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Recession

2008-11-30T04:28:00.001-08:00

I was previously based in Milwaukee, WI and now have moved to Singapore and I doubt if I'll be updating this blog any more. I'll try to but my current job is keeping me busy.

Anyways I am glad and happy that i have moved out of US and how i wish if Ron Paul was the president. I am saying this after reading his advisor's book

This is a must read that can give you an insight at the pathetic state US is moving in.

Yin Yang In India

2008-05-03T06:50:00.000-07:00

In India you'd find people building 2 Billion US$ mansions and at the same time those who'd leave every thing just to help the poor. Both stories are pretty interesting and on the opposite side of the coin.

There are some who inherit properties and those who make lives of others easy right from scratch.

Microsoft VISTA - Very Insane System To Address

2008-04-28T10:01:00.000-07:00

Well you may call me mad but I am still running Vista Ultimate on one of my PC. If you ask me it's a good learning experience for me in the sense that I could now realize and understand how big companies can exaggerate and sell steel for the price of platinum.

After almost a year using VISTA and applying Service Pack 1 and other patches on my VISTA box, none of the so many previously mentioned bugs has been fixed. Windows Update can only offer retarded new sound themes (Pearl bla bla), Language packs or Dreamscene videos.

M$ has spent quite a lot of money on R&D but I seriously wonder where all this money goes to? I personally feel that Uncle Sam's Government together would Microsoft would have done a lot better if they would have spent the money in Africa and other poor developing countries. Atleast they would have done little useful.

How not to create installers

2008-04-28T09:46:00.000-07:00

After two years today I re-installed MSN Messenger on my PC (I wanted to give a shot to see how good the new MSN Live Messenger service is as it's been some time and I was hoping to see some improvements especially on the voice quality etc). But G, to my surprise and utter frustration I end up un-installing the crapola from my PC in less than 5 minutes.

Why?

I downloaded the automated web installer which scanned my PC for roughly 5-7 minutes searching for any other Windows LIVE products. Stupid moron windows installer, I want to install MSN Messenger, what is there to do with other live products?, can't you just pick up the path from registry or some friggin config file? Some times I really don't understand why M$ does not go for some feasibility testing

Nokia on fire

2008-04-20T07:51:00.000-07:00

After buying out Trolltech, Nokia is now set to port QT to their new platform named "maemo" (Besides GTK +). I'd happily give away my IPhone (if i have one) for a phone based on such an open and extensible platform. Way to go Nokia, time to chew some apples.

Read more at the announcement

Introducing Orkut Apps

2008-04-17T07:40:00.000-07:00

Today when i logged into my Orkut account I found a link that lead me to Orkut apps. These apps are some what similar to facebook apps and will allow you to share your ideas, emotions and games you like.

These apps are not yet released to the world as whole, but as always is slowly trickled to all the users in batch.

Also don't forget to check out Orkut Apps blogspot page

So do you know how to photochopp?

2008-04-09T08:27:00.000-07:00

Mini FL-Studio using Java and Flash

2008-04-05T09:50:00.000-07:00

Though Hobnox is not as comprehensive and feature rich as FL Studio is, but it's one of the best browser application I have seen that makes use of both Java+Flash and thus allows you to mix some acid trip tunes ...

Check Hobnox

When news is not news - the sad state of Indian news media

2008-04-03T06:57:00.000-07:00

If you have ever been to India and gotten any chance to watch the news on the private channels, chances are that you have already seen the most crappiest news production you could ever get. The quality of news production on most of these private run channels are like watching a movie with the crappiest news content you could see any where on the planet.

The following pictures are the screen grabs of India's STAR NEWS CHANNEL which aired the news when commissioner's dog went absconding. Instead watching these channels may be you should see something useful like seeing a grass grow.

Hands down the best bike ride report I have read

2008-03-31T08:14:00.000-07:00

If you have one hour to spend, then get some popcorns/beer and start reading. This is an awesome post by a bunch of adventurers who biked to Angola. The pics and the write up is just too good to be true. I wish I could something like that.

Do mind some of the pics may be rated NSFW.

China orchestrating tibet riots

2008-03-30T04:29:00.001-07:00

How sick a country can get :(

Read more at buddhism.kalachakranet.org

In Soviet Russia ...

