Catch 22?

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Bundle all available browsers with the windows installation.
4. 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

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

Beat this!! lol!!

Mad Mosley

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!

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

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

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...

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

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







And my new Desktop :D

Looping into darkness

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

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Soutparkish

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

Flowers by ~tHeSiD on deviantART

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

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

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

Captcha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

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

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 !!