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Dhanraj was the name ......

Life teaches you something or the other each day ..... I am having tough days since last week ..as my grandpa has injured his bone and is admitted in the hospital and i have to be at the hospital from 9 pm to 9 am in the morning without sleeping ...but its a part of your duty and gotto take as it comes .....i find ways to survive the night without sleeping ...whether its my i pod or a laptop from a friend or its the same old favorite book ...icon Steve jobs .....its all done ...no more alternatives available ...at last an alternative was provided by the lord which was quite unwanted but left me unslept that night .....!!
My grandpa is admitted in a ward which has four beds in the room ...as no private rooms were available ...which added to my concern to survive the night ....and right in front of his bed was admitted an 18 or 19 year old boy called Dhanraj...the day my grandpa was admitted i saw him ...he was sleeping quietly ; without any gestures to make his presence felt in the room. HE WAS ALONE without anyone beside his bed. He looked good and sober ... but had a dreadful disease ...Tuber culosis !! He was supplied blood ..as he had only 1% of haemoglobin in his blood ..whereas the normal amount should be 14% or so . But he looked normal to me when i saw him first , with no signs of pain on his face . He laid on his bed calm and composed.
But couple of days after that ...one night he was feeling very uncomfortable ....he use to be alone in the hospital ...no one accompanied him ...and that was because he had a step mother ....his father was not at all interested in him .....and the reason for that was he also had a psychological disorder.... he was not like other mature people of his age ....his father had two other childrens of his step mother...so he was least interested in Dhanraj ...and hardly visited the hospital. He was told to get a CT scan report as soon as Dhanraj was admitted in the hospital ...but he kept avoiding it saying its unnecessary ...and the doctors just want it without any specific reason....every time the doctors visited him ...the same old drama of his refusal and doctors insisting for the report ....and the only one affected of this issue was poor Dhanraj.
As always he was alone at night ...laid on his bed , but was feeling more and more uncozy everyday. I was sleeping on the floor as i normally do .. because there are no extra beds available for the patient's visitors ....and Dhanraj was feeling lot of pain in his hands ..of which the blood supplying I.V had just been removed.....so he called out to me at around 2 : 30 or so as i was the only one awake at that time in the ward....he said " BHAISAHAB SISTER KO BULAO NA " i could feel the pain he was going through ...i immediately called the nurse ...and she came and all she did was consoled him as the pain would slow down ...and it did after some time and he slept at last. Next morning i left for home at 9 o clock as my duty is from 9 to 9 in the hospital and when i saw him he looked fine ... sleeping on his bed.
And the same day evening when i went to the hospital at 9 ....as i entered the ward i heard odd shouts ... as " maaru naam Lalji chhe " ..... " mane tv jovu chhe" ....." maara haath maa kaaayik aapo " ..... and many more such shouts . And it was no other that Dhanraj shouting at the top of his voice . The surprising thing was that he was shouting " maaru naam Lalji chhe" which means " My name is Lalji " ..but his name was Dhanraj ...and Lalji was the name of the father of the patient beside his bed ..who took really good care of Dhanraj when he use to be alone. Even Lalji bhai was confused as in why is he shouting out my name as his own. But we cant even think of the pain that 18 year old boy was going through .....fortunately or unfortunately ...both his so called parents were present the whole day as they were told by the doctors that he is critical and needs to be taken care by them personally and no one else is responsible for that. In spite of the presence of his parents ...seeing him in pain he was devoid of the love that a child expects from his parents. Not even once did his father or mother embraced him ....at times i felt like i should go and embrace him and console him to some extent i could. He was literally moving all over the bed ...not conscious of anything ..not even of passing urine and stool. He was continuously saying the same old words ....and moving all over the bed ....his mother and father handling him of his hands and legs ...but it was very difficult to handle him ...his father said at last ..." let him do whatever he want to ...let him fall down off the bed ...he will know then" ...he didnt get the seriousness of the situation ...he felt like he is behaving childish and not listening to them because of his psychological problem....but the matter was different ..he was actually in great pain ......he was then shouting .." i cant breath properly " but that was not considered seriously as well. At last as he was not easy to handle him ...he was tied with the bed of his hands and legs... he was still retiliating ...pushing