The PLAN is a simple system to collect cash from students to help those Tamil schools. The Idea is to save up 33cents per day and to bank in the money in a account managed by three people.

The money would be then used to help Tamil schools of their infrastructure ONLY. This objective would be changed prior the accomplishment of the first objective and having the approval of the management team.

There are 4 departments to run this plan. They are the management, accounts, information and strategic planning unit. The information department is lead by UTP and the rest whereas the strategic planning unit is headed by UPSI and the rest. The management would oversee the whole operation and the accounts as well. 3 members of the management would be opening a joint account and that account would be used to collect the money.

Adopted from SLC - The Plan’s site

 
The one who initiated the above plan were not from any political parties, but are Indian Undergraduate students! You heard that right!

At the recent Student Leadership Convention 2008 held in UM, our fellow Indian undergraduate student leaders from all public institutions as well as certain private institutions met up and actively discussed about this plan.

Adhering back to the first paragraph above, the “33cents” per day, which eventually would turn out to be RM9.90 (or round it up to RM10) within a month’s time, would be subjected to be banked in to an account which belongs to the person(s)-in-charge and that money, together with other contributions from other sources, would be used to buy table and chairs for Tamil schools that have been known to be in a deteriorative condition.

Currently, the plan about “The Plan”, the bank account number and the main representative of each states have been posted at the official “SLC - The Plan” site (blog), so to all of you out there, feel free to surf that site (blog) and explore it thoroughly.
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We have seen a person blackmailing another person and we have also seen a girlfriend blackmailing her own boyfriend. But in this case, a virus blackmailing the computer user?

Kaspersky Lab has reported that this virus is a dangerous encryptor virus going around by the name of Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak. The creator of the virus should be a computer genius and would have spent hell lot of time sticking in front of his/her PC and I bet he/she should be jumping around right now seeing his/her virus spreading rapidly via this e-world.

Here’s a brief information about the virus:
 

Gpcode.ak encrypts files with various extensions including, but not limited, to .doc, .txt, .pdf, .xls, .jpg, .png, .cpp, .h and more using an RSA encryption algorithm with a 1024-bit key. Kaspersky Lab added a signature for Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak on June 4, 2008.

Kaspersky Lab virus researchers have to date been able to crack keys up to 660 bits. This was the result of a detailed analysis of the RSA algorithm implementation. It has been estimated that if the encryption algorithm is implemented correctly, it would take 1 PC with a 2.2 Ghz processor around 30 years to crack a 660-bit key. The author of Gpcode has taken two years to improve the virus: the previous errors have been fixed and the key has been lengthened to 1024 bits instead of 660.

At the time of writing, we are unable to decrypt files encrypted by Gpcode.ak since the key is 1024 bits long and we have not found any errors in implementation yet. Thus, at the time of writing, the only way to decrypt the encrypted files is to use the private key which only the author has.

More info: Kaspersky Lab

 
Even those geniuses at Kaspersky have said that the only way to decrypt this virus is to get the private decryptor which is owned by the virus-creator himself/herself. Now, that my friends, is something to be worried about. Incase if you happened to be one of the victim of this virus, nothing could be done! And I meant NOTHING! Just bid farewell to your infected files and continue your journey.

Imagine you are planning to keep the texts of your most sweetest and romantical conversation between you and your beloved GF/BF in MSN Messenger as one of your ‘unforgettable moments’ and saved in a DOC (Microsoft Word) file. All of a sudden, the virus attacked your PC and all your DOC files have been ‘encrypted’, and the only way you could retrieve back your files is to BUY the private decryptor from the author himself/herself and only the god knows how much he/she would charge for it (he/she can even charge $10000 if he/she wants).

You might resort to those geniuses at Kaspersky Lab, let’s say for a cheaper price, if and only if you need to recover those files desperately! Well, that won’t be a big hassle for them but, do bear in mind that it would take a whooping 46 FREAKING YEARS TO CRACK THE CODES of your infected files (a PC with 2.2Ghz processor) and in addition, the 100% recovery of your files are not guaranteed!

This might be a bit old, but just thought of posting it here! The moral value: Never lie to your mother.

[A mom comes to visit her son Kumar for dinner, who lives with a girl roommate named Sunita.]

