MyXP

White Samsung Galaxy S2

2011-12-23T22:36:00.001+05:30

White Samsung Galaxy S2, a photo by MyXP on Flickr.Via Flickr:My second mobile phone ever next to my first mobile phone ever (Motorola Rokr E6).Adios, my long time amigo. I'll miss you and your little quirks.Hello, SGS2.

uTorrent stuck at 10kBps and with high cpu load

2011-07-03T13:21:00.000+05:30

Struggled with a weird scenario today where uTorrent was consuming ~13%CPU and download speed appeared to be capped at 10 kBps. After eliminating the possibility of ISP throttling (Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic), a uTorrent bug (by updating to latest beta), Windows/driver bug (just by restarting Windows) and HDD corruption (rechecked HDD cables; ran CHKDSK /R), I was left

What's It Made Of

2011-06-28T21:01:00.001+05:30

I am currently preparing a requirements document for a new in-house web-based project. While looking at various similar websites I needed to know what technologies were being used to develop them. My methods: A server's Web Technology is anything from the OS, Web Server, App Server, CDN, etc to the Server's Scripting language, language Framework, CMS, Client-side technologies, etc. Sometimes,

My first BTC!

2011-06-20T21:26:00.001+05:30

My first BitCoin: Mining this took almost a week. A BitCoin exchanges for about 17 USD as of this writing at Mt.Gox. Hopefully, it will clamber back to ~20USD soon. Boring specifics: Software: Phoenix (with Phoenix Rising UI) Hardware: ATI 5970 GPU Mining Pool: BTC Guild

Ad blocked!

2011-05-11T15:54:00.002+05:30

So, I've been working on a project and one of the tasks was to add Advertisement Banner functionality. I used custom php and javascript to create a light-weight Ad display mechanism. The next part of the project was to add an "AD Rotator" which rotates the displayed Ad every few minutes. I wrote this class in a separate javascript file included it in the required pages. I almost marked it as

IMDB enlarge actor pictures on hover - modified

2010-10-25T12:35:00.000+05:30

A greasemonkey script that shows an enlarged version of the actor/actress photos in imdb movie pages. Preview: IMDB enlarge actor pictures on hover - modified

Signs of (Road) Life

2010-09-11T06:39:00.010+05:30

Even along the highways of the not-so-fast Indian road traffic, there can be seen quite a few imaginatively worded signs reminding drivers and riders of the speed limit and some interestingly worded cautions.As an aside, consider why we even have these signs along the highway? I don't contend with the message of these signs but their placement. The only people who are moving slowly enough to read

Enforcing a minimum of one check mark

2009-07-08T17:00:00.006+05:30

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Here's a little code I tossed off recently in the Computer:So, here's how I made sure that at least one check box remains checked in one of my forms. A quick search didn't turn out any vb.net samples for doing this, so here is my version so that I will have a source of copy-paste the next time I google :PPrivate Sub dlgViewImageHistogram_Load(ByVal sender As

Bitmap cloning is not Bitmap cloning

2009-06-29T14:47:00.005+05:30

Almost 7 years ago, I had a pet project called 'PBrush', a small paint program created in VB 6. It was where I experimented with implementing the Undo/Redo features, image processing (emboss/invert/edge-detection, etc) in addition to the standard tools found in MSPaint.I lost the project files when my first RAID-0 array broke and I've forgotten about it since then. (Since then I don't keep my

A bad case of upgraditis with a touch of Nehalem

2009-02-01T21:49:00.000+05:30

The chronic (and costly) disease of upgradeitis has reared its ugly head again. And this time, it's the worst yet. The symptoms were all over the place, I just didn't realize it.The SymptomsIt all started when my mouse finally decided to die on me. The shop-keeper said that my mouse is out of warranty period and there's no way of resurrecting my high-dpi pet. It had pined-for (and reached) the

What is 24 inches, and grows on me?

2008-03-03T13:00:00.003+05:30

...If you guessed that it is my new Dell 2407WFP-HC LCD monitor, you were spot-on. Otherwise, well, I am flattered ;)It's been so long since I last blogged, so let me show you a few thousand words.Here are some shots taken from my Motorola ROKR E6 I was, and still am to an extent, averse to upgrading to an LCD especially mostly because there is not one LCD monitor that can boast of the color

My weird associatives

2007-11-26T17:47:00.000+05:30

It's been so long since I last posted. So here's a short come-back post:I don't know how most people's mind works, so I cannot pretend (but I said it anyway :) ) and say that most of us have trouble with remembering some simple concept but can cope with some relatively complex concept. Try as you might, you may not be able to remember, say, stalagmite and stalagtite. You think you've got it after

More stuffing, please.

