tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26132265844315838262024-03-06T09:10:19.820+05:30BVK Mohan'sA Place for my stuff on the InternetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-51553262366210433992018-12-09T22:27:00.000+05:302019-01-02T22:30:22.488+05:30Economics of Computer Network Overheads<blockquote class="tr_bq">
A 1 GB file downloaded from the Internet will have around ~ 53 MB of additional (invisible) data</blockquote>
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This data is not part of the actual file, nor we can see it anywhere once the download is completed.</blockquote>
Simply put, this additional data is called communication overhead, an essential component which contains all control information required for the file to travel the vast computer networks.<br />
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So what's the concern? Especially given the fast Internet connections and unlimited data plans we have?<br />
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Well, what if the download file size is 10 GB? Now the new overhead unavoidably increases to not less than ~534 MB.<br />
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Let's push it further, for a 100 GB download, the overhead data goes as high as ~5.3 GB and it gets large for large files/data downloads.<br />
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This additional overhead data is not a concern for small network infrastructures, <b>but reducing even 1% of the overhead becomes crucial for large scale enterprise networks, especially within Data Center and DC2DC scenarios.</b></blockquote>
So what exactly is this 'overhead data' and are there any ways to reduce them?<br />
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Grab your coffee and buckle up for a lengthy article.<br />
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Before we see the math, it's important to discus basics.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Internet Protocol (v4)</span><br />
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Communications in Computer Networks and the Internet happens using Internet Protocol. IP, along with its payload (user data) is called an IP Packet, and this study deals with only IPv4.<br />
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IP Packets are self-contained units that can travel networks of any scale independently to reach their destinations. A typical IP Packet (without payload) is illustrated below.<br />
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Minimum IP Header size is 20 Bytes (without IP Options), this includes the first 5 rows above (32 bit each) and these 5 are must to have on any IP Packet, the obvious ones most of us know are the Source and Destination IP Addresses (Explanation of each field).<br />
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To put it in perspective, when we open a website from a browser, the user request from the browser becomes the Payload, sort of like the contents enclosed within a traditional mail.<br />
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Where that payload has to go and other control information becomes part of the Header, like the From and To address we write on the mail envelop.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Transmission Control Protocol</span><br />
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Internet Protocol is a connection less, best effort, unreliable communication protocol, meaning, it doesn't have ANY mechanism to tell us if the data is delivered or not.<br />
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To fix the problem of reliability, another protocol is used along with IP, and its name is, you guessed it, TCP.<br />
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Like in IP, TCP too has its own header section, illustrated below.<br />
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Minimum TCP Header size is 20 Bytes (without options), like in IP, first 5 rows in TCP Header as illustrated are a must for any TCP based communications, options may be included but we are ignoring them here.<br />
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TCP takes care of end-to-end reliability for a given communication, in the TCP/IP - 5 Layer Model (called as TCP/IP Model from now on) or the deprecated OSI Model it sits on top of Network Layer (IP), meaning, when we open a website from a browser, the request before going to IP, comes down to TCP.<br />
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Browsing websites happen using HTTP/HTTPS protocols, these protocols are designed to use TCP for reliability at the Transport Layer.<br />
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TCP encapsulate the data from HTTP/HTTPS with its header information and goes down as payload to IP at Network Layer.<br />
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IP encapsulates this payload (TCP Payload + TCP Header) and builds the IP Packet with its own header information and goes down to Data Link Layer as a payload.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Ethernet</span><br />
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Ethernet is a Media Access Control protocol, together with Logic Link Control 802.2, it is part of Data Link Layer in the TCP/IP Model. There are several versions of Ethernet, of which, Ethernet II is popular and is the industry standard.<br />
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Ethernet encapsulates the Network Layer IP Packet with its own Header and a CRC trailer, illustrated below.<br />
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Preamble + SFD (Start Frame Delimiter) are not part of the actual Ethernet Header, they are added to signal the start of an Ethernet Frame, end of the Frame is signaled by the underlying encoding format, usually the extra two bits in the 10 bit code of 8B/10B encoding scheme used in Ethernet.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Encapsulation</span><br />
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Whatever we saw till now is the process of encapsulation, at each layer of the TCP/IP Model, end user's request gets encapsulated with the respective protocol headers as it goes down.<br />
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Data, before entering a Layer, is called Service Data Unit (SDU), once encapsulated with the protocol headers, it is called as Protocol Data Unit (PDU).<br />
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PDUs at each layer have names depending on the protocol selected by the upper layer.<br />
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The block sizes are not fixed, they are relative to the user data and protocol headers, the fixed size is just to illustrate.<br />
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As we can see, there's additional data that's getting added to the actual user data before transmitting as 0's and 1's at the Physical Layer.<br />
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At the receiving end, the data goes through the process of decapsulation (opposite of encapsulation), where at each layer, it's respective header info is stripped and sent to proper layer above for processing, before reaching the end user application.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Maximum Transmission Unit</span><br />
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This parameter dictates the maximum PDU size that can be transmitted within a single Network Layer transaction.<br />
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In simple terms, MTU tells the maximum size on an IP Packet to encapsulate within an Data Link Layer Frame.<br />
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MTU logic (RFC 791):<br />
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<li>If: The TL (Total Length) field in the IP Header is less than or equal to MTU size, then the IP Packet is sent to Data Link Layer protocol for encapsulation.</li>
<li>Else If: Discard the IP Packet if TL is greater than MTU and DF (Don't Fragment) bit is set to 1 in the IP Header.</li>
<li>Else: Fragment the IP Packet into multiple blocks where each block is not greater than MTU.</li>
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The imposition of MTU has to do with improving efficiency, back then, bandwidths were low and sending large IP Packets over low bandwidth links meant huge delays, congestion and resulting errors. Also, memory buffers in Network Interface Cards were very expensive!<br />
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To address these concerns, size limit is imposed on the size of IP Packets, this varies for several Data Link Layer protocols, for Ethernet, MTU is fixed at 1500 Bytes.<br />
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Ethernet MTU can vary in present day implementations, like Jumbo Frames where it is set at 9000 Bytes. Though Jumbo Frames are not part of IEEE 802.3 standards, it is used as a vendor feature on supported hardware largely due to the availability of higher bandwidths and less expensive memory. Maybe ... In future Jumbos becomes a standard.<br />
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OK, done with the basics.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Overhead Math</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Assumptions:</span><br />
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<li>Options in both TCP and IP Headers are ignored, Only the fields other than Options are considered, so, 20 Bytes is the minimum size for TCP or IP Header.</li>
<li>Ethernet is considered at the Data Link Layer where the MTU is set to 1500 Bytes, meaning, 1460 is the maximum user data that an Ethernet Frame can carry, 1460 Bytes because, we need to add TCP and IP overheads which would sum up to 1500 Bytes (1460 Bytes user data + 20 Bytes IP header + 20 Bytes TCP header).</li>
<li>Even though UDP is integral part of network communications, only TCP is assumed here. UDP overheads are negligible after all.</li>
<li>When you see 1 GB, it means 1,000,000,000 Bytes, not 1,073,741,824 Bytes. SI Prefix (decimal) is used for file sizes, unlike in Microsoft Windows file system and Linux's "df" command where Binary Prefix is used.</li>
<li>SI Prefix is used for measuring network throughput too, this is in-fact true in real world. 1 Gbit/s is 1,000,000,000 bits per second. For example, on perfect ideal conditions(no latency), an Ethernet medium(1500 MTU) is expected to take ~8.5 seconds to download 1 GB file over a 1 Gbit/s link. Not 1 sec.</li>
<li>Packets losses, handshakes, duplicates, congestion, latency and retires are ignored, ideal conditions are assumed for calculations.</li>
<li>Interframe/Interpacket Gap is considered in the calculations. This is the interval/pause time between two Ethernet Packets on the Physical Medium, it's a brief recovery time between two Ethernet Packets which allows the receiver to prepare(clock recovery) for the next Ethernet Packet.</li>
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The standard minimum Interframe/Interpacket gap for transmission is 96 bit times, meaning, the time it takes to transmit 96 bits(12 Bytes) of data on the medium.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Calculations:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For 1 GB Data:</span></div>
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<li>With 1460 Bytes as maximum data payload, 1 GB is divided into 684,932 blocks (Without TCP and IP headers, refer point 2 in assumptions).</li>
<li>At Transport Layer, 20 Bytes overhead is added by TCP for each data block.</li>
<li>Down at Network Layer, 20 Bytes overhead is added by IP for each TCP Segment.</li>
<li>Once at Data Link Layer, Ethernet would add its own overhead of 26 Bytes to each Network Layer PDU (nothing but IP Packet).</li>
<li>When on wire, an additional 12 Bytes are consumed for each Ethernet Packet for Interframe / Interpacket Gap.</li>
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<li>This sums to a total overhead of 78 Bytes for each Ethernet Packet carrying a maximum user payload (block) of 1460 Bytes.</li>
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What this tells us?</div>
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<li>That there's an overhead of ~5.3% for 1 GB Data.</li>
<li>~95% efficiency due to overheads.</li>
<li>And 0.95 Gbit/s of practical throughput (in ideal conditions) on 1 Gbit/s interface.</li>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame#Maximum_throughput" target="_blank">Formulas</a></div>
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That's the additional ~53 MB we saw at the beginning of the article. 684,932 blocks (maximum 1460 Bytes each) multiplied by 78 Bytes of overhead.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For 1 TB Data:</span></div>
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<li>Is divided into 684,931,507 blocks (Without TCP and IP headers, point 2 in assumptions).</li>
<li>Adding 78 Bytes of overhead to each block gives a total overhead of ~53.4 GB!</li>
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However, the overhead and the efficiency percentages remain the same, as-long-as given MTU size is fully utilized. What happens when the actual user data is less than the MTU?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For 1 KB Data:</span></div>
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<li>Is divided? No, usable data size in 1500 MTU is 1460 Bytes, and this is greater than 1 KB so this can be stuffed in to a single packet.</li>
<li>Adding 78 Bytes to a single packet of 1 KB payload would give an overhead of 7.8%, which is slightly more than the ~5.3% we saw in our previous cases, higher overhead percentage is due to the under utilization of MTU.</li>
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What if the application just want to send 1 Byte over the network? Yes, some applications do.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For 1 Byte Data:</span></div>
