MangalMan's Perspective.

After scouring through inspiring and thought provoking chunk of info from betanews i felt ever compelled to do a Nepali version of the whole thing. I was not really expecting anything big but i think digging of my nose has yielded gold this time around.Ok here is the deal wikiscanner lets you input an organization name or domain and gives a list of what folks using their network have been up to on Wikipedia.Should i be elaborating about wikipedia? I guess not.

Apparently employees from Nepal Telecom have been involved in the editing of wiki entry of their rivals i mean “Spice Nepal” interesting i think.

Lets see i will make a list of edits they made and the date it was done.

On 17th of May 2007 Data under the Title Network information was altered to claim falsely that Spice Nepal has collapsed.

On 12th of June 2007 Web link to the Companies website was changed to http://www.russiansmugler.com

On the same day this piece of precious info was added to the entry

“Because of the reimbursement of the leased equpment, it is planning to close the network and will be handover to Nepal Telecom being a government Owned company.”

Oh same words right down to the spelling mistake.

On December 25th 2007

Network Status: Live from September 2005 was altered to Network Status: Dead from September 2005

Same day http://www.pidaluworld.comWorld and www.alu.com were the weblinks that were added (replaced with the home page link) to the entry.

On same day oh wow this is the most interesting of all the edits entire network status data was altered i think i need to give you a snapshot of this one this is funny at least it is to me. Click on the picture for expanded view.

Line 18:		Line 18:
	==Network Information==		==Network Information==
-	* Operator Name: Spice Nepal Private Ltd	+	* Operator Name: Mafia Don from Russia Company Unlimited
-	* Network Name: Mero Mobile	+	* Network Name: Mahato Mobile(Be aware of virus)
-	* Technology: GSM 900/1800	+	* Technology: TDM 100/420
	* Network Status: Dead from September 2005		* Network Status: Dead from September 2005

LOL....

Ok off we go to the faq section which i feel is a must here

FAQ

1)No I am Not an employee of Spice Nepal

2)No I am Not the one at Nepal telecom who has done this

3) Yes People at Nepal Telecom are complete idiots to think that they can get away with this with out anyone ever finding out.

4) No I am not going to reveal my Mobile number.

5) My email address is back2mangalman@gmail.com

6) Yes Nepal telecom's mobile service sucks big time.

7) Adsl chai thikai cha tara paisa ghataunu parcha ha ha

8) I ate mushroom today and i am feeling very sleepy bye bye.

Not much to say about this you have to actually follow the link to experience it for yourself and judge for yourself if this one is the worlds most annoying website.

http://home.comcast.net/~wolfand/


Warning:Do this if you have a bit of time to spare and don't forget to give comment.

link to download the entire result
1)
http://www.mediafire.com/?m2cxmrxnjyp
File size 3.8 MB
File format text
2)
http://www.mediafire.com/?namxbmgxhej
File size 501.17 KB
File format Rar compressed use Winrar or similar compressing/decompressing software to extract and view.

I have been so frustrated not being able to download from the rapidshare site for so long. Various tricks were working before the major update by rapidshare people. But after the update nothing worked.The damn cat and dog thing was so evil.It was a evil trick to ward off the free users. Make there experience so worst that they won't try there hand at it any more and buy the premium account.But no more guys there seems to be a way to get around the catchpa and the download limit thing as for now.There is a program called cryptloader.New update of this program does the magic

"CryptLoad is a free software that can download from RapidShare as a free user as if they were a premium user. There is no need to wait to continue downloading the next file and also there is no need to enter the confusing CAPTCHA codes as it is recognized and entered automatically."

quoting Raymond's blog.

Download CryptLoad form here

I have recorded and uploaded the last speech of the last king of New republic Nepal.
Listen to him.Download is about 3.72 Mb.From Media fire.
Here.
He is heard trying to defend his actions.Also he says the allegations about his and his families involvement in the royal massacre are not true. However the speculation about whether or not he will hand over the Crown seen in the picture and the Royal Stick.(Raj Danda in Nepali) is over now.Couldn't not find anything better than that to describe the Raj Danda sorry for that.He is heard saying that theses objects with historic importance would be handed over to the government of Nepal today.The hall where this press conference took place had a capacity of 80 people however there were more than 200 jornos inside at the time of the speech.After the speech king did not answer the question of any jornos.

गणतंत्र को प्रस्ताव पारित ।
Motion to declare Nepal as a Republic filed and voted for.

time-11:25 pm

final vote count 560 for the motion 4 against the motion

time-12:00am
People Spontaneously coming out to the road to celebrate in Thamel area.

Somebody opined Narayanhiti Palace be made Narayanhiti Party Palace do you agree?

time-12:05am past my bed time.Time to say good night sleep tight don't let the bed bugs bite.

Wishing & Hoping for a prosperous Nepalese Republic.

Minimum requirment:-A gprs enabled mobile with mero mobile sim card

This is not a post about how to enable internet in mero mobile.You go look here for that.This post is about sharing some knowledge about mero mobile internet.

