Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows

If you are here to download the leaked book.........sorry to disappoint you. You are in the wrong place at the right time. The books hasn't been leaked out yet. The book passing on around the internet is just a fake one. Most are fakes actually.

Theres only one which actually lived up to the expectations. the writing style is strikingly similar to J.K.Rowling. But if you are an intense reader you will immediately notice it. But I must admit that the writer has got great writing style and I hope she continues writing where Rowling leaves it off. After reading the book, one has to say that it is credible as the seventh and final book in the Harry Potter series for several reasons. Rowling has said that the last word in the book is “scar.” The last word in this book is “scar.”

Anyway, the fake story isn't entirely fake. It is a piece of fan fiction originally entitled The Seventh Horcrux by an author who identifies herself only as Melindaleo. Exquisitely done fan fiction, intricately plotted and deftly executed, but fan fiction nonetheless. It was originally published by Phoenixsong.net and can still be found there. The thing is, this book has been plagiarized and is being passed around as the seventh book. Even the site shows a disclaimer telling this.

Here is a review I found by Thomas Anthony Longo. But since I didnt find it in a site rather in a torrent .txt file I decided to copy it out here.

The book begins as Harry goes back to Privet Drive for the last time. He is joined by Ron and Hermione as they prepare to go on their quest to find the remaining Horcruxes that contain the bits of Lord Voldemort’s soul. If they can destroy the Horcruxes, then they can kill Voldemort. Harry is not happy about going back to Privet Drive, but he promised Dumbledore that he would before his headmaster was murdered. Imagine Harry’s surprise to find out that Dudley has been kicked out of school because he has been manifesting magical events. Yes, Dudley Dursley is a wizard. His Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia are distraught over it, and make the trio promise to help make Dudley his old self. They keep this promise before heading off to the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.

Once they arrive at Grimauld Place, there is a great deal of celebration, tempered by thoughts of the future. Harry is reunited with Ginny Weasly, and with Ron and Hermione. It is clear from the nature of the relationship between the four that love is blooming. Things become a bit more muddled when they find that Headquarters is hosting Draco Malfoy and his mother in sanctuary and that Hogwarts will not open for the year. There is little to do but follow through on Dumbledore’s plan to find and destroy Tom Riddle’s Horcruxes. Together, they ignore the strictures of the Order and set off on a journey to find the missing Horcruxes. Even the Order is kept from knowing of the existence of the Horcruxes, and the four teens take the quest on their own shoulders. They travel to London, Albania, and all over the British Isles in their quest. Only when Harry visits the place where his parents were murdered and encounters Peter Pettigrew, better known as Wormtail, does he learn that he himself is the seventh Horcrux, invested with a bit of Voldemort’s soul at the time his mother was murdered by the Dark Lord. As Harry realizes that he will have to die to dispose of Voldemort once and for all, his relationship with Ginny takes on new urgency, and he is beset with uncertainty. His hardest battle is learning to rely on his friends instead of trying to do everything himself. He does learn, though, as the four find and destroy the last three Horcruxes of the Dark Lord. One, a cup owned by Helga Hufflepuff, another, a locket stolen by Regulus Black and kept with the belongings of Mundungus Fletcher in Azkaban Prison, and the last, the tiara of Rowena Ravenclaw, hidden in an frosty ice palace in the forbidden forest. During these trials, Harry and his friends face a dragon, a giant spider, more dementors, and a host of Death Eaters who will kill any of them, except of course Harry, who is the repository of Voldemort’s final Horcrux.

The wizarding world is not faring well as these excursions progress. Voldemort has decimated the ranks of the Aurors, the magical constabulary. The Minister of Magic, Rufus Scrimgour is a political animal, and much like Bill Clinton in the war on terror, Scrimgour is more interested in looking good than he is in safeguarding the magical community. When Scrimgour is finally murdered, he is replaced by Interim Minister for Magic, Delores Umbridge. Umbridge is the sadistic and obsessive bureaucrat who tortured Harry in his fifth year at Hogwarts. The misguided Umbridge chooses to try and make peace with Voldemort, a decision that leads to the death of Percy Weasly. When she releases Wormtail from Azkaban to appease him and hammers out a treaty with the Death Eaters, she holds a news conference to announce her triumph. This scene is one of the best in the book. As Umbridge, along with Severus Snape, announces the treaty to a packed ministry, Voldemort enters and brings an army of Death Eaters with him. He holds up Wormtail’s severed head from a box and announces that the terms of the treaty have changed, then hands Umbridge over to the werewolf pack led by Fenrir Grayback. She is torn to pieces. Harry, his friends, and most of the Order of the Phoenix are trapped in the hall of the news conference and a tremendous battle takes place. Remus Lupin and Tonks finally give their lives to protect Harry, and he is so enraged by their deaths that his magical fury bursts forth releasing the trapped wizards from Voldemort’s grasp. Some survivors escape and make their way to Hogwarts, where they hold up until the resolution of the war. Even the Dursleys are forced to take sanctuary in Hogwarts, and Dudley gets his first fledgling magical instruction.

