Archive for August, 2007

Sensitivity of the mouse

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Becomes important if you use mouse gestures very frequently. Looks like my current mouse has lost its sensitivity. The gestures have become buggy!

BCCI and ICL

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

The way BCCI is reacting to ICL it is very clear that all they are bothered about is money and not the popularity and financial security of the cricket players in the country.
But the base of ICL is money… So, they are not very different from each other.
The funny thing I noticed today. One of [...]

Chak De India

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Chak De India minus Shah Rukh Khan was a pretty decent movie. My favorite player of the lot? Komal Chautala. Maybe I am partial coz she was from Haryana in the movie.
Papers say that Chak De India is inspired from the movie named Miracle. I say it has bits from this other movie I have [...]

Transformers

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Transformers is perhaps the most awesome movie of all times!

MultiGet: Decent file download manager for Linux

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Thanks to some one who commented on one of my earlier posts. MultiGet has turned out to be the sanest download manager I have found on the Linux platform. Though it still has its annoyances compared to Flashget.
And I do not think it can log in to FTP servers for batch downloading.