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.






last one

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.

Having a problem with WebLogic Server 8.1 ApplicationLifecycleListener

I was having a problem with ApplicationLifecycleListener in Weblogic Application server.
So I posted it on Javaranch.

Detailed Process Viewer for windows

A very nice tool for Windows Process Viewing by sysinternals

Process Viewer

Lakshya

I finally got the song from the movie Lakshya - Agar Main Kahoon
I got the song from Ruhi.
It has got a nice tune to it - it is an excellent movie too.

BitTorrent Documentation

Interesting docs about BitTorrent is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent
http://wiki.theory.org/BitTorrentSpecification

Computer Games

I have started playing Prince of Persia 2 again on quite a regular basis, I think it is since I was sick this weekend so I had a lot of time on my hands. I have finished about 85% of the game and it has a nice twist, I guess there are more Twists later on too. I am really keen on finding out how the story pans out.
I just happend to search on the net and found out that they are working on Prince of Persia 3,and it is going to be released Q4 2005 and then in Q3 2006 for the PC, which is really bad since I was hopping that it would be released at the same time in all the platforms.

GTA SA is comming out for the PC, so that is going to be really good.

There is also another games posters that I have been seeing - Pariah

Enterprise - In a Mirror, Darkly

Really like the introduction to this episode of Enterprise, It had a darker theme something similar to Prince of Persia Warrior Within.
Well I have not see the complete episode so I dont know how good it is gonna be.

Google Maps UK

This is really good, I wonder if they provide a Web Service or XML based interface into their maps and location based services.

Have a look at Linux Admin's post

And then have a look at Paul Rademacher's Housing site that uses google maps, it is totaly mind blowing.
Even the guys at google are shocked, I cant figureout how he did it ???

It is totally amazing.

I did some searching around and found this http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/googlemaps.html