There was a time when we wud run all d way upto school, sleep throughout d morning assembly under d pretext of being deeply involved in d prayers & then wait for d fun day to begin.
D temporary seating arrangements wud keep changing by d week. But one wud constantly keep hoping tat one of d days we would accidentally get to sit nxt 2 our crush in d classroom.
Incessantly chatting wid d teachers. Trying ur level bst to make sure tat they favor u ovr d rest.
Making friends wid all d dons of d class, for help during Pangas
Eagerly waiting for d P.T period & cursing d lazy teacher when she wouldn’t let you go play, conveniently claiming tat it is pouring outside.
Taking good advantage of ur prefect title whenever you are in a mood to bunk.
Slipping out of d class right under d nose of d teacher when you simply can’t stand her boring lectures
All along making her believe tat d prefect is out to do some good for d school.
Seeing a fellow student being thrashed by d principal wid a weapon as lethal as d school handbook.
Suppressing d big nasty smile tat appears on ur face when ur friend gives a funny sounding reply to d teacher.
Teasing d teachers for their funny accents, linking them up wid each other & making fairytales out of tat.
Making place for ur partners in crime in d school loo which serves as a fantastic hiding place when a dangerous class test is under progress.
Running helter skelter when u get d news tat d principal is on her way to ur secret hideout.
Purposely taking part in extra curricular activities so tat you get a good solid reason 2 stay out of class during d Marathi lecture.
Tactfully including all ur favorite classmates in d dance events jst to hav a gala time during d never ending practices.
Crying ur lungs out when u get ur first bad remark
Praying tat d pen mark wud miraculously get erased by d time ur parents get hold of d calendar.
Dreading d Open-day which ur teachers eagerly look forward to.
Hoping tat atleast this time d teacher wont start comparing you wid ur brilliant sister infront of ur mum dad.
Hitting d closest mall in d city wid ur gang each time d exams get over.
Shrugging off d ghastly looks passed by d mall employees when u march ahead wid ur jhingbang wid d clear intention of window shopping
Yet waiting at each counter wid an expression which says tat you are too keen to buy d expensive looking product at hand when all along u know u hav nothing but a 100 rupee note in ur pocket.
Going down to d old & reliable (read cheap) McDonalds at d base of Crossroads & hogging on a Chicken McGrill & a McSwirl.
Waiting wid bated breaths to see as to who amongst ur group members is kind enough to pay d bill this time.
If people hav surpassed tat kindness long ago then getting out all ur chillars & pushing it out on a plate much to d waiter’s disgust.
Hopping in2 a bus & buying tickets for twelve. Muffling d horrified scream tat escapes ur lips when a super intelligent friend absent mindedly tears off d tickets right infront of ur eyes.
Praying wid all ur heart tat d TC’s are on a strike tat day & scanning d bus stop from a distance for signs of d blue clothed man.
Loving d adventurous day spent wid ur group & wondering how u all would do without each other in d times to come
Shrugging off d idea of separation after school, promising each other tat d group will remain intact, d meetings & outings & d fun part will not evaporate as time passes by.
But then d time does pass by, best friends who could not live without each other’s company learn to face life all alone.
Mayb they become so independent tat straying away from ur older lot becomes d most natural thing to do....
But yes there are some weirdo’s like us who can’t help but cling on to those very memories which we consider as d glorious days of our lives.
And for us poor souls, rewinding & forwarding d cassettes of those memories in d tape recorders of our minds, becomes d chief key to leading a pleasurable life ahead.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
The Shift in Life!!
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Netscape in Web 1.0 vs Google in Web 2.0
Netscape vs. Google
If Netscape was the standard bearer for Web 1.0, Google is most certainly the standard bearer for Web 2.0, if only because their respective IPOs were defining events for each era. So let's start with a comparison of these two companies and their positioning.
Netscape framed "the web as platform" in terms of the old software paradigm: their flagship product was the web browser, a desktop application, and their strategy was to use their dominance in the browser market to establish a market for high-priced server products. Control over standards for displaying content and applications in the browser would, in theory, give Netscape the kind of market power enjoyed by Microsoft in the PC market. Much like the "horseless carriage" framed the automobile as an extension of the familiar, Netscape promoted a "webtop" to replace the desktop, and planned to populate that webtop with information updates and applets pushed to the webtop by information providers who would purchase Netscape servers.
In the end, both web browsers and web servers turned out to be commodities, and value moved "up the stack" to services delivered over the web platform.
Google, by contrast, began its life as a native web application, never sold or packaged, but delivered as a service, with customers paying, directly or indirectly, for the use of that service. None of the trappings of the old software industry are present. No scheduled software releases, just continuous improvement. No licensing or sale, just usage. No porting to different platforms so that customers can run the software on their own equipment, just a massively scalable collection of commodity PCs running open source operating systems plus homegrown applications and utilities that no one outside the company ever gets to see.
