tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-359806062024-02-07T01:14:40.152-08:00Mr DigeratiAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-53694799087246000892010-08-29T11:26:00.000-07:002010-09-04T03:02:14.442-07:00[SOLVED] OALD7 installation on Ubuntu 10.04!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">:D Well.. . as crazy as if sounds .. . I finally managed to Break the Code! :P</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">IF you-don't-follow-my-blogs OR you-don't-remember-stuff THEN</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">URL.refer (</span><a href="http://mrdigerati.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-what-i-did-on-v-day.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">http://mrdigerati.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-is-what-i-did-on-v-day.html</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">:-) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">oops!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">END IF;</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">// Yeah Some PL/SQL *HIT I'm into these days. Sucks?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Anyway! Coming to the point. I looked for answers like almost everywhere and couldn't really find even one...! Finally I went deep and mined some stuff, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">similar </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">issues that the gamers were facing. Hail Loki.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b>ISSUES:</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b>#1</b> (regular usage)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">$ ./installation.sh<br />
Verifying archive integrity... All good.<br />
Uncompressing ..........................<br />
This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on Linux / <b>x86_64</b><br />
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<b>#2 </b>(using x86 emulation)<br />
$ linux32 ./installation.sh<br />
Verifying archive integrity... All good.<br />
Uncompressing ..........................<br />
/home/nikunj/.setup5913: error while loading shared libraries: <b>libgtk-1.2.so.0</b>: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br />
Couldn't load 'atal'<br />
The setup program seems to have failed on <b>x86</b>/glibc-2.1<br />
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<u>Both the times it said:</u><br />
Please contact Loki Technical Support at support@lokigames.com<br />
The program returned an error code (1).<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Anyway. 'linux32' should've ideally worked but .. . . there was more.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><b>WHAT I DID TO MAKE OALD7 run:</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">#1. To run 32-bit apps on 64-bit Linux, you first need to install these prerequisite packages:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-sdl dpkg-dev</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">#2. Then I downloaded the i386 package from the Ubuntu site.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">libGTK1.2: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/libgtk1.2/download">http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/i386/libgtk1.2/download</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">#3. Deflate (Unzip/Un... hmm... Deb?) the <b>libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386.deb</b> (right-click and extract) and then go inside the folder hence created. Deflate <b>data.tar.gz </b>and go inside .<b>/usr,</b></span><br />
<b></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">$ cd libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18.1build2_i386/usr/lib</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> (in short)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">#4. Now we need to copy the files (lib? Modules?) to the location where OALD7 desires to find it!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">$ sudo cp -v -i * /usr/lib32</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">#5. Try installation now. <b>[ERROR. still?]</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">(Even after that another library was required)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">$ linux32 ./installation.sh </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Verifying archive integrity... All good.<br />
Uncompressing ..........................<br />
/home/nikunj/.setup6372: error while loading shared libraries: <b>libgmodule-1.2.so.0</b>: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory<br />
Couldn't load 'atal'<br />
The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1<br />
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#6. Then I downloaded two i386 packages for the Ubuntu site.</span><br />
<div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">libGLIB1.2ldbl: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><a href="http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libglib1.2ldbl/download">http://packages.debian.org/lenny/i386/libglib1.2ldbl/download</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Follow the same procedure (#3-5) for <b>libglib1.2ldbl_1.2.10-19build1_i386.deb</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
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</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">:D and voilà .. . :P this is what you get! Don't kill me :P</span><br />
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</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">I don't know why but just couldn't see any TEXT :-| I closed my eyes, trusted my senses and from the last time I installed it without this 'Chick Chick'. Pushing the third Check-Box would save all the Sounds etc and makes it offline! :) DO THAT.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Finally :D ..... Legen --- wait for it ---- Dary!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Installation of OALD8 is easy! :P Quick.</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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:D Guess what has been made available online! :P<br />
The yearbook09!!<br />
<a href="http://groups.google.com/group/theknol"><br />
TheKNOL@GoogleGroups</a><br />
<a href="http://theknol.blogspot.com/">TheKNOL@Blogspot</a><br />
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Cheers!! and do leave comments! :P<br />
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<b>Update:</b> Yearbook09 is a book we informally (not with the college's support)... created (designed)... advertised... published.. for our final year engineering students in 2009 (as a memoir of all our college life). Of course it would not have been possible without the contribution of the batchmates... we took a nominal fee (rest came from the efforts of the marketing team) and provided them with the published book.<br />
300 copies were published in a batch of 450 students. Trust Me that's a lot. :P<br />
The book contains:<br />
<ol><li>Contact info of each and every student (section-wise)</li>
<li>Profiles (saving their current state of mind.. as "accomplishments, future-plans, I'll always remember.. and general comments") written by them [this is going to be fun some years down the line]</li>
<li>KNOL-Poll (We had the final year comment about various things relevant to us and give votes for various titles like "Mr Handsome" and "Miss Attitude")</li>
<li>GroupPages (for sharing the fondest memories of your friend-circle with the world)</li>
<li>Articles/ Poems to keep the spark and the theme alive!</li>
<li>Chronology (all the eventful events happened during our stay)</li>
<li>College ka Map with legend :P</li>
<li>Buddy Pages</li>
<li>Societies/Clubs etc</li>
<li>Class Awards.</li>
</ol>To look at the individual pages (preview) please visit the Picasa Album.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-27581075598630989982010-04-17T06:12:00.000-07:002010-05-08T08:18:11.891-07:00Earlier Today...<div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: left;">Viewers Discretion is advised.</div><div>[Content Below can Bore you to DEATH!]</div><div><br />
</div><div>well well... :P</div><div>I tried a lot to search for a certain someone called bai...!! :( but none of the bais thought it'd be safe enough!! :-/ [No Shiney Mentions here please.. I'll get touchy]</div><div><br />
</div><div>[We are 4 guys in a 3BHK! :P Brand New!! If you care i can totally flaunt more! hehe]</div><div>On second thought.... Do we look this ugly :( !!</div><div>Anyway... I thought instead of waiting for this "Inta paisa mein inta-etch milega" types Bai... (you know by now.. everyone in the neighborhood knows we need one :O ... so do the security guys...) I put the wiper and Domex (Jo mujhe Virasat mein Bhaiya/Bhabhi se mila hai) to good use.</div><div><br />
</div><div>WHAT THE HELL!!?? :D</div><div>[Glad you asked...!]</div><div>The mission involved motivation and initiation (and a hell lot of VELLA-giri) and how can I forget the wiper [due regards]!! It all started this afternoon... when Batra was just leaving.. and I was getting exhausted from excessive monitor staring (24 Season4).. MehraJi was relaxing in his Jeans and Anup tinkering with the Rubik's Cube..! I hit the space bar... Came out to grab some water and looked at the floor.. I paused for a while.. when I realized that I could take it no longer. Absurd epiphany and "Leadership by Example" suddenly became very relevant [thankyou Infosys for the word!] and so I began moping the floor...! :P under the Guidance of Mehraji.. I secured the Kitchen...! and soon Anup joined and they took over. Please zoom in AND observe the reflection on the floor!</div><div><br />
</div><div>There was something else going on.... and to know that... here is the background story!!</div><div><br />