During the course of the meal, his mother couldn’t help but notice how pretty Kumar’s roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between the two, and this had only made her more curious. Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Kumar and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom’s thoughts, Kumar volunteered, “I know what you must be thinking, but I assure you, Sunita and I are just roommates.”

About a week later, Sunita came to Kumar saying,

“Ever since your mother came to dinner, I’ve been unable to find the silver chutney jar. You don’t suppose she took it, do you?”

Kumar said:

“Well, I doubt it, but I’ll email her, just to be sure.” So he sat down and wrote:

Dear Mother,

I’m not saying that you ‘did’ take the chutney jar from my house,
I’m not saying that you ‘did not’ take the chutney jar.
But the fact remains that it has been missing ever since you were here for dinner.

Love,
Kumar

Several days later, Kumar received an email from his Mother which reads:

Dear Son,

I’m not saying that you ‘do’ sleep with Sunita, and
I’m not saying that you ‘did not’ slept with Sunita.
But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her OWN bed, she would have found the chutney jar by now under the pillow…

Love,
Mom.

Lesson of the day: Don’t Lie to Your Mother!

The only channel in ASTRO which I found to be quite interesting, irritating and informative at the same time - Makkal Tolaikachi. Interesting because of their FULL USAGE of Tamil throughout all their programmes. Now, that is amazing! Irritating due to some silly faces that would appear in some of their programmes and finally, informative because most of their news and documentaries are straightforward, as they would not even bother to censor some of those OGRISH scenes! Woohooo!

Allright, I admit it. MOST SOME of the time I won’t be understanding what the hell they are talking as their Tamil language is totally different from what I speak at home. Or should I say PURE Tamil. At least those Sun TV and our local hosts are understandable, but not these Makkal TV Tolaikachi dudes. It is like they are emphasizing a 100%-pure-Tamil-usage policy and not a single English word would be coming out from their mouth. At times, whenever I have some free time, I would be concentrating fully on the host and would be eagerly waiting for him/her to accidentally say an English word but to no avail. How sad!

I just thought to myself, how If our ‘local kaigels‘ happened to get a job at Makkal Tolaikachi and how would they perform, let’s say, being a host for a telephone Q&A session?
 

1. Hello….. Bang, sowkiyama bang….?
2. Hello….. Ungge perru enna LA?
3. Hai…. Yo…Yo…Yo… Yepidi irukingge LA?

 
For your HELLO and HAI, be prepared to get a smack on your head by those big heads at Makkal Tolaikachi. For your LA, BANG, and YO YO YO, be prepared to get your ass kicked from that place and go and find another job will ya?

How if our “local hot Bangsar chicks” got a job there and how would they talk?
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Loganathan Arumugam is the co-lead singer and flutist of Alleycats, passed away a year ago on Monday, June 4 2007 at the Mount Miriam Hospital in Penang.

 
May your soul rest in peace! Here’s one of Alleycats’ legendary song, Andainya Aku Pergi Dulu.

It’s KHA.LI! A domain name! Try accessing the domain from your browser and you shall see a page with only two words in it, which goes : Testing - Makkez.com.

Well, I’m not that stupid to pay for that domain as I got it for FREE! Yup, you heard that right!

Unfortunately, It is free for only 6 months, but who cares anyway!

If you wanna give it a try, you should register your desired domain for the sake of ‘testing’ their services and/or for fun, but not for serious use!

I’m saying this because after 6 months, you have to pay in order to renew your domain name and the price quoted was in Switzerland currency, and I have no idea how much it would cost in USD or MYR.

So, let me stress it again : Only register your desired domain for the sake of testing their services and/or for fun, but not for serious use!

Currently, there are two domain extensions that you may choose, with one being .LI and another being .CH.

Some notable domains that you might wanna register (If they are still available):

-> www.anarka.li [ANARKALI]
-> www.vaa.li [VAALI]
-> www.hindraf.li / www.hindraf.ch
-> www.makkalsakthi.li / www.makkalsakthi.ch
-> www.katha.li [KATHALI]
-> www.ipohma.li [IPOH MALI]
-> www.nattuko.li [NATTU KOLI]
-> and many more!

 
What are you waiting for? Just go ahead and start registering your domain(s)! After all, it is FREE!

Step-by-step procedures:
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