At bottom, Google requires a competency that Netscape never needed: database management. Google isn't just a collection of software tools, it's a specialized database. Without the data, the tools are useless; without the software, the data is unmanageable. Software licensing and control over APIs--the lever of power in the previous era--is irrelevant because the software never need be distributed but only performed, and also because without the ability to collect and manage the data, the software is of little use. In fact, the value of the software is proportional to the scale and dynamism of the data it helps to manage.
Google's service is not a server--though it is delivered by a massive collection of internet servers--nor a browser--though it is experienced by the user within the browser. Nor does its flagship search service even host the content that it enables users to find. Much like a phone call, which happens not just on the phones at either end of the call, but on the network in between, Google happens in the space between browser and search engine and destination content server, as an enabler or middleman between the user and his or her online experience.
While both Netscape and Google could be described as software companies, it's clear that Netscape belonged to the same software world as Lotus, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, and other companies that got their start in the 1980's software revolution, while Google's fellows are other internet applications like eBay, Amazon, Napster, and yes, DoubleClick and Akamai.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Free useful Stuff .....
Here is a list of Stuff that are very much useful and yeah also free ......
Stuff includes free softwares, free antivirus , free anti-spyware , free network tools etc. ....
Check it out urself
Antivirus:
AVG - http://www.grisoft.com/us/us_index.php
Avast - http://www.avast.com/
AntiVir - http://www.free-av.com/
Panda ActiveScan - http://www.pandasoftware.com/activescan
Audio Players:
Foobar2000 - http://www.foobar2000.org/
Sonique - http://sonique.lycos.com/
iTunes - http://www.apple.com/itunes/
jetAudio - http://www.jetaudio.com/
QCD - http://www.quinnware.com/
Winamp - http://www.winamp.com/
Audio Utilities:
CDex - http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
dbPowerAMP Music Converter - http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm
CD Recording:
ASPI Drivers - http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/sup...duct/ASPI-4.70
CD/DVD Burner XP - http://www.cdburnerxp.se/
Burn 4 Free - http://www.burn4free.com/
CD Utilities:
Daemon Tools - http://www.daemon-tools.cc/dtcc/portal/portal.php
Download Managers:
WackGet - http://millweed.com/projects/wackget/
LeechGet - http://www.leechget.net/en/
wget for Windows - http://xoomer.virgilio.it/hherold/
Encryption:
PGP Freeware Edition - http://www.pgp.com/products/freeware.html
Axcrypt - http://axcrypt.sourceforge.net/
GnuPG - http://www.gnupg.org/
Firewall:
ZoneAlarm - http://www.zonelabs.com/
Sygate Personal Firewall - http://smb.sygate.com/products/spf_standard.htm
Kerio Personal Firewall - http://www.kerio.com/kpf_home.html
Outpost - http://www.agnitum.com/download/outpost1.html
GUI Utilities:
Tclock - http://homepage1.nifty.com/kazubon/tclock/index.html
IconPhile - http://www.virtualplastic.net/scrow/iphile.html
PowerMenu - http://www.veridicus.com/tummy/programming/powermenu/
Glass2k - http://www.chime.tv/products/glass2k.shtml
D-Color XP - http://dliboon.freeshell.org/products/dcolor/index.php
CursorXP - http://www.stardock.com/products/cursorxp/download.html
MobyDock - http://www.mobydock.com/
Samurize - http://www.samurize.com/
Image Viewers:
IrfanView - http://www.irfanview.com/
iBrowser - http://ibrowser.fcodersoft.com/
AhaView - http://www.aha-soft.com/ahaview/free.htm
Instant Messaging:
Miranda IM - http://www.miranda-im.org/
Gaim - http://gaim.sourceforge.net/
Trillian - http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/
Yahoo Instant Messenger - http://messenger.yahoo.com/
MSN Messenger - http://messenger.msn.com/
AOL Instant Messenger - http://www.aim.com/
ICQ - http://www.icq.com
Jabber - http://www.jabber.org/
Networking:
Putty Telnet/SSH Client - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
IP Tools - http://www.ks-soft.net/ip-tools.eng/
Ethereal Protocol Analyzer - http://www.ethereal.com/
HyperTerminal Private Edition - http://www.hilgraeve.com/htpe/download.html
RealVNC - http://www.realvnc.com/
Nmap - http://www.insecure.org/nmap/
Programming:
ActivePerl - http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/
jEdit - http://www.jedit.org/
Dev-C++ - http://www.bloodshed.net/
MySQL - http://www.mysql.com
SciTE - http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Publication/Document Manipulation:
OpenOffice.org - http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
AbiWord - http://www.abisource.com/download/
Spyware Protection:
Ad-Aware - http://www.lavasoft.de/software/adaware/
Spybot: Search & Destroy - http://spybot.safer-networking.de/
CWShredder - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
Hijack This - http://www.spywareinfo.com/~merijn/downloads.html
IE-SPYAD - http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/resource.htm#IESPYAD
SpywareBlaster - http://www.javacoolsoftware.com
System Utilities:
