Eclipse and Microsoft

Quite a nice blog about eclipse and how it is a compition to Microsft. He also talks about AJAX.
Read More here : http://www.ebizq.net/blogs/it_directions/archives/2006/03/eclipse_and_the.php

Import (Mac)Address Book vCards to Outlook

I wanted to import all the contacts from Mac-Address book into outlook, unfortunately Outlook can only import single vCard (version 2.1) and Address Book (on Mac) exports a bulk of address as a single vCard (version 3). I am finally looking into doing what this person suggested - Read More here: njivy.org/node/import-a...

Using iSync for Synchornizing Mac and Nokia 6600

I used iSync for synchornizing the contacts and calendar between my phone and the Mac, and it worked without any possible problem at all. It was very easy as compared to the pain and torture that I have to go through when syncing up on window with the different blue tooth device drivers - It can really be a pain. Moreover the nokia pc suite for windows is a horrible tool (totaly useless) - I guess Oxygen Phone manager for windows is much better but you have to pay for it, while the stuff that comes with Mac is totaly free. 

iTrip iPod FM Transmitter

Operating frequencies

Read more at www.the-gadgeteer.com/r...

Virtue - Mac Virtual Desktop Manager

Free virtual desktop manager for Mac

http://virtuedesktops.sourceforge.net/

AJAX Introduction.

Nice article on Ajax Introduction at java.sun
http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2EE/AJAX/?feed=JSC

Yahoo Online Presense

Declaring your yahoo presense on your web page. Visite the following page :Yahoo Online Presence. Enter in your yahoo id and it will generate the html that you can paste on your web page.

It will generate something on these lines

Google finance

Google finance was lauched a couple of days back.
Aso have a look at NYSE MarkeTrac it is really good.

Inside Man

Went to see the movie Inside Man over the weekend and it was excellent, the best part of the movie was the title track, it was totaly unexpected.
The title track Chayya Chayya is from a Bolloywood movie called Dil Se the video is excellent too after all it is got Malika Arora
Inside Man has an excellent plot line, and over all quite a gripping movie.

All the right reasons - Nickelback

Nickelback - All the right reason.

A very good album , it hasnt got many good reviews, but I quite like the songs from this album, particularly 'Animals'.

Also like 'Fighting for all the wrong reasons'

A short history of nearly everything

Just started reading the book 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

I havent read much of the book but it based of what I have read it seems really interesting.

Beautiful World - Colin Hay

Nice song by Colin Hay, I think it is about being content with life.

My my my, It’s a beautiful world
I like swimming in the sea
I like to go out beyond the white breakers
Where a man can still be free,
Or a woman if you are one
I like swimming in the sea

My my my, It’s a beautiful world
I like drinking Irish Tea
With a little bit of lap sang souchong
I like making my own Tea

My my my, It’s a beautiful world
I like driving in my car
Roll the top down,
Sometimes I travel quite far
Drive to the ocean
Stare up at the stars

All around is anger, automatic guns
Death in large numbers, no respect for woman, or our little ones
I tried talking to Jesus, but he just put me on hold
Said he’d been swamped by calls this week
And He could not shake his cold

And still this emptiness persists
Perhaps this is as good as it gets
When you’ve given up the drink and those nasty cigarettes
Now I leave the party early at least with no regrets
I watch the sun as it comes up I watch it as it sets
Yeah this is as good as it gets

My my my, It’s a beautiful world
I like sleeping with Marie
She is one sexy girl full of mystery
She says she doesn’t love me, but she likes my company
For now that’s good enough for me

Optimus keyboard

Nicekey board

Photoshop

Each key display the exact short cut.

Read more at www.artlebedev.com/port...

The Webshite :: Nickelback

Nickelback is really a nice group but this site, plays 'How You Remind Me' on the left speaker and 'Somday' on the the right speaker and you will see that both the songs are exactly the same :-).

I am still interested in getting album 'All the right reasons'

Read more at www.thewebshite.net/nic...

Nice blogger widged for Mac OS

This blogger widget sites on the dashboard

Demon Haunted World

I have been listening to this audio book and it is really a very good book. Something quite different from 'The Pale Blue Dot' but very similar interms of having a down to earth look at science.

