Saturday, December 13, 2008

Weirdest cars

At first glance, this car may just look like an old Subaru:

But take a look from a different angle:

Behold, the “VolksAru.” Front-half Subaru, back-half Volkswagon. Complete with two engines, two shifters, and a nasty split personality.

Here is another car with a split personality. Not to be confused with Livio Di Marchi’s wooden car. This car was built by Vasily Lazarenko. He quit his job and sold his two cars to finance the hobby. Russia Today has the complete story.

This next one takes the “monster truck” to a whole new level

I’m not sure how much hauling this little Mini will do

Another Mini, but this one is covered in over a million Swarvoski crystals-blinged out!

And if you thought Minis were the only extremely tiny cars, guess again

Imagine if the UPS guys pulled up in this van, you’d never look at him the same!

The UPS driver above has a brother who drives a school bus, but not just any old school bus, a Cadillac Escalade short bus!

The next vehicles definitely have a foot fetish. The first are tow trucks from Lincoln’s Toe Truck in Seattle:

The fastest stiletto you’ll ever see

How about food inspired cars? As if we don’t eat enough fast food as it is, these cars will get us there quicker!

The Hamburger Harley

McDonald’s: “I’m loving it,” but not loving this car! Note to the owner: thank you for advertising the size of your rims, now we won’t have to measure.

The owner of this M&M inspired ride must be buddies with Ronald McDonald above

I love the fishes cause there so delicious…Remind anyone of the Weiner Mobile?

Another fishy car

Rather than filling cars with water, the next cars are made to travel in the water, aka amphibious vehicles.

The Rinspeed Splash broke a record by crossing the English Channel. It converts from a driving car to one that flies across the water with the touch of a button.

The Land Tug, built by Brian Egan

After building two hot rods that won the awards of Hot Rod and Street Machine of the year in 1982 and 1986, Rick Dobbertin came out with this thing, the Dobbertin Surface Orbiter. Before running out of cash, the hydrocar logged 27,300 land miles and 3,000 ocean miles, and completed the first amphibious transit of the Panama Canal.

This is the new concept car for Hummer, the Wild West Special Edition Hummer H3.

Not really, but it is a piece of art on display in a London art gallery. Matthew Harrison swapped the 32-inch offroading tires for authentic wagon wheels.

Another weird Hummer

These last cars are some of the oddest I found, and are so random that they don’t belong in any category other then their own-WEIRD

Flower Power-I bet the 60’s are wishing they had thought of this!

Not only does this car’s owner have a lot of time on their hands, but also insane taste and a lot of junk.

Remember the Shaggin’ Wagon from Dumb and Dumber?

This one takes the cake!!

Where on Earth did they find a thong that size?!


Source : http://www.offbeatearth.com

Friday, November 21, 2008

How to start windows programs quickly with Run Command

The run option of Start menu is used to run a program or to open a document directly. If you

Do not know the exact location of the program or document then click on Start button to open

Run and type the programs shortcut name to open it directly.

