Anyone who is fan of 'superman' knows how powerful and genuine, he is but just in fiction. In real, 'Superman' is just an imagination of it's creator but as a kid, i always dreamt i could fly like him 'up up high in the sky'. Anyways, i fly around a lot in my dream and i feel like superman when i get sensation of being flown within that part of world.

I watched almost all movies Superman I,II,III,IV played by Christopher Reeve and they're so wonderful. After that, no major release of this character has been seen until the latest "the superman returns" played by Brandon Routh. Christopher Reeve and Brandon Routh, these two actors looked so similar and i felt they're lookalike to each other. Christopher Reeve died few years ago and his untimely death, it has it's own cause, be it superstition or not. Many believed that there is curse behind this character. Anyone who acted as "superman" had been engulfed into so many troubles. They all had same fate, unnatural death. May be this generation is not ready to accept this but so many actors, well-built and most suitable for the role, turned down the offer.

But this new daring actor Brandon Routh has once again relived as a superman and brought smiles to superman fans.


Now, the time will tell us if this curse is for real or is it mere superstition. Whatever it is, the chemistry between clerk kent viz superman and reporter Lois will always be there.

While searching net for this 'curse of superman' thing, i read an interview where Brandon Routh was asked by Kate Wright as ,"
Wright: Some people have said that Superman is cursed, are you worried about that at all?
Routh: I don't live my life out of fear, so no I'm not… "

Besides, for fun sake, if someone is willing to create his/her own super hero, one can do online here. Create your own superheroes at:
http://www.ugo.com/channels/comics/heroMachine2/heromachine2.asp

Lately, i felt my PC being little clumsy even after a whole day of defragmentation, startup file customization etc. And, the list of hidden processes growing which i hardly could terminate because of it's utility. My old system with configuration like 2.2 GHz Intel Processor on 845GV ECS motherboard running a very old video card Geforce 5200 128MB with 512 MB DDR-SDRAM and couple of PCI cards on it. On storage, it's 80 GB harddisk with 6 partitions. Running windows XP with lots of background programs sitting as icons on taskbar,it's like more than 20 icons, definitely slowing down my PC down. So , my definite need for speed started to grow.

There were two options infront of me : A) Either stick with the same old configuration except partial upgrade(like some more memory) OR B) Upgrade the Entire System.

Sticking with Option A was good for me, because i was short in budget. If i would have opted for Option B, i'd have Core 2 Duo compatible board with latest PCI-e slot for graphics & high bandwidth DDr2 memory banks with other future proof features which most of us never care about.

Even when i bought my 845GV motherboard, i thought it was future proof, since i could upgrade my processor to 3.0 GHz HT and Memory to 2 GB RAM. But, with the entry of latest technology, all those my future proof things have started to fade somewhere. Dual-core,Quad-core,DDR-2,PCI-e already invaded teh market. How could i be looked like a fool to see these charmas and be happy with my old configuration. So, within myself, i convinced even if i couldn't afford them, i would gain a few score of speed no matter what on my system.

So, i chose Option A, since it's budget friendly to me. I was supposed to buy DDR for my system at first place. I headed towards Newroad, junction of all latest gadgets and gizmos in KTM, at least. And, i stepped into my favourite local dealer's shop. In fact, Bishnu dai(a local dealer) is so easy person while i've anything to upgrade my system. He would let me have new items, deposit my old parts to him and at certain minus-plus, he would adjust the bargain and i'd get some upgrades in my system. But this time, i slightly changed my dealing. I didn't give him my 256 DDR RAM, instead i bought 1 GB DDR RAM for wholesome price of Rs 4800, kept old one to myself. He was ready to get my old 256 DDR for Rs 1100(which i bought for Rs 2400 few months ago) and he told me without hesitation,he'd sell it for Rs 1700. His way of doing business.

Now, my system got new 1 GB+256 MB RAM altogether and everything is quite speeder than before except for graphics processing. This is making me search fo AGP card. I'm okay with Geforce 6600 GT or 7300 GS 256 MB if found. But, seeing dominance of PCI-E video cards in market, i'm not so hopeful getting it. But tommorrow, i'll be definitely hunting store by store trying to get it.

May be it'll take couple of years for me to experience those dual core or quad core system. Right now, it's way too expensive to own.

I was just surfing around when i came upon this really funny site. Well the basic idea here is to threaten your foe by Sending a bullet through mail . You can even write your foe's name in the bullet (in two language) . Well the site has been created as a joke and it has been clearly stated in the disclaimer section.

" The threats created by this script are not serious. They are an artistic statement following the recent threats of politicians in the Netherlands.

project-euh cannot be hold responsible for any serious fears or threats.

If for some reason you have a problem with this script and the mails it sends, please tell somebody.

In case you don't know anyone, use the contact page. "

You can send the bullet from this link :-
http://www.project-euh.com/threaten/mail-a-bullet.php

We've used MultiMessenger Like Gaim or some other thirdparty clients like that to access same IM(or many) network through many user IDs at the same time and from the same computer. Normally, we're not allowed to do but with the help of some third party multi-messenger, we can access more than one account or different IM account from single interface.

In Google Talk, for this multi-messenger purpose, there is a little trick. I've two Gmail Ids and while One is Logged it, to connect from another ID, i apply this in run(click Start->run):

Syntax:
drive:"(Google Talk path)" /nomutex

eg:
"c:\Program Files\Google\Google Talk\googletalk.exe" /nomutex

and second instance of Google talk will start allowing me to log in from there, second time from the same computer.

Hope that helps to people who has more than one Google ID.

Blue-ray Disc,Wireless controller,60 GB hard disk,internet Connectivity, 40 times faster than PS2,watching movies/video, music, play old as well as new games and more and it's priced approx. NRs 63984 without taxes. Now, this is expensive than XBOX 360.

Masaru Tamagawa,MD of Sony India, saw lots of potential in India for it's PS3 console and hence it's launched few days ago. PS3 60 GB edition has already been launched in America, Europe and now in India. The only way to get this thing in Nepal is to use Indian transit.

Only few companies are interested to launch their products in cities like ours or may be countries like ours. Since, our economic conditions and market niche are not according to their suit. We're the most suffered since we've to import them, cover all those transport cost along with taxes and without enough authorised support. If they get damaged,we've no support but to give it to some third-class repair center. That's why buying branded products with no authorized reseller and not enough warranty is a risky job here.

Well, i envy when companies launch products in India. Poor Us, Poor our reliant economy and system.

Its really fascinating to witness the upcoming technology with old concepts which in return gives more comfort and ease of use. Who would have guessed some company manufacturing Cellphone based on AAA sized battery? and now, Motorola, is in a process to give it's cell phones an ability to squeeze power from the heat of sun rays. Well, it'd be LCD powered Solar panels. It's not a wonder coz we've been using Solar powered Calculator already during our SLC's math exams.

By the way, it is to note that LCD will be turned on and phone will be charging its battery from Solar power. Seems quite a fiction but yeah, it'll soon become reality and needs no power cable to charge.

A Recent Announcement made by well-known philanthropist Mr. Bill Gates indicates, later this Year, Windows XP and all other Microsoft Office applications will be available for just as low as Rs 210(mere $3). This plan is targeted for students and developing countries like Ours. The Windows XP and other softwares will be of stripped down version. In a question for the availability of Windows Vista for price as low as $3, Orlando Ayala, Microsoft's senior vice doubted if it is going to run properly on low end machines of general public. So, for the time being, Windows Vista Starter Edition won't be available.

People steal because they can't afford the price to buy the product. Now, country like ours where people couldn't offer to pay for legal softwares, this step of Microsoft would definitely cut down the piracy as well as inclination towards Open Source projects too. Since, Windows XP and other Office app will be available at such a low price, who would buy pirated crack version or who would get themselve into trouble installing/tweaking indivitual settings of Opensource programs. It is the exorbitant price of Windows software, which led many people to use pirated softwares. If i get Legal Windows XP at Rs 210 rather than Rs 17000, who'd consider thinking other way.

The main motto behind this, is to double the number of computers users in the world by 2015. May the initiative of the software giant, Microsoft, be fulfilled and in return the people of developing country could take these benefits.

Bluetooth is a wireless technology named after Denmark king HERALD BLUETOOTH. Sony Ericsson, a swedish,mobile manufacturing company owns Bluetooth Technology.Bluetooth lets wirelessly send/receive a files across the devices. The range of the bluetooth is not very high while transfering files. It's just around 20 meters or so.

Connecting bluetooth device to another bluetooth enabled device is pretty easy. Enable bluetooth service on both devices and they recognize eachother. Now, sending files is as easy as cakewalk. Select Transfer method as 'bluetooth' and rest is easy. For eg.: One bluetooth-enabled phone can be connected to another bluetooth-enabled phone this way.

For connecting bluetooth phone to Computer has a bit different procedures than phone to phone procedures.

