Raju Alluri’s Personal Blog

SATA-IO released the 6Gbps SATA 3.0 specification. Read a summary here.

This article by Roger Grimes presents a useful tool to evaluate the susceptibility of a network for password cracking attacks. The article also covers a wide range of items related to the topic. A good read.

Health status and operational status notifications are not limited to compute-purpose devices any more. Maytag is working with washing machines that can send email and text messages. Don’t be surprised if you see a text message: “You have got lint!”.

Wow! What a match it is! It swung between the two teams (Deccan Chargers and Royal Challengers) and finally Deccan Chargers won the final.

One of my coworkers is mentioning that the team is the most underestimated one before the event begun. Given the number of endorsements the team got, that observations seems to be true. At the end, the team that barely made it to the semi-finals in the fourth slot won the event.

The teams didn’t score too many flashy runs, but it is an enjoyable match for the bowling and fielding performances of both the teams.

Congratulations Chargers!

Took kids to the movie Kick on Saturday. The movie defies logic at all times, but is an out and out entertainer. There are times when I was laughing so much that I was gasping for breath. The RaviTeja-Brahmanandam comedy does it again. If you are looking for a sensible movie, skip this movie comfortably. But if you are a slapstick comedy fan, go for it.

CircuitCity.com is back online, after a gap. Looks like Systemax owns this now. It is good to see a good old site back up and running again. This is one of my favorite electronics stores in mid-90s.

From the security trenches:

• Pidgin versions earlier than 2.5.6 have multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities
• OpenSSH versions earlier than 5.2 and programs that implement the same are vulnerable (1 in 262144 chances of an attacker being able to see the plain text by sending specially manipulated packets.)

Deccan Chargers won comprehensively and entered the final of IPL 2009. Good show by the team today and great batting display by Adam Gilchrist!

Read this interesting post and see the linked YouTube Video. Dell fortuna packs 12 servers in 2U (density of 252 serverrs in a 42U rack.) Another interesting data point is 29W power consumption per server. Sounds good.

How many analog hands make a digital clock? The answer is 48, as per this interesting clock. I love the creative idea of these guys!