VELUSBITS

2008-05-09T18:50:00.007+05:30

Wat'z Clouding the Computers ?

2007-11-01T23:00:00.000+05:30

SQL EXPRESS on VISTA

If you have installed an SQL express on vista and try to explore the SQL server with Management studio it doesn't open up, does it?

Why ?
During installation login accounts are created and by default the account from which the installation is performed is a part of the 'BUILTIN\Administrators' group. While in Vista coz of the UAC changes it gets added only to the 'BUILTIN\Users' groups, which essentially gives you a narrow scope of control that barely allows one to just connect to the server period curbing one to perform the basic admin acts like creation of a db.

What to do ?
Open Management Studio in Administrator mode.
Create a new login for the desired user with admin rights

Hope MS folks fix this at least in the next SP.

2007-10-07T22:26:00.000+05:30

Zoom'ng the futuristic Sony Vaio

Vaio Zoom casts itself into a pair of transparent glass plate and a completely opaque slate when turned off, it works on a holographic technology.

2007-09-16T23:01:00.000+05:30

1-2-3 main( ) windows annoyances :

DLL hell

Almost all the windows applications are dependent on some DLLs and its very common that a DLLs is associated with more than one application.As the development is going on concurrently the DLL file is now replaced with a newer version and there is no guarentee that it is backward compatibile which would result in breaking the functionality of the other vendor applications.

Windows complex software install process

A software installation in windows involves copying several files into the directory, sometimes into though highly discouraged, updating entries in registry, putting shorcuts on start menu, desktop etc. Now again the user prefrences are stored in the registry/ folder which makes the application movement to an another host a cumbersome process. This also makes the clean uninstallation of the application usually not possible.

Securtiy
A windows system is generally unsafe, in that a third party vendor application can silently access system critical resources / perform some operations like deleting the files, sending emails and so forth. Sytem must track such [The uninvited BSOD] activites and prompt the user if the operation is valid.(I'm quite satisfied with the Vista behavior on this)

2007-09-09T22:27:00.000+05:30

Web Maps

The Web Trend Map 2007 : this awesome, cool map was drawn by IA [source:InformationArchitects].

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Here is yet another interesting version of the map which represents the website traffic based on the surface area of the country[source:Explomap].

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2007-06-16T10:25:00.000+05:30

A Dropout's Speech at the Graduation Day

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more
creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more
people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are
suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the
world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the
people who pay the taxes.

An epitome of capitalism himself urges pl to work on reducing geneder inequality. Read Gates speech at Harvard Grad day

2007-06-14T14:08:00.000+05:30

Safari Safari Safari : So far from the Windows ecosystem

(Safari crashed when I tried to report a bug)

While skimming through the Google news page, I was a bit puzzled to see the headline
Jobs has unveiled "Safari3 beta" yesterday for the windows and Mac flavors.

I was looking forward to check out the browser myself , well I succeeded downloading and installing the Safari browser easily without any bumps. As ever I opened a new tab to load Google ,the first thing I observed was that the font rendering was very thick and blurry.

Reporting a bug seemed quite easy and quick with the cool "bug" button the toolbar, perhaps they are themselves weren't quite sure about the quality.Then I went on opening a few pages (from:MSDN to:youtube) before I could realize the strength of the "safari.exe" process.It almost consumed 3/4 times more memory than Opera and grabbed 80% of my CPU resources while Opera still used only 5% for the load.

Apple claims that it is 2 times faster than IE and 1.6 times faster than FireFox, but the numbers against Opera weren't released yet? this testifies Opera as the fastest browser(forgive me FF attics).It is far behind Opera,FireFox and IE in feature offering (themes, widgets, speed dial, keyboard shortcuts, activeX support, lack of windows protocol support like minimizing, //stability// so on and forth).

