Bye bye insomnia

Finally; I think I am enjoying sleeping after a long long time! Its the bed; and to sleep the time taken is between the time you hit the bed and you hit the pillow. wrooom! Dead! Thank you sandman!

I envy her!

damn it! I was so much hoping to buy a mac mini; and one of my friends got it as a gift! damn! now i envy her! and i was telling her all about it! and today she tells me she got one! aaaaaaaaah! god I hate you!

Ode to the girls

I don't have my own words for this ; so I will borrow it from a famous song by Willie Nelson and Julio Iglesias.

To all the girls I've loved before
Who travelled in and out my door
I'm glad they came along
I dedicate this song
To all the girls I've loved before

To all the girls I once caressed
And may I say I've held the best
For helping me to grow
I owe a lot I know
To all the girls I've loved before

The winds of change are always blowing
And every time I try to stay
The winds of change continue blowing
And they just carry me away

:)

Nothing beats Linux

I've had my share of windows experience the last month or so. Desktops and servers. I don't need to run a few more months to tell you it sucks big time!. The exchange server is nice; with the active dir services and all. Ah! Only till anything goes wrong! Then its a hell. Unexplained stuff happens; out of the blues things go wrong! And there is no reasonable explanation to these. Except "it's M$ Windows". The time taken to trouble shoot the issue is more then doing a fresh installation and restoring the backups. When a service goes down; it's so hard and difficult to exactly tell you why and how it went down. So many issues that I do not understand. Maybe it's just me; or my attitude towards Windows. I still think Linux kicks ass and far better then most OS's out there. And here I am totally on it and still happy to be. Just try and make me convert to windows. No freaking way! I'd still get back /home/

DO Reports :: Another death in Maldives Jail

Reports are coming from Male' that a boy named Muaaviyath Mahmoodh (19), Raiyvina, Male', is currently in IGMH Hospital who was brought in from Dhoonidhoo prison and is believed to have died last night.

all righto maan

finally i can type cd /home/chops/ , i have got linux installed on a notebook and hooked back in.. feel like i am back home.. home sweet /home/

untitled!

I’ve almost lived half of my life.. Funny but it seems I just started off. I’ve spend time experimenting, enjoying and learning. Every moment that passed and chapters as many would define it as; I’ve lived and enjoyed it. Learned more every time. Made stupid and smart mistakes. But it’s just how you see and define it. Call it stupid or what ever.

But today as in this chapter of life; I am happy and alone. Very lonely while I have a family; and yet happy that I have friends. Who with or without their knowledge have shared every moment of my time. Been there some how and some way. Always gave me strength to move on. Inspired me to be who I am; and to change to a better person. I’ve learned so much from them. And I thank everyone of them. As Beatles said “In my life, I loved them all”. I don’t know what I would be if not for them. Enough? But not. Many have gone and changed, but the moment we shared and had. They were the best and they surely did contribute to what ever I contribute to you or do and say. Maybe good or maybe bad, but that’s the fact.

