Thursday, March 30, 2006

Geek chatter

This is what you get when you allow 3 computer geeks obsessed with Japanese anime to chat.

BUZZ!!!
Sesshomaru: anasa
Sasuke: 1 (1=Yes, Age of empires code)
Sesshomaru: we=1337 (1337 = elite in g33k world)
Sasuke: ??
Sesshomaru: me 27.06.. and Ichigo 28.88 in race 51 (NFS-MW Challenge Series Race 51, they were trying to set the fastest lap time, the times mentioned were the leads they had over the stipulated time)
Sesshomaru: >:)
Sesshomaru: suck on tHAT
Sasuke: awesome
Sasuke: in your system?
Sesshomaru: yea my 1337 reliable tokigin
Sasuke: I wonder
Sesshomaru: ah here starts the gay conspiracy
Ichigo: Sesshomaru's luck finally gave up...
Ichigo: he kept hitting all the rigs
Sasuke: :))
Sasuke: you still there?
Ichigo: ypu
Ichigo: ypu
Ichigo: yup
Sasuke: give the link for your blog
Ichigo: Ichigo.blogspot.com
Sasuke: my system seems to have caught the disease from Sesshomaru's system
Sasuke: drove me nuts 5 minutes ago
Sesshomaru: your system always had the disease..
Sesshomaru: it was dormant
Sesshomaru: ours' showed up in early stages so we were able to cure it..
Sesshomaru: now its too late for your..
Sesshomaru: we are very sorry dude
Sesshomaru: :(
Sasuke: I don't think so
Sasuke: need to make it work for another year
Sasuke: and then I don't care
Sesshomaru: yea well.. you can cheat death man
Sesshomaru: death is upon your sys
Sesshomaru: lingering
Sesshomaru: trying to snatch at the very moment it gives up
Sasuke: I thought it did
Sasuke: just now I thought my computer died
Sesshomaru: =))
Sesshomaru: what happened?
Sasuke: cause as soon as I connected to the net the system shutdown and the light inside the mobo was also off
Sasuke: I hit the power button and nothin hapened
Sasuke: happened
Sasuke: then I turn off the ups and then turn it on again
Sesshomaru: thats called a...
Sasuke: no life
Sesshomaru: heart attack.. or a cardiac arrest
Sesshomaru: too many and it will surely DIE
Sasuke: no light
Sasuke: no fans rotating
Sasuke: completely dead
Sasuke: no heart attack or arrest
Sasuke: no life at all
Sasuke: hmm........I start thinking
Sasuke: then suddenly the damn thing turns on by itself
Sasuke: it must be cursed
Sesshomaru: hmm someone must have done a CPR
Sasuke: no cpr
Sesshomaru: YES!
Sesshomaru: i finally FIOed it (FIO= Figure it out)
Sesshomaru: your system is already dead
Sasuke: ??
Sesshomaru: what you are using is a GHOST
Sasuke: maybe
Sasuke: My comp does not want to leave me
Sesshomaru: there isnt enough spirit powetr inside you to keep the ghost alive
Sesshomaru: get the zangetsu
Sasuke: 1 min
Sasuke: brb
Sasuke: back
Sasuke: what can zangetsu do?
Sasuke: what I need is tenseiga
Sesshomaru: ROFL!
Sesshomaru: i dont think Sesshomaru will be willing to lend you that
Sasuke: we will make one ourself
Sesshomaru: good

It continues..

The Bandwidth Curse

There is this person, who is always boasting about a 1-megabit connection he has under control, yet, I have never seen him download one byte over that. It is starting to raise concerns in the geek world (Arvind and myself). In a country like India, a 1-Mbit connection is a god given gift; it is a sin to leave it idle. As a result there is every possibility where he might fall under the “Bandwidth curse” (BWC), a dreadful curse which when cast will vanquish all available b/w but leave a mere dialup or a 64k to work with. Both excessive compulsive leechers and people, who do not download at all, are vulnerable to this curse. I live my life on a 64Kbit connection and I cannot see a 1Mbit connection left to rot like that.

As the great, E.T. Cartman once said, “For two billion dollars I could handle my Grandpa's balls dude.” I would do the exact same thing or even more for a 1Mbit+ connection. Of course, discretion is necessary when using a public connection, but leaving it completely idle irks my brain. A 1MBit connection is a gateway to infinite resources and by resources; I mean Movies, Games, and TV Shows etc, not research papers, which we can read even via a dial-up (Which may be the main aim of the BWC).

