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[ Editorial ]

Why develop Soft 3

Skills ?

[ current Affairs ] Contents

The
EYJAFJALLAJOKULL
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effect
Editors :

Anandaswarup Vadapalli
[ culture ] IIIT-H

Music as I see it 6

[ ${technical Opinion} ] Design Team :

5 phases of IT attack 9
Surya Teja
IIIT-H

Deepak Mishra
[ fun Time ] IIIT-H

Say cheese 10
MSIT Adda 11

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Why
Anand
IInd Year,IIIT-H develop
Soft Skills?
6 Skills for success
Interpersonal skills SCarnegie
tudies by Stanford Research Institute and the
Mellon Foundation among Fortune 500 CEOs
Team spirit found that 75% of long term job success depended on
people skills and only 25% on technicalskills.
Social grace
Business etiquette This is true at other levels as well. For effective
performance in the workplace, companies need their
Behavioural traits employees to have not only domain knowledge,
Negotiation skills technical and analytical skills, but also the skills to deal
with the external world of clients, customers, vendors,
the government and public; and to work in a
collaborative manner with their colleagues.
Companies in India are finding that they have to promote people faster than ever before to meet
their growth needs. At the same time, they are finding that the candidates do not have the
necessary skills to make the transition from a technical or functional specialist to a team leader,
supervisor or manager. Companies in the IT, BPO, KPO, Biotech, and Pharmaceuticals industries
have found that their people need soft skills to work effectively in cross0functional or project
teams, local teams or global teams.

Behavioural traits such as attitude, motivation and time management

With the traditional paternalistic style of leadership becoming passé, professional managers
expect their teams to be proactive and communicate openly. Soft skills are very important in
business. It is not only essential to be technically sound, but one should also have the ability to
convey the idea to the masses in the simplest possible manner.

With the boom in outsourcing taking root across industries, many professionals and subject
matter experts directly deal with their clients on a regular basis. Their approachability and
people skills are what ultimately sustain the contract their employers have bagged. Planning is
necessary but execution is also equally important. And it takes soft skills to execute any idea
because it involves dealing with people directly.

Training on soft skills becomes all the more relevant in a country like India where the education
system does not delve into personality development. Due to this shortage of soft skills training,
it is courses like MSIT which have extensive soft skills training, which stand out from the rest.

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The

effect
"EYJAFJALLAJOKULL"

G Murli Krishna
- From ash to aviation agony MSIT Ist Year,
JNTU

Difficult to understand the reason of cause, difficult to estimate the damage, difficult to perform rescue
operations when a volcano erupts, however what is significant from the latest volcanic eruption that had
happened in Iceland is its impact on air transportation system.

The list of losses caused because of volcanic turmoil is:

Seven million passengers stranded across the world.

Twenty two airspace closed
95,000 flights cancelled
$1.7 billion lost
Around 40,000 tourists were unable to fly out of INDIA on schedule.
and many more...

Reason beyond such agony:

Before analyzing the reason of cause we need to ask what volcanic ash is. How it affects our airspace? A
volcano generally consists of gases such as sulphur dioxide and carbon dioxide, this volcano when erupts,
large amounts of ash can be generated. As this eruption is under ice, it has added the explosivity to pump
the ash high into the atmosphere.

As the magma (molten rock under the earth surface) gets close to the surface, the gases expand and form

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a volcanic froth, which then breakdowns into thousands of ash particles.

In the case of eruption in Iceland, we have added water coming into the system from the ice which flashes
to steam under the heat and increases the intensity of explosion. At these high winds our planes fly, so
when volcanic eruptions result in ash clouds we have to be careful not to fly through them. If we risk by
flying through such ash clouds, the engines get clogged with ash and causes engine failure. The reason for
clogging is the high temperatures of engine which causes the ash to re0melt to lava and stick to engine
parts.

This whole story puts volcanoes in a new perspective as our modern0day lives are more reliant on air
travel than ever before. We are likely to see more volcanic eruptions which require new measures to put
into implementation from the lessons learned from Europe’s volcanic ash crisis.