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<li>Can be fit into a single packet? Yes of-course.</li>
<li>There is no way 78 Bytes of overhead can be avoided, and here, it is way more than the actual data being transmitted leading to an overhead of 7,800%!</li>
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Understanding these overheads is essential in designing network applications. There are some applications like the Telnet which uses one Packet for every character typed (<a href="http://www.bvkmohan.com/2017/03/telnet-protocol-analysis.html" target="_blank">read here</a>). Network overheads would be significant for small data payloads that are less than the prescribed MTU.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">How to Reduce Overheads?</span></div>
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Obvious solution is to increase the MTU value. This is already done with Jumbo Frames where the Ethernet MTU is set at 9000 Bytes.</div>
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How much difference does it make? Let's see.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For 1 GB Data:</span></div>
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<li>Maximum user payload per Ethernet Packet would be 8960 Bytes with 9000 Bytes as MTU (without TCP and IP Headers).</li>
<li>With that, 1 GB is divided into 111,608 blocks.</li>
<li>Adding 78 Bytes overhead (TCP+IP+Ethernet+IPG/IFG) would give ~8.7 MB of total overhead, that's just 0.87% from the ~5.3% we saw with 1500 Bytes MTU.</li>
<li>And that would give us an efficiency of ~99.1%. Significant improvement!</li>
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Good enough reason to tell your boss to start implementing Jumbo Frames in your infrastructure and get a good salary hike, right? <b>Wrong!</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reasons:</span></div>
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Higher MTU values are proved to provide better overall efficiency and reduced CPU cycles for network processing. However, they can degrade the performance of low bandwidth networks. Large Ethernet Packets traveling on low bandwidth networks would hold the interfaces from transmitting/receiving other Ethernet Packets until finished.</div>
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Example: A 9038 Byte Ethernet Packet traveling on a 56 kbit/s link would hold the interface for 1.29 seconds! No other communication can happen until the transmission is finished. Not a problem anymore because, these days, we get minimum 100 Mbit/s Ethernet ports even on a cheap home Wi-Fi router.</div>
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If network throughput is not a problem anymore then why Jumbo Frame didn't replace the default 1500 Byte MTU for Ethernet?</div>
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Because IEEE says so, so does the whole Internet.</div>
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Part of Ethernet's success has to do with its backward compatibility, meaning, we can interconnect Gigabit Ethernet(1/10/100 Gbit/s), Fast Ethernet(100 Mbit/s) and Ethernet(10 Mbit/s) switch ports and they work just fine, considering the standard 1500 MTU is used.</div>
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When an L2 switch with Ethernet port receives a Jumbo Frame, and if its interface is configured at standard 1500 MTU, it'll promptly drops it.</div>
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To fix this, we'll need to configure its interfaces to accept Jumbo Frames, unfortunately, Fast Ethernet and anything below that MAY NOT support Jumbo Frames, however, this has changed in recent years with vendors enabling support for Jumbos.</div>
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Configuring just a switch port is not going to increase the efficiency, we'll have to ensure <b>entire data path</b> is configured to accept Jumbo Frames, if not, intermediate nodes would drop them. Also, ISP networks, at-least the customer bound ones work on Ethernet's standard 1500 Bytes MTU, enabling Jumbo Frames towards ISP bound traffic may cause problems.</div>
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Honestly speaking, 1500 MTU is the reason why Internet works.</blockquote>
Most networks, at-least the ones I've seen uses Jumbo Frames for specific scenarios, especially Data Center NAS,SAN environments, storage vendors recommend using Jumbo Frames for higher efficiency and these environments should ensure MTU consistency is maintained across the network.<br />
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Planning is everything, that goes without saying right?<br />
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By now if you haven't wondered about Jumbo Frame's 9000 Bytes size then you should. Why is it fixed at 9000 Bytes? Why not pump it up to the IPv4's theoretical limit of 64 KB?<br />
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The Cyclic Redundancy Check algorithm used for calculating the Ethernet Frame checksum has a limit of up to 12,000 Bytes, anything above that would be error prone.<br />
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I guess, 9000 Bytes was chosen for maximum payload and also to accommodate overheads without breaching the limit. This may not be true with every vendor, some vendors have different values for Jumbo Frames, this is expected to happen until IEEE makes it a standard.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Summary</span><br />
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The case study showed the network overheads and efficiency percentages for Wired Ethernet medium under ideal conditions. We saw, increasing MTU value can benefit the overall network performance with Jumbo Frames as an example.<br />
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Since the calculations were done with assumptions in place, we didn't consider several other overheads, like the ones added by the user Application, VLAN Tags on Ethernet Frames which are most common in networks.<br />
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If we would've considered a real-world case, the final overhead would've been more than our theoretical ~5.3%. In case of IPSec, the overall efficiency would go less than 90% (<a href="https://packetpushers.net/ipsec-bandwidth-overhead-using-aes/" target="_blank">read here</a>).<br />
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Jumbo Frames can be used to decrease the overheads and increase the overall efficiency of the network, but without proper planning, it may lead to a network wide outage.<br />
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Thank you for reading, feel free to highlight inconsistencies/mistakes.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-59294975277131428672017-03-24T23:21:00.000+05:302018-12-10T14:15:13.982+05:30Telnet Protocol AnalysisTelnet is a well know protocol known to every IT Administrator. Besides being a clear-text protocol where it sends all of its communications in plain text, Telnet is interesting in the way it communicates.<br />
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Every character we type on the terminal is sent in a single IP Packet, right, a single packet is used for every character.</div>
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A quick look at Wireshark capture shows the below.</div>
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Above 3 rows shows the initial 3-way handshake for TCP. It is followed by several Telnet own internal commands.</div>
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To look at the actual user data, we need to add a wireshark filter "telnet.data", this filters all lines for the ones with the user data.</div>
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Here we can see the filter applied and all the lines that has user data. The first selected row shows the Telnet server's OS details and the pseudoterminal interface ttyp1.</div>
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After presenting that, 192.168.0.1 asks for login id.</div>
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We type the login id "fake" and press enter.</div>
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As we can see, even though we typed the complete user id "fake", it won't be transmitted as-a-whole in the actual communication, rather, each character is transmitted, in the above, it is "f", followed by "a" in the below.</div>
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Even the Carriage Return (Enter) is transmitted in a single packet from the source to the destination (below)</div>
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Destination replies back with a Carriage Return + New Line, and later, with the Password prompt.</div>
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Headers/banners from the Telnet server is communicated in single packets, however, user input and telnet server's output is communicated as one character per-packet.</div>
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I believe this was designed like this to address the problem with low bandwidth networks of old days, irrespective of the overhead (66 Bytes) it carries for a single character payload (1 Byte).</div>
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Considering modern networks where bandwidth is not a concern any more from the perspective of Telnet communications, I think the protocol needs to be redesigned.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-79784221455484919712016-10-26T13:06:00.000+05:302018-12-04T11:19:07.771+05:30Internet of Things, DDoS attacks and Blackout in Murica!<div align="justify">
On Oct 21st Internet has experienced a huge outage like never before, when it happened I was browsing Internet as usual and was totally unaware of the million cries overseas, most of the people in US suffered Internet blackout and fortunately some went outside of their caves and socialized with other human beings, except the SJWs who got PTSD over the whole matter. Good or bad? I don’t know, nor I cared because my Internet was working just fine. The point is, majority of the sites were not accessible/extremely slow in eastern part of the US for hours! That was a big deal, Libya has the worst Internet Speed in the entire galaxy besides their ongoing crisis, that didn’t stop ahmed from downloading Mia Khalifa’s pictures, does it matter? No, because nobody gives a fuck about Ahmed or his country, fortunately India is at</div>
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5th place among the world’s top 10 countries with slowest internet connection, poor ahmed is at 1st place (<a href="http://www.dospeedtest.com/blog/which-country-has-the-worlds-slowest-internet-speed/" target="_blank">link</a>), but unfortunately in this case Uncle Sam was the victim, ya, the only country in the entire planet where Aliens prefer to land and talk in English, so any problem in the US is a problem for the entire world because MURICA!</div>
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What is this rant about then? This is definitely not about US or the impending World War III, NO! It so happens that I felt bit responsible out of my lazy life after reading some lame articles with stupid headlines explaining this case of Internet outage to the already lame people, as a responsible netizen, yes I am! I thought of putting down my own words on the whole matter, after all, it’s part of my work life.</div>
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I’ll try my best not to put more technical details and confuse the shit out of you. Take a pinch of salt and buckle up.</div>
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On Friday October 21, 2016 approximately at 11:10 am GMT (4:40 pm IST) <a href="https://dyn.com/" target="_blank">Dyn</a> experienced a huge spike in their inbound traffic which resembled the patterns of a DDoS attack, basically huge amount of traffic congesting their entire network. Dyn’s NOC (Network Operations Control) team claimed to address this by 1:20 pm GMT (6:40 pm IST) but a second wave of DDoS attack started at 3:50 pm GMT (9:20 pm IST) which targeted global infrastructure of Dyn, not just in US. As like in previous attack, Dyn mitigated this one too by 5 pm GMT (10:30 pm IST)</div>
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I know, you must be wondering who is Dyn and what is a DDoS? Don’t worry I’ll explain all. Dyn is a well known company (at least in computer networks world) who provides solutions for Internet traffic management, intelligence, DNS services etc. They have some of the biggest customers in their pocket like Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, Amazon, Netflix, Spotify … list goes on. When the attack happened on Oct 21st, it was targeted in particular on their DNS infrastructure which is used by Dyn’s customers, the attack almost crippled their network thereby affecting its customers. DNS is a crucial part for the Internet to work, and in this case it was the primary target. I’ll explain DNS too.</div>
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Many users who tried to access the customer sites of Dyn like Twitter were shown a timed out error in their browsers, especially the users in the east coast of US. Moving on …</div>
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I don’t want to give its definition, that’s something you can Google out. I’ll explain what a DDoS closely looks like in a real world. Some examples:</div>
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Imagine you are on your way to buy the last signed copy of Chetan Bhagat’s One Indian Girl and you have encountered a road block due to a protest by sangh parivar condemning that women should not wear leggings and shorts in public places. While you and I doesn’t give a shit about it (I don’t give a shit about Chetan Bhagat either), all that drama by saffron brigade delayed your commute and by the time you reach the store you see a happy customer on her 30’s with ‘Proud Feminist’ written on her t-shirt entering her credit card’s pin for the last copy of your all time favorite author’s book. Without knowing what to do you check out books on Spirituality and to fill the void you end up buying “How to align your Chakras with Banana Peels”, which of course comes with free banana peels at just 999/- only.</div>