Being a very victim of the BWC (excessive leeching version), I personally fear for his future.

For the love of god download something, I am bored.

PS: Dude take it easy/light I was just bored and couldn’t find any topic to write on. :P

Quote of the Day:

Liane: Tucky tucky time, it's the best time of the night.
Cartman: I love that song, Mom. Sing it again.
Liane: No, honey, Mommy's gotta save her throat. I have to work tonight.
Cartman: Okay.

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Yet another scrsht post..

MainScreen
Menu Theme-ing

This time its my Cellphone. This is the theme in my phone :D


Quote of the Day:

Kyle's Haikus
Fat ass Cartman was
Not on the school bus today
What a big fat turd.

Ass full of pork fat
Jiggles like a jello mold
Mouth is flapping too.

I bet you don't win
They don't let big fat asses
Perform on TV.

Cartman :
Shut your goddamn mouth
Or else I'm gonna kick you
Square in the balls a-s-s-h-ol-e.
Goddammit!


Friday, March 24, 2006

Lizard wars












Yes, this may look lame .. but I was boreeed :D..

Thursday, March 23, 2006

eeewwwww!

shimata! Ffs. I’m seeing 3 lizards fight each other, behind my monitor.. its really creeping me out.. I’ve stretched as far as i can. Its the first time I've seen 3 lizards at one place and my body is quivering. Eeeewwww! I’m out! I’m going to watch TV.

Wednesday, March 22, 2006

5 Things..

To contiunue Anjuls tag, here ..

5 things you may not know about where I live.

  • I live near a lake that is covered with algae throughout the year.
  • There is not a single straight road to be seen anywhere in a 1km radius of our house.
  • I live 100mts from the public school I studied at.
  • There is a moderately sized hill, visible from my room.
  • My house is on the highest point relative to the rest of the region.

5 things you may not know about my personality.
  • I’m not lazy when it comes to the virtual world.
  • I talk less, very less with people I’m not close with.
  • I judge people I don’t know by their looks
  • I’m sometimes, irresponsible.
  • I have a compulsive urge to fit in.

5 things you may not know I would really like to have.
  • A car, preferably a 4WD, with atleast 100bhp at its disposal.
  • A camcorder.
  • A t-shirt signed either by Michael Schumacher or Kimi Raikonnen.
  • A browser which has all the features of Opera, Firefox, IE combined minus the flaws.
  • Coffee maker.

5 things you may not know that I really hate.
  • Indian Idol and all such shows. (I don’t hate the participants nor do I deny their talents, I appreciate them all, but its how the show is made/conducted, judges and the anchors are what really piss me off)
  • Politics/Corruption and the Media.
  • Computer dealers, who try to deceive/cheat customers.
  • Stupid academic schedules.
  • Ego maniacs….. and more
5 embarrassing fannish admissions.
  • Inuyasha, Scrubs, T.A.T.U. Goo Goo Dolls, Bond & Aqua, A.R. Rahman.
  • Solitaire.
  • Telugu comedy scenes/movies.
  • Mickey Mouse comics, Comics in newspapers and Jumbled Words puzzles.
  • Yahoo Messenger.


I'll pass this on to:
m8al
phanindra
harita

Quote of the day :
Cartman (singing): I want to get down on my knees and start pleasing Jesus. I want to feel his salvation all over my face.

Sunday, March 19, 2006

Are you there god? Its me, *******

Two days ago, my grandmother asked me to take her to the Sai Baba temple in your colony. I agreed without hesitation just because I could get to drive the Corsa. Inside the temple, there were people praying and so she joined in. 15 minutes passed, 20 minutes passed, they did not stop! All the time they were chanting I was curiously observing the walls and the decorations inside as I did not understand a single sentence they were chanting. Finally, after 30 minutes, they disperse and my grandmother comes to me and tells me to wait because I had to … what? Guess!