Another tremendous scene takes place in Diagon Alley, where a pack of Death Eaters appear out of nowhere and begin to attack the shoppers and destroy the merchant's shops. The scene, with vulnerable civilians and sudden explosions, was highly evocative of modern day Israel and the suicide bombings of Islamic fanatics. The political tone of the book is especially insightful. At one point, Hermione even compares Umbridge to Neville Chamberlain and Voldemort to Adolph Hitler, a comparison that has been a subtext, but never actually vocalized by a character. As the book nears its conclusion, Harry is tricked into the clutches of Voldemort by Pansy Parkinson, who is trying to win a reprieve for Draco Malfoy from the Dark Lord's death sentence. Snape forces Harry to drink the draught of the Living Death, and only through the most supreme effort does Harry break Voldemort's binding spell and spit the mixture out. His friends rush into the ministry (now controlled by Voldemort) and a final confrontation with the Dark Lord occurs before the veil of death (the same one that took the life of Sirius Black). Through a clever trick of Hermione's, Harry manages to reverse the Horcrux spell and split the part of Voldemort's soul he posses away just in time to kill the Dark Lord. Tom Riddle reappears as Voldemort breathes his last. Harry's last act before passing out is to stop Snape from killing Ginny. Then he lapses into unconsciousness from which his friends fear his will not wake. The most moving part of the book takes place while Harry is unconscious. He moves as a spirit through the locked door in the Department of Mysteries that Dumbledore told him protects something. Once inside, he is able to commune with Dumbledore for one last time. Not only with Dumbledore, but with Sirius, Remus, Tonks, and even his mother and father. When Harry finally wakes, he finds himself in St. Mungo's and is recovering slowly from serious injuries.

The end of the book is dappled with details and feel good moments. All of the remaining Weasly's survive, but George loses a leg. Even Malfoy lives through the war, and the day of Voldemorts downfall is declared a national holiday in the wizarding world. Harry, now that he no longer is certain he must die to save his friends and adopted family, for the first time gets to feel what it is like to actually be part of a warm and loving family. The epilogue takes place three years after Harry and Ginny's marriage, and a year after the birth of their son, James. It is Ron's wedding day, and Harry is charged with getting him to the church on time. He is marrying Hermione at a small muggle chapel in her home town. The feel good end of the book is tempered with the notation that as Harry and Ron go into the chapel for the wedding, they fail to notice the headline in the muggle newspaper declaring that Vernon and Petunia Dursley were found in their locked home on Privet drive, dead from unknown causes. The wording of this last bit is reminiscent of the wording of the notice that Tom Riddle Sr. had been killed by his son, who became Lord Voldemort. Taken as a whole, this was an entirely satisfying conclusion to the Potter series. Nevertheless, the book did all the right things. It had the characters we expected, though not enough of some of them. It was everything anyone could want from the final Harry Potter book, including the hint that perhaps it was not the last book.


Note:- If you think that the review has been copied from some site. Please provide a link to that site and I will be happy to remove the review and provide a link.

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Who's it ..........in or out?????

A seemingly familiar voice,
"invokes, helps , disturbs , distracts......."

It happens usually , occured again today and made for a spectacle. "He" walked in without notifying and kept on gabbing ,till I didnt respond.
I dont tell "HIM"(supposedly), where I go and what all I do but "HE" picks up the same topic . I wonder, "HIS" news sources are better than ajjtak (the sabse tez team) .
Follows ,more than my shadow ever does, gives no space to experience solitude, catches every single expression of my face , assumably knows everything I hvnt even strategised and even the ideas which havent made any appearance in my brain.

Our little conversation today , in the middle of the road:
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HE: Why didnt you hve anything till now , its three in noon.

I: ........SILENCE(I need to drive cautiously)

HE: Helloooooooo?Dieting???

I: ......(How on earth does that matter you?)

HE: okie . We ll talk about something else.

I :.........(One more one sided conversation)

H:How was the class? Do you like the new monkey there?

I: ........(I would hve liked to tell you , monkeys are far better than what you 're)

H: Speak up , I know you have "Shatabdish tongue"

I: ....[Rather "A bulletic tongue", wish it could tear you apart.)

H: Okie , lets not go home , the weather is fine for wandering around .

I: Shutup you......inside out or outside in or whatsoever ghost of words.

H: Am happy I made you speak finally.