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Take another classic example, remember the days we used to book train tickets on the IRCTC website at 8:00 am in the morning for tatkal? Ever wondered why the heck it runs very slow especially at 8:00 am? For the clueless first timers who thought they can book a 1-tier AC ticket easily because there are 2 seats available while ignoring 20 available seats in 3-tier AC all for a 4 hour journey ends up with a sleeper class ticket with 22 in weighting list, only to bribe the TC to get into an AC couch later. The site opens just fine at any other time but why not at 8:00 am? I am not sure what the current times are for tatkal booking, been a while I booked.</div>
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Though the first example is vague just like Chetan Bhagat’s books, either cases have something in common, if you figured it out you can move to the next section. If not, it’s very simple, really. In both cases we have users who are trying to avail a service, which assumed to be available at all the time but couldn’t avail it at particualr time. A service can be anything, going to a store and buying a book, or opening a website and purchasing online. In the above two cases the users were not able to avail the service because of the service’s unavailability or poor performance.</div>
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In the first case it was service unavailability due to a road block, while in the second case it was poor performance to handle so many requests from the users which in turn caused a service unavailability on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Railway_Catering_and_Tourism_Corporation" target="_blank">IRCTC</a> site. DDoS, which is more complex and highly technical, is in a way almost similar but can be extremely disruptive at times. To put it in simple terms.</div>
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A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" target="_blank">Denial of Service</a> (Dos) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" target="_blank">Distributed Denial of Service</a> (DDoS) causes a legitimate user request to a service to either experience a huge delay or simply make the service unavailable for extended periods of time. The reasons for the service unavailability can be either internal or external factors. In this case, we study about the External factors in particular, which is what the outage on Oct 21st was about.</div>
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Best last example I can give, using an elevator at office. In the early morning hours you can use it without any problem, in peak hours you’ll have crowd but still you can use it with some amount of delay. I am not equating the other people using it to a DDoS attack. The DDoS attack here would be someone who are not suppose to use the elevator but uses it and causes inconvenience to other users who are suppose to us it. Example, Greenpeace activists intruding your office to protest on how Air Conditioning is killing our mother Earth.</div>
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Even though by nature a DDoS is purely technical, the intentions/motivations behind it are exactly the same as a Bandh/Protest, the former is controversially known as Hacktivism which happens in Cyber World, the Internet, while the latter is simply Activism which happens in a real world, it’s just that sometimes the former goes out of control and end up making news and me writing a lengthy blog post.</div>
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DDoS attack of course, but let’s see the technical details of it. There are two things you need to know before knowing the attack on Oct 21st. IoT and DNS.</div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_things" target="_blank">Internet of Things</a>. When we think about how to access Internet we usually think about PCs (Desktops), Laptops and Mobile devices like Smartphones and Tablets. Most of us don’t even know or aware that several other devices which are connected either via cable or WiFi are capable of talking to the Internet, these devices are Smart TVs, Routers, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network-attached_storage" target="_blank">NAS</a> (Network-attached storage), Video Cameras used for surveillance, Smart Refrigerators, Home Security Systems etc. Unlike your Window 10 laptop which can be protected with a “solid antivirus” like McAfee which claims to protect your system from hackers stealing your good for nothing bathroom selfies, these IoT devices are unregulated and are nasty! They are susceptible to attacks because they don’t have any protective mechanisms, in almost all the cases. When was the last time you heard about Kaspersky Antivirus for your Smart TV? Hmmm, you might probably hear about shit like that in coming days, after all, after this attack IoT is a lucrative area to make money for these Antivirus companies. The risk of IoT devices was already pointed out by several security professionals but none took them seriously until now.</div>
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<a href="https://www.schneier.com/essays/archives/2014/01/the_internet_of_thin.html" target="_blank">You can read one such article from Bruce Schneier, one of the most respected person in the IT Security world.</a></div>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System" target="_blank">Domain Name System</a>. In the very initial days of Internet a website address was just a numerical address called an IP address, ex: 144.145.34.124. It was not a big deal to remember few dozen sites with their IP addresses but the problem was, Internet started growing exponentially. A solution was provided to overcome this problem on how to memorize hundreds of website addresses, it was called DNS. This provided a very simple solution, forget about memorizing a number, instead memorize a name, like websiteformohan.com rather than 143.189.242.199, DNS will take care of converting the name to an IP address, why this has to happen? Because the Internet works on IP based communications, not name based. When you enter a website name in your browser, like <a href="http://www.bvkmohan.com/">www.bvkmohan.com</a>, the DNS service in the background converts the name to an IP address, here 74.125.68.121. For this to happen, a network of DNS systems are configured in the Internet, when you enter <a href="http://www.bvkmohan.com/">www.bvkmohan.com</a> in your browser, your browser asks those DNS systems for the IP address and once it has the IP address it makes the actual connection to the website and displays the page in your browser, this is simply called as Name Resolution or DNS Resolution, and this process was disrupted on the Oct 21st attack, we’ll see.</div>
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The functionality of DNS is very complex to explain in a single paragraph. This information should be more than enough to understand the events on Oct 21st, so what happened?</div>
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A network of zombie minions called IoZ (Internet of Zombies, that’s what I would like to call them from now on) attacked a company called Dyn. Unfortunately this company provides name resolution service (DNS) for some of the big and well know companies like Twitter, Reddit etc.<br /><br />In simple terms, these IoZ devices sent several junk requests, ex: asking what is the IP address of something like asdjjddv.com, the traffic may not be an actual request asking an IP address of a website, it could be plain junk traffic. Fortunately their infrastructure was/is prepared for suck attacks and how to mitigate them. Then why there was an outage?<br /><br />We are not talking about the zombies like in the movie <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/" target="_blank">Dead Alive</a>, we are talking about <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816711/" target="_blank">World War Z</a> here, more than 100,000 IoT devices sent their junk traffic to Dyn infrastructure, the problem here was not the attack itself, most major companies with their internet presence have measures in place for DDoS attacks and can mitigate them to a certain extent, the attack that happened on Oct 21st was very intense that it crippled the availability of their DNS service to the actual authentic users, so when the general public entered reddit.com they got an error saying timed out.<br /><br />This happened only with the users in eastern part of the US. Not everyone got affected because Dyn is not the only DNS service provider in the Internet.<br />
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IoT devices cannot attack all by themselves. They are not as intelligent as … let’s say a Smartphone. IoT are purpose built, they are made to do a particular task, ex: a baby monitor. Unlike a multipurpose machine like a PC or a tablet, IoT devices are pretty basic, cheap and are easy to manufacture. Ex: A NAS hard disk can be run using a very old Linux OS and just 256 MB of RAM, or even less.</div>
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IoT devices (mostly webcams) in our case were targeted by a malware called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirai_(malware)" target="_blank">Mirai</a> (meaning The Future in Japanese), it was developed by a hacker who goes by the pseudonym <a href="https://hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=5420472" target="_blank">Anna-Senpai</a>, this wasn’t created for the attack on Dyn, this existed even before Dyn’s attack and it even helped in two other DDoS attacks. In case of Dyn, it was not exactly Mirai but a modified version of it. Just before the attack the author, Anna-Senpai, released it as an open-source in the web (<a href="https://github.com/jgamblin/Mirai-Source-Code" target="_blank">link</a>) and in just few days a modified version of Mirai was born and attacked the IoT devices to create a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet" target="_blank">Botnet</a>, which later attacked Dyn. Below is from a forum where Anna-Senpai made a post about releasing Mirai to the skids (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Script_kiddie" target="_blank">Script Kiddies</a>).</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimDwzSTwcExmdeZ2IvWgqqbiPj42U2C4dqAvYrod6kSuAOmqEVUBDBnF_yHPV2JNe4rVhI0Lnh7w52jRCP_2InEwHy2YAfGHHOSCzlOh3p-0dRAqMs90ivAPveQ-7HJPCUSTVxtWC56i4q/s1600-h/Anna-Senpai%25255B5%25255D.png"><img alt="bvkmohan,bvkmohan.com,DDoS" border="0" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij_o50fqemaMEoVcq8n1oBuG5XNzBnV43Lq3QC548IK8TCRBNflgSPxmv76WMhFos3oPdo4C-f3dIDPoZWX8n6BK1pJu87KzxB8656h0sea9ubdzSc735QjF1lp3m7HZYJh9J-tqoNhbVi/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Anna-Senpai" width="640" /></a></div>
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Botnet is a simple concept to understand and extremely complex to investigate in attacks like these. So what happened in this attack?<br />
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A malware, here Mirai, attacked a predefined group of targets (Ex: IoT devices, Desktops, Servers etc) using their default login credentials. It used a list of predefined login IDs and passwords and scanned the Internet with login attempts in a trial and error method. It used Telnet (a way to remotely login to a device) and on successful login, it made those devices part of a Botnet. Every infected device was added to the Botnet and that Botnet was controlled via CnC (<a href="http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/command-and-control-server-CC-server" target="_blank">Command and Control</a>), in most cases a CnC is an infected server in the Internet which is hacked for this purpose. Below picture shows the details of the default login ids/passwords used by Mirai.<br />
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<i>Interesting fact, from the above picture a quick lookup in Google told me that the credentials <b>root/7ujMko0vizxv</b> belongs to <b>Dahua IP Cameras</b>, looks like that company made that as a static password for all of their products, how stupid! Further googling told me that <b>root/dreambox</b> belongs to a product called D<b>reambox HD Satellite Receiver</b>.</i></div>
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The hacker or a hacker group can use this CnC (via a client application or web based interface) to tell the infected devices in the Botnet to do a particular task, here in Dyn’s case they instructed the devices to send junk traffic to Dyn’s DNS servers on TCP and UDP port 53. These ports are used for DNS name resolution services. It was estimated that a traffic of 1.2 TB/s (Terabytes per second) was generated by this DDoS attack, which dwarfed every known DDoS attacked ever happened before and the result of this? The legitimate users who were using Dyn’s DNS services got affected. Big time.</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/NewWorldHacking/status/790055727142273024" target="_blank">The groups Anonymous and the so called New World Hackers claimed responsibility</a> (claims to be from Russia), which is anecdotal. WikiLeaks suspected this could be a retaliation attempt by its supporters because the Ecuadorian embassy at London cut off Internet access to Julian Assange, they issued a statement regarding the same. <a href="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345" title="https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345">https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/789574436219449345</a></div>