Flickr Related Tag Browser

Really good looking interface into exploring tags in flickr. This is some really good and inovative use of Flickr API.
See it here:Flickr Related Tag Browser

Free:IBM DB2 Personal Developer's Edition

IBM DB2 PDE (Personal Developer Edition) is avaliable as a free downloand.

Read More : IBM Software - DB2 Personal Developer's Edition

BOINC: Distributed computing

It provides a sort of VM for executing distributed applications.

JavaView Homepage

I found an Open API for java 3d, I think it also integerates into XML

Read more at javaview.de//index.html

Usefull Mac utilities

Some usefull Mac utilities (thanks to Tom)

For remote desktop, there is a commercial product called Timbuktu that might be better. I haven't used it but it is popular among mac users.

For utilities, etc, the ones I use most regularly are:

Fink - loads of open source programs, with the debian apt-get installer means its very easy to add most command line (and other) utilities you've used on linux and other unixes.
InquisitorX - I actually paid for this, it's only 5 dollars. Gives you a decent google suggest for the search box on Safari.
Menumeters - gives CPU/net/etc graphs for the menu bar. Also gives quick access to Activity Monitor.
AdiumX - multi-network chat client. Best one I found and free too.
BluePhoneElite - neat on screen alerts when you get a phone call or SMS (including who is calling). Also allows sending SMS from desktop.
CaminoBrowser - OSX-ised version of firefox. Quicker than firefox and looks neater but doesn't support plugins.
Cyberduck - simple, neat, free FTP client
Flip4Mac - free windows media codecs for OSX. Much better than windows media player - actually works well embedded in browser, etc.
Kismac - Wireless network scanner. Best one I think - better than iStumbler or MacStumbler
Gvim - Mac port is good
VLC - Mac port also very good.
Carbon Copy Cloner - handy for backing up whole disk to another drive.
www.serverlogistics.com - do decent packaged versions of Tomcat, MySQL to install. Adds System Preferences widgets for starting/stopping.
Native versions of IntelliJ and Sybase are decent.
Best Torrent client is Azureus of course ;-)

Hopefully that's enough to get you started !

My DVD/CD drive doest recongnize CDs in Windows

I rebooted the machine and I still have the same problem
First I wanted to find out if the problem was software or harware. On way to test that is to boot into Linux and test if I still access the drive, the other option was a simple, I used one of Nero's Tools and it could test the drive speed, get the name of the disk and other stuff. This confirmed that the problem is software and not hardware ( just to be really sure that the problem is software I could boot into linux and test it out). Next was to find out if anyone had the same problem so I started googling.
I got this site a guy on this forum talks about the drivers that are loaded into windows and a tool that can display the device drivers load order for different drives. So I downloaded and executed the program 'Filter Driver Load Order'. My NEC DVD drive had the following information
1. Upper Class Filter - GEARAspiWDM - Gear Software
2. Upper Class Filter - redbook - Microsoft
3. Device - the actual device
4. Lower Class Filter - Pfc
5. Lower Class Filter - PcHelp20
6. Lower Device Filter - imapi

The only thing standing out was GEARAspiWDM, since this wasnt supplied by Microsft.
This is the first time I am hearing about a software from Gear, so who installed it?
On Googling for sutff realted to GearAspiWDM I found this article , It seems that there are certain 3rdParty applications that install the GEAR drivers, like iTunes - I think I just updated to the latest version of iTunes a while back, I just need to remember if the last time I used the drive was before of after that time(I still dont remember). I downloaded and installed the latest version of iTunes on the 26thJan, I also looked into the iTunes installer and noticed that it comes with Drivers.cab and bingo this file contained the GEAR drivers.

What is Upper Class Filters etc?
I could find more information about this in the book
'Microsoft® Windows® Internals, Fourth Edition: Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, Windows XP, and Windows 2000' - By Mark E. Russinovich, David A. Solomon
I think I blogged about this a while back.

Is there a way for uninstalling it ?
Using this article I can possible manually uninstall it

What other options do I have ?
1. Download and install the latest version of the driver from GEAR
2. Find out if there is a way for
3. Uninstall iTunes and see if it solves the problem.