Mero mobile is private mobile service provider in Nepal.It's network is considered good quality wise but a bit expensive then the government mobile service provider Nepal telecom.Ok lets get started now

Did you know that you can still be surfing the wap sites even if you have few paisa in your account as long as your account is not suspended? Is it something mero mobile people don't know or is it something they cannot control i don't know and i don't want to know as long as it serves me well.

It seems that anything less than 5kb opens.If it exceeds 5kb while you don't have money transfer of data stops with some messege.Mig33 messenger works well in these condition very well with some occassional connection error messages.Chat sessions continue smoothly.This messenger supports msn/yahoo/google and you can send email from it too.

This also means free sms to mero mobile.As you can send sms in the form of email in mero mobile network.How do you do it? Well you send email to +977980#######@sms.spicenepal.com which your friend or whoever you wish get as a sms.Just replace the # with the intended numbers.

Also get yourself a opera mini browser.Disable the pictures to minimize the data transfer many of the site can be opened from there.

Downloads can not go ahead with out the money though so i would suggest a 50 rupees recharge to down these stuffs first.

Some goon changed a line or two of a virusremoval.vbs script the infamous suijn script and made this a new one shyam.com.np. It had been on the circulation from probably few months though i was not aware of it.

Following are the changed lines in the script by this goon.

'Program developed by
'Shyam Uprety
'http://shyam. com.np
'shyamuprety@gmail.com

Shells.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\StartPage","http://shyam.com.np/"


Good news is my antisujin tool seeks and destroys this shyam.com.np thing.No more resource hijacking.Get rid of this browser hijack. Password is back2mangalman

Your home page will be changed to my blog which is totally reversible from Internet Explorer's properties.Some people might complain i do this but i had to put something other than sujin.com.np or in this case shyam.com.np. Would you be happy if i place google.com or yahoo or msn there? But i think that these are empires why should i be promoting internet empires?

Instead i choose to promote my individual no value blog. Love me or hate me just trying to help.I don't earn big buck from my blog.

And i would like to thank kingshuk for the comment here. For it made me investigate the problem.

Update:Even safyway.blogspot.com is the same thing get it removed from here.

Don't mix it with the usual computer virus this one affects your dinner plate.This time the virus is too close to ignore. It has reached to the villages of India which are near the boarder areas of Nepal. So Nepal government has declared Inaruwa ,Biratnagar of Morang district which coincidently happens to be home town of Current Prime minister of Nepal Girija Prashad Koirala as high risk areas.I wonder why all Disasters enters via morang.First Girija now this bird flu. Oh chicken roast!!!!. Now it is just a matter of time.Do you know the weird correlation between Girija being Primier and Flood engulfing tarai.Well statistics shows that on years when he is at the top nepal suffers from flood.Terai gets flooded every year sure it does but the problem gets worse when this guy is at the top.

No matter how vigilant a government can be you can't do much as the entity has superhuman powers i mean it can fly or at least hitch hike on some wild duck. Why is h5n1 thing so important one might think? This is because it has the potential to spill disaster on human kind. With high mortality rate and no working cure it has the capability of becoming next Pandora's Box. Stockpiling on Tami flu and crossing your fingers hoping it won't mutate are some of the solutions. Nepal being a poor country can only afford the latter.

It is not yet time to panic though. Yes the poultry sector would be affected if it enters as government will surely cull the infected ones and the non infected ones too. May the souls of those culled rest in peace.

I have some serious problem with the logic. I have problem with the logic as a whole. If you follow this logic strictly i mean very strictly those humans who are infected should also be culled!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. But this does not happen in the world the world is full of contradicting logics.There is no such thing as logic it is what you want.
The biggest myth about logic is that logic exists and it legitimizes your action.
Smelling some peta? Me too.

Very interesting xss injection in search feature of our very own trusted website
ntc.net.np which if you are dumb enough this can make you divulge your hotmail address and password. This is a complete rip off from nepali security google group. I am in no way the author of this particular exploit.

Just reporting the issue.This particular example highlights the need of awareness about xss amongst internet users.

click to see the xss at work.

If you people want to play safe please download firefox browser to surf the
internet and then install a extension to your browser called "noscript".One can
never expect 100% safety in online world but this move will make you
considerably safer and you won't regret it i promise.

You can download this addon either from extensions page from mozillla
http://en-us.add-ons.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0.0.14/extensions/
or from http://noscript.net.Its a freeware and will stop the xss injected link if the authentic looking link tries to trick you.

here goes the link to see what you have entered.

After a lot of delays the much talked about adsl service from Nepal Telecom has finally been started from today. The price of internet in Nepal can only go down from this point onwards. Very good news for everyone who have been paying unreasonably high price for the service till date.

You can get and fill up the form here.They will charge you Rs 500 as activation charge.
Lets do a quick price analysis.They have initially rolled out 2 data schemes.The first one at 128kbps and another one 256kbps.128kbps would be charged at Rs900 per month in prepaid basis the the other one at RS1500 this is excluding taxes.Now lets tax them to know the actual price a customer has to pay.

