Five Roses....

Five Roses...before getting started I would like to make myself clear here that I'm not going to talk about the real roses. Believe me, I never got a rose. Hilarious, isn't it? Actually "Five Roses" is a teabag brand which I came to know about when I was on my first ever project on a foreign land. You know when you're in a place which you're not familiar with, it sometimes feels like asking yourself, "What the hell are you doing here far from your loved ones, your friends?", though I don't say that it's not a worth a place to live. I actually liked this country and its people. They're well behaved, humble, bold and decent at the same time. Though there are not quite places around which you can capture in your camera, mobile or whichever be the electronics devices you'd prefer when you visit a foreign land, but the atmosphere, the wind here and most importantly the roads are worth to feel and walk around.

Coming back to the point, Five Roses just attracted my attention when I'm still awake at 4:30 o'clock in the morning, completely unaware of what I should do at this time of the day, being very far from the sleep, thought of having a cup of tea. And these two words, from the moment I read them, are revolving around, striking my brain cells and creating some random thoughts which I can't help but to keep thinking until I fall asleep. Back in my childhood, being an introvert and not very much interested in travelling, I used to think that someday I'd be out of my home and there I'd have all the time to watch the world with my own eyes. Home sickness isn't something that can ever happen to me, though at the moment, I'm still not feeling anything like that. But deep down inside, it feels like no matter how many places you've been, you world is back there where your loved ones are, your friends are, things which you adore being with, and your home.

One would actually love to live in this place forever. Pleasant weather, nice people, greenery all around, smooth roads and more importantly people are much aware about traffic rules. Even if there're no traffic lights on the roads, they do drive carefully (it's not like accidents don't occur, but very rarely). I mean who wouldn't want to be at such a place. But even it is so nice, I miss being at my native place, living at a place where 40 degree Celsius temperature is considered normal, where electricity problem is faced almost on daily basis for 6-8 hours or may be more, where you daily wait for the bus or auto to drop you off at office in time, where you wait for each weekend to visit your home. All in all, the place where you don't get these kind of luxuries (which I'm getting here), but I'm so much used to those little problems, I don't feel alive in their absence. I can only say that I'm truly deeply madly in love with my native place.

PS: I really didn't like "Five Roses" tea. I wish I have my Tata Tea soon. (*_*)

Unanswered Questions??????

To start with, I would like to remind you of my last post "I feel blessed that it happenend to me" wherein I mentioned some really beautiful memories of mine, but I guess, for once, you all would have thought about the story after that. Didn't you? :) I, intentionally, mentioned the word "story" because that's all it is now though it was a reality before some days.

Yes, I ended that beautiful relationship, leaving few questions unanswered!

Probably, you would've already guessed some of those, like for example, I couldn't get her to love me, that's why, or I would've lost interest in her or else! Yes, these were the reasons among other more important ones. I kinda hope if you could answer that.

• First question that I asked myself, is it appropriate to suppress my feelings every time I look at her, every time I talk to her or just think about her? I, being an introvert, could have caused an explosion someday, if I hadn't ended that relationship and keep suppressing those not-so-relevant feelings and that could have been disastrous for all of us. I know it sounds really selfish, but how many times do you really think about yourself in a day? Probably, not even once. It's not like I've become totally numb towards her, but it's not logical to spend the rest of your life thinking that you liked someone and couldn't tell her just because she liked someone else. You really get to learn caring about yourself first before caring for someone else. And apart from myself, there are few more important people than her whom I really need to take care of, yes, that's my family, my stupid friends, who really get upset when they find me in such miserable state of mind.
  
• I somewhere read the line.

  Things pass and the best we can do is to let them really go away.

  Otherwise, if you keep pulling the thread, it may break and it'll break it forever which usually cause people hurt badly. Or, as I put in other words, the relationship may lose it's flexibility because of it's elastic nature and when pulling goes off the limit, it will leave you standing alone on one side of a never ending ocean. Somewhere in my heart, I hoped that may be someday, she'll have something for me and she knew that too, which surely has hurt her since she's a such a caring person. May be that's one of the reason, she wasn't able to concentrate on the love of her life and just going on with the flow. I don't know if it's right or wrong but I chose to step back. Perhaps you can answer to that.
• Last, but not the least, career calling! Love is not sufficient to live. Just after reading the words "career calling", you all would definitely have a clear picture of what I'm going to write now. So I'm not going to bore you all of that career related crap. He He :P

P.S. : Love is a feeling to spread all over, not to throw it all on someone specific. It'll definitely hurt the person who gets it most and the one who gets nothing....