The continuation eruption of volcano has raised new fears about the larger volcanoes nearby0KATLA
which is 10 times larger than the one under discussion.

Protective measures for next time:

29% of global aviation was affected according to International Air Transport Association0IATA.

We need to do better next time and here’s how, say aviation experts:

The existing technology consists of the following:

Small, piston0driven planes are best if the ash isn’t too dense. The advantage of these planes is that they fly
at lower altitudes where there is a less chance of hitting ash, and also they can easily land at smaller
airports.
Choppers0a kind of helicopters which can take preventive action soon when ash sticks to its blades. But it
could not be a mass0transit, long0distance solution.
The future innovations proposed are :
Developing a RADAR system to identify ash,
Developing planes that could fly higher on the top of hash clouds,
Developing of engine where ash cannot enter.
However before developing all these, it is most important to identify the active volcano spots on the earth
which could erupt in near or far future and compute alternative routes to destination.

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M M K Tejaswi
MSIT Ist Year,
IIIT H

Music as I see it

S
“ o is music an asylum. It takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle
our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto. All the great interrogatories
questioning Angels float in on its waves of sound.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

L ife is a celebration. It is a spree of joy, compassion and music, and a life without music is not full. It
is said in India that anything can liberate you. It may be science or arts.

Science goes with questions and researching for answers. But a solution to a question may lead to
another question and this will, at certain point of time lead to liberation. But, it is the hard way.
Arts is the well known and easy way. Any art comprises the human element including its
psychological aspects like emotions and feelings. So, the connect will be more. Art has the power to
take away even the hardest of mental agonies and sufferings. The best examples would be music and
dance. They are the art forms that truly take us within.

Music is such an art that encompasses the boundaries of nation and religion. Music should just not
be an amusement. It should take us within as it is the easiest vehicle to the Divine, which is nothing
but everlasting bliss. What is so special in Micheal Jackson's music? It has that connect and reach to
the hearts of its listeners. That's the reason tears of ecstasy roll down when one listens to his songs.

The modern age identifies music as western classical, pop, Hip0hop, Jazz, Rock, Indian, Iranian etc.
The spirit loves diversity. Hence, these musical forms. Any form that is pleasing to the senses and that
has the ability to permeate deep within is true music.

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Indian music is just not an art form. It has its own science. The basis of Indian music is the primordial
sound0 the OM. It is considered that the entire world came out of that primordial sound. The scriptures
are the basis of Indian music. The oldest roots of music can be found in the Sama Veda, the third Veda.
Each syllable has its own length and every line is according to the meter. The gayathri mantra has its own
musical dimensions. Its meter is gayathri. The Vishnu sahasranamam is rendered in the
Anustup meter. Indian music has gradually moved from just rhythm and meter to
frequency, notes, scale and a lot more. The Hindustani style has adopted the
Iranian and Afghan forms into it and is more focused on the musical element.
Its counterpart, the carnatic style is both musical and bhaava pradhaana.

Carnatic music has its name and meaning from the sanskrit words Karnaah (ears) and atati
(walk in). Any music that walks deep within into our depth, our Self is carnatic
music. It is the only musical form that accomodates or has
within it all other forms of traditional music. It can be considered as the
Superset of other music forms. It has 72 parent scales and innummerable child scales. Indian
solfege uses sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, da, ni as symbols that are taken from the sounds of nature (sa is
from peacock, ri is from Ox.......). These notes are similar to the do,re,mi,fa,so,la,ti solfege of
the western music.

Carnatic music has its own mathematics in naming a scale. Every scale (raga) in Carnatic
music is associated with an animal, an emotion, a deity and a cosmic element.

Western classical music is introduced into India by the British. The, then musical
exponent Muthuswamy Dikshithar explored its value and similarities with carnatic
music. He composed more than 30 songs in the C0major scale. He introduced the
Violin into Indian music.

