This is one of my favourite monologue in movie history by Alec Baldwin from the movie ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’.
In this scene, Alec Baldwin is confronting the employees of a tough Chicago real-estate office. Alec Baldwin plays a perfect Hitler in this performance.
The look on Jack Lemon’s face when Alec Baldwin pulls out the brass balls says it all.
Hey, this is really strange issue I faced today. I don’t know if it happens to anyone out there, but I guess this is a Bug with Twitter. I was playing around with my account when I changed my user name from “aakash” to “Aakash”. Curiously, I tried to create a new user as “aakash” in twitter with my other email-id. To my surprise, it was created successfully. WTH ! This means I was having two different accounts “aakash” and “Aakash”. A got a mail from Twitter that confirmed the successful creation of this new Id. Just to dig it deep, I tried to logout and login again and play more but then it failed to login my newly created account. I was not able to login into any of the both account and that moment I feel that I will lost all my updates and followers. Finally, I have to use “forget password link” (my email address and ph. number) to recover my password for my original account. Now I am using my email id to login as username doesn’t work. I am not sure if it happens due to delay in update in databases between servers. I would like if you could try it on your end too and let me know your experience. If it is a Bug then it need a fix.
IBM PC AT
I still remember my first computer (that I could called mine) and the fun that I would have with it. It was a IBM PC AT (introduced in 1984), 6Mhz Processor initially having 2MB physical Ram. No HDD and would boot to dos prompt (A:\>). When all my friends would play Hide and Seek, I keep busy myself busy with Computer Games, small applications and removing bad sectors in the floopy disks.
Few applications that I can recall are
Word Star a famous word processor that time, still remember taking the print out of leave applications and creating the members cards of school football team for myself and friends.
Bannermania a game that could create fabulous banner with good quality in print out.
Dbase III plus a database utility.
Turbo C A very famous C, C++ compiler. The help menu of Tubo C was great help for learning.
Basic (and Qbasic later) another programming language.
I would also play several games like – PC-Man, Paratroopers, Digger (Dig-Dug), Loadrunner, Cat, Prince of Persia, F1GP (Formula 1 Grand Prix) … This list can go on 
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Today is the day when I first visited Central London and also the day when I landed at London Heathrow Airport one month back. It was a strange feeling touching down UK as this is my first time in Great Britain. Here for a business assignment, I received a wonderful experience so far and I am happy having accepted this assignment from my company. Here at workplace in London, there are peoples from about 140 different nations. That’s really excites and never to forget experience to work with so many different people from different culture. Today, In Central London I was able to see Westminster, London Bridge, Parliament and London Eye. I’ve see few monuments here but Big Ben is the one that I really wanted to view in life. One just can’t forget the experience of viewing London from London Eye. It is simply spectacular.
Lately I have upgraded my broadband connection from 590 NU (256 kbps) to 749 NU (2 mbps). I presumed that I’ll be able to access podcasts and watch videos available without having waited for buffering. But I am feeling like being cheated after this decision. I have always praise MTNL for their Broadband Services, low downtime and good connection. But this time they have proven me wrong. Though speed is formally upgraded (in my account) but I don’t see my internet speed going up. Here is the result of speed test on internetfrog.com
Download: 214,600 bps
Upload: 90,936 bps
QOS: 96% Quality
Round Trip Time: 2 ms
MaxPause (longest pause recorded during the data download): 141 ms
I have contacted with MTNL Customer support on 1500 regarding this issue. They show confident that it will be corrected within 24 hrs. Heck! It’s been two days now and I don’t know what to do. To make the matter worst they have closed the registration and migration to my previous plan (590 NU – 256k kbps). Great! Now I cannot move back to my previous plan. I can’t believe that I am the only one in this world who is facing this issue. I’m sure there are many other peoples who have migrated to higher plans to get better speed. Do anyone have same experience with MTNL Broadband, I am having?
If you have any problem connecting to internet, view my other post.
http://www.aakashjain.com/misc/general-troubleshooting-steps-if-your-internet-is-not-connecting-11
I bought a new HP Compaq Presario 707TU Notebook few days back. To my surprise there was no driver CD comes with it. I installed Windows XP Professional Edition in it and couldn’t find the driver on HP’s website. They have only provided the drivers for Windows Vista Operation System. Later, I found that there are so many people having the same issue.
Now the best part is that, today, I got all drivers for it. Thanks to HP Technical help desk. Here are the links to download the drivers. Please remember that these drivers are for window XP OS. You can find the driver for windows Vista on the HP website.
