My battle with the OSes

Vista ... It sucks! ... true. And surely I had to start my thread with the "vista sucks" phrase, cuz it deserves it. Vista is Microsoft's blunder .. I mean what wer they thinkin? wer they even serious?? The world's one of the most richest company comes out with a piece of crap and expects people to hail and like it... how stupid... whats more stupid is that there are people who 'hail and like it'... there are fans of vista too ... sheesshhh!!

Microsoft messed up their shares big-time with windows vista. This is what they did: They made the windows NT kernel sometime arnd 2000 A.D, it was good, so they put some overheads to it to make windows XP, which surely was a big hit. Since XP (which was made by putting a little overheads upon NT kernel) was a hit, they thought why not keep putting a lot of overheads over this kernel (..screw it up!), and get a new OS? .. WE can make easy money that way ... (stupid idiots) ... so they came out with 'VISTA', the supposedly revolutionizing OS that changed it all. They fooled the common man with its glassy effects, aero effects nd etc etc crap. So, people bought it, since it luked good. Its the early market gain that has helped microsoft gain that trust of the people. So now people started trusting Vista, many hav hailed it on the internet, just as I am de-hailing it. People dont know, many dont, nd they arent expected to. It aint their fault... well partly it is. But point is, look what microsoft did. They were desperate. They knew the limitations of vista, they knew how screwed up it is. But they didnt have the time. Apple had come out with OS X in 2002, which was a billion times better than XP, in front of it, XP was 'trash', a shame for microsoft. And also, we had beryl linux, ubuntu, and many others, which wer more efficient and better lookin than XP, so even the opensource community was growing. Microsoft was desperate. It needed something, else it would lose its so called 'monopoly' over the OS market. So out of desperation (not skill, or smartness, or intelligence) they came out with VISTA. They knew its limitations, so they started paying companies like HCL, HP, DELL, etc to sell laptops and desktops with vista compulsorily. I duno Y these companies signed it (they must hav been offered a great deal of money), but now they are pullin away. HP already is gettin ready for an OS of its own, it started promoting linux... well ... thats whats been happening.

For me, I can work well with XP, no problemo, but VISTA, I cant stand it. I have been messing around with OSes lately. One thing that many wouldnt hav tried is installing macintosh on an intel based system. Or in other words, I installed MAC OS X Leapord on my HP laptop. How? Ofcourse its cracked. Its called JaS Darwin MAC OS. Its available on torrents. Visit www.osx86project.org for details... awesome. Try it out.

Will put up more threads on MAC and linux nxt time ... until then, If u still are a fan of microsoft windowes, chk out their plans of a new OS, whose kernel they are changing (...applied brains this time!). Its called 'windows cloud'

astro stuff

Well... things seem a bit refreshed now-a-days. Refreshed in the sense, things r changin... the environment is changing. Things hav started seeming to look better. Hopefully they get better, they will, I kno.

How do I kno?? well... lemme explain.

I have been following the astrology section in the newspaper daily, since last week (during minors). Actually what happend is that, on the morning of my 2nd paper, DSP, which I had studied quite a bit (but nuthin had got into my head, I duno why, din hav interest to study, even my brain gave up, it said "see ya later pal"), so what happend is, lik that morning I go to the mess to hav my breakfast, and I take the newspaper and start reading. Nuthin interestin wuz there, nd smehw ... i say smehw my eye caught the astro section. With nothin else interesting to read, I start readin this crap. Under pisces, he says "If you are a student, then your exam will go badly today" ... I wuz lik shocked. My 6th sense got activated, and I felt it... My minor is gonna get busted big time... But I wuz lik "NO! I don believe this shit". So I walked away sayin to myself that I will 'rock the paper'. Eventually, I had to literally "rock" the paper. Din solve the paper comfortably at all. Frgot everythin. Brain already went to switzerland on a vacation, nd its callin me frm there "haiiiyyaa pal! hw r things?? Managin well without me?? the weather is awesome here... how relaxing!"... dats it, I was done. Blank! Nothing! ... 1 question started buggin me... how the hell did the astro guy know??  some1 has been spyin on me... still hw wld he kno?? my god! ... I asked a few astro ppl how they predict such things nd they said the stars affect our lives, their arrangement n all... then I thought, the only long range force is 'gravity'. If so then such minute level of gravity is affectin us?? sounds bullshit! so I asked him, If its gravity, then why doesnt the gravitational force of the 10 storied building next to me doesnt affect my luck? the math is simple... the stars n planets are huge in mass, but are far away, so the force over here is less, and the mass of this building is small, but it is right next to me, the force is less due to its small mass. So both shd be equally affecting me... He din hav an answer, nor did the other astro ppl... I still wonder how it works. They know the math, but they duno the science. They know how much ever they need to know... our ancestors hu discovered this phenomenon are very clever.

