Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Atlast I have connected to internet from ubuntu.
Here are the steps.
Have the router/modem on. This is applicable only for ethernet (I'm not sure about USB)
Ethernet Connection
1. Connect the modem/router to the ethernet card.
2. Assign an IP address for the ethernet card; the router has a fixed interface address of 192.168.1.1, so you can use 192.168.1.2 for your ethernet interface.
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.2 (It is not ipconfig. It is 'ifconfig')
3. Add 192.168.1.1 as default gateway.
$ sudo route add default gw 192.168.1.1
4. Enter the address of some DNS servers in /etc/resolv.conf. These DNS adresses are provided on BSNL’s instruction manual.
$ sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf
The entry will be of type nameserver 218.248.255.193, where the IP will be the one provided in your DataOne instruction manual (or contact BSNL for this).
5. Access the router’s management interface via a browser by typing the address 192.168.1.1. The admin username/password is admin/admin
* Set the connection type to `PPPoE’. On Settings--->PVC0
* Enter your user name and password (username is of the form xyz@dataone)
* Reset the router. It will take 2-3 minutes for the box to come up again
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Well I had started a fan-fiction of HP 7 way back in 2007 and written few chapters.
Thought my blog readers shall have a read of this incomplete story.CHAPTER 1
VOLDEMORT VS.HARRY POTTER
With all the horcruxes destroyed and only the last bit of soul to be conquered Harry would soon meet voldermort in their final match.Who would win it?It's been a long journey for Harry right from the day he had seen Hagrid for the first time!
Harry had been in greatest despair when dumbledore died.And wanted to kill snape.But found that Snape was innocent too.Now snape too had died to save Harry.
And Ron and Hermione were in St,Mungo's,injured while destroying the sorting hat.So he was alone and had to kill Voldermort on his own.
when all these thoughts were crossing Harry's mind.
Harry heard someone calling "Potter",voldermort has entered the room.
"Voldermort",screamed harry and lifted his wand like a gladiator would lift his sword.
"what are you doing in this department of mysteries?Potter how do you want to die,as your Godfather black died?or as Ginny died,or as the traitor snape died?,or as Dumbledore died?".
As voldermort was speaking Dumbledore appeared out from nowhere but air!He was standing in between Harry and Voldermort!
"Good evening Tom, Hello Harry ",he said with his usual warmth.
Voldermort was stunned "how could this be possible?"
"I could not believe my eyes",he said.
Harry was shocked surprised,happy,and many other emotions filled him all together.
"Tom,the power of love which you constantly ignore saved me, and would now kill you"
Suddenly a cry of "AVADA KEDAVRA" was heard.Voldermort fell down,the person who killed voldermort is............................................................................................CHAPTER 2
“Harry, Harry”, harry was pinched hard by Hermione.
Harry woke up from his sleep.
“It’s getting late for the marriage.Get ready soon Harry you should not be late.”
“Hermione. I had a strange dream , voldermort being killed by someone and Dumbledore coming alive.”
He explained his dream in the best possible way,he remembered it.
Hermione was surprised to hear such a dream from Harry.
But for a second she thought ’what a happy day that might be,if the dream comes true ’
She sighed and said ”Harry we would all be happy if that becomes true but it is too early to predict.”
“We’ll discuss it later Harry.Bill would be very happy to see you, I’ll move on.”, cheered Hermione and left.
Harry was giving the dream a thought.‘I had been standing in the department of mysteries and I should have destroyed all the horcruxes for someone to kill Voldemort.Who is that person for I could see only his shadow when he was about to see who he was? Hermione woke me up.Only if I had seen who it was thought Harry.
He had planned to go to the godric hallow after bill’s marriage, which was going to happen today.
Harry who was picked up by uncle Vernon at the end of 6th term
had escaped himself from Surrey to Grimmaud palace after a brief stint of one week there.
“Potter sir, Harry Potter sir”, squeaked a voice which was from none other than Harry’s favorite elf Dobby. “Potter sir, shall I make the breakfast ready”
“Yeah, Dobby. You make it ready while I make myself ready.”
*********************************************************************************
The marriage hall was filled with lot of people who Harry recognized just by seeing once.Harry raised his eyebrows seeing Percy .
Hagrid smiled at Harry.
But Harry was surprised not to find the man who was obvious to be present.Lupin was nowhere to be seen.Harry wanted to discuss about his strange dream to Lupin.Harry was disappointed.