I had some of the hardest times one could face in life; but made it through. Maybe I broke up at some points. But hey here I am. Started off; tried to blend into being a “normal” guy; guess it worked, did it? Yeah did work the way I wanted it to. Oh well maybe most of it. So when I look back; I have to thank my friends who deserve most of the credit to it. I’ve always thought; my friends whom I have are some of the best people a guy would ask for as friends. Hmmmm! Where should I start or rather who? Difficult choice; but I would say DOSbe is a trade mark and an icon. Should I say more; I mean even my ex boss; refers to him as “Dr. DOS”. He is totally a different guy; has his own way of thinking which most people don’t really understand. Strong person; who has a vision and a mission. Won’t give up easily. A true inspiration. I’ve had a long history with him; from work to the detention centers of Police. And even now my college who is our network and infrastructure manager. Way to go man! I think you are there. Almost! My cousin Ashfaam; well what can I say about him. Simple words “would have had a hard time without your help”. He is truly my brother and my friend. We have had good times; and strange times. Shared a lot and experienced. Since the fights we had as kids to the “guilt” that we carry. I know you will mark your name some day where you want it to be. I have full faith and confidence in you. Some times; you make me feel I am the younger brother not the other way around. If you really know what that means. My friend shah; he is a man of character and with a creative mind. A beautiful one. Been like a hub to all of us. More or less I see him as the hub of our network. Whom we all respect and love. A leader who does not take leadership but is recognized and respected. He’s given and sacrificed so much of his time and what ever he can, to his friends. Anyone who is a friend of him should be honored that they have him as one. Ah! Mappulee; we all miss him. Though he lives in the extreme end of the nation; we still miss him. I miss him. Funny and nice guy; always entertaining. Always been there for all of us. With the locks you put to the dolphins that you talk about. Never lost your temper; no matter what we did or said. Always understood us. I thank you dude. We all should; for most of us to be like this as team and a network. Well if life was a movie; he is the one who selected most of the cast. Iam! Surely you are. The “guhcha, guhcha” guy. So much can be told about you; but let me make it simple; smart and nice. Funny and crazy. Has a way of always inspiring us, and introduced so many stuff into us; among with the famous word; “guilty” yeah! No other but our little guy; primary0 aka Ashraf. I’ve had a good time with him. We’ve spend countless hours together and everyone was funny and trippy. Keeping aside all the “disappointments”; ah! But that was just one ey! But was a mission which was fun. It was really some of the best times of my life. Crazy days. Late night hacks and staying up experimenting stuff. Surely I will miss them. The sound of the plane that took off and the shock. All that just part of little things; but will be carried a long way. Thanks dude. “kobaa kaley” :P dude; some day I know you’d be one hell of a sys admin. Even now you are. “kiyaa ba kiyaa ba.” Ah yeah mysterious guy ey! Comes and goes like the wind. Last I hear he was rewriting the constitution. Hehehe. Just the joke; also was gonna get married don’t know the update on that now. But one of the best programmers I’ve met. Has a way with problem solving; and one I would recommend to anyone who will ask me about a coder. And yeah! Not to talk about the crazy days in lanka we had. I won’t forget that night at the club. Yeah man! I still have the bill with me! Who else ; faraa our man! The all famous n3m6. kiyaaba kiyaaba. You made your mark and I know many more to come. A guy with a taste and a humor. Lamu where is he? There was this one night; when kidrow (anil) the oil guy! (he sells oil you know; and also burners.. smells good too; shah got one; I got one too; you should too) aham! So back after a commercial break. So he said lamu never laughs! Hahahaha! Man o man! You should have listen to him laugh, and his tone of saying words; cool guy! Dude; enjoy in India and do your best. “eyyyyyyy nugulhaa!”. Senn; ah! He was right next to ashrafs name or before it. But I thought it’s the culture not to mix both to a distance. So here I am; rare guy; but most of what we say and the “taaarmu” thah is from him. Always thought he is funny and a nice cool guy. But I still think you and ashraf should go out for a date and fix things! Aham! I think so; so I say so. But I won’t know ey! It’s baaa! What ever. But what ever it is; he is one smart guy; fast leaner I would say. Did not get much opportunity to work with him; but I like his work. And I know he has got a future ahead of him. Gaanagaa! Yeah the stone taker; what can I say about this guy; just amazing! No one can beat him or compared to him. Unique guy with a unique sense of humor and a talent with words. Nothing would have been same without you man! If you are reading this I know you for sure will have 1000 of comments. I can think and smile! “sentu guy”! I know here can never be anything which will happen to which you will not joke and comment on! And no one can get a lead from a debate with you. No way! I won’t even try! Fucku vane fucku vane! Remember the time when we blocked Unreal to keep Inn out; cos he was so “balaa bodu” the password was “in out!” hehehe! Sorry man! But you are the man! Simply I would say you just beat us all; so we did not want to loose; and kept you out that night. Fucku vaane fucku vaane. I would say he is one of the best web developers I have as a friend. We’ve seen you from the very start to this day. Man you have improved and still is. You’ve improved in so many ways; and that’s something I really admired and noticed. Cool guy; sorry dude; I could not join in all those late nights when you and SK called. But you don’t know how much I appreciate for those calls. One hell of a guy you are too. Creative and talented. Morbid; Inn and morbid; don’t see you both as often as we use to but; I know if anyone knows him better then him then it must be you. You guys make a great team. “ey morbid”! I don’t know much to describe this guy; but when ever I see him; It feels good. A serious guy with a passion. Sigey; another unique guy! The sys admin group. Helpful and with a good taste of music. He’s gone a long way too. Made his mark and worked hard. “haaadha haa”. One thing I should admit is he looks good in shorts. You should consider modeling part time! Just kidding. But I would say he is one guy I love to share my music with. I mean of all of these guys; I think he and I have the most common music taste. Co; cookie not bajaaju ge dhari; but simply cookie. Hmmmm! Now what can I say. The circle will never be complete without your name along with meehun maraa murder. Next word that comes after anime is murder. I can say no one can beat him on that art and not many people can beat him on a PS2 game. I’d bet my money on him, when I make some. One hell of an artist. Music; art and guilt ah! And many more. I still love his ring tone! Always makes me dance!