</div><div>Well the story dates back to the month of March (2010)... when Bhaiya/Bhabhi were here in Pune (India)... and I had moved in with them in their furnished apartment...! Things were going fine.. even better [think y!].. until one day... [what was i thinking!!?] I asked them to come upstairs and take a look around! "Heinous crime" as I call it. :-/ Since then "Ms Bai" mentions exponentially increased... "I needed one" they said..! "You mean the apartment needs one right??"!</div><div>To add to it.. a cousin of mine also joined their side and I was left alone with my Laptop [which is often addressed as my "Wife"]..!</div><div></div><div>In another exciting turn of events, Mom and Dad scheduled their Pune visit in the month of April (an attempt to have a small family reunion.. which was real FUN btw!). And so it occurred to them to see how is their younger kid was doing [that'd be me]... even though Bhabhi didn't spill the beans [we respect secrets! :D haha.. eachothers']! :| They would have seriously killed me agar woh pahunch gaye hote mere room tak! :P :| so I tried to dodge, change the topic.. false excuses.. everything I could... :P and this one time I even offered them the key to my place.. just to see how determined they were!! :D yielded and yay! .. I came out clean. Hope they'll just see the pictures which I'll "email" them!! [OH! wait.. what if they follow me too!! :O D-Day!]</div><div></div><div><br />
</div><div>Do check the images!! :P and please ignore the obscenity! :P</div><div><br />
Well people often ask me (considering the popularity and the number of comments on each post) this question.. that who do I blog for.. :P the Future-Nikunj, I say!</div><br />
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I finally cleaned my room(as well)!<br />
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<b><u>Update:</u></b><u> 20100501</u><br />
:-( I've moved to the Hall... !! Sad... yet.. Its fun as well! :P Check it out.<br />
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</div><div>Well.... if you want it quick.. picture this.... I was generally sitting in a friend's apartment and when I chose to connect to any available network [don't get intimidated by the UI: its Ubuntu 9.10].. It successfully gave me the IP via DHCP and I could open pages... surf web. All Good right? ... not my fault if someone is not using a LOCK in his HOUSE (but doesn't mean that give me liberty to go Steal). I could've acted like a parasite on that connection (eating all their bandwidth) without this poor guy even knowing what's wrong... but what if someone sends a Hate-Mail to the President using your access-point (without you even knowing!! Think: You got arrested for "nothing". Such a Shame!!) or trigger some terrorist activity?<br />
As my brother says... "It-cannot-happen-to-me" attitude is an ego-booster but ignorance is not always beautiful. It actually has happened in India... //TODO quote<br />
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So, why go thru all that trouble? There are several measure you can take, choose one and be sure you stay out of it, avoiding anything like that from happening to you. For instance:<br />
<ul><li>You can restrict the Mac-Addresses which can connect to the connection</li>
<li>Otherwise you can have a secured connection, have a password to connect to the accesspoint, without which no machine can't get connected.</li>
</ul>Consider this post just FYI. The Term is called <b>Wardriving.</b> [makes sense though]<br />
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PS: My other posts below tell us how to ensure your accesspoint is secured connection.<br />
PPS: Why don't they educate properly? </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-59658716793466981232010-03-06T07:41:00.000-08:002010-03-06T08:33:51.318-08:00The College Bhraman!<span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Hehe..! I didn't get anything for anyone! :P well they deserved!! True Story!</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Will probably.. surprise them.. the next time I meet :D [yeah!! no one read my blogs anyway!]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">I came back.. last week and started working... :) Its fun at Office...! With mails like "Burger Party at my Cubicle @ 3:30!!"... "Sweets at my Desk!"... :P I also took </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Pedas</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">... and </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Ganga Jal</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">.. when I got back after a long vacation!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Proof:</span><br /><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2xgu4_94W-hbILYk3XtkKXRX8pEj658jTvR_je_TvMKlUi1gAj1AUHyY8iY_UuBYNXR1XrrkwX6u7ByMZhjupaLV6EAeqr9CxcWN7Net4eozP7Mx8qWgXM-8TuZCZTK3MZuY26g/s1600-h/Image0125.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2xgu4_94W-hbILYk3XtkKXRX8pEj658jTvR_je_TvMKlUi1gAj1AUHyY8iY_UuBYNXR1XrrkwX6u7ByMZhjupaLV6EAeqr9CxcWN7Net4eozP7Mx8qWgXM-8TuZCZTK3MZuY26g/s320/Image0125.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445552376385765586" border="0" /></a><a style="font-family: times new roman;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1afxZuyOOgjjd-njprz2W40iPYTPPF5b2upW8Aqdg1NDHkOQwAJvmiItJsZ61L2QtqMH2HeFu7b2YIgw61wundkVkd6eFLw-483FGUHpFEPxNEhOLLKRxN4QXWxSJOwbkPYxlA/s1600-h/Image0126.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj1afxZuyOOgjjd-njprz2W40iPYTPPF5b2upW8Aqdg1NDHkOQwAJvmiItJsZ61L2QtqMH2HeFu7b2YIgw61wundkVkd6eFLw-483FGUHpFEPxNEhOLLKRxN4QXWxSJOwbkPYxlA/s320/Image0126.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5445552384230372066" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">(Udit, Anshul, Niharika, Mani, Ritika and Mukul.. and TheRedEyed Me! Back in the old cafe!) </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PS</span>: Vaibhav.. Bulbul and Mishi! :| I totally forgot to call you out...!!! Knol developments and Yearbook thing... ate all my time! :D But I had fun!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PPS</span>: After spending 4 years at my lovely-wified college...! Broadband feels like HEAVEN!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">PPPS</span>: 23rd Feb, '10</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-547708122037441812010-02-26T14:00:00.000-08:002010-02-26T14:37:54.431-08:00[FIXED] Multiple Terminals: Simultaneous Broadband Access<div>So I was trying to connect my Laptop and Desktop simultaneously to the Internet (Vuze was feeling left out on my machine), but the PPPoE won't let you authenticate (with same or different credentials) for other systems, when once connected to a system. It tells me that "the phone line is busy". </div><div><br /></div><div>For the utter vellaness of my life... I studied the router manual but heck couldn't find the "next" button (.. :( See PDF) for the first two days [I thought probably my router was a different make and so couldn't follow the advanced settings instructions]. Finally I got the right manual (see PDF again) and got this sudden brain-wave to click on 'next' sheepishly (Mahn! they should tell us on the first page that there are going to be a total of 'n' pages for the complete configuration! X( ..... Sucks!!)</div><div><br /></div>OK. So I kept tinkering, it wasn't a big deal anyway! :P Ah! My Week full of Sundays is about to get over... :( Does that mean.. no more Blogging?? :(<div><br /><div>Well what I did was kinda simple... I just logged on the router setup as 'Admin' [opened 192.168.1.1... easy!!] and changed configurations. Reboot the router and wait for it to stabilize.<div><br /><div>The Network is now password protected and no need for any PPPoE client :P anymore [it has been set to the PPPoE mode from Bridged Mode], it automatically connects.</div><div>[Heyy!! Does this mean that the post below has gone to a waste?? :O ... well Lets just call it a lesson learned.. (wink)]</div><div><br /></div><div><div>I read the stuff and found out that this mode separates the Network and our systems providing an internal Firewall (and that's why its the recommended setting). You should totally do that.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>Well find below the link using which you can very easily avoid war-driving issues... and get rid of the PPPoE mess...!! Save Time. Awesome!! now I can seamlessly connect to Internet thru my mobile device as well. Life looks good again.</div><div><br /></div><div>Links:</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre; "><a href="http://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oINDcwOTI1NTQtYzc3Yy00MWRiLTk3NGEtNjMxNmI4MDIzMTMz&hl=en">View/download PDF</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 11px; white-space: pre;"><a href="http://www.chennai.bsnl.co.in/BBS/Wireless/WirelessSecurity.htm#WA3002_Modem_configuration:"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">Source:</span> Chennai BSNL</a></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-73367333060744850542010-02-25T02:42:00.000-08:002010-02-25T02:45:56.293-08:00Print Your Blog!!Awesome invention:<br /><br /><a href="http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/blog2print/googleblogger/index.html">http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/blog2print/googleblogger/index.html</a><br /><br />Get the whole <a href="http://blogspot.sharedbook.com/blog2print/googleblogger/index.html">blog printed</a>!! Would work best for an avid blogger or his best-friend.<br />:) You can even categorize the book in years... get the PDF instead.<br /><br />Its not for Free of course.. but the shipping is.<br /><br />Happy Blogging. CiaoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-45862719084417165122010-02-24T09:49:00.001-08:002010-02-25T02:42:50.527-08:00[SOLVED] BSNL Broadband over PPPoE in ACER Aspire 5738 :) on Ubuntu & Windows<span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" >Well for a few days I'm at home and this awesome </span><span style=";font-family:Verdana;font-size:100%;" >256Kbps (upto 2 Mbps)</span><span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:100%;" > line was introduced to me. I even downloaded some "stuff" via Torrents, FTP. Awesome download speed (Whole 700Mb in 50mins. That's news!)