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<em>If you want to know in detail about the attack let me know in the comments, I would make another post explaing nothing but the technical details of this attack.</em></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">What was shown to people?</span></b></div>
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In the wake of this, the so called “tech authors” of many sites started writing garbage shit about the situation, as usual, only making their readers eat more shit. Some of the shitty examples below.</div>
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Technically speaking, Outage or a Blackout is the correct term to use in these cases. Shutdown is completely out of context here.</div>
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All those sites were working perfectly fine, it’s just that they were not accessible. NO! Much of the Internet was not broken!</div>
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Duh … While these nincompoops sitting at these “Tech Focused” sites were making extraordinary premature claims while sipping on their organic orange juice shit there were sites which made proper well informed news. Some below.<br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-size: small;"><b>Conclusion?</b></span><br />
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This will be a short section, I wanted to explain the actual events occurred and the details of the attack while mocking at these “Tech Sites” producing shitty articles, that’s been done. So in conclusion I want to say two things.<br />
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- It is extremely difficult to shutdown the whole Internet, no, it’s not that easy and the people who writes misinformed articles on it should be kept in a jail for their lifetime with an Internet connection of a Dial-up modem. I’ve wrote an article explaining why it is difficult, <a href="http://www.bvkmohan.com/2015/11/how-can-i-destroy-internet.html" target="_blank">read this</a>.<br />
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- Future is shit, this DDoS attack is just the beginning and more such attacks with even higher intensity than 1.2 TB/s are expected to happen, thanks to the IoT ready to get infected. If you’re buying a Webcam or any gadget that can be hooked to the Internet, please ensure it has some quality standards. I know you definitely don’t give a shit when going for a cheap Chinese made Webcam which has Snapchat filters but still. Regulating them is very difficult unless there are some strict standards in place, which I foolishly wish is going to happen because of this attack. The reason that I am highlighting China has no relation to the ongoing campaign in India on China products boycott, <a href="http://www.zdnet.com/article/chinese-tech-giant-recalls-webcams-used-in-dyn-cyberattack/" target="_blank">read this</a>.<br />
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Finally, ALWAYS change the default login credentials for your networked devices/gadgets. Being said that, thanks for reading this lengthy post and share it if you think it’s informative. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-31866448319217686462016-10-04T20:40:00.000+05:302016-10-08T05:47:49.853+05:30Himalayan Ride 2016 – Complete Itinerary<p align="justify">My first successfully completed very long ride, and it was to Himalayas! I was very sceptic about its completion right from the begining but fortunately everything went cool and I am back in one piece! Considering that 90 % of the ride was done in solo :) </p> <p align="justify">Planned the trip in 5 stages, of which I cancelled stage 4 due to many reasons. The main stages, Stage 2 and 3 were completed, I am happy with that. I am listing the entire route details, I am not going to explain about the places/experiences and you won’t see the photos either, I’ll be covering them in different posts. This is just about the route(s) I’ve took.</p> <div align="justify"> <a name='more'></a></div> <p align="justify"><strong><font color="#c0504d">Stage 1:</font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Bengaluru to Manali</strong></p> <div align="justify"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="484"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Day</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="79"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Date</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="100"><strong><font color="#0000ff">From</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="178"><strong><font color="#0000ff">To</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="77"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Km Covered</font></strong></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">1</td> <td valign="top" width="79">31st Aug</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Bengaluru</td> <td valign="top" width="178">Hyderabad</td> <td valign="top" width="77">570</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">2</td> <td valign="top" width="79">1st Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Hyderabad</td> <td valign="top" width="178">Narsinghpur</td> <td valign="top" width="77">760</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">3</td> <td valign="top" width="79">2nd Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Narsinghpur</td> <td valign="top" width="178">Noida</td> <td valign="top" width="77">775</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">4</td> <td valign="top" width="79">3rd Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Noida </td> <td valign="top" width="178">Agra –> Noida</td> <td valign="top" width="77">466</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">5</td> <td valign="top" width="79">4th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Noida</td> <td valign="top" width="178">Shimla</td> <td valign="top" width="77">345</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">6</td> <td valign="top" width="79">5th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Shimla</td> <td valign="top" width="178">Manali</td> <td valign="top" width="77">250</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">6</td> <td valign="top" width="79">5th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Manali </td> <td valign="top" width="178">Rohtang La –> Manali</td> <td valign="top" width="77">102</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="48">7</td> <td valign="top" width="79">6th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="100">Manali </td> <td valign="top" width="178">Malana –> Kasol –> Manali</td> <td valign="top" width="77">185</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p align="justify">Click on the map for more information</p> <p align="justify"><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1Xv6Q0CWCrzWvEiEUNFYYZFcgyrk" target="_blank"><img style="background-image: none; 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Toomuch of mountains is again not recommended and I need an excuse to ride again to Himalayas :P</p> <p align="justify"><strong><font color="#c0504d">Stage 5:</font></strong></p> <p align="justify"><strong>Chandigarh to Bengaluru</strong></p> <p align="justify">I actually planned to take the return route via Kolkata along the east coast to Bengaluru via my hometown Tirupati, but due to rains and an additional km count (close to 1500 km) I cancelled that plan, well, mainly due to less days and money. I didn’t want to take the same route through which I started from Bengaluru either, so I took the below ones while keeping an eye on the rains. Fortunately it was a dry ride :) </p> <div align="justify"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="452"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Day</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="76"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Date</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="96"><strong><font color="#0000ff">From</font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="148"><strong><font color="#0000ff">To </font></strong></td> <td valign="top" width="88"><strong><font color="#0000ff">Km Covered</font></strong></td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">25</td> <td valign="top" width="76">24th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">Chandigarh</td> <td valign="top" width="148">New Delhi</td> <td valign="top" width="88">255</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">26</td> <td valign="top" width="76">25th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">New Delhi</td> <td valign="top" width="148">New Delhi (Buffer day)</td> <td valign="top" width="88">-</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">27</td> <td valign="top" width="76">26th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">New Delhi</td> <td valign="top" width="148">Jaipur</td> <td valign="top" width="88">275</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">28</td> <td valign="top" width="76">27th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">Jaipur</td> <td valign="top" width="148">Indore</td> <td valign="top" width="88">640</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">29</td> <td valign="top" width="76">28th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">Indore</td> <td valign="top" width="148">Ahmednagar</td> <td valign="top" width="88">490</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">30</td> <td valign="top" width="76">29th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">Ahmednagar</td> <td valign="top" width="148">Belgaum</td> <td valign="top" width="88">430</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="42">31</td> <td valign="top" width="76">30th Sep</td> <td valign="top" width="96">Belgaum</td> <td valign="top" width="148">Bengaluru</td> <td valign="top" width="88">512</td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p align="justify">Click on the map for more information</p> <p align="justify"><a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1EToG0plrx72Oi10rg5Q_ymkTONY&usp=sharing" target="_blank"><img style="background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px" title="Click" border="0" alt="bvkmohan.com, bvkmohan, himalayan, himalayan 2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMdmovOlDjLXNbkvsXKwFeym8z2HnV1mF_EUnyPBv3gxnQOMXlopIg3pam5Hb_uius7rd-9Ru6kRK5Klf1QDqIR0HhvzsAa6cXrbIpkDydsCvGS3r3HQoipFhaKfM445ViN3G9rN90k6Wj/?imgmax=800" width="240" height="225"></a></p> <p align="justify"><strong>>>></strong></p> <p align="justify">That completes the route details, started this journey with 41,850 km reading in my odometer, ended it successfully with a reading of 51,272 km on Sept 30th night. That was a total of 9,422 kilometers of memorable and adventurous moments in 31 days :)</p> <p align="justify">More to come! </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-36849100924049613602016-07-14T15:48:00.000+05:302016-10-08T03:49:35.630+05:30AR and VR, who is winning?<p>While everyone is enjoying Pokemon Go I am enjoying how Augmented Reality is taking over Virtual Reality, though VR is highly potential it has the drawback of limitation to physical world.</p> <p>A VR represents it's own virtual world (confined space) rather than the real world surrounding us. Where as in an AR, it actual creates a creative augmented world (virtual layer) on top of our real world, there by increasing our mobility and interactions from the confined worlds of VR.</p> <a name='more'></a> <p>If the AR learns the dynamic terrain of our real world (which I am sure gonna happen in near future) and combined with a VR type wearable it can almost replace everything we see with virtual interactions and what not! You can simply look at a monument and the wearable gadget tells you everything about its origin and history. Many other such applications include:</p> <ul> <li>Looking at a person and the wearable device tells you their mood/health conditions based on what they broadcast. <li>Looking at a product it tells you its details. <li>Increases your safety and situational awareness while riding/driving a vehicle by showing critical information of your vehicle and your health (heartbeat etc). <li>Every business can advertise their products in a creative way to whoever subscribes to them. <li>Gaming!!! Yes! You can actually create a virtual world which matches to the physical dimensions of real world, including people appearances. Close to what Pokemon Go is doing now. <li>Preform a surgery with vital information readily available in front of the eyes. <li>......</li></ul> <p>Applications are limitless, it creates an interactive real world. Basically a real world surrounded by a Matrix :P.</p> <p>Though this concept is already known to many, never before an AR created a demand like Pokemon Go is doing now, thereby exponentially increasing the chances of AR's penetration in every segment of the market, future is exciting :D.</p> <p>Now, whose gonna buy Niantic, Inc. in another multi billion dollar deal?</p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-31054587624206028342016-02-04T22:15:00.000+05:302016-10-03T16:10:01.353+05:30We can't fix your rear tyre puncture!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually I started learning how to remove and put the rear tyre back, last 3 times I had punctures I had to explain and help them in doing that. The reasons for them to refuse is vague and mostly because of their improper handling of some arrogant RE fanatic customers I guess. Since I've learnt it, I can think of below reasons on why they refuse.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Not one person's job! The bike is heavy! to remove the rear tyre from it takes two pair of hands, one to bend the bike, another to remove it from the swingarm. But that's with most of the bikes, not just RE.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Putting the rear disk break caliper back to its place is tiresome and can't be done by one person. Yes, once you're through with fixing the puncture, one has to hold the tyre firmly in place between the swingarm while another has to put the disk break caliper back in place, not very easy without much practice. This is the main reason why they refuse.