IT ostracized!!!!!

1.         Few days back a petition was filed at the Bombay High Court calling for a ban on Google Earth citing that terrorists used this mapping service to plan attacks on key emplacements in Mumbai, on 26/11. It reminded me of a similar instance of army wherein few years back Pen Drives were banned following some breach of security information.

2.         “ Mindset” comes as the key to such pudden-head and dullard bans. Such Mindset is linked to the low IQ and literacy level of such decision seekers. I have also read articles wherein similar bans were asked for WiFi connectivity at various places.Now moving on these lines I have a few sample bans which should also be taken care of to eliminate security breach:

a.         Why not ban manufacturing Vehicles in which the terrorists or the offender moved from the source          location to the destination location quickly?

b.         Why not ban mobile phones across India so that they cannot plan further?

c.         Why not ban manufacturing or accessing computers in this country owing to which all this is taking place?

d.         Why not ban manufacturing Guns/Rifles and ammunition?

e.         Why not simply ban INTERNET in India?

3.         So why just pendrives or google earth? It is indeed staggering the way decisions are being made and sought in this country. It wouldn’t come as a surprise to me if access to Google Earth is banned in this region in some time.

4.         What we actually need is to find a way out to tackle these…elimination is not the solution.

5.         The IT quotient of aam aadmi (which indeed hold the majority) needs to actually improve before it gets too late.Be it the defence or the civil.Till the time the defence General saab knows what can be more lethal then pen drive,till the time judge saab of the court knows what power IT holds today…what decision will he be able to make?However big they may be in terms of respectable positions and appointments,they would still form the TAO group(harayana wala) who still believe ke bhayaa ye computer shamputer kuch na karkey dega…karna sabko khud padega…………!!!!!!!

Fighting LIGHTSCRIBE !!!

1. I bought my laptop few years back and I had exploited all its features including Blue Tooth,WiFi,Web cam,running high processing softwares to test its 2GB RAM,CD/DVD Writting etc but not LightScribing.

 2. This term in easy terms would mean printing on CD/DVD just like you take a printout on paper…..will get more clearer from the picture inset…..I had read some theory on this on how it works and what is the procedure of doing the light scribe but practical always remained a backlog till last week when I got the opportunity to do some thing on it.

 3. LightScribe is an innovative technology that uses a special disc drive, special media, and label-making software to burn labels directly onto CDs and DVDs. These have a limitation of being in Black & White only as on date. Because the labels are laser-etched—not printed—there's no ink, no smudging, and no peeling. Your labels can be whatever you want them to be. Create one-of-a-kind designs with your own photos, text, and artwork using your label-making software. Or choose from the many free templates available on the net.

4. The first thing I required was the light scribe DVD.Now finding lightscribe DVD in a small town (..I hope the jalandharite’s don’t mind on that....)is also a problem . Shopkeepers have to be explained N number of times of what it is ? and still they never understand. You usually get comments like “kya saaab....matlab cd pe screen  printing ha ha ha....That apart I finally got one opportunity on leave to visit the IT hub Nehru Place in New Delhi.

5. At Nehru Place,I got to know of the variety of Light Scribe DVDs available.They range from Rs 400/- to Rs 1800/- for a set of 10.To find out the reason of difference in price it was not the company or brand,but something to do with the quality of laser coating on the DVD.The costlier the DVD,the better would be the contrast and the cheapest of them would give you a relatively darker burn but would be good enough to see the image you have burned.So I went ahead with the Rs 400/- to experiment with.

6. Next thing was the software. My laptop came preloaded with Home Vista Basic which made its way to heaven immediately on arrival since I wanted it to work with Vista Ultimate. So the preloaded Light scribe HP software was gone and I thought of installing it from the SWSETUP/LSHSI folder.As i started it , I got the message “UPDATE_SHELL_COMMAND” property must be set on the command line”…so straight I asked god!!!…(Has google become God?)..so came many answers and threads to solutions but nothing could solve it.So I started looking and experimenting with numerous third party software’s and I tried “Sure Thing CD Labeler”. The name of the software went with the meaning and solved my problem. Easy Installation, Easy Writing, No Hassles,No DLL’s missing and no message to mess with ““UPDATE_SHELL_COMMAND”.So got my first LIGHTSCRIBE as shown in pic.

INTEL & BIKE

1. When I first got to know of the joint embarking between Intel & OCC ie Orange County Choppers,global manufacturers of rugged & custom choppers(….we call bikes). I read the whole article once again to believe it and leaped 15 years back …of course in memoirs…when I got my first bike Hero Honda SPLENDOR.This bike ruled the Indian roads for a good 5-6 years with no stiff competitors around till 2001 when Bajaj PULSAR was launched with the DTSI 150/180cc with the option of a DIGITAL SPEEDOMETER….the first of its kind in the bike segment in INDIAN context.