We will see how it goes.

Finally I manually uninslled Gear Drivers, and I restarted iTunes and iTunes came up with a message stating that iTunes was not installed propertly and it cannot import music from CDs, which is fine since I dont use iTunes for that at all.

DIRE STRAITS — ( Industrial Disease )

Listening to this album after a really really long time, I purchased this album from iTunes today. It was really great to listen to industrial disease.

Read more at www.lyricsfreak.com/d/d...

The Official Eclipse FAQs

A list of FAQs for Eclipse.
Read More at :The Official Eclipse FAQs

Google Your Desktop(Moving your Index files)

The application (Google Desktop) fails to install if you have less than 1GB free and will only install on your system partition.So if you have multiple partitions, don't like installing apps to your system drive or have less than 1GB free on it then you cant do anything much.

This can easily remedied with a registry change...If you want to change the location of the cache, you just need to change a registry key:HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Google Desktop\data_dirIt defaults to C:\Documents and Settings\username\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Google Desktop SearchI just exited the search with the tray icon, changed it to a folder on my D drive and moved the existing files over to the new location and then restarted it and it is now updating at the new location just dandy

Read more at www.oreillynet.com/pub/...

No Cool wave effect in the MacMini Dashboard

The GPU that comes with Mac min (i.e ATI Radeon 9200) doest do the 'Core Image' (what ever that is ) as a result of which you dont get the cool wave effect when you drop Widgets in the Dashboard. You can have a look at the cool Dashboard Wave effect over here: http://www.apple.com/macosx/theater/dashboard.html

Read more at arstechnica.com/article...

Remote Desktops accross Mac, Windows, Unix

Talks about Remote Desktop Access across different OS. This is really good.

How to fix a dead pixel on an LCD Monitor

An interesting article on fixing a dead pixel on an LCD Monitor.
I am definately not going to try this

Read more here [http://wiki.ehow.com/Fix-a-Dead-Pixel-on-an-LCD-Monitor]

Few more useful firefox plugin

Blogger Web Comments - Allows you to easly view and add comments to the page that you are currently viewing (This is much better than, 'blog this' button that comes in google firefox tool bar)

Web Developer Extension - Provides really usefull extensions that is really required by any web developer.

Forecast Fox - Weather information at the bottom right.

livehttpheaders for Firefox

This tool is similar to ieHttpHeaders that I posted a while back, but it is a firefox extension

Read more at livehttpheaders.mozdev....

Mac OS X Tiger vs. Windows XP

Providing some sort of comparison between Mac Os X and Windows XP

Read more at www.xvsxp.com/

ieHttpHeaders @ blunck.info

Nice tool for checking IE request, response headers
blunck.info

192.com - The Largest UK Directory Enquiry Service

Seems like a nice site.
192.com - The Largest UK Directory Enquiry Service

Eclipse Distilled

This book provides quite a good introduction to eclipse, I bet there is a lot of information about eclipse on the net and most people will not require a book, but I generally find that when looking into a new topic the amount of information is too much, quite often when you are looking at a new topic you want a high level view of the entire subject before you can choose the particular sub topic to dive into. This book provides that kinda high level view (well at least the 1st chapter does).

After reading the first chapter I am very interested in Eclipse Rich Client Platform(RCP) applications.

About a month back I picked up a book on SWT (Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace), just for casual reading just out of interest. I liked the book very much and its introduction to SWT. At that time I was thinking that the next time I have to write a desktop application I should SWT instead of Swing. But today after understanding the Eclipse RCP framework and the generic features that is provider, I feel that it provides much more application support rather than just using SWT. I feel that if you are using Eclipse RCP you can then concentrate on the actual business logic rather than spending time re-creating a UI, moreover the plugability provided by RCP is really great.

Book:Eclipse Distilled

Developing for Eclipse Rich Client Platform(RCP)

A very nice article about developing applications for Eclipse RCP

Read more at www.eclipsecon.org/2005...

World Tracker turns anyone into a cellphone spy - Engadget

Traking anyone using their phone and their current location in the cellphone grid.

Read more at www.engadget.com/2006/0...