harder.....but was tied very tight with the bed. At 1:30 or so ....he started shouting loudly ....every other patient in the ward was facing problems in sleeping because of the noise he was making. His parents were sitting besides his bed holding his hands ..just to artificially show some concern ..that anyone could make out !!! I was looking at him continuously ....but i expected that it is a temporary problem and he might get well by tomorrow. But after 2:00 am he was taking long breaths .....he had problems with breathing tremendously. Imagine a patient given three injections back to back for sleeping and still not getting any sleep and was shouting and screaming on the bed. Finally he had no energy left to speak anything !! He couldn't speak any more and was just taking long breaths and was trying to set free of the bandages tied to his body with the bed. I was still looking at every action of his .... i had i pod with me ....i thought for a while to go and put the earphones in his ears and play the holy names of the lord ...not because i thought he may die now ..but i thought it may ease him down a bit ...but then i did not dare to take the risk s many people were present there and in the middle of it imagine someone going and making a patient listen to an i pod so i thought i better just keep praying for him. But neither my prayers nor the medications could help him any more ...at 2: 25 am or so ....i was looking at him and he stopped breathing suddenly .... he was no more taking those long breaths which he was taking for the last 20 minutes or so ....the complete ward was now silent as his sound no more echoed in the room.
His parents sitting besides him felt for a moment as if he is sleeping finally. But i kept looking at his belly ..it was no more moving ....and his eyes depicted that the case is done ! But still for around 10 mins or so ..i didnt say anything ....then ashokbhai ( relative of the patient beside my grandpa's bed ) saw his eyes and he understood that now is the time to call the doctors ...so he told me to go and call the doctors .....i went to a nurse called krishnaja ....i told her to check Dhanraj as he is no more moving ....she told me ..." USKO PARESHAN MAT KARO USKE SONE DO ABHI " ...i was amazed to hear that ...a nurse couldn't make out that he is not just sleeping now.... and i insisted her to see him ...but she attended some other patient at that moment who had swollen his hand due to misplacement of I.V off the nerve. Then a wardboy called Ashok saw him no more moving and he checked his breathing and touched over his belly and then he immediately called the senior nurse ...and then the RMO's were called ...... his parents couldn't believe it that he was no more as they felt he is sleeping now . The team of the RMO's and the nurses tried a lot many things ...but it didnt help .....finally it was declared ....HE IS NO MORE !!! And i could see his mother crying a lot .....but his father ......he was such a rascal he did not even had a tear in his eyes ....He was asking Ashok bhai ,,as in " what wrong did i do in this ...??? How did this happened suddenly ....now is there any fault on our side ...we tried our best " And I felt like slapping him on that very moment ...but couldn't .....!!!
There are many people who cry to have a child ..who are childless ...they go to various orphanages to adopt childrens....and here was a father who had a child but did not bother for him. Such people doesn't deserve to have a child ....!! How can a father see his own child dying in front of his eyes ...especially someone like Dhanraj ..who was so innocent that he could not even display his emotions as an ordinary person of his age could have. But its all about our deeds in the past that makes us land into situations like these....it was such a horrible night ...and made me think that life is so uncertain ....we think so many things that we shall do this ...do that ....plan for hundreds of dreams in life ...to keep our parents happy ....etc etc ....but just a flickering push of the nature against you and you are gone !!! All that dreams and responsibilities are smashed into pieces. I went and asked one of the doctors as in what happened ...in such a short duration he got so critical ...and the first question he asked me as in ..." who are you " i said i am with the patient at the opposite bed ...and then he told me that " He had T.B and it had entered his brain in the morning " .... so you never know ..what keeps happening inside your body all the time ...anything can happen to anyone ..anytime ...Now with the advancement of sciences and technology ...now there are thousands of ways in which you can die any time any moment !!!
So its a real story i felt which is worth learning from ...that we should be thankful to the almighty lord that he is providing us good health everyday as we get up every morning ....and we have good parents and caretakers of ours who provide us such comfort ....whether its emotionally , economically , academically or in any other ways ....we should always be thankful to the supreme for that ... as i think nothing in this world can save you other than his and his devotees blessings !!!