Run Commands

Appwiz.cpl -- Used to run Add/Remove wizard

Calc --Calculator

Cfgwiz32 --ISDN Configuration Wizard

Charmap --Character Map

Chkdisk --Repair damaged files

Cleanmgr --Cleans up hard drives

Clipbrd --Windows Clipboard viewer

Control --Displays Control Panel

Cmd --Opens a new Command Window

Control mouse --Used to control mouse properties

Dcomcnfg --DCOM user security

Debug --Assembly language programming tool

Defrag --Defragmentation tool

Drwatson --Records programs crash & snapshots

Dxdiag --DirectX Diagnostic Utility

Explorer --Windows Explorer

Fontview --Graphical font viewer

Fsmgmt.msc -- Used to open shared folders

Firewall.cpl -- Used to configure windows firewall

Ftp -FTP.exe program

Hostname --Returns Computer's name

Hdwwiz.cpl -- Used to run Add Hardware wizard

Ipconfig --Displays IP configuration for all network adapters

Logoff -- Used to logoff the computer

MMC --Microsoft Management Console

Msconfig --Configuration to edit startup files

Mstsc -- Used to access remote desktop

Mrc -- Malicious Software Removal Tool

Msinfo32 --Microsoft System Information Utility

Nbtstat --Displays stats and current connections using NetBIOS over TCP/IP

Netstat --Displays all active network connections

Nslookup--Returns your local DNS server

Osk ---Used to access on screen keyboard

Perfmon.msc -- Used to configure the performance of Monitor.

Ping --Sends data to a specified host/IP

Powercfg.cpl -- Used to configure power option

Regedit --Registry Editor

Regwiz -- Registration wizard

Sfc /scannow -- System File Checker

Sndrec32 --Sound Recorder

Shutdown -- Used to shutdown the windows

Spider -- Used to open spider solitaire card game

Sfc / scannow -- Used to run system file checker utility.

Sndvol32 --Volume control for soundcard

Sysedit -- Edit system startup files

Taskmgr --Task manager

Telephon.cpl -- Used to configure modem options.

Telnet --Telnet program

Tracert --Traces and displays all paths required to reach an Internet host

Winchat -- Used to chat with Microsoft

Wmplayer -- Used to run Windows Media player

Wab -- Used to open Windows address Book.

WinWord -- Used to open Microsoft word

Winipcfg --Displays IP configuration

Winver -- Used to check Windows Version

Wupdmgr --Takes you to Microsoft Windows Update

Write -- Used to open
WordPad

Enjoy,
Chirag Patil
! www.chirag.co.nr !

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Recharge ur phone every month freely


Please follow the instruction & you can recharge your SIM card
absolutely free:


Yes it is possible, see how technology can be used to make technicians fool.

I just got a mail from a friend of mine, whose friend is B.Tech.(ETC)
from IIT Powai, teaching me how to reload my hand set every month for free.
Engineered by a group of rebel programmers. I am going to share this to all of you.

Please follow the instructions as stated below before you start it:

Applicable for ORANGE ( HUTCH, Vodafone ), AIRTEL, BPL,SPICE & BSNL users only ,sorry
for Idea,Virgin and Reliance users and it is done illegally of course. But there are many things that are illegal in this world. But then who cares. Don’t worry nobody can trap you. No legal action can be taken on you for this. So go ahead without worrying......

You can only do this every 24th & 25th of the month as the network system is
under upgrade.

1.) ** Dial ” 1415007 ” using your h/phone and wait for 5 second

2.) ** after 5 second, you will hear some funny noise (like sound from TV when the station is finished)

3.) ** Once the noise stop, immediately dial 9151 follow by your phone number

4.) ** A recorded message “please insert your pin number” will follow

5.) ** punch in the pin number ” 011785 45227 00734″ and wait for the operator finish repeating the above pin number.

6.) ** After the pin number has been repeat, dial ” 0405-for AIRTEL, 404 -for ORANGE (HUTCH)” . 403 -for BSNL”

7.) ** you will hear a message “for air time top-up press 1723″ you just have to follow the instructions.

8.) ** After you follow the instruction, the noisy sound will re-appear for about 5 second.

9.) ** once the noise stop, dial ” 4455147 ” follow by ” 146 “.

10.) ** after about 5 second, dial ” 1918 ” after 3 second dial ” 4451″.

11.) ** after you done that, punch in the serial number “01174452271145527 ” you will hear dial tone.

12.) ** once the dialing tone stop, dial ” 55524785933 ” you will hear “please
key in your password”

13.) ** the password is ” **** 2+253+7891*+546322 ” wait for the message “your
password accepted”.

14.) ** you will hear ” please insert your emei number ” now you have to be fast
to dial your own h/phone number.

15.) ** you will hear a dialing tone, when the call is answered, dial “1566 ” and you will hear “re-confirm emery number”.

