Oh my God! they killed Kenny!

SHIFTED!

2008-09-05T01:34:00.002+05:30

The BLOG has been shifted to

http://www.siddharthabbineni.com

if you can't access that, please try this link.

http://www.tHeSiD.net

Monster v3

2008-01-06T21:56:00.001+05:30

With friends visiting home from the USA and a sudden inflow of cash led to me upgrading my system. This is third and probably last version of my System.

It all started off when I was in Delhi where I bought my first PC. The original Monster.
2.8GHz P4, 2x512 DDR400, 2x80GB RAID0, Geforce 5600XT, Gigabyte GA-8KNXP.
That time everything cost me 10k each, processor 10k, RAM 10k etc. The Mobo was quite expensive, it cost me around 13k. It worked fine all the time I was in Delhi. Sometimes the RAID setup was giving problems. Other than that it was all fine. When I returned back to Hyderabad the 5600XT fried, so I then got a 6800GT (import). That was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me.

I was so happy when I got the card, but all that joy dwindled soon. As time passed, almost every component started failing, hard disks first, RAM, then finally the mobo. The mobo was the worst, the whole power circuitry melted in front of my eyes and I could smell the smoke. Lucky me, the mobo had a Dual Power System, as a result it JUST worked. I was also fortunate with the hard disks, Seagate replaced all of them at no cost. The reason behind all this was very trivial, none of the components were getting any power, especially in stressed states. The culprit was the 6800GT, it hogged so much power, that there was nothing left for the rest. I had some crappy 400W Frontech SMPS. I managed somehow, without gaming or any other GPU intensive tasks. Meanwhile my 17" Samsung monitor started showing signs of fatigue with a blurred picture and a lot of flickering.

While I was in a miserable state and no cash to buy a proper SMPS, I got the news that Guns was leaving to the USA. I was thrilled, not coz he was going but coz then I could snatch his Antec 500W. He left, I snatched. To my horror, that Antec was already in a dire state. You might not belive this but its true, I had to heat the SMPS for 10 mins with a Hair dryer just to make it start. After starting though, it was all stable and was able to power the 6800GT.

I then started gaming again and since god likes to screw with me, one fine day the mobo went bust. This was around 4 or 5 months ago, at that time there were no motherboard supporting the processor. I was stuck.

Then Monster v2 arrived. This time I didn't buy it but I snatched Guns' WHOLE system! :D. It was an AMD 3200+, 2x512 DDR400, MSI K8N-SLI and a 7800GT. It was working great till....

... The Antec died (FFS). I gave it for repair as it was still under warranty and got myself a Zebronics 500W as a temporary replacement. It worked fine but I was still weary of the power quality and thus never actually stressed the system much. They returned the Antec to me but it still had the same problem. I needed the Antec bad, so this time I took a screwdriver and smashed some of the capacitors/resistors inside. I had to make sure it didn't work. It didn't and I returned it.

To my amazement after a month they gave me an Antec 550W TRIO series! Apparently they didn't have the old model and had to replace the old one with the new model. All this wasn't that easy though, stupid Guns didn't tell me where he had bought it from. I had to go to the reseller for replacement and they refused to accept items from end customers. After some 20 calls and merciless bombardment of the word "WHY", they accepted to take it and replace it.

Meanwhile my college paid me for maintaining their website. I instantly got myself a Viewsonic VX922 to replace the dying Samsung.

I considered upgrading the v2 to an AMD X2 and a 7900GS. But Guns was scheduled to visit India and as usual he was being a dick and wanted his system back. I wouldn't have a system then. I was calculating the future.

After a week or so after my discussion with Guns, I read an article on AnandTech, 8800GT - The only card that matters. I was very impressed. I dreamt of playing Crysis on it and assumed it will remain a dream. But, all of a sudden all my projects paid off. There was a sudden inflow of cash in to my account. I did the obvious and decided to go all out and buy myself a completely new system. I asked Guns to get the 8800GT and another friend of mine, Srikar, brought me the RAM.

After careful planning and perfect execution , I have my brand new Monster v3!!

Monster v3

Intel Core 2 Duo E6750
Biostar TP35D2-A7 (Intel P35)
XFX GeForce 8800 GT 512MB DDR3 Extreme (Alpha Dog Edition)
Patriot Extreme Performance 2x2GB PC2-6400 Enhanced Latency Kit
1x250GB, 1x500GB - Seagate 7200.10
Viewsonic VX922 (DVI)
Antec True Power TRIO! 550W
Creative 5.1 Inspire
Hauppauge Xfones PC2400 (cordless Dolby Headphones)
Windows Vista Ultimate x64
Liteon 16X DVD-RW
LG 16X DVD-RAM

/me hopes nothing bad happens anymore.

Catch 22?

2007-12-15T13:35:00.001+05:30

Recently, Opera browser makers sued Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer along with their OS. They say...

"We are filing this complaint on behalf of all consumers who are tired of having a monopolist make choices for them, In addition to promoting the free choice of individual consumers, we are a champion of open Web standards and cross-platform innovation. We cannot rest until we've brought fair and equitable options to consumers worldwide."

Their argument seems logical, but I seem to find it completely retarded. They are thinking about themselves and not the customers, I can say that for sure. Let me explain.

Let us assume, Microsoft (MS) is banned from bundling Internet Explorer (IE) with Windows (all Linux geeks (LG) and MS bashers (MSB) rejoice). Now a lame man, like say a middle aged man having his midlife crisis, installs Windows (At this point, all the Linux fanboys and MS bashers might go on to ramble that Windows sucks and say they'd rather install Linux. Imbeciles, no one wants to calculate 2xRAM = SWAP nor does anyone want to operate from the console.). All done, Windows installed well, he watches a couple of movies (Assuming he is not European, EU version of Windows doesn't have WMP), listens to his favourite songs. All is well. The next step would obviously to browse the Internet, for Pr0n. He is all excited, but then he realizes his computer doesn't have a browser! OH NO! DAMN IT TO HELL!

The only option available to him is to download a browser from the Internet and then start using it. LGs and MSBs might yell firefox, hardcore Internet freaks might say Opera and people like me would say IE7. He just has to download the browser he prefers and start browsing the Internet. It all seems very simple, but there is a catch. How in the world will that man download a browser of his choice if he cant browse the Internet? There is no way for him to view a web page on his system as there is no browser. So he can neither visit www.getfirefox.com nor www.opera.com nor download.microsoft.com. Then how can he install a browser (Op | FF | IE)? There are some options.

He visits a friend who has a browser. Ask him to download the browser he prefers and then bring that file to his place on storage device. Pen drive etc. Install it and then enjoy the pr0n.
If windows has something similar to wget, he can use that. But we are talking about about a 40year old man here. First of all I doubt windows to have something like that. Secondly, lets face it, he would rather hang himself than do a command line download.
Bundle all available browsers with the windows installation.
Magic.

All seemingly feasible but, unnecessary burden on the poor old man. He just wants to enjoy the pr0n but he is faced with a multitude of problems. Consequently he goes on to kill his loved ones and then finally commit suicide. Tragic.

One thing I don't understand is, haven't they thought of this? or am I missing something?

Operating systems are installed on brand new systems (reinstalling, formatting etc. are different). People buy computers for either entertainment, Internet or professional work, the first two being the most common uses. After installing, the first thing they want to probably do is to either watch a movie, listen to songs or browse the Internet. Thus a browser and a media player are bare essentials. If you strip them off, what is left is a car without the wheels, purpose lost.

I might faintly agree with..

"Microsoft abusing its dominant position in the browser market by tying Internet Explorer to Windows and by not complying with W3C web standards when it comes to how IE renders pages."

.. but who doesn't want to? They have the best OS out there and they want to make money out of it. If IE is removed from windows, then Firefox should be removed from Linux, that would only be the fair thing to do.

They say IE is not 100% compliant, but then neither is Firefox nor Opera. If a company wants people to use their product, they should make it stand out from the rest. Take Firefox, it has been my faithful companion since years. I being a huge Windows fan, still like Firefox for its features. The extensions make Firefox a browser with unlimited features and infinitely customisable/extendable. That is what made Firefox click among the Internet communities. Opera being third in race isn't an unpopular browser. It has its own feature set, but the users who prefer that feature set are few. Opera in the early days was a nightmare, both with JS and standards. Even though it is the most compliant browser currently available, it still needs to be improved in usability, extensibility and other aspects.

Opera's future is hanging by the thread. IE7 has been improved immensely from IE6, with tabs and add-ons like IEPro, it can also become a geek's browser. Firefox on the other hand already is a geek's browser and Firefox 3 aims to eliminate the 2 major problems plaguing it, memory leaks and speed. These two will share the whole market, IE used by casual browsers and Firefox by the rest.

One more thing, "Standards compliance" is not a feature looked for in a browser by the end user, at least not the important feature. Standards compliance is only for web developers, they are the ones who face the most problems than the end users because of incompatibility. With compatibility in the order Op>IE7>FF2>IE6, Opera might have a chance, but who knows?

Gears of War

2007-12-05T21:46:00.001+05:30

WOW! Amazing game really. The gameplay is impressive and the graphics are amazing. But the game is really buggy, it gets really annoying. It swaps even on a 2Gig machine resulting in a choppy movement.

The worst issue of all is the disappearing saved games. I don't know where they are stored. I completed almost half the game in Hardcore level and when I restarted the game, puff! all the saved games vanished. I did create a live player profile. It worked perfectly till act 2. I entered Act 3 and then they vanish. Some people say they are stored on a Live account, but I don't think that is my case because I don't have a live account nor I let it connect to the Internet. I've been searching online for a good explanation and hopefully a fix, but found nothing yet.

Its a great game no doubt, but these small issues are really annoying and spoil the fun!

** Just installed the new Gears of Wars Patch #1, Hope this works, will install the live redistributable and see if anything works out.

Winterbells

2007-06-15T22:32:00.000+05:30

Beat this!! lol!!

Mad Mosley

2007-05-18T23:59:00.000+05:30

Max Mosley punts for new Formula 1 rules in 2011
According to reports in today's F1 Racing monthly magazine, the FIA is now making the first steps towards the introduction of 2.2-litre V6 turbocharged engines, running on biodiesel fuels, in F1 in 2011. The reports suggest that the engines will be restricted to 10,000rpm and that they will have to survive for five Grand Prix. The idea, which we suggested might happen back in November last year is being proposed to the automobile manufacturers. It remains to be seen whether the proposals will be embraced by the car companies. In addition the proposals include a number of other controversial ideas, such as traction-control, four-wheel-drive, power-boost buttons and identical bodywork for all the teams. Some of these are idea have been pushed by FIA President Max Mosley in the past and are probably included in the proposals to see what he can achieve by throwing the net wide and seeing what survives.

O H M Y G O D ! !

NO Mosley!! thats a BAD Mosley!

Turbochargers! in Formula one?! Bio Diesel! in Formula one?! There is going to be turbo lag!!. It just doesn't make sense!! And whats wrong with the fuels used now! its not like F1 cars are fuel inefficient, they churn out 900bhp for crying out loud! Its not like there is smoke from the exhaust. What have the hippies done to you man! Mosley! The last thing I need today is to know that in future hippies will rule Formula one.

I just don't understand. Turbos increase weight, yeah power to weight ratio will be more probably but one word "TURBOLAG"!!!! Bio diesel might have more octane but still! Common! Bio!? You want 'BIO' in F1, the pinnacle of automobile racing and technology?! 10K RPM? my Corsa revs upto 7K RPM for god's sake. This just devastating. Go hippify NASCAR or INDY car racing, but not F1! FUCK!

I dont know!

2007-05-18T23:13:00.000+05:30

I don’t know what I’m saying!
I don’t know what I’m doing!
I don’t know what I’m thinking!

All I was doing till now was to stare, yes just stare at the monitor for absolutely no reason whatsoever and sometimes drawing those square boxes on the desktop with the mouse. I feel like coding but no patience and no drive. Set up Flex and Eclipse yesterday and at the end of it, I got bored and slept. All the TV series ended, all at once and the worst time possible, summer holidays. If I go sit near the TV its either people crying in reality shows, Turks bombing masjids or some hippie American movie all the time and the worst of them all, those Bollywood concerts and festivals.

I’m passing most of the time by either by sms-ing, talking on phone or chatting. I know, I am a geek, or wait was I? I’m not supposed to do all that stuff but I seem to have no other option. I need something strong to work on, something which will keep me interested and occupied for a long time. Usually gaming did it, but I played and completed all the games out there and am bored of them. Unfortunately there aren’t any new interesting games out either. I actually am supposed to work on a project, but as I said before, no drive at all.

After a long time I was watching TV today, specially the news. It seems as though us Indians got fed up of a long peace period. The sand in the vaginas was accumulating for a long time now I guess, someone, of all places bombed a masjid. Well who ever did that was a genius. It was probably one of the toughest tasks to accomplish. Even the Home Minister of the State wasn’t allowed into the masjid after the incident, nor were the top police heads, and someone goes into such a “secure” place and plants a bomb in it. Amazing isn’t it. I wonder who did that. Who was daring enough to attack a Muslim holy site? It is not in us normal Hindus to plant bombs, our nature is to pelt rocks and shout that’s all. And Christians are probably busy converting everyone they find. Who could it be? I just can’t fathom the reason behind this nor who did it. Whoever did it, Bad Boy! Don’t do that again.

Now even if I want to roam outside from tomorrow I can’t. They said bandh already and the streets will be filled with protesting assholes who have absolutely no other work than to mess up the lives of others. So “going away from home” option is also now disabled. So no gym, no movies, no eating outside etc. Oh my god! I just realized I can’t do all these, shit. How could this get any worse? Damn.

Cartman: What's wrong?? Has he been checked for bombs?
Mrs. Garrison: Eric, that's enough! Not all Muslim people are terrorists!
Cartman: No, but most of them are. And all it takes is most of them.

Green Peas

2007-05-10T19:41:00.000+05:30

I had to be a hippie for 3 hours today. Yes, a tree hugging, smoke hating hippie. Reason? Environmental Sciences examination. Although I didn’t study a single word even though I had one full day to study, which I spent chatting and attending functions, I was pretty confident I was gonna do well. It is just writing about what you hate to do the most. Childs play. As far as I know it is easier to write about what we hate the most than what we like the most. Well anyway, being a diehard Petrol head, a racing junkie and a devotee to Lord E.T. Cartman (The Greatest hippie hater), I set off writing about why we shouldn’t drive for pleasure as it produces CO2 and uses up fossil fuels. It was so involving I didn’t deviate from the exam for even 5 minutes, usually when I write other exams I wander off into day dreams and then after a while when I realize I am supposed to write, I come back to writing. None of that happened today though, I was happily writing what I never did or will never do.

After 3 hours of exhaustive writing, my right hand started quivering in pain. Never had I put so much hatred into the paper. Every sentence in that paper is something I would never do. Then I started thinking what is the use of the exam I just wrote? Well, nothing, it just made me want to drive more, rip on the engine a lot more and to never let the engines rev less than 4K RPM. Yes some of you may disagree, so heres something for you _|_ ;)

Cartman: I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!

tHeSiD: I hate hippies! I mean, the way they always talk about "protectin' the earth" and then drive around in cars that get poor gas mileage and wear those stupid bracelets - I hate 'em! I wanna kick 'em in the nuts!