2007-02-10T11:06:00.002+05:30

I've been sitting with my head tilted at a weird angle and holding that pose unnaturally still for quite sometime as I listened to some soothing music from my headphones. Some internal connection in one of the ear pads' probably gone loose, as had the connections in the volume control potentiometer along the headphone wire. Any disturbance in my head's attitude would mean erratic connection and

It's a Hard Mod life...

2006-09-03T19:16:00.000+05:30

I recently replaced my ancient Leadtek 6600gt 128MB with a more current Leadtek 7900GT 256MB with more pipeage, frameage and pwanage! Here's the workhorse:The 7900GT is basically an under-volted, and hence underclocked, version of the 7900GTX, with a cost delta of about Rs.12,000. The GTX's core/processor is run at the rated voltage of 1.4v, while the GT is run at 1.2v. Even the Samsung memory

BASSic fun

2006-06-20T03:48:00.000+05:30

My computer desk doesn't really favour anything more than a 2.1 speaker configuration. So when I wanted to dump my sorry sounding Philips Smart Sound LC 2.1 speaker unit, I searched for another 2.1 speaker that was in the right price-to-performance sweet spot. This time, I didn't want to end up with another LC2.1 sound-alike, which turned out to be cheap both in price and quality. But I am over

Spine Yoga?

2006-06-19T22:33:00.000+05:30

I often have dreams that I can remember vividly for a week or two. I started a personal "dream blog" to journal my night time woolgatherings, but I had long since put that idea under wraps. I journaled one of my dreams but mozilla was kind enough to crash before sending the data to blogger and I wasn't going to write everything from scratch. But it was too hard to keep the post reader-friendly

Are these for ever?

2006-06-09T19:07:00.000+05:30

It's tough to come up with a interesting-yet-goofy-sounding name when you are going to talk about bling blings. Ask my mom on how I dislike being encumbered with even the tiniest loop of gold or silver. Though I've favoured wearing a couple "interesting" looking stuff like that copper snake ring and that cool LED-flashing ring sold at an exhibition when I was considerably younger, I just am not

Are you Nina from Carolina?

2006-05-01T21:28:00.001+05:30

I never really liked TV serials which is mostly because I don't watch TV. Somehow somewhere along the way, I stopped watching all TV programs Tamil. Maybe it was all the cheap serials and movies that I chanced upon while fascinated by Discovery and Cartoon channels in English.But all this was when I used to watch TV. But recently, just to while away a few days of boredom, I got all 9 season DVDs

Trepidating Trepanations

2006-04-22T12:23:00.000+05:30

In one of my usual stupors, I was imagining a thriller like plot which went like this:Our main character is a stereotypical middle-aged doctor with amateur interests in subjects likeTrepanation alternative medicine, ancient healing, cults, etc. Today, he is responding to a trauma emergency. Even from afar, the good doctor immediately recognizes the case at hand. His medical friends from

Gamin' music

2006-03-24T13:19:00.000+05:30

Any serious gamer (defined by one who plays most of the years best games) would have atleast one slot in their playlist dedicated to in-game music. Well, atleast I think so since I have quite a few slots dedicated in my mp3 database.All games have intro music. But only a few games have that fabulous intro music that makes you want to leave your computer in the game's main menu screen with your

Internet Boob Tubes

2006-03-15T23:18:00.000+05:30

Besides visiting a country, one can learn a lot about the country's people via their TV programs as you get to see them, their habitat and also get to know their expectations via the programs produced to allure them. Back when 64kbps was broadband (I had 128kbps), someone from a forum directed me to a nice little program called TV.exe. The site, tv.exe.com, promised 100s of free online TV

How hard could it be?

2006-03-09T00:22:00.000+05:30

Imagine that you have a 18px wide by 1px high tileable gradient png/gif. You also have a horizontally centered div holding your content. You want to tile the 1px high image along the vertical length on both sides of your div. I found myself in exactly such a situation only a few days ago. I could've used a large tile, say like a 6000 px by 1 px image and tiled it in the body's background, like

How cool am I?