16.) ** once you hear that message, dial ” 6011556 2245334 follow by your h/phone number”.

17.) ** after a while, you will hear a message “your pin number is accepted” you
have to dial ” 1007 “.

18.) ** after you done that you will hear “your emery number is accepted”.

19.) ** continue dial ” 4566 ” you will hear “your password is accepted”.

20.) ** once the second message finish, immediately dial your own h/phone number.

21.) ** Now you will receive a message saying ………..

NOTHING IS FREE IN THIS WORLD, . SO, GET BACK TO WORK AND DON’T WASTE
TIME !!

Next I will teach you how to browse free Internet from your home.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

3 Reasons why cheating in exams is cool

Reason 1:

One of the major lessons that needs to be taught to a child is to work in a team. Not cheating in exams helps prevent that very team-spirit.

You see, Everyone gets to play their part… 5 students study 5 different subjects. And each of them, show others the answer paper of the one subject they’ve studied in return for seeing the answer papers of four subjects that they’ve not studied.

Reason 2:

“Child is the father of the man.”
-William Wordsworth.

Very true, and we need to train a person at a tender age so that they can grow up to become better and responsible human beings.

And in a country like India, where terrorism is a major problem… A child needs to be taught the postulates of combating terrorism.

And as, High level alertness is the whole and soul of combating terrorism. The child surely needs to be taught as to how to be alert.

Encouraging them to copy in high security exams… they’ll know everything about being alert and also hiding from the public eye. This very knowledge will go a long way in helping them stop terrorists.

Reason 3:

Besides the above two reasons, cheating also helps a child plan and manage. Which is exactly what big people are taught at Management institutes.

Lemme Explain how, In papers involving multiple choice questions, the planning of few of the kids that I’ve had the good luck of meeting are mind boggling…

For (a) : Put finger in the right ear.
For (b) : Put finger in the left ear.
For (C) : Put finger in the nose.
For (d) : Put pen in the mouth.

So it is very obvious that if kids can talk in such complex code language at this tender age… then they’ll do great service to the indian military in the future.

Afterall, breaking and making codes is literally a child’s play for them.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Linux Stuff

Linux tips and tricks

- check the cpus bogomips :
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogomips

- compare directory tree :
$ diff -r --brief /mnt/old /mnt/new

- copy file from directory tree, recreating the tree :
$ find ./ -name [makefile] | cpio -pdmv [/path/to/be/copied/to]

- HDD speed benchmarking :
/sbin/hdparm -tTf /dev/hda

- Scan the disk for bad blocks : unmount the partition (remount as readonly if necesary)
# fsck.ext3 -c -c -v -y /dev/sdb1

Set time from ntp setver :
# ntpdate -u -b -v time.nist.gov



Ip takeover attack with arping

Disable the network of any machine from windows via wifi

1. First Install VirtualBox
2. Install linux distro of choise in the virtual box as long as it has arping (ubuntu)
3. Switch virtualbox network adapter into Host Interface mode
4. In windows Network Connections select VirtualBox Host Interface 1 and Wireless Network Connection, right click and choose bridge
5. In the linux that is running in virtualbox change the ip address to the attacked machine ip address and ping it with arping :

sudo ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10 netmask 255.255.255.0
sudo arping -U -c 3 -I eth0 192.168.0.10
sudo arping -A -c 3 -I eth0 192.168.0.10


The attacked machine network should be disconnected !!!

Disable the screensaver on windows Login screen

In order to Make ur Pc more Hack-Free Go the Follow to disable SS on Login Screen

Run -> regedit

Key:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Control Panel\Desktop

Element:
ScreenSaveActive

Change value from 1 to 0

Friday, September 12, 2008

Disable Auto-Run

Due to Popularity of Auto-run Virus these days, you should disable auto-run
(This would prevent auto-run to start automatically without your permission. This would prevent auto-run virus. Plzz explorer and view pen-drives n Cds )

To Disable Auto-Run, Follow the steps below

In Windows Click Start,
Then Click Run
start
Type regedit,
Click OK
regedit
Click >
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE>
SYSTEM>
CurrentControlSet>
Services>
Cdrom>
reg
Double click "Autorun" the value is set to 1 by default, change it to zero.
Now Click OK
Now close the window and restart, that's it!