BootVis - http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=664
Resource Hacker - http://www.users.on.net/~johnson/resourcehacker/
PC Inspector File Recovery - http://www.pcinspector.de/file_recovery/UK/welcome.htm
Motherboard Monitor - http://mbm.livewiredev.com/
Sysinternals Utilities - http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/utilities.shtml
WCPUID - http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA002.../download.html
Video Players:
BSPlayer - http://www.bsplayer.org/
Core Media Player - http://www.tcmp.org/
Media Player Classic - http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...group_id=82303
VideoLAN - http://www.videolan.org/
Zoom Player - http://www.inmatrix.com/files/zoomplayer_download.shtml
Video Utilities:
KVCD - http://www.KVCD.net
TMPGEnc - http://www.tmpgenc.net/
VirtualDUB - http://www.virtualdub.org/
Web Browsers:
Mozilla FireFox - http://www.mozilla.org/download.html
Mozilla - http://www.mozilla.org/
Netscape - http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/default.jsp
MyIE2 - http://www.myie2.com/
Avantbrowser - http://www.avantbrowser.com/
SlimBrowser - http://www.flashpeak.com/sbrowser/sbrowser.htm
Web/FTP Servers:
SlimFTPd - http://www.whitsoftdev.com/slimftpd/
Filezilla - http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/
Xitami - http://www.xitami.com/
Apache - http://www.apache.org/
Savant - http://savant.sourceforge.net/
Start Wars episode 4 A New Hope
Believe it or not you can watch the entire movie in ASCII and man its fun to watch!!!
Windows XP - Star wars episode 4 a new hope
1. Open Windows XP and go to Start, then run.
2. Type in or copy "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl" without the commas.
3. Sit back and watch the ASCII movie
Man oh man!!
Enjoy!!
Here are some scenes from the movie .....
Couldnt do more screenies since i didnt wanna miss the movie .... check it out urself!!
Saturday, June 7, 2008
ISPs should pay for the music U2 made!!
Popular Rock band U2's manager says they must share revenues in a way that reflects what music is doing for them, and that Silicon Valley's "liberal hippy values" is to blame for its inability to figure out how to create a system for paying for music.
Paul McGuinness, U2's longtime band manager, gave a speech at a Music Matters confab in Hong Kong a few days ago criticizing ISPs around the globe for not doing more to combat the flow of copyrighted material on their networks.
He argues that they and others have been rewarded handsomely over the years at the music industry's expense.
"Where has all the money gone?" he asks.
"The answer is that it has gone to corporations – cable operators, ISPs, device manufacturers, P2P software companies - companies that have used music to drive vast revenues from broadband subscriptions and from advertising. They would argue they have been neutral bystanders to the spectacular devaluation of music and the consequent turmoil in the music business; I don’t believe that is true – they turned their heads the other way, watched their subscriptions grow, and profited handsomely," he adds.
McGuiness claims that 80% of all Internet traffic is P2P-related, an amazingly bloated figure that is more likely around 37% thanks to the exponential rise in video streaming services like YouTube and others. He uses this erroneous figure to then argue that a large amount of an ISP's profits is thereby earned on the backs of the music industry whose profits have diminished as theirs have soared.
It stands to reason, in his mind, that ISPs should have a "...real commercial partnership with the music business in which they fairly share their revenues."
"One way or another, ISPs and mobile operators are the business partners of the future for the recorded music business – but they are going to have to share the money in a way that reflects what music is doing for their business," later says.
The "one way" is willingly, the other is legislatively.
Could anything be more disgusting? If each of the various types of copyright holders forged "commercial partnerships" with ISPs the Internet would be utterly recognizable. Rather than an "information superhighway" it'd be Main St, USA where billboards are plastered everywhere and overzealous beat cops watch your every move for signs of illegal behavior.
Probably the most boldest charge of all is leveled against the "...internet freethinking culture of California and Silicon Valley." The very people and companies who have put the power of knowledge back into the hands of the people are singled out for their egalitarian ways.
"They are fantastic entrepreneurs, wonderful engineers," he says. "Their passion for innovation and liberal hippy values in one sense sit very well with the creativity of the music business. But at a deeper level, there is a bigger problem and it’s one those brilliant minds never resolved: I’m talking about the problem of paying for music."
Talk about blaming the wrong people. Is it really the job of some of the brightest minds on the world to figure out how the record biz could survive and turn a profit? I mean it shouldn't take a Stanford MBA to realize: a) don't sue your customers, b) 2008 is the year to finally fully embrace digital distribution since customers have been embracing it since 1999, c) albums are overpriced, d) that the focus should be on making good albums not good profits.