OMG!TKK v2

2007-05-07T13:29:00.000+05:30

Finally found the patience to upgrade my template to the new one. Its all nice, easily arrangeable modules but in the end had to edit html to get the header right. But I like the blog archive on the right.

Yes, I know, its like the Porsche 911, same design over and over again! but its new!! :P

Cartman: You guys! I got it! It seriously! It's the greatest picture ever! Oh my God!
Stan: What'cha do to Butters this time?
Cartman: Ihit was genius! I waited 'til he was totally asleep, right? And then I got my camera, and I pulled down his pants, and then I took a picture of his wiener in my mouth!
Kyle: Dude!
Cartman: IknowIknow, check it out, look. I got his whole wiener in my mouth, see? Heheh. Oh man, I got him good!
Stan: Dude, how is putting Butters' wiener in his mouth getting him?
Cartman: Because that makes Butters gay now!

Love and hate my ass...

2007-04-22T22:42:00.000+05:30

A few days ago, I wanted to write an entry on “The Thin line between Love and Hate”. I was that screwed, just to give a taste of what it was like; here is a part of it.

When we love something and we can’t get it, we are in a bad situation. There are many reasons why we can’t get what we want, maybe it is with someone else or it is just not possible to get it coz of the million factors involved in the getting it. Whatever the reason, it is time we realize.

I was literally crumpling. I had no idea why, I couldn’t get my thoughts together, what I wanted to do, what I had to do, all that. I was completely messed up.

One night, I was discussing all that with Virat, and was telling him how messed up I was. Then all of a sudden a hippie friend of mine (a good guy, but annoying) started his normal routine of pissing me off by pleading me to death until I fulfilled his request. I was bummed already, and above that, the hippie keeps pestering me. Then after all this Vik realized I became too soft, I wasn’t the Cartman I was before and that I am being too kind and too nice to people. I was shocked myself when I realized that it was the truth. I became too soft.

He then started to tease me, by putting up status messages like “Cartman the new Hippie Slave!!!”, funny chat that was. It was the moment that a switch in me flicked and the Cartman in me woke up again. Then its that feeling of realizing how stupid you have been all the time, that you didn’t deserve to be in the situation you were in. Everything came back. I never believed in people changing in instants, but, that moment proved that I was wrong. My whole mindset changed, I was more rational than emotional, more cunning than naïve. Not actually a change, but being back to what I am!

The next day onwards everything was different, I felt like was one pedestal over everyone, that egoistic feel was amazing. I am back on track and the Cartman-ish feeling is great. The whole reason I was messed up became my main objective, sort of. I’m enjoying every second of it. I can’t stop smiling, at all, even if I’m surrounded by people, whenever I think about what I’ve decided to do, that evil smile comes up on my face and its not controllable. Even when I’m writing this, I’m smiling. I'm now so confident, I didn’t rewrite a single word of this blog, this is a continuous write, no going back and checking for if I was wrong and all. Its all proof I need to believe I’m stronger.

Cartman:God has told me how to make 10 million dollars!
Stan:how?
Cartman: Boy band.
Stan: Boy band?
Cartman: Boy band.
Stan: I'm not being part of any faggy boy band.
Cartman: Theres nothing faggy about 10 million dollars, asshole.

Hailblazer

2007-04-16T18:55:00.000+05:30

Some pics I took during the huge hail storm last night.

And my new Desktop :D

Looping into darkness

2007-04-07T17:59:00.000+05:30

The wordings in the song Dreaming by System of a Down, clearly explain the state I am in

I'm saying:
You
You went beyond
And you lost it all
Why did you go there?
From beyond you saw it all
Why did you go there?

She lost her mind
Someone kicked her into the back of the line
She lost her head

I'm thinking:
Dreaming of screaming
Someone kick me out of my mind
I hate these thoughts I can't deny
Dreaming of screaming
Someone kick me out of my mind
I hate these thoughts I can't deny

Without my knowledge, this has become a routine, it keeps looping in my life. Only A few know what I am talking about, what the exact case is. But the whole situation has left me confused. I cant end it coz I'm having fun, at the same time the misery rather confusion I'm in, is making me think otherwise. One thing I can say for sure though, I never thought so much about anything in my entire life.

9 Laws of Physics That Don’t Apply in Hollywood

2007-03-07T07:19:00.000+05:30

Neatorama » Blog Archive » 9 Laws of Physics That Don’t Apply in Hollywood

Soutparkish

2007-03-07T07:04:00.000+05:30

Cartman: Uh, yes, I've come to return these pubes that I purchased, please?

Scott: Uh uh, I don't take returns!

Cartman: Right, but you see, I didn't realize, when I bought these pubes from you, that you were full of shit! So you can either give me back my ten dollars, or I can go tell my mom on you!

Scott: You would actually tell your mom that you were stupid enough to pay for my pubes? Huh uh, I don't think soho!

Cartman: Just give me back my money...

Scott: Buyer beware, dude!

Cartman: Gimme my ten dollars, Scott!

Scott: Hehey, I said no! Now get your fat little butt out of here before I kick your head in!

Cartman:	Uh, yes, I've come to return these pubes that I purchased, please?
Scott:	Uh uh, I don't take returns!
Cartman:	Right, but you see, I didn't realize, when I bought these pubes from you, that you were full of shit! So you can either give me back my ten dollars, or I can go tell my mom on you!
Scott:	You would actually tell your mom that you were stupid enough to pay for my pubes? Huh uh, I don't think soho!
Cartman:	Just give me back my money...
Scott:	Buyer beware, dude!
Cartman:	Gimme my ten dollars, Scott!
Scott:	Hehey, I said no! Now get your fat little butt out of here before I kick your head in!

Well this is what my conversation with Arvind would be like, just replace pubes with SMPS. If he were here in this country right now I would have organized my own Chili Con Carnival made a pony bite off his weiner.

Nature rocks

2007-03-03T14:06:00.000+05:30

Flowers by ~tHeSiD on deviant ART

Pic of flowers @ Jantar Mantar, New Delhi.
Click on download on the deviantART page for the full resolution (7.1MP version) ;)

In the ditch again

2007-03-02T23:06:00.000+05:30

Crap, monster gave up when I left it idle and went out. HDD crashed and the now existing windows install says "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME". The SMPS is acting so gay, even the motherboard is reporting a "Fail" status to core components like VCore etc. I don know how long I can make this thing last. Above all this there is this problem of keyboard and mouse dying all off a sudden when I'm working. Although I have Guns' Antec SMPS, the true power 500W one, it make the system dance on power, so thats useless. I'm on my trustworthy FC6 install now, my vista expired so this was the only last option I had. This works really well so I'm gonna settle with this tonight.

Virat seems to be having some big personal issue. I wonder what it is. His blog post is vague and doesnt reveal any clues. I gotta get it out of him but he refuses to type all that and now I dont have voice chat. (/me searches for skype linux.). He says its 100 time worse than the problem thats been bothering me since 2 months (mines no way related to computers). I don't think his is either. Where are you dude!! I am waiting!

If anyone comes to my house I might play with their blood
- kvickyk when i asked him what he was doing for holi.

There is a limit to everything

2007-02-28T01:21:00.000+05:30

and.. theres is a limit to luck also..
and Virat's luck has crossed that barrier. Hes one seriously lucky bastard. I am jealous.

EDIT
Virat: what happened to the days when we used to sit on our systems 24/7 and play games and do a lot of downloading?

Me n him really miss those days :D

Calvin is Sensible

2007-02-20T22:53:00.000+05:30

Captcha

2007-02-17T20:23:00.000+05:30

Check this captcha out..
if you know what that means.. and what is supposed to be entered.. please enlighten me.
Whats wrong with just displaying letters in a picture? Why do they have to do all the special effects!?

Just so you know

2007-02-16T19:28:00.000+05:30

In one of the latest episodes of Top Gear, they tested the Bugatti Veyron and pushed it to its max speed. I was done on a secret, private Volkswagen circuit. That made me wonder, What is the relation between Bugatti and Volkswagen?. A quick search revealed a lot of interesting and shocking facts.

All the time I was under the impression that each car brand is completely independent and that the competition is fierce among them. I was wrong, for example, Volkswagen owns nine, NINE!, different brands some of which are Audi, Lambo, Bugatti, Porsche. I was quite amazed by that. So went on to research on other car brands.

The worst part of this search task was that I found some statements which really hurt my confidence in car knowledge. You see, after watching Top Gear in the amounts I do, we usually develop this feeling, rather, a belief that all Vauxhall cars are useless and that they are the worst of the lot. Its an impression Jezza creates in all the viewers by stressing that fact in almost all the episodes.

When I clicked on the Vauxhall wiki page, it had this.

Vauxhall Motors is a UK car company. It is a subsidiary of General Motors. Most current Vauxhall models are right-hand drive derivatives of GM's Opel brand

That statement devastated me. Why? I have an Opel Corsa, and so now its can also be a Vauxhall Corsa. First when I heard of the Vauxhall Corsa, I though it was a coincidence that they had the same name, little I knew it was the same Corsa. Damn. But hey its not a Vauxhall Vectra and some Vauxhalls are good too! Take the VX220 for example, its better than the Lotus Elise!

I still love the corsa :D

Some of the major car companies and their brands...

Volkswagen:

Audi (Germany)
Bentley (Great Britan)
Bugatti (France)
Lamborghini (Italy)
Porsche (Germany)
SEAT (Spain)
Škoda (Czech Republic)
Volkswagen (Germany)
Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles (Germany)

General Motors

Buick
Cadillac
Chevrolet
GMC
Daewoo
Holden,
Hummer
Opel
Pontiac
Saab
Saturn
Vauxhall

Fiat

Alfa Romeo
Lancia
Ferrari (Run autonomously)
Fiat
Maserati
Iveco
Autobianchi
Innocenti
Abarth

Ford

Aston Martin
Jaguar
Ford
Daimler (division of Jaguar)
Land Rover
Rover
Volvo
Mazda(33.4% share)

BMW:

BMW
Rolls Royce
Mini

Toyota

Toyota
Lexus
Scion

Honda:

Honda
Acura

Renault

Dacia
Renault F1
Renault Samsung Motors
Renault Sport

Now before you compare a lambo to an audi, think twice :P.

ROID WARS

2007-02-13T15:33:00.000+05:30

At the height of its power the Highone's dominion was vast stretching from the gothic arches of arena gate to the cold space of DM17. Over 3 Quarters of the ROID (Rest of IIT Delhi) were pillaged and Fragged under the rule of the Highones. In the Winter of 2004 A.D. The High Ones' 4 year campaign against the barbarian ROIDS in the arena was drawing to an end. Just one final stronghold stands in the way of the High Ones' superiority and their dominion throughout the empire.....

Ignorance isnt Bliss, its Hell

2007-02-10T13:20:00.000+05:30

I hate troubleshooting over yahoo messenger, I hate troubleshooting over the internet. I detest ignorance and ignorant noobs. I cant seem to tolerate ignorance these days.. at least from people who for their age shouldn't be that ignorant in some aspects.

Ignorance is Bliss, yes, only for the ignorant. Not for the rest.

Triumph

2007-02-08T05:32:00.000+05:30

Yes! Sat through 5 hours straight, wrote around 400+ lines of php code and some SQL queries. The end result, a basic but functional attendance and marks management system based on php and mysql. Its 6AM now, so crashing.

How I won 100 bucks! from Virat

2007-02-07T01:22:00.000+05:30

Virat: ever tired it?
tHeSiD: no
tHeSiD: lol
tHeSiD: never got the chance
Virat: he use it on you
Virat: tell him to try it on a girl
tHeSiD: yeah
tHeSiD: but its a formidable option
Virat: yea
tHeSiD: btw..
tHeSiD: your theory of crossover sux
Virat: wtf?
tHeSiD: there is no need for a crossover
tHeSiD: a direct cable will work
tHeSiD: dumbo
Virat: and how will you do that?
tHeSiD: exactly as u said
tHeSiD: just no crossover
Virat: huh?
tHeSiD: yep
Virat: tell me
tHeSiD: i am 100%sure
Virat: how did you connect both the routers without crossover
tHeSiD: normal cable
tHeSiD: but this time i dont put it in the internet port but a normal port
Virat: it won't work like that
tHeSiD: huh
tHeSiD: why not
tHeSiD: it will man
tHeSiD: i know
Virat: the normal port and the port for the modem are similar and need a cross over
tHeSiD: no they dont!!
Virat: dude...did you try it?
tHeSiD: bet?
Virat: dude...did you try it?
Virat: dude...did you try it?
tHeSiD: waht try
tHeSiD: ?
tHeSiD: i bet that there is no need for a crossover
Virat: did you do it for your router ?
tHeSiD: huh
tHeSiD: bet 1st man
Virat: bet
tHeSiD: how much
Virat: dude..just test it and see
Virat: it won't work
tHeSiD: how much bet
Virat: this is all basic ccna stuff
tHeSiD: ill test it
Virat: test it
tHeSiD: bet how much
Virat: fo
tHeSiD: huh
tHeSiD: jackass
tHeSiD: 100rs
tHeSiD: bet
Virat: fine
tHeSiD: pakka?
Virat: yeah
tHeSiD: k
tHeSiD: one more thing
tHeSiD: i already tested
tHeSiD: it
tHeSiD: it doenst work on the crossver.
tHeSiD: the lights dont even blin
tHeSiD: k
tHeSiD: i put the normal cable instead of the crossover
Virat: I think you used the wrong cable
tHeSiD: it worked
tHeSiD: and i am on it now
tHeSiD: lol
Virat: I think you did it the other way around
tHeSiD: 100rs
tHeSiD: give em tomorrow
Virat: get the cable and I will see
tHeSiD: lol
tHeSiD: dide
tHeSiD: i used the same cable i used to put it in the internet port
tHeSiD: just put it in port 4 thats all
tHeSiD: and i set the ip add settins as u said
tHeSiD: it pinged
tHeSiD:
Virat: logoff and put it to that and come online
tHeSiD: I AM ON IT
Virat: hmm...I have to see it
tHeSiD: everythings fine.. gsa not dropping
Virat: will see
tHeSiD: bring 100rs next time u come
Virat: fo I still don't believe it
tHeSiD: bring na
tHeSiD: if its not working u dont need to give
tHeSiD: :P

You have sent 1 photo to Virat.
ping.JPG

tHeSiD: saw the pic?
BUZZ!!!
Virat: 1
tHeSiD: so?
Virat: I will have to see the cables
tHeSiD: k come tomorrow.. you are too stubborn
tHeSiD: :P
Virat: :P

A FEW MINUTES LATER.............................