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are the kind of shit I am hearing these days, I really don’t understand why people think marriage is so relevant for a “happy life”. For me, it’s just an option out of million other trivial options I have. I really don’t feel it should be a compulsion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am not really against it though, I do have my reasons for getting married, the reasons are quite simple and logical if you’re …</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In love with someone from a long time, and you want to spend the rest of your life with that person.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This 3rd point may not be relevant for me, but putting it anyway. Kids! ya, some people are too touchy about this, I can understand that.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You need someone who can cook and take care of you.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It’s getting late for you, if you marry late and by the time your kids are grownup you’ll be too old, you’ll have to work and earn money till your kids get into a position where they can take care of you.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Got up at 7:00 a.m, freshened up and started to Beypore Port. This port has rich history, It has the reputation of building some of the finest boats in ancient times, worth reading its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beypore" target="_blank">history</a>. Besides its amazing historical background, the area is extremely dirty now, don't even think about going to its beach, it looks like a dump yard! Only place I liked and spent most of the time was near its stone pier, it goes almost 1 km into the ocean, a rewarding walk where you'll be presented with several birds, fishing ships, navy vessels and occasionally playful bottlenose dolphins. I had the pleasure of watching them all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It's not a properly laid road, there were several ongoing construction work all along its length. At one point the road was completely broken, I had to go into the sand only to get caught in it, my rear tyre went deep into it and I couldn't move any further, moving a 200+ kilo bike is not one person's job, had to call for help, though I couldn't speak or understand Malayalam, the person who helped me understood the situation. Off the sand and onto the road again, the more I went inside the territory the more hostile I felt, people started looking at me like an alien, maybe because of the riding gear, a group stopped me and asked to remove my helmet, to look at my face I guess, and as far as I understood they suggested me to leave the place soon. Without any further thought I left, joined NH 17 again and rode to Kannur.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There's a beach called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muzhappilangad_Beach" target="_blank">Muzhappilangad Drive-in Beach</a>, approximately 15 km before entering Kannur from Kozhikode. It is one of the less know and longest drive-in beach in India, I wish it stays less know, you can ride your bike/4-wheeler all along its 5.5 to 6 km length, right next to the beach! It's one of a kind experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Met another friend of mine, Rallyn,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at a bar. Had another round <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of Mangaluru's <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">delicacies, after that I <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">went to the City <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Central Mall,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> spent some tim<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e there and starte<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d to K<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">uap Beach<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> which is around 47 km from the Mall. It<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> has a light house and view from <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">s top is amazing! 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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have already planned to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ride back to Bengaluru that night, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my friend insisted to stay back and ride with him on Sunday<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, but my<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> office work starts from Sunday, no change in plans. G<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eared up, had dinner at his place, t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hanked him and Rakesh for the memorable hospitality </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and started <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">my ride. <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was approximately <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">340 km <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to Bengaluru,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> it was a single, narrow<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">pothole</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">and pain-</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">in-the<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-ass road till Hassan, after that it's a highway (NH 4) to <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bengaluru.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ride from Mangaluru to Bengaluru was <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">one <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">of the diff<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">icult ones I did, it was solo ride,</span></span></span></span></span></span> midnight, extreme wind<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">-chill factor<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">a long ride home!<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Not to mention the rash bus/trucks drivers till Hassan. More breaks are necessary in such rides, but I completed it with just 2, the reason was simple for me. When you ride in such extreme wind-chill condition, slowly your body acclimates to it, which is a good sign, but when you stop for a break, body starts absorbing heat and it has to acclimate again to the wind-chill when riding, add fatigue to it and if you're not physically/mentally fit, you cannot ride any further. I didn't feel this effect till Hassan, because it wasn't a proper highway and most of the time I was keeping myself busy with turns, dodging potholes and traffic. Once I entered the highway after Hassan fatigue started kicking in, first sign was significant neck pain and then more wind-chill. Didn't feel like stopping till Bengaluru, maintained a constant speed of 80 km/h where I felt comfortable with the wind-chill.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Nevertheless, t</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">hat was the last part in this 4 day journey</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, th<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">e happi<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ness of reaching home and crashing on my b<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">ed has <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">outweighed everything else,<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and I am not a causal rider either, I<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">'ve did several butt hurting, endura<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">nce <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">testing <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rides successfully.<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To make things worse, <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">fog sta<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">rted from all directions, had to slow do<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">wn to 60 km<span style="font-family: 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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted to escape 2016 NYE out to somewhere where I can be just myself. So I planned this ride for 4 days, the ride was planned, but not the places. Till the day before the ride I wasn't fixed on what places to go, roughly made a list and settled on 3 - Mysuru, Kozhikode and Mangaluru. On 30th Dec I started to Mysuru.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As usual, I got up late at around 7:30 a.m and started to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore" target="_blank">Mysuru</a> at </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1:30 p.m</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, had some work in between. It was sunny, and getting out of Bangaluru's traffic was in itself a ride of its own. I took the NH 4 via Yeshwanthpur and after a lunch break I reached <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srirangapatna" target="_blank">Srirangapatna</a> at 5:00 p.m, took some cheap accommodation nearby and thought of going to Brindavan gardens, but on my friends suggestion went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukkarahalli_lake" target="_blank">Kukkarahalli</a> lake in Mysuru instead, it was already dark and the place was closed. Nothing else came into my mind except the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysore_Palace" target="_blank">Mysore Palace</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Traffic in Mysuru is moderate, can't be compared with Bengaluru's. Reached palace and went inside, the freaking place was completely dark! I thought maybe some power outage but then came to know that there was a Sound and Light show going on, they light up certain locations while narrating a story, shot some pictures of the palace and enjoyed walking in its gardens.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the show I went to the exhibition grounds right opposite to the palace. It's know for the commercial fair which starts at the time of Dasara and goes on for few months. It's not a small place, it's spread across a big land and walking along its length and breadth takes a good amount of time, below are some pictures I shot there. Good place for photography and fun time. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By the time I came out it was 10:45 p.m, went back to my accommodation and slept off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Went to my place and I couldn't get any sleep, sometimes I get this excitement before a bike ride, so that's when I wrote the article on </span><a href="http://bvkmohan.blogspot.in/2015/12/why-facebooks-free-basics-is-evil.html" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Free Basics</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">. After completing it and finishing a debate with another guy over it I looked at the time and it was 3 a.m, even a short nap was pointless as we planned to start at 4 a.m, so I geared up and we met at a place which we decided earlier and started our ride.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-40785192502453834972015-12-19T02:00:00.000+05:302016-10-03T16:11:18.435+05:30Why Facebook's "Free Basics" is Evil (another fancy name to its Internet.org)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There are dozens of beautiful articles/videos which explains the importance of Net Neutrality, yet, people miserably fail to understand its vital importance in this information age.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is another post to explain it in my own words, hopefully at least 1 out of 10 people who reads this can understand its importance and act accordingly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Facebook's Free Basics is another attempt from its creator to push its Anti Net Neutrality <span class="qlink_container"><a class="external_link" data-tooltip="attached" href="http://internet.org/" rel="noreferrer nofollow" style="background-position: 100% 5px; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Internet.org</a></span> to the masses. I am just going to give you couple of scenarios which might explain about the true nature of Free Basics or any such initiatives, like the dead Airtel Zero.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Let's go back 15/16 years to the case of Dot-com bubble/Dot-com boom. This is the period of time in human history which promoted the significant growth of Internet after the year 2000. Every small to large scale businesses wanted to have their presence in the Internet with their Website, which increased their companies normal trade value of equities (Stock Market) to more than 1000% percent (in some cases) and eventually bringing them down to nothing(Dot-com bust).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is the true definition of Digital Equality. Internet and the businesses involved in it grows, this is why we have the Internet/WWW today. This is the healthy and the intended ecosystem of Net Neutrality.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here, the Internet Service Providers (in collaboration with Facebook) would ensure the Free Basics would have a super speed lane, without throttling (low bandwidth). Which means, when users access Facebook via Free Basics, they would get no delay(slowness) or would get high speed access, but the same Facebook when accessed via conventional data connection would be painfully slow, this has been confirmed by several Reliance users using Facebook on their data connections, again, this is a promotional campaign to make all of this subscribers to hopelessly use the Free Basics which is collaborated with Facebook.