Rs900+900*10%=Rs990 (10% TSC)
Rs990+990*13%=Rs 1118(13% VAT)

This is my initial guess. I might be wrong here.Can anyone confirm?

Noticed something funny? Yes Nepal Telecom taxes the tax.First they tax you 10% TSC add it up and then again Tax the sum with 13% VAT.
You work out the second ones price.
Besides this price every adsl customer has to do a initial investment on buying adsl modem(ATU-R) the customer premises equipment and the splitter. I have no idea about these equipments local market price.Any idea?

Some very related and relevant links you guys might want to explorer
http://back2mangalman.blogspot.com/2008/03/nepal-telecom-says-adsl-coming-soon.html
http://back2mangalman.blogspot.com/2008/03/adsl2-what-is-fuss-about.html
http://back2mangalman.blogspot.com/2008/03/general-knowledge-about-dsl-and-adsl-in.html

हामी मध्ये धेरै घरबाट इन्टरनेट प्रयोग गर्नेहरु कम्प्युटरमा रहेको मोडेम मार्फत टेलिफोन बाट इन्टरनेट सेवा प्रदायकले दिएको नंबरमा डायल गरी यो सेवा लिने गर्दछौं। यसरी गरीने इन्टरनेट प्रयोगलाई हामी डायल अप इन्टरनेटको नामले चिन्दछौं। यस प्रविधीलाई इन्टरनेट सेवा प्राप्‍तीको सबै भन्दा सरल विकल्पको रुपमा लिइन्छ।

सुचना प्रविधीको तीब्र विकास सँगै इन्टरनेटमा ठूलो परीणाममा डाटा,भ्वाइसको साथै भिडियो आदानप्रदान हुन थालेको छ। तर यी कुराहरुको लागि इन्टरनेट सेवा द्रुत हुनु आवश्यक हुन्छ। जुन कुरा डायल अप इन्टरनेट मार्फत सम्भव छैन। डायल अप इन्टरनेटबाट हामीले बढिमा ५६ kbps सम्मको गतिमा इन्टरनेट चलाऊन सक्छौं। kbps इन्टरनेटको गति नाप्न प्रयोग गरिने एकाई हो जसको पुरा रुप किलोबिट्स प्रति सेकेन्ड भन्ने हुन्छ। त्यसैले हामीले यस प्रविधी मार्फत इन्टरनेट चलाउँदा सामान्य वेबपेज हेर्न बाहेक अन्य काम गर्न ज्यादै ढिलो हुन्छ। झट्ट हेर्दा सस्तो देखिए पनि डायल अप इन्टरनेट यसमा जोडिने टेलिफोन खर्चको कारणले महँगो पर्न जान्छ। हुनत हामी कहाँ नेपाल टेलिकमले इन्टरनेट सेवा प्रदायकले दिएको ५ अङ्कको टेलिफोन नंबरमा इन्टरनेट कनेक्सनको लागि कल गर्दा अरु बेला ४ मिनेटको एक कल र राति १० बजे पछि ८ मिनेटको एक कल रजिस्टर हुने व्यवस्था मिलाएको छ। हालको दिनमा यसलाई बढाएर ६ र १० बनाउने तर्फ नेपाल टेलिकमले गृहकार्य गरी रहेको कुरा विभिन्न पत्रपत्रिका मार्फत बाहिर आएको छ। तर यसले पनि डायल अप इन्टरनेट सेवालाई त्यति सस्तो बनाउने देखिदैन। देशमा सुचना प्रबिधिको विकासका लागि इन्टरनेट सेवाको स्तर र पहुँच दुबैलाई बढाउनै पर्छ।

