Friday, January 28, 2011

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Let us C by yashwant Kanetkar at discounted sale

One of my friend has a good stock of Yashwant Kanetkar's programming motherbook "Let Us C". Let us C is one of the most powerful book for learning the basics of programming, as well as developing programs in C. Buy this powerful book just at Rs180. This price is for buyers in Delhi and NCR. Buyers outside the NCR will have to confirm their location,and hence the charges would vary according to the location. For more details,and confirmations, contact me

Congress a shame

On the eve of the 61st Republic day,the nation came to face with a new,sad and critical reality. It came to face the state of the nation that has been made by corrupt politicians. The shocking chain of events has shaken the nation and media.



In Nasik,Maharashtra(a state ruled by Indian National Congress for the last ten years) had witnessed one of the most barbaric scenes in Indian history.



The ADM(Assistant District Magistrate) Yashwant Sonawade, who was currently serving as additional collector for the district was returning from some official work when he saw a few tankers exchanging their content. He stopped and looked what was happening, and exercising his rights, went to inspect the tankers. He found that the people were mixing Kerosene with petrol. This was a mafia which had been doing this for years under the blessing of the Congress government.



On finding themselves under legal threat,the mafia members tried to bribe the ADM. But he was an honest government servant,and he refused it straight away. The mafia wasn't pleased with it. They were too many in number for the ADM to escape. They poured petrol and kerosene oil on the ADM,and set him ablaze. Yes,they SET HIM ABLAZE.



This is what honest law abiding citizens get in return from their STUPID CORRUPT ROTTEN ruling party INDIAN NATIONAL CONGRESS. It is a shame we have such cheap corrupt politicians which allow such anti-social elements to hijack law and order.



Maharashtra has leaders like Sharad Pawar(accused of numerous scams in cricket,agriculture,human resources development,distribution,coal to name a few), Vilasrao Deshmukh(Adarsh Land Scamd uring his tenure as Chief minister), Ashok Chavan(Adarsh Land Scam,Airforce Land Scam during his tenure as Chief minister) just to show their honesty. And for Congress, Ex-prime minister P.V. Narsimha Rao(guilty found), Haryana Chief Minister B.S. Hooda(accused in 150million land scam), Rajiv Gandhi(assisting Bofors and Bhopal gas tragedy culprits escape India). And Congress allies, well they can just be represented with A. Raja(INR 175000000000000 2G spectrum allocation scam). Such CORRUPT and DISHONEST is UPA. No wonder the PM tries to impress the prince of congress rahul 'rahul baba' gandhi(who i consider is misusing the title 'Gandhi').



Its INC in power in the centre,as well as the state. And still such HORRID law and order. Already Congress was under attack by the media,as ever since they came in power,farmer suicide rates had been rising alarmingly. The police has been continuously complaining political pressure stopping them from taking actions against culprits. And now this bare display of the fact that CRIMINALS ARE FEARLESS AND PROTECTED IN CONGRESS RULED REGION. This shows how CHEAP,PATHETIC,CORRUPT,ROTTEN,DISGUSTING,IMMORAL this party has become.



From the great Gandhi's leadership, congress in the recent days has emerged as a party, WHO IS ENSLAVED BY AN ITALIAN AND HER FAMILY. And this ITALIAN has already been named in the BOFORS scam. Yes,you guessed it right. Sonia Gandhi is the ITALIAN whose been named to aid Quattorochi in the multi-million dollar BOFORS launcher scandal which shook the country in the early 1990's.



So its time for all us Indians to THROW AWAY THIS CORRUPT ITALIAN SLAVES PARTY, and EMBRACE THE NATIONALISTS. THROW AWAY CONGRESS OUT OF EXISTANCE. Its time to TEACH EACH AND EVERY CORRUPT GUY OUT THERE A LESSON THEY SHOULDN'T FORGET IN THEIR LIFE.



And support the NDA for a better INDIA.

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Detox.........finally

So after ages of being talked about, Dr. Dre's much anticipated album 'Detox' finally makes its debut. Its been more than three years when some of its tracks had been leaked on to the web.

A new video from Detox was premiered recently. The video had Snoop Dogg collaborating with the rap doctor after 2001's "The next Episode". This also marks another chapter in the venture of two of the biggest names in the rap industry


Sibbal Loses his senses

Kapil Sibbal recently criticised the Public Accounts Committee and Controller and Auditor General for accusing A. Raja's multi million dollar 2g spectrum allocation scam, for which the above stated committees had found A. Raja guilty in their ongoing proceedings.