Bluetooth Phone would need a bluetooth support in other end,i.e on PC. Definitely PC would have a USB port, so, we need a USB bluetooth dongle to give PC a Bluetooth Support. When both sides have Bluetooth support to talk eachother, rest is not so hard.

Our only requirements would be:
1)Bluetooth Dongle(which is priced at around Rs 400 for Chinese-made)with driver CD. Install provided driver on computer, plug in the USB dongle,restart the computer

2)Enable Bluetooth Option in Phone set

3)As soon as bluetooth driver in computer is properly loaded, the software of Bluetooth dongle starts seeking a nearby devices. It'll find your phone set(whose bluetooth is enabled).

4)Now, both devices are connected. During which you may have to supply with the 4 digit same security codes on both sides. Give your choice of code.

5)Getting files from phone to PC: Driver Software on PC will show the default folders of mobile phone. double click any of the folder, select files to download, rightclick and copy. And paste to any folder in PC.
Sending Files to phone: Drag and drop the files from PC to the 'Phone names' detected by Driver Software. And files will be sent.

This is one amazing do-it-yourSelf guide to convert 14 Inch TV to
Mega 150 Inch TV

Complete tutorial in this link http://mysite.verizon.net/vzerlcge/index.html
(site takes some times to load, since there is loads of images to deal with)

That is fun.

This stuff is kind of old but still is really interesting.
I read the whole text in just 40 minutes . Yes it was that interesting.
Hope you will like it too .

===== CAN MACHINES BE CREATIVE? =====
We naturally admire our Einsteins and Beethovens, and wonder if
computers ever could create such wondrous theories or symphonies. Most
people think that creativity requires some special, magical "gift" that
simply cannot be explained. If so, then no computer could create - since
anything machines can do (most people think can be explained.

To see what's wrong with that, we must avoid one naive trap. We mustn't
only look at works our culture views as very great, until we first get good
ideas about how ordinary people do ordinary things. We can't expect to
guess, right off, how great composers write great symphonies. I don't
believe that there's much difference between ordinary thought and
highly creative thought. I don't blame anyone for not being able to do
everything the most creative people do. I don't blame them for not being
able to explain it, either. I do object to the idea that, just because we can't
explain it now, then no one ever could imagine how creativity works.

We shouldn't intimidate ourselves by our admiration of our Beethovens
and Einsteins. Instead, we ought to be annoyed by our ignorance of how
we get ideas - and not just our "creative" ones. Were so accustomed to the
marvels of the unusual that we forget how little we know about the
marvels of ordinary thinking. Perhaps our superstitions about creativity
serve some other needs, such as supplying us with heroes with such
special qualities that, somehow, our deficiencies seem more excusable.

Do outstanding minds differ from ordinary minds in any special way? I
don't believe that there is anything basically different in a genius, except
for having an unusual combination of abilities, none very special by
itself. There must be some intense concern with some subject, but that's
common enough. There also must be great proficiency in that subject;
this, too, is not so rare; we call it craftsmanship. There has to be enough
self-confidence to stand against the scorn of peers; alone, we call that
stubbornness. And certainly, there must be common sense. As I see it, any
ordinary person who can understand an ordinary conversation has
already in his head most of what our heroes have. So, why can't
"ordinary, common sense" - when better balanced and more fiercely
motivated - make anyone a genius,

So still we have to ask, why doesn't everyone acquire such a combination?
First, of course, it sometimes just the accident of finding a novel way to
look at things. But, then, there may be certain kinds of difference-in-
degree. One is in how such people learn to manage what they learn:
beneath the surface of their mastery, creative people must have
unconscious administrative skills that knit the many things they know
together. The other difference is in why some people learn so many more
and better skills. A good composer masters many skills of phrase and
theme - but so does anyone who talks coherently.

Why do some people learn so much so well? The simplest hypothesis is
that they've come across some better ways to learn! Perhaps such "gifts"
are little more than tricks of "higher-order" expertise. Just as one child
learns to re-arrange its building-blocks in clever ways, another child
might learn to play, inside its head, at Fe-arranging how it learns!

Our cultures don't encourage us to think much about learning. Instead
we regard it as something that just happens to us. But learning must itself
consist of sets of skills we grow ourselves; we start with only some of them
and and slowly grow the rest. Why don't more people keep on learning
more and better learning skills? Because it's not rewarded right away, its
payoff has a long delay. When children play with pails and sand, they're
usually concerned with goals like filling pails with sand. But once a child
concerns itself instead with how to better learn, then that might lead to
exponential learning growth! Each better way to learn to learn would lead
to better ways to learn - and this could magnify itself into an awesome,
qualitative change. Thus, first-rank "creativity" could be just the
consequence of little childhood accidents.

So why is genius so rare, if each has almost all it takes? Perhaps because
our evolution works with mindless disrespect for individuals. I'm sure no
culture could survive, where everyone finds different ways to think. If
so, how sad, for that means genes for genius would need, instead of
nurturing, a frequent weeding out.

===== ARE HUMANS SELF-AWARE? =====
Most people assume that computers can't be conscious, or self-aware; at
best they can only simulate the appearance of this. Of course, this
assumes that we, as humans, are self-aware. But are we? I think not. I
know that sounds ridiculous, so let me explain.

If by awareness we mean knowing what is in our minds, then, as every
clinical psychologist knows, people are only very slightly self-aware, and
most of what they think about themselves is guess-work. We seem to build
up networks of theories about what is in our minds, and we mistake these
apparent visions for what's really going on. To put it bluntly, most of
what our "consciousness" reveals to us is just "made up". Now, I don't
mean that we're not aware of sounds and sights, or even of some parts of
thoughts. I'm only saying that we're not aware of much of what goes on
inside our minds.

When people talk, the physics is quite clear: our voices shake the air; this
makes your ear-drums move -- and then computers in your head convert
those waves into constituents of words. These somehow then turn into
strings of symbols representing words, so now there's somewhere in your
head that "represents" a sentence. What happens next?

When light excites your retinas, this causes events in your brain that
correspond to texture, edges, color patches, and the like. Then these, in
turn, are somehow fused to "represent" a shape or outline of a thing.
What happens then?

We all comprehend these simple ideas. But there remains a hard problem,
still. What entity or mechanism carries on from there? We're used to
saying simply, that's the "self". What's wrong with that idea? Our standard
concept of the self is that deep inside each mind resides a special, central
"self" that does the real mental work for us, a little person deep down
there to hear and see and understand what's going on. Call this the
"Single Agent" theory. It isn't hard to see why every culture gets attached
to this idea. No matter how ridiculous it may seem, scientifically, it
underlies all principles of law, work, and morality. Without it, all our
canons of responsibility would fall, of blame or virtue, right or wrong.
What use would solving problems be, without that myth; how could we
have societies at all?

The trouble is, we cannot build good theories of the mind that way. In
every field, as Scientists we're always forced to recognize that what we
see as single things - like rocks or clouds, or even minds - must sometimes
be described as made of other kinds of things. We'll have to understand
that Self, itself, is not a single thing.

For the full text check out : http://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/papers/ComputersCantThink.txt

These are my very few personal tips and tricks for faster windows XP. Hope it helps other somehow.

.Optimize Internet Connection in Windows XP.
.For faster XP
.Manage Virtual Memory
.Quickly change Folder Settings

Optimize Internet Connection in Windows XP.
1. Start->run and type 'gpedit.msc' without quotes
2. Expand 'Local Computer Policy'
3. Further more expand 'Computer Configuration'-->'Administrative Templates'-->'Network'-->'Qos Packet Scheduler'
4. Now, under 'Qos Packet Scheduler', double-click 'limit reservable bandwidth' option and enable it.
5. On 'Setting' tab, change 'Bandwidth limit %' to 0.

By default, 'Bandwidth limit %' is set to 20 and that's because QoS(quality of service) services reserves 20% bandwidth for it. Disabling this service won't either help. The best bet is to enable this service and set 'Bandwidth limit %' to read zero. I'm sure, next time, the internet will be faster than before.

For faster XP
1. Either Press '[Windows] key+[Pause/break] key'
or
Right-click 'My Computer' in Desktop and select 'properties'
to launch the 'system properties' dialog box.

2. Click 'Advanced' tab and under 'Performance' label, click 'Settings'.

3. Click 'Visual Effects' tab and select 'Adjust for Best performance' option. Similarly click 'Advanced' tab in the same row and make sure 'Programs' option is selected for Processor scheduling and Memory usage.

4. click 'OK' two times

Manage Virtual Memory
1. Either Press '[Windows] key+[Pause/break] key'
or
Right-click 'My Computer' in Desktop and select 'properties'
to launch the 'system properties' dialog box.