2006-02-10T22:12:00.000+05:30

Thirty six sea plus sixteen eff plus eleven hech plus fourteen pee plus fifteen yae, the whole divided by four point four. That's precisely how cool I am, it seems.This is not exactly news (and this blog isn't about news), but a few experts at the London Institute of Psychiatry is of the collective opinion that your popularity can be estimated numerically by knowing how your peers rate a few of

Pop goes the cell

2006-01-16T11:45:00.000+05:30

Not being a biology student, I've always only wondered what 'death' was, among other biologyie things. When I was younger, some films show some kind of white plasma flying towards the sky, leaving the lifeless body to symbolize death. The Max Excel fellow also believes in some gas called "praana-vaayu" (which he denied was oxygen) that keeps a man alive and is lost when he is dead. How this gas

XCIDR 2

2006-01-05T12:58:00.000+05:30

This is basically a revision of XCIDR which I elaborated in my previous post. To reiterate, XCIDR is my uncertain brainstorm which aims to increase the IPv4 address space without resorting to IPv6 or it's required 'flag day' shifting of current IPv4 devices/applications.To quickly recap, XCIDR relied on my observation of the first two bits of the subnet mask being unused. These two bits are

XCIDR

2006-01-02T20:23:00.000+05:30

The acronym 'XCIDR' is what I called one of my pet projects that I was toying with when I was at college. Though it has not a lot to do with CIDR, I called it "eXtending the CIDR" to catch the spirit of CIDR's effect on the IPv4 address space. XCIDR aims at irrupting the address space of IPv4. XCIDR aims to increase the IPv4 address space atleast by a factor of 2, and at the most by a factor of 4

Rise and Snooze.

2005-12-24T17:45:00.001+05:30

I recently installed 3D Studio Max 8 and wanted to test drive the new version of Mental Ray renderer. It's supposed to produce better quality renders even with a low samples setting (compared to the previous versions), and faster. So I took my Bedroom scene, which I call "Rise and Snooze" just to explain away the young lady's laziness, and tried my rusty rendering skills on it. For the renderer,

Semper fi? Don't think so.

2005-12-11T17:08:00.000+05:30

I had high hopes for Doom the movie when it was announced almost an year ago. Sure, the cast was only mediocre (except for The Rock, of course), and so far no video-game-to-movie movies were effective in acheiving their intention. But this is *Doom*. How can anyone mess up? So, my expectation for this film was quite high. I had kept away from spoilers for this movie, and the only spoil I heard

WTF - Event 2

2005-12-01T14:11:00.000+05:30

Well it seems that my problem may be caused by Tune up utilities 2006. It was probably messing some registry value, which I found the hard way. And since Windows is a tangle of inter-dependencies at the level of the (badly designed) monolithic kernel, it became inexplicably crippled. But since I wasn't wise about the TuneUp Utilities causing trouble, I installed the software again after Event 1

May you live in interesting times.

2005-11-25T19:24:00.000+05:30

Nicolas Copernicus had shown that our home planet, the Earth, is not at the centre of the solar system, but rather a relatively small planet, lost among ranks of a sundry group. Any hope of the concept of 'speciality of human race' (anthropocentricism) that remained among certain fanatical philosophers, was constantly put under stress as facts like our earth not being at the centre of our galaxy,

Dear Suse,

2005-11-14T02:05:00.000+05:30

A week ago, I went to ConneXions, Annanagar to buy some interesting book and other miscellany (including a cool mouse pad, whose review will follow). I noticed that Suse 10.0 OSS version dvd was bundled along with the November issue of Linux For You magazine. Since this was during my XP formatathon, I purchased it to try it out.I installed it in some 8GB of unpartitioned space I had. I don't

Charles Darwin in Chennai?

2005-11-13T21:23:00.000+05:30

Annanagar Talk, a local news paper, reported that on Nov 14, the great-great-grand daughter of, none other than, Charles Dariwin himself was going to do a book reading session here in Chennai. And specifically, in Annanagar, my neighbourhood! She was also supposed to have an interactive session after the event.In all my excitment, I forgot to glimpse at the title of the book she was to read out.

Windows Themed Format-athon (WTF?)