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People around stared me as if I were a clown , true enough , the setting was perfect to make for a spectacle , a hilarious one ,as they think m mad enough to talk to myself in the middle of the road.....how would they know I was talking to him....Nobody can hear him or see him..........Its me who has to bear him and his never ending talks , preachings and the sense of his presence always around me.

Its my inner voice , my god , my friend who never ceases to talk and never ever leaves me alone but quite a many times puts me in such situations.
.....errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Damn cant you stop talkin while I drive

Thursday, May 24, 2007

BSNL HACKS

Bsnl dataone is attracting a lot of hackers these days or so it seems. Its system is so crapped up, it takes a hacker 2 minutes to get inside their database. Many sites are popping up claiming to give such free passwords. One of the hackers I came across gave bsnl passes in exchange for rapidshare accounts. Well rapidshare accounts can be hacked too.

Now you must be wondering where all this is going, right??? Ok so heres the thing. I hacked up a rapidshare account and with it posted some bsnl passes. Cool huh??? So here is the link.Download here.

Update: As usual some are changing the passwords. Mean persons, what can we do about them? But free accounts are distributed all over the net, one of the places being this site.

Making free voip calls

Who doesn't love to talk??? And with the added word free everyone is interested. Well, those of you who aren't you are all welcome to leave.

The story so far...

A cool guy at Voip guides and Solution has shown how to make free calls. A quick review wont do any harm.

Just go here. Register yourself for a free account. In minutes you will get a toll free number to call and the extension.


So where was the problem???

As far as I remember the problem was that mostly you were getting the busy tone. Perhaps Jaduka figured it out. One way Jaduka could have detected it is it started checking the origin of the phone call. Just a thought.

Anyway I was just messing around and I figured out a way. All you need is a US proxy. I still don't know if other countries proxy works or not. Tell me if they do.

After you get hold of a proxy, open yahoo messenger. Go to Connection Preferences>Connection and configure it to use the proxy by entering the Server name and port. All done?

Now just connect using that proxy and make the call to the toll free number. It works! It is working for me till now and for my brother too. So I hope it works for everyone.

Comments are welcome.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Awarapan (2007)


My first bollywood song post!!!

Awarapan is the story of man called Shivam (Emraan Hashmi) who searched for joy but found nothing but pain and loneliness. It is the journey of a godless heartbroken lover who in order to escape from the ghosts of his tragic past dedicates himself to serve his gangster boss Malik who runs a chain of hotels in Hong Kong. One day Malik asks Shivam to do an unusual job for him. He asks him to keep an eye on his young mistress Reema while he is away on a brief business trip. Reema is a young Pakistani girl who is a victim of human trafficking. Malik had ‘bought’ her in the flesh market in Bangkok. The brief is clear if Reema is found cheating behind Malik’s back Shivam has to eliminate her. From the moment Shivam sets his eyes on Reema, his frozen past begins to raise its head. He is reminded of his lost love and how he had failed to save it from a catastrophe. And then one night Shivam is shocked to discover that the innocent looking Reema has a secret boyfriend, whom she has tucked away and is planning to run away with. Does Shivam remain loyal to Mallik and execute his orders, or does he take on his wrath by daring to go against him. Will Shivam find redemption and faith or will this Godless vagabond remain shackled to his faithless dead past are the questions which is the life blood of this haunting tale.

Songs:-

01-toh Phir Aao(lounge Version) - Mustafa Zahid (5.43 MB)
02-tera Mera Rishta - Mustafa Zahid (5.3 MB)
03-mahiya - Suzzane (4.04 MB)
04-maula Maula - Rafaqat Ali Khan (4.96 MB)
05-toh Phir Aao - Mustafa Zahid (5.32 MB)
06-mahiya Remix - Annie (4.76 MB)
07-tera Mera Rishta (remix) - Mustafa Zahid (4.49 MB)
08-toh Phir Aao (remix) - Mustafa Zahid (4.73 MB)


Download all songs here. You can download them individually.

"CAN I SCREAM..........."


As a kid , whenever(quite oft)I thought about the encounters (not at all wished for)with robbers, thieves or burglars(as if I was a policeman).......the question which popped up in my mind(I hve a question generating machine..do not confuse it with a pop corn popping one)...

"Would I be able to scream or I shall succumb to fear
And close my eyes to die a coward's death?"(living like cowards is almost like dying , aint it?)

My much thought about and popped about questions came alive .
A burglar broke into our home (He didnt get any other place to be in)
It was midnight , I had just got into my bed after learning my lessons at 2 pm (what a student)
Imagine what happened, he stood right before my bed , assuming me to be half dead(soundly sleeping.)
I heard something and opened my eyes a bit , I saw...[couldnt run out of room].....a---aaa---aaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-aaaaaaaaaaa-----aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I saw....................who else than he, the his highness, burglar standing right across .