BUZZ!!!
tHeSiD: 1
Virat: it seems to be working
tHeSiD: wat
Virat: checking why
tHeSiD: lol
tHeSiD: i am godder than u
Virat: maybe the switch acts as a uplink/normal too
Virat: you just put the conneciton and it happened to work
Virat: you don't even know why
Virat: you just a lucky ass
tHeSiD: lol.. lucky enough to earn 100 bucks
tHeSiD:
Virat: fo
Virat: no 100
tHeSiD: what!
tHeSiD: ill tell inuyasha
tHeSiD: everthign
Virat: go ahead
Virat: he will fuck you to death
Virat: and I will destroy your monster
tHeSiD: damn you ..you cheating cheapskate
Virat: just takes a touch
Virat: rofl
Virat: :P
tHeSiD: atleast now i have a blog post
tHeSiD: >:)

Dumb Sutton

2007-02-01T20:21:00.000+05:30

It goes like this...

High End Graphics on a Modest Budget
IF YOU'RE JUST looking to upgrade a low-end system and aren't planning to blow your budget on a top-of-the-range card right now, the LeadTek WinFast PX7950GT TDH, based on NVidia's GeForce 7 Series, is a sensibly priced option. Since this card is based on.. .blah blah blah..
---Jesse Sutton

In the end it says Price: Rs. 21,000.

Now,
1. What the hell!? in what way is 21,000/- a modest budget? Even a rich fella would hesitate to buy one at that price just for graphics.
2. "IF YOU'RE JUST looking to upgrade a low-end system... " Upgrading a low-end system with a 7950GT, its just stupidity. Considering the graphics card and its power a low end system here would be a Core 2 Duo E6300 based system, which incidentally isn't low end in any imaginable way.
3. I still cannot understand how the editor thought the 21000 price tag as "without breaking the bank".

That most misleading title and the most confusing review I ever read. Who ever that Jesse Sutton is.. dude/dudini.. which country are you from? This was an article from the PCWorld Jan 2007 magazine.

me n my M800 doing Handbrake turns

2007-01-30T00:27:00.001+05:30

(EDIT: not very old :D) Old but I forgot to post this to the blog :D (filmed on 22nd Jan 2007, Sru's Bday)
Those aren't exactly Handbrake turns but, my attempts to do a 180, succeeded a couple of times, in the end tho i couldn't nullify the fact that I was in a 10 year old Maruti 800 with no power steering, a bumpy cricket ground and a primitive handbrake.

I really gotta learn how to drift, but its really hard to find a rear wheel drive machine. A RWD is the way to go coz A front wheel drive can not whip it's tail out because the tires are being driven in the front as opposed to the rear. So when approaching a turn only thing that can be done is to pull the handbrake to cause traction loss in the case of a FWD. I wonder if I keep the car sliding through the turn. If anyone knows a nice place to try this out, do enlighten me! and do 4WDs (4X4) drift? In theory they shouldn't but I have seen this gallardo spyder drift, in top gear I think and I believe its a 4wd. Any idea anyone?

and... I apologize for the inadvertent pmsing in the other post ;)

Something has to be done to firefox

2007-01-27T22:07:00.000+05:30

Someone has to design a garbage collector for Firefox, Its eating every byte I have! All the other browsers are under the same conditions.. 1/2hr of browsing each. Opera lowest as you can see.. and VirtualDub running encoding a RAW AVI didnt need any memory. It doesn't matter to me but on slower systems its a pain. People of the Moz! fix the damn leaks! please!

Crap

2007-01-15T02:07:00.000+05:30

Its just 2 weeks into the new year.. and im already fuxed .. mentally.. man.. I never thought about things this much.. fucking shit.. it cant be like this.. damn it.. I'm going back to be the insensitive careless, irresponsible jackass.. i cant overcome this overhaul if i dont.. should i!?!? damn it.. im even thinking about this.. ahhhhhh grrrr... my hearts broken.. :(( never felt this bad ... man! ;(((((

EDIT
Im really really depressed.. even 2 games of RAMBIT didnt do any good!!.. wtf am i supposed to do to overcome this!!!

Mouth watering keyboad

2007-01-06T00:14:00.000+05:30

When Vik showed me this pic, my mouth was filled with saliva.. a mouth watering treat.. evidence that I have reached the pinnacle of geekdom and never returning back. :(
and

!! HAPPY NEW YEAR !!

Damn Crawlers!

2006-12-31T02:34:00.000+05:30

That is the video of people racing in carts in Runway9. We went to race those small machines there for a few laps. Lots happened. Apart from all the drifting, skidding, Guns spun out and make Vik to spin 2 complete rounds and crash into the tire wall. As Vik put it, noob Guns was stationary at 90deg to the track when he almost crashed. They had a couple of incidents each and they both had fun. I on the other side was stuck behind crawlers most of the time. We three tried to race but Guns' great spin out left us scattered all over the track, so it was pretty much a lonely race for everyone. It wasn't incident free for me either, though I didn't crash I had worse. It was a U turn, and I was trying to pass a crawler, well, he refused, I was on the inside line trying to make a pass, he wanted the inside line all for himself and forced me off the track, worst, there was a manhole right in my path. I was blank.. I stepped on it, luckily got the tires onto the manhole cover and was safely out. In the last lap I was trying to drift, I flicked the steering and it went all the way sliding and bumped into another cart, and that guy crashed into the tire wall, I didn’t hear any swearing but probably there was some he he, was fun though :D. The G-forces were awesome; getting thrown from one side to another is quite exhilarating.

I had this great idea of strapping my digicam to the cart and then make a bumper cam style video of my laps. We went loaded with the camera and duct tape only to realize there wasn’t any place on the cart to strap the camera to. So took the video of other people racing. Notice the crawler in the video? damn!

On a fun scale of 1-10, I rate carting as 8.5, its real fun. Bit expensive but worth it guess. We did 12 laps mind you.

Things...

2006-12-29T22:08:00.000+05:30

Things I used to play with, long long ago.

EDIT

Cars from hell!

PS liquefy ;)

Grrrr....

2006-12-28T23:57:00.000+05:30

GAWD! I wanna write so much!! but that will bore you, so cutting short, I am not this soft know-it-all computer geek anymore. Time has arrived to be brutal, ruthless and insane and thats what I am, right from this moment. Some really strange things happened in the recent past, a long rational analysis led to this change in me. Its time to be cruel, literally, so watch out!

Brand new Sony VAIO Rack-mount server

2006-12-08T23:07:00.001+05:30

As you all know the screen of my laptop was broken since ages and I was using it a server. Today though, I was dead bored at home, monster was throwing one problem after another if I start gaming and I had no TV series to watch. The laptop on the other had was sitting idle coz I de-commissioned it as I couldn’t get wireless to ‘not crash‘ my router. If I had to put it on a wired connection, well let’s just say, there was space limitedness. The LCD was redundant it had no use practically, so I removed it.

It took a while to remove the screen, because removing it physically just wasn’t enough. I had to solder some contacts to bypass the monitor circuitry, just to tell the system that there was nothing at the ends of the wires. I had to do this because it was detecting the external monitor as a 2nd monitor and is automatically stretching the output. Well anyway, after I removed it, the laptop looked like one of those dell rack mount servers. Here are the pictures.

The Abandoned Screen

Movie-A-Minute: Armageddon

2006-12-08T01:26:00.000+05:30

NASA
An asteroid is coming. We are in trouble.
Nerd
You must blow it up from the inside. Probably.
NASA
Let's teach drillers to be astronauts, on account of drilling is too hard for astronauts to learn.
Bruce Willis
Instead for a ninjillion dollars, we will only do it if we don't have to pay taxes anymore, because audiences can relate to that.
Audience
I can relate to that. Therefore, I love it.

THE END

PS3 can mate with PSP

2006-12-01T11:52:00.000+05:30

Game: Formula One Championship Edition (PS3)
Release Date: TBA
Formula One 06 is a formula one racing game for the PlayStation 3, which features live interaction with the PSP for use as a wing mirror.

NOW.. thats COOL!

1st ever photo finish

2006-11-25T16:16:00.000+05:30

Since my exams finished, I thought of completing NFSCarbon for good, in the process this happened. :)

Geek Kyle: Is anyone else having problems concentrating on this? I just can't seem to concentrate.
Cartman: Maybe we should send you to a concentration camp.

Word 2007 Test

2006-11-16T02:04:00.000+05:30

Well just installed Office 2007, don't ask where I did get it from. Its amazing though. It looks great, feels great, and is much easier to use. Being an irregular Blogger I was always interested in applications integrating blogging, long ago found one or two but they weren't that easy that they could replace the web UI altogether. Word 2007 has it built in now, so its nice that I can write blogs offline save them and then post them. There is one down side to all this though, all the new office applications are huge memory hogs, and even Outlook takes a lot of memory. Even on the monster with 1.5G Dualchannel DDR400 it feels sluggish. Maybe I have to defrag and optimize my sys to see if its any better.

Also finished downloading the new Windows Vista RTM and I'm dying to test it, but there is no way in hell that I would do it on the monster, so lined up Vik's and my dad's sys to test it. Wait, dad's systems got only 512M RAM, damn it, VIK your sys is my only test bed now don't let me down!! I shall get back to playing NFS Carbon now. Yes yes I have exams, screw them. Its Advanced data structures exam the day after anyway. It is an area where I'm so good that if you wake me up in deep sleep and ask me some strange question in that subject I'll probably answer it.

In the end overall reviewing of Office results in a 8/10 rating from me. Good job M$! hope your Vista is better.

"Why does this happen every month? It seems like right about the same time every month, Kyle's mom gets a hair up her @ss about something, and I always end up getting screwed by it." – Cartman

Fedora Core 6 + AIGLX.. naicee

2006-11-03T19:47:00.000+05:30

I installed Fedora Core 6 on my monster. Finally... after 2 and half years since I bought this babe, I have a dual boot. At the expense of a RAID0 set though.

FC6 is almost same as all the other FCs but... it now has the AIGLX (Accelerated blah blah.. ) which makes it more Vista-ish. I tell you its just amazing. The window animations, the water/rain effects, the whole virtual desktop cube concept.. everything. I would recommend everyone to install it and check it out at least once. Downside though is that the installation and configuration process for AIGLX will take you through a complete Intermediate user tour, a boon and also a bane if you consider the time it takes.

Above all that, I had a serious problem, none of the apps, Yum especially seemed to connect to the internet, except luckily firefox. After hours and hours of troubleshooting, googling foruming, the I diagnosed it as a DNS malfunction on Linux's side. Well Linux has problems with my Router being a DNS forwarded instead of a DNS Server. I took almost 8-9 hours altogether to figure the problem out and solve it. It was only after that I was able to setup AIGLX n other stuff.

I wanted to write a complete tut and a demo on that.. will do that soon ;) just gotta find time.. driving a lot lately...

A Fools' World

2006-10-28T20:26:00.002+05:30

Well this I had to write about, It was just too much to take.
Slashdot's Vastu:
From the article:

"Thirty-year-old Smita Narang is rapidly becoming one of India's hottest Web designers. Her method: applying vastu shastra, the Indian counterpart of feng shui, to the online realm. The process entails mapping page attributes - HTML, colors, graphics - to elements like fire, water, and air. 'Any disturbance of these established elements can cause an imbalance in the site that directly affects its business,' Narang says."

A direct proof to prove that there are in fact a lot of fools in the world who believe in this kinda crap. Seriously, aesthetics is what is needed not vastu you fools. I know, I know there is always this butterfly effect but compromising a site design just for the sake of complying with vastu is just ignorant. Same applies to houses, I still don't get the point with houses. I have seen many people build great luxurious mansions and later destroying them just because some jackass vastu shastry told them their house wasn't compliant and that it would cause them bad luck or put them in grave danger of loosing their money.

I have seen my father getting pissed when someone suggested vastu in his contracts, I always wondered what the problem was. Since its reached my domain now, I understand perfectly how lame it is. I can go on and on about how stupid all this is but, if you wanna hear all that. buzz me :P.

Southpark resumed :) but only one episode was good, rest were boring, come on Matt&Trey you can come up with better ideas! make it another season 8 ;)

As Schumacher is now out of F1, my 8 year Schumi fan phase has ended. Luckily my next favourite driver, Kimi, is moving to Ferrari, so he is the man we cheer for next year. I just hope he doesn't carry forward his bad luck from McLaren to Ferrari. 2008 Champ, Kimi, Alonso will never even be seen on the podium, pakka. I gotta get back to playing the RAMBIT scenario in AOE:TC now, the other bitches are waiting.

"Schumi you are my god :)"
" Kimi you are my angel :) "

11223344 << RAMBITT!!

2006-09-17T00:57:00.000+05:30

Ah yes! The blog, I forgot, age2_x1.exe and Gamespy have that effect on people. BSNL rocks and so does Iron Maiden. They released their new album “A Matter of Life and Death”. Although all songs are easy listening type when compared to either the X Factor or Virtual XI, I rate the new album 8/10. No complex music, it is simple and just rocks.

Track listing

"Different World" (music: Adrian Smith/Steve Harris, lyrics: Steve Harris) – 4:17
"These Colours Don't Run" (music: Smith/Harris, lyrics: Bruce Dickinson) – 6:52
"Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" (music: Smith/Harris, lyrics: Harris/Dickinson) – 8:44
"The Pilgrim" (music: Janick Gers/Harris, lyrics: Harris) – 5:07
"The Longest Day" (music: Smith/Harris, lyrics: Dickinson) – 7:48
"Out of the Shadows" (music: Dickinson/Harris, lyrics: Dickinson) – 5:36
"The Reincarnation of Benjamin Breeg" (music: Dave Murray/Harris, lyrics: Harris) – 7:21
"For the Greater Good of God" (music & lyrics: Harris) – 9:24
"Lord of Light" (music: Smith/Harris, lyrics: Dickinson) – 7:23
"The Legacy" (music: Gers/Harris, lyrics: Harris) – 9:20

You guys gotta play the RAMBIT Scenario in AOE:TC, its just infinite fun. Get 8 people and you can enjoy for weeks together or just login to Gamespy and you will never go back!!

Quote of the Day

Auctioner: Our first item is a pair of panties confiscated from a prostitute.
Quagmire: Fifty bucks.
Auctioner: She had nine STDs.
Quagmire: Forty-five bucks.
Auctioner: And when we caught her she wet herself.
Quagmire: Fifty bucks

Monsoon

2006-08-05T09:05:00.000+05:30

Rains not only drown Hyderabad but also, kill my net connection. This is what it used to be in the before days. It got worse; the internet service at my home had reached a stage where it works only when it wants to or if the ISP wants it to, whether it rains or not is irrelevant. So if I want to access the net, I have to call the ISP and yell at him and his lousy service and then hope I’ll get connected. It is analogous to a dial up connection where the yelling relates to the gibberish sounds the modem makes when it connects. However, after a few days of successive dial-up-isp-get-cable-internet-for-20min-at-50%packetloss-5KBps, everything shut down. The connection doesn’t even exist now. The internet led on my router doesn’t blink anymore, at the same time though I went off to live at my aunt’s place and was not bothered about it. Meanwhile at home dad and sis were paranoid over the lack of packets and started calling me for access as if I were an intermediate server. A week later I called him up and howled for I think almost twenty-five minutes telling him that if he didn’t fix it by the next day evening I would no longer be paying for his services, assuming he would ignore my threat I called up home and requested dad also to serve an ultimatum. I was expecting this plan to work, but it seems he never sent a single person for check-up or call back. I was amazed at their customer service; he has such a big base of ignorant users he decided to completely ignore us. Finally, to sum up I don’t have an always on connection anymore, which renders all my systems completely useless even the monster.