!! And of course, there always is this strong urge to fix things!<br /></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Connecting from Windows XP via Wirel</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >ess</span> Anyway the drivers which came along with the ACER Utility/Resource disk couldn't get my wifi running (I knew the Card was okay as it worked just great in Ubuntu). I tried to download every possible driver matching the product name... Even those for Windows7 sometimes :P [all futile attempts]...<br />Atheros, RALink, Intel, ShirPeak... but nothing worked. I gave up (anyway.. almost all of my time Ubuntu is the sole OS I use, so that didn't bother me much).<br /><br />Here at the starting the 'pppoeconf' [see the section below] wasn't working right. So had to switch on my Windows for a go. You know what...!!! I even forgot the password..!! [had to resort to FingerPrint Access :P Cool! Futuristic!].. anyway.. I changed it from the Administrator Account later.<br /><br />I searched online for tools which can update my Drivers and find those for the 'unknown' ones. I found a few links... like:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.drivermax.com/">DriverMax</a>: Sucked Bigtime.. MaxTime. It wanted to force me to make an account before even using it and connect online. Bloody... I wanted a wifi driver :P You know, this has been a major paradox... "To Connect to the Internet you need to download a package from the Internet itself" [Linux users.. ever heard of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page">ndiswrapper</a>?]. It got uninstalled in seconds.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.halfdone.org/ukd/">UKD</a>: (probable short for <span style="font-weight: bold;">U</span>n<span style="font-weight: bold;">K</span>nown<span style="font-weight: bold;">D</span>evices) It's hosted at HalfDone.org. Elegent GUI did the trick and showed me some info about the NetworkController:<br /><br /><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" >* Windows Description - Network Controller<br />* Hardware ID - VEN_8086&DEV_0083&SUBSYS_13058086&REV_00<br />* Device Category (Class) - Other devices<br />* Enumerator - PCI<br />* Detected Chip Vender - Intel Corporation<br />* Detected Chip Device - <unknown, id="0083"><br />* Detected Vender - Intel Corporation</unknown,></span><br /><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:85%;" ><unknown, id="0083">* Detected Device - <unknown, id="1305"><br />* Device Status Flags - Detected, Unknown, Present, Not Phantom, Category Visable<br /></unknown,></unknown,></span><br />I copy pasted the entire string in Google and on that page (it wasn't in EN btw) there were some links I sporadically clicked and reached a page which said its<span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" > "</span><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >Intel WiFi Link 1000 Driver 12.5.0.57 REV:A</span><span style=";font-family:courier new;font-size:100%;" >"</span>. Bingo!<br /><br /><a href="http://driverrobot.com/download/">DriverRobot</a>: in the mean time I was working on this thing [Multi-Processing you know]. DriverRobot is FREE etc and after the full analysis wanted to go Online to show the possible updates available for the entire computer, but the best part: it allowed me to save the probe as an HTML page and when I opened it under a working Internet connection, it gave me the same Driver Name, <span style="font-family:courier new;">Wireless_LAN_Intel_12.5.0.57</span> [192.4Mb download].<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikc6wzbWL4pXyIKJbCfBjhyphenhyphenr8RYue9lkFbgAHiw3MxiBTkAHeeOOqG9JuzkILpB23d_HDqGD9qSQDUHHrV50WK2YrLa1x2YIulbBThB3V1fZi5KLwr5y4IJ17_GYRF3WFHpVcoaQ/s1600-h/step--downloadFromInternet.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikc6wzbWL4pXyIKJbCfBjhyphenhyphenr8RYue9lkFbgAHiw3MxiBTkAHeeOOqG9JuzkILpB23d_HDqGD9qSQDUHHrV50WK2YrLa1x2YIulbBThB3V1fZi5KLwr5y4IJ17_GYRF3WFHpVcoaQ/s200/step--downloadFromInternet.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442110408492289858" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOdWTBxX1n7j4vfzbvPdo9SVPi8yEUNaJ2ZQPOmAoQX-N_Ss6FrB34Ka0vnZ1B1BA30vPZczOFfHQ64wHFJ646h7c_6Cx9paopS-zCXcC9U07XHSGU8mPUTJ9OlzDxJkKZ6TQbQ/s1600-h/step--downloadFromInternet-2.JPG"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhOdWTBxX1n7j4vfzbvPdo9SVPi8yEUNaJ2ZQPOmAoQX-N_Ss6FrB34Ka0vnZ1B1BA30vPZczOFfHQ64wHFJ646h7c_6Cx9paopS-zCXcC9U07XHSGU8mPUTJ9OlzDxJkKZ6TQbQ/s200/step--downloadFromInternet-2.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442110396345754658" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />192.4Mb... Oh! Come on. I searched and downloaded the <span style="font-family:courier new;">HP driver sp44954.exe</span> (3.5Mb).<br />Works Great.<br /><br />Rest is all a cakewalk. PPPoE id/password and you are thru.<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" >Connecting</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:trebuchet ms;" > from Ubuntu Via Wireless</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Ubuntu saves</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> me of the trouble to download and install Driver. Wouldn't it be amazing if all the drivers come bundled along with the OS itself. Linux totally nails it... in this regard (ting).</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><br />Well just now I managed to configure Internet thru BSNL-Broadband in my Ubuntu as well.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Connect to the a</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">ccess point, you get an IP-address using DHCP.</span> <span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Now you need to use the 'pppoeconf' program.</span> <blockquote style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;">$ sudo pppoeconf</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;">[sudo] password for user:<br /><br /></span></blockquote><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidLY8jK5gOfxxRXPjGNXaJZs2lcNzV3jm5GPEqSEg80wmRABpwshyphenhyphenWa6nc6ADkUKqo6yevU8PJKl5kRNW34eH1t4qJFwH9fMXnsRvTf8vqSdyAww1UXXmYxDESgfDtl3Kmf_6h8A/s1600-h/pppoe-conf.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 212px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidLY8jK5gOfxxRXPjGNXaJZs2lcNzV3jm5GPEqSEg80wmRABpwshyphenhyphenWa6nc6ADkUKqo6yevU8PJKl5kRNW34eH1t4qJFwH9fMXnsRvTf8vqSdyAww1UXXmYxDESgfDtl3Kmf_6h8A/s320/pppoe-conf.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5442117754103002498" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> it shows you a </span><del style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">nice</del><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> dece</span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">nt GUI. Go thru all the recommended settings and its done.</span> And starts the connection instantly.<br />Just make sure you Press "NO" on this page.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">You can check the IP etc using 'ifconfig'.</span> <blockquote><span style="font-family:courier new;">$ sudo ifconfig ppp0</span> </blockquote><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">and you see iNet addr, and P-t-P. All's good.</span><br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;">Later you can use 'pon dsl-provider' and 'poff' to toggle PPPoE status.<br />Good thing right? :)<br /><br />Well the best part that now I can resume the downloads in Vuze.<br />Its <a href="http://www.fox.com/24/">24's-Craze</a> coming up!<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</span><br />Well I restarted the system only to find out that neither the DSL pppoeconf is working nor is my system connected to wifi. So I tinkered a bit a found out... the '<span style="font-family:courier new;">pppoeconf</span>' makes an entry in the<span style="font-family:courier new;"> /etc/network/interfaces</span> and then the <span style="font-family: courier new;">NetworkManager</span> stop managing the Wifi (it says: Device not managed). Either you can delete/comment all the lines from </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"> /etc/network/interfaces</span> </span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"> other than the two lines containing '<span style="font-family: courier new;">lo</span>' [using '<span style="font-family:courier new;">gksu</span>']....<span style="font-size:180%;"> *</span><br />Using gksu, you can open an application in <span style="font-family:courier new;">root</span> mode. (Think: su)<br />Press ALT+F2 >> Enter '<span style="font-family: courier new;">gksu gedit</span>' >> open the file (<span style="font-family: courier new;">interfaces</span>) now and make changes.<br /><br />Connect to the preferred accesspoint (after probably a restart) and '<span style="font-family: courier new;">pppoeconf</span>' again.<br />But its not worth it.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">* or</span>.... you can yourself make a shell script to make that happen.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid "ncryption"<ncryption></ncryption></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> dhclient wlan0</span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> pon dsl-provider</span><br /><br />:) instead of "ncryption"<span style="font-family:courier new;"><ncryption>, </ncryption></span>enter your essid (with/without the quotes).<br />you can later check 'sudo plog' to see if it says something like this:<br /><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> local IP address </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><ip-address-here></ip-address-here></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> IP address </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><ip-address-here></ip-address-here></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> primary DNS address </span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"><ip-address-here></ip-address-here></span></span><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-family:courier new;"></span><br /><span style="font-family:courier new;"> secondary DNS address <ip-address-here></ip-address-here></span><br /><br />Happy Tweaking. Ciao.