I always thought I would lose the sense of speaking if it ever happened but unlike my thoughts,I got up instead of shutting my eyes from the glaring truth [that he was right there]and screamed.......MUMMMAAAAAAAAA,HERE'S SOMEONE[ wasnt heroic?]

C'mon my shriek made him run away & due to my "VOICE POWER" we didnt lose anything.
The local newspapers repoted it as a brave act .But I think "Necessity was the mother of my shriek's invention"

My popping machine still works as it used to, the only difference is that it asks a different question for such a situation:"Can I kick him and tie him up"
For chekcing this out , I need a new burglar, what are you waiting for now?
Ready to take a chance ?

2 DARK MINUTES.....


My world didnt seem
to be mine anymore

My rainbowic life turned
"jet black"

And that made me feel
"black isnt so beautiful"

FOR THOSE TWO MINUTE MINUTES!

Slammed doors,
hit seemingly unfamiliar things
smashed windows, crashed glasses--
-----------------------------------------BANG !BANG!!BANG!!!!!

FOR THOSE TWO MINUTE MINUTES!

Scared to death,
crept on to seek the right path,
to get out of this unlit sphere

FOR THOSE TWO MINUTE MINUTES!

Heaved a sigh when a car passed by
and illuminated the street across
for a fraction of second

WITHIN THOSE TWO MINUTE MINUTES!
The two silent , blind , limping n lingering minutes
horrified me for "two minutes"

The best part was that it just lasted for those two minute minutes
Life's all the same after that......a rainbow of beautiful hues............

Monday, May 21, 2007

"SUPERSONIC THOUGHTS"




I wonder ,,,,,,,,I wander,,,,,,,,,

Ideas wobbling on the brain paths,,,,
trespassing n pestering it,,,,???????

Leaving no space for other pedestrian ideas to arise,,,,
Brain's numb to suss the situation,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Thoughts bumping into one another,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Leaving brains highway on the verge of a "supernova"

Who knows???? What new is going to shape out of it,,,,
Or it 'll die forever??????????????,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
All it can do is,,,,,,,wait and watch,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
"The fiasco"
Still I wonder,,,,,,,,I wander,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Thursday, May 17, 2007

The third sex.....the third world....


The eye movements , the winking eyelids , the lip bitings....
The ladyish dressing style and overly done over makeup....
The "latkas jhatkas" which only they can perform...............
Dancing , singing , titivating up all the time.............................
The weird mannerisms and erotic sense of humor................
This is all which makes them "standout"wherever they be.

But is it what they 're all about?

Making fun of oneself,
Catching attention by putting oneself in an embarassing state,
Isnt anything which anyone ll do willingly,

But they have to.......

You'll find them allwhere , be it any occasion....................
Dancing and arguing their way out to strike a good deal...
Every act accompanied with a "fakely real smile"..............
Hiding the pain , the displeasures,the melancholy state...
Isnt anything which all of us can do,

But they have to.......

At times you find them itchy,
At times you find them funny,
Is it all what they 're all about?

But they have to.......

Eunuch's-the unique homosapiens who 're commonly known as "uninvited guests".Their curses and blessings are both considered to be true. Battle through their lives finding an identity for themselves in a society like ours where being a eunuch is almost equal to being a non homo sapien.

Here's a link to a brilliant article on eunuch's:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mag/2002/02/03/stories/2002020300230400.htm

P.S.-A story on their lives may follow this write up soon.

Theres no news as bad NEWS!!!

Thats the formula of every news channel today, at least it seems to if you apply some logic. If you opened any news channel the day before yesterday, there were stories about the art protest everywhere. Some had even got experts to speak upon the topic(just to attract visitors actually). But today every news channel has gone blank. Zero news about it. Where did all the heat go? It was not a fire from a single match. The whole nation's artists came together for this. And its over so soon?

The same thing happens to every news which is important today. Instead the news which will attract people( I don't know what kind of), are shown round the clock. Take the case of the kissing issue between Richard Gear and Shilpa Shetty. The footage is still shown in some news channels. But is it that big issue? Some news channels (one, actually) even called up Mika to ask him how he felt about the issue (he is a real expert isn't he?). Just imagine embarrassment felt by that poor guy. But the news channel got a higher TRP as planned.

Haven't news channels taken birth like termites??? Large in number, yet so few useful. Everybody is fighting for "exclusive" news which doesn't exist. So they are making crap, headlines of the day. Haven't we had enough? Shouldn't the Government come up and censor news channels instead of being concerned about FTV and AXN showing something adult? The number of news channels is even more than the number of Ekta Kapoor's soaps. And news channels are no different than Ekta Kapoor's soaps. Theres murder, suspense(what's coming up after the break?) and drama, everything anyone can ask for.