The supreme court had even slammed him for doing so, as he was going against the line, stating clearly that "he should act responsibly". Mr Sibbal replied to this by stating that he was acting responsibly. Agan he's arguing.

Its such a shame that the only credible minister has brken his limits,and bught shame to the posiition of cabinet minister.

MAY LORD HELP INC REGAIN ITS SENSES

Movie Review- Phas gaye Re Obama

Recently, i saw a movie about which i had been hearing positive responses after a long time. For sometime,bollywood had been producing really pathetic movies like TeesMaarKhan, and this movie finally gave audiences to look out.

The Plot:
Om Shastri is a New York millionare,who has lost all his life earnings in the recession. Infact,his house in New York has been notified for sale after non-payment of loan dues,and his family would be thrown out of the house he doesn't pay up $1,00,000 as his outstanding dues.

Om decides that he'll send his ancestral property in India,and goes to India to do so. But unfortunately,recession had also affected Indian markets,and hence there are no buyers for the property.

Some local kidnappers,led by 'Bhaisahab' decide to kidnap Om,thinking that he's still rich,and they'll earn a good ransom from his kidnapping. But eventually they come to know Om's bad financial situation.

In the meantime,other kidnapper gangs(infact,the major ones) come to know about the kidnapping,and one gang,led by 'Ali' wants bhaisahab to hand him to them. Bhaisahab decides to sell Om to Ali,and earn whatever he can. Om hears this,and makes a proposal,to not to tell Ali that they knowingly sold a pennyless NRI(Non-Residential Indian) to him if they pay INR 30Lakhs($68000). Bhaisahab agrees,and does the same.

Eventually,even Ali gets to know that Om's pennyless. Ali had been approached by a bigger player in the kidnapping industry 'Munni'. Ali sells om to Munni for INR 60Lakhs($120000). Om plays the same game with Ali as he had played with Bhaisahab,and gets 50% again.

At Munni's place,Om and Anni play it safe. But Munni listens to one of their conversations,and gets to know the whole plot that had been going on. She decides to kill Om and the rest of the plot members(Ali and Bhaisahab's gang). Om intervenes,and suggests Munni to do the same as Ali and Bhaisahab had did.

Munni sells Om and Anni to Dhananjay Singh - a corrupt minister who operates a kidnapping racket for INR 1.5Crores($340000). There,Om fakes a heart attack,and manages to escape with Anni while being rushed to the hospital. As Dhananjay was a minister,escaping from his state was nearly impossible. But Om again comes up with an idea.

He surrenders in front of Dhananjay,who was in Police Commissioner's office trying to hunt down Om. When Om and Dhananjay were about to leave the commissioner's building, Anni brings in and gathers media and Dhananjay's supporters. Om uses this opportunity,and escapes the state after getting Dhananjay's official car.

Final Take:
The movie is a humorous take on the law and order situation in some Indian states(like U.P and Bihar),and the economic recession's global impact. Rajat kapoor(Om Shastri),Sanjay Mishra(BhaiSahab),Pragati Pandey(Dhananjay Singh) have played their parts brilliantly. Other characters have also been portrayed good.

Subhash Kapoor,the director of the film has done amazing direction,screenplay and dialogues(yup,he's done it all). Directors like Anurag Basu(who bombed Kites) should learn from him.

The music in the movie is working,and suits the situations very well.

I'd give the movie 4.5 out of 5, and thats after i've seen the movie twice. But still its a movie i'd again watch in my free time

Comments/suggestions are welcomed

Nexus S to be released in India as GT-l9003

Samsung India announced that they're bringing the much hyped Google's Nexus S soon to the Indian market. The new Android phone would be available easily in India.

But along with this, came another announcement. The Nexus S would be renamed in India as GT-l9003. Why would be the phone named so in India,the reason still remains unknown.

Ballistic against Telemarketers

In the recent days,my phone has been flooded by telemarketers messaging.texting me, or calling me asking for some offer on their product. Surprisingly,the no place where i've disclosed my number. Even then my number recieves such messages and calls continuously.

Against such messages and calls,i've launched a drive. I complain against each and every telemarketing call/text message i recieve immediately,and spare no number. It may be that some information mafia that keeps on selling such data for telemarketing purposes.

