VeriSign's SSL Cracked

I am very much surprised to see MD5 algorithm cracked, oops here is glimpse from the article to read more use the link below

With the help of about 200 Sony Playstations, an international team of security researchers has devised a way to undermine one of the algorithms used to protect secure Web sites — a capability that the researchers said could be used to launch nearly undetectable phishing attacks.

To accomplish that, the researchers said today that they had exploited a bug in the MD5 hashing algorithm used to create some of the digital certificates used by Web sites to prove they are what they claim to be. The researchers said that by taking advantage of known flaws in the algorithm, they were able to hack VeriSign Inc.'s & RapidSSL.com certificate authority site and create fake digital certificates for any Web site on the Internet.

To read more about the article click here and here and CNET artlice

Business Process not deploying (com.ibm.bpe.util.VersionInfo.(VersionInfo.java:52))

I was trying to publish the application (Business process) module in WID to the server. The server was kept on throwing the error
000000c1 SystemErr R java.lang.NullPointerException 000000c1 SystemErr R at java.util.StringTokenizer.(StringTokenizer.java:197)
000000c1 SystemErr R at java.util.StringTokenizer.(StringTokenizer.java:219)
000000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.bpe.util.VersionInfo.(VersionInfo.java:52)
00000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.bpe.util.VersionInfo.(VersionInfo.java:47)
000000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.bpe.management.application.DeploymentTargetContext.initNodeVersionMap(DeploymentTargetContext.java:565) 000000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.bpe.management.application.DeploymentTargetContext.(DeploymentTargetContext.java:98)
000000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.bpe.management.application.AbstractDeploymentTask.getDeploymentTargetContexts(AbstractDeploymentTask.java:260) 000000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.bpe.processarchive.SCDLProcessComponentConfigureTask.performTask(SCDLProcessComponentConfigureTask.java:301) 000000c1 SystemErr R at com.ibm.ws.management.application.SchedulerImpl.run(SchedulerImpl.java:262)
SystemErr R at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:810)

Then i found that i was trying to publish a module to ESB server. I started the websphere process server and published the project. It was successfully published and started. BPEL modules cannot be published on ESB. If you are getting this error first check this and add it to your checklist

Love for Last Bench aka Seat

I thought about this when i got into the company transport today morning.My mind started searching (Scans) automatically for the last seat or one before it and my legs started moving towards the seat.I don't know when i started this habit of loving last seat, may be long back.




As i try to remember, in school times that was my first school change i was in new school put up in boarding(hostel).Sitting in the first bench on the very first day. Sasi (Now Dr.SasiKumar) told that i have to shift my place once one of the guy(his friend) come back from leave (he usaully doesn't come on the first day of the school starting). After a coulple of days a Big Boy (we say 'gunda' in our native language) came and pushed me with the bag to the other side of the bench. That's it i took my bag and started walking as usual to the last bench were my entire year passed. The guy who came and pushed me none other than Mr.Gobinath

Our transport system, most of the front side seats are reserved for ladies, so most of the time we (i) used to seat at the last.In cinema theater (movie halls) we fight for last seat (that is obvious).

After joining college this habit continued. Four years the entire last row is our place. Even in the Labs i liked the last place.

Generally in schools and colleges (India) there is kind of belief that people who are sitting in last bench are of no worth. They used to see those persons sitting in the last as of some stupid people. What ever happens we will the first persons to thrown out of the class

Still i love to sit in the last bench and don't know the reason why i like it.

WID+ClearCase (Killer Combination)

Yes exactly its a Killer Combination WID+Clearcase (WebSphere Integeration Developer+ClearCase). It can easily take away all of your development time by making some wild assumptions !!!!. I think when these guys get togther they have AI (Artifical Inteligence) or the Seventh Sense. My God ... no even god can't save you. We have been using this combination WID+Clearcase for the past two years.In a way its good b'coz its good CM(Configuration Management) tool.


For us it started with one fine day, when i started my machine and opened my WID did a clean Build (Alt+p+n). I see hell lot of errors. I got scared b'coz we were in middle of our testing cycle. I started checking am i the culprit. All the error was leading to XSD file. when i opened the file it had .............. I am not adding etc.. dots here guys. Its the dot(.) character i see at the end of the file. Hurray i can find who did this checked in clearcase about the history no one has edited the file from the creation date. I got confused and deleting the unwanted character did Alt+p+n.

Everything was normal. Couple of days gone, the monster returns back this time not only in machine space, couple of other machines too faced but with different files. S...t i had this bug did the same thing and cleaned it. From that day still we are getting this issue. Earlier it was only on XSD file It has grown and it managed to spread to .java, .mon , .bpel, .import, .sca module ...... yes all the project files.