(1) "Life is like an ice cream enjoy it before it melts" i heard this slogan when i was in 4th standard or so and at that stage of life with little knowledge and brain i was pretty impressed with it ...but now i understand that whatever it states is shear non sense ...there are many instances in our lives when we feel something is good at a certain stage , but when we grow up and look back and remind something we did in the past we are so embarrassed and we say " I WAS SO DUMB TO DO THAT OR TO THINK IN THAT SENSE " and this is how we how learn things and that is what is in real terms the word EXPERIENCE comes into play. I love writing such non sense its not for others that i write but its for my self excellence and progress. May be what i am writing at the moment may bring me embarrassment in the future , any ways such are life dearies.

Major Hackers Personalities

This section contains brief information on some of the most famous hackers, both black and white hats. The individuals below are well known for a variety of reasons: their actions, whether good or bad, their contributions to software and technology development, or their innovative approach, skills and ability to think out of the box.

Richard Stallman is known as the father of free software. When Stallman started working at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1971 he was confronted with 'non disclosure agreements' and closed program sources while he was hacking and improving system drivers the 'traditional way'. After an interesting battle to obtain the source code of a faulty printer utility, Stallman gave up his job and became the loudest advocate for free computer software, creating GNU and the Free Software Foundation in the process.

Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson are famous for two major software developments of the 20th century: the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. These two began their carriers at Bell Labs in 1960's, revolutionising the computer world forever with their ideas. While Ken Thompson has retired from the computer world, Dennis Ritchie is still employed at Lucent Technology, working on a new operating system derived from Unix, called 'Plan9'.

John Draper, aka 'Cap'n Crunch' is famous for his ability to hack phone systems using nothing but a whistle from the 'Cap'n Crunch' cereal boxes (hence the nickname). Besides being the father of 'phone phreaking', John Draper is also famous for writing what was perhaps the first IBM PC word processor. He now heads his own security venture, developing antispam solutions, thwarting hacker attacks and securing PCs.

Robert Morris is famous for creating the first Internet worm in 1988. It infected thousand of systems, and practically brought the Internet to a halt for nearly a day. The 'Morris Worm' was perhaps the first fully automated hacking tool, exploiting a couple of unpatched vulnerabilities on Vax and Sun computers.

Kevin Mitnick, possibly the best known case of a 'black hat', was caught by the computer expert Tsutomu Shimomura back in 1995.

Kevin Poulsen remains famous for his 1990 hack of the phone system in Los Angeles. This enabled him to become the 102nd caller in a radio-phone and win a Porsche 944. Kevin Poulsen was eventually caught and imprisoned for three years. He now works as a columnist for the online security magazine 'SecurityFocus'.

Vladimir Levin, a Russian computer expert, hacked into Citibank and extracted USD $10 million. He was arrested by Interpol in UK, back in 1995 and sentenced to three years in prison, as well as being required to pay USD $240,015 in restitution.

Tsutomu Shimomura is a good example of a 'white hat'. He was working for the San Diego Supercomputing Center when Kevin Mitnick broke into his network and stole information on cellular technology and other classified data. Tsutomu started the pursuit for Mitnick which eventually led to his arrest.

Linus Torvalds is known as the father of Linux, the most popular Unix-based operating system in use nowadays. Linus started his work on a new operating system in 1991, adopting several controversial technologies for his project, namely the concept of Free Software and GNU's Public License system. He is also known for his early disputes with Andrew Tannenbaum, the author of Minix, which was the inspirational source for Linus' OS project.