इन्टरनेट सेवाको स्तर र पहुँच बढाउनका लागि बिश्‍वमा प्रयोग भईरहेका प्रविधी मध्येको एक डि यस एल (DSL)प्रविधीको हामी चर्चा गर्न जाँदै छौं। DSL प्रविधीलाई हामी साधारण टेलिफोनको तार मार्फत डिजिटल डाटा आदानप्रदान गर्न सकिने प्रविधीका रुपमा बुझ्‍छौं।DSL को पु्रा रुप digital subscriber line or loop भन्ने हुन्छ। साधारण टेलिफोन लाईनमा एक जोडा तामाको तार हुने कुरा त हामीले देख्दै आइरहेका छौं। यिनै तार मार्फत हामीले बोलेका कुराहरु एक ठाउँबाट आर्को ठाउँ सम्म पुग्ने गर्दछ। यस तारमा हाम्रो आवाजका अतिरीक्त डाटा तथा भिडियो पनि आदानप्रदान हुन सक्दछ। DSL प्रविधीले साधारण टेलिफोनको यसै बिशेषताको उपयोग गरेर काम गर्छ। साधारण टेलिफोनलाई POTS (plain old telephone service) को नामले पनि चिनिन्छ। POTS मा ० देखि ३,४०० hertz को फ्रिक्वेन्सीको उपयोग आवाज आदानप्रदानको लागि हुन्छ। यसलाई मानिसले स्पष्‍ट सुन्न सक्ने आवाज को फ्रिक्वेन्सी ठानिन्छ। तर तामाको तारमा यो भन्दा धेरै बढि फ्रिक्वेन्सी प्रयोग बिहिनरुपमा रहिरहेको हुन्छ। पहिले टेलिफोन कम्पनीहरुले ती फ्रिक्वेन्सी प्रयोग नगर्नुको मुख्य कारण प्रविधीको महँगो हुनु थियो। प्रविधीमा भएको विकासको कारण यी समस्याको समाधान निस्किसकेको छ।DSL प्रविधी प्रयोग गरि इन्टरनेट चलाउँदा टेलिफोन कल महसुल लाग्दैन मात्र टेलिफोन कम्पनिले तोकेको मासिक महसुल तिरे पुग्छ।DSL प्रविधीका लागि प्रयोग कर्ताको कम्प्युटर DSL modem मार्फत टेलिफोन कम्पनिको कार्यलयको DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) सँग जोडिएको हुनु पर्छ। DSL modem ले डायल अप मोडेमले जस्तो modulation/demodulation सिग्नललाई डिजिटलबाट एनालग र एनालगबाट डिजिटल मा लग्ने काम गर्देन यसले कनेक्सनको लागि DSLAM सँग काम गर्छ। त्यसैले पनि DSL modem लाई टेलिफोन कम्पनिका ईन्जिनियरहरुले ATU-R(ADSL Transceiver Unit - Remote) को नामले चिन्दछन्। DSL को प्रयोग गरि इन्टरनेट चलाउन तथा टेलिफोन पनि रिसिभ गर्नको लागि splitter अथवा filter को प्रयोग गर्नु पर्दछ। यिनको काम आवाजको फ्रिक्वेन्सीलाई अन्यबाट छ्ट्याउनु हुन्छ। यसो नगरे DSL को स्तर कम हुनुको साथै टेलिफोन रिसिभ पनि गर्न सकिदैन। DSL को कनेक्सन स्पिड १२८ kbps देखि लिएर २४ mbps सम्मको हुन्छ।

DSL प्रविधीको सुरूवात विशेषत अमेरिकामा केबल इन्टरनेटको प्रतिस्पर्धीको रुपमा भएको पाइन्छ। केबल इन्टरनेटमा जस्तो प्रयोगकर्ता थपिदैं जाँदा DSL प्रविधी को इन्टरनेटको गति कम हुदैन। त्यसैले पनि DSL प्रविधीको लोकप्रियता बढ्दै गएको हो। तर DSL प्रविधीको नकारात्मक पक्ष पनि छ। DSL प्रविधीको इन्टरनेट गति DSLAM देखि DSL modem सम्मको दूरीमा भर पर्छ। अर्थात यो दूरी बढ्दै जाँदा गति घट्दै जान्छ।

DSL प्रविधीका पनि विभिन्न प्रकारहरु छन्। ती मध्य मुख्य निम्न छन्।

1)HDSL(high data rate DSL)

2)ADSL(Asymmetric DSL)

3)SDSL(Symmetric DSL)

4)VDSL(Very high bit rate DSL)

HDSL र SDSL प्रविधी हाल त्यति धेरै प्रचलनमा नभएको कारण यहाँ ADSL र VDSL प्रबिधिको मात्र चर्चा गर्ने जमर्को गर्दैछु।

ADSL:-
ADSL को पुरा रुप Asymmetric digital subscriber line भन्ने हुन्छ। यस खालको DSL को download speed upload speed भन्दा धेरै हुन्छ। यस प्रविधी बाट आवाज,डाटा र भिडियो सबै आदानप्रदान गर्न सकिन्छ। हालका दिनमा ADSL प्रविधीको लोकप्रियता संसार भर बढ्दै गएको पाइन्छ। ब्रिटेनको टेलिफोन कम्पनी BT ,भारतको टेलिफोन कम्पनी BSNL यस प्रविधी को प्रयोग गर्ने कम्पनीका उदाहरण हुन्।छिमेकी देश भारतमा Data One को नामले २ mbps गतिको इन्टरनेट ४०० नेपाली रुपैंया प्रति महिनाको दरमा उपलब्ध हुन थालेको छ। हालका दिनमा ADSL प्रबिधीमा पनि अझै बिकाशको हुदै यसको गति र कभर गर्न सक्ने दूरी दूबै मा बृद्धि भएको छ। जसलाई ADSL2+ को नामले चिनिन्छ। ADSL2+ भने ADSL कै बिकसित रुप हो। गुणात्मक हिसाबले हेर्ने हो भने ADSL2+ ADSL भन्दा ३ गुणा छिटो हुन्छ र यसले धेरै दुरी सम्म काम दिन्छ।