2. The kind of spark this created to the bike customers was stupefying.In no time Pulsar swept over the bike segment complete in all aspects. Marketing, sales, roads….colleges, schools, offices….Pulsar made its comportment every where just because of its Male look(..as advertised) and of course a small  contributing factor was the electronic speedometer which made Bikies like me think then if ever computer will do something with bike. 

3. So it first happened about 2 years back when Intel® and Orange County Choppers got together to build an Intel® themed masterpiece. They needed a computer that could take all the abuse the bike would dish out and still be flexible, portable, and powerful enough to power all the systems of the bike.Black Diamond Advanced Technology (Black Diamond), a technology development firm specializing in the design and implementation of rugged electronic systems, provided engineering support to create a fully computerized Intel® themed motorcycle by Orange County Choppers.The following are the key features of interest :

a.         “Sunlight Viewable Detachable dashboard” and fully computerized processes on the motorcycle such as keyless ignition and electronically controlled kickstand activation.Keyless ignition is replaced by finger print recognition software. The figure shows a pictorial representation of how the dash board looks like.

b.         Designed to meet military specifications to endure shock, vibrations, dirt, water and extreme temperatures). PC features a custom module that allows for easy portability of the computer, which is mounted between the handlebars on the motorcycle.Portability means you can take the detachable dashboard from the parking stands to your office and open Microsoft Word and do some office work after attaching the keyboard.

c.         Rear-mounted cameras that replace standard rear-view mirrors,so web cam time is no more confined to your desktops and laptops...it has started making presence felt in vehicle infotainment.

d.         Audio and video systems integrated with the handlebars and headset in the helmet 

e. Wireless connectivity including Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS.

f.        Processor details includes 1.0 GHz Intel® Celeron® M processor, 1GB of 400 MHz DDR2 and can run Windows XP, Vista, CE, Mobile or Linux, packing the power of a desktop PC in a lightweight, handheld rugged form factor.

 

DETRITUS...(I mean dust) vs IT

1. People ask me about why I choose words like “detritus” when I could have chosen a simple word like Dust which is more familiar to the aam Indian janta…well….even I don’t know why I sometimes try to make simple thing complex….so that’s not the subject I am going to discourse here….the subject relates to the kinship, the affinity and the relationship between IT in India and dust.

2. Not so long back I remember in my school computer classes we were made to remove shoes and then countenanced to enter the consecrated Mandir ie the computer lab of the school. Be it the school principle or the vice patron/patron or be it any Hifi panjandrum..(I mean a VIP)..he would only enter the sacred mandir of the school after removing his/her shoes. There on, I was made clear in the mind that dust and IT share a typical gali ka majnu(Dust) and a pulchritudinous or more simply a beautiful girl(IT) relation….where the majnu will be always after the girl and girl would try make a vague attempt to repudiate the undesired advances from the majnu…..and the winner will be majnu.

3. In came so many IT giants in India viz SONY, Samsung, Philips, Moser Bair and the list goes on…they introduced Zero Dust Labs in there respective manufacturing units. I have been fortunate to visit most of these wherein I was made to look like an astronaut covered in beautiful, neat, clean white tailored cloths with boots of snowman before I could enter these labs.It was an exercise beyond doubt for an employee who would go through this drill of changing clothes in the morning as he enters,in the afternoon twice as he breaks of for lunch and then rejoins to again finally breakoff in the evening.All said and done the IT giants made every ounce of effort to make the ZERO DUST LAB a success…but the moment the test tube babies came out of the lab…I mean as the manufactured units in form of CDs,DVDs or harddisks etc..they would again be exposed to DUST and that’s where it would again go out of control…..the dust interacts again……

4. So off late when I read articles like a recent one where SONY has kept Indian demographics and usage environments in mind and has introduced the AD-7220S-ID DVD-RW drive with 'dust proof' technology. This drive offers 22x DVD read/write speed and has six sponges in the inside of the bottom cover and bezel and PWB to make it dust-proof; a 20 percent increase in product life is claimed by Sony due to this. The drive is available in SATA format and supports 48x CD read/write speed and maximum 12x DVD-RAM write speed.

5. The sponges might make a fringy & marginal difference by absorbing dust and keeping the drive clean but the madhur Milan of the majnu would never fail and the dust would always be there at the end to meet the IT.

THE NAME IS RAJNIKANTH

1. Now whats Rajnikanth doing here in this BLOG..which deems itself to reflect IT news and small things about life.Actually a personal favorite of mine...I thought I must include this favourite of mine...this guy is amazingly amazing for those who know him....and for those who do not know him...I really understand that they r missing something.....i mean not someting...but quiet a LOT...ek baar rajni ka issssshtyle dekhogey to vaaakai TENSION free ho jayogey.....