And as for such,every such CRIMINAL should be brought to notice.

Movie Review - 2012 Supernova

I recently saw the 2009 released Brian Krause and Heather Mccomb starrer 2012 Supernova. It was another one of the "oh the world is gonna end ,some space mumbo-jumbo's happened and we're all gonna die" kind of movies.



I won't do a complete review of the movie(let me just say that this is the weakest sci-fi i've ever come across till date). The direction's poor,the sets are terrible(the NASA project centre shown in the movie is worse than my school computer lab which used to run C compilers and internet),the terminology used by the characters gives me the feeling they're wannabe's acting in some school drama, the camerawork makes me feel as if it was an amateur movie,only two cars for the whole movie(are you kidding,Irani terrorists and CIA both using the same car),the space shuttle set is not good(look at the space station computer,even ATM machines look more powerful in front of that cardboard thing from stone age that they've used as the computer),Professor Dzerzhinsky(Alan Poe)'s poor acting(he seriously seems to be the worst actor possible for the role,he seems like some mechanic having a hard time reciting the lines during the scenes),really bad screenplay by Jonathan Nacy and story writing(i mean, an unemployed pervert and an Irani terrorist all forced in the same plot,thats pathetic), the pre-historic NASA shuttle launch pictures(oh,the monitor they use to depict the shuttle take-off's seems smaller than my 15' monitor),the really poor mother-daughter drama, all makes it look like really poor work. Even the lead played by Brian Kraus fails to make me feel as if he as a scientist(really,in the first scene he seems to be taking his family to a picnic,not some disaster proof army camp).

The only good thing in the movie was the special effects,atleast they didn't irritate me(infact,they were nice enough to support the story).

2012 is probably a very very bad science fiction movie,which should have been made on a very large budget,and with experts(not amateurs). I know it was recession when they came out with it,but atleast they could have made the plot much smaller,and leave out the irani-chinese conspiracies(which would have saved a lot of money for better use). They made the movie look oh so terrible.

It did seem to me like as if they were preaching the American agenda,and not entertaining audiences.

I'd give the movie 1 out of 5, just for the guy who worked hard to get the SFX's turn out good.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Too less RJ's on Hit 95

I've been hearirng to Hit95,and lately i've noticed that there aren't many RJ's on the station. Hardly there are any Rap/Hip-Hop enthusiasts on the station. This didn't used to be the situation, it surely is now. I wonder why is it so.

The Hit 95 FM guys,kindly get a few more RJ's. The air's full of pop playing RJ's, could you please bring in some RJ's who can lay somethiong different ! We're bored of pop-sounding tracks.

The "Weak" King

A much appreciated Hindi track claims "Singh is King". But the reality doesn't seem so for the PM.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been the weakest PM i've ever come across. With his poor knowledge of politics,and really weak implementation of economic policies, he has really shown that he isn't worth that position. Infact,his injustified 'appreciation' for Rahul Gandhi - the congress prince who is probably the worst possible future for Indian politics, is a matter which needs quick attention. Is he the servant for the masses of India, or is he the personal assistant for this royal kid,whose only qualification is his parents.

Amidst all te controversies surrounding him over the fact that his ministers don't listen to him, all his policies to control essential commodity prices are failing miserably, and his cabinet's foriegn policy is probably ione of the worst ever in the history of Indian politics, he seems to be the worst 'correct' guy for this position(amm....considering Sharad Pawar and the likes still there,he's still better than 'the worst').

I personally do admire Manmohan Singh as the economist,as the Reserve Bank governor, but certainly not as the PM. He's probably the worst PM India's got.

Its high time India got a new PM as strong as Sh. Atal Behari Vajepayee,who showed the world the power of Indians.

Life after Worldspace


Its been more than a year since Worldspace was taken off. Throughout the world,worldspace was probably the best satellite radio station one could have ever come across. And a major source of in-store music for retailers.

Musicworld, Big Apple retails, Cafe Coffee Day, Barista, Pizza Hut to name a few chains which were quite affected by this take-off. Stacking a big collection of lisenced music was a big issue. Excessive initial costs,someone there all the time to monitor playlists,change the disks and more maintenance work.

I still remember a couple of years back. At home,whenever i felt like listening to music,i used to choose the worldspace stations(whose name i can hardly remember now) on my Airtel DigitalTV. From Jazz,Rock to pop - every genre had a seperate station. Sad its a thing of the past.