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So if this was the scenario in Dot-com bubble or post its collapse, we wouldn't be having the World Wide Web that we have today, we would be having only few websites with monopoly over almost all the digital services. Benefiting parties would be ISPs and the big enterprises, definitely not the End Users.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The same approach was made by Airtel through Airtlel Zero, which I am happy to say failed miserably. So Facebook is trying to do the same with their global brand image with diplomacy and catchy names. And most of you remember how Flipkart readily showed their Interest in Airtel Zero, so, what makes you think that if End Users can freely access Flipkart without worrying about accessing other shopping sites using paid data plans would benefit its counterparts? It wouldn't, Flipkart would become the choice of online shopping because you can access it freely without paying a penny to data. Would this be a fair play?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What's the point in providing Free Basics if a person in a village doesn't even have an Internet Speed with more than 56 Kbps Dial-up modem in 2015? If you really put your brain and think, these initiatives are made for the people with good internet connections in towns and cities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That's what tend to happen if you blindly listen to Mark Zuckerberg's speeches or his Facebook posts. Educate yourself! Read about Net Neutrality from multiple sources, there are tremendous amounts of information available in the Internet explaining about this Fundamental Rule of Internet.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-42950071136075721062015-11-01T21:01:00.000+05:302016-01-12T22:38:34.231+05:30How can I destroy The Internet?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That was a question asked by a guy in Quora, I get frequent questions like that, but at times I fail to control the urge to not answer them. So below was my reply.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Technically speaking, you cannot destroy Internet. PERIOD.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Internet is not a "thing"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- The underlying protocols of Internet were designed to function efficiently with effectiveness, any device connected to Internet knows these protocols and language to communicate with other devices, that's the beauty of the OSI framework.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, you can slowdown the Internet, below are some reasons for that. But still, the slowness may not even be noticed anymore.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-75461101110031042612015-08-21T22:28:00.000+05:302016-01-13T17:40:30.717+05:30One of those profound experiences<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-30449935891354583382015-07-04T12:52:00.001+05:302016-01-12T22:05:37.028+05:30First Anniversary! :D<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1st: I fell in love with the Enfield Thunderbird’s new design.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In my one year experience with it, it turned me into a wanderlust addict! It took me to places I never imagined I would go, countless kilometers and countless memories! There’s is no great pleasure than going to places, seeing people and understanding the world around, and my bike made it all possible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One adventurous year completed, another one awaits!</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-34600241788577965932015-04-28T23:02:00.000+05:302016-02-24T22:10:35.101+05:30Ride to Kodaikanal, my first long ride<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wow! it was so beautiful! I felt relieved from all the tiredness from the ~460 km ride. It was 2:45 p.m, almost looked like 6 in the evening. Took accommodation in a good hotel nearby, had chicken biryani for lunch, it was so tasty! Later I roamed around the lake, you can rent a bicycle and ride along the lake's perimeter, but I had my bike :) There was boating, fast food spots, local made chocolates and handcraft stalls, it had everything to kill the time. It was crowded, but the pleasant foggy climate with the yellowish shade from the street lights made the place so filmy and dramatic. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">Went back to my accommodation after dinner and roaming and slept off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">First stop was at the lake view point, from that place you can see the Kodai's lake, simply mesmerizing view, but it was filled with too many tourists and hell lot of noise! Didn't spend much time there, rode to my next stop at Moir view point, again filled with too many people but the view was out of the world! Well, on top of the clouds! To avoid the tourists chatter I plugged in my earphones and enjoyed the view for a while.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-20551962349558716982015-04-17T12:22:00.000+05:302016-01-12T22:04:56.645+05:30Clicked 9000 Kilometers on my Thunderbird 500!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now I think I have an idea on basic maintenance of my bike, I am not going to do servicing myself , because I don't have all the tools required for the job done, not yet! Maybe in near future I would, it's always interesting to know your stuff, how they work and how to fix. And if you can learn and do that, that's the best feeling you can get in the world :)</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-73019074466057172592014-11-01T14:44:00.000+05:302016-01-13T19:03:14.610+05:30My first ride!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s been like 3 months with my <a href="https://www.google.co.in/search?q=Royal+Enfield+Thunderbird+500&newwindow=1&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi1uLq66Y_KAhWGkY4KHUj7ClcQ_AUIBygB&biw=1366&bih=677#newwindow=1&tbm=isch&q=Royal+Enfield+Thunderbird+500+2014" target="_blank">Royal Enfield Thunderbird 500</a>, so far I used it only for daily commute, always felt like going on a long ride and the time has come. Like any
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km/h until I reached the Yelahanka highway (NH7) and in not more than 5 minutes
I felt the bone chilling cold of Bengaluru’s foggy winter mornings, being my first ride this
was my first lesson, felt it was a bad idea to ride in such condition because I didn't wear proper gear, but I rode anyway. Didn’t exceed more than 60 km/h due to severe wind-chill factor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally I reached the peak at around 6:00 a.m, bikes aren't allowed inside, had to take a walk to the view point and by the time I reached it was 6:30 a.m, too late for sunrise view at the
horizon, nevertheless, view from there is something very beautiful. Without any further delay, I took out my DSLR and started shooting whatever I felt like shooting, this ride was not just about my bike, it was also about practicing photography with my Nikon D7100, played with all of its settings while enjoying the scenic views.</span><br />
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didn’t go and monkeys of course. Once I started feeling the heat I started my ride back to
Bengaluru, was able to hit more than 100 km/h, felt really happy that my bike could handle it very well with only slight vibrations, made me confident enough to plan for more rides.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-25731723917216705362013-12-06T12:40:00.000+05:302017-03-24T12:57:18.615+05:30Memories of ME building things :)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I came across a post from my friends in Facebook about a kid who built a functional model of JCB excavator using <span style="color: black;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringe" rel="wikipedia" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Syringe">syringes</a>, my first thought was Wow! His design is so fluid and really compact, I said that because I too built the same kind of projects when I was in school. Brought back a lot of memories :)</span><br />
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<b style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">1.</b> Back to school …<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/2.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan, bvkmohan.blogspot.in, science fair, dyi, jcb" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-269" height="372" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/2.jpg?w=584&h=372" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" title="bvkmohan" width="584" /></a></span>Above was my second successful model of excavator, which I built (most of it) on a train journey to the state level science fair, and yes, I won second prize for this model<span class="wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-smile" style="border: 0px; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-indent: 9999px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 1.35em;" title=":)">:) </span>This was back in 1997/98.<span style="color: black;"><a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/scan.jpg" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan, bvkmohan.blogspot.in, science fair, dyi, jcb" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-270" height="349" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/scan.jpg?w=584&h=349" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; display: block; height: auto; margin: 0.4em auto 1.625em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" title="bvkmohan" width="584" /></a></span>Demonstrating to the Panel, the model was very simple and can lift up to 500 grams to 1 Kilo without flipping over, I used counter weights to keep the model in place, It can turn 45 degrees. The main drawback with this model was I used rubber tubes for the <span style="color: black;"><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_dynamics" rel="wikipedia" style="border: 0px none; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Fluid dynamics">fluid flow</a> (used water), at high pressures the tubes expands giving unequal ratios of input and output movements of plunger, sometimes bursts out. Nevertheless, everyone was awestruck by it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After the update I noticed the launcher is the same as before, Nexus 5 UI isn't available for Nexus 4 OTA update, which means, we won't be getting </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/12/rumor-googles-new-launcher-in-android-4-4-is-called-google-experience-here-are-some-things-we-are-expecting-to-see-in-it/" href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/10/12/rumor-googles-new-launcher-in-android-4-4-is-called-google-experience-here-are-some-things-we-are-expecting-to-see-in-it/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">GEL</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (Google Experience Launcher) which integrates Google Search (noticeably, the </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ok Google</b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> feature), </span><a data-mce-href="http://www.google.com/landing/now/" href="http://www.google.com/landing/now/" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Google Now</a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> and few UI enhancements. GEL is exclusive for Nexus 5 only (at least for now).</span><br />
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This procedure doesn't require rooting, nor it will wipe your data from the device (if you follow all the steps carefully).</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Step 1</b><b>: <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">Flashing Kitkat 4.4</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We will be flashing 4.4 using ADB tools that comes with Android SDK, have them installed from <a data-mce-href="https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html" href="https://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Follow the <a data-mce-href="https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html" href="https://developer.android.com/sdk/installing/bundle.html" target="_blank">instructions</a> to setup the SDK environment, it's simple, unzip and it's ready to go. (I know the entire bundle is not necessary, but, this is to avoid the confusion from tons of tools available in the internet).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This part is very important! Again, there are tons of drivers available, but in my experience I always had problems with them. Install the drivers developed by <a data-mce-href="https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/about" href="https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/about" target="_blank">Koushik Dutta</a>, find the details on his <a data-mce-href="https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/BQ5iYJEaaEH" href="https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/BQ5iYJEaaEH" target="_blank">page</a>, install the msi file and you're good to go.</span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These steps works only on the stock Jelly Bean 4.3 ROM!, to check the stock ROM build number, go to <b>Settings > About phone > Build number </b>it should say <b>JWR66Y</b>, anything other than this might not work!