2. This guy has stupefying,flummoxing,baffling or more simply just amazing SCREEN PRESENCE.I have a lot of respect for him for he is unlike a superstar in so many ways we see other actors and still dooms large on them.The XXX factor could be measured when crowds from all sections of the society Hindi/Telugu/TAMIL off course/Kannada/Japan/Russia throng the cinema theatres.Google is the place where one would be able to measure the scale of strength he modulates when he appears in his movies today....even as a youngster.....(though he is closing on 60 next year).

3. Here is a list of characteristics of the character that Rajnikanth entertains on in his list of HITS...

a. Rajnikanth makes onions cry

b. Rajnikanth can delete the Recycle Bin.

c. Ghosts are actually caused by Rajnikanth killing people faster than Death can process them.

d. Rajnikanth can build a snowman..... out of rain.

e. Rajnikanth can strangle you with a cordless phone.

f. Rajnikanth can drown a fish.

g. When Rajnikanth enters a room, he doesn't turn the lights on,......... .... he turns the dark off.

h. When Rajnikanth looks in a mirror the mirror shatters, because not even glass is stupid enough to get in between Rajnikanth and Rajnikanth.

j. The last digit of pi is Rajnikanth. He is the end of all things.

k. Rajnikanth does not know where you live, but he knows where you will die.

l. Rajnikanth calendar goes straight from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Rajnikanth.

m. If you spell Rajnikanth wrong on Google it doesn't say, "Did you mean Rajnikanth?" It simply replies, "Run while you still have the chance."

n. Once a cobra bit Rajnikanth' leg. After five days of excruciating pain, the cobra died.

o. Rajnikanth was once on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and was the first to spin. The next 29 minutes of the show consisted of everyone standing around awkwardly, waiting for the wheel to stop.

p. It takes Rajnikanth 20 minutes to watch 60 Minutes.

q. Rajnikanth once shot down a German fighter plane with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

r. Behind every successful man, there is a woman. Behind every dead man, there is Rajnikanth.

s. Rajnikanth destroyed the periodic table, because Rajnikanth only recognizes the element of surprise.

t. Rajnikanth got his drivers license at the age of 16 Seconds.

u. WHEN YOU SAY "NO ONE'S PERFECT", RAJNIKANTH TAKES THIS AS A PERSONAL INSULT.

COMPRESSION.... has a LIMIT?

1. Compression of files to me means diminution or simply reduction in size of data in order to save space or transmission time.So till recently I used to use the famous winzip which used to give an average reduction of 30-40% of the original file size.But that stood till recently before I met a file of size 716kb....even less then one MB and when I unzipped it ..it stood out to be a complete 696 MB...amazing..yes a compression beyond belief.

2. For information compression can be as simple as removing all extra space characters, inserting a single repeat character to indicate a string of repeated characters, and substituting smaller bit strings for frequently occurring characters. This kind of compression can reduce a text file to 50% of its original size and this is made possible with the help of various programs that uses various obscured formulas or algorithms.

3. This lead me to hounding for various zipping softwares available in the web world and I found one KGB....now the KGB site claims (http://kgbarchiver.net/)  that it reduces 1 GB into 1 MB......I said in my mind.....ke bhaiya this is impossible till i tried compressing one avi file of 700MB ...........and the reduced size was 726kb...........so was it!!!!!!!so I mailed it to my mail box....downloaded it in my office next day.and yes...i downloaded 700kb file and I got extracted with a 700 MB file...so theorem proved LHS =RHS.

4. So where is the discommotion?...good things never come easy........i had to wait for 135 minutes for compression and "Yes" before you try it make sure you have a good processor which can bear the load of work that would be given to the bechara processor combined with gooooooood RAM......the other problem is availability of the software at a price...where did I get it from? do u wish to know? the answer starts from T & ends with Z.........still not understood......better mail me ur email id.......will let u know!!!!!!!!!!

HOLOGRAPHIC TEXT Messages

This thing I had heard and discussed long back when I was being graded in an institute or still clearer ...when I was studying few years back ....then it was taken as an IT hoax that would never happen or would take light years to become a reality...not any more for those who believe that IT is the biggest biggest thing to have happened in the history of mankind after the invention of wheel...zyada to nahee bola....khair any way....this video shows what can be the impact of a holographic text message....needless to explain this...it is to be understood by seeing!!!!!!so watch it to believe it......

Google & Carbon Dioxide : The relationship most of us don't know

1.   Now this again is something new that I came across. I certainly know about a typical data center and its long term cordial relation of janam janam with heat generation. Now what I came across new is something to do with statistical data about equivocalness and measurement of this heat connection with the Google hits.