हालका दिनमा नेपाल टेलिकमले पनि ADSL2+ प्रविधीको प्रयोग गरी देश भर broadband internet इन्टरनेट सुबिधा पुर्‍याउन लागेको कुरा बाहिर आएको छ। साधारणतया२५६ kbps भन्दा माथिको कनेक्सन स्पिडको इन्टरनेटलाई broadband internet भनिन्छ। ADSL modem को मुल्य भने त्यति सस्तो छैन। बिकल्पका रुपमा टेलिकमले ग्राहकहरुलाई modem भाडामा उपल्ब्ध गराउन सक्ने देखिन्छ।

VDSL:-

VDSL फाइबर अप्‍टिक्समा आधारित DSL प्रविधी हो।फाइबर अप्‍टिक्स केबुलको मुल्यमा आएको कमी र यसका विशेषताहरुका कारणले गर्दा विश्‍व कतिपय देशका टेलिफोन कम्पनिहरु तामाको तारलाई बिस्तारै फाइबर अप्‍टिक्सले फेर्‍दैछन्। ADSL मा प्रयोग हुने उपकरणहरुले फाइबर अप्‍टिक्समा काम गर्न सक्दैन्न। त्यसैले यो नयाँ प्रविधीको खाँचो आइपरेको हो। यो प्रबिधी मा १६ mbps सम्म upload र ५४ mbps सम्म download हुन्छ।

भिडियो अनडिमान्ड जस्तो सुबिधा उपयोगका लागि चहिने इन्टरनेटको गति यो प्रबिधीबाट सजिलै पाउँन सकिन्छ। यो प्रविधी हाल सम्म महँगो भएका कारणले केहि सिमित ठाँमा मात्र यसको उपयोग भइरहेको हामी पाउँछौं।

(also published in yuvamanch few months ago re-published here with some edit)

Nepal telecom is deploying ADSL2+ shortly. Dial up is bad. It is expensive. It is slow. Surfing the net in dial up is getting increasingly difficult as the amount of data to be downloaded while doing so is increasing. Try watching a youtube video off a dial up connection and you will the get the idea. ADSL is Asymmetric Digital Subscribers Line over the loop. That means we can get this type of connection over our normal telephone line. Our telephone line has a pair of copper wire underneath the plastic cover. Our telephone line is also known as POTS as in Plain old telephone service. This POTS uses 0 to 3400 hertz of frequency range to exchange voice over the wire. However copper wire has lots of frequency left unused in it. In ADSL this unused frequency is deployed to carry the data. With an ADSL modem in place one can use the telephone as well as internet at the same time.

I have taken this picture from Nepal telecom's website

Asymmetry means the downstream data rate in this type of connection is far greater that the upstream data rate that means one can download stuffs from internet in much faster pace than one can upload say pictures or videos. All the DSL systems have had this problem of being distance dependent though. As the distance between telecom switching station and customer grows the quality of connection degrades. The difference between cable and ADSL is that cable does not have that problem. However with ADSL you can get dedicated connection directly from the switching station and the quality of connection is always maintained by the DSLAM device at telecom office end and the Customer premises device (ATU-R). Internet Service providers offering cable internet most of the times divide the whole connection amongst several users assuming that no single user uses all the bandwidth allocated. So 128 Kbit/sec internet connections are not actually as they say it is. ADSL2+ is latest ADSL technology increasing the capability. With it on, the distance covered by the System as well as the speed increases nearly three folds.

For ADSL2+ to work in our home one needs a ADSL2+ modem a splitter to split the voice and the data frequency from the copper wire and ADSL internet account from Nepal Telecom in Nepal's context or what ever your Telecom/Internet service provider is. ADSL2+ modem is not actually a modem because it does not modulates/demodulates as the dial up modem does.Signal are digital all the way in ADSL or any other DSL variant systems. Rather it does the handshaking with DSLAM device in switching station and later on works to maintain the quality of service through out the connection session.