2. Click 'Advanced' tab and under 'Performance' label, click 'Settings'. click 'Advanced' tab and under 'virtual memory', click 'change'
(Let me reiterate about Virtual Memory. Virtual Memory is not a physical RAM but a virtually created memory by windows. Windows lets us manage our memory requirement efficiently if we know how to use Virtual Memory. Eventually, it's said system with high Physical RAM won't need to bother with Virtual Memory Settings but i don't agree. No matter how big is his/her system Memory, sooner or later, it has to deal with Virtual memory due to bad memory management of programs we run in our system. In windows, Virtual memory is also called as pagefile and normally it can be seen as 'pagefile.sys'.
One rule that i always consider is, if my Windows XP is in C:, i never keep/set virtual memory on it. Pagefile often get extended/contracted in size while running programs. So, my best bet would be to keep it in different harddisk, if not, on different partition of the same harddisk other than C: (where XP is installed).
By the way, the place where Virtual Memory is going to be set, it must have enough space on it else it's of no use to create Virtual Memory their.
Now, i've 512 RAM, my Windows XP is in C: and i created my Virtual Memory in D: . I set Initial Size to 768 and Maximum Size to 768 also. This settings allow me to use my programs efficiently.
If one has only 128 MB RAM, he/she can set his Initial Size as 512 MB and Maximum Size to 1024 MB also. The only rule is don't set the virtual memory in same place where OS is installed. )

Quickly change Folder Settings
1. Start->Run and type 'control folders'
or
select 'folders option' from the 'tools' of 'Windows Explorer'.

2. make sure 'use windows classic folders' and 'open each folder in the same window' are enabled under 'General Tab'

3. One can tweak lots of settings from 'view' tab too. I think it's as easy as cakewalk out there.

What makes SuperComputer a super Computer? Unlike fictional heroic character SuperMan, there do exist SuperComputer. The unimaginable processing power of such computers is what make them super from other normal computers. The followings are few of the facts based on SuperComputers.

1. The performance of supercomputer is judged using the LINPCK benchmark, introduced by Jack Dongarra.

2. Blue Hene is the nickname of the new supercomputer from IBM that would be 1000 times faster than Deep Blue.

3.The four most powerful supercomputers in the world are owned by government agencies or universitites. Japan's Earth Simulator Center is listed as the world-record holder at 35.8 teraflops.

4. Seymour Cray, creator of high-end computers, whose vehicle was tested against accidents by his own systems, could not save himself- he died in car crash.

5. A supercomputer executes a single program much faster than a mainframe. But mainframes are considered more powerful because they support more multitasking.

6. Amongst other uses, supercomputers are used for weather forecasting animated graphics, nuclear energy research and petroleum exploration.

7. General Motors has purchased an IBM supercomputer,the companies say is the fastest in the automotive industry. The new supercomputer, based on IBM's Power4 and power5 technology, more than doubles the computing capacity of GM, and is expected to slash the amount of time it takes to get a vehicle to market from four years to 18 months.

8. Autommotive companies including Ford, Toyota and Daimler Chrysler own 12 of the 500 fastest supercomputer in the world.

9. MIPS stands for 'millions of instruction per second'. This is a measure of the speed at which a computer can perform programmed instructions.

10. The fastest supercomputer in India is the 574-CPU cluster at Intel, Bangalore.

11. 'FLOPS' refers to ' floating point operations per second', and represents the speed at which a computer can perform mathematical calculations( like multiplication and division). Researchers making use of high-performance computing tend to be more interested in this number than in MIPS or the more familiar clock speed MHz rating. The MHz rating is not particularly useful here, as high- performance computers can perform several million mathematical operations per cycle.

12. Since it went operational in 2001, the Japanese Earth Simulator has consistently claimed the top spot in the list of the world's most powerful supercomputers. It has been benchmarked at a speed of 35.86 TeraFLOPs/sec.

13. Apple powers the world's third most powerful supercomputer-viginia Tech's X is a cluster supercomputer that contains 1100 Apple G5 systems each having 2 IBM Power PC 970 processors rated at 2GHz. Each node has 4GB of main memory and 160 GB of serial ATA storage and 176 TB total secondary storage. The maximum computing speed benchmarked is 10.28 TeraFLOPS/sec.

14. The first fully transistorised supercomputer was the CDC 1604, designed by Seymour Cray in 1958.

15. The nine other supercomputers in the list of top 20 supercomputers are located in the United States, apart from Japan's Earth simulator.

16. As of November 2003, there were seven 'cluster' supercomputes in the top 10 list, and just three traditional 'stratospheric' supercomputers. Two hundred and eight systems on the top 500 supercomputer list are classified as clusters, making them the most common architecture in the top 500 supercomputers in the world.

17. Cluster supercomputers are made up by clustering a lot of computers and connecting them through a high speed network; traditional supercomputers-the 'stratospheric' ones- are monolithic and have several CPUs working in parallel, using shared memory through high speed interconnects. Industry analysts often say that clusters cannot provide very high performance and this makes for interesting new-since clusters are now predominant.

18. CDAC's ParamPadma cluster supercomputer was ranked in June 2003 as the world's 171st fastest; by November 2003, it fell down to 258 with newer and more powerful supercomputers entering the list.

19. "Central Iron" is slang for a centrally funded computing resource. The CNS IBM RS/6000 Rack is an example of central iron.

20. The Berkeley Computer Corporation was formed in 1968 to build a supercomputer that could accomodate up to 500 users at a time.

21. India's fastest supercomputer is an Intel Xeon cluster owned by Intel, ranked at 105 in the world, in November 2003.

22. 50 percent of the top 500 fastest systems are installed in the United States. Also, 90 percent of all 500 systems are produced in the United States.

23. The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory has commisioned Cray Inc. to build the world's fastest supercomputer. This 50-100 teraFLOPs machine should surpass NEC's 35 teraFLOPs Earth Simulator and allow the US to regain the top spot in supecomputers. Cray's supercomputer will require 12 megawatts of dedicated power!

आजकल टिभी केवल वालाहरुले गर्नु गर्या छ। चल्तीमा रहेको च्यानलहरुमा भरपुर 'स्क्रोलिङ टेस्क्ट' विज्ञापनहरु दिएर मस्त छन। कसैले केहि भन्दैनन कि के हो, तर मलाइ चाँहि त्यस्तो विज्ञापन त्यो पनि महिनामा पैसा तिरेर हेरेको च्यानलमा आँउदा खै चित्तै बुझ्दैन। मस्तले यसो च्यानल हेरुम भन्यो , irritate नै हुने गरि विज्ञापन दिएर हैरान। मलाइ त उहिले VHS Player मा भाडाको हिन्दी चक्का ल्याएर हेर्दा 'पान पराग'को AD स्क्रिनको तल्लो भागमा आएको-आइ गरेर बौउलै बनाउथ्यो। अहिले फेरि त्यही 'ट्रेन्द' केवलवालाहरुले दोराका छन। अब कि त महिनाको पैसा कम गर्नु पर्यो कि त त्यस्तो विज्ञापन हटाउनु पर्यो। शिकायत गर्दा खान-लाउन बाटो नै त्यही भन्छन। के गर्ने हो अब?

स्क्रोलिङकै कुरा गर्दा 'नेपाल वान' च्यानलले 'breaking news' भन्दै के स्क्रोलिङ समाचारको ट्रेन्ड चलाको थियो, अहिले सब नेपाली च्यानलले त्यस्तै नकल गर्या छन। यसो रमाइला गीत आइ रा हुन्छ, आधी स्क्रिन त त्यही 'स्क्रोलिङ समाचार'ले खाइ दिन्छ। कस्को गीत रहेछ हेर्नु खोज्यो, ढ्याप्प छोपिदिन्छ त्यो स्क्रोलिङहरुले। कहिले त टाउको मात्र देखिन्छ भन्या। नेपाल वान हेर्नु पर्छ, कहिले-काही त्यस्मा त बबाल हुन्छ। इत्रु हुन्छ main display, बाँकी सब स्क्रोल नै स्क्रोल। नेपाल वानले खुब breaking news दिन्थ्यो, अहिले आफै breaking news भाको छ। हैन, नेपालमा छुट्टै समाचारको लागि मात्र च्यानल भै दिए कस्तो राम्रो हुने थियो। अहिले त खिचडी जस्तै छ।
रमाइलो प्रोग्राम चलि रा हुन्छ, समाचार पनि त्यहि मुनि हुन्छ । मनोरञ्जन ,समाचार, सब एकै ठाँउमा। अनि खिचडी भएन त। इन्डियाको Sony Channelमा कहिले समाचार आँउछ?? त्यस्तो भए पो।

Most of Gmail users still don't know about google's 'Google Talk'. 'Google Talk' is an instant messenger for Gmail users. I think instead of rambling myself more on it, it's better to check http://talk.google.com

The reason of this blog post is " to make Google talk intereact with hotmail users ". I mean how to enable Google Talk be able to send/receive instant messages across different other IM networks like AOL,YAHOO,MSN.
So, if i want to talk to my hotmail ids from my 'Google Talk', here are the steps.(but before that i'll brief the synopsis of this tutorial.
-I came to learn Google Talk is built on the Jabber protocol.
-We'll be using IM client based on Jabber protocol other than Google Talk.
-On that IM client, we'll be using our gmail account settings. It's possible, since Google talk runs on same jabber protocol as i wrote earlier.
-from there, we'll connect to other Jabber server, which allows us to connect to our choice of IM networks using Transport service. For the time being,don't bother around what this 'Transport' is.
-At the end,it's simple. Getting into Google Talk account through other Jabber IM Client,access to Jabber Server,from there use special Transport for different IM networks and then into that IM network.
-With this, we are virtually be able to talk to everyone from other IM networks through Google TALK. )
Now the steps:

1) First Download that other Jabber Client. It's called Psi. You can visit and search for the client yourself in http://www.psi-im.org/ or just click http://jaist.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/psi/psi-0.10-win-setup.exe to start downloading the Psi Jabber Client.

