They Might Be Giants have come up with an album for kids (though it is funny even for older people) called Here come the ABCs. I reco it, go get it and hear it atleast once. Pretty hilarious, I must say. With songs like Pictures of Pandas Painting, Letter / Not a Letter, Who Put the Alphabet In Aplhabetical Order? and C Is For Conifers, the whole album is pretty darn comic. ============================= And yes, the latest uptime report: System has been up since the last 4 days, 12 hours, 32 mins and 26 secs!
2005, May 23
Here Come the ABCs
A scene from Gilmore Girls
Call me obsessed, call me whatever… This one is from Season 1 Episode 1, The Pilot.
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Grandmom: Richard, look who’s here.
Granddad: Rory. You’re tall.
Rory: I guess.
Granddad: What’s your height?
Rory: 5’7″.
Granddad: That’s tall. She’s tall.
Lorelai: Hi, Dad.
Granddad: Lorelai, your daughter’s tall.
Lorelai: I know. It’s freakish. We’re thinking of having her studied at MIT.
Granddad: Rory. You’re tall.
Rory: I guess.
Granddad: What’s your height?
Rory: 5’7″.
Granddad: That’s tall. She’s tall.
Lorelai: Hi, Dad.
Granddad: Lorelai, your daughter’s tall.
Lorelai: I know. It’s freakish. We’re thinking of having her studied at MIT.
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Cool eh?
A scene from Gilmore Girls
Call me obsessed, call me whatever… This one is from Season 1 Episode 1, The Pilot.
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Grandmom: Richard, look who’s here.
Granddad: Rory. You’re tall.
Rory: I guess.
Granddad: What’s your height?
Rory: 5’7″.
Granddad: That’s tall. She’s tall.
Lorelai: Hi, Dad.
Granddad: Lorelai, your daughter’s tall.
Lorelai: I know. It’s freakish. We’re thinking of having her studied at MIT.
Granddad: Rory. You’re tall.
Rory: I guess.
Granddad: What’s your height?
Rory: 5’7″.
Granddad: That’s tall. She’s tall.
Lorelai: Hi, Dad.
Granddad: Lorelai, your daughter’s tall.
Lorelai: I know. It’s freakish. We’re thinking of having her studied at MIT.
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Cool eh?
Interesting Stuff
This is not really a post, more of a showcase of some links: TV on your Mobile. Orange in UK will start this 3G service soon. Read more here (/.) and here, interestingly the article has been reported out of Mumbai. Even more interesting is the report, which adds that a similar service is already available on Orange and Hutch in India (on the 2.5G EDGE network), which means India had it before UK… But nothing to gloat, I am a subscriber and it is nothing less than complete crap. Don’t know if the service is better on a 3G network. India will officially launch 3G services by the end of 2005, which means the whole next year is going to be very interesting on the mobile front. Liquid Metal Cooling for the ATi Radeon X850 XT PCI Express graphics card. By Sapphire. Read more here (/.). And some song recos: Akon – Lonely – Trouble, Rob Thomas – Lonely No More Apollo Four Forty – Dude Descending a Staircase And yes, those who get Vh1, watch it, those who don’t, sue your cable operator and get it, awesome music in the night. That should be enough for the day!
Interesting Stuff
This is not really a post, more of a showcase of some links: TV on your Mobile. Orange in UK will start this 3G service soon. Read more here (/.) and here, interestingly the article has been reported out of Mumbai. Even more interesting is the report, which adds that a similar service is already available on Orange and Hutch in India (on the 2.5G EDGE network), which means India had it before UK… But nothing to gloat, I am a subscriber and it is nothing less than complete crap. Don’t know if the service is better on a 3G network. India will officially launch 3G services by the end of 2005, which means the whole next year is going to be very interesting on the mobile front. Liquid Metal Cooling for the ATi Radeon X850 XT PCI Express graphics card. By Sapphire. Read more here (/.). And some song recos: Akon – Lonely – Trouble, Rob Thomas – Lonely No More Apollo Four Forty – Dude Descending a Staircase And yes, those who get Vh1, watch it, those who don’t, sue your cable operator and get it, awesome music in the night. That should be enough for the day!
2005, May 21
eMule Problem Solved!