To Enable it back, change it to 1 again.

Thank you,
Chirag Patil
Visit www.chirag.co.nr

Really Long Joke

Once upon a time there was this couple who really wanted kids but couldnt have any and so they went to a saint who gave them a good solution with one condition that they had to name all the kids alike and they name their seven kids blade, blade blade, blade blade blade, blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade blade blade blade and blade blade blade blade blade blade who grew up and one morning when the father wanted to shave he realised the ran out of blades and thus asked his first son, blade, to get him a blade but the son never returned from the market which worried the father so he sent blade blade to go in search of blade who had never returned but blade blade never returned either and so the father got more worried and asked blade blade blade to go in search of blade blade and blade who had gone to get him a blade but hadn't come back and blade blade blade never returned either which made the father very very very scared and generally worried. so the worried father sent his fouth son blade blade blade blade in search of blade blade blade, blade blade and blade who had gone to get him a blade but hadn't come back and he didnt come back as well which made the father have a small nervous break down because, obivously, he had lost 4 of his sons already, so he sends his fifth son, blade blade blade blade blade , in search of blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade, blade blade and blade, who were his 4 other sons who had gone in search of a blade but hadnt returned and blade blade blade blade blade didn't return as well and the father was left to his last two sons but he was desperate for a blade and of course, the rest of his sons as well so he sent blade blade blade blade blade blade, his sixth son incase you haven't followed, in search of blade blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade, blade blade and blade who had gone to get the father a blade but hadn't come back. i was talking about blade blade blade blade blade blade who had gone in search of his brothers and ofcourse, as the pattern follows, he doesnt return either and the father contemplates on sending his last and only left son, blade blade blade blade blade blade blade, to go in search of blade blade blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade blade, blade blade blade and blade blade who had actually gone in search of blade who had gone to get his father a blade but hadn't come back and the seventh son doesnt return either which makes the father furious because he never gets his blades and so he runs out of the house and onto the street and *bang* he gets hit by this huuuge truck and he dies..... you should therefore always look right left and right again before crossing the road.

Parent - Teacher meeting

Parent - Teacher meeting, to me, is nothing but a useless waste of time, in which two people take part in telling a child that time is precious and it should not be wasted.

Here’s a nice lil’ fictional account of what can happen between the parent, the child and the teacher.

Teacher:

Oh so this is Sameer’s Mother.

Mother:

Yes… So how’s Sameer in the class?

Teacher:

Honestly, not very good. He does nothing at all… And that will soon start reflecting in his marks.

Sameer (Whispering to himself):

I don’t f**king care about marks.

Teacher:

Yes! What did you say?

Sameer:

I said Max!! Smashing Max ice cream is not to be had in this cold season you see… You know my friend- Adani- he..

Teacher:

Okay Okay… So as I was saying, what do you intend to do about your marks?

(Phew!)

Mother:

Yeah Sameer, your marks have been really bad. This way others will go ahead and you’ll remain there only.

Sameer:

You know what mom, I have thought about it, I’ve thought about it long enough to decide that I will score marks in this exam.

(yes!! i will score low marks in this examination.)

Teacher:

Yes beta… Very Good. See you are very intelligent, if you do sincerely then you will definitely go ahead in life…

(If I do walk sincerely… I’ll definitely go ahead in life.)

Mother:

Besides studies, does he do anything else that’s unacceptable.

Teacher:

Yes, he cracks a lot of jokes… and passes comments… he shouldn’t do that.

Sameer:

WhaT The FucK?