Wednesday, May 16, 2007

The Train

Its his debut as a music director, and he rocked in his very first attempt. I am talking about Mithoon the music director of The Train. The film is going to be a flop as it looks but the music is a big hit. Mithoon not only has a great art for composing but also a great voice. Will love to hear from him in the future. You can hear the two of my fav songs from the movie below.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

When success is a necessity…..


The day of jubilations and celebrations for around 500-odd candidates who’re about to step in the Indian bureaucracy.

Mutyalaraju Revu , an Andhra guy belonging to a humble background outdid all and sundry to get #1 rank in his third attempt out of three lakhs candidates who appeared for it. His father is a farmer in the Krishna district of the state. In his last attempt he had been awarded an IPS post. Perseverance and hard work are what he calls his strategic keys to success.

Must be wondering , what was the need to put this information here ?, when its already all over the tabloid these days.

What motivated this engineer turned IAS into taking the plunge to untie this gordian knot was something which could have in a usual case dishearten someone.

His source of inspiration.....

“During my third year B Tech, some of my friends came to my village, which lacks proper transport, education and medical facilities, for a picnic. Six of them drowned and died in the sea. And it took us two hours to reach the nearby town for some medical help. This incident made me appear for civil services,” Revu says.

His course of action……

“He says he would not be able to serve the nation if he’d go abroad.I wanted to be in civil services so that I can render my services to the nation, “ the topper says.
“It depends on the district I get. But my concentration will be on rural development because 70 per cent of the people live in rural India and they aren’t enough facilities even after 57 years of independence.”


Living for a cause and working for emancipation , these ‘re the characteristic traits one must possess for the growth of humanity on the whole.

Success may be defined in a number of ways but the best form is when its just not a dream but a necessity turned into reality as it happened in Revu’s case.

We often call people like Revu as lucky one’s but its so easy to understate one’s years of efforts by calling them lucky.
Anybody can be successful overnight but nobody should forget that this night comes after hours of hard work , days of perseverance , months of will & endurance and years of efforts.

“Heights by greatmen were not achieved in a single flight , they while their companions slept were toiling upwards in the night”

When the Judges aren't qualified to Judge

If any of you have read Ayn Rand's Fountainhead, the story of Baroda art protest will seem somewhat similar to you. Except it has got an Indian tadka to it. Howard Roark, the protagonist of the book, faced some similar protest against his designed buildings. And he was all alone in it (I know it sounds a lot impossible). Our Baroda dewd Chnadu isn't all alone though, we are all with him.

Every new idea has faced by protest in its time. But later on, it is the people who protest who support it. Did the Indian Govt (including the police and the judges) ever heard of renaissance period? If they find M F Husain's art objectionable why don't they go and visit the renaissance museum. Here are some pics of the the paintings by Michelangelo.

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18900/18900-h/images/image_112.jpg


http://www.toscanaviva.com/Firenze/david_michelangelo.jpg

In fact to all those "non-artists", David is one of the masterpieces of Michelangelo.

Howard Roark (Oh yeah, I am a big fan), never entered design contests. upon being asked why he had said that other people didn't have the mind to judge him and he won't give them a chance.


Parting words:-

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.

-Ayn Rand

The ART thingy

I still remember my first "good" art book. I was in a book fair. It was big, had a lot of drawing on its cover page and looked cool. I was so impressed by its cover that I didn't even care to look inside to take it home. It was by a foreign author. My Dad was kind enough to buy me that, knowing my interests well. One thing I learnt from that book was if you want to draw curves better draw the natural curves to master them (I assume you understand what I mean). Of course I was a minor and couldn't get anybody to pose for me. Otherwise I can imagine something like the Titanic scene (just kidding). I still am proud that I had bought that book. When everything is going for a change why cant art? Over the years the meaning of art has changed. It has got a whole new feeling to it today. Indian artists have probably been a lot successful overseas than in their own country. Thanks to the politicians who find enough time to indulge in other matters rather than seeing to their duty, the police officers who have become the puppets of the politicians, the judges who can be bought and sold like vegetables and the common man, the illiterate common man, who will say anything without having any idea about it. This is what India has become today. What is the future?

Why don't we leave the meaning of the paintings to the artists themselves. Otherwise break each and every temple present in the country. Which temple hasn't got "obscene" paintings? it amazes the aliens while we shame on it. What a proud country we are? We hold our culture and traditions. What exactly is our culture, our tradition? This is the country which gave the world a whole new dimension of knowledge in every field. But after about 60 years of independence we still don't know how to respect it.