So back to the point. I started believing in astro stuff since then, and I kno that things will get better cuz my astro thing said so fr this month...

hope its true!

cheers!

Technology ... obsession

How much do u depend on technology everyday? think abt it ... mixers, grinders, TVs, juice makers, miccrowaves, cellphones, lappys, deskis, DVD players, A/Cs, ipods, bluetooth ... (huff puff) ... shd I go on listing 'em out or will u do dat urself and prove my point?

No doubt they are very useful n all... but its lik we are so much dependent on dem ... we hav become slaves of machines (jus lik the matrix movie thing) ... I mean I use my lappy, cell, gamepads, etc a lot... everyday ... I cant imagine a day without the lappy ... nd talk about the internet ... hav faced hard days without it...

So much dependency is bad, very very bad! dats y, I am tryin to reduce the obsession, and I have been very effective in my approach... else it 'ld make u robots ... machine like, monotonous.

Sometimes I picture myself in a green  hilly region, cool, sheep all around, no piece of technology, jus a hut with a fire place and amazing chicken for food... aaahhhh... dats paradise!

my dream - to live atleast 2 days that way! ... hope a day lik dat comes... I ll be satisfied!

twists and turns

Well, life now-a-days has been little too confusing... I am stuck up with a question that has been buggin me for long and it has started irritating me now. Its as if the question is laughin at me, "hahaha ... u cant figure it out ... here I am ... come nd get me.... blah blah" I m wonderin, shd I or shd I not?, I think before every move, nd yet smehw get the feelin dat I made a mistake. Some people are jus too "?" type ... cant figure dem out... jus impossible. Watever I try doin abt it, .... its lik it doesnt fail, not it succeeds, there is no response.... null value... nothing! atleast a response wld be gr8 ... man....I m goin mad...
Its the people...they hav changed a lot... I wanted them to be the way they were wen I 1st met them ... so cool, awesome, open ... nd masti ... but nw, its changed, they seem to be under pressure. Duno wats buggin dem, never tell.. many hide important things that need to be said and matter the most. The world is cruel, so fight ppl, dont adjust to cruelity. I wish things get bac to the way they were. 3rd yr has seen many changes. Unnecessary, unwanted and destructive changes. Maybe I lost what I had, what I wanted to always be. I hope fate gives me, my world a second chance... :|

idli

"idli" my nick in college ... I duno Y I got this nick, even if I knew, I forgot, but i sure do remember hu named me this ... >> "ladoo" ... huz ladoo? ... figure dat out urself... (ladoo = my nick to her)

Nyways, this new nick has spread lik nythin, even ppl I dont kno properl call me by this name... I am lik wat d hell, hw does he/she kno? ... I don care btw... I am used to it.

I was never called by my real name "vivek" by my close frends ... always it has been a nick ... even at home I am called by a nick "vicky" ... nd wen in skool, I wuz called "sidey" (god knos y they choose that nick ... I hav been known by dat name since 6th std if I remember correctly ... nd I thot it dies in 11th, but ppl reincarnated it ...hehe) ... still, its ok! I am used to it nd I like it kinda...

so Idli it is, my new nick ... doesnt sound dat cool but is nice fr a few ppl to call me by it... cheers!

Bloody...

Its minor time... I duno y, I aint feelin even a bit intereted in studyin ... damn it! even if I force myself to study, by brain is unwilling ... it straight away says NO! wat d hel? ... wat shd I do? .... crap! whats more interesting was dat I read the astrology section in the newspaper yesterday morning, nd he says "If u are a student, you wont do well in your xams" .... crrraapp!!! hez right! how?? damn it... hw do these ppl kno dat I will screw up? sme1 spyin on me!