One improvement with the issue, it started adding some other characters other than dot to the file. But it has been consistent it adds only at the last

The only solution for this is to checkout the file delete the character and check in again. we have raised a PMR a longgggggggg back. IBM as usual started asking all the log files and their list of documents. We have provided them but they say they are not able reproduce this.

Hope they never. So the only solution is the above one.

Its weekend guys enjoy.... take a break from work ....

Black (PS2 Game)

you could have easily figured out that i am speaking about Video Games that too PS2 games. Most of the people including my parents ask me to that how can you play games at this age. Age doesn't matter. Its not a sin or offensive i like it( i'm loving it). That too when i bought PS2 hurray. Gobi was keep on asking how did i buy that he was opposing it b'coz of the cost. Atlast one day i couldn't come out empty handed after seeing at it. i bought PS2 and told him that i had some good offers etc.. etc.. (some bluffing). If he reads this he will come to know the truth. Yes buddy i lied you.

Enough is enough about the history, bought a couple of games NFS, Medal of Honour and we started playing. I didn't like Medal if Honour, but my buddies loved it. After completing Medal of Honour last week they bought Black. I tried it yesterday amazing game guys the kind of graphics and effect is superb.




Mostly i am comfortable with PC when it comes to action games, but this one is different it. Another favorite in action games is Return to Castle Wolfenstein (RTCW). I played it n number of times the story line and the graphics was good. I think i ran this game when i had P3 machine with me.

For me playing games is kind making myself relax. Luckly my buddies are of same type.

Education Requirement for a job opening

I came across one of the job requirement of a famous media conglomerate in US. Here goes one of his job requirement education qualification

Education Requirements:

· If you have multiple degrees and don’t possess the listed skills, no need to apply

· If you have no common sense or abstract thinking ability, again, no need to apply

· if you have zero degrees and possess the listed skills, PLEASE APPLY!

· If you have multiple degrees and possess the listed skills, PLEASE APPLY!

Sync BookMarks

A niche application that every one is looking for.I have been thinking of one such application which sync bookmarks on different machines. There are different application for it ex: delicious,StumpleUpon etc.. named Social Bookmarking sites.Those applications are ok.But this is one looks good from my point. earlier there was an app weave from Mozilla similar application i never tried it.Foxmarks is the name of the new tool which sync between different machine browser.looks good let me try.you guys can also give a try

Lean IT in sketches (Link)

Read lean IT sketches from Jasan blog. Good one and true one about making software. Must be read by every IT guy

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Hotel Taj : icon of whose India ?

I came across this post by Gnani, Tamil writer. His points are correct and gives other view which is the most important truth about the people of India

Some of the points are here

The terrorists have learnt that the ordinary Indian is unperturbed by terror. For one whose daily existence itself is a terror of government sponsored inflation and market sponsored exclusion, pain is something he has learnt to live with. The rich of Mumbai and India Inc are facing the pain for the first time and learning about it just as the middle classes of India learnt about violation of human rights only during emergency, a cool 28 years after independence

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Wordle

Just came across the site wordle. It is used to create word clouds from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Worth trying it. I have used my CV generate cloud. Here is the preview

Mediation(.mfc) file could not open using Websphere Integeration Developer aka WID

"Unable to create this part due to an internal error,Reason for the failure: An unexcpected exception was thrown" This was the error i got when i opened my mediation flow in WID. I didn't have clue searched and found nothing. Then started looking seriously into the error. One of my collegue got the same error earlier and he solved it by taking previous version from reposirty, he too started getting the same error.The error said Java.lang.NullPointerException at com.ibm.wbit.sib.mediation.flow.ui.tray.editparts.ReferencePartnerTrayEditPart.getModuleChildren(Unknown Source).

Look at this error "ReferencePartner" that is the clue. We saw a pattern here and found something. It seems that the other collegue deleted the an interface. The deleted interface was having a reference in mediation flow. So when iam trying to open i started getting the above error. I manually created the interface and did a clean build. It worked we are able to open the mediation flow. So here is the thumb rule guys if you have decided to delete any interface check whether it has been used in some other components/module. In case if its mediation be carefull, check the reference partner. If its there delete it from your mediation module and go ahead with your final deletion

Financial Crisis

The financial crisis has bought most ...(naa) everybody down. Before that people were floating high on the thing which doesn't exists. Once the virtual thing is gone all came down very fast. Ok enough of serious let us make take the lighter side. Here is the cartoon/comic related to financial crisis. Have a look at it

Financial Crisis in Cartoons

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