Thanks for your time!
Have a nice day!! :)

Ubuntu Security Tools

1) Wireshark – network traffic analyzer

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer, or “sniffer”, for Unix and Unix-like operating systems. A sniffer is a tool used to capture packets off the wire. Wireshark decodes numerous protocols (too many to list).This package provides wireshark (the GTK+ version)

Install Wireshark in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install wireshark

2) Nessus – Remote network security auditor

The Nessus® vulnerability scanner, is the world-leader in active scanners, featuring high speed discovery, configuration auditing, asset profiling, sensitive data discovery and vulnerability analysis of your security posture. Nessus scanners can be distributed throughout an entire enterprise, inside DMZs, and across physically separate networks.

Install nessus in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install nessus

3) Nmap – The Network Mapper

Nmap (”Network Mapper”) is a free and open source (license) utility for network exploration or security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing service upgrade schedules, and monitoring host or service uptime. 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. It was designed to rapidly scan large networks, but works fine against single hosts. Nmap runs on all major computer operating systems, and both console and graphical versions are available.

Install nmap ubuntu

sudo aptitude install nmap

If you want nmap frontend install the following package

sudo aptitude install zenmap

4) Etherape – graphical network monitor modeled after etherman

EtherApe is a graphical network monitor for Unix modeled after etherman. Featuring link layer, ip and TCP modes, it displays network activity graphically. Hosts and links change in size with traffic. Color coded protocols display.It supports Ethernet, FDDI, Token Ring, ISDN, PPP and SLIP devices. It can filter traffic to be shown, and can read traffic from a file as well as live from the network.

Install Etherape in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install etherape

5) Kismet – Wireless 802.11b monitoring tool

Kismet is an 802.11 layer2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and intrusion detection system. Kismet will work with any wireless card which supports raw monitoring (rfmon) mode, and can sniff 802.11b, 802.11a, and 802.11g traffic.

Kismet identifies networks by passively collecting packets and detecting standard named networks, detecting (and given time, decloaking) hidden networks, and infering the presence of nonbeaconing networks via data traffic.

Install Kismet in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install kismet

6) Chkrootkit – Checks for signs of rootkits on the local system

chkrootkit identifies whether the target computer is infected with a rootkit. Some of the rootkits that chkrootkit identifies are:

1. lrk3, lrk4, lrk5, lrk6 (and some variants);
2. Solaris rootkit;
3. FreeBSD rootkit;
4. t0rn (including latest variant);
5. Ambient’s Rootkit for Linux (ARK);
6. Ramen Worm;
7. rh[67]-shaper;
8. RSHA;
9. Romanian rootkit;
10. RK17;
11. Lion Worm;
12. Adore Worm.

Please note that this is not a definitive test, it does not ensure that the target has not been cracked. In addition to running chkrootkit, one should perform more specific tests.

Install chkrootkit in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install chkrootkit

7) Rkhunter – rootkit, backdoor, sniffer and exploit scanner

Rootkit Hunter scans systems for known and unknown rootkits, backdoors, sniffers and exploits.

It checks for:

- MD5 hash changes;
- files commonly created by rootkits;
- executables with anomalous file permissions;
- suspicious strings in kernel modules;
- hidden files in system directories;

and can optionally scan within files. Using rkhunter alone does not guarantee that a system is not compromised. Running additional tests, such as chkrootkit, is recommended.

Install rkhunter in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install rkhunter

tiger – Report system security vulnerabilities

TIGER, or the ‘tiger’ scripts, is a set of Bourne shell scripts, C programs and data files which are used to perform a security audit of UNIX systems. TIGER has one primary goal: report ways ‘root’ can be compromised.Debian’s TIGER incorporates new checks primarily oriented towards Debian distribution including: md5sums checks of installed files, location of files not belonging to packages, check of security advisories and analysis of local listening processes.