2)Download and install it. As soon as installation is complete. A dialog box pops up asking our account details as follows:



In the Name field: type 'Google Talk' for example. make sure the Register New Account option is not checked.(we already have gmail account, don't we). When we're done, click Add button in this dialog box.

3)The Account Properties dialog box appears.



Select the Account tab, then enter full Gmail address into the Jabber ID field. (don't bother with the password, we've to do it only when asked later).
Now, select 'Connection' Tab from the same 'Properties' dialog box, check all the options there and type "talk.google.com" in host field with the default port number "5223" and click Save.



4)Now, in the Psi Main window, Right-click on the account(eg.Google Talk) we just created and
select 'Status'-->'ONLINE'



Give gmail password in following screen. It'll connect to the Gmail account through this Psi Jabber client. (Be sure, Google Talk is signed out)

Again, in the Psi Main windows, Right-click on the account(eg.Google Talk) we created and select'Service Discovery'



In 'Service Discovery'dialog box, enter any of the public Jabber server into the Address field and hit 'Enter' key.



Note: Now public Jabber servers are the main factors here which offers transports for all instant messaging networks. Not all Jabber servers provides transport for all Instant messaging networks, but most of them. Now, one can find public servers at http://www.jabber.org or i've listed them myself here like:

im.flosoft.biz
indigo3.net
infonetghana.com
intar.web.ve
intellijoin.org
jab.undernet.cz
jabber-hispano.org
jabber-hispano.org
jabber.3gnt.org
jabber.ambrero.nl
jabber.anywise.com
jabber.autocom.pl
jabber.bglinux.org
jabber.bluendo.com
jabber.burningboard.net
jabber.cc
jabber.cc

for more and updated server list http://www.jabber.org/user/publicservers.shtml

5)Now, after filling the server detail and hitting Enter Key, it'll start showing the available Transports for IM networks in that particular server. (in my case, i wanted to use hotmail id, so i'd be using Hotmail Transport). Lets wait for a minute.



Now, from available Tranports, select choice of transport. In my case, it's to deal with Hotmail. So, i'll right-click 'MSN Transport' and select 'Register'.



Now, have to give my hotmail address and password and click Register.
It will start fetching all the contacts from the my hotmail account to Google Talk account.

6)Once, all contacts are fetched from the selected IM network, now it's time to deal with the contacts to add to 'Google Talk' account. Right-Click on every hotmail ID fetched and click the Add/Auth button to authorize each contact. Then, once all contacts have been retrieved, exit Psi.

7)Next time, when we run 'Google Talk', there will be lots of contacts waiting to be invited on our Google Talk list. Accept them all and now there are all friends with hotmail ID within Google Talk. No more fuss to sign in to Msn Messenger or any other IM client so far.

8) So,it's Google talk using Jabber Server which gives us 'Hotmail transport' allowing us to add Hotmail users in 'Google Talk' list and so the life goes. Indeed, we took a help of Psi, a jabber client for all this to happen.

Gmail Tips - The complete collection
Click the above logo for all Gmail Tips you never knew or unaware of

The topics covered in above link are as follows:
Gmail Tip #1: All About Labels
Gmail Tip #2: 'Check' Your Messages
Gmail Tip #3: How to Maintain 'Notes'
Gmail Tip #4: Formatting Your Name
Gmail Tip #5: The 'Plus' Side of Gmail
Gmail Tip #6: Define a Signature!
Gmail Tip #7: Quickly Addressing a Message
Gmail Tip #8: Working With Lots of Email
Gmail Tip #9: New Mail Notification!
Gmail Tip #10: Some Tips About Conversations
Gmail Tip #11: Connecting Securely
Gmail Tip #12: 'Archiving' Explained
Gmail Tip #13: Some More About Conversations
Gmail Tip #14: What Happens To Sent Messages?
Gmail Tip #15: New feature! Highlighting on/off!
Gmail Tip #16: New feature! View or Download for attached images
Gmail Tip #17: Advanced Search - View Multiple Labels
Gmail Tip #18: Some Forwarding Idiosyncracies
Gmail Tip #19: Advanced Search - 'Query Words'
Gmail Tip #20: Why some attachments bounce
Gmail Tip #21: 'Official' Features and Bugs Status Page
Gmail Tip #22: Advanced Search - Multi-Labeled and Un-Labeled Messages
Gmail Tip #23: Cleaning Your Contacts
Gmail Tip #24: New feature! Import Contacts
Gmail Tip #25: Find Your Unread Messages
Gmail Tip #26: Creating a Pseudo Address Group!
Gmail Tip #27: Adding Hotmail Contacts to Gmail
Gmail Tip #28: 'Gmail Notifier' released to beta!
Gmail Tip #29: A Small Quirk With Gmail Notify's 'mailto:' Handler
Gmail Tip #30: Removing a Label
Gmail Tip #31: Improved and New Contacts Features!
Gmail Tip #32: Drafts!
Gmail Tip #33: Auto-forward received Gmail!
Gmail Tip #34: Gmail on your Palm!
Gmail Tip #35: Gmail on your Palm! - Part 2
Gmail Tip #36: Some Email Management Tips
Gmail Tip #37: New Feature! Image Attachment Thumbnails
Gmail Tip #38: Google Gmail Minibrowser
Gmail Tip #39: New Feature! Gmail From Most Any Browser!
Gmail Tip #40: New Feature! Rich formatting!
Gmail Tip #41: How Much Space Do I Have?
Gmail Tip #42: A More Worldly View
Gmail Tip #43: Notes in Just Two Clicks!
Gmail Tip #44: Using An Email Client
Gmail Tip #45: Backing Up Your Gmail Account
Gmail Tip #46: Creating a Map Repository
Gmail Tip #47: Gmail Adds Chat!
Gmail Tip #48: Reply Without Scrolling
Gmail Tip #49: Moving the Chat Quick Contacts Box
Gmail Tip #50: Changing Subject Text When Replying or Forwarding
Gmail Tip #51: Keyboard Shortcuts
Gmail Tip #52: Can I "Delete all" Spam?
Gmail Tip #53: How Can I View Outlook Stationery In Gmail?
Gmail Tip #54: New Feature! Select ALL conversations
Gmail Tip #55: Excluding Chat from Search Results

I'll post more Gmail Tips in one of coming up post.

Here is a fun watching 'STAR WARS-the movie' in command prompt.

Believe it or not, it's true..

1.Start Command prompt
2. type the following exactly on prompt:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
(eg. c:\DOCUME~1>NAVIN>telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl)
3. Hit 'Enter' Key.
3. Now witness the fun.
(Note: Make sure it's stable Internet Connection, not a fun in slow connection as low as 14.4 kbps dialup, but runs well in 56 kbps dialup :)

Btw, it's such a fun watching this text-based animation.

Yesterday, all my browsers crashed for unexplained reasons. I tried no matter how hard but couldn't revive those browsers. My unwillingness to reboot the comp(i type/say 'comp' for computer)just to see the browser start working again, led me to something else.

I used to type "http://www.someaddress.com" in windows explorer's address bar when all my browsers crashed. But, yesterday, even Windows explorer refused to load. As soon as i started Windows Explorer, it crashed.

Now, what i did is ,i opened Notepad(start->run->notepad or WinKey+R ).
-Clicked F1 key
-and clicked at the top left corner icon(Document icon with a Question mark) of the help window,
-there selected 'Jump to Url'(if it's Windows XP with no SP, it could be 'Go to URL' or something like that)
-and typed my web address starting with http://...

now, a page loaded within that help window. It saved lots of time for me.

It comes handy when all browsers crash and nothing works. The only permanent solution is reboot but we know how hectic it is to wait for that much time(when we're in a hurry/or may be loadshedding) just to check few important mails on net.