Luckily though, I have a Tata-Indicom wireless phone line which provides internet access via dial-up at 40ps per min. I think I will be on this for a while and hence my presence online will decrease drastically. Right now I am on a mission to convince people at home to get a BSNL line and improve their cyber-lives. I think its working, and so well that if I were a BSNL salesman I would have sold a thousand connections by now. Only issues being the initial 2000Rs+ installation, the 900Rs monthly rental and if BSNL is in we have to disconnect the wireless line. A hard notion for my father to digest on but I’m willing to wait.

Notice: All Schumacher/Ferrari fans, it is requested that you perform a ritual/prayer/ceremony/sacrifice/offering in your respective religion and ask your god to crash Alonso in the coming Hungarian GP. This will close up the championship tables and make the season more interesting. Thank you.

X1: The death

2006-07-21T17:43:00.000+05:30

It all started when I wanted to search for a document I stored a month ago. I couldn’t find it anywhere as I couldn’t remember its name, so I used the built in windows search. I disable the indexing engine as soon as I install the OS, and so none of the files on the disk were indexed and the normal search couldn’t find what I was looking for. It was then; I felt the need of a desktop search tool. Once on Slashdot I was reading an article on some topic related to desktop search wherein a hippie wrote that Google should be scared about X1 Desktop search engine being made free. He also bragged about how great an indexing engine it is. I was convinced and decided to give it a try, a 12MB download which took almost a full night to finish on my gay ass connection, I was all set to install it.

That evening I installed it and set it to the recommended indexing aggressiveness. It was running all night, the next day morning and also even when I came back home the next day. It was almost 20 hours since it started and it was still indexing, saying “Optimizing file index”. It used almost all possible resources available; I decided to free all the resources by rebooting the system.

It shut down and restarted posted well and everything was normal till the Intel RAID (ICH5R) bios showed up. It was showing the HDDs’ status as “Unknown” for both the 160G 7200.7s on the controller. In my experience I have seen “Normal” and “Error Occurred” but I have never seen “Unknown”. After a couple of reboots one disk showed up as “Normal” but the other didn’t, even after checking it with 4-5 HDD diagnostic tools like Sea Tools, MHDD etc. The “Unknown” status was holding back the controller in detecting the RAID0 (Stripe) Set. As a last attempt I used Norton Disk Doctor, and NDD without any user intervention, said something about fixing the drive and started doing something all on its own. I lost all hopes at that moment, I had to wave goodbye to my 320GB data. All the little hopes I had of retaining the data were lost when the RAID bios reported both the disks as “Normal” but wasn’t able to detect the previous RAID set. I was mortified! All the 320GB data gone! Vanished!

What was the reason? X1. It tried to index every byte of the files in the RAID partition; the HDDs couldn’t take that torture and failed one after another. All the 320G data was nothing but videos, yes 95% of the data was either movies or TV series, and I still don’t know what X1 was indexing in those files. Key frames? What ever it did, it was the reason I lost 320Gigs of data. It didn’t really bother me because I have seen almost every byte on those disks, so I am not that disturbed as I was be when I lost my 5600XT. Fortunately both the disks are under warranty and I am absolutely sure ill be getting new disks when I claim the warranty, some good news at last.

X1 will never be forgotten. It reached the top of my “Worst Software ever” list, right above Norton Antivirus 2002. The next time I see such suggestions by hippies on Slashdot, I’ll openly flames their asses.

Guilt Traps

2006-07-16T22:09:00.000+05:30

I read a bunch of books on psychology in the past week. They have a detrimental effect on the way we think. We start analyzing every reaction, every response and then try to relate them with the theory in the books. The analysis is involuntary, it doesn’t stop and can’t be stopped either. In the beginning it may seem a bit interesting but as we go deep it gets confusing and everything relates to everything and nothing. Somewhat like Kyle’s paranoia in the episode “Tooth Fairy tats”. On the plus side though, you get to understand people better and also, ourselves better. But in the end it all comes down to a person’s mental strength, a weak mind can turn totally paranoid or a sensible one can find his weaknesses and improve on them. If you are one of those whose thinking is most of the times influenced by other people or surroundings, don’t ever read these! However, if you feel you are strong enough, go ahead read them and see what you really are or aren’t.

What I observed is that Guilt is an inconceivably strong weapon. You can force, order or push a person into doing something but there is always a possibility that he might rebel. You can also plead, beseech, but again there is no guarantee that the deed will be done. But, if we bring in guilt into the picture and make the person feel guilty for not doing something, I assure you, that job will be done whatever the odds. I call this the “Guilt Trap”. When I knew about this and thought back, I found out that I was trapped into these guilt traps in numerous occasions. One might not realize it but it is true. The moment we are guilty we start hating ourselves and that is the catalyst for what follows. Some people use this to their advantage and get things done, in my opinion it is nothing but manipulation and cruel. This manipulation soon becomes a habit as it is the easiest way to get things done. So my advise would be to ask you people to think whether you have been trapped into feeling guilty or you are genuinely guilty. If you think you are being trapped into feeling guilty, reverse the whole situation, try and make them feel guilty or put all the responsibility on them or just ignore them.

What effect the books had on me? I started to worry about what people thought of me. I stopped caring what people thought about me long back, but it all came back for those three days, I was, you can say paranoid for a while.

Warning psycho alert!

Since school, I had many awful experiences, like being sent out of class for sleeping, almost everyday, at Ramaiah. They had no long term effect on me, but I slowly turned into an insensitive, anti-social, irresponsible, Para geek. Then my two years at the IIT changed me a lot again. I was ever more confident about my abilities. Although I wasn’t able to develop my ability to prioritize, I became stronger. I still had more negatives than positives but it was an improvement none the less. Still it proved costly as I was slow in developing myself. However since I don’t let drawbacks take me down, I was working on myself all last year. Frankly, I again have changed a lot and this time. I think I now have more positives than negatives. I now know what my priorities are; I now stand up for myself and what I believe. I now assert myself whenever I have to, which I never could before. I know a lot more about myself.

The most significant development is that I am now able to balance my academics with my passion for computers (or you can say obsession). I never had the balance before, that’s why I was forced be away from computers whenever I had to study. Since I was always forced, I never valued the balance and took it for granted. In the end I was kicked out of IITD. A painful experience, the worst part about this is, even though I and my family are over the disaster, outsiders aren’t.

And yes, I was this big a psycho even before reading those books.

The Come back from hibernation post?

2006-07-08T01:21:00.000+05:30

OMG! My blog is popular! There have been many instances where people asked why I stopped blogging or why there were no new posts. I am overwhelmed by the fact that so many people read this. This is the answer to all their questions.

First off I had my external exams, which btw went extremely well and I ended up with distinction and secondly it was “holiday” time after the exams. By Holidays I assume that every second has to be pleasurable to an extremely high level, I live to enjoy, and so I dropped the priority of blogging to the lowest along with academics and social interaction for the 3 weeks to come. Although I was assigned some small web designing projects, I put them just above blogging in the priority stack.

So, what did I do in holidays? One word: Oblivion (The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion). This game has a great history with Morrowind Morrowind-tribunal etc but I never played any of those though, truth to be said, I never played an RPG, no Diablo, no NWN, none. The only reason I plagued Guns till he gave the game to me was because all the hardware review sites were over-enthusiastic on how the game stressed the graphics subsystem. I couldn’t resist, I had to test mine. Being an FPS freak I never liked RPGs and so I was just installing it to rape the individual subsystems. I installed the game and started playing just to admire the HDR rendering and the beautiful grass and trees with shadows, even with 20fps it looked cool. I liked it, I was happy that the monster was finally able to handle it. Oh and by the way, I revived the monster and this time for sure. I sold the old rotten 80G HDDs on eBay and got a new 160G 7200.9 and an extra 512MB stick to replace my old dead one summing up to 1GB of DDR440. Although dual channel isn’t working (coz I have 3 banks and 2 modules of memory) I think its fine as long as I don’t create A2 size posters in Photoshop. Coming back to the game, as I was admiring the pixels generated, I soon was involved in the game and within a day I was addicted! Its not a fast paced game at all, nevertheless I was attracted by the intricacy of the game. All FPS games are linear but this game is in no way linear, I guess all RPGs are like that. I was so obsessed that I changed my profile in orkut from being completely South Park friendly to Oblivion stats update page. In conclusion I passed all my holidays playing Oblivion.

Here are the Statistics.

tHeSiD

Race: Nord
Birth sign: The Thief
Class: Knight
Level: 9

Factions

Arena: Grand Champion
Dark Brotherhood: Listener
Mages Guild: Warlock
Blades: Knight Brother
Thieves Guild: Pick Pocket
Knights of the White Stallion: Knight-errant
Fighters Guild: Apprentice

Major Skills

Blade: 80
Block: 47
Blunt: 44
Hand to Hand: 30
Heavy Armor: 63
Illusion: 37
Speechcraft: 37

Strength: 75
Intelligence: 36
Willpower: 38
Agility: 57
Speed: 64
Endurance: 65
Personality: 44
Luck: 66

Stats
Days passed: 122
Active Quests: 12
Completed Quests: 80
Skill Increases: 329

Also, during the exams I was inflicted with another disease, orkut. Then, I was restricted to a net connection and a pc based on the 865 chipset, dad’s PC. I had two options Y!Msgr or browse, at times no one was on yahoo and so I remembered that I had an orkut account and logged in to check in what the hell was going on in there. Slowly got keen on that too and started scrapping people I thought I was not in proper contact with and now because of that my Outlook inbox is flooded with mails from randomhash@mail.orkut.com. Oh well, It helped me pass time during the exams. It will slowly die down.

Dissecting a Laptop

2006-06-04T17:03:00.000+05:30

Windows

Linux

Ofcourse all this was before the screen broke to bits and pieces. Why I am posting this now? Coz I thought of posting this long back and found it now when backing up stuff on monster. Why now? Coz Theres no fuking monster and I cant think of a way to spend time :D.

Test Results

2006-06-03T00:09:00.000+05:30

rofl!

Soup!

2006-05-27T00:22:00.000+05:30

Oh my god! I just made myself the tastiest soup eva!

I couldn’t find anything to eat but found a knorr sweetcorn soup packet lying near the stove. I wanted to eat something bad, (the main reason why I am so... ah hell, fat!) so started off to make the normal soup, following the instructions on the rear of the packet. It was going well till I realized the amount of water was more than required. Then I remembered what my cousin did when that happened and followed her foot steps. Cutting short here is the recipe. BTW her soups taste first class!

Recipe

Ingredients :
½ Packet Knorr Sweet corn soup powder.
350-400ml water.
½ beaten egg. (Beat a full egg and then throw away half :P)
Pinch of Aginomoto or I think its called China salt.
¼ teaspoon of soya sauce.
1½ teaspoon of Maggi chilli-tomato sauce.

Procedure.
Start making the soup as instructed on the back of the packet. Then when its ½ way through, a stage where its not too watery nor too thick, dump in the soya and the chilly sauces, the aginomoto, and mix them up well. Then when its fairy hot and when you can hear bubbles popping, start rotating vigorously. As you rotate it, take the beaten egg in a glass and start pouring it in slowly where the velocity of the soup in the bowl is the highest, ie the circumference of the whirlpool you create. That’s it let it boil for a while and when it becomes thick enough pour it into a bowl and treat yourself with the best soup you’ll make.

The egg trick I learnt from my cousin and the rest of the ingredients were just random, just put whatever I could find as much I wanted and it turned out quite well. However, this serves only one person. If more number are to be served multiply all the ingredients by that number. :P

Disclaimer: If you screw up and god forbid end up in the toilet for the days to come, don't blame me!.

Other Backward Thoughts

2006-05-25T20:32:00.000+05:30

As monster was taken away from me, I am left alone in the room to study. 45 minutes into a study session, my brain gets maxed out; it leaves the books and starts wandering. It was then the row over the reservation made me think and think I did.

What is wrong with this country? After analyzing what dad talks about and collecting data from all the “upper” meetings with friends, I came up with several reasons.

Turning personal interests into public interests.

Corruption

Religion

Lack of rational thinking among citizens.

More, still to be discovered.

For example, consider the controversy over the OBC reservations. The Congress government is weak at this moment, that’s why the ruling party is the UPA and not Congress. As Sonia Gandhi has absolutely no chance of being the PM of India, their only figure is Rahul Gandhi, so next time around in the elections, the Congress need to be dominant so as to make RG the next PM. For that to materialize they need to increase their vote base. The OBCs constitute a handful in the Indian population, and they believe they can win them over by granting them reservations. Arjun Singh openly admitted to introducing the reservation solely for the sake Rahul Gandhi and to increase his popularity. I am astonished that no media channel seems to have elevated that statement. I am not just blaming the congress party; but there was not a single political party which opposed the bill, not even the BJP, all because everyone is afraid of losing their votes.

Its not only the politicians and their parties, its also the people, if the people were wise and voted for the best government based solely on what the government is willing to do for every citizen in the country, no one would have cared about the reservations. People are always preoccupied with their own interests. They vote for a party only if the party promises to give them something, like reservations for their caste/religion, etc. We are the ones who elect, and if we ourselves are biased and greedy, why should we expect the politicians to be fair and clean?

The Da-Vinci Code, an amazing book. As all of you know, its latest form is a Tom Hanks starring movie. I just confirmed some questions relating to the movie.

Where was this movie made? – The USA

Who starred in the movie and who were responsible for the making? – Prolly US or UK citizens.

Where was this movie 1st released? – The USA.

The USA is a Christian majority country and I also believe there were numerous Christians involved in the making of that movie. Over that there are millions of Christians who watched that movie around the world, let it be Europe or the Americas. They all don’t seem to have a problem with the movie. But when it was about to be released here, a country where Christians are considered a minority group (no offence), everyone has a problem with the movie. They make a big deal; involved the censor board, the Supreme Court (WTF!! Who involves the Supreme Court, the highest authority, for a movie which isn’t even made here?) and politicians to make noise over nothing. There are only two logical explanations to elucidate this behavior, either they are nuts or this is an elaborate publicity stunt for the movie. Whatever the reason the may be, using religion in this fashion is immoral!

Politicians can get so confused at times that they don’t even know what is written in the constitution! After the TDP (Telugu Desam Party) was overthrown by the Congress, here in Andhra Pradesh, the Congress was being blamed for not fulfilling the promises they made before the elections (Free electricity being one, its been two years and I think they are yet to implement it). So to somehow nullify that, they introduced reservations for the Muslims at UG level, both medicine and Engineering streams. Unfortunately for them, the bill was struck down by the High Court, stating that India is a secular country and reservations based on religion are against the Constitution. A disgraceful experience, and yet they are still so blatant that they are taking it up again in the Supreme Court. Why all this? Muslims constitute another handful of the population in the state.