History of Hacking-related Events

• December 1947 - William Shockley invents the transistor and demonstrates its use for the first time. The first transistor consisted of a messy collection of wires, insulators and germanium. According to a recent poll on CNN's website, the transistor is believed to be the most important discovery in the past 100 years.
• 1964 - Thomas Kurtz and John Kemeny create BASIC, one of the most popular programming languages even nowadays.
• 1965 -it's estimated that approximately 20,000 computer systems are in use in the United States. Most of these are manufactured by International Business Machines (IBM).
• 1968 - Intel is founded.
• 1969 - AMD is founded.
• 1969 - The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) create the ARPANET, the forerunner of the Internet. The first four nodes (networks) of ARPANET consisted of the University of California Los Angeles, University of California Santa Barbara, University of Utah and the Stanford Research Institute.
• 1969 - Intel announces 1K (1024 bytes) RAM modules.
• 1969 - Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchies begin work on UNICS. Thompson writes the first version of UNICS in one month on a machine with 4KB of 18 bit words. UNICS is later renamed 'UNIX'.
• 1969 - MIT becomes home to the first computer hackers, who begin altering software and hardware to make it work better and/or faster.
• 1969 - Linus Torvalds born in Helsinki.
• 1970 - DEC introduces the PDP-11, one of the most popular computer designs ever. Some are still in use as today.
• 1971 - John Draper, aka as 'Cap'n Crunch' hacks phone systems using a toy whistle from a cereal box.
• 1971 - The first email program is released for the Arpanet. The author is Ray Tomlinson, who decides to use the '@' character to separate the user name from the domain address.
• 1972 - Ritchie and Kerningham rewrite UNIX in C, a programming language designed with portability in mind.
• 1972 - NCSA develops the 'telnet' tool.
• 1973 - Gordon Moore, Intel's chairman postulates the famous 'Moore Law', which states the number of transistors in CPUs will double every 18 months, a law which will stay true for more than 20 years.
• 1973 - FTP is introduced.
• 1974 - Stephen Bourne develops the first major UNIX shell, the 'bourne' shell.
• 1975 - Bill Gates and Paul Allen found Microsoft.
• 1976 - A 21-year old Bill Gates writes 'An Open Letter to Hobbyists', a document in which he condemns open source and software piracy.
• April 1st, 1976 - Apple Computers is founded.
• 1977 - Billy Joy authors BSD, another UNIX-like operating system.
• 1979 - Microsoft licenses the UNIX source code from AT&T and creates their own implementation, 'Xenix'.
• 1981 - The Domain Name System (DNS) is created.
• 1981 - Microsoft acquires the intellectual property rights for DOS and renames it MS-DOS.
• 1982 - Sun Microsystems is founded. Sun will become famous for its SPARC microprocessors, Solaris, the Network File System (NFS) and Java.
• 1982 - Richard Stallman begins to develop a free version of UNIX which he calls 'GNU', a recursive definition meaning 'GNU's Not UNIX'.
• 1982 - William Gibson invents the term 'cyberspace'.
• 1982 - SMTP, the 'simple mail transfer protocol' is published. SMTP is currently the most widespread method for exchanging messages on the Internet.
• 1982 - Scott Fahlman invents the first emoticon, ':)'.
• 1983 - The Internet is founded by splitting the Arpanet into separate military and civilian networks.
• 1983 - FidoNet is developed by Tom Jennings. FidoNet will become the most widespread information exchange network in the world for the next 10 years, until the Internet takes over.
• 1983 - Kevin Poulsen, aka 'Dark Dante' is arrested for breaking into the Arpanet.
• 1984 - CISCO Systems is founded.
• 1984 - Fred Cohen develops the first PC viruses and comes up with the now-standard term 'computer virus'.
• 1984 - Andrew Tannenbaum creates Minix, a free UNIX clone based on a modular microkernel architecture.
• 1984 - Bill Landreth, aka 'The Cracker', is convicted of hacking computer systems and accessing NASA and Department of Defense computer data.
• 1984 - Apple introduces Macintosh System 1.0.
• 1985 - Richard Stallman founds the Free Software Foundation.
• March 15, 1985 - 'Symbolics.com' is registered as the first Internet domain name.
• November 1985 - Microsoft releases 'Windows 1.0', which sells for $100.
• 1986 - The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in US adopted.
• 1986 - 'Legion of Doom' member Loyd Blankenship, aka 'The Mentor', is arrested and publishes the now famous 'Hacker's Manifesto'.
• 1988 - The CD-ROM is invented.
• 1988 - IRC is established.