My grandmother had told me a principle which I shall never forget. Every person has his own view. A person can look at a rock and throw it away saying its unusable. From the same rock a diamond can be extracted by someone else. Its the way we are looking at things which matters most. So if you look at those paintings you will see what you want to see. If you want to see adultery in those painting you will see it clearly, if you want to see its beauty you will see it, what matters is what type of mind, thoughts and look you have. Haven't I said enough?

Sunday, May 13, 2007

Idiotorial cum editorial column

Lost in the universe of (self made) slangs 'n' abbreviations , the chatters keep on 'chattofying' ..(such words ll keep on ushering now).
Be it the continuous form of tense or not.......we would still add "ing" as a suffix to just not a verb but every single word we use ,
for instance (a brief conversation)- Hiya, howdy? [Hi, how're u]
Kya karing , wassup? [A simple , what's going on at your
end could do ]
kuchh soching?....(if yes) then gooding...
huh!
nvm , I mean never mind if u didnt make out what I wanted to convey....after all "its not as simple as sharpening ur pencil"[self invented idiom or may be discovered]............or as easy as chewing ur gum [hey ! dont start chewing ur gums now..:p]

Its getting baffling , aint it?.....all what u need is an internet lingo translator....scroll down for the link
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Do you really feel the need? , We can do this on our own by trying not to adulterate any language .:)
A language loses its glory when polluted with aforementioned slangs . Doesnt it???Ponder over it.

Unique reasons for quitting jobs!!!

Why do employees quit jobs???


Here are some of the responses:

-- "An employee left because he didn't like the smell of the office."

-- "One guy said he was making too much money and didn't feel like he was worth it."

-- "A worker didn't like to use a computer and said the job wasn't as glamorous as she thought."

-- "A person left because she didn't like the lighting in our building."

In cases such as those below, parting ways may not be such a bad thing:

-- "The person said he was bored."

-- "One employee quit because he said he was over-employed." -- "We had a guy who said he couldn't get up in the morning."

-- "The employee quit because she didn't want to work so hard."

-- "One worker quit because he thought the location wasn't exciting enough."

While many people enjoy their jobs, work often takes a backseat to other pursuits:

-- "A person wanted to sunbathe on the beach in Europe."

-- "We had someone leave to train for a triathlon."

-- "He quit to go sailing."

-- "An employee said she was going to live on her trust fund."

-- "A worker left to climb Mount Everest."

These next professionals said they needed to get out of town:

-- "An employee moved to Italy because she didn't like the outcome of the election."

-- "We had a woman leave to tend bar in Costa Rica."

-- "One person left because he had to join the Witness Protection Program."

Career changes sparked some people to give notice:

-- "An employee quit to go to Hollywood and become a movie star."

-- "Someone left to join the circus."

-- "A worker left to become a strawberry farmer."

-- "A guy left to become a golf pro."

-- "One staff member left to play the trombone."

-- "A worker joined the clergy."

Then there was the employee who had a silent exit strategy:

-- "He just walked out without a peep. Until this day we have no idea why he left, nor were we able to contact him."

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Installing any linux from image or iso

There are many linux distros out there and its really interesting to see each one of them. But you don't have to write a cd to install any distro. Thats the good thing about linux. You can perform a complete installation from hard disk.

First of all I am not responsible if you delete your data by mistake. But if you follow the steps closely, there is little chance you are going to do that.

Before we begin we are going to need some files. First make sure which Linux distro you want to download. There are many out there and it is completely up to you. Get the image file, dvd or cd, your choice.


BOOTING WITH GRUB

If you allready have a linux, chances are, you allready have got Grub. That will do the trick. Just skip to the end of this article.

If you have a completely new hard disk without any OS, which is really rare, no problem. You can boot up from a floppy and then use. But that is really long cumbersome process and I wont recommend something I haven't done. So just use another hard disk to boot up and follow the steps.

If you are on Windows then also no problem. If you are installing openSUSE you can get instlux.

If you are going for some other distro no problem. Get the Grub for DOS here. Unzip the pack and all you need are two files, grldr and menu.lst. Copy them to C:\boot (theres no folder by the baem of boot, create one). Open up your boot.ini file, which must be in C drive. By default it is hidden and write protected. So unprotect it, open it in notepad and then add the following line at then end of the file,"C:\grldr="Start GRUB", without the quotes.

Open the menu.lst file in notepad and add the following lines (you can delete everything present in the file and keep these lines only).

title My Linux Installer
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/

Replace the fields with the required things. Save it.

You are done. Now your computer can boot up with Grub.


STARTING THE INSTALLATION

Before you begin the installation make sure you know exactly the name of the image and the location it is. If you have got the images of the cds, then make sure they are in one place. Make sure that drive is not touched during the installation.

Get two files, the linux kernel and initrd.img (initial RAM disk image) of the distro you want to install. You can find these in the iso, and extract it (with Winrar or a virtual drive). Or you can download it from the internet. It is available in the mirror sites and you can easily get it.