Safari for windows has been my worst browser so far, with 3 crashes and the crux is that the browser crashed once when tried reporting a bug

Faulting application safari.exe, version 3.522.11.3, faulting module Safari.exe, version 3.522.11.3, fault address 0x000c2492.
For more information,
see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

These nasty bugs reveal that the just ported browser which not even qualifies to be a alpha release .Its just a piece of compiled code for windows platform, I ever wonder how the word "beta" means to different companies *with Google strengthening it and rest of the world (MS & Apple) diluting it*. From what I have read, there are several security flaws 4 DoS bugs and 2 remote execution vulnerabilities more details here

Finally Safari has shown its presence on windows with numerous flaws, if Safari is released with all these bugs unfixed then people have to whine.

2007-04-30T18:00:00.000+05:30

K-FEDERATED

The Dancer , Model n Musician now emerges as a search engine guru

2007-04-18T00:10:00.000+05:30

Sick of Paying for TV subscriptions ?

Riodiroll (Beta) - a noval approch in the TV viewing.

It mallocs( [in] me) pleasure in introducing Riodiroll my new FREE Television transmission project.I firmly believe Riodiroll will be a breakthrough product, particularly for those TV'holics like me.Once of the beta user comments "The most freaking awesome thing to happen to television since color."

Why Riodiroll ?
* Free, fast and highly reliable

* Easy to install -- takes just minutes

* Fully Functional end - end system provided by online ad support

How it works ?

Riodiroll provides ad-supported television via api mashups
-The bare minimal requirement for this system is any internet connected device with a fairly good display unit.

-Users are required to install the Riodiroll software (no fears !! it does not harm the system ) and configure it which just needs a few mouse clicks or keyboard hits.

- The application can be started an it provides a virtual television with all capabilites including the recording and customizition which Tivo provides.

- All online channels are available for viewing with user localization one can flip the languages in seconds.

- There are constant no disturbing advertisement flowing across one part of the screen which is custom sizable by the user and the categories are user selectable.

Riodiroll a serious arch-nemy to Dish Tv, Tivo and will be available for the public in the mid of 2007. Currently Windows Vista / Win CE and Ubuntu are the supported platforms and I've got a big road map for the future too..

Excited !! Soundzz Interesting ? don't be , this was all the output of my think factory after finding the name "Riodiroll" from the Andrew Woolridge's Web 2.0 Company Name Generator.

Also sooooome Web2.0 links you can play with:

Bullshit Generator™
Web 2.0 V2 Logo Creatr
Name Generator
Buzzphrase generator

2007-04-12T22:38:00.000+05:30

If Google asks you to take a long swim

When googled the directions from stuttgart to Portland,Google suggests one to take a 29 days swin across the Atlantic ocean.

checkout the 34th direction

2007-03-07T19:23:00.000+05:30

SCIENCE SLAYED

9 LAWs of physics redefined

2007-03-03T15:55:00.000+05:30

why do you do what you do?

mon réponse

2006-10-23T11:11:00.000+05:30

It has come to my notice ...

the world's first web server

2006-10-17T23:14:00.001+05:30

Janina z searching for you ...

She intelligent, proactive and hot.

Go here and type in something or leave it blank and watch.

Intersting searches :

Your phone number
your are hot
nude (She would say: If you can get in your computer, you can do anything you want to me.)
eminem (she will start cursing you)
Janina
....

2006-10-12T19:00:00.000+05:30

Airtel Charged for: " Selling photons "

OFC operates on light energy, which is artificially created by the OFC providers and sold to customers for the purpose of data transmission and information, on the OFC broadband line. Without such energy, data or information cannot be transmitted.

Whoever sells light energy is liable to pay VAT as it comes under the category of goods, and hence its sale constitutes taxable turnover attracting VAT at 12.5 per cent

[NEWS:Hindu]

This is ridiculous !!! even the cu is also resending the data back so it's no more a unidirectional transfer,ideally the ISP is giving the light and getting it back.

It being a Value added tax , to be precise only the diffnl 1's (not all 1's) should be taxed and at any rate , 0's should never be charged.