Install tiger in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install tiger

9) GnuPG – GNU privacy guard

GnuPG is GNU’s tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440.GnuPG does not use any patented algorithms so it cannot be compatible with PGP2 because it uses IDEA (which is patented worldwide).

Install gnupg in Ubuntu

sudo aptitude install gnupg

If you want gnupg GUI tool use this

Seahorse – A Gnome front end for GnuPG

Seahorse is a GNOME application for managing encryption keys. It also integrates with nautilus, gedit and other places for encryption operations.

Install seahorse in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install seahorse

10) Nemesis – TCP/IP Packet Injection Suite

Nemesis is a command-line network packet crafting and injection utility for UNIX-like and Windows systems. Nemesis, is well suited for testing Network Intrusion Detection Systems, firewalls, IP stacks and a variety of other tasks. As a command-line driven utility, Nemesis is perfect for automation and scripting.

Nemesis can natively craft and inject ARP, DNS, ETHERNET, ICMP, IGMP, IP, OSPF, RIP, TCP and UDP packets. Using the IP and the Ethernet injection modes, almost any custom packet can be crafted and injected.

Install nemesis in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install nemesis

11) Tcpdump – A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition

This program allows you to dump the traffic on a network. tcpdump is able to examine IPv4, ICMPv4, IPv6, ICMPv6, UDP, TCP, SNMP, AFS BGP, RIP, PIM, DVMRP, IGMP, SMB, OSPF, NFS and many other packet types.
It can be used to print out the headers of packets on a network interface, filter packets that match a certain expression. You can use this tool to track down network problems, to detect “ping attacks” or to monitor network activities.

Install tcpdump in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install tcpdump

12) OpenSSH – secure shell server

This is the portable version of OpenSSH, a free implementation of the Secure Shell protocol as specified by the IETF secsh working group.Ssh (Secure Shell) is a program for logging into a remote machine and for executing commands on a remote machine. It provides secure encrypted communications between two untrusted hosts over an insecure network. X11 connections and arbitrary TCP/IP ports can also be forwarded over the secure channel. It is intended as a replacement for rlogin, rsh and rcp, and can be used to provide applications with a secure communication channel.This package provides the sshd server.
In some countries it may be illegal to use any encryption at all without a special permit.

Install Openssh server in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install openssh-server

13) Denyhosts – an utility to help sys admins thwart ssh hackers

DenyHosts is a program that automatically blocks ssh brute-force attacks by adding entries to /etc/hosts.deny. It will also inform Linux administrators about offending hosts, attacked users and suspicious logins.Syncronization with a central server is possible too.
Differently from other software that do same work, denyhosts doesn’t need support for packet filtering or any other kind of firewall in your kernel

Install Denyhosts server in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install denyhosts

14) Snort – Flexible Network Intrusion Detection System

Snort is a libpcap-based packet sniffer/logger which can be used as a lightweight network intrusion detection system. It features rules based logging and can perform content searching/matching in addition to being used to detect a variety of other attacks and probes, such as buffer overflows, stealth port scans, CGI attacks, SMB probes, and much more. Snort has a real-time alerting capability, with alerts being sent to syslog, a separate “alert” file, or even to a Windows computer via Samba.
This package provides the plain-vanilla snort distribution and does not provide database (available in snort-pgsql and snort-mysql) support.

Install snort in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install snort

15) Firestarter – gtk program for managing and observing your firewall

Firestarter is a complete firewall tool for Linux machines. It features an easy to use firewall wizard to quickly create a firewall. Using the program you can then open and close ports with a few clicks, or stealth your machine giving access only to a select few. The real-time hit monitor shows attackers probing your machine.

Install firestarter in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install firestarter

16) clamav – anti-virus utility for Unix – command-line interface

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for Unix. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers (attachment scanning). The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon in the clamav-daemon package, a command-line scanner in the clamav package, and a tool for automatic updating via the Internet in the clamav-freshclam package. The programs are based on libclamav3, which can be used by other software.

