Laptop that made my computers scream

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

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

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!

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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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??

Busyy!

WoW! This is the busiest I have been since 9-10 months, heavy workload, limited time. Exams, assignments, fruitless attemts to revive monster, driver jobs, new website orders and more.. aaaah!! Driving me crazy, I need a full week off, mostly I'll sync my holiday week with sankranti hols.

Never get a l33t phone laminated! Looks cool but will get on your nerves after week. Pics from teh cam aren't clear, and the screen just looks gay with all the spectrum lines visible coz of the plastic cover. I am just waiting for it to tear off.

iPod Shuffle rocks! Its just toooo simple, no frills, small, sleek, sexy, white, long batt life, 512MiB storage 100+ songs, 5 buttons, 1 on off switch and a headphone jack, hps are clear n loud!
/me hugs Apple.

I'm off to read something for my EDC(Elec devices and ckts) exam tomorrow O:-)

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: Butters will give hand jobs in the corner for a dollar.
Butters: Sure! I'm good at all kinds of jobs.

Flashback (((O)))) {Revolving B&W Spiral}

Yay! the dreaded year has finally come to an end!

Here are my 10 Best moments of the year! chronologically I guess.

1. Celebrating the New years eve (2005) with 50+ relatives and family members.
2. Hacking into the Bio-Tech Department servers for bandwidth.
3. Defeating Attila the Hun in AOC for the 1st time.
4. Tryst 2005
5. Signing up to design the new college website and finishing it.
   
6. Dolly's Birthday
   
7. Completing my J2EE course with a 90% score and developing my 1st ever chat client+server package in Java.
   
8. Receiving GF6800GT from mom's hand
9. 4th day at college :D
   
10. Cult Day at college (prev post)

This may imply a happy year but believe me I had far worse experiences, which I decided to forget and move on.

Comming to my new years "Resolutions", They are not "New year's resolutions" but resolutions I decided upon which happened to co-incide with the new year. "New year's resolutions" are crap :P

1. Be myself, be within my limits, no overclocking or underclocking.
2. No more Bluffing (which may take time coz I have to cover all my previous bluffs :D)
3. Will finish whatever I Start.
4. Will revive MONSTER!!!!! I WILL!!
5. Acads always top priority. (have been following this since 3 months :| not a bluff!)

Thats it! I cant do more than that!

and

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Quote of the day:

Cartman: Hippies.They're everywhere. They wanna save the earth, but all they do is smoke pot and smell bad.

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!

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

Empty stomach, empty wallet, loaded spirit

My trophy for "The Ultimate Challenge".

It was cultural day at college, and it was gooooood, we had way too much fun. Our section dominated the function with 2 skits, 2 songs and 2 solo performances. We had nothing 2 days ago, but somehow came up with all those ideas really fast. We even bought a big bouquet (for an amount that emptied out wallets) and presented it to our class girls. Over all it was an extraordinary day for CSE-B, from Zero to Hero in 2 days! It was a great experience, It was different, no computers/geek stuff/food involved at all!!! (true! we were fasting all day!). BTW my role in the skit was of a junior coming to college for the 1st day. :D

The year is coming to and end, I wonder how the next years gonna be. I am making a list of my best moments this year, gonna post it tomorrow.

Saw Stealth yesterday. It was a good movie till the end, the fly-by scenes sounded really great. But, I didn't undertand one thing, in the ending sequence, the EDI (Super Plane) sacrifices itself just for a gay ass helicopter, not even an attack chopper it could have destroyed that in a msec. Other than that it was an excellent movie. I rate it 8/10. Gonna watch Crash tonight :)

Here are two of my favourite wallpapers.

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: You so much as TOUCH kitty's ass, and I'll put a firecracker in your nutsack and blow your balls all over your pants.
Stan: Jesus, Cartman.
Cartman: Well, I'm just sayn', man, seriously, don't mess with kitty, man.

SIP (Serve in Peace)

Finally.. everything is settled on the lappy :D. /me dances 

Can't think of a title....

1st pic is my XPHome orig CD and the secon pic contains cds of some OSes that I have.

Finally installed XP Prof on the laptop and installed FC4 on VMWare, the Slax I had was on 2.4 kernel so I discarded it.

I'm participating in a lot of events these days, Quiz yesterday, "The Ultimate Challenge" today, and have to direct a skit tomorrow, well not exactly directing but watching, hehe. Quiz sucked for us, we were leadin till the last round just to lose in the rapid fire round. TUC was fun though, tis was easy and we (CSE) won the event. Yay!. erm nvm.

I was bored yesterday and started reading an old newspaper and in it I read something on the lines of "Humanitarian Dacoits". ROFLMAO!. Seems on some intercity bus routes, dacoits loot busses regulary, of them, one gang was kind enough to give every passenger Rs. 100 as emergency charges, after looting them naked (Bwahahahahahaha). Again... Bwahahahahahaha. I have got a nice suggestion for all the folks travelling on those routes (karimnagar I guess), next time you travel take nothing with you, just your clothes, pray that they loot the bus, and when they do, collect the 100Rs for yourself. Travel frequently and you may even become rich by some thousand rupees :D.

Quote of the Day :

Cartman: Naw dude, Independent films are those black and white hippy movies. They're always about gay cowboys eating pudding.