Teahcer:

What? What did you say?

Sameer:

I said… What the… DUCK. What the duck said to the fish? It said that, “When I come around Mr. Fish, you have to duck for cover.”

Teacher:

Hmm.. I see something fishy there…

Mother:

Anyways, you’ll promise ma’am that you’d study from now on.

(Study Porn Magazines.. huh.)

Sameer:

Yes I will do that motherfucker.

Teacher:

What???

Sameer:

Mine worker… I’ll work hard like a mine worker.





This Content Was Taken From funthusia[dot]com/parent-teacher-meeting

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Nightmare Tech Support


Monday

8:05am
User called to say they forgot password. Told them to use password retrieval utility called FDISK. Blissfully ignorant, they thank me and hang up. God, we let the people vote and drive, too?

8:12am
Accounting called to say they couldn't access expense reports database. Gave them Standard Sys Admin Answer #112, "Well, it works for me." Let them rant and rave while I unplugged my coffeemaker from the UPS and plugged their server back in. Suggested they try it again. One more happy customer...

8:14 am
User from 8:05 call said they received error message "Error accessing Drive C." Told them it was an OS problem. Transferred them to microsupport.

11:00 am
Relatively quiet for last few hours. Decide to plug support phone back in so I can call my girlfriend. Says parents are coming into town this weekend. Put her on hold and transferred her to janitorial closet down in basement. What is she thinking? The "Myst" and "Doom" nationals are this weekend!

11:34 am
Another user calls (do they ever learn?). Says they want ACL changed on HR performance review database so that nobody but HR can access
database. Tell them no problem. Hang up. Change ACL. Add @MailSend so performance reviews are sent to */ALL.

12:00 pm
Lunch

3:30 pm
Return from lunch.

3:55 pm
Wake up from nap. Bad dream makes me cranky. Bounce servers for no reason. Return to napping.

4:23 pm
Yet another user calls. Wants to know how to change fonts on form. Ask them what chip set they're using. Tell them to call back when they find out.

4:55 pm
Decide to run "Create Save/Replication Conflicts" macro so next shift has something to do.

Tuesday

8:30 am
Finish reading support log from last night. Sounded busy. Terrible time with Save/Replication conflicts.

9:00 am
Support manager arrives. Wants to discuss my attitude. Click on PhoneNotes SmartIcon. "Love to, but kinda busy. Put something in the calendar database!" I yell as I grab for the support lines, which have (mysteriously) lit up. Walks away grumbling.

9:35 pm
Team leader from R&D needs ID for new employee. Tell them they need form J-19R=9C9\\DARR\K1. Say they never heard of such a form. Tell them it's in the SPECIAL FORMS database. Say they never heard of such a database. Transfer them to janitorial closet in basement.

10:00 am
Perky sounding intern from R&D calls and says she needs new ID. Tell her I need employee number, department name, manager name, and marital status. Run @DbLookup against state parole board database, Centers for Disease Control database, and my Oprah Winfrey database. No hits. Tell her ID will be ready tonight. Drawing from the lessons learned in last week's "Reengineering for Customer Partnership," I offer to
personally deliver ID to her apartment.

10:07 am
Janitor stops by to say he keeps getting strange calls in basement. Offer to train him on Notes. Begin now. Let him watch console while I grab a smoke.

1:00 pm
Return from smoking break. Janitor says phones kept ringing, so he transferred them to cafeteria lady. I like this guy.

1:05 pm
Big commotion! Support manager falls in hole left where I pulled floor tiles outside his office door. Stress to him importance of not running in computer room, even if I do yell "Omigod -- Fire!"

1:15 pm
Development Standards Committee calls and complains about umlauts in form names. Apologizing for the inconvenience, I tell them I will fix
it. Hang up and run global search/replace using gaks.