Hurrah! Finally, I did it! Actually, I did not do anything, except change one setting, but you can give me the credit for the analysis (and therefore knowing what setting to change!) Well, for those who did not know, or could not care less, I use, for my P2P needs, a client on the ed2k (you should continue no further if you do not know what this is) network, called eMule. And it used to slog, day and nite and then days again, basically whenever I was connected to the internet, it would do it’s thing, which was downloading stuff for me. Now, the problem was after every so much time, the effects of running a P2P client started to strain the machine. Music began jarring (which was solved by a clean format, for reasons that only God and Microsoft knows), and in general the SYSTEM process would being bucking under pressure, consuming 50% or more of the processor resources for no particular reason. It was like the machine was running into a black hole of sorts, created by my dear mule. And I was pretty sure that it was a problem with my mule, cause if it was not running in my machines DDR RAM, and resting on the HDD instead, there would be no problems of any sort. But tracing the problem to it’s source was no easy job. Many posts on the eMule forum, and other loads of forums made me no more wiser on my problem, thought I did manage to do a lot of community service by helping others. So, anyway, I was going through the statistics of the eMule client (I am a sucker for stats and graphs and lines and numbers), and found out that the Kad or Kadmelia network as it is properly known (pure P2P, needs no central server) was consuming quite a phenomenal amount of my bandwidth, to the extent that above 30% of it was spent in managing all the many peers who wanted to connect to my poor (and by this time) over-burdened mule. This is not right, that poor fellow needs relief. So I decided to turn off the Kad network, once and for all. Interesting consequences resulted. My downloads actually improved, since there was no overhead of managing the peers. And, the best of all, my earlier problem of the mule dragging the entire system to a grinding halt over time disappeared. Or so it seems. So now, all those who want to place their bets, rejoice. My all time online machine is back again. With oodles of uptime. Let’s see if I can break my earlier record of 17 days without a restart. This is going to be interesting. Watch this space! ================================== Current (rather humble) uptime is 2 days, 14 hours and 3 minutes. Wish me (rather my machine and my mule, it loves bandwidth, sponsor some to make it happy 
) luck!
eMule Problem Solved!
Hurrah! Finally, I did it! Actually, I did not do anything, except change one setting, but you can give me the credit for the analysis (and therefore knowing what setting to change!) Well, for those who did not know, or could not care less, I use, for my P2P needs, a client on the ed2k (you should continue no further if you do not know what this is) network, called eMule. And it used to slog, day and nite and then days again, basically whenever I was connected to the internet, it would do it’s thing, which was downloading stuff for me. Now, the problem was after every so much time, the effects of running a P2P client started to strain the machine. Music began jarring (which was solved by a clean format, for reasons that only God and Microsoft knows), and in general the SYSTEM process would being bucking under pressure, consuming 50% or more of the processor resources for no particular reason. It was like the machine was running into a black hole of sorts, created by my dear mule. And I was pretty sure that it was a problem with my mule, cause if it was not running in my machines DDR RAM, and resting on the HDD instead, there would be no problems of any sort. But tracing the problem to it’s source was no easy job. Many posts on the eMule forum, and other loads of forums made me no more wiser on my problem, thought I did manage to do a lot of community service by helping others. So, anyway, I was going through the statistics of the eMule client (I am a sucker for stats and graphs and lines and numbers), and found out that the Kad or Kadmelia network as it is properly known (pure P2P, needs no central server) was consuming quite a phenomenal amount of my bandwidth, to the extent that above 30% of it was spent in managing all the many peers who wanted to connect to my poor (and by this time) over-burdened mule. This is not right, that poor fellow needs relief. So I decided to turn off the Kad network, once and for all. Interesting consequences resulted. My downloads actually improved, since there was no overhead of managing the peers. And, the best of all, my earlier problem of the mule dragging the entire system to a grinding halt over time disappeared. Or so it seems. So now, all those who want to place their bets, rejoice. My all time online machine is back again. With oodles of uptime. Let’s see if I can break my earlier record of 17 days without a restart. This is going to be interesting. Watch this space! ================================== Current (rather humble) uptime is 2 days, 14 hours and 3 minutes. Wish me (rather my machine and my mule, it loves bandwidth, sponsor some to make it happy ) luck!
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub
This is gonna be an extremely small blog entry. Catch hold of this one song by Apollo Four Forty: Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub from the album Electro Glide in Blue. I have lost count of the number of times I have listened to it this night. Just amazing!
Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub
This is gonna be an extremely small blog entry. Catch hold of this one song by Apollo Four Forty: Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Dub from the album Electro Glide in Blue. I have lost count of the number of times I have listened to it this night. Just amazing!
2005, May 20
Today’s Urban Myth
There are a lot of urban myths floating around. You get them from a whole lot of places, including mail forwards (both real and e- ones), from your neighbours, your friends and at times your lesser enlightened professors. And these myths are so funny, and yet so irritating that you want to laugh and kill yourself (if not the propagator) at the same time, a task, not humanly possible, at least yet.
Enough banter. Now to today’s urban myth:
“Keeping aloe vera plants near the CPU of a computer keeps it free of viruses.”
Come again?
“Yes, indeed it does. Maybe the aloe vera manages to see a virus (sic) and capture it so that it does not reach the CPU. I don’t use an anti-virus either, the plant does it for me.”
“Um…”, me about to burst into painful agonizing laughter.
“And yes, those plants don’t need much water either. It’s ok even if you don’t water them for days together. They are just another form of cacti.”
I lost it. “Do you realize what BS, PS, HS, AAS (read note below) you are blabbering? The computer is an electronic device, and the plant an organic one. Apart from damaging the machine (in certain circumstances), the plant cannot possibly help the machine. Let alone catch virii.”
But that was lost. I don’t even remember if I said all that.
“Plus, the aloe vera plant looks very cute besides the CPU, on the desk, in the office.”
I decided to gently walk away from the room, in search of sanity. And I did.
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USAGE:
BS = Bull Shit. That should not take much time to guess.
PS = Pig Shit. (That’s my favourite!)
HS = Horse Shit.
AAS = All Animals’ Shit. For use when no particular animal single handedly manages to convey the disgust.