Ok fine, I am screwin up, but wats more annoying is the 'airtel' signal... bastards, since I came bac from home the airtel n/w has been "poor" ... I havent spoke on fone properly with any1 yet. I was in bad mood, nd wanted to spk to sme ppl, but airtel din allow me to .... bullshit!... I wrote a hardcore hate letter to them, lemme c hw they will respond to it ... bastards!

So this week will entirely go in frustration... damn it.... time is bad ... sooo many problems in the past 1 month ... well, I ll keep up the hope nd stay as "calm" as possible! :)

My bike ...

Well, Its been jus over a month now since i bought my bike "TVS Apache RTR 160" ..> one awesome bike ... gr8 performance, power, looks... ulti bike ... I love it!
well. wat more to say? ... u wanna test drive? ... frget it ... hehe ( attitude... :P )

Peugeot Concept Cars of Tomorrow

If Gundam mated with Will Smith's Audi in I, Robot, the offspring would resemble these futuristic concept cars from European brand Peugeot. The cars car-like vehicles were all entries in the 2008 Peugeot Design Contest. Designers were asked by organizers to create vehicles for that ambiguous but tantalizing "city of the future." Areas of focus included environmental awareness, "social harmony," interactive mobility and efficiency. As you can see in the "Blade" vehicle above, efficiency is improved with the wind turbine that designer Ying Hui Choo added to charge an on-board electric battery.

The 888, designed by Oskar Johansen, pivots at the center and reduces its size for "easier parking, maneuverability and increased visibility."

Emre Yazici's "EGO" has two wheels and is controlled Atari-style with a joystick. The windshield doubles as the door.

Wireless guitar and drums

Another interesting thing I found ...

Just like the actual Rock Band 2 game, the new Rock Band 2 peripherals work more at refining the experience than redefining it. The wireless guitar and wireless drum kit add a bit of freedom from tripping and crashing into coffee tables, as well as minor design decisions that only improve your fake rocking out. The improvements aren't different or better enough for Rock Band 1 owners to throw out their current gear and buy these versions, but they are a great bonus for people who are buying the Rock Band 2 set.

The Guitar: The differences between the wireless Rock Band 2 guitar and the wired Rock Band 1 guitar are minor. The most obvious one is the fact that you can now, as Bruce Dickinson advises, "really explore the studio space" without yanking your Xbox 360 onto the floor. It may sound like nothing special, but it's one of those things—like getting waxed—that you have to experience for yourself to understand.

The strummer is almost exactly the same as the first, but has a slight bit more firmness to it. Nowhere near as clacky like Guitar Hero's, but Rock Band fans like it that way. The fret buttons are also exactly the same, with five up on top and five down below for solos. These are also slightlymodified to feel better to the touch.

The exterior design is modeled after the Fender Stratocaster, with a faux wood finish look (the guitar is still plastic) that's nicer than Rock Band 1's. It's also slightly shorter by a couple inches. It's not an amazing upgrade, but definitely improves on the old version in every way. All these miniscule changes made our playing better. Not incredibly better, but just enough that we notice a difference. Still not good enough to pass Green Grass and High Tides on expert though.

The Drums: Rock Band 2's wireless drums are also slightly changed from the original, including a reinforced kick pedal to address breaking issues and velocity-sensitive drum pads. The target smack in the middle of each head makes it a lot easier to hit the center of the pad and not the edges because there's a subtle difference in sound when you hit compared to the rest of the face. The wireless on these drums isn't a huge deal because unlike the guitar, you're not roaming around your living room while drumming. It is useful for keeping the area between you and the TV clear, which is always great for clumsy drummers and singers. We didn't get a chance to test the cymbal add-on, which should add an extra layer of complexity for experienced drumsters.

Just like the guitar, the minor changes found in the drums aren't worth upgrading for if you already own a set. Instead, you can think of these as a bonus for people who were patient enough to wait for Rock Band 2 before joining the rhythm music craze.