Video driver:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/14388/a08/win2k_xp14311.exe
Chipset driver:
http://downloadmirror.intel.com/13799/eng/ChipUtil.exe
Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC Driver:
ftp://210.51.181.211/cn/nic/Driver_5671_XP_0703.zip
Intel Pro Wireless:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33001-33500/sp33404.exe
Now Audio Drivers,
This model of Presario has an audio controller that supports the high definition audio. You need to have Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) Bus Driver for High Definition Audio installed on the computer before installing the audio driver. Here is the link for the Microsoft Universal Audio Architecture driver that needs to be installed before installing the audio driver: ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp33501-34000/sp33867.exe
After the installation of above drivers install the following drivers
Conexant CX20549-12 High Definition Audio driver:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp36001-36500/sp36090.exe
Here are the installation instructions for installing the above piece of audio driver:
After extracting sp36090.exe, follow these steps
Similarly install Modem Drivers given below
We have finished with all the XP drivers that are needed to be installed on your notebook. I believe the above will help you too.
OMI stands for “Open mind Index”, as they said it. Here this utility can actually help you to calculate your openness for the variety of music. All you need to enter your last.fm username to generate this graphical statistic given below.
For this, of course you need to have a profile on last.fm, those who don’t know what last.fm is, it’s a social music site where you send data of about whatever you listen on your computer. This is done with the help of a small plug-in available for download after you sign up for service. When you enter the username, your music data (most specifically, top artist of last 12 months) is downloaded from the last.fm site and used for calculation.
The following table lists the OMI values and there corresponding description. (Mine is 119)
Below 20: an extremely small bandwidth of tags; a faker or fanatic of an artist
20 – 39: a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a specific tag
40 – 59: a small bandwidth of tags; a fanatic of a few types of music
60 – 79: a substandard of bandwidth of tags
80 – 89: a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little below the average
90 – 99: a balanced bandwidth of tags; the golden mean
100 – 109: a balanced bandwidth of tags; a little above the average
110 – 129: a high bandwidth of tags
130 – 149: a very high bandwidth of tags; truly open minded
above 150: an extremely high bandwidth of tags; an absolute freethinker and freak
Apart from the above, site also list the global statistic, worth to checkout (http://www.musickum.com ).
H a p p y D i w a l i
Few weeks ago, I bought new DG965WH (Media series) Intel Motherboard. It’s an ultimate piece when power, performance and media are taken in account. I’m not listing the full specification but you can find them here. The most tempting is its 7.1 Audio Output support. I’ve been using a number of Intel motherboards, i.e. 810e, 845, 945 GNT, 965 RY. I can comfortably say this have the best audio output quality with Dolby Home Theater certification and based on Intel® Viiv™ technology.
Intel DG965WH Motherboard (Media Series)
Yes, one this to note here is that this motherboard doesn’t support Windows 2003 server Ent. Ed. It’s mean some of driver may fail to install with this OS. Like in my case I am not able to install display driver.
Recently, my site is put on warning by the Google. What I mean by put on warning is that when people search my site on Google, result lead to a warning page of Google instead of the targeted page of my site. The warning page of Google said that there is a badware/malware on my site. Google also suggest visiting stopbadware.org for more information. As shown in the pictures below
I have been experienced some delay in opening the home page, even sometime my I.E crashed. But I never thought that this could be due to some hack that had already taken over my website. It was only just two days, even before I could go deep into the details of error, When finally I got this mail from Google stating that they have identified my site as that one who distribute malware or badware. Now I found that some hack have happened to my site. It is trying to download some plug-in in background that is off course not from my domain. So I decided to redirect the user of my site to a maintenance page so that I can peep hard into the source code and do the cleaning stuff. Even I have tried deleting all blog entries and comments. But, I got no success finding malicious script/code. Luckily, I have taken the full backup of my site few days back. So I deleted all current pages and uploaded the backup. It works fine.
Anyway this is the time for me to act fast as traffic of site has taken a plunge. It has gone down by 90%. I fear that Google may drop my pages from its index. This is killing me in frustration. However, I have sorted out the problem but Google yet to do a review on my site. It is necessary to remove that nasty warning message. I have made a Review Request on Google and Stopbadware and keeping my finger crossed. I hope Google and Stopbadware will remove my site from their defaulter list.
Probably, this could be a code insertion hack, some third-party supplied advertising may contain links to badware, or the server hacks may have resulted in the insertion of code onto the site’s webpage.
Stopbadware.org published some security tips – http://stopbadware.org/home/security
StopBadware discussion group – http://groups.google.com/group/stopbadware
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