Reservations are deadly, if once approved, no one will ever have the guts or the balls to get rid of them. And if at all they do get rid of them, I guarantee that the party wouldn’t be elected again for at least the next 15 years.

The vote is so powerful that it makes politicians go haywire for it, and yet people have absolutely no idea how powerful their vote is and what difference it can make. People forego their vote just for the sake of miniscule privileges. It is like giving away a Vienetta Ice-cream in exchange for a lollypop.

Hippies!

OBC My ass!

2006-05-24T17:51:00.000+05:30

OBC My ass! Stupid mofos.

Manmohan Singh to Bush - We are sending Indians to the moon next year.
Bush - Wow! How Many?
Manmohan Singh - 100
25 - OBC
25 - SC
20 - ST
5 - Handicapped
5 - Sports Persons
5 - Terrorism Affected
5 - Kashmiri Migrants
9 - Politicians and if possible
1 – Astronaut

I rarely show liking towards forwarded mails but this one shows how screwed up our country is at the moment. They are dumbing down an already messed up country. To clear my status on the reservations, I am 100% completely against them. Stupid mofo politicians, screw you, you fking SOBs.

Driver wanted!

2006-05-21T22:06:00.000+05:30

As I was talking about my driver duties at home, I just received a new schedule for tomorrow. It is as follows.

0730 hrs – Drop mom in the bus stop and the visiting cousin at her institute.
1200 hrs – Take sis, go to cousin’s institute, pick her up, take them both to a theater, buy the tickets for them, send them into the theater and come back home.
1700 hrs – Get to the theater, pick them up and return home.

What can I say... FSCK!
I think I shall make a proposition for permanent driver, or else...
or else what?!
omg!

Inmates' World

2006-05-21T20:06:00.000+05:30

Ooof! Lab externals are over now its time for the big ones. However my prep hasn’t started yet, I’m so busy with Prison Break that I have postponed everything to Monday. Unfortunately though, I came to know that its going into an other season, again, another series which I thought would end being extended, sucks.

I recently was in possession of the N90; my dream phone and I must say it is great. The video is crisp the photos are crystal clear only drawback being its size, its huge and heavy and take 3-4 secs to just answer a call. Too bad my cousin wants it back when she returns home.

Also, I was just recently promoted from driver post to a driver + IMAX tour guide at home. If you pluck one strand of hair for every km I drove an entire family will be bald, driving is fun though hitting 90 or 100 in a maruti is hair raising.

Guns was kind enough to give me his 2000Rs 500W SMPS for testing. It seems to work fine, although my hard disks are still on the edge; I guess they crossed the point of no return in damages. To completely stabilize the system I had to install windows for about 6 times. I was never so confused, what the hell happened to those hard disks?! What was the exact reason!? A million dollar question. I still often get the scandisk but I think I will not touch the installation till my externs finish. I even used a multi-meter to check the voltages on the output and everything is normal. Stress test is postponed to after the externs, it need too much time. :D

I was also bored in between the Prison Break episodes so I made this updated pic of my work desk.

Concept of Happiness

2006-05-12T22:37:00.000+05:30

"Happy" and "happiness" are sometimes used to refer to feelings or emotions. For example, statements like "How happy he was when he found out he had won the Lottery" or "When she found out she got the job she was very happy" clearly refer to some state of consciousness of the person, and do not by themselves imply that the life of that person, or a significant portion of that person's life, is a happy one. We have no clear distinction between feelings and emotions. One way the distinction is made is in terms of the strength of the experience, with an emotion being a stronger, more vivid experience. If we draw the distinction in this way, we would probably classify happiness as an emotion. Another, sharper way the distinction has been drawn is to claim that feelings make up a category of experiences of which there are three kinds: perceptions, sensations and emotions. Emotions, unlike perceptions, are not connected with a specific organ or part of the body, and, unlike sensations, are not located in part of the body and are directed toward objects. If we draw the distinction in this way, the feeling use of "happiness" refers to a feeling, and more specifically, to an emotion, since it obviously would not be a sensation or a perception. A question may arise concerning the possibility of a feeling of happiness that does not take an object (e.g., waking up one morning feeling happy without feeling happy about anything in particular). Perhaps the object might be just one’s life or the pattern of activity one is engaged in.

Sometimes “happy” is used to refer to a mood of a person. Some examples are “Vishal was in a happy mood today” and “Having had four cup cakes, he was feeling happy.” Even though the word “feeling” occurs in the second example, the expression seems to mean that the cakes put him in a happy mood. This use indicates someone has a disposition to have happy feelings, to see things as being favorable, and likes elements of his situation over a period of time.

The adverb “happily” is sometimes applied to behavior, such as in “The children were in the yard, playing happily.” This behavioral use applies to situations where someone is doing something enthusiastically, with vigor, or cheerfully.

My contribution to the group discussion on the concept of happiness. >:). Hehe. They liked it!! =))

tHeSiD does it again

2006-05-07T19:45:00.000+05:30

Yes! I have yet again utterly failed to do what I wanted to do, to complete all my works before the race today. Woke up late in the afternoon, ate lunch late around 2 pm, slept again for an hour and then sat in front of the TV to watch a thrilling race.

Now all the works I am supposed to do are “pending” and therefore a night out is necessary, again! Lame but it will help boost my average from 20/25 to somewhere around 23 if I do it all right. I guess its worth it.

The Vaio is up and running again, though it still doesn’t have a screen I put it on Wi-Fi and the reception from the router in the ground floor seems “very good” according to windows, which is proved by almost 10-11Mbps transfer speeds. The only way to control it is via Remote Desktop, which works like a charm. It once had a serious hardware issue, when Virat took it whatever process he ran took up 100% of the CPU. That vanished when I reinstalled the OS. At present though, everything in it is up-to-date software, including Windows with all the patches and bug fixes drives etc. Microsoft Update is a great tool and so is Kaspersky 6.

Linux is so user-unfriendly, in windows, you plug in the WLAN card and all is taken care off. If the network has DHCP, there is nothing else to be done, instant connectivity! In Linux, everything you have to do is through a CLI. You have to install a software emulator called ndiswrapper that “implements Windows kernel API and NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) API within Linux kernel”, then find a working windows driver for the card, and then tell ndiswrapper to emulate that driver and then reboot. But then again it does not work! You then go through infinite forums to find what the problem exactly is, and then you find that there is a windows driver specifically written to work with ndiswrapper and only in Fedora. You use that driver and then reboot again it seems to work. “ifup” generally throws some error messages in the beginning but editing some conf files will finally start a wi-fi on Linux.

Linux still has a long way to go; it is nowhere near windows. With the 2.6 kernel being the most bugged kernel, I would like to wait for a long time before I even think of working on that OS.

Quote of the Day:

Liane: Eric, why would you do such a thing?
Cartman: I'm sorry I handcuffed Billy Turner's ankle to the school flagpole.
Mackey: You know that's not the point!
Cartman: Okay, I'm sorry I handcuffed Billy Turner's ankle to a flagpole and then gave him a hacksaw. And then told him I had poisoned his lunch milk and that the only way he could get to the antidote in time would be to saw through his leg.
Liane: That's very naughty, Eric.
Cartman: Well he called me chubby!

A fortnight later.

2006-05-07T01:12:00.000+05:30

The last two weeks were hell, so much pending academic work that it took us 4 night outs to finish them all on time. A nightmare for sure, but got used to it over time. The final statistics were, 2 records start to end, 2 nights and miscellaneous activities in another 2 nights. Though still some work is left, they are not pending works. I will wait until they are “pending” and then do a night out again! Until then I will probably rest my ass.

Well anyway, I had to take the car to the garage and get the A.C control knob checked and a little bit of servicing too. Apparently, the AC turned on and off on its own will during a long drive and my dad was all frustrated about it. He should be! Its 43C out there. It turned out to be a loose connection somewhere. Not only did the mechanic fix that but also he put some fluid to improve the compressor and now the AC is so fucking cold that I have to redirect the air ducts away from me just to stop shivering in that cold.

On the way back home, I noticed something extremely stupid. There is a police check post on the way. It is right after a bottleneck in the road, the bottleneck being a huge peepal/banyan tree in the middle of the road. The police seem to like it a lot; they made themselves a nice camp with sand bags and tents, looks almost like a war zone. As for my knowledge, it was established there to “keep criminals out of the city”. That sounds fishy because firstly its on the road leading out of the city and the secondly I have never heard of any “criminal” being caught at one of those check posts which are in hundreds spread all over the city. However, they only seem to be filling pockets rather than filling jails. Anywho there is also a bus stop in between the check post ends. Now the check post is so intelligently placed that when the RTC busses stop there, all the traffic behind the bus comes to a halt. Nowhere to go and the police can easily pick their victims and charge them for not wearing a helmet. Its not only at that place but all the check posts through out the city are on heavy traffic roads and they all block all the already clogged up traffic. Call it insanity, stupidity, senselessness, idiocy, whatever you want but I am really pissed off.

I will now go to sleep, wake up early around 10 tomorrow, will try to finish my work before the European Grand Prix. Formula 1 rocks!

itv.com/f1 - Marlboro would foot Kimi/Schu bill

2006-04-27T23:11:00.000+05:30

itv.com/f1 - Marlboro would foot Kimi/Schu bill
OMG! Michael Schumacher and Kimi Raikonnen! together! in Ferrari! HOLY MOFO SHIT! THIS FKING ROCKS.. if it happens :)

Donkey thoughts

2006-04-25T17:30:00.000+05:30

The fifth round of internals start from tomorrow and because of them I am now back at home. Its not only the exams but the year is ending and it is the time for completing all pending and final works for the year. Oh, man! I have a feeling that the period from now to the last day of the externals is going to suck donkey balls.

As I was watching the south park episode “806 - Wet backs from the Future.rm” there was a power cut, a long one. The iPod is dead and therefore there was nothing to hold my brain in limits, it wandered off.

Is time travel possible at all? Well if it is, at some point of time from now, people would have already traveled through time, from future to the present and inform us about it! Like the wetbacks, he he.

The same applies to the Simulation of Life concept or the Matrix. If we, at all, are capable of a simulation as complex as the Matrix, then maybe we are already in a simulation! Think!

The power comes back, music starts right away, and I turn back to my acads :)

Sunday update

2006-04-23T19:30:00.000+05:30

Schumacher is God.
Schumacher >>> Alonso
(The after effect of the 2006 San Marino Grand Prix)

Came home for the weekend as I had to finish all my pending works at any cost. Its literally impossible at my cousins place as there is NO table to do stuff on.

Roaming around in the city on my BJC-80 is fun (the BJC is also known as the "Bajaj Chetak" in some parts of the world). It is an amazing machine I say, 0-60kmph just under 1.5 minutes. With the helmet on and an iPod underneath, it is like MotoGP all over.

Sadly, the iPod met with an accident, it fell through the window of the college bus and was run over by a car. It still works! Only hitch is that the output is from a single speaker.

I have been hacking into my phone recently and it is amazing how much power the series60 phones have at their disposal. Its just a matter of time before I come back home and start developing for the Symbian platform.

The daily workout at the gym has finally produced some results. I lost 1 kg of my fat. It may be negligible when compared to the amount of fat I posses, but what is lost is lost!

San Marino GP roxored, enjoyed every lap.

/me starts packing to go back to the empty land.

Emptiness

2006-04-14T14:31:00.000+05:30

I’m still at my cousin’s place. I have nothing to do and today is a holiday, no academic work, no Monster to meddle with and no one to talk to, it’s an empty life. Amazingly though, I seem to like it. It is calm, pleasant and I don’t have a care in the world. I’m just passing time writing this crap while watching some lame movie.

I have been watching a lot of News lately and I led myself to the conclusion that every person in this world is crazy or insane to some extent, but there are some who are just completely stupid or bizarre, for example Salman Khan, Bangalore crowd, Christian missionaries, Shiv sena, Al Qaeda, etc.

Anyway….. I’ll get back to reading “Catch 22”, for the fourth time.

Návrat idiota

2006-04-09T15:51:00.000+05:30

First off, please don’t think that I have stopped blogging again. Its just that I have been too busy the last week as I was staying at my aunt’s house. Although I had access to the net, I was very busy with other stuff. By the time, I reach home from college it is already 1800hrs and after that, I go to Gym, yes the GYM! I’m working out, again! As a Sunday treat, I came home to feel the monster, and believe me it feels good.

Virat and Arvind have been frequently reporting problems with their PCs. Virat’s PC gave up a month ago when its motherboard fried while he was browsing the internet. Soon after he got the replacement motherboard, his SMPS gave up. He said some capacitor was too big, or something on those lines. Still he is too conceited to accept that his PC is dead like all ours’, moreover he suggests to me to sell off the Monster (Which btw has not faced a single problem since the last windows install around 2 months ago). Coming to Arvind, his bad luck has not ended. There was a power failure when he was trying to flash the BIOS of the old pc and so that went dead. He roamed around the city looking for a reasonable chip-level service center where he could get that repaired. That went in vain and he decided to flash the bios again all by himself, which apparently worked. However, he said he was pitted against a blue screen, BSOD, every time he tried to install Windows XP after the bios update. I advised him to try Linux. Insane, yes, but it is the only way AFAIK.

All their problems are making me glad. All time I was suffering with the monster, they were laughing at monster and me. Now it is my turn to sit back and laugh at them and I think I am doing a great job until now.

The only thing that concerns me is that all three of us are facing similar problems with the root cause being the power. Arvind’s main PC had many problems until he bought an Antec SMPS and everything settled without a glitch. I believe, my problems are also due to the power inconsistencies and that a good SMPS like the Antec one can solve my problems too. However, Virat’s problem is beyond my comprehension, he has a light R9600 that barely consumes any power and is cooled by a passive heat sink. Whereas Arvind and I have power hungry 7800gt and 6800gts, both of which can consume up to 220W at max load and we think that they are the main culprits, because we put them on lame power supplies. A R9600 should not cause any voltage fluctuations even at max load, and so the problem might not be the R9600 but something else. I wonder what that could be.

Considering the number of problems we faced, the theories we developed, the causes we figured out and finally the time we put in to solve these problems, I think we can be considered the best troubleshooters, in the city at least. If we go commercial with this, the troubleshooting business, we can probably earn millions!

I also formatted my phone! It was sluggish and there was too much crap inside it to clean up one by one. It is now lightning fast and clean.

Quote of the Day

Mr. Garrison: Does anyone know what sexual harassment means?
Cartman: When you are tying to have intercourse with a special lady friend and some other guy comes up and tickles your balls from behind.

One for the n00bies

2006-04-01T23:50:00.000+05:30

This picture is for all the noobs who are lazy and hot headed to use Google or any other search engine ftm, when they have a problem.

Found this while was organizing the My Pictures folder. >:)

Quote of the Day

Bart : I will use Google before asking dumb questions.