Long time ago, i was confirmed that myth like 'Truth Serum' never worked. But, few days ago, in one movie i saw someone being injected a 'Truth Serum' and later, disclosing all the secrets within. It was like movies are projecting baseless hypes as truth and living up to the fiction only ...or what? So far, i learnt, 'Truth Serum' is nothing but an advanced form of sedative. In Nepal, we've our very own natural 'Truth Serum' called 'Jaad-rakshi'(जाँड-रक्सी).Once a subject intakes our very own 'Truth-serum'(जाँड-रक्सी),he starts telling all his hearts secrets even if nobody cares to ask. To see the real life experience, places like Pub/hotel/restaurants(bhatti) are enough. But the most important thing is how much truth is he spitting out. If a boozed person tells a truth, i guess more than 50 percent of it is overhyped. for eg: a middle class looking drunkard may end up saying he has 10 crore rupees in his bank acccount and could do anything with it. Do we believe him so easily? but if a suspect confessed somewhere that he killed someone or something like that, it certainly could be something a real secret that is coming out of the dungeons of his heart. My only point is Truth Serum never worked and it's nothing more than a sedative just in case with a drunk person. The reliability is fifty-fifty.

Alan Bellows wrote(all italicized):
Chemically,scopolamine, sodium amytal, and Sodium Pentothal are the base element of so-called 'Truth Serum'.Scopolamine was tested in the 1950s as a truth serum in project MKULTRA, and is now infamous as a date-rape drug due to its tendency to cause retrograde amnesia (the inability to recall events prior to its administration). Sodium Pentothal is a drug which is commonly used in operating rooms as general anesthesia, though in recent years it has been largely replaced by better alternatives.

Another of the most common truth serums is ethyl alcohol, the same agent that is found in alcoholic beverages. As a truth serum, it is usually injected in a nearly pure form, but its effects are indistinguishable from those caused by consuming large amounts of alcohol orally. If you've ever been intoxicated, then you are personally familiar with the effects that truth serum has on the mind and body.


Wikipedia writes " A truth drug (or truth serum) is a drug used for the purposes of obtaining accurate information from an unwilling subject, most often by a police, intelligence, or military organization on a prisoner. Effective truth drugs are mostly fictional, though some drugs have been shown to be effective in lowering the resistance (but sometimes also reliability) of an interrogated person. "

Today, the surveys show that Windows XP is the mostly used operating system. Regardless of this, Microsoft wants PC vendors to stop shipping computers with Microsoft Windows XP. It seems the strict method to promote their Vista Operating system. Will it be possible for PC vendors to stop shipping computer with XP? May be it'll reduce the number of buyers because to my view, nobody would want to invest into something which gives so many compatibility issues.

Suppose, today, if somebody buys a system with Vista installed,imagine how much trouble he has to go through. Almost all softwares running elsewhere would be incompatible to his system with Vista. It'll somewhat restrict him/her to do things only to that machine. Not only that, he can't buy products or peripherals which would be incompatible with Vista. This means, it will take some more time for Vista to become widely accepted. For the time being, due to high system requirements,huge cost of investing,incompatibilities etc will certainly drive back most users. People still don't want to spend so much money only to see How Vista works.

I really don't have any personal experience with Vista but after hearing lots of sorrows and cries on net, it's definitely not a right time for me to check it out.

According to Microsoft life-cycle policy, Microsoft will stop shipments of Microsoft Windows XP by Jan 31,2008 including mostly all kinds of licenses. That means, PC vendors will not be able to sell Windows XP afterwards but only Windows Vista. But, they are designated to provide 'mainstream' support to Windows XP till April 2009. After April,2009, no hotfixes or any kind of support will be provided except for those users, who have paid for 'extended hotfix agreement' from Microsoft and they'll be provided with all the supports till 2014.

So, we know, as with Windows 98, the same fate would be Windows XP's too. very soon.

Lately, i read a news about sharing illegal movies,mp3,application and it's consequences. Buying pirated movies/softwares in jewelcase and downloading them off the net, they are same thing for them who are launching projects against these illegal piracy acts. To their words, evenmore it's same thing like stealing others property in reallife and the convicted will be charged with the same punishment.

Last year, 23 years old Grand Stanley from US,Virginia who was sentenced to five months in jail and three years of supervised release,just for running the Elite Torrents. He was an administrator of it and let thousands of leechers/seeders do their sharings. Mark the word 'Administrator', he's the main boss there.
Now the recent news when i read, it's even more fearsome. 24 years old Sam Kuonen of Columbus,Ga. who faces upto five years in prison, a fine of massive $250,000 and three years of supervised release.His punishment will begin this July 16,2007. His crime is he uploaded the copyrighted materials like first copy of movies, softwares,songs etc. which later got shared by thousands of thousands downloaders(P2P sharers). So, he got punished for sharing copyrighted things online and of course, being just an 'uploader'. He even wasn't an administrator. It's just like you and me, a simple uploader.

BitTorrent is the legitimate concept to share large files across the networks and it's useful with broadband connection. Sharing huge free linux distribution and similar open-source files is what it started with and now, it's ending up with being the junction of huge mass sharing almost all possible illegal things and copyrighted materials.

News like this will definitely discourage the act to some extent but not all.

These are some of the best games ever sold and played. Lets forget about the recent 3D games and lets recall the games those were sold billions in numbers. These games created history to say. I still remember most of these games so playable during my childhood. GTA is my all time favourite. It's nostalgic to recollect memories of old pixel-based super-duper hits. Other addictive list goes on with Super Mario Bros,Tetris,Street fighter etc.
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Year: 1972
Game: Pong
Publisher: Atari
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Year: 1978
Game: Space Invaders
Publisher: Taito
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Year: 1980
Game: Pac Man
Publisher: Namco
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Year: 1985
Game: Super Mario Bros.
Publisher: Nintendo
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Year: 1986
Game: Legend of Zelda
Publisher: Nintendo
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Year: 1987
Game: Tetris
Publisher: Alexey Pajitnov
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Year: 1991
Game: Street Fighter II
Publisher: Capcom
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Year: 1996
Game: Super Mario 64
Publisher: Nintendo
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Year: 1998
Game: Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Publisher: Nintendo
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Year: 2001
Game: Grand Theft Auto 3
Publisher: Rockstar Games
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Since our school days, we are taught generations of computer and so we learnt about vacuum tubes, which were as large as room or even bigger than a compartment to say. But , what about Harddisk.

This is a mere 5 MB harddisk used during 1956. But considering our brain which is equivalent to only 1 or 2 MB for storing information(as i read somewhere), 5 MB was indeed an adequate option for information storage at that time.

Now, i possess 80 GB while there are already 200 GB to 750 GB harddisks in the market.

After getting to know about USB fan,USB Light(torch),USB monitor, now it's time for USB electric guitar, 'iAXE USB Guitar' . For just around Rs 7100(without tax), a full-fledged electric guitar can rock on. Unlike any other electric guitar,iAXE USB Guitar has a USB port on other end with full compatibility to Windows XP and MAC OS X as well. This full size Electric guitar with USB port, needs no external amps, directly plugs into computer and can function as a traditional electric guitar if connected to a standard guitar amp. The guitar needs the bundled software to work in full pace. Audacity software which allows multitrack recording and Guitar Combos software simulates various amps/effects with equal ability to play mp3,wav,aiff and ogg for backing tracks.

USB port on Guitar

Now, this is i call innovation. I really liked this USB electric guitar. Somewhere in my previous posts, i had a topic something like "HAIL USB.. " and same goes again.

२०६३ को S.L.C हिजो अस्तिमात्र सकियो। S.L.C सकिन साथ अहिले Bridge Course को बाढी नै आएको छ। च्याउ सरी उम्रिएको अव्यवस्थित institute हरु र तिनले निकालेको भद्रगोल विज्ञापनको मारमा पत्रिकाको समाचारहरुले पर्याप्त स्थान नपाएको देख्दा दिक्क नै लागेर आएको छ। अझ कुनै-कुनैले त आफुहरु १९-२० वर्षदेखि नै Bridge course को सेवा प्रदान गरेको रे। यो पढदा त उदेक लागेर आयो। यो कसरी भो? मैले २०५२ सालमा S.L.C दिदाँ न त्यति खेर कुनै Bridge Course भन्ने चीज थियो न कुनै च्याउ उम्रेको झै instituteहरु । त्यो १९-२० वर्षको गफ दिनेहरुले त २०४६ सालको जनआन्दोलन भन्दा अगाडि देखिनै पो त्यो सेवा देको सुन्दा त 'गजब छ बा' जस्तो लाग्यो। विश्वबिधालयको भन्दा पनि पुरानो इतिहास तिनीहरुको? यस्ता गफाडीहरुले S.L.C. को व्यापार गर्ने भो ठानेर यसो समाचार पढुँ भनेर अर्को पाना पल्टाको, त्यहाँ त झन अर्को पटके instituteको 'खबरदारी' जस्तो सुचना पो र छ। तिनीगरुको सुचनाको heading नै कस्तो, मानौ तिनीहरु कुनै औपचारिक आधिकारिक सरकारी निकाय होस्। तल :-
Cuttings from a local daily
त्यो पढेपछि के लाग्यो भने Bridge Course सञ्चालन गर्ने जिम्मा चाँहि तिनीहरु कै टाउकोमा आउनु पर्ने रे । तिनीहरुको बाउले Bridge Course को ठेक्का तिनीहरुलाइ मात्र देको जस्तो,अरु च्याउ सरी उम्रेका institute हरुको भरमार खेदो गरेको रहेछ । अब दुइ लाख भन्दा बढीले यसपालि S.L.C देका छन,सबतिर Bridge Course को हावा लाग्या बेला जसरी पनि दुइ-चार रुपैया कमाउ भन्ने सब 'च्याउ'हरुको उद्देश्य होला, तर त्यो एउटा 'च्याउ'ले त्यसरी "गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण" भन्दै सुचना प्रकाशित गरेपछि म जस्तो त्यो business मा केही सरोकार नभाकोलाइ शुद्द केही नलेखि बस्नै सकिन।