Now,whenever i try catching upto some music, all i can listen to is some dum RJ playing "River of Dreams" or worse "Always a woman to me". Those old days were still much better. Atleast out of competition, the only international FM music channel Hit95Fm used to play some realty good numbers. And now, i listen to Fireball by Bob Sinclair(which is playing right now). Way unheard music is being played. Big names like Kid Rock, Lenny Kravitz, 50Cent are missing, and replacing them are Rod Stewart,Tina Turner and the likes(bah...oldies). On a lucky day,i'd get to hear Flo Rida.

I had VH1 too, but 'cheat' Airtel guys took it off on taking a year long advance subscription,claiming that this channel is now removed in the new package, and i'd have to pay 40 bucks to get it. Even they know that its the only channel guys have in India to catch international music,with MTV and Channel V emphasising on the local audience centred media.

Worldspace,which initially originated in Africa, had affected a lot of people worldwide. It became the only satellite radio operator in India, and enjoyed a good fan-following here. Worldspace's growth in India was tremendous, and was still growing. Infact,when it shut down, Worldspace had one of the biggest audience bases here. But surprisingly,after its takeover,the new company didn't bother about India - the biggest customer base fr them. Pity they missed out on such a big audience, and India missed out on its only good old satellite radio player. I can still see the big Toshiba satellite radio reciever at a nearby Cafe Coffee Day store, but its now used for playing CD's(poor manager,CD's in age of Blu Ray's).

So here it is. A toast in the memory of Worldspace. An unsaid Aideu to you

Stupid starts causing people to buy stuff - should we be following them, an introspection

Ever since the iPad launched in the states, there's been a worldwide demonstration of this device. The iPad - described by one of the famous techies as "a giant sized iPhone,on whom playing race would seem stupid" has actually become a thing of envy for people. And the reason for this - their favorite star is showing off the product(it doesn't matter for them if they even use it or not).

I've personally seen tablets for years,but they aren't something exciting - infact they seem tupid to me. Large handheld fragile devices which can't do much except open a couple of pages, play some videos, and scribble things. It neither has good storage, or good support for applications. And fr those people who don't know, tablets have been in the market since 2003. Its just that noone liked them for their "immobility","expensiveness" and

Stars(as they say), are the smost stupid creatures on the planet. They don't even know the basics about the world they live in, or sometimes about the promotions that they do(taking Paris Hilton's Vote or die stint, she promoted the Vote or Die campaign, and herself didn't show up to vote - lazy dumass she is).

Recently during the CommonWealth Games, Hotel Ashoka took up this international fever and got a few iPads for their menu in their restaurants. And soon all these pads got damaged,as they were too fragile. Apple refused to repair them for free(that too when Apple makes people wait to get their products after their checkup in their United States plant). And this was what an American consultancy had advised them. And the topmost hotel management penalised the staff for this foolish loss they had caused. After all this episode, their manager(who happens to know me well), told me that these pads were nothing but "A wastage of money and time". Such harsh words for them made me understand how irritated he had become because of them.

So, if we - the masses, who are way more "Smarter" than these glittery lucky "dorks", all the time follow what they say, then we're fools. If we do not know our discriminationary powers,then we're a shame on our race.

So the next time some star out there says " whoo i got an iPad/Some new phone" , just say "whatever,you're a dodo, really. We don't give a f*ck what you own coz we're normal".

Has Digvijay Singh lost his mind??

Indian National Congress, the currently ruling party has a new taint on its sleeve now. WikiLeaks, the international whistleblower has revealed in a US cable leak that post the 26/11 Mumbai attacks in 08 has promoted communalism and religious resentment to divide communities and capture votes from the muslim communty.

Congress has been using the same agenda ever since the legendary Indra Gandhi was assasinated. The party,which now is tainted with its corrupt ministers such as A. Raja involved in multi millon dollar(INR 1790000000000 the exact amount of losses caused) 2G spectrum allocation scam, The party also has the unremovable taint in the involvement of its ex-prime minister P.V. Narsimha Rao.

Another senior congress leader Digvijay Singh has shown really insanish behaviour. Sometimes he says that the Batla House captured terrorists were 'patriots' , sometimes he calls 26/11 attack martyr ATS chief H. Karkare under threat from Hindu insurgents. And this comment has been condemned by the martyr's widow too. And this shameless creature is defending his statement - egregious. It wouldn't be incorrect to say that 'Congress is full of Insanes'.