I thank you all! Now you wonder; why.. no I wonder not you. I know this is last of one of my chapters of life. Soon things will be very different and maybe totally changed. But what ever it comes; I won’t change. Maybe the times may. But I’d miss this one and you all have been a part of it. Thanks guys! A mark in history to look back and smile on.

Cleaning Windows...

I have heard so much about the tech guys and the MCSE guys (windows guys). In order to administrate these amazing OS, seems one has to do this. daaaa? Yeah? I thought so too, but now I wonder. I've met friends and people I know; who have spend months doing it. Getting to know the "thingy" the "cool new Windows". Again! baaaaaaaa! Sure they need to; when this baby cries it sure is a pain in the ass. But to manage and administrate it; well what can I say .. All you need to know is "English" (just enough knowledge to read English). The new Windows 2003 is so damn easy that one who has a bit of knowledge and the brain can pick it up in less then 30 mins. I mean it! I've experienced it. If you can clean a window; you can administrate windows as well. No F***ing BIG Deal! Click Click; Double Click! and yeah, also drag and drop (some times) :P

engineers aim to mend broken hearts

Yeah! it's the 14th of FEB. Googles got flowers on the logo.. guess what MIT main site says; " engineers aim to mend broken hearts". Impressive?!! ? baaaa!

Offline.. And disconnected!

I guess it will take me another week to get back online and stay connected and do my personnel work. Now I am like a dog; running up and down. I miss Slashdot

Life I miss you. Guilt I miss you too!

It's funny but I can't even think of what to post! Lets see; I got a new mobile line; will be using that mostly during the day.. But I'd still keep the old one.. Until I get a more stable line. hmmm! See now I have even started talking about mobiles! Anyway dudes.. If any one of you wants to reserve any nice numbers or anything; just let me know. :)

maa ah salaamaa

I've started off with wataniya maldives on the 1st of Feb as the systems administrator. Currently I am the only IT personnel here; which makes life a living hell. I don't like the fact that I have to administrate Windows Desktops and Servers, but I have started to get the hang of it. Damn these Windows! grrrrrrr! Wish me luck.

As for the old job; I miss the team and the place.

MRf 500/- (42.19 USD)

Well today some dudes from the national disaster management center dropped by at my apartment (since i was hit by the tsunami) and gave me coffee money of MRf 500/- which is like 42.19 USD! Cool ey! Now i can save the coffee money for me and my friends for this week! Thanks dudes!

Shukurihyaa dhoa?

black

depressed; desperate and moody!

Hibaru (alpha)

ހިބަރު / Hibaru : swordfish in Dhivehi. In this case its not about fishing or diving. naaa! not even the movie swordfish. So? daaaa! don't joke, but it was the name I decided to give for a small scripting language i did for a project. So whats new? the thing is it was done back in 2002 or late 2001. And .. the language is based on thaana. Means you write the scripts in thaana itself. Whats the use? just for fun! I was going through my old backups and saw it, so thought i'd post about it!

What can it do? Simple things! hey it can do small mathematical "number" guessing games! It can do all the basic things like; compression, repetition, etc.. How does it look like? Well; nothing special again! But looks funny when u write in thaana.

This proto type was done using VB6 and yeah yeah! it was for windows.. but i am working on a port for c#. again the project is stalled! too lazy. Anyway here is a basic feel of it!

ހަދާ ހ
ކުރޭނަމަ (ހ) > ("5")
ހ = ހ + "1"
ދައްކާފޮޟި (ހ)
ނިމި

Here you will see that this prototype can assign/create vales to a variable (var h; h=h+1), can do small calculations like addition (h=h+1). Also it can do compression, repetition(loop). The script/program counts from 1 to 5 in this case;.

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And another screen shot. In this example ; it does a compression and displays the result based on it.

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Guilty again!

Seems this is my last days of the new year party, coming to an end. I will be starting my new job soon at wataniya maldives (the new mobile company). I am suppose to report to job on the 1st of Feb 2005. Taking a rest these days; though i am still working at ROL (focus infocom). Going a bit mallow. yeah yeah yeah! the whole point is that I am gonna miss my job and this company. I love it here, but for reasons that are a bit strange.. I have finally decided to give in to Windows! what ever that means.