यसरी सब 'च्याउ'हरु रङि्गन आकर्षक बिज्ञापन गरेर को-भन्दा को कमको होडबाजी गर्दै शुद्ध व्यापार गरिरहेका छन्। आजकाल समाचार कम,विज्ञापनको त्यो पनि यी "Bridge Course"वालाहरुको ताँती देखे पछि वाक्क-दिक्क-प्याक्क लागेर आँउछ।

म पक्कै पनि S.L.C दिएर बसेकाहरुले Bridge Course गर्नु हुन्न भन्ने पक्षमा छैन तर यस्ता व्यापारीले गरेको खेतीमा गएर नफसुन् भन्ने मात्र हो जसको एकमात्र उद्देश्य भनेको पैसा हड्पनु हो।

विधार्थी स्वँयले विवेकशील भइ आफुभन्दा ठुला-वडा,शिक्षकहरु,दाजुहरुसँग परामर्श गरी उचित ठाँउमा गइ आफ्नो क्षमतालाइ त्यतिकै चुप लाएर बस्न नदिइ निरन्तर कुनै विषयमा अध्ध्यन गराउने बानी नै Bridge Course को उद्देश्य हो। सम्भवत यसले आउने दिनको शिक्षाको लागि पनि सहयोग गर्ने छ यदि आफुलाइ पायक पर्ने विषयवस्तुलाइ शुरु मै Bridge Course अन्तर्गत अध्ध्यन गरिएमा।
तर भोलिका दिनमा शिक्षा निति परिवर्तन भएर १२ कक्षा सम्मलाइ S.L.C बनाउने तयारी गरिरहेको अवस्थामा यो पटके 'च्याउ'हरुले कसरी आफ्नो स्वरुप फेर्ला, त्यो त आउने दिनले नै देखाउने छ।

Yesterday(April 16,2007), i was watching news channel. Suddenly, i was shocked to see Richard Gere forcibly handling Shilpa Shetty and kissed on her cheek. At first, it felt, 'what the heck' but the nuisance Indian News channel, they kept repeating the same scene on and on. Needless to say,Richard Gere is veteran Hollywood actor and Shilpa Shetty, the most scandalous indian actress. Her popularity rose after the 'Big Brother' show Scandal. Now, this Richard kissing Shilpa has become another mischievous scandal.
Richard kissing Shilpa
They were on some sort of AIDS awareness Event. It's apparent, the funding to help victims was brought with the help of Richard Gere. May be that's reason of his presense their. And Shilpa let him kiss her. It was friendly kiss. Not even a french kiss. But there were already the agitation across the roads, protesting the act, burning both Shilpa and Richards effigies. Those people were protesting just because Richard kissed Shilpa publicly. They consider it's insult to Hindu culture and immoral act. I don't think so. Don't they have any other work to do except making protest on things like this?

Personally i never liked and never watched a single movie of Shilpa but things like this is just making her even more popular,publicity for free. Good for her, and good for sophisticated Indian News channel for pumping peoples blood to outrage by showing same scene again and again.

By the way, my mind wanders and ask question" why people protest so illogically?" sometimes, i feel they are just a bunch of mindless group of monsters. They need to think and act differently.

Latest microsoft patches can be downloaded off http://www.microsoft.com/security

They've the latest emergency patch for .ani animated cursor files under Windows Vista. Besides,Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool also takes care while tackling such threats. It's a small-sized independent tool to remove the most recent and hiking threats under any operating system running Microsoft windows. Couple of time, i've used it on Windows XP but couldn't detect the threat. May be, my system was not infected. But, to keep this tool handy is a wise work and regularly updating the Microsoft system with hotfixes is must. Because, as we know, Microsoft is number One in the business and most of the crackers/black-hat hackers/exploiters target it most than any other operating system. More they infiltrate, more stronger the Microsoft's security.

Microsoft has a very strange trend of releasing the software/OS patches on a particular date. It's called "Patch Tuesday". Every Tuesday of second week of a month, they release patches/hotfixes/updates for most of the affected issues of their entire software department. It's 16th of april today, so, lots of updates are there by default. Satirically, as soon as the 'Patch Tuesday' is released, exploiters are always on the hunt to exploit the next vulnerability. It's called 'Exploit Wednesday'. Seems ridiculous but it's truth.

For a bandwidth sufferers like me, it's hard to imagine download 100's of MBs of hotfixes and patches to safe proof my system. What i do is, i normally, check the IT magazines which gives extra CD/DVD with complementary shareware software/utility/hotfix,AV updates etc. So, this is another way to update one's system. I can't give with the IT magazines name right now because, i'd be endorsing indirectly their market but all magazines follow the same trends. Hope that brings some luck to innocent users who are more vulnerable to these kinds of online threats.

It's the most hyped, much expected, latest incarnation of Grand Theft Auto Series Which has not released yet. This game is being developed by Rockstar Games and according to them, it's scheduled to be released by the end of this year,2007(precisely on October,2007 for XBOX360 and PS3). They started this series from Top view to third-person type free mode off run gaming. Personally, i quit playing Grand Theft Auto first part, because, the TOP view(or sometime it's called Bird View) really sucked. But after Grand Theft Auto(GTA III) 3, i changed my mind. Even more, after i played as a character called CJ(carl johnson, if i'm not wrong) in San Andreas, i'm much into it. This game is damn addictive and could give anyone an excellent gaming experience. My verdict, if to give, it's the collection of every individual game one could experience. I can drive vehicles, fly planes/copters, ride motorbikes, play pool, ride boat, everything.. for fun part( i say),there are lots of gang wars, looting,beatings,robbings,vandalizing are there. Players are committed to do these totally insane and socially immoral act in the game for fun sake. I did that too. It's just fun. 'Hot Coffee' mod in GTA San Andreas was the most debated aspect of the game, as it exposed nudity to players. Considering all kinds of audiences, country like Australia banned the release of GTA San Andreas. At first i didn't like banning of games but once i applied the mod and played the San Andreas, i think it's somewhat vulgar and indescent for underage players. I will never ever forget this game, this game was one of kind. Now, there is yet another release of this fine series to come, " GTA IV ".

I've come to know from various sources that GTA IV has no planes or anything flying machine to take control of as i did in previous GTA. The reason is that some player may enact 9/11. Sadly, i'm not aware of it's release for PC version. Like GTA Liberty City(sorry if i mispelled name of the game) whose PC port has not been released, there is no word for GTA IV for PC. Technically, it uses RAGE engine which would give fine character animation. In-game content are much detailed and fabricated that previous series. I also learnt that this game mimics the New York city but the equivalent portrait or city's name are different than in real. May be to escape lots of legal issues.

Niko Bellic,a game character in GTA IV

And, this time, 'Niko Bellic' is a main character in this upcoming adrenaline game. I know nothing about this character but seems like this guy is set for lots of killing and fun.

For trailer of GTA IV, http://rockstargames.com/IV/trailer_splash.html

It was speculated that the release of PS3 20 GB across the globe but officially, it's discontinued. Now, whoever got the PS3 20 GB, nothing to fuss about but for them, who is dreaming to get PS3 20GB, it's something to concern about. The reason, umm... they say, it's because lots of people wanting to get 60 GB PS3 rather than 20 GB. So, they discontinued the manufacturing of PS3 20 GB edition.


By the way, PS3 has not reached Kathmandu yet. I'm much eager to see it's gameplay. And really don't know how much would be it's price. But, i can guess, something similar to 30 to 40 thousand buck.

Mero Patro is a mobile software which shows Nepalese Calendar on mobile phone. This program works on any mobile phone which supports JAVA MIDP. If a phone can execute '.jar' type of files then it surely will work.

Author of program told me that for latest updates and download, it's to check http://www.baghchal.com.np/MeroPatro

I had written something about Mero Patro on my previous Post but somehow it seemed lost in the middle of it and i thought it deserves separate post for it's description. So, anyone if would like to check dates on Nepalese calendar on their mobile devices,then this little software by Anup Shrestha would come very handy. Thanks to Mr. Anup since i'm using it on my N70 too.