A sudden thought crossed Harry’s mind if he was not here then he should be with Grayback’s werewolf team and Lupin had promised to.......
To be contd.,
Lupin had promised to locate the Godric hallow for Harry and Harry’s travel to the Godric hallow will depend a lot on Lupin’s presence.
Harry didn’t know how 2 hours passed as Bill had exchanged the rings with Fleur Delacour.
Gabrielle (Fleur’s sister)was present too.
She gave a pleasing look towards Harry,seeing him,which he hardly noticed.
Just after the rings were exchanged, Lupin entered the palace , grievously injured,
With blood covering his robes.
Lupin came straight towards Harry.
“Harry, come with me, we have to leave now to you know where”.
Harry started ”why are you so badly injured? ”
Lupin cut him “Later Harry.we have to leave now .”
“come with me immediately ”,said Lupin.
Ron and Hermione started protesting.
“We would like to come with Harry wherever he goes.”, they pleaded.
“You don’t understand. We have to go alone” ,said Lupin.
Tonks started to say something…
“We would soon return, we should go”, Tonks was cut in by Lupin.
“Listen here all off you. It’s my decision that really matters. I decide to go with Lupin. Don’t try to stop us please ”,Harry said.
Many wizards and witches present in the marriage were left as silent spectators of what was happening.
They didn’t have any clue of what was happening.
(NOTE: THE MARRIAGE IS TAKING PLACE IN GRIMMAUD PALACE)
Harry left with Lupin.
All were discussing about what further surprise they might
in this marriage?
Ron and Hermione were hugely disappointed by the way Harry dealt with them
They were angry with Harry as he didn’t explain the reason for leaving them.
One hour passed………………
Lupin came back alone.Harry was nowhere to be seen.
His robes were drenched in blood.
He came straight to Hermione (the closest person)
He asked “Hermione Where is Harry?”
To be contd.,
What’s this?”, shouted at least twenty persons.
“Harry had gone with you”, Hermione said.
“No”, cried Lupin.
“I was attacked by some person, I don’t know who it was, right outside this building,
He bound me with Incarcerous , and hit me with few more spells and I started bleeding heavily I went unconscious and I don’t know how long I had been unconscious”
As Lupin was talking,
Tonks pointed her wand towards Lupin and said “Episkey”. The nose which was bleeding, very badly, Stopped bleeding.
“Well, someone who had come in your disguise had taken Harry with him , and the last thing we wanted is losing Harry”, said Hermione.
“Even if he attacked me how was he able to plot the Palace?, unless he was in the order of the Phoenix.”, questioned Lupin.
“Why did you send Harry alone. Is this the way you protect him?”,said an angry Lupin, seeing Lupin angry was a very rare sight, and this is the first time people had seen him angry.
“But whoever the person was he has hoodwinked all the witches and wizards here and had taken Harry” , said Bill.
“So. We had lost Harry….”, declared Hermione.
“No you haven’t”, said a voice which everyone there,knew.
It was the voice of Harry Potter himself.CHAPTER 3
“Harry, where were you”, asked Lupin , Bill, Ron ,Hermione, Hagrid and many others.
“Well it’s a long story”, said Harry.
“I guessed something was wrong with Lupin. I wanted to sort it out. Further,
I wanted to discuss with him a matter.So I left with him.”
“We left. Lupin asked me to hold his hand as we had to apparate to the Godric hallow.
After we had apparated I found that the person was no longer Lupin.
He had transformed into some other person. Guessed he was not Lupin.
He should have taken the polyjuice potion. That place was too creepy.
That man didn’t talk too much. I had never seen him before.
I thought that it was unsafe to be with him.
So I had apparated back, in a flash.” Harry finished.
Well this is what Harry said them. But he lied, at least partially
The actual story is…………
Harry left with Lupin. They had apparated to the creepy place, which Harry mentioned.
But the person spoke lot.
The person started to speak as his figure transformed into a tall, slim, fair guy, with a pinch of sadness in his eyes but with sharp nose and blonde hair.
“Harry, I am not Lupin”,he said.
“I very well see that”, replied Harry.
“I knew you were not Lupin even before traveling with you ,for Lupin would always show a lot of patience which was missing in you, but I wanted to find who you were, so I came with you, so Who are you?, are you a death eater” demanded Harry.
“Well I was one, you may not believe me, but I am Regulus Black”, said that person.
Harry could not believe his ears.
“How could I believe you?”, asked Harry.