The question is..... how much we will tolerate such cheap politicians ?

Microsoft launches Webmatrix for beginners and intermediates


Microsoft recently launched its new website builder tool called WebMatrix. It is aimed to help beginners and intermediate web designers build their own website easily,and publish them on the net.

It supports usage of open source applications for building sites, along with enabling quick and easy data driven design based development. Tips and video tutorials have also been added for ease of use for the users.

Reliance tries to fool leaving customers

People who've been trying to get rid of the reliance GSM network in the Delhi and NCR circle have been in for a rude shock. The reliance servers won't let them obtain a new porting request number.

Throughout the circle,people have been reporting that whenever they try sending the porting message,either the message doesn't get delivered, or the server says that the process could not be processed.

When i tried it on my Reliance GSM number, i found it true. When i send the porting message, the reply i recieved was

" Dear Reliance customer, Your request could not be processed. Please try after sometime. Thank You"

And when i tried doing it after a few hours,it was the same story.

RELIANCE IS SERIOUSLY BULLSHIT ! Thats the reason why they lost the maximum number of subscribers in the regions where MNP was earlier implemented.

Anil Ambani, you listening ?

New Micro brings in the old Modu


Micromax mobiles recently launched their new series of handsets - the Micromax Modu. Modu is actually the same Modu which we know already throughout the globe for their wonderful "jackets" and their changing functionality along with them.

Micromax collaborated with Modu to bring in their new handsets. Modu had been a big innovative player,whose innovation had been there for a long long time. Changing the jacket can simply change the whole outlook of the phone. From a touch phone, you can convert it to a full querty keypad phone, to a basic numberpad phone.

Fortunately,these are the handsets which actually change the way we percieve mobile phones,and they're here in India. Its just that they're a tad bit costly(infact,cost as much as Sony's Xperia's).

Thankyou Micromax.Only if the phones were a bit cheaper

Flaw in Samsung Mobile Tracker

Yes, you heard it right. Samsung's much emphasised "Mobile Tracker" service for lost/stolen has a flaw. Here it is.

In case the phone's sim has been changed before the original owner is able to find a phone with the samsung mobile tracker application,then in that case the mobile tracker feature, which samsung much hypes about will be of no use. And i don't think a large player like samsung didn't knew about te issue.

It is very surprising to see companies who make such big claims knowingly promote such features

Airtel's a cheat

In October last year, i had subscribed for a quarterly subscription of my Airtel DTH economy channel package. Now, the customer care executive guy, even when i asked him about the channel difference, didn't mention that the new quarterly package would remove channels like BBC and VH1 forever, and i'll have to subscribe them seperately(which costs me a whoping 80 bucks).

Complaining their nodal office wasn't helpful. Multiple repeated complains didn't help much. Their behaviour was such that it seemed that they intentionally didn't provide the information. Recently,i had written to the ministry of broadcasting about this malpractise.

Lets hope i'm able to get some solution. I'll write to media regarding it, maybe they could help me with it.

Here's a suggestion for guys out there going to buy Airtel

Airtel's cheat, don't waste money on these thugs

MNP...finally

TRAI carried out advertisements on the 19th in all the major newspapers declaring that MNP was now active for the masses,and states the procedure for porting your number to a new network. And the charges - 19bucks(less than 50cents). Conditions for portation - minimum of 3months stay with the last operator, clear dues(for postpaid connections), and same service area.



A new era of telecom competition begins.... in the most competitive telecom market on the planet

Anger management Tips

Hello everyone
Here are a few more anger management tips i came across. Hope they'll be useful to you guys.

1) Drink Water
If you lose temper quite often,then you must drink water as a regular practise

2) Forgive Others
We tend to forgive ourselves for our mistakes,but not others are wrong. Try to forgive others. It brings peace onto oneself.

3)Divert Attention
Keep your family portrait at your workdesk. Whenever you lose temper,take a look at it and think of some of the happy moments with them. It helps in controlling anger. Alternatively, count till 10 in case you're about to lose your temper.

4)Quick Meditation
If you're about to lose your timper,close your eyes and tell yourself that you will override your temperament no matter what happens. Repeat these words "I will not lose my temper".

Hope these tips help you out. Suggestions and additions are welcomed