Saturday, July 4, 2009
I read a really good Sardar Joke in the tamil weekly magazine Kumudam. Here's the english version for you.
A Sardarji comes up to the Pakistan border on his bike. He's got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard Iqbal stops him and says, What's in the bags?'
'Sand,' answered the Sardarji.
Iqbal says, 'We'll just see about that. Get off the bike. Iqbal's guards take the bags and rips them apart; empty them out and find nothing in them but sand. He detains the Sardarji overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. Iqbal releases the Sardarji, puts the sand into new bags, heaves them on to the Sardarji 's shoulders, and lets him cross the border.
A week later, the same thing happens. Iqbal asks, 'What have you got?
'Sand,' says the Sardarji. Iqbal does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to the Sardarji, and crosses the border on his bike. This sequence of events is repeated every day for three years.
Finally, the Sardarji, doesn't show up and one day and the guard meets him in a 'dhaba' in Islamabad. 'Hey, Buddy,' says Iqbal, 'I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about...I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling?'
The Sardarji, sips his Lassi and says, 'bikes'. . . . . . . . . . . .
An Indian walks into a New York City bank and asks to see the loan officer. He says he is going to Europe on business for two weeks and needs to borrow $5,000. The bank officer says the bank will need some kind of security for such a loan, so the man hands over the keys of a new Rolls Royce parked on the street in front of the bank.
Everything is checked out, and the bank agrees to accept the car as collateral for the loan. An employee drives the Rolls into the bank's underground garage and parks it there. Two weeks later, the man returns, repays the $5,000 and the interest, which comes to $15.
The loan officer says, "We are very happy to have had your Business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are little puzzled.
While you were away, we checked you out and found that u are a multimillionaire. What puzzles us is why would you bother to borrow $5,000?"
The Indian replied," Where else in New York can I park my car for two weeks for 15 bucks?"
Proud to be an Indian !!!
Article from: http://arun-kumaar.blogspot.com/2009/03/indian-brain.html
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Here's a wonderful website, which lets you find out amongst two keywords, which is the most searched.
Here it shows a short fight between two stickmen and then it shows the result.
A good way to find out which keyword is searched more in Google.
Google Fight
My laptop had been infected for long by a virus. I had identified it to be the recycler virus couple of weeks ago. But I had never really been trying to remove it. Yesterday evening, the virus had started virtual memory hijacking (ie., loading more memory for other processes). I could not bear it any longer.
So I started to search about the recycler virus. And I have made a small tutorial on the steps to remove the virus.
Goto your drive(in command promt C:\ or D:\)
Type ATTRIB -S -A -H -R.
2. Ensure that you are able to see hidden files by going to Tool>Folder Option>view and checking off hidden files.
3. System Volume Information and Recycler should be visible in your root drive (c: d: or whatever drive you use) .
4. Go to your drive and right click on RECYCLER folder and click delete.It was not deleted in my case, since it was being used by some other process. Force del is a useful application to override this error and delete the folder.
5. Right Click on System volume information folder and go to Properties. Go to the tab labeled Security, If your user name is not there then add your username that you use for XP . Give yourself all security rights as well as the SYSTEM user. Then press okay. If you cannot see the security tab and you are using XP professional then go to Tool>Folder Option>View uncheck box "Use simple File sharing" then select Apply.
If you have no clue of what step 5 was, there's a simpler way of doing it.
- Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
- Make sure that you are in the root folder of the partition for which you want to gain access to the System Volume Information folder. For example, to gain access the C:\System Volume Information folder, make sure that you are in the root folder of drive C (at a "C:\" prompt).
- Type the following line, and then press ENTER: cacls "driveletter:\System Volume Information" /E /G username:FMake sure to type the quotation marks as indicated. This command adds the specified user to the folder with Full Control permissions.
- Double-click the System Volume Information folder in the root folder to open it.
- If you need to remove the permissions after troubleshooting, type the following line at a command prompt: cacls "driveletter:\System Volume Information" /E /R usernameThis command removes all permissions for the specified user.
6. Go to the recycle bin the desktop and right click. Choose properties then check the box " Do not move files to the recycle bin. Remove files immediately when deleted." Press Apply.
7. Go to the System Volume Information folder and delete the last folder. These folders are where Xp has taken a snapshot of your system in order to restore it. The virus is hiding here in the event that you restore it is also restored. If you are sure which folder to delete, don't worry. Deleting all the folders in System Volume Information will just delete all the restoration points.
8. You should now open the registry editor and remove the virus from here so that when you restart the virus is not recreated.
9. Open the registry editor. Start >Run> then type regedit in the box and select OK The registry will now open.
10. Hit Ctrl+F Type Recycler (iuhi64 should also be searched) in the search box . Delete the entry when found. Press F3 to find the next occurrance of Recycler(iuhi64) and delete.
11. Close regedit.
12. Go to all installed harddrives and so steps 2- steps 6, steps 8 and steps 9.
13. Run your virus software. You should be able to update any virus software that was previously unupdatable.
14. Restart your computer
15. Verify that that the reycler folder is deleted from you root drive.
16. Then you can uncheck the box in the recycle bin that you checked in step 6. To keep all you deleted files in case you need to restore a file that was accidentally deleted.