1:20 pm
Mary Hairnet from cafeteria calls. Says she keeps getting calls for "Notice Loads" or "NoLoad Goats," she's not sure, couldn't hear over industrial-grade blender. Tell her it was probably "Lettuce Nodes." Maybe the food distributor with a new product? She thinks about it and hangs up.

2:00 pm
Legal secretary calls and says she lost password. Ask her to check in her purse, floor of car, and on bathroom counter. Tell her it probably fell out of back of machine. Suggest she put duct tape over all the airvents she can find on the PC. Grudgingly offer to create new ID for her while she does that.

2:49 pm
Janitor comes back. Wants more lessons. I take off rest of day.

Wednesday

8:30 am
Irate user calls to say chipset has nothing to do with fonts on form. Tell them Of course, they should have been checking "Bitset," not "chipset." Sheepish user apologizes and hangs up.

9:10am
Support manager, with foot in cast, returns to office. Schedules 10:00am meeting with me. User calls and wants to talk to support manager about terrible help at support desk. Tell them manager about to go into meeting. Sometimes life hands you material...

10:00 am
Call Louie in janitorial services to cover for me. Go to support manager's office. He says he can't dismiss me but can suggest several lateral career moves. Most involve farm implements in third-world countries with moderate to heavy political turmoil. By and by, I ask if he's aware of new bug which takes full-text indexed random e-mail databases and puts all references to furry handcuffs and Bambi Boomer in Marketing on the corporate Web page. Meeting is adjourned as he reaches for keyboard, Web browser, and Tums.

10:30 am
Tell Louie he's doing great job. Offer to show him mainframe corporate PBX system sometime.

11:00 am
Lunch.

4:55 pm
Return from lunch.

5:00 pm
Shift change; Going home.

Thursday

8:00 am
New guy ("Marvin") started today. "Nice plaids" I offer. Show him server room, wiring closet, and technical library. Set him up with IBM PC-XT. Tell him to quit whining, Notes runs the same in both monochrome and color.

8:45 am
New guy's PC finishes booting up. Tell him I'll create new ID for him. Set minimum password length to 64. Go grab smoke.

9:30 am
Introduce Louie the custodian to Marvin. "Nice plaids" Louie comments. Is this guy great or what?!

11:00 am
Beat Louie in dominos game. Louie leaves. Fish spare dominos out of sleeves ("Always have backups"). User calls, says Accounting server
is down. Untie Ethernet cable from radio antenna (better reception) and plug back into hub. Tell user to try again. Another happy customer!

11:55 am
Brief Marvin on Corporate Policy 98.022.01: "Whereas all new employee beginning on days ending in 'Y' shall enjoy all proper aspects with said corporation, said employee is obligated to provide sustenance and relief to senior technical analyst on shift." Marvin doubts. I point to "Corporate Policy" database (a fine piece of work, if I say so myself!). "Remember, that's DOUBLE pepperoni and NO peppers!" I yell to Marvin as he steps over open floor tile to get to exit door.

1:00 pm
Oooooh! Pizza makes me so sleepy...

4:30 pm
Wake from refreshing nap. Catch Marvin scanning want ads.

5:00 pm
Shift change. Flick HR's server off and on several times (just testing the On/Off button...). See ya tomorrow.

Friday

8:00 am
Night shift still trying to replace power supply in HR server. Told them it worked fine before I left.

9:00 am
Marvin still not here. Decide I might start answering these calls myself. Unforward phones from Mailroom.

9:02 am
Yep. A user call. Users in Des Moines can't replicate. Me and the Oiuji board determine it's sunspots. Tell them to call Telecommunications.

9:30 am
Good God, another user! They're like ants. Says he's in San Diego and can't replicate with Des Moines. Tell him it's sunspots, but with a two-hour difference. Suggest he reset the time on the server back two hours.

10:17 am
Pensacola calls. Says they can't route mail to San Diego. Tell them to set server ahead three hours.

11:00 am
E-mail from corporate says for everybody to quit resetting the time on their servers. I change the date stamp and forward it to Milwaukee.