This package contains the command line interface. Features:

- built-in support for various archive formats, including Zip, RAR, Tar,
Gzip, Bzip2, OLE2, Cabinet, CHM, BinHex, SIS and others;
- built-in support for almost all mail file formats;
- built-in support for ELF executables and Portable Executable files
compressed with UPX, FSG, Petite, NsPack, wwpack32, MEW, Upack and
obfuscated with SUE, Y0da Cryptor and others;
- built-in support for popular document formats including Microsoft
Office and Mac Office files, HTML, RTF and PDF.

For scanning to work, a virus database is needed. There are two options for getting it:

- clamav-freshclam: updates the database from Internet. This is
recommended with Internet access.
- clamav-data: for users without Internet access. The package is
not updated once installed. The clamav-getfiles package allows
creating custom packages from an Internet-connected computer.

Install Clamav in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install clamav

17) Ettercap – Multipurpose sniffer/interceptor/logger for switched LAN

Ettercap supports active and passive dissection of many protocols (even ciphered ones) and includes many feature for network and host analysis.Data injection in an established connection and filtering (substitute or drop a packet) on the fly is also possible, keeping the connection synchronized.

Many sniffing modes were implemented to give you a powerful and complete sniffing suite. It’s possible to sniff in four modes: IP Based, MAC Based, ARP Based (full-duplex) and PublicARP Based (half-duplex).
It has the ability to check whether you are in a switched LAN or not, and to use OS fingerprints (active or passive) to let you know the geometry of the LAN.

Install ettercap in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install ettercap

If you want to install ettercap GUI install following package

sudo aptitude install ettercap-gtk

18) Netcat – TCP/IP swiss army knife

A simple Unix utility which reads and writes data across network connections using TCP or UDP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable “back-end” tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At the same time it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities.

Install netcat in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install netcat

19) MTR – mtr combines the functionality of the ‘traceroute’ and ‘ping’ programs in a single network diagnostic tool.

As mtr starts, it investigates the network connection between the host mtr runs on and a user-specified destination host. After it determines the address of each network hop between the machines, it sends a sequence ICMP ECHO requests to each one to determine the quality of the link to each machine. As it does this, it prints running statistics about each machine.

Install mtr in ubuntu

Download .deb package from here

dpkg -i mtr_0.39-1.deb

20) Hping3 – Active Network Smashing Tool

hping3 is a network tool able to send custom ICMP/UDP/TCP packets and to display target replies like ping does with ICMP replies. It handles fragmentation and arbitrary packet body and size, and can be used to transfer files under supported protocols. Using hping3, you can test firewall rules, perform (spoofed) port scanning, test network performance using different protocols, do path MTU discovery, perform traceroute-like actions under different protocols, fingerprint remote operating systems, audit TCP/IP stacks, etc. hping3 is scriptable using the TCL language.

Install hping3 in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install hping3

21) ngrep – grep for network traffic

ngrep strives to provide most of GNU grep’s common features, applying them to the network layer. ngrep is a pcap-aware tool that will allow you to specify extended regular expressions to match against data payloads of packets. It currently recognizes TCP, UDP and ICMP across Ethernet, PPP, SLIP and null interfaces, and understands bpf filter logic in the same fashion as more common packet sniffing tools, such as tcpdump and snoop.

Install ngrep in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install ngrep

22) john – active password cracking tool

john, mostly known as John the Ripper, is a tool designed to help systems administrators to find weak (easy to guess or crack through brute force) passwords, and even automatically mail users warning them about it, if it is desired.
It can also be used with different cyphertext formats, including Unix’s DES and MD5, Kerberos AFS passwords, Windows’ LM hashes, BSDI’s extended DES, and OpenBSD’s Blowfish.

Install john in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install john

23) tcptrace – Tool for analyzing tcpdump output

Tcptrace is a tool for analyzing and reporting on tcpdump (or other libpcap) dump files. It can summarize the data or generate graph data for use with the gnuplot tool from the gnuplot package. Graph data can be created for throughput, RTT, time sequences, segment size, and cwin.

Install tcptrace in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install tcptrace

24) netdude – NETwork DUmp data Displayer and Editor for tcpdump trace files

It is a GUI-based tool that allows you to make detailed changes to packets in tcpdump trace files, in particular, it can currently do the following:

* Set the value of any field in IP, TCP and UDP packet headers.
* Copy, move and delete packets in the trace file.
* Fragment and reassemble IP packets.
* Netdude constantly communicates with a tcpdump process to update
the familiar tcpdump output that corresponds to the trace. This
also means that any changes made to your local version of tcpdump
are reflected in Netdude.
* Plugin architecture: people can easily add plugins for specific
tasks. The code comes with a plugin for checksum correction in IP,
TCP and UDP, and a dummy plugin.
* Through the plugin mechanism, Netdude provides a good facility for
writing tcpdump trace file filters.