Flickrmap - get a flash world map of your flickr photos

This is really a nice idea. Have a look at the tutorial about geo taging picture using Google Earth. I amquite tempted to go in for this and moreover it costs only 5$ per year, but I dont travel a lot neither do I take many photos.

Read more at www.flickrmap.com/

Adding google video to blog pages

Here is a blog that has multiple google videos added to it. I have to look into how it has been done.

Read more at homepage.mac.com/pockyr...

Raible's Wiki: TomcatAntTasks

This is some really usefull stuff, using this you can reload Tomcat web applications without restarting the server, this is particularly usefull for rapid development.

Raible's Wiki: TomcatAntTasks

Compare Desktop Search Products Matrix email search tools

Nice comparison matrix for all desktop search engines

Read more at www.goebelgroup.com/des...

Oscar's Multi-Monitor taskBar

I finally got the DVI-I to VGA converter and hooked up my DELL 17in Monitor to my PC.

I had to use Ocar's Multi-Monitor Task bar for having a continious monitor

Read more at www.mediachance.com/fre...

Annoyances.org - Turn Off the CD-ROM Autorun

Xml to SWT - Cookswt

I have to give this a try, since it seems really easy to create SWT UI using XML.

Dual Monitor Support on ATI Radeon 9800

This article talks about the the dual monitor support on ATI Radeon 9800, not only that the article does a complete review of Radeon 9800.

Plugin development - Azureus

Here is some nice documentation on writing plugins for Azureus.
JavaDoc for plugin developmnent

SWT Introduction

Nice article on Javaworld introducing SWT.

Visual Studio 2005 Trial

I have to get Visual Studio 2005 - 180 day trial moment it is avaliable in Europe.

Flat Screen Monitor

Nice review about Acer1916w

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/aceral1916w/

Dell 2005FPW review: http://reviews.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/monitors/0,39023940,39187093,00.htm

Finally got the Acer Al1916w Monitor. I think it is really worth 180£

Books

I got the following books during my holiday

Spring in Action
Professional Java Native Interfaces with SWT/JFace
Microsoft Windows Internals: Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003
UML 2.0 in a Nutshell
Developing Series 60 Applications: A Guide for Symbian OS C++ Developers
C++ Pocket Reference

I also got a lot of time to read through 'Java native Interfaces with SWT/JFace', 'Windows Internals' and 'Spring in Action'.

Utilities

Some usefull PC utilities extracted from various PC Quest Articles

CVS integration with Win Explorer.http://www.tortoisecvs.org/
Knowledge Management with Confluence
Preview Search Results Instantly: http://www.browster.com/
Port monitornig in Win XP: Port Reporter
Xpde : www.xpde.com
Determine you ip address : http://www.whatismyip.com/

Adding Google Video to your blog page

I have to try this out later on.
I also have to upload more videos

I am thinking of upgrading to a Flickr Pro Account

I am thinking of upgrading to flickr pro account it is about 47$ per year.

Candy Mareen

mareen
Originally uploaded by ♫ maria.

Really nice colors

Need for Speed - Most Wanted

I downloaded this game demo on Sat night and I have been playing it since then.
It is really great, It is really good that they have got back day time racing; not that I didnt like the underground scene that was really good; but the entire concept of open world driving along with day time driving with cop chace is really great.
The music is excellent too.
I am waiting for Prince of Persia demo

How to change the location of IDEA caches (system) and configuration directories

I am quite sure I blogged about this a while back and I wasnt able to locate it using google blog search. Well here it is again.

Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Finally got this book today. I cant wait to read it.

Be There Broadband

Quite a good broadband ISP for London. it gives 24 megs for24£per month. But it requires ADSL2,I think that requires a different type of modem I am not sure if I can use my existing modem/router for the same.

Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market and Just About Everything Else

I got this book 2 weeks back. It seems like a really interesting book.