“I have two proofs, first read his”, he handed a parchment to Harry.
It read
To the Dark Lord
I know I will be dead long before you read this
But I want you to know that it was I who discovered your secret.
I have stolen the real Horcrux and intend to destroy it as soon as I can. I face death in the hope that when you meet your match,
You will be mortal once more.
R.A.B
It was the replica of the parchment which Harry earlier gained.
“How is it possible? You are R.A.B?”, Harry was shocked, surprised, and he went dumb.
Regulus continued,“The second proof is…………” he showed Harry a locket.
Harry asked ,“Is this the locket still a horcrux, haven’t you destroyed it yet.”
“Certain questions are difficult to answer Harry. But the Dark Lord is a very clever person. I think he had developed the potion in such a way that that the person who drinks it would never be able to destroy his horcrux.”, Regulus said.
“Where were you so far and Sirius said to me that you were killed by Voldemort in person.So how did you escape death?”
“Harry,I was trying to find the remaining horcruxes of Lord Voldemort,after many years of hard work I found one”
“What is that horcrux?”Harry grew anxious.
“Well,it might be hard to digest but you have to, it’s YOU”,said Regulus.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO”,yelled Harry.
To be contd……..
“Harry, Harry don’t get upset I had been observing you for the past four years Harry,knew that you could not take it, but I had to tell you , the time’s come for you to know”
Harry who had by the time gone restless started to shoot a series of questions towards Regulus ,“How do you know I am a horcrux, How did you escape Voldemort, Sirius said that you were directly killed by Voldemort?,Where were you all these years? Why did you disguise yourself as Lupin,? How had you been observing me for four years?Why did you bring me hear and what do you want me to do?”
“Well Harry not too many questions together! Ask one by one.”,replied Regulus.
“How do you know I am a horcrux?” said Harry.
“I got this theory only after seeing you Harry.You possess some of the rare qualities of the Dark Lord , further the curse ‘AVADA KEDAVRA’ never leaves any mark, u have a scar Harry, which is an indicator that he never used the killing curse on you instead he should have made you a Horcrux. Making a wizard as a Horcrux should have deprived him of his power” explained Regulus.
“Well it’s only your guess right? How could you be so sure that I’m a horcrux.And is Voldemort so foolish to destroy his own horcrux.”, said Harry.
“Harry, you don’t know much about the Dark Lord, he would always have a reason beyond every action of his which I’m now not sure of ” , you being a horcrux is not only my say but Dumbledore too has the same feeling.
Harry could not believe his ears.This day has been one in which Harry has heard too many bizarre stories and now he hears that Dumbledore feels something.
“How do you know what Dumbledore feels or rather felt? He’s dead don’t you know that?”,said Harry.
“Harry sometimes truth is stranger than the fiction but believe me Harry Dumbledore’s portrait has become active.I don’t know how. I went to Hogwarts to check whether an object of the Dark Lord was still there.While searching, I entered the Headmistress’ room.There I was surprised to see Dumbledore arguing with Phineas, my grandfather. Dumbledore too was surprised to see me alive,like you.He asked me many questions which outnumbered you.After answering them all,he believed me.He took me to his confidence.He gave me a lot of instructions one was to take persuade you to go to Hogwarts and meet him.”,said Regulus.
Harry’s brain was jammed with too many thoughts.
“I’ll answer all your other questions later, we are running out of time, except for one question.How was I able to observe you for the past four years?.........though this is not your question”, paused Regulus
And continued “Harry like my brother I’m an unregistered animagus too and I’m the cat who was named as crookshanks by Hermione,your friend” finished Regulus.
Harry’s excitement was going up.
Regulus took out a teacup from his pocket. He raised a wand and murmured “PORTUS”. For a moment the teacup vibrated, glowing with an odd blue light; then it quivered to rest, as solidly black as ever.
“Harry you take this ”, he said handed the teacup to Harry.
“This is a portkey to Hogwarts, Dumbledore would be waiting there for you”he said and added “Not Dumbledore himself but his Portrait”.
“But I would not like to leave to Hogwarts without informing Ron and Hermione”,said Harry.
“You need not Harry ,for according to them you are not going to leave.”
“What?”,said Harry.
“I said according to them you are not going to leave”,saying so Regulus took a large bottle full of potion,Which was present in a shelf in that creepy place,Which Harry recognized in his first sight. It was the polyjuice potion.CHAPTER 4
What’s happened since that is quite understandable?