Install netdude in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install netdude

25) tcpreplay – Tool to replay saved tcpdump files at arbitrary speeds

Tcpreplay is aimed at testing the performance of a NIDS by replaying real background network traffic in which to hide attacks. Tcpreplay allows you to control the speed at which the traffic is replayed, and can replay arbitrary tcpdump traces. Unlike programmatically-generated artificial traffic which doesn’t exercise the application/protocol inspection that a NIDS performs, and doesn’t reproduce the real-world anomalies that appear on production networks (asymmetric routes, traffic bursts/lulls, fragmentation, retransmissions, etc.), tcpreplay allows for exact replication of real traffic seen on real networks.

Install tcpreplay in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install tcpreplay

26) Dsniff – Various tools to sniff network traffic for cleartext insecurities

This package contains several tools to listen to and create network traffic:

* arpspoof – Send out unrequested (and possibly forged) arp replies.
* dnsspoof – forge replies to arbitrary DNS address / pointer queries
on the Local Area Network.
* dsniff – password sniffer for several protocols.
* filesnarf – saves selected files sniffed from NFS traffic.
* macof – flood the local network with random MAC addresses.
* mailsnarf – sniffs mail on the LAN and stores it in mbox format.
* msgsnarf – record selected messages from different Instant Messengers.
* sshmitm – SSH monkey-in-the-middle. proxies and sniffs SSH traffic.
* sshow – SSH traffic analyser.
* tcpkill – kills specified in-progress TCP connections.
* tcpnice – slow down specified TCP connections via “active”
traffic shaping.
* urlsnarf – output selected URLs sniffed from HTTP traffic in CLF.
* webmitm – HTTP / HTTPS monkey-in-the-middle. transparently proxies.
* webspy – sends URLs sniffed from a client to your local browser
(requires libx11-6 installed).

Install dsniff ubuntu

sudo aptitude install dsniff

27) scapy – Packet generator/sniffer and network scanner/discovery

Scapy is a powerful interactive packet manipulation tool, packet generator, network scanner, network discovery, packet sniffer, etc. It can for the moment replace hping, 85% of nmap, arpspoof, arp-sk, arping, tcpdump, tethereal, p0f, ….
In scapy you define a set of packets, then it sends them, receives answers, matches requests with answers and returns a list of packet couples (request, answer) and a list of unmatched packets. This has the big advantage over tools like nmap or hping that an answer is not reduced to (open/closed/filtered), but is the whole packet.

Install scapy in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install scapy

28) Ntop – display network usage in top-like format

ntop is a Network Top program. It displays a summary of network usage by machines on your network in a format reminiscent of the unix top utility.It can also be run in web mode, which allows the display to be browsed with a web browser.

Install ntop in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install ntop

29) NBTscan – A program for scanning networks for NetBIOS name information

NBTscan is a program for scanning IP networks for NetBIOS name information. It sends NetBIOS status query to each address in supplied range and lists received information in human readable form. For each responded host it lists IP address, NetBIOS computer name, logged-in user name and MAC address (such as Ethernet).

Install nbtscan in ubuntu

sudo aptitude install nbtscan

30) tripwire – file and directory integrity checker

Tripwire is a tool that aids system administrators and users in monitoring a designated set of files for any changes. Used with system files on a regular (e.g., daily) basis, Tripwire can notify system administrators of corrupted or tampered files, so damage control measures can be taken in a timely manner.

Install tripwire ubuntu

sudo aptitude install tripwire

I feel blessed that it happened to me..

There are things that people want not to happen to them, for instance, if someone experiences poverty, not able to do the things just because of lack of money, he/she certainly doesn't want to be poor again in any life. If someone experiences so much of sorrows, he/she doesn't want to cry again.