11:20 am
Finish @CoffeeMake macro. Put phone back on hook.

11:23 am
Milwaukee calls, asks what day it is.

11:25 am
Support manager stops by to say Marvin called in to quit. "So hard to get good help..." I respond. Support manager says he has appointment
with orthopedic doctor this afternoon, and asks if I mind sitting in on the weekly department head meeting for him. "No problem!"

11:30 am
Call Louie and tell him opportunity knocks and he's invited to a meeting this afternoon. "Yeah, sure. You can bring your snuff" I tell him.

12:00 am
Lunch.

1:00 pm
Start full backups on UNIX server. Route them to device NULL to make them fast.

1:03 pm
Full weekly backups done. Man, I love modern technology!

2:30 pm
Look in support manager's contact management database. Cancel 2:45 pm appointment for him. He really should be at home resting, you know.

2:39 pm
New user calls. Says want to learn how to create a connection document. Tell them to run connection document utility CTRL-ALT-DEL. Says PC rebooted. Tell them to call microsupport.

2:50 pm
Support manager calls to say mixup at doctor's office means appointment cancelled. Says he's just going to go on home. Ask him if he's seen corporate Web page lately.

3:00 pm
Another (novice) user calls. Says periodic macro not working. Suggest they place @DeleteDocument at end of formula. Promise to send them document addendum which says so.

4:00 pm
Finish changing foreground color in all documents to white. Also set point size to "2" in help databases.

4:30 pm
User calls to say they can't see anything in documents. Tell them to go to view, do a "Edit -- Select All", hit delete key, and then refresh. Promise to send them document addendum which says so.

4:45 pm
Another user calls. Says they can't read help documents. Tell them I'll fix it. Hang up. Change font to Wingdings.

4:58 pm
Plug coffee maker into Ethernet hub to see what happens. Not (too) much.

5:00 pm
Night shift shows up. Tell that the hub is acting funny and to have a good weekend.

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Microsoft Windows 7 Features

Redmond (WA) –
There is no denying that the initial news about Windows 7, Vista’s successor, weren’t especially great for Microsoft. Vista is by far not as successful as Microsoft would have hoped and Windows 7 will have to carry the company until a completely new operating system, speculated to be code-named Midori, will be available. So, will Windows 7 be another Vista? Will it lag behind OS X Snow Leopard? Is multi-touch UI really as great as Microsoft claims it will be?

It seems that Microsoft is now confident enough to offer a sneak peek at the new Windows features at its upcoming developer and hardware conferences in October and November. It even set up an official Windows 7 blog on which senior engineers promise to discuss the operating system with users. It is a different approach than what the company took with Vista and appears that the wave of Vista criticism has had an impact.

Microsoft said that it will publicly reveal details and "in-depth technical information" about Windows 7 to developers attending its Professional Developers Conference (PDC) set to take place from October 26-29 and at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) scheduled for November 5-7.

Writing on the new Windows 7 blog, Steven Sinofsky and Jon DeVaan, senior engineering team leaders, pledged to document the pace of development and offer a peak at Windows 7 features in the works from time to time. "With this blog we're opening up a two-way discussion about how we are making Windows 7," the company wrote. "We strongly believe that success for Windows 7 includes an open and honest, and two-way, discussion about how we balance all of these interests and deliver software on the scale of Windows. We promise and will deliver such a dialog with this blog."

It is quite apparent that Microsoft will be gauging early interest for the yet-to-be-revealed Windows 7 features and establish a measure to control or at least balance the news flow about Windows 7. Actual information coming out of this blog may actually be not as comprehensive as Windows might expect, as the authors said they will "not set expectations around the release that end up disappointing," like "features that don't make it, claims that don't stick, or support we don't provide."