</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Download the OTA, <a data-mce-href="http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_mako/c7d8660af65b878835d5248252f51dcbf53c2001.signed-two-step.signed-occam-KRT16S-from-JWR66Y.d1b99704.zip" href="http://android.clients.google.com/packages/ota/google_mako/c7d8660af65b878835d5248252f51dcbf53c2001.signed-two-step.signed-occam-KRT16S-from-JWR66Y.d1b99704.zip" target="_blank" title="Kitkat 4.4 OTA">click here</a>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Copy and Paste the OTA zip file in the SDK platform-tools directory (<b>adt-bundle-windows-x86_64-20131030\sdk\platform-tools </b>folder, this is the folder where you'll have <b>adb</b> and <b>fastboot</b> exe files, Note: the bundle name may vary).</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Press the <b>Volume Down</b> button and then simultaneously press and hold the <b>Power </b>button.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Use the <b>Volume keys</b> and select <b>Recovery Mode</b>, once selected, press the <b>Power </b>button.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You'll see an Android with Red exclamation mark, do not Panic!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">While it is at that screen, press and hold the <b>Power </b>button for 2 seconds and then press the <b>Volume Up</b> button and release them, it will take you to <b>Android System Recovery</b> screen.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Navigate to <b>apply update from ADB</b> using the <b>Volume</b> buttons and then press the <b>Power</b> button. It will say <b>Now send the package you want to apply to the device ...</b> at the bottom.</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now while your device is at that screen, connect it to the PC/Laptop's USB using the Micro USB cable that came with Nexus 4 (I have seen some cases where the other Micro USB cables didn't work).</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Open the Command Prompt from <b>Start > Run > (type) CMD</b> and click <b>OK</b> (You can use the <b>Windows+R</b> key combination).</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Navigate to the platform-tools folder in Android SDK bundle, like below. Note: this is where you should have copied the Android 4.4 OTA, ensure this by using the <b>dir</b> command. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Type the command </span><b style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">adb devices </b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: justify;">to ensure ADB can detect the Nexus 4, if it successfully detects? it will give output like below. If not? then the USB drivers were not installed properly. If not installed, do not proceed, go to <i>Nexus 4 USB drivers</i> part and try again. </span></li>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now, type the command <b>adb sideload <Kitkat 4.4 OTA file name>.zip </b>and press enter. (example: adb sideload c7d8660af65b878835d5248252f51dcbf53c2001.signed-two-step.signed-occam-KRT16S-from-JWR66Y.d1b99704).</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Now ADB will copy the 4.4 OTA image to the Nexus 4, once copied, you can see the installation status on your device.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Check for the log messages on your Nexus 4, once it says <b>Install from ADB complete </b>navigate to<b> reboot system now </b>at the top using the <b>Volume</b> keys and press <b>Power</b> button to boot the device to Kitkat 4.4.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When its booting up, you'll find a smile on your face :)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Step 2:</b><b> <span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;">Installing GEL (Google Experience Launcher)</span></b></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ensure you're running the latest Google Search app (version: 3.1.8), to check, go to <b>Settings > Apps > (slide to) All > (select) Google Search </b>if you see an older version, have it updated from the Play Store.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Download the GEL apk file from <a data-mce-href="http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23212708291676903" href="http://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23212708291676903" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Copy the downloaded apk file to your Nexus 4.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go to <b>Settings > (scroll down to) PERSONAL > (select) Security > (scroll down to) DEVICE ADMINISTRATION > (check the option) Unknown sources > (click) OK.</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Navigate to the GEL apk file on your Nexus 4 using any File Manager.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Select <b>Package installer </b>when you get the <b>Open with</b> prompt.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Click on <b>Install.</b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Once installed successfully, press the <b>Home</b> button, you'll get the option to choose the new Launcher, select it and make it as the default Launcher.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Go back to <b>Settings > (scroll down to) PERSONAL > (select) Security > (scroll down to) DEVICE ADMINISTRATION > (<span style="color: red;">uncheck </span>the option) Unknown sources > (click) OK.</b></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; line-height: 25.5px; text-align: justify;">This concludes the installation of GEL (Google Experience Launcher) on Nexus 4 and finishes the entire Guide.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Your Nexus 4 is just like a Nexus 5 now :) and with a beautiful body :D, Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, finally after a long wait of 2 months, it got my Nexus 4! <span class="wp-smiley wp-emoji wp-emoji-wink" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; display: inline-block !important; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; min-height: 1.2em; outline: 0px; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; position: relative !important; text-indent: 9999px; vertical-align: bottom; white-space: nowrap; width: 1.35em;" title=";-)">;-)</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There was some hiccups dealing with Cart2India dealer on eBay, again, we know that it’s happening with most of the people who ordered this beast, Google too admitted that they underestimated the demand for this product.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyways, glory! I finally got it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Initial observations, the packaging is straightforward, no bullshit. If you are a big fan of AMOLED/super AMOLED screens, you’ll find IPS panels are bit washed out, or it could be the calibration issue, more like the latter, f</span><span style="background-color: white; text-indent: 9999px;">elt the hardware is too powerful for Android Stock 4.2.1, Literally no lag! Smartphone Gaming Master Race</span><span style="text-indent: 9999px; white-space: nowrap;">? :D</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am still testing it, just completed 2 days of Nexus 4 experience, I will post my detailed review in couple of days, maybe :P</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Activities are basically the applications that fill the screen for user interaction, it can be the Launcher, Phone Dialer or the Facebook application. At any given instance, the Activity window show one screen at a time and if you switch between them, the previous Activity window stored in the RAM memory will be loaded or a new Activity window is loaded, this is a helpful feature because initially when loading any application all of its resources are loaded in to the RAM, like code, scripts, services, media. As can be seen, this is an Intensive Task and consumes CPU cycles and RAM memory. When an application is closed, like when you switch from </span><br />
<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Facebook to Twitter app Instead of freeing up all those Facebook resources from RAM it will still keep them in the memory and puts the application in Stopped State this is one of the state in Android Activity life-cycle.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In Android 4.0 and later versions there is an option to either keep the Activities in the RAM or to remove them once the App is closed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Navigation : <b style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Settings > Developer Options (turn ON if it’s OFF) > under Apps “Don’t keep activities”</b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-59470941518252265562012-06-12T16:55:00.000+05:302016-01-12T22:01:32.605+05:30Virtual Network Editor in VMware Workstation 9.0<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The thing I hated about the old Virtual Network Editor in VMware was its unnecessary tabs, and irrelevant options scattered all over its GUI. When writing <a href="http://bvkmohan.blogspot.in/2010/06/how-to-create-virtual-lan-of-3-clients.html" target="_blank">Part 2</a> I thought about how this VNE can be made simple and refined. Fortunately, VMware realized it and reduced the VNE's cumbersome GUI with dozen tabs into a simple refined single window GUI, as below.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First thing I liked about it, No Tabs! Just a single window with all the options for configuring and editing the Adapters. I couldn't find any option missing from the old VNE in the new one.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2613226584431583826.post-56283174237155706602012-01-20T23:22:00.000+05:302016-08-23T17:07:01.082+05:30My thoughts on the root cause of SOPA/PIPA ACTs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Well, in the context of this post, above statement is an oxymoron, because the whole parts of Internet is not available in all countries due to their political borders and (still alive to this day) totalitarian governments, but nevertheless, I mentioned it to signify the intent behind the birth of Internet. Here are my thoughts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was an unimaginable situation for the people who worked in the early days of Internet to at least envision the kind of impact/change their work is going to create, let it be <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._C._R._Licklider" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="J.C.R Licklider">J.C.R. Licklider</a> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who foresaw Interactive Computing before its birth</span>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vint_Cerf" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Vint Cerf">Vint Cerf</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kahn" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Bob Kahn">Bob Kahn</a> <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/vint-cerf-bob-kahn.jpg" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-220" height="150" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/vint-cerf-bob-kahn.jpg?w=117&h=150" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn" width="117" /></a><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">key architects of TCP/IP, the two protocols which dictates majority of the Internet traffic,</span> or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Tim Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a> <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tim-berners-lee.jpg" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-221" height="113" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tim-berners-lee.jpg?w=150&h=113" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-right: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="Tim Berners-Lee" width="150" /></a> <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(the guy who made everything else possible with the creation of World Wide Web, also honoring</span> other countless unsung <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_pioneers" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">heroes </a>who worked day and night in creating a reality which broke all borders and gave people a common platform to share, collaborate and raise their voice against any kind of atrocities around the world. None of the people who brought the Internet into reality had vested interests to make it as an asset or commodity for sale in order to fill up their pockets. By nature and design the architecture of Internet is <b>Open</b>, before the security and piracy came in to picture, the former is for a good cause unlike the latter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The important stage in the growth of Internet started with the era of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_commerce" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="E-Commerce">E-Commerce</a>, where we are given the options to buy products or avail services without going to a store. This is one of the key point in the <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet" rel="wikipedia" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="History of the Internet">history of Internet</a> where the corporations and big companies started to invest more money on publicity/marketing and selling their goods and services. <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/e_commerce1.png" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignright wp-image-228" height="125" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/e_commerce1.png?w=128&h=125" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="e_commerce" width="128" /></a>The motivations of any company who participated in E-Commerce is to use the Internet simply as a medium to sell their products/services <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(no matter how crappy and shitty they are)</span> to consumers, things got worse when the the entertainment industries figured out that their money generating content can be stuffed into 0’s and 1’s and can be easily transferred over internet to anyone at any part of the world without even a trace. Prior to this, <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing" rel="wikipedia" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="File sharing">file sharing</a> was an open activity in the Internet which actually helped programmers <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(who built the internet)</span> <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/p2p-file-sharing.png" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class=" wp-image-229 alignleft" height="146" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/p2p-file-sharing.png?w=136&h=146" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-right: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="p2p-file-sharing" width="136" /></a> around the world to share their piece of code, like say from Australia to another programmer in London. Nobody had a hint that file sharing one day becomes a crime.