2008-03-29T05:44:00.001-07:00

Acid 3 is worthless says Rob Sayre's from Mozilla

2008-03-28T20:05:00.000-07:00

I was looking over the spreadsheet covering Mozilla’s Acid3 failures, and it struck me that very few of the fixes would substantially improve the Web or the browser. They are bugs and they will be fixed (except maybe SMIL… wtf?), but they don’t impact authors or users at all. Looks mostly like an opportunity for grandstanding about “commitment to standards.” I think testing createNodeIterator while text nodes don’t interoperate is both misguided and hypocritical.

Besides, commitment to standards is strong at Mozilla, where we don’t constantly seek to rubber stamp our own implementation.

Rob Sayre's Mozilla Blog

American Education System

2008-03-24T07:35:00.000-07:00

I don't have anything against Americans, but watching "Are you smarter than a fifth grader" really makes me feel low and disheartened. I have met and worked with some really sharp brains in US but people like those shown on the series really make me feel kick their ass.

Just check out some of the videos on youtube in case if you have not seen any of the episode.

I didn't know there are people who can't do a 2 * 5, tell if a rice is a grain and not a freaking food or tell Canada is north of US border ... come on give me a break

I think any random student from a third world country is much smarter than most of you guys out there on the episode. They deserve a lot from your healthy easy life.

View youtube videos in High-Def

2008-03-15T05:34:00.000-07:00

Yes you can do that and it's made possible using the firefox plugin -> greasmoneky + You Tube H.264 script

Once the script is installed it basically injects the high-def video link below the you tube video.

The before and after after magic after taking the pill

Mozilla releases Prism plugin for Firefox 3

2008-03-08T19:56:00.000-08:00

So what is Prism: The Prism Wiki explains it as:
Prism is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. Prism is based on a concept called Site Specific Browsers (SSB). An SSB is an application with an embedded browser designed to work exclusively with a single web application. It doesn’t have the menus, toolbars and accoutrements of a normal web browser. Some people have called it a "distraction free browser" because none of the typical browser chrome is used. An SSB also has a tighter integration with the OS and desktop than a typical web application running through a web browser.

Once you install the Prism Plugin (which is supported on Firefox 3 only), you'd see a new menu named "Convert Website to application" under tools menu.

Converting your choice of webpage to an application would create a shortcut like, which shows the application is nothing but a firefox rendered offline page.

"I:\Program Files\Minefield\firefox.exe" -app application.ini -override "C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\WebApps\slashdot@prism.app\override.ini" -webapp slashdot@prism.app

And finally when you'd run the application this is what you'll get. In case if the internet is down I suppose you should see the last fetched page

Why Microsoft is evil

2008-02-29T18:21:00.000-08:00

If you have any doubts on Microsoft and their policies you might want to read http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Comes-3096.pdf. This was released in the anti-trust case and some of the comments and presentation point would show you how much Microsoft loves it's loyal fans.

Bad Microsoft, bad

Why I love Swede(s) and their policy

2008-02-25T05:11:00.000-08:00

In short Surf The Channel. Enjoy !!!

Prolly one of the coolest ringtone for your phone

2008-02-07T02:58:00.000-08:00

You guys ought to hear this, it's a high pitch ring tone which would definitely wake up all the bats and dogs around you but still not that disturbing either :p

boomp3.com

KDE port on windows now available

2008-02-04T07:06:00.000-08:00

I have been waiting for this day ever since QT 4.x was made available. Finally a semi-port (some of the features are broken) is now available for you to dirty your hands with ;). Only if Amarok is made available that i'll happily uninstall winamp from my machine.

Obligatory pictures goes here (hotlinking to MrCopilot's blog)

Check out step by step installation guide with shots [HERE]

-> Windows KDE Project <-

Coming Soon...

2008-02-03T01:46:00.000-08:00

Winutuxu - Is it XP?, is it Ubuntu?

2007-12-31T22:00:00.000-08:00

A hacked version of Windows XP with Ubuntu's famous Human theme is making rounds on the internet. It seems it's a cracked copy of the OS with tons of free opensource applications installed on it.

Though I didn't install on my test machine, maybe some one could post more about it.

These are the random pics I found on the internet after searching for it.

WINUTUXU

Cutest Gippsy King Video

2007-12-28T07:34:00.000-08:00

Puny little earthlings

2007-10-01T03:29:00.000-07:00

Store one zigabyte info one 1cl of water

2007-09-09T00:17:00.000-07:00

I couldn't believe when I first read this, but the Institute of Digital Science, japan has come up with new technology which allows to store zerabyte info (do you know how much is that) on a cubic litre of H2O aka water.

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