• November 1988 - Robert Morris launches an Internet worm which infects several thousand systems and clogs computers around the country due to a programming error. This worm is now knows as the Morris worm.
• 1989 - the WWW is developed at CERN labs, in Switzerland.
• 1990 - The Arpanet is dismantled.
• 1990 - Kevin Poulsen hacks a phone system in LA making himself the winner of a Porsche 944 in a radio phone-in.
• 1991 - PGP (Pretty Good Privacy), a powerful, free encryption tool is released by Philip Zimmerman. The software quickly becomes the most popular encryption package in the world.
• 1991 - Rumours appear regarding the computer virus 'Michaelangelo', coded to launch its destructive payload on March 6th.
• September 17, 1991 - Linus Torvalds releases the first version of Linux.
• 1992 - The 'Masters of Deception' phone phreaking group is arrested due to evidence obtained via wiretaps.
• 1993 - The Mosaic web browser is released.
• 1993 - Microsoft releases Windows NT.
• 1993 - First version of FreeBSD is released.
• March 23, 1994 - 16-year-old Richard Pryce, aka 'Datastream Cowboy', is arrested and charged with unauthorized computer access.
• 1994 - Vladimir Levin, a Russian mathematician, hacks into Citibank and steals $10 million.
• 1995 - Dan Farmer and Wietse Venema release SATAN, an automated vulnerability scanner, which becomes a popular hacking tool.
• 1995 - Chris Lamprecht, aka 'Minor Threat', is the first person to be ever banned from the Internet.
• 1995 - Sun launches Java, a computer programming language designed to be portable across different platforms in compiled form.
• August 1995 - Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) released. IE will become the most exploited web browser in history and a favourite target for virus writers and hackers.
• August 1995 - Windows 95 is launched.
• 1996 - IBM releases OS/2 Warp version 4, a powerful multi-tasking operating system with a new user interface, as a counter to Microsoft's recently released Windows 95. Despite being more reliable and stable, OS/2 will slowly lose ground and be discontinued a few years later.
• 1996 - ICQ, the first IM, is released.
• 1996 - Tim Lloyd plants a software time bomb at Omega Engineering, a company in New Jersey. The results of the attack are devastating: losses of USD $12 million and more than 80 employees lose their jobs. Lloyd is sentenced to 41 months in jail.
• 1997 - DVD format specifications published.
• 1998 -Two Chinese hackers, Hao Jinglong and Hao Jingwen (twin brothers), are sentenced to death by a court in China for breaking into a bank's computer network and stealing 720'000 yuan ($87'000).
• March 18, 1998 - Ehud Tenebaum, a prolific hacker aka 'The Analyzer', is arrested in Israel for hacking into many high profile computer networks in US.
• 1998 - CIH virus released. CIH was the first virus to include a payload which wipes the FLASH BIOS memory, rendering computer systems unbootable and invalidating the myth that 'viruses cannot damage hardware'.
• March 26, 1999 - Melissa virus released.
• 2000 - A Canadian teenage hacker known as 'Mafiaboy' conducts a DoS attack and renders Yahoo, eBay, Amazon.com, CNN and a few other web sites inaccessible. He is later sentenced to eight months in a youth detention center.
• 2000 - Microsoft Corporation admits its computer network was breached and the code for several upcoming versions of Windows were stolen.
• 2000 - FBI arrests two Russian hackers, Alexei V. Ivanov and Vasiliy Gorshkov. The arrests took place after a long and complex operation which involved bringing the hackers to the US for a 'hacking skills demonstration'.
• July 2001 - CodeRed worm released. It spreads quickly around the world, infecting a hundred thousand computers in a matter of hours.
• 2001 - Microsoft releases Windows XP.
• July 18th, 2002 - Bill Gates announces the 'Trustworthy Computing' initiative, a new direction in Microsoft's software development strategy aimed at increasing security.
• October 2002 - A massive attack against 13 root domain servers of the Internet is launched by unidentified hackers. The aim: to stop the domain name resolution service around the net.
• 2003 - Microsoft releases Windows Server 2003.
• April 29th, 2003 - New Scotland Yard arrest Lynn Htun at a London's InfoSecurity Europe 2003 computer fair. Lynn Htun is believed to have gained unauthorized access to many major computer systems such as Symantec and SecurityFocus.
• November 6th, 2003 - Microsoft announces a USD 5 million reward fund. The money will be given to those who help track down hackers targeting the software giant's applications.
• May 7th, 2004 - Sven Jaschan, the author of the Netsky and Sasser Internet worms, is arrested in northern Germany.
• September 2004 - IBM presents a supercomputer which is the fastest machine in the world. Its sustained speed is 36 trillion operations per second.