I shouldn't have answered that call!

2006-04-01T00:29:00.000+05:30

As the 3-hour lecture on orthogonal projections came to and end, I was dead tired, everyone was. Drawing classes in torrid weather have that effect on people. Anyway, we gathered enough strength to board the busses. One by one, busses departed the college “campus”. Adding to the wretchedness the iPod was low on battery since morning and it turned off soon after we left. En-route, out of nowhere my cell starts ringing and I answer the call. Some random person started talking and asked for someone called XXX, I asked him who he was and arrogantly he responded telling me that he was YYY. I was blank, I was pissed, I was not in the mood to continue the conversation so I pass on the phone to Sujit hoping for some comical conversation, which would cheer me up. He spoke two sentences and was confused and then he passed on the phone to Abhinav, another friend of mine. He grabbed the phone and started speaking dominantly, questioning the caller continuously. Just then, I realized, “WTF, I know XXX!” He was sitting right beside me! He used my cell to call up that YYY person and the YYY person called back to talk to him again. I was shocked; I quickly pulled the phone from Abhinav and gave it to XXX. They talked and everything was fine until YYY boarded our bus mid way, angry at the way he was treated. We did not know that he was YYY and the worst thing was, that guy was drunk! He was calling for “The guy who talked to me just on the phone”, WTF who would know, but soon we realized and sat quiet. However, XXX was a close friend of YYY; he leaked the fact that it was Abhinav, who ill-treated him. YYY was fired up and almost started a fight. Ah, I forgot, YYY also brought a gunda kinda fella along with him who was drunk too! Now, messing with drunken ego maniacs/gundas is not a good idea. We stuck to peace rather than fighting our way through. As the heat began to rise, the other students in the bus quickly subdued them. They get off the bus and everyone heave a sigh of relief. Nevertheless, I was fucking tense and so was Abhinav, after all he was the one they were after and it was my phone. I was at fault too. I apologized to Abhinav for throwing him into all the mess.

Moral of the story, “Don’t mess with wrong calls!” and “Don’t involve other people when trying to mess with wrong calls!”

What a day! I am glad, everything settled. These types of fights lead to dire consequences. One should quickly pacify the hot ones or it will get out of control.

Quote of the day:

Chef: You're gay though, Mr. Garrison.
Mr. Garrison: What, I'm not gay. I act this way to get chicks, dumbass.

Geek chatter

2006-03-30T22:56:00.000+05:30

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

2006-03-30T01:23:00.000+05:30

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.

Yet another scrsht post..

2006-03-26T15:15:00.000+05:30

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!

Lizard wars

2006-03-24T10:17:00.000+05:30

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

eeewwwww!

2006-03-23T21:48:00.000+05:30

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.

5 Things..

2006-03-22T16:52:00.000+05:30

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.

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

2006-03-19T00:25:00.000+05:30

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.

HOLI, Farben färbt mehr Farben

2006-03-15T21:15:00.000+05:30

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.

Bang! The Scarlet Cars are back!

2006-03-11T23:36:00.000+05:30

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!

Monster haunted?

2006-03-08T18:58:00.000+05:30

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!

An achivement worthy of posting

2006-03-06T23:32:00.000+05:30

(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

2006-03-06T22:32:00.000+05:30

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.

Double Paranoia

2006-03-05T23:18:00.000+05:30

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

2006-03-05T17:02:00.000+05:30

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

Paranoia

2006-02-27T00:26:00.000+05:30

Oh man! Designing a unique website is fking difficult! I have been trying since morning to make a unique template but I cant get the standard 2 column layout out of my head! I need a brainwash! If I continue like this there wont be any hair left on my head! I'm off to sleep, for the sake of my hair! OMG is just too difficult! x(

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: Well, Kyle, appreciate you being so open with me about this, but as we know, you have a warped perception of reality because you're jewish.

Man of the Match

2006-02-25T22:31:00.000+05:30

It was a bright sunny saturday, all was going well untill we decided to play a cricket match on our college grounds. Everyone was ready, but there was one problem, 2 other departments also wanted to play each other on the same ground at the same time. Somehow managed and gain ed rights to play. Also, some people got involved in a small oral fight, but were subdued quickly.

Play commenced, the opposition (IT Dept) were batting first. After a few loose overs, our blowling tightened and they were restricted to a chasable 101 (16 overs). The score was 73 at the end of 9 overs but tight bowling restricted them to score only 30 runs in the next 7 overs. As for me, my ankle was not healed and I was stationed behind the wicket keeper, the 3rd man, or whatever that position is called. I just had to stop the ballz that went past the keeper. Thanks to the elite skills of our wicket keeper "Avinash" I didnt have much work to do. I just stood under the tree shade throughout the innings.

With 100 runs to chase our batsmen went on to the field (At this point the bats we were supposed to play with were completely useless, ones handle was broken and the other kept throwing wooden chips everytime it hit the ball). Soon a couple of them were back and the captain, Abhinav was in, everything stablized and it was almost a sureshot victory, but all of a sudden everyone was out and at the stage where we needed 3 runs I had to go in, I was the last wicket, plenty of overs were left. My heart was beating faster than the time I did a 45min workout on a crosstrainer. I went in as the runner, 2 runs were scored quicly. I was at the crease, my only job was NOT to get out!, seems simple but I haven't batted since my 10th class. It was the last ball in the over, I had to stop the ball no matter what; it came quickly at me, I put the bat to stop it, to my dismay it just beat me and went through the gap between the bat and the pad. I was in shock for a second as they were appealing for a caught behind wicket. NOT OUT! yay!. Next over, 1st ball, a "Late cut" bt Vishal gave us the last run needed and It was victory again! I then declare myself the Man of the Match, common, I saved thier asses!

Celebrations all over. But soon we faced yet another problem, trasnportation. No jeeps no busses nothing. After waiting for a while one jeep finally came to the rescue, but with people already in it. We were 12, it was one jeep. With no mercy whatsoever on the jeep, all of us somehow managed to fit in with 3 on the roof 4 on the bonet 3 behind, hanging from the footrest and 1 hanging from the side and the rest inside. I was sitting on the bonet, and my ass soon was as hot as burning coal, 2.7kms @ 20kmph. It was hot!! but fun!. A great new experience.

Pic of my buddy sankalp hanging from the side of the jeep which i captured while sitting on the hot bonet :D

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: You have rats in your house, too, Kenny?
Kenny: Mm-hm.
Cartman: Seriously, you better stop being so poor or else I'm gonna start huckin' rocks at you.

DNS Tip

2006-02-24T18:34:00.000+05:30

For you people who have gay DNS servers like the ones that belong to my isp, ones which dont resolve addresses of even the sites you know for sure, exist. I've got this small idea which works.

First off, we need an online DNS service. A site which can resolve addresses using its own connection. I have chosen http://www.dnsstuff.com. The simplest way to get the ip address is to go to the site and put in the host name in the ping box. But if you have to resolve addresses frequently, there is a better option which uses firefox or any other browser for that matter.

In Firefox, goto Bookmarks >> Manage Bookmarks
Click on Create a new bookmark button
Type in whatever name you want in the Name and Description fields.
In the location field put this "http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/ping.ch?ip=%s" without quotes.
And for The keyword, you can put anything you want, for the sake of easy understanding better type in "ping", again without the quotes.
Thats it! now to test, in the address bar type this
ping www.google.com
If you have done it all right, you must end up with this.

Now that everything has worked out fine, Its time to tell the computer where to go when you hit that address. Open up your 'hosts' file, located in "c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts" with any text editor, prefreably notepad.
Add the ip address and the hostname separated by a tab-space next to the default entries. Remember each new entry should be on a new line and the tab-space is a must. Save it!.
My hosts file looks like this....

All done! Now just type in the normal address in any browser and you will be take to that site.

PS. Thanks to Arvind for teaching me how to create such bookmarks using the %s directive. What happens is, the %s is replaced by the string you type in after the keyword and the formatted url is then submitted.

Quote of the Day :

Arvind: NEW FOUND GLORY — ( Head on Collison Lyrics )
Arvind: u have that song?
TheScarletCars: nope
Arvind: found that song in a porn clip
TheScarletCars: lol
Arvind: ripping it frm that clip and and adding it to my collection
TheScarletCars: rofl!
TheScarletCars: pervert!

Halo Update

2006-02-23T19:52:00.000+05:30

Thats it, yesterday around 9 I finished Halo, at 'Heroic' level. I must say, its one of the most entertaining games I've ever played. It just an amazing game, everythig is perfectly balanced, the enemies, weapons. Coz of this I had to edit my "Best games ever List". Heres the updated list.

Quake III Arena
Age of Empires (AOC)
Halo
Half Life
Call of Duty
Need for speed Most Wanted
Call of Duty 2
Farcry
Half Life 2
Need for Speed Underground
F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assaunt Recon)
Claw
Counter-Strike
Serious Sam
Max Payne

Yes! it deserves the 3rd Spot!

Also, One thing I have never realized is that the song's "Fatboy Slim - Fucking in Heaven" lyrics have the phrase "Fatboy Slim is fucking in heaven" reapeated some 70 times and nothing else!! rofl!

Firefox.... My Firefox

2006-02-22T20:22:00.000+05:30

Generated: Wed Feb 22 2006 20:22:33 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build ID: 2006011112
Enabled Extensions: [21]

Adblock Filterset.G Updater 0.3.0.1

Adblock Plus 0.5.11.2

Add Bookmark Here 0.5.5

AJAX Yahoo! Mail [Viamatic WebMail++] 0.5

autoHideStatusbar 0.3.2

ColorZilla 0.8.3.1

CuteMenus - Crystal SVG 0.9.9.68

del.icio.us 1.1

deviantART : Koh33 Extension 0.3

Download Manager Tweak 0.7.1

Extended Statusbar 1.2.4

Fasterfox 1.0.3

Findbar Basics 1.2.08

FlashGot 0.5.9.993

Gmail Manager 0.4.3.3

Leet Key 1.3.1

MR Tech Local Install 4.2.1.3

SearchPluginHacks 0.1.3

Sourceforge Direct Download 0.4

Tab Mix Plus 0.3.0.4

Yahoo! Photos Easy Upload Tool 2005.10.12

Installed Themes: [4]

Azerty III 2.0

Crystal Dream 1.0.2

Firefox (default)

Qute 3.0.4

Installed Plugins: (10)

Adobe Acrobat

Microsoft® DRM

Mozilla Default Plug-in

QuickTime Plug-in 7.0.3

RealPlayer Version Plugin

RealPlayer(tm) G2 LiveConnect-Enabled Plug-In (32-bit)

Shockwave Flash

VLC multimedia plugin

Windows Media Player Plug-in Dynamic Link Library

Yahoo Application State Plugin

This is the current state of my firefox customization. I tried hundreds of extensions available but this is the list of what I'm using right now. All these make firefox an almost perfect browser. I would still suggest Opera for speed but if you want it the way you want it.. Firefox is the only option.

Screenshot :

Qoute of the Day :

Sheila (Kyle's mom): Just remember what the MPAA says: Horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty words!

fkin cool

2006-02-21T19:56:00.000+05:30

man! Iron Maiden fking rocks! I fking love "The thin line between love and hate". They are fking good.
Halo fking rules! Banshee dog-fights are fking awesome. The flood is fking annoying so are the covenants. fking hippies. I'm going to fking finish it in 2 more days.. its fking tough playing at Veteran level.
Writing lab records fking sucks. The whole record funda itself is fking ballz.
I fking love my life.

Quote of the day :

Stan: Hey, do you know where I can find the clitoris?
Cartman: What is that like finding Jesus or something?

Sprained ankle and The Cave

2006-02-19T00:14:00.000+05:30

I was woken up at 0700hrs in the morning, on a day which could have easily been my sleep compenstaion day (The day I compensate for my late night adventures by sleeping as long as possible) by a friend, who, last night somehow convinced me to play a cricket match at the college grounds. Their plan was to reach coll by 0930hrs and start the match 1000hrs, but it all crumpled when some players didnt show up and also, most of us didnt have any bikes or cars. Relying on the RTC we finally reached the grounds around 1130hrs. The match started somewhere around 1200 and it was all going fine, then I sprained my ankle bad :(. Was in the field for another 2-3 overs but couldn't continue, back to pavilion. Regardless, we won the match. Excellent batting performance lead us to a easy victory \/.

Comming home, even though I was limping bad, I was asked to go to a marriage function. I'm the only driver in da house and so watever may be my condition I have to take people where ever they want me to take them :|. aka Driver bratuku. I could do nothing but take them there, and the worst part, I was limping all time, all over the hall and everyone kept asking "wtf happened" .... blah blah blah. FSCK! I hate functions/gatherings aaarrgh!!!

Anyway, I have been driving for the last 8 months and I can call myself an experienced driver. I have more than 5000kms of driving on the M800 (Maruti 800) and now I also have a 100kms exp on an Opel Corsa. Opel corsa.. hmm.. my aunt's car, which she exchanged with the M800 coz she was going out of station for a while. Cool car, sexy susepsion and leather interiors. :|~~~.

The movie "The Cave" sucked ballz. Don't watch it!. All you see are black pixels... its too dark, you can barely see anything. A Gay story and bad direction add to an already fuxed up movie.

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: This is killing me. The human body was not meant to move quickly like that.

XPized

2006-02-16T21:30:00.000+05:30

I have nothing to say today except....

"Windows XP is 1337, its just awesome, I love it"

I have reasons for this which I shall talk about when I have enough energy..

aaaaahhhh

/me goes to sleep

Crazy things I do when I'm Bored

2006-02-12T21:35:00.000+05:30

I'm a big download freak, I tend to use all bandwidth when I download. I was bored and made this pic.

Boasting about me being an administrator to a LAN hub with 211 users

Again Bandwidth mania

Hosted a Intranet forum... :|

Got these pics when I went back to photobucket for some work :D.

I'm a UT 2004 SEMI-FINALIST! YEAH!

2006-02-06T22:46:00.000+05:30

Thanks to the incompetency of some specific number of people, our 1st internal online quizes were cancelled. I was all happy coz I cud finallly MP at IIIT. Multiplayer(MP) gaming rocks.

The first day, myself and Virat went all the way there to participate. But by the time we reached there on his bike, our asses were numb, it was some 40km journey. As soon as we reached the gaming arena, my ass was fully active and was ready to support me. First up was NFS, the 1st round was easy both of ur cleared it. Then in the 2nd round we both were in the same race and only 2 were to be selected, we were sure that only one would qualify. Luckily using team tactics and helping each other out, he was 1st and I was 2nd, we both qualified. Next was Unreal Tournament 2004, a game I played only for 5 minutes in all my life time. It was viks 2nd round match, sadly he lost to some pro UTer. Soon it was my 1st round, I was put up againt some n00bie player, who sucked more than I did, I won. It was almost lunchtime and we off to eat something, we had a 1/2 biryani and were back to the arena for my UT 2nd round. This time I had to battle another n00bie, I won! lol!. The remaining rounds were on the next day, and since we had nothing else to do we returned home.