It's very nice little software of 10kb. I wish author would put major Nepalese Holidays bookmark on it, ability to put schedule notes or something like that but i see, it would need lots of work and may be better off with some price tag on it, if so. :) Anyway, it's still a very nice handy tool for everyone.

Check it out.

Montage-a-google is a simple web-based app that uses Google's image search to generate a large gridded montage of images based on keywords (search terms) entered by the user. Not only an interesting way of browsing the net, it can also be used to create desktop pictures or even posters. (This is how this site describes about Montage-a-google)

One has to put the certain keywords for search and based on those keyword(s), this Montage-a-Google will create a montage. A very beautiful and fun way to create something pictorial. I entered a word 'boudha' and this is what i get. A montage on Boudha. Isn't it beautiful??
My Boudha Montage(Click for larger screen)

To get your works done, click http://grant.robinson.name/projects/montage-a-google/montage-a-google.htm
By the way, the person behind this Cool project is digital designer Grant Robinson,New Zealand. To see more of his interesting projects, click http://grant.robinson.name/projects/

And yeah, don't forget to try more of keywords, it's fun doing and you won't even notice how that 1 hour passed so fast. :) very addictive.

1.Bill Gates home was designed using a Mac!
2.The most frequently occuring company name or trademark on the World Wide Web is IBM.
3.Apple programmers named a beta version of a novel software application 'Sagan', in honour of the renowned astronomer Carl Sagan. Sagan sued Apple, and won the case.
4.On Bill clinton's last day in the White House, his departing aides played a curious practical joke on the incumbent president, George W Bush. When his staffers arrived, they were astonished to find that none of the building's computer Keyboards had Ws
5.Bill Gates computer-geek image was established well before his days at Microsoft. Steve Ballmer, a college buddy who later became that company's president, recalled that Gates never put sheets on his bed, and once left for vacation in the middle of a thunderstorm-with the windows and door wide open.
6.Bill Gates once said," There are people who don't like capitalism, and people who don't like PCs. But there's no-one who like the PC, who doesn't like Microsoft.
7.Before joining Apple, John Sculley was CEO of Pepsi.
8.Bill Gates visited Belgium in February 1998, and was hit in the face with a cream pie. you'd expect him to have pressed charges or to have left the venue immediately. But Gates just remarked that the pie wasn't very tasty.
9.Astronaut David Wolf was the first American to exercise his right to vote from space. He e-mailed his vote for the Houston Mayoral elections in November 1997, while aboard the Russian space station Mir.
10.Steve Jobs announce Apple's partnership with Microsoft during the August 1997 Macworld trade show. The audience booed for 42 seconds!
11.Fifth grade student Laney Rupp drew his vision of Bill Gate's $42 million mansion, which was published in Harper's Magazine in February 1999. The only thing he missed out on was the electronic doggy door.
12.Microsoft asked Rolling Stones front-man, Mick Jagger, if they could use the Stone' hit 'start me up' in promotion for Windows 95. Almost jokingly, he asked for a ridiculous $ 12 million, thinking they'd turn him down. He was shocked when they agreed almost immediately.
13.Mashyoshi Son founded Soft-bank at age 23. The companyholds large stakes in Yahoo!, comdex and Kingston Technologies.
14.The original retail price of the Apple I computer was $666,66, because Steve Wozniak like numbers with repeating digits!
15.The legendary magazine "byte" which ceased publication with its July 1998 issue, began in September 1975.
16.Of the many rumours, about Microsoft, one was a spoof news release in 1994 that claimed Microsoft was purchsing the Catholic Church.
17.Did you know that composer, computer scientist and author Jaron Lanier coined the term 'virtual reality'?
18.The term 'cyberspace' was coined by Sci-fi author William Gibson, and appeared in his 1984 novel Neuromancer.
19.The term 'bit' was coined by John Tuckey. The word first appeared in print relatio to computer science sense in 1949.
20.The code name for the 12 engineers who designed the first IBM PC was 'The Dirty Dozen'.
21.John Brunner is credited with writing the first cyberpunk novel called Shockwave Rider.
22.Did you know that the three founders of Compaq all came from Texas Instruments?
23.Ted Nelson coined the term Hypertext in 1965, and was also the author of the book Literray Machines.
24.Sanai Mito, a former Osaka Municipal University working for Sharp in the early 1970s invented the LCD
25.A widely-circualted Internet hoax claimed that Intel engineers ahd etched a tiny, hidden message on the surface of the Pentium processor, saying 'Bill Sux'
26. Bill Gates' The Road Ahead' has been translated into 25 languages.
27.Hotmail founded by Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith, went online on 4th July 1996. When Microsoft acquired Hotmail in January 1998, Hotmail had over 9 million customers.
28.'Adobe' came from the name of the river Dobe Creek that ran behind the house of founder John Warnock.
29.'Apache' got its name because its founders got started by applying patches to code written for NCSA's httpd daemon. The result was ' A Pachy' server; thus,the name Apache.
30.Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whhther the company they founded would be called Hewlett Packard Hewlett.
31.The name IBM was started by an ex-employee of National Cash Register. To one-up them in all respects he called his comapny International Business Machine.
32.Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA. The code name for the project was Oracle. Later they kept the same name for the company.
33.The term ' Silicon Valley' was coined by journalist Don Hoefler.
34.Charles Wang, an immigrant from Shanghai, founded Computer Associates in 1976.
35.Sandra Kesinor and Leonard Bosack started Cisco in 1984. The name was simply a shortened version of 'San Francisco'.
36.Scott McNealy founded Sun Microsystems in 1982.
37. In 2001, the Guinness Book of World Records listed MSN HOtmail as the worlds largest free-mail provider, with more than a 100 million subscribers.
38. Adobe or Adobe Systems Incorporated, the company behind Photoshop, Acrobat, and so on , was founded in 1982.
39. Steven Gray founded the Amateaur computer Society in 1966 and began publishing the ACS newsletter.
40. Jeff Hawkins invented the Palm Pilot.
41. In 1952, Heniz Nixdorf founded Nixdorf computer Corp. in Germany. It remained an independent corporation until merging with Siemens in 1990.
42.In 1969, Xerox Corp. bought Scientific Data Systems for nearly $ 1 billion-90times the latter's earnings.
43. Bill Gates' first company was called Traf-o-Data, which made software to analyse traffic, which enabled country governments to get federal money for taod projects. The company was driven out of business by a huge monopoly- the federal government that gave away similar software for free.
44. Bill Gates'math SAT score was a perfect 800.
45. The earliest reference by Bill Gates made to the company name 'MIcrosoft' was in a letter sent by Gates to co-founder Paul Allen on 29th November,1975. In the letter, the name was spelt 'Microsoft', but the hyphen was eventually dropped.
46. 3com changed the name of the PalmPilot to simply 'Palm' because PilotPen Company threatened trademark lawsuit, citing possible brand confusion. so 3com backed down and changed the name to 'Palm', The irony is that the Palm Pen Company makes stylus usable on Palm, Windows CE and other pen based devices.
47. Brad Chase, Senior Executive at Microsoft in charge of Windwos 9, left the company in 1999 and created a board game called Derivation, which is about English words and phrases and their origins and meanings.
48.Apple co-founder Steve Woznaik earned money in college by selling "blue boxes" to other students. A blue box attached to a proper signals to allow a user to make free phone calls.
49.Bill Gates launched his business carrer in 1969 at age 14 by forming a company named Lakeside Programming Group. Gates and his friend Paul Allen signed an agreement with Computer Center corporation to report bugs in PDP-10 software, in exchange for computer time.
50.One of the largest companies in the world,AT&T is beleived to have employed over a million people at one point.

Site: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/turner/index.html

Purpose: Nepali-to-English Dictionary.

Creators: The Digital South Asia Library project (DSAL) together with the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia (DDSA) have instituted a plan for archiving and preserving their resources.

Project: About the Digital Dictionaries of South Asia project

The South Asia Language and Area Center at University of Chicago, Columbia University, and the Triangle South Asia Consortium in North Carolina are creating and disseminating electronic dictionaries. For each of the twenty-six modern literary languages of South Asia, a panel of language experts identified key dictionaries currently in print and selected at least one multilingual dictionary for each language. For the more frequently taught languages, a monolingual dictionary also has been chosen. After identifying the best available resources, the chosen dictionaries have been converted to digital formats.
Usage: It's as easy as pie, either use Unicode or plain Roman for words to find. eg. mero or मेरो . Click for larger view
My Words: This is one great resource for anyone seeking not only Nepali-to-English translation, but major south asian languages like Assamese, Bengali, Baluchi, Hindi, Persian, Newari, Marathi, Rajasthani, Tamil, Telugu, Torwali, Urdu, Tibetan and more. So, this online dictionary of major South Asian languages seems very useful for learners as well as researchers. I've not been able to dive into whole archives of the site but to the extent where i used it, it's very much efficient than the one being developed by our own www.mpp.org.np. I've tried couple of rare words to find the meaning and it could deliver that very well just in front of my monitor.
Click for larger view

Regards

A personal bitter experience by a user while queueing up to get Nepal Telecom's prepaid Simcard .