2006-10-11T19:15:00.000+05:30

The all new Google Code Search

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This will make it easier for developers to search source code directly and dig up open source tools they may not have known about

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Attackers could also search code for vulnerabilities in password mechanisms, or to search for phrases within software such as "this file contains proprietary," possibly unearthing source code that should never have been posted to the Internet.

[Source:http://www.networkworld.com/news/2006/100606-hackers-find-use-for-google.html]

2006-10-08T01:11:00.000+05:30

BSOD'ed

Somebody pls help !!!

2006-09-27T11:17:00.000+05:30

Global Temperature
reaches its highest point today 26 th Sept

The world is the warmest it has been in the last 12,000 years as a result of rapid warming

2006-09-20T20:19:00.000+05:30

Google Maps in Orkut

A WoW feature on orkut

2006-09-01T20:13:00.000+05:30

A Litmus change in Optical Storage

The optical storage industry is transitioning from lower density red lasers to higher density blue lasers.New blue laser advantage of the shorter wavelength offered by blue lasers to dramatically increase media capacity.

Blurays use 405 nm laser, while DVDs use a 650-nm-wavelength red laser and CD's 780 nm.
With the TDK releasing its 200GB today Blu-ray Disc has added another weapon to the optical storage segment.

As an archive technology, though an optical storage has faster access times than tape and is cheaper than magnetic disk and being cheaper it has failed to conquer the professional environment ,rulez only the entertainment martket (audio,video,game).
There is a long way for the discs to catch up the disks !!!

2006-08-30T19:24:00.000+05:30

My hands upon , Circular list of desires

Circular list of desires in which you start with an aim, search for it on 43things.com, go to its page, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the goal written with the biggest font. Repeat the process until you get duplicate goals. This way, you'll create a list of related random goals - that leads to success.

Happy life(Starting Goal)
stop procrastinating
write a book
Swim with dolphins
Save money
Have a baby
Spend less time fooling around on the net and more time actually working
decide what the hell I would like to do with the rest of my life
Buy a House
meet new people
eat healthier
be more social
Get organized
Practice Yoga
be more confident
get married
work because I like to, not because I have to
drink more water
Learn to play the piano
get married

Is this the solution for a happy life ?? !!!

Game creator : Ionut

2006-08-30T18:45:00.000+05:30

YARD(Yet Another Remarkable Day)

Aug 20 , was the day we hosted a micro level House warming party @ Secret Gateway.
We started the day wtih a cermonal Pooja/homas for all the planets and all Hindu gods.I wonder if the SolarSytem is redefined and will there be a configuration/modus operadi change ?

Update:
BWPWAP, I wrote this post

2006-08-27T19:04:00.000+05:30

SMELLED SICK !!

I was totally sick last week like a little bunny .
Was hosting for some homeless snot.
Tip: Unblock nose

2006-08-27T18:27:00.000+05:30

Top 10 : Crazy USB Gadgets


These are the most useless USB gadget viewed during 2005. Top 10 selected by ICTblog. Crazy and silliest geek stuff.

2006-08-18T12:35:00.000+05:30

Most Adventurous dayout: Ramnagar

I'm back ,you might not realise the gravity of the word "back" ...
Was on one of the most adventurous trekking track on the planet last week.It is place that has good mix of all kind of geography : the rock,the river,the forest. It was a totally different experinence that's all I would say.
Sometimes I struggle during nites sans sleep, casting the role of a diurnal mamal.In this mood I generally start reading any book which my hand grabs from a tiny bookshelf On one such nite , I was reading world is flat by Thomas Friedman.
He impressively puts the factors that paved the way for this flatter world and this Globalisation ver3.0 some intresting factors are Fall of the Berlin Wall , Open sourcing- which means people are no longer the consumers of information , gradually they start contributing to the improvement of the product .This also includes blogging to wikipedia.In & out sourcing : It was really surprising to learn that UPS a Parcel company performs half a dozen of other worksapart from its core parcel service.From Toshiba to HP by taking small companies global and co-work with bigger companies to sync their sevice.
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