2005-11-10T20:59:00.000+05:30

When you get a BSOD immediately after login, you know you messed up with some startup service or file. You also know that long and dreary nights of non-fun filled activities involving smuggling your precious data files away from Windows' reaches, formatting and reformating, lie ahead.Of course, one should not ignore the fact that Windows normally does not act abnormal without due provocation. But

The input animal.

2005-11-02T20:33:00.000+05:30

My usually white Microsoft Internet keyboard was looking a bit dark, being toned-down by layers of dust and oil (courtesy, my hyper-active sebaceous glands). Since I've been looking forward to rid my keyboard of 'keyboard dandruff' for sometime anyway, I got a screwdriver, some soap water in a mug and some shaggedy old rags for the clean up. After painstakingly removing all the keys, I washed

Why ladies need us men? ;)

2005-10-31T04:59:00.000+05:30

The idea of Evolution as a more logical answer to how we came to be, was very interesting to me. It was so interesting that it acted as a catalyst for my conversion to Atheism. But there were more than a couple of questions that the antagonists of evolution asked for which I wasn't able to find the answer to. One of the most interesting one as well as the one that stumped me for a long time was

Overclocker Anonymous

2005-10-26T17:30:00.000+05:30

"Hi, I am Anand kumar. I am an overclocker."With the recent purchase of a Winchester core AMD64 3200+, I was impatient to learn the patient art of OverClocking your PC to the limit. After desperate brute force attacks on the various clock-related options via an utility, I was able to push the clock speed past the default clock to 2220MHz. This I acheieved by just increasing the core clock from

Of Meh, Meep and Bleh.

2005-10-09T20:20:00.000+05:30

I am a great fan of bash.org and lately I am coming across a few foreign looking exclamations that seemed to be some kind of ultra-cliche among the IRCers and in the blogosphere. So I set out to find out about them but had difficulty googling them out because all occurences of these words were of their authors using them coversationally casually. So here's a small list with their possible meaning

Roaming memory

2005-09-08T20:38:00.000+05:30

It somehow and "somewhen"struck me to use the Internet as a storage medium when i first heard of the hop-by-hop translation of an Internet packet. I suppose that I supposed that I would just send my file into the Internet and make it hop around continously between the routers until such time when I needed that data, at which time I would just sorta "call'em home". It seemed simple and great.

The Spiro collection - Making of

2005-08-12T21:45:00.000+05:30

It's in no way a perfect render, but this was the 3d scene that I was referring to in my Zone post. This set was modeled by me which I did so by referring to this real world collection here. The collection consists of a Spiro Bar Stool, a Bistro (italian for pub) Table and a Spiro Tea cart. Found this one after googling for table sets images and loved the simple elegance.I posted a small tutorial

In da Zone.

2005-08-12T06:01:00.000+05:30

I always lock myself in my room with my computer and very rarely go to that big room called "Outside", you know, the one with a very bright yellow-white bulb and lotsa concrete structures. (Infact, I must be the only kid in my friend circle who had the honour of his parents asking hopelessly to "go roam the streets"). Though I've started to go to a local Gym for some time now, I usually release

A simple matter of Evolution.

2005-08-10T23:58:00.000+05:30

Someone sent me this above picture among others for me to get a few laughs. Unfortunately, I couldn't decisively conclude on the author's message. So I let my right-brain run amuck and came up with a few good candidates for the author's intention. Here are some that I can come up with:I guess this one's talking about stature of the depicted person (coz I don't believe that everyone's using

How would you like your probablities? Relative or absolute?

2005-08-05T03:58:00.000+05:30

After my previous post on quantum theory idea, I went through a lot of emotions: 'uncertain', 'kinda stupid', 'I-shouldn't-have-posted-this', sleepy, and then 'hmmm-there-could-be-something-in-this..' and then 'whatever'.But I didn't know if whether I am correct or not. So take this with a grain of salt (and pepper too, really, it's ur call).It's a very simple and small thing, which is why

Consoling the PC.

2005-06-28T16:06:00.000+05:30

Given a choice between PC and a console, I would definitely go for the PC (first). I can do all sorts of things with a PC than I could with a console, I would say. But I may say something different with the XBox 2 and PS3 in the horizon.I won't go into the spec details of them black and white boxes. It's old news. To convert to the console religion would, of course, require there be support for

To Smoke or to Smoke

2005-05-21T14:27:00.000+05:30

Nah, I am not missing a "not" in the title of the post. This post is about the two huge ideas that went from smoke to smoke. Here's what happened:After quite a bit of ramblin' over the topic for THE project that we are supposed to do at the end of under-graduate degree, we finally had come at a fork in the road.The "we" was made of THE TWO guys of IT department in my college plus me. Sure, you

Drink your own spiddle!