Likewise I wanted not to fall in love with a girl, not to feel the pain when you know that she's not going to be with you, not to wait for the moment so eagerly for just her call or message, not to see her in pain. But that happened, although it felt strange first because I did not have any intention to do so rather let it happen to me, but it did. These words generally strike our ears "Love at first sight", means you will recognize the special one in your life by just having a first glance on her. I didn't feel anything like that. Even I don't know if I had an impression on her when she looked at me or vice versa. We were just like any boy & girl whom we come to see in our daily life.

But then, a little spark is enough to spread the fire in the forest.

We became friends, then good friends, then very good friends, then special friends but I didn't expect for a second that I would feel so deeply for her. During first three months of job, which is nothing but a darkest part of my life, my feelings for her were getting strong day by day. We used to talk for hours on phone, shared every thing, happiness, sorrows, cries, pain etc.
That thing took us so close to each other that if one is feeling something, the other will know itself.

But....
You're most hurt, when you feel that you've everything you desire and the next moment you're empty handed just like a beggar, you can't do anything like a handicapped person can't, you can't think of anything like someone has shoot your brain pointing the gun straight to your head. Just like that, when I came to know that she doesn't have any feelings for me like I do, it felt like I had done sin by loving someone. I'm not destined to fall in love in this life.

Well, who am I to blame her? She didn't feel the way I did. What's strange in that! She had feelings for someone else. Let her. If I love her truly, I must ensure that she gets whatever she wants in her life. And that's what I am doing till now. We still share everything we experience. We still share our happiness, our sorrows, our pain. And most important of all, we still share a healthy and strong relationship. Now I know, although I decided not to fall in love, but it happened to me. Now I know what is it like wanting someone without expecting anything, what is it like waiting for just one glance of hers, what is it like sharing little things, difficult things with her. Moreover, I know what is it like loving someone so deeply, so purely.

And that's why I feel blessed that it happened to me!!!! :)

Questionnaire?????

• How is the age of the earth calculated?

The concept of radioactivity, according to which atoms of certain heavier elements like uranium and its salts have the power of emitting some penetrating radiations spontaneously and gradually change into atoms of stable elements, is an excellent tool which can throw light on the age of rocks or the earth. If a radioactive isotope and its decay products remain trapped in a rock, the measurement of the portion of the parent isotope that has decayed enables the age of the rocks to be determined. For example, in uranium bearing rocks, U238 reached equilibrium with its decay products in about 2 million years. After this time, the net result of the disintegration process is the production of Pb206 from U238, while the intermediate products remain in constant concentration. The measurement of the ratio of Pb206 to U238 enables the age of the rocks or the earth to be established. The measurement of the oldest rocks have established that age of the earth must be about 4,500 million years.

• How is an American diamond different from ordinary diamond?

Synthetic diamonds are called American diamonds. Although now they are manufactured by various countries. Synthetic diamonds are man-made diamonds and they differ from naturally found one in shape, size and impurities. Synthetic diamonds are produced by putting fraphite to very high pressure (10,000 atmospheric) and very high temperatures (above 3,000 degree Celsius). Du Pont, De Beers, GE(General Electric) are some of the companies producing synthetic diamonds for commercial purpose.

• What is reservoir-induced seismicity?

The filling of lake water in a dam site and its pressing down the ground with its load, generating new stresses underground is responsible for reservoir-induced seismicity(RIS). It is noticed that the stresses build up to the peak slowly over several years after the initiation of the filling and then there is a sudden failure of ground, releasing these stresses in the form of earthquake. The earthquake that occurred in the Koyna dam site, near Shivaji Sagar lake in Maharashtra in 1967 as an example of this. RIS depends on
(a) Rate of increase of water level,
(b) Duration of high water level maintained,
(c) Maximum height attained,
(d) Deeper infiltration of the impounded water through passage provided by faults, joints, fractures, shear zones and cavities,
(e) Existence of deeper tectonic conditions such as stresses build up in pre-existing fault planes and wark zones,
(f) Brittleness of the rocks such as quartisites, granites, basalts etc. Only if all the last time conditions are present would there be an earthquake.

• Why are T-shirts and bush shirts called so?