UK House Prices for free FREE

UK House Prices for free FREE

Low space on C:

The amount of space on C: was really low, so I decided that I would install windows on a diff partition (this time give it 10Gb) I started off with that and then got board since it takes a really long time, moreover I didnt have the installer for some of the software, like Far Cry and Stary Night. So I decide that I would go back to my previous install and try and move Docuements and Settings to a different partiftion after searching for a some time I found this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314843/ I tried to move 'Documents and Settings' but I wasnt successfully so I finally mamanged to move my profile to a different drive.
I now have 500mb on C:, well much better than 97mb.

Spent the entire day on this...a realy waste.

I still have to move to the new windows since I am quite sure I am going to hit the lower limit soon.

Quake 4

Been playing Quake 4 for a couple of days and I have to say it is really good. It built on the same engine as Doom but I seemed to like this game much more than Doom, I guess I didnt quite like the Doom story line about ghost on Mars didnt make much sense. Well there isnt much sense even in Quake 4 but then too I quite like the single player game strategy.

Joanna Newsom (This Side of the Blue)

A really nice song by Joanna Newsom called This side of the Blue from the album The Milk eyed Mender I heard this song the first time on TV in some Ad, I think it was a Vodophone 'NOW' ad though I am not that sure. She has got a really nice voice and the tune is really great.

Social Networking at JavaOne

Nokia Sensor post by Michael Yuan

Spring MVC vs Struts

Gerard Davison's Weblog: First looks, Spring MVC vs Struts

In most places, the Spring framework doesn't reinvent working technologies. In the area of presentation logic, though, Spring introduces a simple model-view-controller framework called MVC Web that has many competing architectures, like Struts and Java Server Faces (JSF). Take solace, though. You don't have to use MVC Web to use Spring. But if you decide to do so, you will find a few advantages:

-MVC Web is based on interfaces rather than inheritance. As we discussed in Chapter 3, interfaces often give better flexibility and looser coupling than inheritance-based designs.

-MVC Web does not dictate your choice of view. Other frameworks tend to provide better support for favored view technologies, such as Velocity (proprietary) and Struts (JSP). For example, Struts exposes the model via request attributes. As a result, you need to build a bridge servlet to use a technology such as Velocity that doesn't understand the Servlet API. Spring exposes the model through a generic map, so it can work with any view technology.

-MVC Web provides consistent configuration across all aspects of a Spring application. It uses the same inversion-of-control paradigm that the other frameworks use.

-MVC Web makes testing easier. Since you don't have to extend another class (like Action or ActionForm in Struts), you can easily mock the request and response.


Karl Baum opened this thread.

Tom Lehrer Song

Used to listen to this guy quite often during the first few years of Engg, from 4pm till 5pm.

DHTML SQL Designer

Really cool DHTML Designer sent to me by Joshua Spoerri. Quite cool

Brillo - Shine

Brillo - Shine
Originally uploaded by * No. Pip, no!!! *.

Another Great one

AJAX and DHTML and stuff

http://www.protopage.com/This is something that I have been looking for, it is really great. I have to look into to see how this works

http://www.netvibes.com/This is similar to google personal, but I am really interested in seeing how they save the page title

https://www.meebo.com/This is the best of all, is really amazing

Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object

Nice article on DHTML and XMLHttpRequest object.
This is a good article about AJAX : http://dev2dev.bea.com/pub/a/2005/08/ajax_introduction.html

script.aculo.us

Java Script Site with drag and drop

Deeper

Deeper
Originally uploaded by Agridulce.

Really Nice picture, morever this is my first blog from flickr

The New Quantum Universe

I got this book on Sat and it really quite a good book. I have just gone through a couple of chapters till now, it seems really interesting so I guess I am going to complete a lot of it.

IBM - DB2 Alphablox connections to DB2 OLAP 8.2/Essbase 7.1 ASO databases

I was having a real problem setting up the Essbase connection from Alphablox on Nt and I finally solved the problem I had a look at this support site from IBM and it was quite helpfull. Now all that I have to check is the working of the Tomcat 5.0.28 with Alphablox and the finally debugging. Once I get the debugging up and running I should be in a really good shape.

This is like a major break through since I have been fighting with this for almost a week now.

Google Talk

It is finally out. I just installed it at home and thatz about it. Didnt quite try it out since there isnt any one else on my friends list !!!. I have sent out a couple of friend invitations but havent got any reply back.