Copy those two files to C:\boot. Include the filenames in menu.lst and its over.

Restart your computer and you will have another option in ntldr boot menu saying My Linux Installer. Select it and the kernel will load. A menu will appear from which select the Install from hard disk. Give the location of the image file and the installation will start.


GRUB ALLREADY INSTALLED

In that case just press 'c' when in the grub menu and type in the following commands in the grub menu.

>kernel (hd0,0)/boot/
>initrd (hd0,0)/boot/
>boot

You can use the TAB key. It really help if you don't remember the location by7 showing you a list of the directories and filenames available for the first word you type. For example after you typed in >kernel (hd0,0)/ if you hit the TAB key key, a list of directories present will be displayed.

Thats it now you can select install from hard disk after the kernel loads and enter the image location.

Done.


Note:- The image file has to be saved on ext3 or ext2 partition. It currently doesn't work if you save it on a LVM FAT32 partitions. But it will work in FAT32 partitions provided its not an LVM like a USB drive. If you are on windows and want to create an EXT3 partition you will need Acronis Disk Director suite to partition a drive to ext3 and EXT2IFS to access the ext3 partition in Windows. Its not that hard and can be done in minutes.

Friday, May 11, 2007

EA to launch "The Simpsons Game"

Electronic Arts (EA) has revealed details on its forthcoming offering, "The Simpsons Game," which is based on the world's favorite animated family show.

The game will feature 16 levels designed as separate episodes, as the Simpsons family, Homer, Marge, Bart or Lisa, find themselves trapped in a videogame, Scott Amos, the real game's executive producer, told a press conference Wednesday.

As part of this short storyline, Bart gets to indulge one of the wishes he has long expressed on TV: being a superhero.

"Bart has always wanted to be Bartman," Amos said, "so we let him live out this fantasy."

The action-comedy will also feature the full cast of voice actors from the TV show who will reprise their roles for the game.

The game is being created in partnership with Gracie Films and Twentieth Century Fox, with its storyline written by the TV show's Emmy Award-winning writers.

Amos said that though the timing of the new Simpsons game is coincident with the forthcoming Simpsons movie, there is in fact no relationship.

The Simpsons Game is scheduled for release this fall for the every game console: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PSP (PlayStation Portable), Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS.

Fedora 7 test 4 gnome

Well I am one of those fans of the simple look of Gnome. Though not flashy like KDE, it is quite as powerful. The best thing about Gnome is its look, the simple and clean look. It looks like your whole desktop has recently got a wash. As for fedora 7, the Gnome in fedora always looked good to me, don't know why. This time it is a little changed. It has got two taskbars instead of one, making it more cool. Take a look.

Of course you can always edit the look as you like cause its Linux. Anyway the files browser by default is set to metacity. Its really boring. There are no navigation buttons, none at all. Every folder you open, opens in a new window. So it isnt quite the thing if you are habituated to Konquerer or to the windows browsing. I still don't know why Gnome sets it as its default. Anyway the other nautilus manager is quite cool and has the answer to all our wishes. Take alook yourself. I think you can distinguish between the two.


There aren't a lot of games included except the basic. Of course KDE has a lot more number of games. SO if really like linux games like nibbles, ktron etc. go for KDE. Gnome is quite the same otherwise. But if you know the way almost all KDE things will run in Gnome. Like all other linuxes cant play mp3 or movie files from the beginning. But it can be easily fixed like other linuxes. But thats for another article.

If you think about installing Fedora, just wait a little. its still in test version and will be released on 24th May. I experienced a lot of bugs myself in test 4, so I wouldn't recommend installing it and getting yourself into trouble. But do download it when it comes out on 24th.

How not to take a picture???




Just wondering....but why was the girl standing like that???

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Fedora 7 test 4 review

Ok. So I finally got to install fedora without any problems. Installation was smooth except it took a lot of time. It took over 2 hours to install 862 packages. Well i guess that is because of my aging hard disk. But Yast never took so much time. SO maybe a problem with Anaconda installer. Anyways I had a good sleep in the meantime.

Here is what the KDE looks like.
By default KDE is not installed and Gnome is the default session. So make sure you install KDE. The K-menu is like the default KDE menu, no changes, I guess. Here is another one showing the menu.
Unlike openSUSE, Fedora doesn't mount your windows partitions by default. So if you are a beginner you might face a little problem. That was easily fixed by editing the fstab file. Another thing, you cant play mp3s like other linuxes by default. To do that you have to update the xine engine and/or install real player. That done Redhat works out to be like any other Linux. Connecting to the internet isn't that hard.