We were a little late the second day, coz I was feeling too sleepy. This time we didnt want our asses to bottleneck our performace, so we went in the car. Again a loooong journey!. As soon as we went we were made to participate in the 3rd round of NFS, we two were again in the same race, we decided to use the same car, the Porche Carrera GT. The race started and right in the 1st turn vik was rammed and his car was flipped, I was running 2nd for a while till I lost complete control over my car and started skidding everywhere. We both lost :( . So much for NFS. It was my UT third round, it was against a IIIT player, I thought I was screwed and didnt care much, but my grenade skill in quake came to the rescue, the only weapon I used in the game was the Flak gun, using the alternate fire and my grenade prediction skills I was able to beat him easily. I was into the 4th round, The Semi-Final!! Too much for a 1st time player :D. Its was unavoidable and I had to play a pro, I was raped, 25-2 was the final score. My position in UT was very bad, I didnt know where the score was, I only knew one map and that was the one I played the day before the first time (some Idoma) and I cud use only the rocket and the flak gun.

UT ended and soon the big CS matches started, in between all the chaos I saw someone playing AOC, the only game other than Q3A which pushes my concentration to its limits. I asked if I could play, I was allowed to :). It was a 2v2, I forgot everything in AOC too, I was completely unaware of the boar, I realized I had to hunt the boar only when I accidentally saw it on the map :D. hit castle by 20, trained some knights and started the battle, after a while we won! I was happy, my l33t gaming skillz were still in good enough even after an 9month break :D. A happy ending :)

BTW, Our online tests start again from tomorrow! ROFL! Hope they get it right this time else I'm gonna go crazy.

Lim(n-->infinity) pissed(n) || (pissed== linear func of n)

2006-02-02T19:53:00.000+05:30

I'm so pissed off right now.

One, today we were giving our 'online' english test, which was dead easy and I was scoring around 18/20, 15 minutes into the 20 minute test, my monitor goes blank, for a moment I thought it was the windowsxp screensaver, but when I moved the mouse nothing happened, my heart stopped. Before I could contemplate what happened, everyone in the hall started booing and shouting. The UPS went blank and every system was turned off. The irony was, the fans and lights were fine and only the systems were dead, ususally its the other way round, but luck favoured the lights and fans and we were screwed. Will have to give the exam again FFS.

Two, all my hopes of enjoying @ IIITs gaming fest are now deep down the drain. Why? Coz I have these gay ass, internals which, proven today, cannot be conducted without a 1hr delay before and after them. People not able to conduct online tests with 60 students seems incompetent to me. These type of tests were a big flop before, and they will be this time too. The servers cant handle even 60 connections, people keep getting disconnected, some connections are never made, and who the hell runs a lan on hubs these days anyway? I shoudnt talk more abt this.

Have to prepare for two tests tomorrow! :(( , have to finish my engg. drawing assignment and go to a buddy's house in the midnight to celebrate his b'day. Lot of work ahead, I better get started.

Quote of the Day:

Chef: Hello there, children.
Stan: Chef! What would a priest want to stick up my butt?
Chef: Goodbye.

Stability

2006-02-01T22:39:00.000+05:30

Now thats what I call Rock solid Sability. My Lappy running 24/7 as a

Primary file storage/retrieval server, via shared folders.
httpd (Apache 2)
IIS http server
mysqld (Mysql 5)
Bittorrent client (4 downloads with 40 live connections each)
Proxy server (rare usage)
Slax 10.2 on VMWARE (again running httpd, mysqld, sshd, vsftpd and more)
Client with KAV running

All this on 512MB RAM and no crashes whatsoever, but mysqld kept hanging on slax, so much for stability on linux. It went through all possible ways of torturing, like flashget Malloc-ing 700MB space over the LAN, Parsing typo3 pages.. etc. Who says Windows is unstable!? hippies.

Quote of the day :

Mrs. Cartman: Doctor, did you find out what's wrong with him?
Doctor: I'm afraid he's running out of time.
Mrs. Cartman: Why, what's wrong with him?
Doctor: It's his time. It's running out.
Mrs. Cartman: What can we do?
Doctor: Well, I suppose we can try a time transplant. I'll have to call a specialist.

Woohoo I now have a Sony Clié

2006-01-30T19:35:00.000+05:30

While searching for an USB cable for my aunts Digicam, I found an adapter rated 5.2V. I searched through my database of electronics, and found nothing. After a while, when I was arranging my drawers I found an old Sony Clié, burried away in hundreds of CDs, instantly my brain mapped the query for the 5.2V DC adapter to the Sony Clié. Without hesitation I connected the two and the next moment it started up with "Palm Powered".

It has some basic apps and some utilities. The best thing is the touch screen, its the first time I handled a device with a touch screen. Its fast and fun to operate. The slylus is light and makes writing a lot easier.

Here are its Specs :

Model : PEG-TJ27
OS : Palm OS 5 (v5.2)
CPU : 200MHz i.MXL Application Processor
Memory : 32MB RAM (Approx 23MB available), 16MB ROM, 128 MemoryStick.
Interface : USB, Infrared (IrDA 1.2), Memory Stick Slot
Display :TFT Color display with backlight, 320x320, 65,536 Colors
Battery : Li-ion polymer rechargeable battery, Life : 10 days approx. on one charge
Size(H*W*D) : 4 1/2 * 3 * 17/32 inches
Weight : Approx 5 oz incl stylus

A 200MHz proccessor withg 32MB RAM is impressive, making it almost as powerful as my old 266 celeron system. But the question remains, What can I use it for? I already have a l33t cellphone with a l33t camera and lots of PIM apps and more. It has no audio capabilities and supposedly can play videos, without sound. :| Games may be one use :D.

I am still facing problems trying to interface it with my PC as I dont have the Install CD that came with it. Googled for hours and didnt find the software required (Palm Desktop for Sony Clié). May be searching the underground areas might work.

No doubt its another formidable addition to my list of gadgets but may end up being one of the most useless.

talking of Gadgets, here is a list of all gadgets I currently own/have.

Nokia 6670
iPod Shuffle 512MB
Yashica 2MP Cam. (Dosent work)
Sony Clié PEG-TJ27
Sony Vaio PCG-FRV25 (laptop but also a gadget :D)
A Panasonic ultra-sleek ultra-small walkman. (This thing is the most advanced walkman youll ever see and the smallest, its the same size as a cassette box!)
Panasonic discman (non-mp3)
2x Digital Organizers (Videocon & Casio)

Thats it I guess.

Today turned out to be a lot of fun @ coll, budding love stories are always are. I dont wanna disclose anything for now, I'll do it when its public. Gunz also cracked me up with this

Me: 1
Gunz: Me Messed with sys clock.....
Me: ?!
Gunz: scheduled tasks did not run.....
Gunz: comp downloaded till 11 in morn :((
Me: =))
Me: bwahahha
Gunz: :((
Me: how much downloaded?
Gunz: 200Mb maybe
Gunz: only 1 day was left
Gunz: hope it does go too much over the 1gig limit
Gunz: Me gonna start saving b/w
Gunz: hope it doesnt exceed 1 gig :
Gunz: my father is gonna have a field day.....if it exceeds

Quote of the Day

Chef: Children, uh, what's the one thing that's more sacred to a man than anything else in the world?
Stan: Uh, bicycles?
Cartman: Ham?
Kyle: No, not ham, you fat fuck!
Cartman: Screw you! It's ham, isn't it?

I Hate Love.

2006-01-29T10:54:00.000+05:30

When a person turns to wrong, is it a want to be, belong?
Part of things at any cost, at what price a life is lost

At what point do we begin, fighter spirit a will to win
But what makes a man decide, take the wrong or righteous road

There's a thin line between love and hate
Wider divide that you can see between good and bad
There's a grey place between black and white
But everyone does have the right to choose the path that he takes

We all like to put the blame on society these days
But what kind of good or bad a new generation brings

Sometimes take just more than that to survive be good at heart
There is evil in some of us no matter what will never change

I will hope, my soul will fly, so I will live forever
Heart will die, my soul will fly, and I will live forever

Just a few small tears between someone happy and one sad
Just a thin line drawn between being a genius or insane

At what age begin to learn of which way out we will turn
There's a long and winding road and the trail is there to burn

That my friends, is the lyric of an Iron Maiden song, a song with a meaning. Compare that to "Jhalak Dikhlaja" from Aksar and you will know why I detest hindi/telugu songs in general. There are exceptions like Taal and DCH and more.. but in general they are always.. always about LOVE, even the movies' core theme is love, always. Love here is the Love between a muscular hero and a naked heroine, monotonic. Get some new Ideas assholes.

Anyway, I ended my 4 day stay at my cousin's place. It was nice to be away from home and the computers for a while. I was able to do some tasks, what I thought were impossible. Going to the gym for a full workout at 5 in the morning, reading novels, staying alive without computers were some of them. I'm back home now and I will try my best to continue what I started.

It was easy the last time

2006-01-23T21:36:00.000+05:30

As I mentioned before, I have to develop a website for my aunt's infertility clinic. So far, no progress of any kind. I'm still confused on the template, wether to use Photoshop and make one or use css layouts. Both have their own advantages.

The last time when I designed the college website, I used a CMS, it was easy then coz there was no better option than a css template. I used a CMS coz its a big site and it needs to be updated frequently. This time though, Its not a big site and it contains purely static content which rarely needs to be updated, which led me to decide on doing it with my bare hands, ie dreamweaver and PS.

I want to make it look good and professional, and thus my problems. I'm right now in favour of CSS coz its a lot more flexible, easier to handle and gives me more control over the layout of the pages. But PS also is not a bad option, I can show off some l33t skillz there too, ( I got the Photoshop idea from Virat, who is a l33t3r photoshopper than I am. Hes is designing a site for his college's cult fest. ) but managing the slices may be difficult and aslo I strictly wanna follow a table-less design.

It has been 3 hours and I'm yet to decide on the tech to use. I wonder how long will the design take :|

BTW, monster working a lot better than before, I still get the scandisc once in a while, but I can work on it with dreamweaver, photoshop and firefox all running simultaneously on 512MB RAM!. Benchmaked it using PCMark04 and 3DMark06 and the scores were 4500/5000 , 980/1033 (stock/O.Ced) respectively. Pretty impressive :)

/me hugs monster

Quote of the Day :

Kyle: Chef, we need Butters to gain about 50 pounds, fast.
Chef: Well, if you want him to get really fat as fast as possible, one of you will have to marry him.
Stan: Marry him?
Chef: It definitely worked for every woman I've ever met.

IIIT! Here we come!

2006-01-20T19:43:00.000+05:30

Well, not exactly, we are only two. We dont have a clan and we suck ballz at CSCZ (We = me+Virat). If you are wondering what the hell I'm talking about, take a look at the comment to the previous post. I got invited to the IIIT fest this year (no idea who that was :| ). Finding players is not a big issue, but finding good ones is going to be hard. CSCZ is a team game, and as a member of a clan, one needs to know everything about his team mates, their weak spots, their strengths etc etc. blah blah.. We are going to go there anyways, clan or no clan.

The only game I ever mastered was Q3A. That game just suits me at an integral level. It was my flesh and blood for two years. I reached a stage where I was quakecon material (too much?) but then it all ended abruptly :(.

Quake 3 is a beautiful game, graphics wise, gameplay wise and code wise too. It is the only game which is able to boost my concentration to incredible levels, and bring my reaction times to near 0. Even the subconscious part of my brain kicks in to execute the so called "Impossible Rails" and the "Air Rockets". Till the last 6 months (of the 2 years) I never kept track of the mega and armor timings, but when the opponents started timing them, I was facing something on a different level. In the beginning I considered it unfair, but later realized, its one of the most widely spread habits in quaking. After some practice I was able to time them perfectly, and no one had an 'unfair' advantage over me.

My greatest strength in quake is not my ability to concentrate nor my nanosec reaction times, every good player has those, rather Its my Speed! I'm incredibly fast, contrary to what I am in real life, but still I'm extremely fast. Beacuse of that I could easily escape when I had to and attack when I wanted to. People watching my game were always amazed to see how fast I moved through the maps.

When quake gained momentum around the end of my 1st year @ IITD, we organized CTF tourneys between the 4th yearites and the rest of the college, the clans were named "The High Ones" and "ROID" (Rest of IIT Delhi) respectively. Those games were awesome, in the end the High ones won the series. Then, I & DzzL were the fastest in the team, so we had to get the enemy flag no matter what, we were literally the "Bali ka Bakras", but we always managed to get the flag. Our base was defended by Scorpion, one of the best quakers in IITD and the only one in IITD whom I coudn't beat in a duel.

The high ones made a video on those games to commemorate their victory and named it "The ROID wars". Its the Awesome-est video you'll ever see. They also had an uncut version of the video, wherein they dedicated a whole 4 minutes to rape me, showing off my most embarrasing weakness, my compulsive desire to get teh power-ups and getting fragged unnecessarily. It starts after the original video, the credits come half way and roll back, to start my rape with title as "THESID AS KENNY" (ROFL!). They had a dual display there, one side with southpark clippings, the ones where kenny dies and the other side showing me getting fragged in the most ludicrous ways. I never felt humiliated, not even once, instead, I was happy coz it was only about me and no one else, special. The reason behind all this may been the fact that I was the only 1st yearite in both the clans combined or maybe coz I was plumpy. Thank you Zodd and m8al!

Oh! I almost forgot! I never knew what southpark was before the video, I didnt know kenny, I didnt know he dies in every episode, nothing, but still it was funny. That video was the sole reason I started following soutpark.

I miss all that action, its been nine months since my last game. I don't regret coz it had to end at some point. I just miss all that buzz thats all.

Quote of the Day :

Stan: Jimmy, can you tell Wendy that shes a continous source of inspiration?
Jimmy (to wendy): Stan says that your a cunt-cunt-cunt-cunt....
Wendy: Well tell Stan to F*CK OFF! (walks away)
Jimmy: A continous s-source of inspiration.

Sailin away....

2006-01-20T00:01:00.000+05:30

Intel was an enormous company. They could build a chip based on the most crappiest design possible (the Itanium) and make it through sheer will power. Except that it doesn't work and it cost them dearly. They could build another chip based on the second most crappiest design possible (the Pentium 4) and make it through sheer will power. Except that it doesn't work and now they are falling behind.

A comment on "What is the Intel Switch Costing Apple?"
ROFL! Bwahahahaha! (I'm still an Intel fan)

Again, very very busy lately. Washing machine hunting, lab work, eating and the most time consuming was NFS Most Wanted! Finally completed it! Only the last police chase was hard.

I also got a 50cd pack of ubuntu cds, for free! lol. Gave away 25 and I still have 25! What to do what to do?

Ubuntu CD Box!

While conducting an exhaustive search for my NIIT Certificates, I found a copy of monsters bill! :), but didnt find the cerificates. Got new ones from them coz the name on the lost ones was printed wrong, so no loss.

Monster's bill

Watching the series Lost atm, lost touch coz its been 2 months since I've seen any episode, thus I'm "Lost in Lost" and am trying to figure out whats going on.