27th Aug 05 14:30
I happend to meet Karthik Gopalan (aka KG) online so we decided to give talk a try. I was absolutely amazing. Much much better than what is currently given by yahoo or MSN, I havent tried Skype but this is really quite good, what is even better the size of the app is just 900K.

Error 1714 - while installing iTunes

I was getting 'Error 1714' while installing iTunes I guess it has something to do with the fact that I manually deleted the folder c:\windows\Downloaded Installations\

Since this folder was taking up a lot of HD space on the C drive
Now since I didnt that I couldnt install iTunes updated version since the iTunes installer was loooking for an older version of iTunes to uninstall it and it couldnt find the older installer at c:\windows\Downloaded Installations\

So I downloaded Windows Installer CleanUp Utility that did some clean up.

Google Desktop Episode II

Google desktop search 2.
Just installed it some time back, seems quite interesting. There are some good plugins avaliable for it. I installed the System Monitor plugin.

There seems to be some resources for plugin development, I dont know if I will get the time to read through all that.

Drag & Drop for Images and Layers in JavaScript DHTML Library,

I had a look at drag and drop in Google Personilization site and it was realy nice.
Here is the Javascript and DHTML API that does the same.
This page also some other interesting stuff like adding too tips to links
DHTML JavaScript Tooltips

I can also attach images to the tooltip, like this is a pic of me on a tooltip

Then there is also stuff for dragging and images, like this Picture , taken when amit was over in london can be dragged.


I got the drag and drop to work using this site : http://www.youngpup.net/2001/domdrag/tutorial

Ok the dragging doest work in this blog, since there seems to be some interference between the code generated by blogger.

Konfabulator: The Beginning Widget Writer's Guide

Nice page introducing creating Widgets for Konfabulator. It seems quite good and really easy to write.

RSS 2 PDF - Free Online RSS, Atom or OPML to PDF Generator

This is something quite good, an online PDF converter

Wireless ADSL Router

I am thinking of going in for this Wireless ADSL Modem Router
Linksys

Sony Ericsson Developer World

Development site for Sony Erricson Phones. I am really interested in getting the Nokia N90 phone, since it has implementation for a lot of Java APIs that I am interested in,but since it is still not out here. I guess I will have to go in for another phone, may be Motorazon V3 or Sony Erricson K750i. Still havent decided.

Looking for a Mobile phone with Symbian OS Series 60 Platform, 3rd Edition

I was lookin for a mobile phone that implements the Location API for J2ME.
I then found out that Symbian has allready implemented that API in its Series 60 Platform 3rd Edition.

So I posted this in the Java Ranch forum.

Should I go in for a PSP

I cant decide if I should go in for a PSP ?

Google Personal

Really nice google personal site.
A lot of customization avaliable, you can also add some external feeds to your personal site.
I tried adding linux admin's blog atom.xml feed to my personal site and it worked.

Like here is how you can add my blog to your google personal home page.
1. Go the google personal home page http://www.google.com/ig
2. Click on 'Add Content' on the top left corner.
3. Select the last option 'Create Section'
4. Enter the following URL in text box http://thinking0utl0ud.blogspot.com/atom.xml
5. Click on 'Go'

Hacking the hotel through the TV | Tech News on ZDNet

Nice article.

Stopped by the cops again at Tower Hill Tube Station

I think I am the chosen one since I was stopped again by a cop today but this time it was the Tube station and not the DLR station.
This cop started asking me stuff and then I told him that I had allready been searched, he had a stupid look on his face and I told me that I was searched on friday and he asked me if I had the ticket with me so I showed it to him. He then said that he was sorry and he said that I do have a big bag with me ( big ??? it is just a normal sized bag, and nothing much in it ), told him that if he still wanted to have a look inside he definately can. He said that he said that it was ok and he let me go.

A bit of Hot Coffee for Senator Clinton's mind

An article about how video games affecting childerns mind. I didnt get time to read through it but I guess it should be an interesting read.

Stopped by cops on the way to work

This friday I was stopped by the cops at Tower Hill DLR station at 8:30 am and searched. I also got a ticket containing details about the search and the clothes that I was wearing etc.

