC showed as 0.0 kb
· Phone gets very slow. (Access time is long)

I thought to format the MMC and see whether it can solve these problems. :(

My new Nokia 6230i

I was dreaming to buy a nokia 6230i phone after I found many useful features of that phone. Few of my friends have nokia 6230 and nokia 6230i phones and I got the chance to explore the features and I was really fascinated by them. Then I thought to buy a nokia 6230i. Yes.. Its bit expensive, but I feel its worth. It comes with below mentioned features,

Key Features
1.3 megapixel camera
Fast file transfers with the plug and play USB port
208 x 208-pixel, 65,536 color TFT display
32 MB internal memory plus up to 512 MB removable memory (you can use 1GB MMC ;))
Email, MMS, and Instant Messaging
Animated 3D menu graphics
MP3/AAC/M4A stereo music player
XHTML browser also shows many HTML pages
Comfortably compact, classic design
Bluetooth wireless technology
Push to talk over cellular
Visual Radio - interact with what you hear

If you are interested to have a glance of nokia features visit http://www.europe.nokia.com/nokia/0,,69499,00.html

Rat race

I have been runing the rat race these days......pooh...!!!! no aim, no vision...!!! Actually these are not the things that I wanted to do in my life. I feel like I am moving away from my goal. I need to get a good break and collect my thoughts to one aim.

I thought to blog frequently than that I am doing now. But time and extra work disturbed my work. How ever with these work I got through my BCS 2nd part. :)

I hope to publish some technical blogs as soon as possible.

iPod causes hearing loss !!!

SAN FRANCISCO - A Louisiana man claims in a lawsuit that Apple's iPod music player can cause hearing loss in people who use it.

Apple has sold more than 42 million of the devices since they went on sale in 2001, including 14 million in the fourth quarter last year. The devices can produce sounds of more than 115 decibels, a volume that can damage the hearing of a person exposed to the sound for more than 28 seconds per day, according to the complaint.

The iPod players are "inherently defective in design and are not sufficiently adorned with adequate warnings regarding the likelihood of hearing loss," according to the complaint, filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Calif., on behalf of John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana.

The suit, which Patterson wants certified as a class-action, seeks compensation for unspecified damages and upgrades that will make iPods safer. Patterson's suit said he bought an iPod last year, but does not specify whether he suffered hearing loss from the device.

Patterson does not know if the device has damaged his hearing, said his attorney, Steve W. Berman, of Seattle. But that's beside the point of the lawsuit, which takes issue with the potential the iPod has to cause irreparable hearing loss, Berman said.

"He's bought a product which is not safe to use as currently sold on the market," Berman said. "He's paying for a product that's defective, and the law is pretty clear that if someone sold you a defective product they have a duty to repair it."

An Apple Computer Inc. spokeswoman, Kristin Huguet, declined to comment.
Although the iPod is more popular than other types of portable music players, its ability to cause noise-induced hearing isn't any higher, experts said.

"We have numerous products in the marketplace that have the potential to damage hearing," said Deanna Meinke, an audiology professor at the University of Northern Colorado. "The risk is there but the risk lies with the user and where they set the volume."

The Cupertino-based company ships a warning with each iPod that cautions "permanent hearing loss may occur if earphones or headphones are used at high volume."

Apple was forced to pull the iPod from store shelves in France and upgrade software on the device to limit sound to 100 decibels, but has not followed suit in the United States, according to the complaint. The headphones commonly referred to as ear buds, which ship with the iPod, also contribute to noise-induced hearing loss because they do not dilute the sound entering the ear and are closer to the ear canal than other sound sources, the complaint states.

Note : Content copied from yahoo news.