Regulus had taken the polyjuice potion and transformed into Harry and had returned to the Grimmauld Palace and Harry’s left to Hogwarts……………
Harry held the portkey tightly into his hand on the count of three he said to himself
One………..two………..three………….
He was swirling fast.He reached the Headmistress room.The portkey had taken him there.
He had a voice “WELCOME BACK TO HOGWARTS,HARRY”, the voice very familiar to Harry, he could never forget the voice of that person, it was the voice of Albus Dumbledore the late Headmaster of Hogwarts, from his portrait.
“Sir…Sir…..How are you?”, Harry could not form any other sentence with his brain jammed with too many thoughts for a 16 year old(Harry’s yet to celebrate his 17th birthday).
“Harry, rather than the question how are you it might be more prompt to ask what are you?, My senses are no more active. But my sense is very active, last week I had a great fight with Phineas on the issue of being a portrait”, said Dumbledore who looked like a person filled with over whelming joy.
“Sir I’m glad that you are back”, said Harry.
“I’m as happy as you are”, replied Dumbledore.
“Sir, I said about Snape to you. Finally he turned out to be a villain and had……..had………….k……………”, Harry could not finish.
Dumbledore finished “And he had killed me Harry”.
“Harry.The episode you witnessed of snape killing me has many reasons lying behind it.But that is to be explained later.As for now I can only tell you that we have to continue our lessons.Harry go near the pensieve placed on the table…..”
To be contd.,
Three days passed.
At the Grimmaud palace, Harry was sitting aloof from all the persons in the house.
Lupin saw Harry, he came near Harry and said,”Harry,you asked me to take you to the Godric Hallow.Shall we go there now?”
“Yes definitely”,laughed Harry,well Regulus in Harry’s disguise.
“We would accompany Harry this time.Last time Harry was sent alone and the consequences were not exemplary”,declared Ron and Hermionein unison.
“So let it be”,said Lupin.
Lupin continued
“I have a portkey for Godric hallow.Hold it.On the count of three.Three……..two……….one…….”
This feeling of traveling using a potkey was not new for them,being wizards they all have had the experience of using a portkey.They landed in a place.
“It is similar to Hogwarts grounds”,said Ron.
“It is not similar to Hogwarts Ron,It is Hogwarts”,said Hermione pointing towards the castle.
“Where have you brought us”, before they finished the question to Lupin he had vanished.
**I am using Harry (Regulus) to indicate Regulus is in the form of Harry Potter
To be contd.,
They started to move around the castle grounds in search of Lupin.
Harry (Regulus) said, “What is the point in uselessly roaming? Let us go and meet McGonagall and explain her, what happened.”
Though Ron initially hesitated he agreed after Hermione showed little of her persuasive skill and imperative skill mixed together.
They went to a spot in the seventh floor corridor where a single gargoyle stood against the wall.
Ron asked, “Now how to enter the office without knowing the password?”
“FELIX FELICIS”, said Harry (Regulus).
“What a vague guess”, said Ron.
For a moment nothing happened then suddenly, the gargoyle leapt aside; the wall behind it slid apart, and a moving spiral stone staircase was revealed, on to which all the three stepped, so that they were carried in smooth circles upto the door with the brass knocker that led to Mcgonagall’s office.
“How did you know this password Harry”, questioned Hermione with lot of suspicion that was visible in her way of questioning itself.
“Oh! come on Hermione. It was after all a good guess from Harry”, said Ron.
Harry (Regulus) said, “No Ron. Hermione is right. I am not Harry Potter. I am Crookshanks”, saying so Harry (Regulus) transformed into Crookshanks.
Both Hermione and Ron wondered what other surprise they had to face.
Well, they are in for lot more surprises.
To be contd.,
And it was never continued. I started my research work for Mystic Murder(my first novel), so I left this story incomplete! (Before I could resume, the original book released :-))
Hope you had a good time reading it.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
Whenever I feel bogged down, I get such morale boosters! This is one such story, which drives me to work to travel beyond the boundary.
This is a story of an elderly carpenter who had been working for a contractor for the past 53 years. He had built many beautiful houses but now as he was getting old, he wanted to retire and lead a leisurely life with his family. So, he goes to the contractor and tells him about his plan of retiring. The contractor feels sad at the prospect of losing a good worker but agrees to the plan because the carpenter had indeed become too fragile for the tough building work. But as a last request, he asks the old carpenter to construct just one last house.