<br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-406478451574591732010-02-17T10:52:00.000-08:002010-02-17T11:22:23.043-08:00On Viewers Demand :)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTkE4ZP5Nyw4RB593ITPCZ5EHwPCC00uM7ByB7J7zEphPQcExbcAVGQsFKxhcGR22Md721GXB7eH8WwEyTEvy3OVYPQ9-LLJi13ZRlLYf7waS4TjirkHVeOcDu7jkaalT370h8g/s1600-h/acer-aspire-5738-3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnTkE4ZP5Nyw4RB593ITPCZ5EHwPCC00uM7ByB7J7zEphPQcExbcAVGQsFKxhcGR22Md721GXB7eH8WwEyTEvy3OVYPQ9-LLJi13ZRlLYf7waS4TjirkHVeOcDu7jkaalT370h8g/s320/acer-aspire-5738-3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439289056503019378" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnzUWLQiPOzdaEap7F1B34m9O7rO4dZbXPAIwRTJxUbaTkTh4_7a21ZrGYdgTdcR342JfA27EeA4Zu7umc0fQTM3LpnL6o9Mk2T2nr46f3wvfX4n66Ch92IlEwMZWy47kOHMjCA/s1600-h/acer-aspire-5738-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 279px; height: 144px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihnzUWLQiPOzdaEap7F1B34m9O7rO4dZbXPAIwRTJxUbaTkTh4_7a21ZrGYdgTdcR342JfA27EeA4Zu7umc0fQTM3LpnL6o9Mk2T2nr46f3wvfX4n66Ch92IlEwMZWy47kOHMjCA/s320/acer-aspire-5738-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439289048273788530" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLD8tdIW7B327KCwcSehZ_XSHzQZX4l7v0zIgEKAaqRIvwLhyphenhyphenT6PFo3FBJUc9C7PQ3RgOYD1vzVLvR_D6IAmagiOV056AtksG2CJ4ximrBtQjyYY4EmA1IA9knzCgeVZTgCItHZg/s1600-h/acer5738g2.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLD8tdIW7B327KCwcSehZ_XSHzQZX4l7v0zIgEKAaqRIvwLhyphenhyphenT6PFo3FBJUc9C7PQ3RgOYD1vzVLvR_D6IAmagiOV056AtksG2CJ4ximrBtQjyYY4EmA1IA9knzCgeVZTgCItHZg/s320/acer5738g2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5439289045484683538" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Alright!! :P<br /><br />So this is it.... ;)<br />kinda <span style="font-style: italic;">cheap</span> yet A-W-E-S-O-M-E!<br /><br />Beat that!! Acer Aspire 5738!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-39626856721831228932010-02-14T07:21:00.000-08:002010-02-14T08:06:04.068-08:00This is what I did on the V-Day<span style="font-family: georgia;">Ah! You thought I'd write about gifts etc!! Sucker!</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;"><br /><br />1) Download just a few files from the big torrent.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Was extracting Scrubs episodes (downloaded earlier by a friend of mine thru torrents)... multi-volume RARs. But one volume was damaged... No Clue how! So, I used </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.transmissionbt.com/">Transmission-BitTorrent Client</a><span style="font-family: georgia;"> for a change (generally I use Vuze); Had it eat the torrent (the only torrent I could find... was the complete Season4... and I couldn't find the Scrubs-S04E04.part01.rar ... so I started downloading the full episode). It showed me all the Directory structure and finally I could uncheck all the boxes... and then just download the missing Scrubs s04e04. :P Cool Right?</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">2) </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">see the blog below..!! I used </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.virtualbox.org/">VirtualBox</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">!! Minor change in the Network interface emulation (Make it </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">Bridged.</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> If its </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">NAT</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> already) when you use the </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os">Chromium OS</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">;) It should work fine. Also the build you have access to...</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">[if you've not compiled it yourself from the 'git' builds] may have been hacked etc.. so you are advised not to use your Personal Gmail account for access. Create one now... and use.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">:P Identity theft... buddy. Prevention is always better...! ;) You'd never want to install and use it as the only OS on your computer. TRUST ME!</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">3)</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> Trying to figure out how to get </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">OALD7</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> installed in my Ubuntu amd64. It has some 32 bit binaries GTK issues.</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">// issue definition begins:</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">On:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> $ sudo ./installation.sh </span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">Verifying archive integrity... All good.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">Uncompressing ..........................</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">This installation doesn't support glibc-2.1 on Linux / x86_64</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">// So i searched etc and finally... issue2</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">On:</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> $ </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">linux32</span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> ./installation.sh</span><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">Verifying archive integrity... All good.</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">Uncompressing ..........................</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">/home/nikunj/.setup8014: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">Couldn't load 'atal'</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">The setup program seems to have failed on x86/glibc-2.1</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Both of the times it cried about some support etc:</span><br /><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;">Please contact</span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"> Loki Technical Support</span><span style="font-style: italic; font-family: georgia;"> at support@lokigames.com.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">// Issues end here. I hope I'll resolve them one day.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">& hey of course I blog-D today! CAN we count that as 4?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: georgia;">PS: </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">The posts are incomplete and gibberish on will. Thanks for reading. but y would you put yourself thru this pain! ??? M blabbering JLT. Ciao</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-38102814585278761712010-02-14T00:52:00.000-08:002010-02-14T03:07:19.057-08:00Virtual Box in Action<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDiPUvWRY5ss3R0Lbo-WCGgc9qlkftulvE85r2X2V6-bAJBiodFM4CvaPzO2wFQitYNYgxnu1cbcZtc8FKNvv3_Fc_kqIp_pTytkC3bASza5dZW26_OZY2fI-c2FCK4Qm2iHKY1Q/s1600-h/1-main-window.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDiPUvWRY5ss3R0Lbo-WCGgc9qlkftulvE85r2X2V6-bAJBiodFM4CvaPzO2wFQitYNYgxnu1cbcZtc8FKNvv3_Fc_kqIp_pTytkC3bASza5dZW26_OZY2fI-c2FCK4Qm2iHKY1Q/s320/1-main-window.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438028412647669538" border="0" /></a>So Currently I'm running:<br /><br />><span style="font-weight: bold;"> Google Chromium<br /></span>> <span style="font-weight: bold;">OpenSolaris</span> amd64<br />> <span style="font-weight: bold;">WindowsXP</span> SP3 activated (not 64bit though)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >Alright. Many thanks to Chip Mag for providing the Chromium VMDK for the Developer Build [20 Nov its saying].... I could actually try that. Nothing's new on the outside.. plain old Chrome Browser.. and buggy(on network connections etc) on the inside... but its meant to be fast, </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" >light and apt for users browsing internet. On the Virtual Machine it boots up real quick. Good thing. Will post back on Chromium soon. </span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />Please notice in the images that there is the VirtualBox status bar at the bottom.<br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoCveX82ddde3-Zdh-FCzSSq5glh9B3UyLJ3GFb7k_JL7iMV-wkCcUjgjV5Vdt36wmooqupQHb3BNiRYWrMBEssmCpS_MbklOmVOAkdFnQZwOA0ilur9vSYgkPUPq765a5D-sutw/s1600-h/2-GoogleChromium.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoCveX82ddde3-Zdh-FCzSSq5glh9B3UyLJ3GFb7k_JL7iMV-wkCcUjgjV5Vdt36wmooqupQHb3BNiRYWrMBEssmCpS_MbklOmVOAkdFnQZwOA0ilur9vSYgkPUPq765a5D-sutw/s320/2-GoogleChromium.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438028415934297778" border="0" /></a></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Tdd9UELZdoY0EBLcvI__jhzt4q4eM_-WbAGNZ8jRTASR5oUSlDNBssRmS2vFST0IeE98T7QdzjHyB18Co3A2n7oVtiL32JewRqNdLXME0Iri1tCKxs8WOmWrCDvjJRO2iNvIiQ/s1600-h/3-GoogleChrome-menu.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 261px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Tdd9UELZdoY0EBLcvI__jhzt4q4eM_-WbAGNZ8jRTASR5oUSlDNBssRmS2vFST0IeE98T7QdzjHyB18Co3A2n7oVtiL32JewRqNdLXME0Iri1tCKxs8WOmWrCDvjJRO2iNvIiQ/s320/3-GoogleChrome-menu.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438028426465646578" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Light UI (see the menu options). You need to login thru your Gmail ID/Password.</span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br />OpenSolaris</span> in Action:</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5_J4FsgQVQX1rwY2m3ztYHoQs01CEAXxiST2Bm4LlS5ukVzC0qDI1htfobY6RTOjsJfL1h7Ic1UvXMZJjRLOtgtNfWqASxGXzuzoV0wSKZX7WOvzF_GxqM5HoRp8Rql4hhYGVw/s1600-h/5-OpenSolaris(64+bit%29boot.