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Ticking…ticking…10 seconds….ticking….13.6 seconds and your windows password is cracked. This is the average time taken to crack your current computer’s password. Stunned ! It happens with technology but this is definetely one quantam leap. Using 1.4GB of data (two CD-ROMs) it can crack 99.9% of all alphanumerical passwords hashes (2 37 ) in 13.6 seconds. As this is based on Martin Hellman’s cryptanalytic time-memory trade-off technique which reduces the time of cryptanalysis by using precalculated data stored in memory.

The method involves using large lookup tables to match encoded passwords to the original text entered by a person, thus speeding the calculations required to break the codes. Called a time-memory trade-off, the situation means that an attacker with an abundance of computer memory can reduce the time it takes to break a secret code. Also you can your hand with this technique to break your computer’s password. More here.

I am blessed to have Martina in my life. Coming from India, where the obstacles are great, one really found the passion in playing again. Now I don’t have to play so much for money, fame or any materialistic need. I play the game because I am passionate about it; because I am a student of the game and physical training. I’m enjoying it a lot now than I did 10 years ago – Leander Paes.

Read the interesting ‘n’ inspiring Paes’s rediff interview.

What is poetic justice, asks Vaanam Vasappadum (The Sky can be controlled). Take a look at the website of P.C. Sreeram‘s latest flick Vaanam Vasappadum. Intrestingly it has many spotlights.

Being the India’s first true digital film, being shot with state-of-art high definition digital cameras with the technical support of Real Image Media Technologies, the DTS gateway of India and the multicam giant EFX. See some samples of multicam miracles here.

It is also the last film of Mahesh Mahadevan, who died of cancer. It was for a cancer charity associtation in the name of Mahesh, his friends including Mani Ratnam, Kamalhassan, A R Rahman, arranged the Unity of Light concert in Chennai. Mahesh however didn’t complete parts of this movie before which he died but he had compiled a dozen of BGM’s which were used by his assistants to complete this movie.

This is a story of Sujatha‘s famous novel.

P.C. Sreeram recently took part in a seminar for the Visual Communication students where he re-instated that all this digital film making technizques are just an aid to make films. However the much bigger part depends on the story and the style of story telling. He also remarked that digital film making is in it’s infancy in India and if only many more theatres would convert to digital projectors, digital films have a life in India. Digital films will keep a 10 year old movie still look afresh because they don’t use the classical fim rolls to project a movie.

But as of now Vaanam Vasappadum is being shot in digital film cameras. However they would be converted to films because India doesn’t have many digital thetres to film this movie as such. Yes, Vaanam Vasappadum.

This month in tamil is called Aadi – the month of breeze. Last evening was one such pleasant breezy saturday evening. Some highlights…

a) Driving along the adayar bridge with my hands free from the handlebar and the breeze swirling across the face. I was also humming the Girlfriend tune of Boys. Felt heroic and grossly cool. Just a small shake and I would have been thrown out of the bike. Would have looked like a joker. Fortunately, didn’t happen.

b) Watched Jackie Chan’s Shanghai Knights in an open air theatre. The breeze was also perfect and it was much better than an artifical AC theatre. It was a very ordinary movie but the thin line of fiction was innovative. It is a fictious interlude as to how Sir Arthur Conyan Doyle elevated from a Scotlandyard cop to a writer and coined Sherlock Holmes as his hero. Also another suprise was the fiction of Charlie Chaplin’s childhood. Looked a fabulous idea to link famous celebrities as a character in the movie. Do u know any such movies before?

c) Offlate I noticed, Chennai becomes very neon-lighted in the evening. Signs of leaving the conservative filter coffee culture and moving ahead with the go-getter funda. If you don’t think so watch the Boys movie. Quickeys coffee pub (!) serves kumbakonam coffee – the typical filter coffee of sorts. What you get for 7 bucks in Saravana Bhavan is served for 50 bucks. Just 43 bucks more. Why so much of difference? Coffee pub, man. It is a coffee pub. Much hyped interiors, latest fad babes, thin waistlines, chubby boyfriends, thier smallest nokias, american pub chairs, neon lights are some elements around you in a coffee pub. So prices are set accordingly. Did u ask for all these? Not me.

P.S: Maniratnam, has begun shooting the next day after was dicharged from the hospital. Workaholic !!

Seeing the accident happen in front of his eyes, Mani Ratnam, who was taking the shot from up close, yelled and passed out. He was later admitted to B M Birla Heart Research Institute.

It is the third time that he gets hospitalised for a chest pain. The first was during his trip to Japan Film festival and the second followed immediately within a year. Hope he gets back to action ASAP.

Read more on Vivek Oberoi’s accident while shooting Mani Ratnam’s latest flick in Kolkatta.