Microsoft "Genuine Advantage" cracked in 24h: window.g_sDisableWGACheck='all'

This is a nice one, I really had to post it.

Rapid reboots on Dell GX270

For the last couple of days I was having a problem with my PC at work. It just kept rebotting, and I also noticed that it made a wierd sound while starting up. The rebotting was quite random and not related to any problem with a software.
That guy at the help desk was really helpfull and he told me that my profile was really huge, we reduced it by deleting the cache folder in .IntelliJ that seemed to have solved the problem for yesterday, but then today morning I couldnt log into the system at all.

Finally the hardware guy came over and he opened the machine and he told me that a capacitor was fried, I had a look at it and it looked like some puss ozzing out.
He told me that he is taking my PC and going to replace the motherboard and will get it back in about an hrs time, it is good that the problem was related to just my motherboard and not any software, since I didnt want to go through the entire process of re configuring my machine and setting it up to work the way I wanted it to work. Moreover I also dont loose the work that I had done yesterday evening.

I also googled the problem and it came up with this article. I have to say I am luck I dont have this problem with my PC at home since, coz if I did I would have no idea about the actual problem and no way I could get it replaced without paying a huge sum.

The Fabric of the Cosmos

I got this book for my US trip, it is really very good. It is written by Brian Greene, the same author who wrote 'The Elegant Universe'.

Had a really very nice trip to US and did a lot of things, I dont feel like writing much now. I guess I should be uploading all the photos to the internet soon.

Cheap Air, Inc. - Search for Cheap Air Fare at CheapAir.com

Nice site for searching Cheap Air Tickets in US. I think it consolodates data from different sites

Open Source Testing

I wanted some tool for load testing my server side application ( not web based ). I didnt want to write my own load testing application client.

Found some interesting stuff over here.

Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas: Simple Skin Editing

I was looking up a stuff about GTA: SA since I have been playing that game for almost a week now. It is really quite interesting since it has some interesting stuff like you have to go to the gym eat at regular intervals and moreover you change you look and hair style etc. The maps are really really huge compared to Vice City.

I found some interesting site on GTA SA:
http://www.gtaforums.com
http://www.gtasanandreas.net/

I was also looking into creating a custom Skin for CJ and I found this simple tutorial.

The GTA development community is really really huge. The number of freelance developers working on hacking into GTA to change it in some way or the other makes you thinking about talent out there.

Nice list of Internet Smileys....

This site has a nice list of internet smileys and what they mean.
The smiley that I was looking for was : ^_^
but that isnt explained in this page :-(
Internet Smileys.... ^_^

GMail Drive shell extension

Nice Windows Shell Extension into Gmail, this is really quite cool. If you require an extra 1Gb of online space. - provided by Kartik G.

There are definately some limitations
1. You can only upload and download files of size 10Mb
2. Incase GMail changes its interface it breaks this program.

There is also something similar for Java - G4J

GMail Drive shell extension 1.0.5 Free Download - Softpedia

Foo Fighters - All my life

I want to this T shirt but since it is not for sale. I am thinking of painting it my self.

Band: Foo Fighters
Song: All my life.






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DU Meter Home Page

A cool tool for monitoring your downloads - real time and it also stores download history.
You even setup notifications when you have crossed a downloaded set up limit over a period of time.
The realtime download meter is transparent so you and keep the window on top without obstructing anything else.
I feel that it is quite good, since now I can monitor my download activty over a few months, and moreover since I have download limit of 20Gb per month I can also monitor if I am crossing that limit. I think i may have crossed the limit in the last month since I downloaded Fedora, Vs.NET, Scrubs Season 3 and part of Season 4.
That reminds me that I have to delete Fedora from my HD since I have allready burnt it on a DVD.

Scrubs Music - All kinds of time

There is really a nice song from Scrubs - Season 4, Episode 13 - My Ocardial Infarction called 'All kinds of Time' by the 'Fountains of Wayne' and it really fits the mood.

Messing up the boot.ini File

I seem to have messed up my boot.ini file so I am not able to boot into windows. I get an error 'NTLDR missing', I think the default for NTLDR is pointing in the wrong direction.
I am facing this problem only after installing Fedora.