So far, Microsoft kept a low profile on Windows 7 features. In terms of the base technology, we know that its kernel will be based on Windows Server 2008 kernel, which is an evolution of the Windows Vista kernel. It will keep the current driver model and will not be able to tap GPU for general-purpose computing. In short, Microsoft decided to play it safe and keep the Windows foundation in place. The new operating system comes in times when Microsoft is facing increasing competition on its own soil, especially by Apple whose OS X now leapfrogs Windows in terms of features and innovation. We can already hear Apple and pessimists saying that Windows 7 will be little more than a giant Windows Vista patch that uses multi-touch support as a sales pitch.

In fact, the only end-user feature that was promoted to this point was a multi-touch interface that will support multi-finger gestures in Windows, similar to the iPhone. Multi-touch will not be the default input method, but it will improve user interaction in all applications if the user chooses to use it. For example, you will be able to play a virtual piano by touching virtual keys on the screen, easily drag photos around the screen, rotate and zoom photos with two fingers and employ other multi-touch-based gestures to manipulate objects on the screen. The company first demonstrated these features at the WSJ's D: All Things Digital conference in May.

Microsoft is aiming Windows 7 for a late 2009 or early 2010 release (and according to our sources Q4 is the targeted time frame, since Microsoft does not want to miss the Christmas season again). If the company will be out by Christmas 2009, it will beat Apple in its own game, being the first to bring multi-touch user interface to the PC market. Apple's next OS X version dubbed Snow Leopard is schedule for an early 2009 released. For the first time, Apple's OS X won't be focused on new end-user features. Instead, Apple said it will optimize OS code, re-write it for full 64-bit support and support GPUs for general-purpose processing tasks.

Monday, August 11, 2008

Male's Side of Life

Hey Guys yest got this email from Pratik,check this out...............



>Finally , the guys' side of the story.
>
> We always hear " the rules " From the female
> side.
>
> Now here are the rules from the male side.
>
> These are our rules!
>
> Please note.. these are all numbered "1" ON
> PURPOSE!
> ***********
> 1. Men are NOT mind readers.
>
> ************
> 1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to
> think of it that way.
>
> ************
> 1. Crying is blackmail.
>
> ************
> 1. Ask for what you want.
>
> Let us be clear on this one:
>
> Subtle hints do not work!
>
> Strong hints do not work!
>
> Obvious hints do not work!
>
> Just say it!
>
> ************
> 1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost
> every question.
>
> ************
> 1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving
> it. That's
> what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.
>
> ************
> 1. A headache that lasts for 17 months is a Problem. See a
> doctor.
>
> ************
> 1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an
> argument. In
> fact, all comments become null and void after 7 Days.
>
> ************
> 1. If you won't dress like the Victoria 's Secret
> girls, don't Expect
> us to act like soap opera guys.
>
> ************
> 1. If you think you're fat, you probably are. Don't
> ask us.
>
> ************
> 1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways and one
> of the
> ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one
>
> ************
> 1. You can either ask us to do something Or tell us how you
> want it
> done. Not both.
>
> If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.
>
> ************
> 1. Whenever possible, Please say whatever you have to say
> during commercials.
>
> ************
> 1. Christopher Columbus did NOT need directions and neither
> do we.
>
> ************
> 1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default
> settings.
>
> Peach, for example, is a fruit, not A color. Pumpkin is
> also a fruit.
> We have no idea what mauve is.
>
> ************
> 1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing,"
> We will act like
> nothing's wrong.
>
> We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.
>
> ************
> 1. If you ask a question you don't want an answer to,
> Expect an answer
> you don't want to hear.
>
> ************
> 1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you
> wear is fine. Really .
>
> ************
> 1. Don't ask us what we're thinking about unless
> you are prepared to
> discuss such topics as baseball, the shotgun formation, or
> golf.
>
> ************
> 1. You have enough clothes.
>
> ************
> 1. You have too many shoes.
>
> ************
> 1. I am in shape. Round IS a shape!
>
> ************
> 1. Thank you for reading this.
>
> Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight;
>
> ************