I had to take the “Pallaki”, on my shoulder along with four other people and go around the temple premises. I was in total shock! Where did that come from? I never agreed to that. Ah leave alone agreement, I never knew there was something like a Pallaki in that temple and that people carry it around on their shoulders every Thursday. She also said that it was a “Mokku” (A promise made to God) and that I had to do it without questioning. I am not a big fan of God so I constantly rejected the proposal. Somehow, she convinced me and in the end, I had to do it. I just couldn’t say no, when she was beseeching me relentlessly. It was little embarrassing but the fact that it was for “God” nullified all such worries. But that wasn’t the end, I thought I just had to take it around the temple, well, I was wrong, they made me carry it for around 10 minutes covering a distance of around 300 meters! My shoulders were in pain, never lifted anything for such a long time. In the end, I wasn’t even able to turn the car steering properly. Ballz.

After all that, what does God do in return? He screwed up my day. First I am caught for listening to the iPod in the class (Well that was lame anyway). Second, My EDC (Electronic Devices and Circuits) score reached an all time low. Third, I lose my favorite Reebok Sandals! Some asshole decided to steal them right from our portico, Son of a Bitch! Nevertheless, the first two were my fault but I blame god for my sandals. God Damn you! I loved those sandals and they cost me 1500 bucks FFS!

Quote of the Day:

Cartman: Handle it? For two billion dollars I could handle my Grandpa's balls dude.

Wednesday, March 15, 2006

HOLI, Farben färbt mehr Farben

tHeSiD & Shiva

Dheeraj & Shiva, private emotions

Sukhi a.k.a Srujan .....

Arvind, Avinash, Srujan.. making an omelet.

Sankalp & Avinash trying to make an omelet.

Top view : 10 eggs, one head! awesome hair conditioning

Front View: Its me! boo!

Abhinav, Sujit & Arvind.

Saturday, March 11, 2006

Bang! The Scarlet Cars are back!

Yeah! The 2006 FIA Formula 1 season takes off in style! With a brand new set of strange rules as always! Bahrain, the first circuit and the Ferrari's are one & two for tomorrow’s race. It has been a long time since I have seen a Ferrari front row. With tire restrictions removed and a completely restructured qualifying, it is going to be an exciting season. As I am a Ferrari fanatic, I always wanted them to perform well which they did until 2005, which proved to be the most disastrous season for them and M Schumacher. However, this season should favor Ferrari and Bridgestone as Bridgestone tires perform well through small race distances unlike last season where one set of tires had to last the whole weekend. In addition, the reduction of horsepower by shifting from powerful V10 to small and compact V8 engines will affect race and fuel strategies. Overall, it is going to be a completely different season with new dramas, new controversies, and loads of fun!

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Monster haunted?

Ok, I should not have written the entry on windows installation lasting that long. Monster almost died just now. At boot up it popped up an error message telling me that the NTFS.sys was corrupt! I didn’t care about that and just hard-rebooted it for 3 times and it worked! It started normally, although it was a long 5 min startup which is a sign of my hard disks failing. Now Firefox doesn’t open, and some apps don’t seem to work coz some of the files are corrupted. I believe this erratic behavior is due to the Copernic Desktop search trashing the drives continuously whenever I left it idle. Just when I thought it was all going well something happens. I just don’t understand what’s wrong with the drives, a file corrupt a second ago gets repaired after 3 reboots? Strange! If anyone knows what the exact problem or the theory behind what’s going on, please do tell me.

I’ve scheduled the windows scandisk to check my drive on the next reboot. That usually solves the problem provided the system boots windows without issues; at least till the scandisk screen appears.

Rebooting!

Monday, March 06, 2006

An achivement worthy of posting

(Operating system) Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2), version 5.1.2600 (28 processes running, 169.07MB free RAM, installed 3w 1h 43m 15s ago, 3h 44m 39s uptime, 2d 13h 7m 27s uptime record)

Hurrah!

The longest lasting windows installation! 3 Weeks!.
/me hugs Monster :)

Miscellaneous Statistics
-23:27:41- [@cyberdick]: (CPU2) Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 2.80GHz @ 3087MHz (Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. 8KNXP mainboard) , 168.77MB free (HDDs) 149GB, 12.3GB free
-23:27:41- [@cyberdick]: (VGA1) NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT (256MB), 1280x960x32, 60Hz (OS) Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2), 3h 44m 7s uptime, 2d 13h 7m 27s uptime record

Exam Malaria

Exams again! I’m fed up! It has only been 2 weeks since the last series of exams and its not objective type this time. These exams need preparation from our side. The two possible ways of scoring are a) studying or b) to cheat, later being the simplest and the most used method. A careful analysis of the surroundings and people in the examination hall revealed that cheating may not be feasible. So, I’ve decided to work hard for these tests. But its 2220 now and I are still to open a book, a hectic schedule that I have. You might all be wondering why the hell I’m writing this entry now when I have to be mugging up formulae, well my text book hasn’t arrived yet.