2005-05-10T17:07:00.000+05:30

It's always annoying when someone drinks water off of a glass(or silver) tumbler and not drink the entire contents. I always find this puddle of spit ridden water at the bottom of the glasses kinda disgusting and always(mostly/sometimes) get rid of that water and then rinse it before drinking off that glass.It's been quite a while I've been doing this but today it suddenly it hit me that there

"Be 100% sure"

2005-05-08T11:22:00.000+05:30

Those were the words that would stare at me whenever I come out of the bath room after a ponderous bath. The words were part of a dettol liquid soap bottle, left unused for ....quite some time. So on my birthday, which keeps getting more uneventful every year that it surprises me, I finally took the dettol liquid soap...thingy (hereafter called "squeezy") to my room and "studied" a bit closely. (

Quantum theory + NURBS curves + P2P.

2005-03-02T19:24:00.001+05:30

I was hallucinating while sitting there on the bed and a few thoughts crossed my mind in a flash. And luckily, I was able to remember them quite vivdly too. Actually, these were the questions I was toying with for quite some time.So on with the questions:1. We know that the data from a wave file can be represented in the form of waves, which in turn can be represented mathematically. The

All your cable modems combined, I am Captain Pirate!

2005-01-29T23:57:00.000+05:30

I read this interesting article and this one on music during one of my quests into the world wide web. That article reflects what I had already thought could be the case with P2P and file sharing but which I dismissed as too radical a view on the issue. Besides, being on the other side of the law, I thought maybe I am a little too biased for the topic. But now I can rest easier knowing this view

BitTorrent, the slayer.

2005-01-06T05:42:00.000+05:30

The first time I heard of bittorrent, some unthinkable months ago, I was grinning so broadly my grinning muscles hurt. It was as if some mythical demon that was unslayable, was slain magically by the words that I was reading. How rude of me! Let me introduce that demon to you. Meet Dm.Redundant Packets (Dm = Demon ;)) Mr. Redundant Packets was a mythical kind since he was a demon only in my head.

Think you know about bootlegging?

2005-01-04T21:25:00.000+05:30

Hell, even I thought bootlegging (pirating) was just buying a cd and sharing its rip. But this article from Wired blew my mind. Here are a few excerpts: "In reality, the number of files on the Net ripped from store-bought CDs, DVDs, and videogames is statistically negligible. People don't share what they buy; they share what is already being shared - the countless descendants of a single "Adam

Real speeds and download caps.

2004-12-12T13:45:00.000+05:30

In my previous post comment, Sushubh said... unfortunately sify broadband. the only other option i have in my area is dialup or gprs (max 40kbps). as for limits i believe airtel is giving 128kbps unlimited for 900-1000 bucks... isn't it true? Of the evils choose the least, eh? Yes, touchtel's (airtel) does offer unlimited 128kbps for Rs.900, but the problem with airtel's is that its 128kbps

BB hunting

2004-12-04T03:00:00.001+05:30

This is December. The time of the year when the semester exams get over and serious gaming days begin. It's also the time of the year when offers from Internet providers are coming! So to the BroadBand providers, "Let the competitions begin!"Since I am changing residence, I figured this would be the best time to change my internet connection as well (yea, not the best logic in the world).I am

Bashed :(

2004-11-06T22:32:00.003+05:30

I've been doing a lot of bashing around these days. Hardly a week passes before I read atleast a hundred quotes. Though I don't like the profanities, I like the humour in those quotes. The metaphorical devil in my idle mind spews out a lot of sarcasms and jokes from time to time, and what's a bit unnerving is that they seem to have mutated lately to follow the chat format. And, of late, with a

Home Raider!

2004-11-06T22:32:00.001+05:30

I am a sort of movie watcher that asks for original DVDs or VCDs whenever I rent movies. And I am also the kind that mostly watches those movies that are critically acclaimed in the Internet Movie Database and saves those movies onto my harddisk for viewing it till I am satisfied (read: bored) with it and have proudly screened them to my family. I guess I am the kind of user that's truly one of a

What kind of blogger are you?