NTC's adsl faq link

हुन त यी त्यति पत्यार लाग्दा कुरा होइनन् तर पनि भनि हालुँ नेपाल टेलिकमले ADSL2+ इन्टरनेट सेवा सुरु गर्न लागेको छ रे। नेपाल टेलिकमले ADSL सुरु गर्न लाग्दै छ भन्ने थाहा पाएको र लगत्तै साथीहरु माझ यो खबर दिएको पनि १ बर्ष भै सकेछ। सुरुमा ६४ सालको माघ महिना देखि प्रारम्भ गर्ने भनिए पनि पछि सर्दै गएर चैत्रको मध्यबाट अर्थात April बाट सुरु हुने प्रचार गरियो यो सेवा। माघमा सम्पन्न "Can infotech " मा NTC को stall रूङ्नेहरु नेपाल टेलिकमका कर्मचारी नै हुन भन्ने assumption लाई आधार मान्ने हो भने र जिम्मेवार कर्मचारीले सहि बोल्छन् भन्ने पत्याउने हो भने अप्रिल १ को दिनको आसपासबाट यो सेवा सुरु हुनु पर्ने हो। मैले त्यहाँ उनै कर्मचारीलाई सोधेको थिएँ के यो पनि हामी मुर्ख ग्राहकहरुलाई फेरि अप्रिल फूल बनाउने काम त होइन भनेर तर उनको सहज उत्तर थियो "होइन"। यस सेवाको tariff को बारेमा जान्ने प्रयासहरुबाट NTC का कर्मचारी "हाल सम्म तय भएको छैन" भन्ने उत्तरका साथ उम्किए पछि सँगै गएको मेरो साथीले यहि प्रश्‍न कुटनितिक तरीकाबाट राख्यो उसको प्रश्‍न थियो "मैले हाल घरमा साँझ ८ बजे देखि बिहान ८ बजे सम्म ६४केबि/sec को ईन्टरनेट महिनाको रु ५०० तिरेर चलाउँछु। के यो सेवा मैले तिर्ने रकम भन्दा कम हुन्छ? यो प्रश्‍नको उत्तर पनि सकारात्मक आएको थियो।

म डायल ईन्टरनेटको unreasonably high rate को भारले दबिएर र प्रबिधि विकाशका घटनाक्रममा केहि interest भएको कारणले यस सँग सम्बन्धीत news development लाई follow गर्दै आइरहेको छु। मेरो सुचनाको almost exclusive स्रोत भनेको नेपाल समाचारपत्र हुने गरेको छ। नेपाल टेलिकमबाट यस सम्बन्धी सुचना चुहिने बित्तिकै मैले ईमेल मार्फत आफ्नो सुझाव पनि पठाएको थिएँ। त्यसबेला ADSL को कुरा हुँदै थियो। मैले ADSL होइन ADSL पुरानो भईसक्यो अब नयाँ प्रबिधीमा लगानी गर्नु पर्छ त्यसकारण ADSL2+ तिर नेपाल टेलिकमको सोच पुगोस् भनि लेखेको थिएँ। मेरो ईमेल पढियो भन्ने कुरा त मैले त्यसको जवाफ पाए बाट पुष्टि भएको थियो सायद मेरो सुझाव पनि मनन गरिएछ।

यस सम्बन्धी लेटेस्ट समाचारका अनुसार नेपाल टेलिकम ADSL2+ सन्चालनको अनुमति लाईसेन्सको लागि proposed tariff का साथ नेपाल दुरसंचार नियमन संस्थामा पुगेको छ। त्यो भन्दा नयाँ खबर भनेको नेपालका १७ वटा ISP(ईन्टरनेट सर्बिस प्रोभाइडर) हरु मिलेर Nepal telecommunication authority मा उजुरी हालेका छन्। उनीहरुका अनुसार नेपाल टेलिकमले टेलिफोनबाट कमाएको नाफालाई ADSL सस्तो बनाउन प्रयोग गर्दैछ र ADSL सस्तो भए पछि निजी सेवा प्रदायकहरुको महँगो cable/wireless ईन्टरनेट सबैले लिनछोड्नेछन्। जसको कारण private ISP हरुको धरासायी हुनेछन्।

अब मेरो बिचार। ईन्टरनेट सेवा सस्तो हुनु नराम्रो होइन। बरु यी ISP हरुले आफ्नो सेवा सस्तो पार्न तिर पो लाग्नु पर्छ।हाल ईन्टरनेट सेवा महँगो हुनमा स्याटलाइटबाट bandwidth लिनु पर्नु,भारतले बनाईदिएको पूर्ब पश्‍चिम अप्टिकल फाइबर लाइनमा नेपाल टेलिकमको मात्र एकाधिकार रहनु आदि कारणहरु रहेको कुरा स्वयम् ISP हरुलेनै भन्दै आईरहेका हुन्। बरु यी कुरामा Nepal telecommunication authority लाई दबाब दिनुपर्छ ISP हरुले। त्यस्तै ADSL को बेलायती मोडललाई पनि फलो गर्न सकिन्छ कि त? U.k मा ब्रिटिस टेलिकम को टेलिफोन नेटवर्क अन्य ISP हरुले पनि प्रयोग गर्न पाएका छन् आफ्नो ADSL network का लागि।

सिद्धान्त: ADSL2+ बाट 24 Mbit/sec download achieve गर्न सकिन्छ तर Reality के पनि हो भने नेपाल टेलिकम ले त्यो स्पिडको ईन्टरनेट १० जना लाई दिँदा नदिँदै उसले किनेको Indian ISP बाट किनेको bandwidth सकिन्छ। र अन्त्यमा नेपालमा WiMAX नेटवर्क स्थापना गर्न एक युरोपियन कम्पनीले चासो देखाएको कुरा पनि बाहिर आएको छ। WiMAX लाई नेपालको सन्दर्भमा गाउँ सम्म ईन्टरनेट पुर्याउने बिकल्पको रुप हेरिएको छ।

Black hats and White hats that is how hackers are differentiated from crackers in the internet community. The good vs. the bad. Setting up a website in Nepal is catching on these days it seems. But web developers/administrators are not putting extra effort by researching about the security part. I don't really blame it to them though. Ask a science bachelor student in his third year in Nepal's TU and you will get an idea about Research in Nepal. The biggest joke about "research" for him/her is that the only way of passing it as a subject is to completely get the whole book in his/her mind word by word sentence by sentence paragraph by paragraph. Oh what an irony!!!. What a mockery of the word "Research".