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 346px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC5_J4FsgQVQX1rwY2m3ztYHoQs01CEAXxiST2Bm4LlS5ukVzC0qDI1htfobY6RTOjsJfL1h7Ic1UvXMZJjRLOtgtNfWqASxGXzuzoV0wSKZX7WOvzF_GxqM5HoRp8Rql4hhYGVw/s320/5-OpenSolaris(64+bit%29boot.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438040447609796354" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGEgEsctwDvadqgIEzEPt1B7SrALNHa-nqKn38pocXTBzcPP0D6WaOsxFQyiaoNHVD0moqjdhtob4xxRXWYgPoN-TPUJy3T2VJmhF8wTPZrf0Uw4AHY22j5WUaI0Kej89whOiO9g/s1600-h/7-openSolaris.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 201px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGEgEsctwDvadqgIEzEPt1B7SrALNHa-nqKn38pocXTBzcPP0D6WaOsxFQyiaoNHVD0moqjdhtob4xxRXWYgPoN-TPUJy3T2VJmhF8wTPZrf0Uw4AHY22j5WUaI0Kej89whOiO9g/s320/7-openSolaris.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438040464023181618" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZ5dUrHjPORI3SMEYblFH7iab8j0yCaKBzztTlc8U1ceSL20u4sm6C5-vngwbsiCaqXWrnAIiJ_UtH2pITR1xrMekYo3_cM-cNOONBRjxr9TGIMtUctHnl_IzDbjuWeBMNeVw4A/s1600-h/6-Screenshot-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 202px; height: 125px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPZ5dUrHjPORI3SMEYblFH7iab8j0yCaKBzztTlc8U1ceSL20u4sm6C5-vngwbsiCaqXWrnAIiJ_UtH2pITR1xrMekYo3_cM-cNOONBRjxr9TGIMtUctHnl_IzDbjuWeBMNeVw4A/s320/6-Screenshot-1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438040456641414258" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />And our dear Grand-Pa :) 2001-2007. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Windows XP</span><br /><br /><br /><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sjV3tiAF_xdAQkVbToKQpOkjuQdKunDd7d7ypTd8_aRkMWI8wKCJNaK0ygKxy9zYc_KzjhZY_eGk4NwumkY-TI6WeXyIQAtY1vsvtnM4JIcAa_95DB7UraNAyexjN_xRv0Y8MQ/s1600-h/Screenshot-WindowsXP(64bit)%5BRunning%5D-VirtualBoxOSE.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 307px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_sjV3tiAF_xdAQkVbToKQpOkjuQdKunDd7d7ypTd8_aRkMWI8wKCJNaK0ygKxy9zYc_KzjhZY_eGk4NwumkY-TI6WeXyIQAtY1vsvtnM4JIcAa_95DB7UraNAyexjN_xRv0Y8MQ/s320/Screenshot-WindowsXP(64bit)%5BRunning%5D-VirtualBoxOSE.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438040466721308114" border="0" /></a><a style="font-family: verdana;" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZTBKCHONjfYHgpvHrPPku84XSEJpmhK4UPY0XuP6Hi4NHIqeWShrniesqSW4vyTHewGQt3QOc2oLCAeqfiHrf8Z0iM91lHL_BB64NVdB9FczvSlOF9OhhJvvpjll17873sN4VA/s1600-h/Screenshot-1.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 337px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRZTBKCHONjfYHgpvHrPPku84XSEJpmhK4UPY0XuP6Hi4NHIqeWShrniesqSW4vyTHewGQt3QOc2oLCAeqfiHrf8Z0iM91lHL_BB64NVdB9FczvSlOF9OhhJvvpjll17873sN4VA/s320/Screenshot-1.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438044062737015186" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />(All Lies :P) -- JK. I recently downgraded from Windows7.<br />Acknowledgements: Torrentz.com</span><br /></span><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:100%;" ><br /><br />PS: A VirtualMachine lets you install the whole OS [as you can boot iso images and cds] and you can simply click and delete at whim. Clean Separation. No Conflicts or side-effects. No changes to actual partitions etc. Migration of the virtual disk is simple [just like I've used Chrominum]. Take snapshots of the system and rollback. It won't crash/freeze your host system :P... Go BETA testing!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-17274058420122753582010-01-23T00:04:00.000-08:002010-01-23T17:55:55.003-08:00Ubuntu-9.10-dektop-amd64Arre... Pulchritude is the term!!<br /><br />Ubuntu9.10 totally supports each and everything on my Acer Aspire 5738.<br />And performance is Legendary so don't "wait for it" and get it installed in your machine as well.<br /><br />Everything has become so simple now. I started working on Unix(and derivatives) in 2005 when I got into college. There was no MP3 support... Geekish installation... problems like no USB support... (want to freeze your system??... Just plug in the USB drive!!)... and other issues. Now, they are accompanied by OS-installers which are more user-friendly than the software-installers in Windows itself... and you can even install it as a software inside windows! :) Cool Right?<br /><br />Ubuntu has always been the number one... and will be. Its debian based distribution. Even with the display effects etc.. it works like the most stable thing I've ever seen.<br />The package manager gives you each and everything you'd need to add frills to your desktop! <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">java</span> is not there but <span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">gcc</span> is! It rocks... is what the blog says anyway.<br />I'm working inside that only. :-)<br /><br />The CD comes bundled with almost everything you'll ever need... for Office.. Multimedia or Internet... maybe routine maintenance...!<br /><br />Think about the Grandpa Windows XP: its some 570MB and can never be of any use if not accompanied by a driver disc or utility softwares. So, why use something pirated when you have something better (serious understatement) for Free!!?<br /><br />Think about it...! Will edit this post to be a better read.. soon! CiaoAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-15222215759907256052010-01-21T07:33:00.000-08:002010-01-21T07:38:55.012-08:00I'm a Netizen!!<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Acer Aspire 5738</span> + <span style="font-weight: bold;">Unlimited Wi-Bro </span>:)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">I'll be <span style="font-weight: bold;">online </span>people....!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Its a promise ;)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Thanks & Regards,</span><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Nikunj Lahoti</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Oops!!</span> The office ka effect... :P </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-90732078181434729612010-01-03T00:33:00.000-08:002010-01-03T01:05:08.582-08:00So Pune it is...!<span style="font-family: georgia;">Watch out :)</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Many of my college friends got Pune while others got Bangalore.. Hyderabad and Chandigarh. The postings came just minutes before the big [not really] Compre(-hensive examination).<br />People started calling me in certain scared tone... from the examination hall (you know... I have a reputation to study till the last possible minute) ...to know their posted location. For Some it was good news.. for others it was this constant struggle.. trying hard to concentrate on clearing the 65% bracket.. and context switch </span><span style="font-family: georgia;">to think about all possible options to change to their DC (by swap).. traversing thru all the faces they've ever seen in the campus</span><span style="font-family: georgia;">!<br />Thank God I didn't have to do that. Pune had been my top preference for ages together... :D</span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">So after the Final Final exam (in which btw I got a big <span style="font-weight: bold;">A</span> [Such a Raja Munna I am. Hehe. I managed to get 4.99 CGPA over all]) everyone was kinda poker-faced because</span> of their own issues or they wanted to be with all these top favorite friends who got different DCs.<br />Finally.. the date of release came: 18-Dec-2009... and we got on board... :P<br /><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;"></span>Mysore mein everyone was fresh out of college. It was probably the best hostel life.. college life I ever had. Anyway.. my college life has finally come to an end. Just like all the other good things. Chalta hai....! New Life... huh!?<br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Lets see what does Pune has to add to my journey.. ;)</span> ... to<br />[destination is still unknown. LOL]<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Update:</span> I've taken a 3BHK with friends.. (of course on rent..) and currently furnishing it :D<br />and going office regularly... :PAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-56723194807378185722009-12-15T06:53:00.001-08:002010-01-03T01:07:09.305-08:00What Is Google App Engine?<div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal">Google App Engine lets you run your web applications on Google's infrastructure. App Engine applications are easy to build, easy to maintain, and easy to scale as your traffic and data storage needs grow. With App Engine, there are no servers to maintain: You just upload your application, and it's ready to serve your users.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can serve your app from your own domain name (such as <code><span style="font-size:10pt;">http://www.example.com/</span></code>) using <a href="http://www.google.com/a/">Google Apps</a>. Or, you can serve your app using a free name on the <code><span style="font-size:10pt;">appspot.com</span></code> domain. You can share your application with the world, or limit access to members of your organization.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Google App Engine supports apps written in several programming languages. With App Engine's Java runtime environment, you can build your app using standard Java technologies, including the JVM, Java servlets, and the Java programming language—or any other language using a JVM-based interpreter or compiler, such as JavaScript or Ruby. App Engine also features a dedicated Python runtime environment, which includes a fast Python interpreter and the Python standard library. The Java and Python runtime environments are built to ensure that your application runs quickly, securely, and without interference from other apps on the system.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">App Engine costs nothing to get started. All applications can use up to 500 MB of storage and enough CPU and bandwidth to support an efficient app serving around 5 million page views a month, absolutely free. When you enable billing for your application, your free limits are raised, and you only pay for resources you use above the free levels.