My findings:
This virus is recreated using the methods of the recycle bin. Everytime you delete a file it recreates itself because it looks in the recycle bin and restores or copies the virus information inside. If the virus is not able to be stored inside and is immediately removed when you check the box in step 6. Then it cannot recreate itself and all of its power is lost. So erasing it from the registry and drive ensures that it cannot return. It has two copies one in the recyler folder and another one in system volume information. Deleting both the folders does the trick.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_remove_recycler_virus_found_in_hard_disk
http://www.winmatrix.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=13021
http://support.microsoft.com/
These were the three most useful links for me to understand about the recycler virus and delete it.
Spending an evening with the virus ensured that, my laptop was free of recycler virus.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Read this in singer Chinmayi's blog. It was pretty cool.
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right and the other is the husband!
Don't marry the person you want to live with, marry the one you cannot live without, but whatever you do, you'll regret it later.
You can't buy love, but you pay heavily for it.
(Especially this one!!) Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Those who can't laugh at themselves leave the job to others.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Woman: Is there any way for long life?
Doctor: Get married..
Woman: Will it help?
Doctor: No, but then the thought of long life will never come.
It's funny when people discuss Love Marriage vs Arranged. It's like asking someone, if suicide is better or being murdered.
Source:Loved this....!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Have you ever wondered how to check whether the rapidshare link really works? Even I have wondered abut it. Accidentally I found this site(http://tubenow.net/link-checker/) which gives us this feature.
Monday, June 1, 2009
In VB.Net there's a feature for commenting multi lines. The toolbox has the provision for that. It is one handy feature in .net.
Friday, May 22, 2009
A bookie calls Shane Warne before the match between Kolkata KnightRiders and Rajasthan Royals.
Cell phone rings. Warne picks up.
Warne : hello
Bookie : I am ….... Here.
Warne : yes tell me
Bookie : how is the pitch
Warne : ya dry and good for batting
Bookie : I want u to loose today’s match
Warne : impossible
Bookie : I will pay u $200,000
Warne : will be difficult to make KKR win.
Bookie : I will pay u $250,000
Warne : May be I could help you by reducing the margin… u tell by what margin we should win… will be much more easier
Bookie : no KKR should win
Warne : OK. I will try my best
Bookie : no make it.
Warne : OK.
Bookie : what will be the score
Warne : 200, if we bat first
Bookie : no make it 120
Warne : Impossible. Agarkar and Kartik are playing.
Bookie : 120 no change.
Warne : I will try
Bookie : OK. If KKR bat first
Warne : 110
Bookie : no make it 175
Warne : no u are asking too much. Ganguli is playing.
Bookie : OK make it $300,000
Warne : This would be the toughest match in my life
Bookie : OK, deal is made.
Warne : yes
Bookie : bye.
Match starts KKR bats first. KKR score only 120 in 20 overs. During the lunch break Shane’s cell rings.
Warne : hello
Bookie : its me. why did KKR score only 120. Our deal was 175.
Warne : What can I do ? They run one when they could run three, defend full toss, get out on wide balls, all catches and shots… I mean, if there is any… exactly directed to the fielders. But I will tell you this, Knight Riders are too good at this , I tried re-arranging the field…but they never miss a fielder.
Bookie : still u could bowl more no-balls. We got only 53 extras.
Warne : I asked all my bowlers to bowl badly. I also made Smith and Asnodkar bowl.
Bookie : Okay… leave that… I want u to loose the match.
Warne : I will try.
Bookie : Rajasthan Royals should be all out for 110
Warne : OK.
Bookie : bye.
Warne is ready to face the last over his cell rings (he plays with his cell).
Warne : hello
Bookie : its me! . What are you upto ?
Warne : We tried the best we could
Bookie : OK forget it. I want u to loose the match
Warne : what can I do. Fate !!! Agarkar is bowling
Bookie : I don’t know… u are loosing
Agarkar bowls… Warne tries to hide his bat behind his back. But the ball hits the bat and goes to third man. So they take a single.
(cell rings)
Warne : sorry what can I do I was hiding my bat but still the ball comes and hit my bat. If I play much worse than this everybody will find out.
Bookie : (gets really tensed). OK I can understand. But please don’t take last two runs.
Warne talks to Carseldine. Agarkar bowls… a juicy full toss. Carseldine uses all his batting skills to restrict that one to a single. Scores are level.
(cell rings)
Bookie : OK. Past is past. Atleast finish it in a tie. I don’t know what u are going to do u are not taking a single or u give u’r bat to the umpire.
Warne : OK. OK. Don’t worry this time I will! see to it we are not taking the single. Let it be obvious also. I am not taking the single.
Agarkar bowls, unfortunately he bowls a no ball. RR wins the match.
Bookie goes mad and Shane warne faints in the field itself.
Moral – With a team like KKR, who needs to fix a match
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Lord Shiva in my dream
I had a pretty strange dream today morning which I remember well. I could very well conceive a story from that dream. The dream started with me planning to watch a movie called Arundhathi(I have not watched it till now) along with my family in my grandma's home. But a different movie plays up on the screen. The story was about Lord Shiva in some city(I don't remember the names in my dream) who's eyes are closed. He's meditating. His temple was the cynosure for foreign visitors. I happened to be in the movie as well. I want the Lord to open his eyes. And make him see this world. When I reach the temple, to my surprise he does open his eyes, and speaks something in English! That's when couple of foreigners appear out of nowhere. They inform me and a person with me(must be my friend) that, the specialty of the this God is that, God opens the eyes and speaks whatever they speak at a particular location in the temple. I couldn't believe it. And the Statue of the Lord fell down and shattered into pieces at the end of the dream.
Well, the story might appear raw. But when I spruce it up, it might turn into an intriguing story. May be a part of Time to Live.
