Archive for August, 2007

Noida still frustrates me!

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Time to rant again. I end up visiting Noida like once or twice a month. And the first thing that hits me is the way people drive there. My last accident took place in the city when a Santro dude banged me from behind and today also I managed to survive a few scary ones…

India Broadband Forum completes 100,000 posts!

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

This is awesome. Took nearly three years. But we finally managed to cross 100,000 posts. The screenshot is posted here and Amish did the honors of posting the 100,000th post on the forum!
Awesome guys. You all are great!

RPM to DEB file using Alien on Ubuntu

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

I finally managed to successfully convert a RPM file to DEB file for installation on Ubuntu and it seems to have worked.
Pretty cool stuff. It would have been better if Adobe had issued a DEB file installer for Ubuntu and other Debian based Linux Distros for their latest Flash Player Beta.

Pownce on Opera

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Ok, tons of issues. File upload is one of them. Pretty sad. The application does not work with file uploads as well.
Everything works fine on Firefox though.

Membership Confirmation Spam

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

PDF file attachment spam. Greeting Card from Neighbor Spam. The latest is now Membership Confirmation spam.
They try to show that you got registered on some awesome site and you get your login details along with the password.
But you are told to change the password to something else or the login would get disabled after a [...]

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.