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Source:</b> <a href="http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html">http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/whatisgoogleappengine.html</a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Me:</b> I think I want to explore the Google API and work on it. Lets see! :)<br />Now I’m all excited about my posting. HRD says they’ll convey that to us by tomorrow 5PM.<br />It’d be a brand new experience for sure! :) <b>Wish me luck.</b><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Currently: </b>Not studying for my Comprehensive Perception (multiple-choice) exam scheduled for tomorrow and instead of that doing TP… with Google and its apps. Google Groups… Google Labs SMS Channel.. Google Notebook.. Picasa… Google Docs… and what not and now… <a href="http://goo.gl/">http://goo.gl</a>. Google is a complete package.</p><p class="MsoNormal">So, Who all want to marry Google raise your hand(s)! <<profound pun>> LOL!<b><o:p></o:p></b></p> </div> <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-19401446642586892612009-11-28T04:48:00.001-08:002010-01-03T01:04:21.689-08:00THE KNOL-EDGE survived<div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal">Now!! You can See <span style=";font-family:";font-size:18pt;" >TheKNOL</span><span style="font-size:18pt;"> </span>online as well! (thanks to Google Docs!)<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Google Defines KNOL as: (source: <a href="http://knol.google.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://knol.google.com</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>Knol</b> - a unit of <b>kno</b>w<b>l</b>edge: share what you know, publish your expertise.<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">(So if you have Knowledge You have an Edge: I hope the Subject line makes more sense now)<o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Ya, we liked the <b>name </b>and you already know.. how big Plagiarists we all are (and so here goes the story)…<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>KNOL</b> is a <b>monthly</b> (apparently not.. but we like calling it <b>that</b>).. <b>online</b>… <b>informal</b>… <b>free</b>… (and of course awesome) <b>eMagazine (Zine) </b>of our (engineering college) College of Engineering, Roorkee! <b>COER</b> (<a href="http://coe-roorkee.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://coe-roorkee.com</span></a>)!<i><o:p><br /></o:p></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><i>Powered by :D <b>us</b>… and Driven by a <b>subset</b></i>! <think it over><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">We all took this delicious initiative (when we were in our Engineering 4<sup>th</sup> year… and were Super<i>Vella</i>) to bring together an informal platform for people to interact and with a added little jazz to it :-) <think: Designing><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">So we are not at the college anymore.. but still remembering those days always bring smiles to our faces. What follows is a <b>Full Tour</b> (A Walkthrough) of the Mag (from the notices to the actual manifestation). Hope you’d like its Appeal Etc and observe it evolve! Do post back comments(and/or your KNOL**) to me / <a href="mailto:theknol.digest@gmail.com"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">theknol.digest@gmail.com</span></a> (CC) ! <span style="font-family:Wingdings;">J</span> It’ll keep this thing Going. So Sit back and relax… but if you can’t.. just come back at a later time.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can view the complete editions online only or if you may want to <b>download them as PDF…</b> :-) Do that!<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:18pt;" >Editions:</span></b><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>THEKNOL1.0</b><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIYThlN2FiMDQtNGEzNy00YmM5LTlmNWUtZjRmZjUzMjIxODk0&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIYThlN2FiMDQtNGEzNy00YmM5LTlmNWUtZjRmZjUzMjIxODk0&hl=en</span></a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>THEKNOL2.0</b><br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIMGVhMmE1YWItNGI4YS00OThhLThhMTctODE1NTNhZjAxMzdh&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIMGVhMmE1YWItNGI4YS00OThhLThhMTctODE1NTNhZjAxMzdh&hl=en</span></a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b>THEKNOL3.0LT</b><br />(small)<o:p></o:p><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZmVlYjRkNWMtNmQ3ZC00OGE3LThiMGEtODg3NGJhZWEwYTQ0&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br />https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZmVlYjRkNWMtNmQ3ZC00OGE3LThiMGEtODg3NGJhZWEwYTQ0&hl=en</span></a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">(Big: Clear Images)<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIOTU4ZmY2MGQtMmU1Ny00MDY1LTg2YjktM2NiMzIxZTE5NGVm&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIOTU4ZmY2MGQtMmU1Ny00MDY1LTg2YjktM2NiMzIxZTE5NGVm&hl=en</span></a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">My Juniors in college are still working.. on it you see! :-)<br />They are now also working on Yearbook’10 (just like we created Yearbook’09 for us) for the current 4<sup>th</sup> year batch! <b><span style=";font-family:";font-size:18pt;" ><br /><br />Notices:</span></b><o:p></o:p><span style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" ><br /> </span></span><!--[endif]-->This was the first ever notice that told people about KNOL.<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZGFmMTNjNzctMjFlMC00YmNlLTliZGYtMGQzZDc5M2VmOGI4&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZGFmMTNjNzctMjFlMC00YmNlLTliZGYtMGQzZDc5M2VmOGI4&hl=en</span></a><o:p></o:p><br /><span style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span><!--[endif]-->The Second Notice.. more illustrative! :P yet confusing… :-)<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZTA1NGU5NTEtZGMyOC00YTYxLTkxM2MtMmQ2NWMzYTQ4MDMy&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIZTA1NGU5NTEtZGMyOC00YTYxLTkxM2MtMmQ2NWMzYTQ4MDMy&hl=en</span></a><o:p></o:p><br /><span style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span><!--[endif]-->And the magazine came…! The first ever issue :-)<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oINDc0YTZlNjMtZGViMS00YmUyLTkyNTgtOGIyYzk5MmMzZDVi&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oINDc0YTZlNjMtZGViMS00YmUyLTkyNTgtOGIyYzk5MmMzZDVi&hl=en</span></a><o:p></o:p><br /><span style=""><span style=";font-family:";font-size:7pt;" > </span></span><!--[endif]-->This is for the Third Issue. My Juniors worked on it.<br /><a href="https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIYTYwODYxOWEtNDYzZC00ZDI1LWE0OTctYTlkZDExNzZhNjdj&hl=en"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B-zsaXJ6N6oIYTYwODYxOWEtNDYzZC00ZDI1LWE0OTctYTlkZDExNzZhNjdj&hl=en</span></a><o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:red;">**</span></b><b> Dear Alumnus, </b>you are invited (to be part of the next edition.. and) to share with the world.. the knowledge you possess… <b>YOUR</b> thoughts… be it anything or nothing. :-) Do attach a recent picture of yours along… and of course we’d be glad to know :-) what you’ve been upto.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">PS: Feel Free to Forward it to anyone who knows you… the college… or just probably.. to flaunt (like I did).<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Nikunj Lahoti<o:p></o:p><br />System Engineer<o:p></o:p><br />Infosys Technologies Limited<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Article Source: <a href="http://mrdigerati.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://mrdigerati.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p></o:p><br />Official Blog: <a href="http://theknol.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">http://theknol.blogspot.com</span></a><o:p><br /><br /></o:p></p> </div> <input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-2513871852661592162009-11-01T04:55:00.001-08:002010-01-03T01:00:52.721-08:00The KNOL 3.0<div class="Section1"> <p class="MsoNormal">THE KNOL 3.0 LTS <as Anshul Calls it> is not out and people are giving reviews.<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">Not many people are left in the KNOL TEAM but still they managed to get this thing out… and kept the WebZine running is laudable. Well I’m yet to congratulate everyone personally. But very soon I’ll do that. :-) Great work. Finally a KNOL that has no contribution from my side. :-) Feels funny though!<o:p><br /></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">You can download it here: (6MB)<o:p></o:p><br /><a href="http://theknol.googlegroups.com/web/KNOL_3.0_LTS_.pdf?gda=K9OEP0MAAACsefPAJvUwZ1VIWBiEjBPlCRQhP3o2gkdfY0MSTdl-jVREcrzLWup3dRr3uC1zTa4ytiJ-HdGYYcPi_09pl8N7FWLveOaWjzbYnpnkpmxcWg">http://theknol.googlegroups.com/web/KNOL_3.0_LTS_.pdf?gda=K9OEP0MAAACsefPAJvUwZ1VIWBiEjBPlCRQhP3o2gkdfY0MSTdl-jVREcrzLWup3dRr3uC1zTa4ytiJ-HdGYYcPi_09pl8N7FWLveOaWjzbYnpnkpmxcWg</a><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">My Message to the team: :-) Keep it coming.<o:p></o:p></p> </div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-46596144886419745252009-11-01T04:44:00.000-08:002010-01-03T00:41:30.506-08:00TLSWell… TLS is a document that is being created :-) and people are collaborating to that!<br />Good thing! :-)<br />This document once created should be given a Hard-Bound attribute and should be given back to the collaborators for cherishing it throughout their life :-)<br />We should totally do things like these all our lives. It's so much fun. Reading it some years down the line.. will be rewarding…Truly.<p>Btw: we are just left with partially 09! :-) Rest all Documented.<br />Have a lot of fun folks.</p><p>PS: I'm going to start reading TWILIGHT soon! :-) <I've a very bad reputation when it comes to completing a book>.