The old man agrees and starts working but his heart was not in his work anymore. He had lost the motivation towards work. So, he resorted to shoddy workmanship and constructed the house half-heartedly. After the house was built, the contractor came to visit his employee's last piece of work. After inspecting the house, he handed over the front door keys to the carpenter and said, "This is your new house. My gift to you." The carpenter was shocked and upset. Had he known that he was building his own house, he would have done a better job!”.
Think of ourselves as the carpenter. Though we work hard every day, we put our least to some work, which we don't like and get shocked at a situation we have created for ourselves and try to figure out why we didn't do it differently.
Learn to enjoy your responsibilities with pleasure and not with pain. "Life is a do-it-yourself project". Do your job enthusiastically and with devotion, a positive output and a pleasing life will certainly be on your way.
A different Love letter and a beautiful reply to it.
A teenage college guy sent a love letter (in Q/A format) to his classmate.
My Dearest Reshma,
Please answer the following questionnaire. Select (a), (b) or (c)
1) Whenever you enter the class room, your sight always falls on me because:
(a) of love
(b) you couldn't control seeing me
(c) really ... am I doing it?
2) Whenever professor cracks joke, you laugh and turn and look at me because:
(a) you always like to see me smiling
(b) you are testing whether I like jokes
(c) you are attracted by my smile
3) When you were singing in the class, I entered and immediately you stopped singing because:
(a) you are so coy to sing before me
(b) my presence influenced you
(c) you feared that whether I'll like your song
4) When you were showing your childhood photo, when I asked for it, you hide it because:
(a) you felt ashamed
(b) you felt uneasy
(c) you don't know
5) During trekking, myself and my friend gave you hand for lifting you and you took only my friend's because:
(a) you enjoyed my disappointment
(b) you won't feel leaving my hand after grabbing
(c) you don't know
6) You were waiting yesterday for bus and didn't get into your bus...
(a) you were waiting for me
(b) you were dreaming about me and didn't notice the bus
(c) that bus was crowded
7) You introduced me to your parents when they came to college because:
(a) I am going to be your groom
(b) you just want to know what your parents think about me
(c) just you felt like introducing me to them
8) I told that I like girls wearing roses. Next day, you came with a rose on your head because:
(a) to fulfill my wish
(b) you like roses
(c) by chance you got a rose
9) On that day, it was my birthday. you too came to temple early at 6:00 A.M because:
(a) you want to pray along with me
(b) you want to meet me before any one could meet on my birthday
(c) you want to wish me at temple because you are spiritual.
Your score:
For Options
(A) 10 marks,
(b) 5marks and
(c) 3 marks.
If you have scored more than 40, then you are loving me. Don't delay in expressing it.
If you have scored between 30 and 40, love is budding in your heart and it's getting ready to bloom. If you have scored less than 30, you are in confusion whether to love me or not.
Eagerly awaiting your reply..
Love, Aakash
Reshma's reply letter was also in Q/A format......
Aakash,
Please answer the following Yes/No questionnaire.
1) If somebody sits in the first row, normally people entering the class, sees them.
(a) Yes (b) No
2) If a girl laughs and looks anyone, is it love?
(a) Yes (b) No
3) While singing, if somebody forgets lines of the songs, will he/she stop singing or not?
(a) Yes (b) No
4) I was showing to my friends (who are all girls) my childhood photo.
You poked your nose inside..... right ?
(a) Yes (b) No
5) I avoided to hold your hand during trekking. Couldn't you understand yet?
(a) Yes (b) No
6) Should I not wait for my best friend (Anjali) at the bus stand?
(a)Yes (b) No
7) Shouldn't I introduce you to my parents as a friend?
(a) Yes (b) No
8) You have said you also like Lotus, cauliflower, banana's flower. Is it true ?
(a) Yes (b) No
9) Oh was that your birthday. That's why I could see you in temple. I come daily to Temple. Do you know ?
(a) Yes (b) No
If you have answered "Yes" to any of the question, then I am not loving you. If you have answered "No", then you don't know the meaning of Love.
Hope everything is clear to you!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
I had been bugged by the newfolder.exe virus often.
Here is a simple way to remove it from your pen drive.
Search *.exe in your pendrive.
Arrange icons by modified.
Delete the exe files which have the image of a folder!
Just thought of it, when my pendrive got affected by the virus!
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Gtalk is the Widley Used Messenger all over the Internet ,People are now switching to Gtalk slowly and slowly leaving yahoo messenger due to some enhanced feature.So its necessary for new gtalk users to know more about Gtalk ,for this we have created a short Gtalk Tutorials that will help users while surfing gtalk .