It seems a lot of bugs still remain to be fixed. The desktop effects don't work on my system though they are mostly the same as others out there, the wobbling effect and the cube effect. The add/remove software crashes every time I try to start it. it runs neither in KDE nor in Gnome. That are the problems I have experienced so far.

Fedora said it would merge the Core and extras. What that meant to me was it would contain a lot more packages. But I was disappointed to find almost no extra packages. if there were any i failed to discover them. there were no new packages which I had seen for the first time. Almost all packages are available in other linux.

The bottom line is Fedora doesn't give a reason to install it over other distros. Almost all linuxes are becoming the same. But one good thing is that it is fast even on low memory though the desktop effects may not work. So if you are a fedora fan you can go for it, otherwise be happy with Ubuntu or Suse whatever you are using. Theres nothing new here.

Fedora 7 vs openSUSE

Well Fedora 7 hasn't been officially released yet though the final test is out. I had some bitter experiences with Fedora Core 3 and after that never looked at Fedora. But with all the talking going around of Fedora merging the core and extras I couldn't resist. So I got the Fedora 7 test 4 dvd iso.

The iso is only 2.7GB. Ihave allready got openSUSE 10.2 and it really rocks. Its dvd iso was 3.7 Gb. Well I could easily see a lot of packages are different. I always have the habit of installing from hard disk without burning the images to disk. I had no problems starting the installation. It took a long time loading the kernel thought I have got a sufficient memory. Its a whole new installation screen from its previous versions. The steps are processed very fast. There was no problem in partitioning hard disks or anything. I chose some extra packages to install like KDE which by default is not installed. Then the problem began. It said checking dependencies and took really a long long time. I went to sleep and when I woke up thank God it was over. i only had to click next to install. I clicked and it started copying files. It had about 1093 packages to install and so went to sleep again. When i woke up it was stuck. No mouse movement nothing. I tried everything but no effect. I tried the installation again from scratch a couple of times but the same effect.

Well for now I will say that though openSUSE installer inst that cool as Fedora but at least it doesn't give problems like these. Also openSuse has a lot more pachttp://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=7892343390332317913#
Show allkages than Fedora. So for now openSUSE wins.

Next time if I try to install I will try to post some screenshots. If anybody has been facing the same problems please tell me.

Sunday, May 06, 2007

Redhat Linux



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Joost sucks???

Till now everybody I have asked and what I quite experienced myself is that Joost sucks if you don't have the right computer or if you are looking for more channels. Even with right computers above 1 gig RAM Joost fails to run sometimes God knows why. Yeah, it has got a good picture view but not very different from others. And all th asking about Joost invitation I guess has made it more popular. Joost knows how to market after gmail got famous by this method.

For me I am happy with Sopcast whenever I need to waste my time on th internet. It has got a lot of more channels than Joost and the picture quality isn't that bad. And you can watch a lot of movies online except that would be the same as downloading and watching it. You can watch a lot of channels live though here like NBC, Star Movies, HBO, etc.

PPstream and PPlive are good also but they are in Chinese. So until and unless you know how to read Chinese I wont recommend those for you. Joost works on the same concept as these except it increased the quality a better. But if its the content you want, then Joost is left behind. PPStream and PPLive do have some English patches so that they can be viewed in English. So I will recommend to try them out. I didn't have a good experience with Joost and I still like to use SOpcast. But can joost make it better when it really opens itself to the public?

Spiderman 3

Well well everyone was excited about Spiderman 3 and so was I. Just finished watching it and thought what better to start my blog other than spiderman 3?

The effects are really great, especially those of Sandman. Cutting out the effects the story isnt really that great. But who cares. Why do people go to watch spiderman? To see the action right? Well then theres lots and lots in this. Its better than the previous two I will say.

And all those promos we saw getting Harry Osborne a.k.a. Goblin getting killed by Parker was just to attract the audience I guess. Well eventually Goblin Jr. dies but not in the hands of Spiderman. Well I wont spoil the plot. Spidey goes and asks Goblin for help cause he can't stop Sandman and Venom alone. Goblin comes and its real fun watching Goblin and Spidey fight together. Goblin would have made a real good partner had he not died. Venom is killed by Spidey and Sandman befriends Spidey.

The best quote I liked from this movie was when Spiderman is for the first time facing Sandman. Spidey says, "Where do these guys come from?".

Spiderman 4 has been confirmed and it is most probably to be launched in 2009. The only plot thats can happen is that Lizard will be the villain. That seems the only logical plot if we follow the
happening of part 3. Dr. Conners while researching on the alien thing makes the lizard serum and accidentally is converted to Lizard. Kraven the hunter hears of lizard and comes to capture it. But Spidey tries to stop him because Lizard is his friend. Sandman and other characters may be thrown in to help him out. Thats the plot that appears to me of the next movie till now. But who knows? The script writers may read and change the plot.