(cutting of Kantipur Daily as of dated April 9, 2007)

"Spybot - Search & Destroy detects and removes spyware, a relatively new kind of threat not yet covered by common anti-virus applications. Spyware silently tracks your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile for you that is transmitted without your knowledge to the compilers and sold to advertising companies. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you haven't intentionally installed, if your browser crashes inexplicably, or if your home page has been "hijacked" (or changed without your knowledge), your computer is most probably infected with spyware. Even if you don't see the symptoms, your computer may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm giving it a try to see if something has invaded your computer."

Well after that official description of "Spybot-S&D", my own experience with it, is very good. This is the best Spyware,trojans,malwares remover till date. There are other commercial products like "Webroot Spysweeper" but since "Spybot-S&D" is free, i give my points to it. Webroot Spysweeper is another powerful and the most efficient spywares remover but ever since, equally contendor "Spybot-S&D" became freeware, i'm attached with it.

There are two modes, Basic(default) and Advanced mode.
In basic mode, one can use :
1)Search and destroy - search system for possible spywares,trojans etc and eliminate them.. boom boom
2)Immunize - make system spyware ready
3)Update - this program needs to be fed with regular updates(latest bullets,guns,arsenals) to fight those latest spywares..

In advanced mode, i can tweak the program settings further more. for eg. I can enable the TeaTimer, memory resident scanner through this.
From the Tool->Resident->check both boxes i.e
Resident "SDHelper"
Resident "TeaTimer"



Anyone interested to download this software, click here

that's just one link mirror, for list of mirrors, http://www.spybot.info/en/mirrors/index.html

It's really unbelievable that the Products labelled 'Certified for Windows Vista' are having hardtime to operate under that system. Lots of news are making headlines regarding this that why products are being shipped with no working drivers to work under Windows Vista though they are tagged 'Certified for Windows Vista' out-box. The major issue is with the Graphics card. The new ATI Radeon X1950 GT and Geforce 8600 GTS as a Vista-certified graphics card without a working driver. It seems that either manufacturers' drivers are not yet tested/verified by Microsoft's lab or seems plainly the Window's negligence. The most irritants related with these drivers are the BSODs once these cards are installed.

Normally, i thought those Logo meant, it is designed to work under the specified operating system. But seems, these days, it got it's meaning wrong. Lets see, if this issues will be addressed or not but right now, it's making headlines among the Vista users.


What Does The Logo Mean?

The Certified for Windows Vista logo is a very powerful marketing tool. According to Microsoft, a hardware device that is certified for Windows Vista...

Is designed and tested for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security on PC's running Windows Vista.

Meets technical requirements for superior experiences with photos, music, videos, games and online communications.

Installs easily and can automatically download device driver updates from Windows Update.

Helps ensure compatibility with other Certified for Windows Vista products.

Is designed and tested for ease of use, better performance and enhanced security on PC's running Windows Vista.

Meets technical requirements for superior experiences with photos, music, videos, games and online communications.

Installs easily and can automatically download device driver updates from Windows Update.

Helps ensure compatibility with other Certified for Windows Vista products.

IPODs killed Walkman/discman. Now there is a series of IPOD killers in market.

Microsoft Zune.

The features include a large 3-inch QVGA (320x240) LCD screen, 30 GB of disk space, WiFi for sharing songs, FM radio, MP3/AAC/WMA audio playback, JPEG photo viewing, and WMV/MPEG-4/H.264 video playback. The Zune will also be compatible with the XBOX 360 for streaming multimedia and the firmware is upgradeable. In the future, the Zune will also allow video sharing. The Zune reportedly has a 13-hour battery life for audio and 4 hours for video.
It's Nepalese equivalent cost would be around Rs. 17500 exclusive taxes.

Creative Zen Micro Photo

All the familiar features are still there, the easily replaceable battery, a standard mini USB connection, and the hold switch. There's also a choice of ten colors. But the main difference, of course, is the Zen Micro Photo's small-but-pretty, full-color OLED screen. It measures 41mm (1.6 inches) diagonally, can display 262,144 colors, and is viewable from any angle.

The innovative touch pad that made its debut on the Creative Zen Micro carries over to the Photo, though it has been slightly improved. The face of the player has a textured feel to it, lending a more tactile sensation to the controls. The layout of the touch pad remains the same, with a vertical scroll strip flanked by back, rewind, play/pause, fast-forward and menu keys. This, combined with a great user interface, makes for highly intuitive navigation. Creative recently patented the interface found on the Zen MicroPhoto. In fact, the Creative interface is used on many popular MP3 players, including the Apple iPod.

Samsung Yepp

In a case of small being beautiful as well as packing a host of features Samsung’s Yepp YP-MT6Z offers a massive 1GB of internal flash memory and 42 hours of playtime powered off a single AA battery. Single AA battery??? yeah.. that's true. :)

It incorporates a digital FM Tuner with 20 pre-sets, inline MP3 encoding, a voice recorder and eight EQ pre-sets all of which make it more than just another upstart yapping at the iPod Micro’s heels. Capable of playing MP3,WMA, ASF, Secure WMA and Ogg Vorbis music files and supporting MP3 bit rates from 8 kbps - 320 kbps this is clearly a contender.

Philip’s GoGear HDD6330

With a 30GB hard drive and features such as a photo-friendly color screen, support for WMA DRM 10 subscription content, an FM radio tuner, and a voice recorder Philip’s GoGear HDD6330 is the closest the company has come to producing a viable iPod rival.

Better still this is the closest a WMA-compatible player has come to rivaling iPod’s sleek design presenting an intuitive, touch-screen interface and the kind of user-friendly control you have a right to expect from your mobile entertainment unit these days.

If one hates IPOD, it's name and fame; then these are the alternatives to IPOD players.
Click here for more portable players.

FPS(First person shooter) games are one of the gaming genre. These games are biggest hit in multiplayer networked gaming field. Counter Strike is one example of FPS. B-U-T,my all time favorite is RTS(real time Strategy) game. All AOE series,Command and Conquer series, Microsoft Mythology series and last i played was Battle for the middle Earth, these are my type of games. The reason i like these games is because, they give me full healthy gaming experience. My gaming experience with FPS has always been very negative. Everytime, i played FPS games like Quake,Halo,Sin,etc i got sick for the whole day. It gave me the feelings of motion sickness similar to a bus-ride of long hours.
First Person Shooter(game environment)model

After many years, i tried to play a somewhat mixture of FPS and third-person-view shooter titled "Gears of wars" in xbox 360 but again, my eye-ball started aching, felt like nausea,vertigo all around. When i played during my schoolhood, a game called Wolfestein,i vomitted many times. I didn't have that much strength as a kid( was preparing to give SLC) to stop those pressure from stomach and so, it's SPLASH..

I always envied them who played all those FPS well without no motionsickness. I put forward this issue to doctor too and he suggested me to take some anti-motion sickness before playing FPS games. I had that "Avomine" at home, i took it and played and to that extreme, i didn't feel sickness though to some extent it still gave me hard head. So, that was the end of my FPS game play.

After few weeks, i tried as many games as possible and i found myself addicted to RTS game type. I wasn't sure of the game type genre but later somehow i figured out that games are built thinking of different genres. It was good Real Time strategy. RTS games are well planned, isometric views which i can view enemies from all angles,move based, building forts, generating armies, .. well they were so addictive, i fell in love with this and i started playing all those games. Now, my only desire is to compete online with other players but heck.. i've no broadband connection. I'm waiting for broadband to reach my area and as soon as that happens, i'm sure, i'll join all type of RTS network possible plus MMORPG. :)

I hate to take medicines for gameplay but whoever i asked or found, they told me couple of nice suggestions and advices. One i already wrote before to take some anti-motion sickness tablets. I think Dramamine is the best of all as i'm told. I'll someday try FPS with that medicine taken before an hour of gameplay. And definitely will share my views. Some told me having a ginger before gameplay. Ginger juice/ginger fried.. WHAACK.. i hate that bittery taste all the way but people told me it works great. One can try this if his/her eyes power is fine , i mean if nothing is wrong. Rest is to mingle with the technical aspect and own's physical aspect.

It's good to set the refresh rate of monitor to high value. It helps one to reduce the chances of migraine and headache,eyeache etc. It's suggested not just for gameplay but during our normal computing too, it's a must. And for physical, it's must to visit optician to check Eye's power if one experiences a severe sickness after playing games for 5-10 minutes. He will give you suggestion, correct glass. Once i asked my optician same way and he referred me 'Avomine'. May be these days , doctors too might indulge themselves to FPS, who knows? they may give even better solutions for sufferers like me. But, i'm away with these FPS for ever.