No quote of the day, too lazy to go the site and find a new one :D
hence..

Song of the day:

Scooter - Nessaja

Rock exploration

2006-01-15T23:25:00.000+05:30

I had to go to a friends house around 1030 in the morning, but my sleep cycle was messed up. What can I say.. Holidays... slept around 0400hrs. With great difficulty, after making the cell phone go into snooze mode for about 15-20 times (each snooze lasts 5 mins) I finally was fully awake. Bathed and dressed up quick, had my breakfast and was ready to leave.

But, mom's rangoli was still intact and reversing the car over it was a delicate issue. After five minutes and some math calculations the path was clear to me. Started the engine, let it heat, put it reverse, slowly started moving it. Half-way through, I realized I not only was over it but both the rear tyres were on it!! Crap! I could do nothing but keep going in the same direction. Ever so slowly, got it completely out and was out of the car in an instant to check on my lifeline. I live! Nothing bad happened since I moved very slowly, every color was intact! YAY! My l33t driving skills save me again!

With great relief I reached the senior's house, we had to discuss about our plan of action on how we were going to setup the college website. They all finally agreed on my present design, with some minor changes. They were all into rock music, so rock music was on the way. All great songs from the age of Led Zeppelin to In Flames were reviewed. I never listened to most the bands played. I was impressed, have to collect all those songs from him :D.

Coming home late in the afternoon I had nothing to do. In an instant I was on the terrace with my kite and the charka. Cut one kite, lost one, got bored coz I was alone and came back down. Fired up NFS MW, reached till the 4th place in the Blacklist. Guns aka Arvind then came over. He showed off his l33t skillz in evading the level 4 cops and reached level 5 where he was eventually busted. We both then went on to the terrace, again lost one, cut one and were back coz of poor lighting. He dumped all my music onto his HDD, and then we were off to Vik's place for the latest Bleach episode (Bleach is a Japanese anime series which I stared following 2 months ago). It sucked, there was nothing new, it was a recap episode, which lasted 1hr :(.

I have to submit my BEE (Basic elec engg.) assignment tomorrow, and I havet even started it! Im gonna get screwed tomorrow.

Quote of the Day :

Butters: I don't think I'm very happy. I always fall asleep to the sound of my own screams.
Stephen: Right, Uh, see the reason that you are...
Butters: And then I always get woken up in the morning to my own screams. Do you think I'm unhappy?

Mom's Rangoli

2006-01-14T23:52:00.000+05:30

She does this every year, and she does it with style! It mom's way of wishing everyone. And I want it to reach as many people as possible. She always won the rangoli contest in her school days!

Kite Log :
Kaaaaat! = 7
Shit! gone! = 0 (Plastic Maanja effect)

Kite flying is fun! :)

Gitex 2006

2006-01-14T01:30:00.000+05:30

Me Arvind (greatguns) and Virat went all the way to Madhapur, aka Hi-Tech City to take a look at the GITEX 2006 Trade show at HI-TEX. Its something like CES but at a low level, showing off new technologies in India (may be a year old outside). The first hall we visted had nothing intresting, except for two stalls, one where Snowman heatsinks and cooling tech was on display and the other where in we saw the smallest USB flash drive, which can reach to a capacity of 4GB!

Thext next hall favoured our tastes, with 100s of laptops, desktops, workstations, server boards, iPods, Power supply stuff.. and more! Of all those, what impressed us the most was the 30gig Video iPod. Its sleeker than we thought and the video on that was extemely beautiful. It seems it can even play h.264 content!

Ah, and we also were given a demo on a new and upcoming free Voice email service. He made us talk in a microphone, and mailed that back to us! lol. We are gonna get invites to that service which still in a beta stage :). Crap!! I just realized! we gave them our mails ids! omg, I hope they don't spam us!

I also got home two flashy gfx card leaflets from the Gigabyte stall, gonna stick em somewhere in the room :D. They are about ATi's radeons, but wth, they look too cool (me==g33k)

I haven't got much time, so postin the pics :).

LED Display

National Academy of Construction

2 Hippies under 2 Horns
Virat & Arvind

teh 30 gig Video iPod

Insides of a Gigabyte Rackmount server

Just 2 horns, no Hippies

All kinds of Thinkpads on Display

Force feedback Wheel

Iris Camera (Eye Scanner)

Sony Vaios and Acer lappys @ Laptop World

Hand Reader, something like a fingerprint scanner, but this one scans the whole hand!

Intex Woofer

A pre-Modded case! Finally!

My Babies, the new born on the left.

Compact USB Keyboard

INTEL! YAY! GO INTEL GO!

So called l33t System.

Thats what I call a screen, 42" BenQ

Smallest USB Flash Drive! 4gb max capacity!

also the thinnest ever!

Big Momma was also present!

Gimme Pipes! SnowMan heatsink with 4 heat pipes

Another snowman from the side

KAV!! (kisses)

BenQ LCD Displays

Thats it! Enjoy Sankranthi tomorrow! Cyas!

Laptop that made my computers scream

2006-01-12T20:25:00.000+05:30

Woke up very late, around 1230 in the afternoon. The reason behind waking up so early was that, all the computers in the house started screaming, literally. It was Kaspersky warning that there were port scans and intrusion attempts!, In all the three computers! After freshening up, I sat down to analyze what the fuck happened. Somebody turned on the latop a friend gave me two days ago for some maintainace work. Accidentally the network cable was plugged in, and coz my router assigns IPs via DHCP, that lappy was online in no time. It was filled with virii and spyware! and all those were trying to spead in my LAN! They made up my 100Mbit wireless router hang up! It was time to take some drastic measures, I had to introduce kaspersky to that system. I did. It detected nearly 400 infected files, and cleaned or deleted every single one! Then it was time for spyware to go, installed spybot, it found nearly 100 spyware entries! What the fuck was that guy doing on that comp all this time!?

Everytime the lappy booted, It showed a command window executing something, a bot to be specific. It was showing what it was doing very clearly, like when a service starts up in verbose mode. All the time I was under the assumption that it was some software installed by the user (me==noobie! :( ) but it was a virus starting up and initializing its bot!!! and Kaspy took care of it. Spybot found so much spyware that it wants to scan and clean again after a reboot! ROFL! With kaspersky and spybot installed, that lappy is never going to get infected by another virus or spyware! I always trusted Kaspersky and it proved itself again!

After all this, I went on to the terrace to check on the number of kites flying in the sky, and there were NONE! Population in our area almost doubled (with all the new apartments buildings) since the last time I flew kites. I expected the number of kites to double too, but there were none! wtf! Has everyone turned into those zombies which watch whatever that comes on TV?? or is everyone that lazy? or are they just scared that they might get a sunburn? Seems like I have to go to some other part of the city to fully enjoy pongal. I just hope there are atleast a few kite flyers tomorrow to play with.

Safri Duo rock! They are just amazing. Baya baya and Played-a-live are some of the best tracks from them. Listen and you will never forget. Scooter also is a good artist. These 3 trax were on my repeat playlist since evening, and I am still not bored!

Quote of the Day :

Mr. Garrison: Who was in charge of the feminist movement of the early '60's?
Cartman: A bunch of fat old skanks on their periods.
Mr. Garrison: Right. But who was the fattest, oldest skank on her period?

Holiday Schedule

2006-01-12T02:49:00.000+05:30

woohoo! Holidays! no college till monday! I can do something useful now :D.

First off, the website for "Prasad's Infertility Solutions" has to be designed and finished. Choosing a CMS has always been a big problem, typo3 can do everything but its too heavy, too big, too complex for such a small site. Joomla aka Mambo or Drupal may offer whats required, but they are yet to be tested. Its basically static content, but most of the CMSs seem to be conentrating on frontend-users and dynamic content, something like forums. Its difficult to find a webbased CMS on the lines of Macromedia Contribute, of which core functionality is management of static content and one which has some impressive templates. All this has to completed by this weekend, otherwise there may not be sufficient time later.

Coming to Acads, our objective-type internals may start as soon as the holidays end! But still studying in the holidays for just objective type is in any way not useful. Will just end up forgetting everything. Objective questions are volatile, atleast in my brain. As a result academic activities are postponed till the end of the holidays.

Gaming is what keeps me alive. During the time monster was in coma, gaming came to a complete halt. Now monster is up and running and thus quenching the thirst for gaming is the 2nd most important task to be completed in these holidays. NFS Most Wanted will do the job. Already climbed upto 6th position in the blacklist. Its hot, its gonna get hotter, cars at 200MPH look and feel awesome.

Monster seems to be as solid as a rock, no scandisk/chkdsk yet. Its been 4 days, not a single issue. Firefox is till pissing me off with profile corruption issues. Some extention keeps messing up the profile folder. Finding the culprit is a tedious job, I am not gonna do it since backupfox is working great with this issue.

Its Sankranti from tomorrow, Its starts off with bhogi, I guess :D. However it starts or ends, Sankranti aka Pongal is all about Kites! It been 3 yeas since my hands pulled on a tight maanja. Its gonna change this year. Ravindranagar will have a new kite flying pro.

Its 0350hrs and this is the 1st time I have been up so late (Since college started in october). Messing with sleep cycle will have serious after effects, which I don't want to experience. I'm off to sleep! Good Night! and HAPPY SANKRANTHI

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: You have rats in your house, too, Kenny?
Kenny: Mm-hm.
Cartman: Seriously, you better stop being so poor or else I'm gonna start huckin' rocks at you.

Confessions of a Dangerous Mind

2006-01-08T16:11:00.000+05:30

The other day, chatting with Harita for a long 1-1/2hrs, digging into the past, reviewing my sins (yea well.. some consider acquiring bandwidth a sin!), I started thinking about 'me'. For a second I assumed "I am very dangerous" (computers wise). Erm, thats what I felt first, considering what I am capable of. But, thinking deeper I reaized, I am just a n00bie (newbie)! and that there are hundreds of thousands who are 1337er (elite) and millions on the same level as me. I'm such a n00b that I dont even know what the elite are capable of and I never had crimial intentions of any kind. So, in conclusion I am as safe as a firefly :D.

Right now I'm extemely Happy!! guess why! I am writing this post from teh 'monster'!! YES! Its finally awake! Its been 4 weeks since I de-commissioned it. Its still not at its full potential though, only 512megs of RAM (1 gig originally) and 160Gigs HDDs (480gigs stock capacity). I finally can enjoy some kick ass games now. Its been 16hrs since it started and it showed no signs of fatigue, no hardware issues, especially the hard disks. I hope it stays the same till I get a new PSU (SMPS). The problem what I figured out was that the power cables were so fuxed that the hdds turned on and off randomly. But now thanks to Gigabyte, their cables seem to be working fine :).

Just started NFS: Most Wanted, cool game, excellent graphics. Shadows seem pixellated though. The bloom effect, aka Extra bright effect looks really cool. The glare, timeshift, police chases everythign add to the beauty of the game. I am gonna finish it in these holidays!

Have some friends coming over, so have to end it here for now.
And btw, the title has nothin to do with the post, hhmmm wait.. may be it does.. I don know figure it out :P.

Ow! God Damn it!

2006-01-06T22:43:00.000+05:30

I got ripped off!! 250rs down the drain! fking shit! why? I gave my RAM module for repair ( I know its not normal for RAMs to be repaired, but it was a desperate attempt to revive monster) and that guy said it was working and that he replaced some on-off circuit in the module, but when I came back and tested it, it didnt boot the system!! fsck!! I dont understand, it booted on that asshole's computer. Man that guy is so screwed next time I go to CTC! I am gonna get my fucking money back!! God damn it!!!!

/me tries to cool down.. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ......
/me takes a deep breath

Anyway, was reading a friend's blog, here, tis all philosophical, one point got my attention though. It said "One just needs to work in the right direction without caring much about the results". This reminded me of some sloka .. or whatever they call it, which states something on similar lines. I dont understand, why would anybody do something, if it isnt for the results? You prepare for exams to get good marks, you work your ass off to make a perfect model. Well if you dont care about the marks or the model why in the world would you prepare or work like a dog? Yes I argree, one should not worry too much about the results, I guess its all about balance. This is what I posted on his blog, hehe, hope he understands my confusion.

I will write about my principles and thoughts some other day. Today is not the day coz they may be biased.

Leaving philosophy there, lez get back to the g33k stuff. As soon as I came home I read something which made all the saliva in my mouth drip like a leaking muncipal water tanker left open. It was about the QUAD SLI nVidia is working on. Dell showed off their masterpiece at CES 2006 Dell's Quad SLI , 4.26GHz, Dual Core XPS Renegade System. It has 4 7800GTX512s on a 4-way SLI (Scalable Link Interface), HOLY FUCK! That adds up to 2GB of VRAM there itself!!! and they OCed the processor to 4.26 GHZ!!! KICK ASS! This sounds reallllly exciting but coming out of the dream world, real world performance is what matters. When MS moves to DX10 and PS4.0, this will obviously be rendered "outdated", till then atleast this will be the most powerful gaming machine ever made.

Also Intel seems to have everything going their way now, after the huge failure of the prescott line of processors, everyone turned to AMD, but now they got it right with the Core Duo line, ofcourse they are mobile processors but they offer performances on par with the Athlon X2s. I hope Intel comes with some cool new desktop proccies too!. BTW Intel changed their logo! It not "Intel Inside" anymore!!!

It was

but its now

Great! Go Intel Go! :P

PS: I am not a great fan of AMD :P, and I am running out of 'decent' sp quotes, so read them only if you wanna!

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: Damn, shit, respect my fuckin' authority!
Sadaam Hussein: Ahhh!
Cartman: Yes (zaps him)!
Sadaam Hussein: Hey, you need to watch your mouth, brat!
Cartman: Dog shit Taco (Zaps him again)!
Sadaam Hussein: Quick Satan, do something!
Cartman: Try this on for size. Blood-drenched, frozen tampon popsicle!
Sadaam Hussein: Hey buddy, I know I was mean before, but don't worry, I can change!
Cartman: Okay. Not. Fuck, shit, cock, ass, dildo, boner, bitch, pussy, butthole, Barbara Streisand!

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2006-01-05T22:39:00.000+05:30

Woke up late, left home late. (Lucky the bus waits for everyone to arrive, I was the second last one today). Got screwed in EDC exam :(. Was kicked out of the IT workshop coz a classmate forgot to bring my observation book he took 2 weeks ago (Passed all the lab time in the library reading magazines :D). Slept in the Mathematics lecture and wrote programs in C&DS class for the 1st time. Was back in the bus.

Came home, had a cup of tea and left for shopping, ordered for a new washing machine (semi auto), bought SOIL (mud, dirt, watever for the garden) for Rs 30/-!. Got my hair cut and bought a notebook for a math assignment.

Came home, ate, browsed slashdot & 9down, started solving my math assignment, got bored and stopped, started writng this post.

Gonna watch 1-2 eps of southpark and sleep. feeling too sleepy atm.

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: Shut up - you fucking jew!!
Mr. Garrison: Eric, did you just say the 'f word?'
Cartman: Jew??