Tonight I think i had a nice time as well; with the usual friends (the fantastic 4) and an other friend from old days of IRC (back in 1996/97). We had a nice time.. thanks dudes. I will miss these days once they pass by.

Fear, Obligation, and Guilt

All these is part of the weapons used in the common game of Emotional blackmail to manipulate you. "Fear, Obligation, and Guilt". Mostly this is done either directly or indirectly.

Who are you? A Victim or a Blackmailer?

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE VICTIM

• Constantly seeks approval
• Does their best to avoid anger and keep peace
• Takes the blame for anything that happens to others
• Has compassion and empathy
• Tends to feel pity or obligation
• Believes they need to give in because it is the “right thing to do”
• Has self-doubt with no sense of their worth, intelligence or abilities

CHARACTERISTICS OF AN EMOTIONAL BLACKMAILER

• Has great fear of abandonment and deprivation or of being hurt
• Feels desperate
• Needs to be in control of things
• Experiences frequent frustration
• Has thought distortions regarding the reasonableness of their demands
• Has had someone emotionally blackmail them and sees that it works to get them what they want

WHAT IS NECESSARY TO STOP EMOTIONAL BLACKMAIL

• The victim must begin to look at the situation in a new way.
• They must detach from their emotions.
• They must realize that they are being blackmailed and that it is not appropriate for the blackmailer to be treating them in that manner.
• They must make a commitment to themselves that they will take care of themselves and no longer allow this abusive treatment.
• They need to see that a demand is being made on them and that it makes them uncomfortable.
• They must determine why the demand feels uncomfortable.
• They must not give into the pressure for an immediate decision.
• They must set boundaries to be able to take time to consider the situation and to look at all of the alternatives to make the decision.
• Finally, they must consider their own needs first for a change, in this process

source http://www.angelfire.com/vt/rcwn/Pagefifteen.html

MAJLIS ELECTIONS 2005

Today is the big day for a lot of people. Me? NO! I don't think I will vote "again!". I wish to remain a virgin when it comes to political vote'n until I think there is a fair and free election in the country! Till then I refuse (to put into practice my right NOT to vote) to vote and get disappointed! I am very emotional person! hahaha!

picture source www.haveeru.com.mv

RE: Dhivehinet Hacker!

Guys this is a funny one. I was just browsing through the maldivian blogs when i came across this one Truth Hurts!--Realism Ahead..:who cares? by someone named Ismail Shaukath. This blog had a post titled Dhivehinet hacker reveals First time the hacking and... a link to this blog; who claims and titled The Day I Hacked Into Dhivehinet so.. I read through and found out this was such a big bluff and more this was a modified copy of this document. The html version is here. This was so much fun.

A pic of the blog (dhivehinet hacker) hehehe LOL

So whats the story! I believe this so "famous" hack was done by some Brazilian kids who were just having fun. Out of the two known hacks; This is a screen shot i took of the last one. While it was hacked (defaced).

says Ka0tic Lab Group. Click image for the screen shot

So who were they who who is this Ka0atic Lab Group? I found out that this was an irc channel. I did visit it too. Just to checkout and find out on this. As far as i know there was 3 successful hacks into the dhiraagu web server. Also the 3 was done by the gangs who hang on this irc server. #ferror, #DaemonOptic and #ka0tic.

Again here is the proof! Click for a screen shot

So need more? ok follow this link as well to Zone-H So I suggest all those script kiddies and wanna be's out there should think about what they publish before they do it.

Eid Gift

Yeah why not? I mean if people think about Christmas gifts, why not eid gift. Just kidding. Anyway what if it was the case? What will I wish for today? hmmm!

An Apple Mac Mini

Its the new thingy by apple(some fruit company) after the iMac and the iPod. The Mac Mini has been the talk of a lot of people now. This thingy only costs $499. So what is it. It's a computer, but it's what they call a "BYODKM" (bring your own display, keyboard and mouse) kinda computer.

The Mac Mini and an iPod

So what can I do with it? hmmm! I still don't know. I am not a Mac guy so far. But I have always admired mac's. Maybe this is my big chance to own one. What can you do? ah haa! If you are not so poor like me and even own a car. Then you can even use this to convert your car to a car like the "Knight rider"; the famous 80's TV show. Remember KITT; the onboad computer on the car? . With a Mac mini ; your car can be a good brain for your car. Which can talk and accept voice commands.