Saapnon se bhaare naina, toh neend hai na chaina

I guess am changing my fan club.
For a very long time since "Sarfarosh", I was a die hard Aamir khan fan and admired him for the fact that he probably was the only honest story-teller in bollywood.He still is, but i guess i have fallen for someone else's charm.

Just heard the songs of "Luck by chance".
Pure Nirvana.Period
Anyone else joining the Farhan Akhtar fan club.???

Who the hell is invisible?

Maybe coz I've been using gtalk and gmail for more than a couple of years now,hence am getting too critical about many of their finer aspects. But by this,I do not intend to hurl any insult at these cutting edge,instinctive products.

Disclaimer. Period.

Back to bashing.

Do u sometimes wonder as to who among your friends are currently invisible on their Gtalk account. For beginners, the invisible option doesn't show up on your gtalk chatting client, it only shows up when you login through ur gmail account and use the cloud gtalk.

Well,now am gonna tell u a simple trick.

1) Login to gtalk.
2)Go to settings
3)Go to the Notifications tab.
4)Check the box, show friend when online.

From now on whenever anyone logs in u get a irritating message saying "Jackass is online."

Sometimes or rather many times it also shows people who are invisible .

I have checked it with multiple accounts and with some other friends of mine.
Well am not the one who found it first, lotza other people have noticed this too.

I strictly cannot predict how to reproduce this bug,coz it doesn't work many times.But yeeah, i do know most of the times, the names of some those who are invisible.

Just a piece of code which might be hitting a global variable by chance. That's my take.

Wanna be invisible still??

"Captcha" doesn't work on gmail !!

Let us try a brute force attack.

1) Open gmail. http://www.gmail.com/

2)You have to have a gmail account to appreciate what I am trying to say.

3)Login with a set of standard brute force attack credentials
Login id: a
password:abcdefgh

4)Page posts back and u happen to see a new page with a "captcha" shown.

5)Now try again with another such set of credentials:

Login id:aa
password:abcdefghi

6) Don't enter the captcha.

7) Click on enter , you will find that the page posts back and a new set of captcha is now shown on the screen

8)Last step: Now enter your valid credentials
Valid username,password combination.

9)Don't enter the captcha and you will find that you are able to login and see your inbox.

HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH !!!!!!


What was the purpose with which captcha was designed.
Simple ,so that there are no more brute attacks on any online portal.
The vector shown can only be analysed only by a human or human interface.


So if a person doesn't enter the captcha, the page shouldn't post back and server requests shouldn't be validated.

But there i was,
1) I was able to get the page to post back without entering the captcha
2) I was able to login without typing the captcha.

Gmail still rocks though !!!