Send Bold Text: Text embedded between two * characters is displayed as bold text. Example: This is a *bold* statement.
Send Italics Text: Text embedded between two _(underscore) characters is displayed as italics text. Example: This is an _italics_ statement
Insert Line Breaks: If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter
Send mail: Press F9 to send a mail to the contact with whom you are chatting
Restore Google Talk Window: Press Windows Key + Esc to restore Google Talk window from system tray
Call a Contact: Press F11 to start a voice call with the chat contact and F12 to end the voice call
Insert Line Breaks – If you want to have a message that spans multiple paragraphs, just hold shift and hit enter. You can add as many new lines as you want to create.
Switch Windows – Hitting tab will cycle through open windows. It will select minimized conversations, to expand them just hit enter. If you just want to cycle through IM’s and don’t care about the buddy list, control-tab will do that and will automatically expand a minimized conversation if you settle on one.
Length Of A Single Message – A message can be max 32767 characters long.
Use Keyboard shortcuts while talking in Gtalk ,It will make yours work fast and talk Easy ,Below are some keyboard shortks for Gtalk User.
- Ctrl + 5 (KeyPad) - Selects all the text typed.
- Ctrl + 1 (NumPad) - It goes at the end of the last line.
- Ctrl + 7 (NumPad) - It goes at the begin of the last line.
- Ctrl + F4 – It closes the current window.
- Alt + F4 - It closes the current window.
- Alt + Esc – It Minimize the current open window.
- Windows + ESC – Open Google Talk (if it’s minimized, or in the tray).
- F9 - Open Gmail to send an email to the current contact.
Nickname & Status Message:You can’t change your nickname in a way that other people will see it change. Every nickname in the Google Talk contactlist is the part that is before @gmail.com (only the alphabetical characters are used) or the name you chosen for your GMail account. To change the nickname need to go to your Gmail account and change the name there. Choose Settings, Accounts, and then Edit info. Click on the second radio button, and enter your custom name. As a result all of your emails will have that nick as well, there is no way to seperate the two. You can add a website in your custom message, it will be clickable when someone opens a conversation window with you.
- F11 – It initiates a telephonic call with your friend.
- F12 – It cancels a telephonic call.
- Esc – It closes the current window
How To Make Conference Calls:To have conference calls in Gtalk: Open up a copy of Google Talk on all computers with which you wish to conference. After one copy is opened make a new shortcut for Google Talk but at the end of the target add /nomutex. If you installed it to the default folder then your shortcut should read
“C:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex.
Open Second instance of the software on every user’s computer.After this start a chain: User 1 should connect on one instance to user 2. User 2 will connect on his second instance to user 3. User 3 will connect using his second instance back to user 1. With this chain everyone is connected to everyone.
Login to multiple Google Talk accounts simultaneously with a very easy hack. Follow these steps
- Create a shortcut of Google Talk messenger on your desktop or any other preferred location .(To create a shortcut, right click on your Google Talk messenger application select Send To–>Desktop(create shortcut) )
- Right click on the Google Talk messenger icon and select Properties option
- Modify target location text “c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /startmenu to
“c:\program files\google\google talk\googletalk.exe” /nomutex
- Click Ok and you are done with this .
Contacts: Don’t need to say yes or no when someone wants to add you as a friend; you can simply ignore it, the request will go away. (On the other hand, someone with whom you chat often will automatically turn to be your friend, unless you disable this).
Wierd: The Gmail account ‘user@gmail.com’ can’t be invited as your friend.
Sunday, July 19, 2009
The word ampersand is a corruption of the phrase "and per se and", meaning "and ( symbol which by itself (is) and". The Scots and Scottish English name for & is epershand, derived from "et per se and", with the same meaning.
Traditionally, in English-speaking schools when reciting the Alphabet, any letter that could also be used as a word in itself ("A," "I," "&" and, at one point, "O") was preceded by the Latin expression "per se" (Latin for "by itself"). Also, it was common practice to add at the end of the alphabet the "&" sign, pronounced "and". Thus, the recitation of the alphabet would end in: "X, Y, Z and per se and." This last phrase was routinely slurred to "ampersand" and the term crept into common English usage by around 1837.
Through folk etymology, it has been claimed that André-Marie Ampère used the symbol in his widely read publications, and that people began calling the new shape "Ampere's and."
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