/me waits for his textbook.

This is my first post from MS Word (

Quote of the Day:

Kyle: [The boys are confronted by Afghan soldiers.] Uh, greetings from Canada. Well boys, it's 'aboot' time we get back to our 'hoose' in Canada, isn't it?
Cartman: Hey, what the hell are you talking about? I'm not a Goddamn' Canandian and neither are you.
Stan: Cartman, you stupid asshole.

Sunday, March 05, 2006

Double Paranoia

Two days ago, while I was in a deep deep sleep after a nightout at Blitzkreig, my mom comes running to me, wakes me up and asks me where I did put the cover with the Sony Clie and the iPod headphones. I said "what?", then she said "its gone! I cant find it", at that moment I thought she was using her 'scare you about things you love' tricks to wake me up. i didnt respond, quietly went back to sleep. (She frequently uses those trick on me and my sis and they really work. For example she comes to me and says "Hey, Why is the laptop making strange electric sounds?" and I jump up no matter how badly I needed sleep. cruel! :(.) I was too busy to bother about the clie at that time.

Yesterday, I got a brand new iPod as a replacement for my old dead one, I needed the headphones, but they were nowhere to be found. I asked mom and she said, "I told you! You lost them somewhere!". WTF! my brain went blank. I was so busy the last three days I didnt have time to worry about anything other than sleep and gaming. We argued for a while, and then she concludes that I took the cover along with the bag with LAN cables I took for Blitzkreig. Again, WTF! and I argued back telling her that the cover had nothing related to Blitzkreig and I didn't even know it was on the office table. Arguments continued throughout the day. At one point I lost trust in myself and called up people at blitzkreig to search for a cover with a clie and HPs. No result. I lost hope and settled with the assumption that someone stole it. My luck was so bad that day, losing hope wasn't the end. "They were stolen" posed a serious security threat! My dad was all fired up. I was pissed but could do nothing.

I decided to conduct an extensive search. The entire ground flood was upsode down, it was nowhere to be found. Next up was my room, I straight away went to the place where I put my mobo accessories, I pulled out a small cover from there and to my surprise. That was it! it had the clie and the HP's.! But how the hell did they end up there?. My mom? No, coz she was searching all over the place with me. Dad? No, he would tell me to take them away rather than put them there himself. Me? No I was dead busy, all I did was come home around 5 in the morning and sleep. Granny? No. climing up the stairs is a difficult task for her. Sis? Yes! She and her habit of keeping things clean and arranged!! Man! x(. This was not the 1st time, It was a USB mouse once, headphones recently.. cds.. etc etc. I had nothing to say, I just showed my mom the cover and told her where I found them and even she figured out what happened. No one could say anything, she's having her board exams.

Ah! and Apple support rox!! My shuffle was dead, I needed it desperately as the bus journey to the college was boring. I browsed throught the apple asia site and found two authorized service centers. I then called one and inquired on what the procedure was to get the iPod repaired. They then gave me the apple toll free customer support number. This was the tough part, the people at apple support center made me try and repair the shuffle all by myself, restarted the comp 3 times installed and uninstalled iTunes and iPod updater 4-5 times. After almost an hour of troubleshooting, when nothing worked they gave me a service number and asked me to take the ipod to the local service center and give them the number. I did as told and 3 days later I get a brand new iPod! Awesome!! /me hugs Apple.

Blitzkreig '06

Dell Optiplex 620 rigs sponsored by ATi

Me trying to do something.

Overview

Rear of the Shuttle PC

Shuttle PC.. small eh? Well its, X800XTPE + P4 3.4GHz + 1GB RAM

Cable Mess

Srikant who broke into the lab through a 8" ventilator, trying to figure out wtf happened to the power supply.

Inuyahsa a.k.a Vaatsav exploring Quake 3

Unreal Tournament 2004

UT 2004!

NFS MW.

NFS Most wanted Testing

Age!! Age!! yeah!!


R.K testing systems and installing games.


Vik with his friend playing CSCZ.


Lab 2 (approx. 60systems with CS)


Lab 2



Lab 1, another 60 systems with CS :D