<a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/nosoftwarepatents.jpg" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" class="alignright wp-image-240" height="120" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/nosoftwarepatents.jpg?w=180&h=120" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="NoSoftwarePatents" width="180" /></a> Fortunately the motives to block file sharing did not come from the patent trolls like Microsoft or Apple, but unfortunately, it comes from a rather unusual industry and what's more sad to know is they were neither part of Internet’s evolution nor contributed to its growth, they are discussed under SOPA and PIPA section below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Napster is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer-to-peer" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="P2P">peer-to-peer</a> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(also termed as P2P)</span> file sharing service that allowed people to share their compressed mp3 files over the Internet. <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/napster.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignleft wp-image-231" height="115" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/napster.jpg?w=120&h=115" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-right: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="Napster" width="120" /></a> In the initial days it was all good because Napster’s architecture and most of the P2P applications successfully blocks the usage of <i>Transitory Network Transmission</i> which is not supposed to be used by a service provider who’s Internet traffic is under question, this is one among the four basic rules imposed by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="DMCA">DMCA</a> Section 512 “Safe Harbors”. The encoding of information in mp3 format kicked off the P2P era, because most of the audio in 90’s was released either in tapes and audio CDs and using DAE <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping" rel="wikipedia" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ripping">Digital Audio Extraction</a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">),</span> Audio CDs are ripped and stored as small size mp3 files gradually reducing the size from 40-50 MB to less than 5 MB which dramatically encouraged wide variety of ripping techniques and also sparked the intents to transfer the content to other peers over the internet due to the small size. <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dmca.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignright size-full wp-image-232" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/dmca.jpg?w=584" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" title="DMCA ..!.." /></a>The ease of creating and sharing mp3 audio resulted in widespread of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Copyright Infringement ">copyright infringement</a> and Napster was the only service at that time specialized exclusively in music focused online service which ultimately led to legal challenges and even to a shutdown when Metallica reported their songs are being circulated even before release <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallica_v._Napster,_Inc." style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="click here">click here</a> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for the lawsuit)</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is really unfortunate to see these valuable technologies and services being termed as illegal activities just because they won’t fit in the corporate businesses interests. The war on peer-to-peer and file sharing services is a never ending story. <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sharing-is-caring1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignleft wp-image-233" height="105" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/sharing-is-caring1.jpg?w=170&h=105" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-right: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="Sharing-is-Caring" width="170" /></a> Since Napster, there were around literally thousands of services which helped users to avail their services in moving content of any type over the internet, most prominent among them includes the P2P <a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitTorrent_%28protocol%29" rel="wikipedia" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="BitTorrent (protocol)">BitTorrent protocol</a> which still exists and serves millions of users around the globe. The careful design of BitTorrent protocol is its main success. In BitTorrent realm the <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mrburns.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignright size-full wp-image-234" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mrburns.jpg?w=584" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" title="Excellent!" /></a> actual file nor its location is specified to the viewer rather it is presented as an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_URI_scheme" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Magnetic URI">Magnetic URI</a> with a unique <span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">cryptographic</span> hash code which tracks the resource around the world using the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title=".torrent">.torrent</a> file along with some metadata. Hosting these files/links on a site is completely legal as they does not have the actual information about the content or nature of a file but still it led to a war on BitTorrent hosting sites like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pirate_Bay" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Sail with us ...">piratebay</a> and some of them were made to shutdown completely, only to be reborn with much pun and much pwnage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The recent unprecedented rage on Internet was due to a bill which is on its way to become a reality, named as SOPA <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Online_Piracy_Act" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Its gona SOAP!">Stop Online Piracy Act</a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span> and its sister bill PIPA <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a class="zem_slink" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protect_IP_Act" rel="wikipedia" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Protect IP Act">Protect IP Act</a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span> are by nature very notorious laws which trashes the existing copyright infringement laws including DMCA <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tumblr_lxywl0lmt31qzmowao1_400.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-235" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/tumblr_lxywl0lmt31qzmowao1_400.jpg?w=584" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-right: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" title="SOPA/PIPA FUUUU!" /></a> and gives complete control to the Government authorities and the ISPs or any other affiliates under them to control, interpret and block the accessibility of content available in the Internet. The worst part is, it gives the full power to land an innocent in jail for simply coping an image which is copy protected. Both these laws are triggered and backed by the big names in the Entertainment industries: MPAA <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="MPAA ">Motion Picture Association of America</a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span>, RIAA <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recording_Industry_Association_of_America" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="RIAA ">Recording Industry Artists Association</a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">)</span>, UMG <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Music_Group" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="UMG">Universal Music Group</a><span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">) </span>with some heavy kickbacks to the representatives in US congress to implement them. Fortunately the move is losing its pace due to the uprising voice on the Internet and the strong support from lot of organizations and companies <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_with_official_stances_on_the_Stop_Online_Piracy_Act" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="click here">click here</a> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for the complete list)</span> and finally the creator of SOPA <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57362990-501465/sopa-is-dead-smith-pulls-bill/" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="SOAP is dead for now ...">pulled the bill</a> due to the strong protests, but it is not a win, not yet! Bills like SOAP/PIPA or DMCA are dangerous to the very existence of the Internet. Just look at the recent shutdown of Megaupload <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(</span><a href="http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/why-the-feds-smashed-megaupload.ars" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="click here">click here</a> <span style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for full article)</span>… Anyways it's back online after couple of hours.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One way or the other we have all the potential and resources to fight these things and teach lessons to the money minded business people, but when we actually look at the bigger picture and check the root cause, the entertainment industries gets all their business from artists who got talent and these artists get their royalties paid from these organizations by selling their talents. The thing which amazes me why do creative artists depend on these meaningless organizations for selling their talents? is it for the funding?<a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/netneutistockfeature1-e1293050143472.jpg" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-238" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/netneutistockfeature1-e1293050143472.jpg?w=584" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: left; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-right: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px; width: auto;" title="Digital-handcuffs" /></a> if that is the reason there are lot of ways to get funds and lot of Open Platforms available for free of charge! I might sound silly, but this would actually work! and there are lot of people who are giving away their talented works for free maybe the returns might be less but at least they are happy. Let it be music, art or any creative works. People in Open Source community know what exactly I am talking about and they know about its potential. As long as the artists depends on corporations for money and brand value, the creative seeds of a society will die because of the draconian laws like SOPA, PIPA, DMCA. I am not an artist but I believe, being an artist, a successful artist, should realize the actual outcomes of their actions and impacts on a society. The dependencies on the entertainment companies is an old story when the musicians did not have all the resources to sell their music through tapes, vinyl and CDs, but we are in 21st century and there is no real reason to depend on these obsolete technologies which gave these entertainment industries the power to pass some meaningless bills and there is no real or meaningful reason to depend on them anyway either! I believe MPAA, RIAA, UMG <a href="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mpaa-sucks.jpg" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="bvkmohan.blogspot.com, bvkmohan, SOPA, PIPA, Internet, Free Speech, Open Internet, File Sharing, DMCA, Torrent" class="alignright wp-image-237" height="231" src="https://bvkm.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/mpaa-sucks.jpg?w=200&h=231" style="border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); display: inline; float: right; height: auto; margin-bottom: 1.625em; margin-left: 1.625em; margin-top: 0.4em; max-width: 97.5%; padding: 6px;" title="MPAA-sucks" width="200" /></a> should have run out of business a longtime back because we have all the resources now at hand to promote our creative ideas without any dependencies. If I start to produce music I would give my first album for free over the Internet and if people recognizes me as talented then I would still give it away for free. I am sure talented works never get wasted I might not lead a lavish lifestyle but at least I would be happy for what I am doing. Haven’t they done enough? these corporations are producing junk assets like <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Justin%20Bieber" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank" title="Justin Bieber">justin bieber</a> and his shitty music to mint money from clueless, tasteless young people. Aren’t these musicians and artists motivated by talents rather than money? If I am wrong then my post is just meaningless, you figure it out. Thanks for reading.</span></div>
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