2.    A recent study survey says that performing two Google searches from a desktop computer generates about 15 gm of Carbon Dioxide which tantamounts to boiling a kettle for a cup of tea. Isn’t it something nonplussing. Now I am sure you would read the sentence again. Meanwhile I will go ahead…… 

3.    So hunting in Google has a definite environmental wallop. So why is everyone after google…..y measure in terms of google hits …y not measure in terms of hits of http://anupriti.blogspot.com  Ha...ha ha….ha  …its simple because Google has the largest number of hits about 200 million global hits every day andhttp://anupriti.blogspot.com has only the author who reads……SIMPLE!!!!!!!!!!

 4.  Further in store is says that CO2 emanations caused by individual use of internet generates about 0.02 gm of CO2 per second. This increases by 10 fold to 0.2 gm of CO2 when viewing a website with complex images, animations or videos. 

5.  So what’s the worry folks…is their something to worry…….Yes I unfeignedly believe it’s a critical issue. The internet revolution has just begun in last 8-9 years and has a long way to go and if this is the beginning what’s in store ahead ???What now then?........let the brain techies think over it and we can just appreciate later……..thats what 99% of us belong to and do most of our lives………!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Software Leloooo....Software lelooooo

1.  I have spent my bachpan in the middle class galiyaan of Saket wherein I was frequent to hearing the sabzeewala singing and doing cantabile on his cycle with loads of subziyaan ....."AALLLU LELOOOO....Baigan lelo..........." and so on and the list went on till he recited his entire list of subzees in his bunny bag.

2.  Lately I got cued of this sequence as I visited Nehru Place,the hub of IT Hardware   selling and Software.Not less then about 30-35 persons with a bag full of CDs and DVDs with a collection of plebeian photocopy list of all the latest softwares (cracked) were found freely dispersing the song "Software Leloooooooo.....Software Leloooooo".I was surprised thus,for the second time I put my ears wide open to get the substantiation again.Yes....indeed they all were selling SOFTWAREs....all including Windows Server 2008,Autocad 2009,Windows 7 beta,Encarta 2009,Encylopedia 2009 and so on...........the list is endless.....

3. I wanted to take a pic of that but regrettably I was not carrying anything to get them clicked.Nehru Place is one real place to be known as IT HUB...the real one.....much like we have sabzee ka bazzaar there we have a IT ka bazaar.People who do not K of computer(.........does it even exist in the word)...are found selling old computers...motherboards,,,,harddisks...RAM....all.....u name it they have it.....and at a price at which BILL GATES WILL ANNOUNCE HIS RETIREMENT AGAIN.SUN,SOLARIS  and all major software developers would get deposited in their closest and respective ICU's............Rs 60/ is all it takes to get a combination of all these softwares in one DVD........yes...a DVD...DUAL LAYER with a capacity of 16 GB........Janta is found even bargaining & dickering on this and they even get it.

4. Is it right or wrong?.........of course it  is wrong !!! but who cares.........oh darling yeh hai India.........

DOES DEMOCRACY MEAN FREE 2 STRIKE?

1. Days will not be far when we search fuel on google!!!!No time to joke anyway.This comes in context of the PSU and the govt dispute.Now an effect, to the scale of effecting the entire nation, over a regular issue that keeps propping every now and then,can happen in apna own democratic HINDUSTAN only.

2. In this country the meaning of democracy is not understood by many.To many it means anyone can speak anything,anyone can do anything,anyone can sit on a dharna or may be anyone can go on strike.This is what is understood by many.Now since yesterday anyone who has been watching TV would have come across usual common man cry over shortage of petrol...kisi kee maa bemaar hai...kisi ki koi meeting hai...someone is left stranded on a NH1 highway for want of petrol....and the list goes on.No body is effected in the PSUs and nor in the goverment.They both are fighting and the common men is being pisoed.

2. This kind of a strike clearly reflects SELFISHNESS,MEAN-NESS,Miserly attitude of the strikers.Have some responsibility towards the nation.There is no difference I find between a cosseted,spoilt,ballsed up tyke and them.For want of a wage revision they are ready to put at stake the NATION.

3. Any outside country watching this could easily take this opportunity if this doesn't get under control at the earliest.Movement/Motility/Commuting across a country,mind it not a city or a town or a village,in context of an entire nation is held up.Imagine at this time ,being struck by a natural calamity,all relief measures would be held up for want of an issue like wage revision of a PSU.Awful!!!Execrable.

4. Now it would be seen I am sure all the echelons in these PSUs would move scotfree,no action would be taken.....because INDIA has the biggest democracy in the world.What does democracy mean,no body knows!!at least the PSUs don't know.The fact that these Mongrel's have put a country at stake before their own meagre selfish mind is enough to prove them guilty of commiting a undesired umbrage.

5. So recommended action is DECREASE THEIR SALARIES.

Get Flummoxed : Futuristic Laptops

1. Got these pics  from http://www.tuvie.com/category/laptop.This site has a collection and details of all these laptops with brief details.Below is a collection of these real good lucrative futuristic laptop sets.Worth a dekkhna.