<br />Wish me Luck!</p>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-32666973205491702912009-08-22T11:05:00.000-07:002009-08-22T11:06:04.688-07:00The rise of the Machines ;)So.. I'm now using this very fundu thing from my Infosys Terminal.. (not so very fundu.. although)....!!<br>Btw... We cannot access <a href="http://blogger.com">http://blogger.com</a> here. So its a good thing Right? :D<br>I still can make myself availble for you. Man!! I'm Kind. ;)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-23321534979621035402008-11-22T02:57:00.000-08:002008-11-22T03:10:10.440-08:00The Knol<span style="font-family: verdana;">Google says <span style="font-weight: bold;">Knol is a unit of knowledge</span>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">So why are we talking about it now....!!? Well that's because that's the name we've given to an informal initiative we've undertaken. Our brainchild "Knol" is an online (pdf.. ebook) magazine for the college. Here's the platform where we all send our contributions every month and finally a beautiful thing comes out.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">November issue is out. You can take a look at it and give us that valuable feedback of yours.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Thanks.</span><br /><br /><a href="http://theknol.blogspot.com"><span style="font-family: verdana;">theknol.digest@blogspot.com</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">direct-link to see it </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://rapidshare.de/files/40958772/KNOL-November_Issue_1_Volume_1.pdf.html">here</a><span style="font-family: verdana;"> or </span><a style="font-family: verdana;" href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/fb451e/n/KNOL-November_Issue_1_Volume_1_pdf">here</a><span style="font-family: verdana;">.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-23023391372073749362008-11-22T02:31:00.000-08:002008-11-22T02:53:40.972-08:00<span style="font-family:verdana;">This <span style="font-weight: bold;">Nokia Series 40 (s40)</span> phone I bought about a month ago has proved my intuitions right in buying it. Its not that I didn't do any research prior to investing 12Gs (grands), but the stuff one can only feel after exploring & exploiting the device to one's own will & whim.. is an incredible sign of awesomeness. (yeah!! the word you're looking for is “whacky articulation”)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">[Series 40 is an operating system made by Nokia. Its an embedded software platform, Java based. Series 60 is multitasking Symbian based thing]</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So I had this Java(TM) Nokia 3120 earlier and <span style="font-weight: bold;">migration </span>to my new Phone has been a piece of cake for most of the thing (moving contacts to SIM card from N3120 & then moving to N5610.. 250 at a time for like 4-5 times & then they show up like nikunjla1, nikunjla2... nikunjla5. Holy Crap!!) except the calendar (you have to manually feed the birthday reminders or any morning gonna be your last!! Lol I still have to input 'em for the first 9months. [seriously, no pun.. or punch.. INTENDED here!]).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Uses </span><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">internal phone memory</span> of 30MB.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Camera.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Nokia 5610 is one of the best shooters among the series 40 devices.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">3.2 megapixel Camera has a variety of modes.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Video</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Portrait Mode</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Night Mode (works when flash is off)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Dual-two-LED-Flash (on : off : automatic)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-self-timer (Now the guy who own the phone can be seen in pictures) [3 : 5 : 10 seconds] – Makes sweet sounds every second.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Image-sequence</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-tinker with the While-balance & Brightness.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Add effects like sepia.. grayscale.. b&w etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">-Settings</span><br /><ul style="font-family: verdana;"><li>image quality, image-size (1536 X 2048 to 120 X 160)</li><li>video-clip-length can be made maximum (depending upon your card's free space)</li><li>4 video resolution modes (640 X 480 to 128 X 96)</li><li>8x digital Zoom.</li></ul><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Bluetooth.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Its is good and works great. Internal Phone memory of 30MB can be utilized to transfer bulky files via-bluetooth.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">It shows progress of sending as percentage when sending a single file and number of items sent while sending multiple items.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Infrared is unavailable.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Internet.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Opera mini is preloaded.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">You can even use the default browser which is good.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Multimedia.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">5610 enjoys a AIC33/DAC33 chip. It can play music around 20-22 hrs with normal usage. Offers inbuilt support for a variety of audio formats like aac, m4a, wma and mp3.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Videos can be played in mobile optimized formats like 3GP and MP4.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Inbuilt Flash Lite support.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">you can make flash applications... swf (shockwave flash).. your wallpapers or screensavers.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">How about a drizzle on your desktop! Cool. Isn't it?</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">You can even make applications to monitor battery or time etc.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Good Java ME support for developers.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">supports Java MIDlets, i.e. Java MIDP and CLDC technology.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">(I use a free dictionary made by some Maharashtrian[don't get me wrong its no way racial segregation & I'm not a chauvinist]. A Java-archive [JAR file])</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">A lot of games (But I don't play any... People say they are good. “City Bloxx”.. “Rally 3D”.. “Snake III”... etc)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Sensor (A bluetooth application)... to socialize and make new friends (transfer stuff).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Processor speed is around<span style="font-weight: bold;"> 234MHz (benchmark)</span> and around<span style="font-weight: bold;"> 5 MB RAM.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Series40 uses a simpler operating system than the higher end s60 (which is based on the multi-tasking Symbian OS). Because s40 devices do not support true multitasking and do not have a native code API for third parties, its user interface appears to be more responsive and faster than other Nokia platforms.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The catch...</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">a) you can set any video (playable) as your video ringing tune.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">b) you can set different tunes & images for different contacts.</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Enhancements:</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Thin-pin Charger requires around 1.5hrs to completely charge 3.7V BP-5M Battery.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Battery Backup... 1 -2 days on heavy usage. Minimal usage: 2-4 days.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">3.2mm AV-jack (headset). It has a connector to 3.5mm jack (where Computer speakers can also be connected. So no need to open your laptop to hear your playlist)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">microUSB slot to transfer stuff to and from the computer seamlessly via USB connector.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">microSD (Multimedia Card) expandable upto 4Gigs (GB).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Well finally when I'm with this beautiful thing (which it actually is... Slider.. blue... and Lights!!Sexy... Aaah!! Reminds me of... hmm... wait-for-it... Mirror!!) & having a good time with a 1GB microSD & the microUSB. Well talking about <span style="font-weight: bold;">Stuff..........</span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">a)</span> You can play 3GP & MP4 movies in all sizes (QCIF, QVGA) up to this maximum resolution VGA 640X480. (Trust me! You won't need anything more than that for even HDTV viewing).</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">& all that inside its inbuilt player - “Media Player”. No white bars on side... in full screen view. Video occupies full window.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">I've two videos...(allow me to call them Movies...) full blown 80 -90 minutes in 60-70 MB.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">“The Secret” & “D5 conference Bill Gates n Steven Paul Jobs”... 3GP (176 X 144 resolution and clear picture). With this incredible[right.. I really love this word.] ability to seek forward quickly to catch up from an earlier time of viewing.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">How to do that....!! Well convert any possible media stream inside your computer to 3GP or MP4 through a FREE converter. Just google. I use...