2004-11-06T22:32:00.000+05:30

If you say so! You Are a Pundit Blogger! Your blog is smart, insightful, and always a quality read. Truly appreciated by many, surpassed by only a few. What kind of blogger are you? Found the above site from this blog. The blog looked cool, but was a bit (too) profane. While the above may not be an exact description of my blog , it might be *ahem*very*ahem* close.

What is the science behind barbie and other crazy stuff

2004-10-29T17:57:00.000+05:30

Just how cuckoo can a research topic for a paper be? The answer is that it can be really very much indeed. Here are a few of the research paper topics that I found in a magazine that tries to turn science upside down: Research topic1: Do too many cooks spoil the broth? Questioning the proverb! Reasearch topic 2: Why Barbie is perceived as beautiful? Barbie ain't human! Research topic3:

SP2 me!

2004-10-28T17:57:00.000+05:30

I've got it! It's awesome getting something free via airmail from microsoft! (though, i understand that the cd was distributed from "Navi Mumbai"). BTW, that got me thinking. Why wud microsoft send free cds worth Rs.100 for EVERYONE? My theory is that, microsoft don't want any windows owner, even if he is running a pirated version of windows, to get a sp2-less vulnerablity. I guess most of the

Really Frightening Codes (RFC)

2004-10-28T02:52:00.000+05:30

How did RFC become Really Frightening Codes? A few days ago, my fellow blogger, sriram mailed me the regular expression for finding out the validity of email addresses. Then I began reading the underlying RFC and this is what I learnt from it: "There's always the easy way and the hard way. And, unfortunately, it seems that the hardest way is always the most correct way too. Almost always"

Mobile phone rant

2004-10-25T16:09:00.000+05:30

"Mobile phones. They are everywhere. So many brands, so many service providers, so many offers, so many new services... Isn't it becoming a bit of over-crowded with moblie phones in here?", you might ask. Yes, it is. Infact, the number of mobile phones is currently more than the number of wired phones and then some. And they all use the the same spectrum of radio waves alloted for cellular

2005's Blockbuster revealed!

2004-10-22T16:09:00.000+05:30

Which game made you run with dread in your eyes, from one dark corridor to another while never letting go of the trigger? (and most often never making it there alive:) Which game made you cringe into the shadows for 10 minutes before you calmed youself down before you entered another dark corridor? Which game made you swear for the amount of adrenaline it required for you to play it? Which

The AABBA teens?

2004-10-16T13:08:00.000+05:30

Question: How can you make remember a word easily? The Answer is what the rest of the post is all about. In my 14'eens or 15'eens, I joined a program named "Max Excel". It was an improve-everything-about-you-but-your-looks program. They promised (and it did work, I should say, for some people) to improve your memory to Guinness levels, improve your handwriting enough that you wouldn't need to

System Idle Process.

2004-10-11T20:07:00.000+05:30

Heh. This is one of those random thoughts which I argue with myself in the backof my head while I am coding or doing something important. It was like, "What do you think is the difference between solving problems in maths in your lower classses and solving problems after you graduate?" I ask myself. And snap came the reply, like: "Heh heh, that's simple. When you solve some problem in maths

Marine, go frag that penguin!

2004-10-06T22:35:00.000+05:30

The linux version of Doom 3 has been released yesterday alongside a free demo. But if you are not a serious-playful penguin, then the latest demo might be something that you might want to try out atleast, that is if you can download the 460 MB binary. Oh and don't bother if you pwn an ATi card. "ATi drivers are not supported yet. New drivers are being developed ASAP at ATi" Nuff said. A great

This means war!

2004-10-03T13:41:00.000+05:30

Originally recruited by the military to create a War Simulator for the then covert operation of training the soldiers about MOUT combat even in their vacation, Pandemic's Full Spectrum Warriors is a true war-time simulator. In short, FSW is a no-relation-with-Hollywood game. Infact, a look at the trailer would change your ming about Half life 2 being the king of all games. MOUT, or Military

What's your ISP's capacity?