Col Bush, a British Army Officer attached to the Indian Army in the early 1930's invented this kind of coat-cum-shirt for wear during the summer. It became very popular and came to be known as bush shirt. Originally it had four pockets, a belt and shoulder straps. T-shirt is so called because when it is spread out, it looks like the English letter 'T'.

• How is jogging different from running?

Jogging implies running at a slow, steady and gentle pace, especially on regular basis as form of physical exercise. The word 'jog' originated in the 14th century. It is probably a variant of dialect 'shog' meaning to shake. Running implies going faster than walk, espeacially going steadily by springing steps so that both feet leave the ground for an instant in each step. The word 'run' is derived from Old English 'rinnan'.

• What does devil's advocate mean?

Origin of the term 'devil's advocate' lies in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church wherein a person appointed to challenge a proposed beatification, canonisation, etc., is known as devil's advocate. Beatification is an act by which a dead person is formally declared as blesses while canonisation is the process through which one may be declared as saint in Christian tradition.

• Why is acid test called so?

An acid test is a rigorous or decisive test of worth or quality. It is so called due to the fact that in earlier days, gold was dipped in Nitric Acid, whenever there was any doubt about its purity. Nitric Acid damages every metal except pure gold ( hence the latter is called the noble metal).

"...mumkin hai"

• Chahte ho toh sochna kya?

The moment one identifies an opportunity, one should head straight for it. Mumkin hai. People call him a prodigy, but science accepts his feats. Just a boy next door, Tathagat Avtaar Tulsi holds a Master's degree in Physics. And he's not even 12 years old! Already in the Guiness Book for having successfully cleared his call Xth exams at the tender age of 9-and-half years. On being asked, he attributes it to his confidence and determination.

It's all about knowing what all is possible. Making the right moves. Being updated. And of course, creating wonder all around.

• Dooriyan banee nazdikiyaan!

Wishful thinking can take one to the farthest of places. Mumkin hai. Chloe Ingham from Ribchester, Lancashire, was just 9 years old when she cycled 1056 miles with her mother and two sisters. Even tender age couldn't deter the young one's determination to achieve this feat. Undoubtedly, it was the will to do it.

It is about people who desire, want and pursue their thoughts and equip themselves to do so.

• Baaton baaton mein aavishkar!

Sometimes the need to do something makes way for a new way to wlife. Mumkin hai. A vacation in Hawaii interested Richie Stachowski (aged 11) into snorkeling. But when he needed to share his amazing underwater discoveries with his father, he realished he wouldn't be heard underwater. So he went on to dedign a prototype of an underwater megaphone. Today commonly known as Water Talkies. Sheer need sometimes makes it all so much possible. isn't it?

Get talking with life the way you want to. Share, care and make things happen.

• Jo bhi chahoon, woh main paoon!

Discovering the lack of something ofter leads to getting it by all means. Mumkin hai. Take for instance Jacob Dunnack, all of 8 years, who had a unique incident. While he went meeting his grandma, he forgot to take his baseballs. So he was stranded with his baseball bat alone. Realising that he can't play baseball without a ball, he felt extremely disappointed. He went on and invented JD Batball! It's a uniquely styled baseball bat with a removable cap. In the space provided inside the bat, one can store the balls inside so they won't get lost. So kids can have as much fun playing baseball without having to forget or lose baseballs.

A plethora of services makes life more enjoyable. And as you move ahead in life, things will happen. Just as you want.

• Balance bhi carried forward, aur kaise!

Can any person really walk across water? Mumkin hai. Charles Blondin, the celebrated acrobat and tightropewalker did just that. He stopped his way over a rope stretching across the roaring Niagara Falls not once, but a couple of times. He even did it blind-folded!! Of course, looking down those thousands of feet below at the swirling waters wouldn't have helped at all, so he really was better off!

A commitment of going farther, both in technology and services, because that's where you want to take your life.

Customized Search Engines.

Hey there..
Now you can make your search engines, one of the facility provided by google.
Try it once, its interesting.

Steps:
1. go this link http://www.google.com/coop/cse/.
2. click on the create a custom search engine.
3. get started customizing your ideal search engine. put the settings and click on next button, then on the next page you can see how it works.
4. click finish. now you can make it your homepage by copying the url of your search engine and pasting in the options under the tools menu(mozilla firefox) or it can be embedded into your webpages or blogs.