They seem to be turning blind eyes over growing the trend of hostile website takeovers around the world. And not holding their diapers properly as put by Bipin from nepsecure. This has many implications. For example companies like Nepal Telecom may lose in millions of rupees in revenue if their insecure server systems are somehow taken over by the bad guys. Several penetration tests done by various internet security people have already indicated that this is within the realm of possibility.

Well I seriously think that all the so called government service providers be it Drinking water corperation or Electricity authority or Telecom for that matter are dacoits looting the poor Nepali people And The Grand Leader of This Clan is undoubtedly Nepal Telecom. (डाँकुको सरदार). I am itching to write few words in Nepali here.

नेपाल टेलिकमले क्यान इन्फोटेक २००८ मा आजकल दुई कुरा बाँड्दै छ।

१) नेपाल टेलिकम लेखिएको डटपेन

२) र संबिधान सभाको निर्बाचनको मिति सरे जस्तै lunching date सरी रहने ADSL2+ internet को खोक्रो आश्‍वासन ।

३ दिन अघि सम्म फेब्रवरी मध्य सम्ममा त पक्का भन्दै गरेको टेलिकमले त्यसलाई बढाएर अप्रिल फूलको दिन पुर्‍याएको छ।

coming back to the point

Case studies Black Hats Vs. White ones in nepali context

1)http://www.nepalgov.gov.np/ (Nepal government's web site hacked (defaced))

see it here http://www.meroguff.com/2007/12/nepalese-government-site-hacked-by.html

2) http://www.nepalpost.gov.np/ Nepal post offices web site hacked (defaced)

see it here http://calima.serapis.net/blogs/index.php?/archives/143-Department-of-Postal-service-in-nepal-Defaced.html

What we have seen in recent months in the above mentioned site are the perfect example of work by Black hat hackers doing damage. Imagine what would happen to NTC if this happens to them. Well in the worst case scenario communication lines across all Nepal would come in Stand still. Or redirection of landline calls combined with the spoofing of caller id number can damage anybodies personal life. I don't think NTC engineers would even accept that serious holes in the system exist let alone fixing them. Oh and hiding your error message or the version or apache installation page is not equal to securing a server.

Now about some penetration testing done by some Afnai Bari ko(आफ्नै बारीको) White Hat Internet Security enthusiast com pen tester com Hacker.

Some dorks included

1) http://web.ird.gov.np/ (Gov of Nepal Inland Revenue Department security breached)

2) http://websms.ntc.net.np/websmss/login.jsp (Nepal Telecoms web sms service password brute forced)

3) http://ksl.edu.np/ (Kathmandu School Of Law Website sql injected )

4) http://www.cybersansar.com/ (One Of the most popular web entertainment portal of Nepal's xss vulnerability )

5) http://www.kec.edu.np/ (Kantipur engineering college sql injection )

.The main diffenence between this guy and Iranian Hackers is that he is doing it for good. Informing the site admins about these issues.Read this guy here

http://hamrosecurity.blogspot.com/

Thanks to Bipin from nepsecure for making me aware.

I have a small suggestion for this guy though

plz change this "यो बल्ग मा नेपाली websites हरूमा रहेको सेक्युरितिका बारेमा लाखिने छन्। " to this "यो ब्लगमा नेपाली websites हरुमा रहेका सेक्युरीटि issues का बारेमा लेखिने छ।

It takes a little bit of getting used with this Unicode thing I must admit। Just trying to help . Don't take it otherwise.

some update: looks like another site http://www.thikthak.com too is
vulnerable to XSS thing

click Here to see for yourself this will fire up an alert box.

This will load back2mangalman inside thikthak website

And finally This will redirect you to this blog.

Well i did not find it by myself this was from some baabal forum

well the title says it all. I was just watching cnn. And i saw the news breaking. It says Microsoft is offering 44.6 bn dollors for yahoo.
I am quoting cnn from here

In a statement, Yahoo acknowledged receipt of the offer and said its board would evaluate the proposal "carefully and promptly."
The deal would pay Yahoo shareholders $31 a share, which represents a 62% premium from where Yahoo stock closed on Thursday.
Microsoft's statement said the offer allows Yahoo shareholders to elect to receive cash or a fixed number of shares of Microsoft common stock, with the software giant's offer consisting of one-half cash and one-half Microsoft common stock.
Shares of Yahoo (YHOO, Fortune 500) shot up nearly 60% in pre-market trading on the news, while shares of Dow component Microsoft (MSFT, Fortune 500) tumbled 5%.
Both Microsoft and Yahoo have fallen far behind rival Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) in the lucrative field of Internet search. Yahoo's earnings and share of the online search market have badly trailed Google.
In a letter it sent to Yahoo's board of directors, Microsoft disclosed it had explored a Microsoft-Yahoo deal a year earlier, only to be rebuffed by Yahoo, which said at that time it was confident of the "potential upside" for Yahoo from operational changes it planned.
"A year has gone by, and the competitive situation has not improved," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer wrote.

source CNN

if this thing works out internet world is going to shake up. Watch out google.