2004-09-24T21:58:00.001+05:30

How do you find out the maximum number of clients that your ISP can handle? Simple. A bit difficult actually. Okay, it is tough, because I've been doing a lot of research to find it out. But nonetheless, the actual process is straight forward. 1. Ok. You start by finding out your IP address. If you lead a normal life, then going to "Command Prompt" and typing "ipconfig" in a windows box ("

ATi XP

2004-09-24T21:58:00.000+05:30

I felt like the coolest kid in the block....No wait, in the country, maybe. All the low scores in the tests are not going to keep me down. Infact, now nothing mattered than waiting for my mére to come to India. For the few weeks before my mother's arrival, I was walking on air. I was ranting to anyone and everyone that stopped by to talk to me about this preciousss...my precciousss... It all

Parallax Error

2004-09-21T01:05:00.000+05:30

Want to play a 3D game of an entirely new sort? Try solving this maze. "Why would that be new?", I hear you say. Simple. The maze can be seen only by people with cross-eyes or at least pretending to have one. I am talking about those ever-fascinating "Stereograms". The first time I was intoduced to one of those was when I was in fifth or sixth grade. I was presented with one in a Rotary Club

Our Favourite Gnome is now 2.8'' tall!

2004-09-14T22:23:00.003+05:30

Gnome 2.8 just got released. Though KDE has very good Taskbar and a okay looking file explorer, I like Gnome for its elegance and its "just works" attitude at providing simplicity. Gnome has grown from 2.6 to 2.8, but what treats has it to share with us? According to the developers, Gnome 2.8 has an improved device detection for auto-plug devices and improved network functions. Sriram will need

The Geek sees light, almost.

2004-09-14T22:23:00.001+05:30

Sriram was clever enough to get a temporary cathode-based-visual-computer-interface thing, in non-geek terms: a monitor, from the repair guys while they operate on his dead cathode-based-visual-computer-interface thing. So, the story ends there. The geek will never be back to his human form. Ever. Even today I saw him lying on his desk while the classes were going on. "There goes the geek again

Dance of the Monkey Boy.

2004-09-14T22:23:00.000+05:30

Guess who you will find in the link below and get the monkey boy for free!!! In there, you will also find the Monkey Boy, nicknamed Stevo by some weird coincidence, in his very own music video! Don't miss the chance! Step right in folks! http://www.ntk.net/ballmer/mirrors.html

Welcome to the zoo

2004-09-13T13:43:00.000+05:30

Cougar Panther Jaguar BobCat Tiger Coyote Cayman Falcon ........ More Microsoft codenames here: http://bink.nu/Default.aspx?tabindex=3&tabid=8

Door Knocking

2004-09-12T19:47:00.000+05:30

Bob : ...Knock, Knock. Alice: Who's there? Bob: Port 2000, Port 14979, Port 56743, Port 1984. Alice: Well come on in! Most of the geeks would have got the clue from the characters' name (Alice, Bob) that it somehow relates to security. And a few of the up2date geeks would have known instantly that I was talking about "Port Knocking". Thus the name of the blog, where "Port" in french means "Door"

The Animal Connection

2004-09-11T01:33:00.000+05:30

Ya know, people have been pretty successful in bringing in animal societies into software architectures. Stuff like social networks, security algos, fault tolerance and plenty more have been modeled after animals. The latest i heard was a project called "Ant" which imitates an Ant's way of looking for food into the p2p world. This is supposed to reduce risks of RIAA or MPAA following/tracing you.

Geek gone blind.

2004-09-08T23:48:00.002+05:30

Today, my "big" friend, college geek and Microsoft luna..er..fanatic was in very bad shape. No not talking about his fat deposits. Let me clue ya. He read the textbook for today's unit test, he wrote his test well, he looked fresh for all the 8 periods, he didn't sleep on the desk,... Certainly, something was wrong with him today. The answer didn't need any questions to be asked. He was

Hello world!

2004-09-08T23:48:00.001+05:30

Just like any geek wannabe, i start this with a Hello World stuff. Hi blog. I am new here. I will try to talk to you whenever i allow myself. It will always about me and myself, though i might refernce someone sometime too.I am usually laconic when talking, though you can expect me to be wordy online. I will treat you with respect and like a peer (not the English peer).This is not for others to

Hot Fanta anyone?

2004-09-08T23:48:00.000+05:30

This uncool thing was forced on me one dreary day...I went to ssn engg college to attend their IT symposium, Rezzitech. This, i suppose is the third and final time that i attend this symposium. Participated in all but Paper presentation. Though I couldn't participate because our paper was not selected at the last moment, i wish the paper was chosen. I could have practised presenting the paper