Indian music and Western
structured notation and their
Shankaraabharanam of the
style. Any Western scale has its Indian
kambhoji or Khamaj thaat of the Indian
classical music are very similar in their
scales. The C0major scale is called as
Carnatic style and Bilawal of the Hindustani
name. The Ionian scale is very similar to the hari
school.

Indian music is so rich in the element of emotion, that all the nava rasas (the nine expressions) can be
portrayed through it. As it is very close to the nature, it has the power to drive the river of thought to the
Ocean, which is the Self. So, we all should take pride in Indian music and let its glory spread through out
the world. Music is certainly not only Indian. It has many flavors.

Music can be a way of life as it has no geographical, social or cultural boundaries. It speaks a universal
language. Let it be the rock song of Hoobastank or Bryan Adams or U2, let it be the pop song of Madonna
or Celine Deon or BSB, let it be the rap/hip hop song of Eminem or Timbeland, let it be a Egyptian song of
Omar Kulsum, let it be the opera of Michael Maniaci, each song has its own color and flavor. If that flavor
makes us realize the ultimate happiness that we are, it is to be accepted, respected, honored, learnt and

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preached.

Music is not only confined to humans. The nature itself is musical. The chirping of the birds and insects, the
leaping of dolphins and whales, the roars of the higher mammals, everything is music of the Divine. We all
should take time in watching and appreciating this musical carnival. The gentle breeze that springs over the
grass blades, a baby laughing in itself
are songs of the Divine. Silence is the
music within. Dance is the music of
rhythm.

There is no life without music.

Breathing is the musical performance
of all life for the Divine. If the soham
(so – breathing in, ham – breathing
out)stops, the Divine which is our self
leaves away. Recognizing the truth is
the ultimate aim of any art form.

“Our Sacred scriptures say that music is the easiest vehicle, to attain 'godhood' as music has no
barriers of region, language or religion; so is also divinity and humanity.”

-Bharat Ratna Dr. M S Subbulakshmi

~ Jai Gurudev ~

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TRK Prasanth
MSIT Ist year
IIIT-H

for j in range(5):
print "phases of IT Attack"

If you are in the business of IT security, you may perhaps know the answer to
this elementary question,

“What is the most common type of attack?

a) Buffer overflow b) Trojan horse c) Operating system d) Application.

To the rest of us, the answer is d, the application attack, as Richard A. Deal writes
in ‘CCNA Security’ (www.tatamcgrawhill.com). In this type of attack, the
perpetrator tries to gain access to the application and the data the application has access to, the author
explains. “Because modern applications tend to be complex, it can be easy for an attacker to find and
exploit a weakness associated with an application.”

In a chapter on ‘endpoint security,’ the author describes the five possible phases of attack. Probe is the
first. In this phase, the attacker uses ping and port scans to discover computers, the operating systems
they are running, the applications they are running, and the possible vulnerabilities that the operating
system and applications may have.

The second phase is ‘penetrate,’ during which the attacker uses email attachments, such as a virus or
Trojan horse, buffer overflows and other methods ‘to take advantage of a vulnerability in order to gain
initial access to a computer.’

Persist is the next stage. “The attacking or exploitation software will modify a computer’s existing
configuration to become and remain resident on the computer – this is typically done by installing new
code or programs or overwriting existing code or programs.”

The fourth phase is ‘propagate,’ wherein the attacking or exploitation software scans for other targets
‘attempting to exploit a vulnerability on other targets and gain access to them.’

Finally comes ‘paralyse,’ the phase in which the attacker crashes the computer, steals data, or deletes or
modifies files or disk space on the computer.

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movies

Missing Wiki and Moodle these days ;0)

~ "Darling" movie fairly decent, you can watch it once .. thats it
waRne

Using Apache SOLR to index documents for practicum project, God damn jAVA, I am
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Created a local repository for Ubuntu 10.04, apt0get is damn fast now (100 Mbps) :0{)
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free yourself from the clutches of Microsoft, arise, awake and stop not till the evil
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M M K Tejaswi
MSIT Ist Year,
IIIT H

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