Well I was not writing because I was busy these days. Oh what a lame excuse for my laziness. Sorry but too late for me to change I guess. Two of the biggest news events hitting media these days were the launch of so called people's car by Tata motor of India dubbed "the cheapest car in the world" and death of Sir Edmund Hillary conqueror of Everest "Highest peak of the world". Two independent events surly they are but we in Nepal can't escape the ramifications.

Let me write about this Edmund guy first. Little bit of Encarta exploring reveals Edmund Percival Hillary born in 1919 at Auckland scaled Everest in May of 1953. He along with Tenzing Norgay had to do it with primitive of tools. Modern day pseudo climbers are literally carried to the top of Everest on Sherpa's back. They won't admit it coz it's bitter but it is the truth. Ask them about Ice doctors if you really want to find out. After finishing his exploration work in Antarctica he returned back to the mountains which had given him such name and fame it was in the early 1960s. From then on he began raising money to build a school for the children of Khumjung, the home village for many of the Sherpas who had accompanied him on the Everest ascent. He later established the Himalayan Trust, which, since its inception, has funded more than 30 schools in Nepal, as well as hospitals, medical clinics, and airstrips. He was granted honorary citizenship of Nepal during celebrations held in 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of the ascent.

Well I regard this guy as a true Nepali who spent his life promoting Nepal and helping Nepali people. Unlike so many of expats these days who vomit poison about Nepal everywhere in internet and yet claim they are Nepali. Nepal Ama le Auta Sacha Choro Gumayin. My commiserations.

Now Tata's Nano the IC 1 lakh car. After much of hype finally it was revealed in Auto Expo in New Delhi. I think this car is going to be the next big thing. Given the publicity and its price means it is going to sell like a hot cake once it hits the showrooms that is from late 2008. Well more cars mean more traffic jam and more importantly more pollution. I think Tata should have named their car "Global warming". Nano they have called it but all these Nano combined would make them Mega. Problem of Mega scale. Sooner rather than later this is going to come to Nepal too. But add 175% of tax and you will get the price you would have to pay for it here.

Desperately trying to find a connection between these two events I come with this. Mountain peaks and the surrounding environment which Edmund so revered is on the decline already and the addition of the cheap car in the roads only means acceleration.

Or is it the Christmas hang over?

Ministry for collecting Petroleum commission and Kidnapping has given a speech in the name of the Nation. It said today in a pressed release the following “howdy folks Guess what time is it? Well it is the happy New Year and time for all the people of this beautiful Nation to get some perk on the occasion. So we have decided after consultation with our fellow accomplishes that the price of petroleum product has to be raised as it is the only way we can pay tribute to the rise in greasing the palm sector of industries.”
Oh I see the Hope at last after so many months of hitting new lows every day. Growth oh growth how sweet you can be.
The only way to get rid the nation from these poor bastards is to kill’em all .If this fails try taxing there oxygen.



पेट्रोलियम कमिशन तथा अपहरण मन्तरी द्वारा देश बासीको नाममा सम्बोधन। जनतालाई मध्य रात्रीय उपहार। जनता(पेट्रोलियम डिलर्स एसो उसो सिएछन्।) खुसीले गद्‍गद्। मगंलमान सधै झैं फेरी एक पटक पुन ट्वाँ ट्वाल्ल वाल्ल छ्याल्ल हुक्क हुक्क थुक्क थुक्क वात्त फ्यात्त थ्याच्च अन्त्यमा खुईइ‍य। जे जसो भए नि जाँतो त घुमाउनै पर्‍यो। क्याबात मन्तरी ज्यू क्याबात। यी पूँजीबादी अर्थतन्त्रले बोक्नु परेका बेफ्वाँकका बोझ (गरिबहरु) ले गर्दा बदनाम भै रहेको देशलाई धनी बनाउने रामबाण औषधी खोजेकोमा हजुरलाई साष्‍टाङ्ग दण्डवत। यसै गरि अब बिस्तारै घाँटी अठ्याउँदै जाँदा सबै गरिब मरिसके पछि नेपाल एक मात्र गरिबी उन्मुलन भएको देश कहलिनेछ क्या काईदा क्या बात। ए नाथे अम्रिकानेहरु सिक ए तिमरुनि नेपाली मोडलको गरिबि उन्मुलन कार्यक्रमबाट बाट।