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">ABC 3GP converter (a3gpset)... [Free] along with...</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Avidemux (Klite Video Converter).. [FOSS = Free and Open Source Software]</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">VCD Cutter 4.0 (Jaio System Ltd.) [Cracked] – (to convert VCD files [.DAT] to MPG)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">using Nokia PC SUITE is recommended. It converts them to the best possible format for your handset (You can decide the size or the quality).</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">b)</span> Offline HTML pages saved through Firefox (web browser).. copied to the phone.. open seamlessly with even Images. Navigation is a hell lot easier. Nokia Series 40 phones now use this Open Source software WebKit (components WebCore and JavaScriptCore) to have support for XHTML.. HTML 4.01.. Javascript1.5.. CSS2 and even AJAX. Kewl indeed.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">(Think: you can research on your computer & review it on your phone)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">c)</span> I also plan to read some books... (Nay!! Not curriculum) Like Novels.. or self-help-books.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">To name a few.. I've started reading.. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Monk who sold his Ferrari (Robin S. Sharma)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Who'll cry when you die (Robin S. Sharma)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">State of Fear (Micheal Crichton)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Deception Point (Dan Brown)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">The Tao of Physics ( Carpa)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Psycho cybernetics (.... hmm!! can't remember this one. Some plasic surgeon)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">okay.. so this shows I start reading and then seldom [get time to] complete. So as for light reading.. I've saved a few ebooks (in TEXT format) inside my mobile too. </span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">the power of concentration</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">But there was this problem.. It can only read upto 3000 characters and truncates the rest of the text because, it has an Organizer -> Notes Application which can save upto 3000 characters in a note at a time. [My sister's CDMA Nokia has just 300 Characters limit. How Sad!!]</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">So what I did was I created a command line application in Java to split my text into Crumbs of size my phone allows me to read. (Find that TextSplitter somewhere here).</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Now the “Zen” folder has 286 text files numbered 1 to 286. How awesome is that!!!</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">To ignore the downside.. you can start reading from 1 & keep removing text as you read it. & “copy to Notes” stuff (beautiful thoughts) you want to keep with you.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">(Think about an SMS-maniac who keeps a note book [buys books too] to forward messages. He can just copy paste)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Talking of which... Copying Text... & pasting in some other application is entirely handy with option explicitly given. You can mark-text or mark-all.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">Talking of which, selecting files.. Marking files (or all files) is also very easy. You can then send these files via Bluetooth... or delete them.. move them... et al.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">d) </span>Backup messages.. phone contacts... calendar records.. bookmarks.. user pictures.. memory card's content.. etc. Using NBU (Nokia Backup). You can restore these on account of a phone theft (Take out a minute. Its time to pray to God!!)... or Phone Migration.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">e)</span> You can even send messages from your Computer (through the phone obviously via the USB cable)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">f)</span> This phone can act like a Modem and you can use GPRS.. or EDGE (Mobile Office) to connect. Use Internet anywhere. Well this time you have an actual keyboard.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">g)</span> Transfer music & videos to-n-from phone. Conversion to mobile-optimized audio and video formats is possible.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >h) </span>There is some protected mobile content in the memory card which cannot be played without correct access codes. You can we even then extract some content using this method.<br />- in your computer select any mp4 file and default it to open with KMPlayer.<br />- now connect mobile via USB in PC-SUITE mode.<br />- browse and open. The content shows up in your player.<br />- Now right click on it. Look for an option of Save-As-Video and you are done.<br />- otherwise you can even capture the video. [KMPlayer is good.]<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Problems Fixed...</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">a) mine is V4.81 (type *#0000# to see it). Earlier versions had this problem to freeze when you receive an SMS while listening to some tracks.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">b) .... gotta research more to fill this further... but hey (a) is substantial.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;"> Well you can always update your mobile software yourself through PC-SUITE.. go to “nokia-europe” website. Look for the software updates made to your handset's model. Download & apply. You are done! The problem is Fixed. Life is easy AGAIN.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Downside....</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">a) it gets creepy... shows distortion for a second or two (in a day or two) & sometimes even gets restarted after a creepy deep humming (once in a day while talking.. depending upon its mood & climate)</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">b) microUSB cannot be used to charge the mobile phone via USB slot unlike miniUSB.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">c) pictures featuring me (not under daylight) are just devilish with two giant Red-Eyes when flash is on.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">d) the back-battery cover gives me this feeling that it has a short life expectancy.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">e) The devices themselves are locked down so that you cannot replace the factory-installed OS. So I (or even YOU) cannot install Linux inside it.</span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;">This is really really Sad. But if you have 22,000/- in your account go to OpenMoko Project “http://openmoko.org” & get freerunner. & Linux is there in Nokia 770 too & some Motorola models.<br /><br />have a lot of fun.<br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-24195856263634465922008-08-08T15:28:00.000-07:002008-08-08T15:33:49.342-07:00every movie has a story...Every character in a movie you watch reminds you of somebody.<br />It can be the distinguishing feature... or the style of talking.. or the crap that comes out.<br />but what the heck... why am I writing all this....<br />:-/ time to sleep maybe.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-18860013705027880262008-08-08T15:21:00.000-07:002008-08-08T15:27:43.194-07:00read xml thru javaimport java.io.File;<br />import java.io.IOException;<br /><br />import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;<br />import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;<br /><br />import org.w3c.dom.Document;<br />import org.w3c.dom.Element;<br />import org.w3c.dom.Node;<br />import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;<br />import org.xml.sax.SAXException;<br /><br />public class XMLViewer {<br /> public static void main(String[] args) {<br /> <br /> try {<br /> Document doc = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance().newDocumentBuilder().parse(new File("c:/MyXMLFile.xml"));<br /> doc.getDocumentElement().normalize();<br /><br /> traverseDFS(doc.getChildNodes());<br /><br /> } catch (SAXException e) {<br /> // TODO Auto-generated catch block<br /> e.printStackTrace();<br /> } catch (IOException e) {<br /> // TODO Auto-generated catch block<br /> e.printStackTrace();<br /> } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {<br /> // TODO Auto-generated catch block<br /> e.printStackTrace();<br /> }<br /><br /> }<br /><br /> public static void traverseDFS(NodeList nodeList) {<br /><br /> int lenNodes = nodeList.getLength();<br /><br /> for (int i = 0; i < lenNodes; i++)<br /> {<br /> if (nodeList.item(i).hasChildNodes()) {<br /> System.out.println(nodeList.item(i).getNodeName());<br /> traverseDFS(nodeList.item(i).getChildNodes());<br /> }<br /> else<br /> {<br /> if (! nodeList.item(i).getNodeValue().trim().equals("")) {<br /> System.out.println("Value is : " + nodeList.item(i).getNodeValue()); <br /> }<br /> }<br /> }<br /> }<br />}Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35980606.post-52812543638574070072008-06-06T15:12:00.000-07:002008-08-08T15:48:52.641-07:00Trip to mussorrie...<table style="width: auto;"><tbody><tr><td><a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/nikunjlahoti/DMussorrieTrip/photo#5208902406935573522"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/nikunjlahoti/SEm9JCMSdBI/AAAAAAAACu8/4IhK2J-0a1M/s400/IMG_0460.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-align: right;">From <a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/nikunjlahoti/DMussorrieTrip">d-mussorrie-trip</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">well... it was just amazing... finally.. on our own.. & hey.. we survived!<br />;)<br />this map can make all the difference! Plan yr trip asap.<br /><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11512968556243296559noreply@blogger.com0