May 19, 2007 by Kulbir Saini on Computers, Hardware, Life

Its HOT !!!

Woke up in the morning at 7:30am (hey i am not joking) with no prior engagements. The first task, just rush to OBH mess for parathas (its a part of routine now … me, Mahaveer, Deepak, Alok, Nitin, Ajay and sometimes some more friends are having breakfast with 99% regularity). The quality of the parathas has fallen considerably in last 2-3 days, as we are eating parathas like we were starving for centuries … some of us even eat 10 of them … is 10 bucks for 10 parathas are justified in anyway ? keeping in mind out attendance and starvation, the caterer has finally decided to compromise and quality, so its not a enjoyable anymore the have breakfast. [The first disappointment of the day].

Returned from OBH mess. Sachin has planned to take his laptop to the hp clinic. Now, my hardware obsession played a significant role and I just decided to go with him without any considerations about the hot weather.

While we were passing the main building, we told the security we are taking the laptop for repair, and asked whether the main gate security will allow us to take it out of the college …

the security guard asked in telugu accent : “whhhichhhhh hastel”

sachin : “nbh”

gaurd : “take pass from nbhech guard”

when he said this i uttered the f word three time in mind with increasing intensity of sound[though i was silent].

well, we didn’t give a damn to whatever they said and headed for the main gate .. while on the way we decided that if the main gate security stop us, then we will say that we are doing internship at pramati and sachin –> manish arora and me –> nitin gupta. unfortunately the main gate security didn’t stop us and i couldn’t utter the f word [ a disappointment].

The journey from IIIT to Panjagutta was fine but the struggle was about to start … we stepped down the bus and now we have to walk by foot to the hp clinic(its hp service center … i don’t know why i am calling it hp clinic…). I didn’t know where is this hp clinic, so followed sachin … damn it … it was about a kilometer from Panjagutta and walking by foot in the sun …. uf … it sux … [second disappointment]

we reached the hp clinic somehow … its good … at least it has AC … amazed to see that even HP service center has the same class stuff … i didn’t see any receptionist 🙁 (the receptionist @ fiitjee, delhi was gorgeous ..) I heard and read on some news sites that hp is world leading laptop seller … [third disappoint]

now its time for the laptop repair .. it has got a strange problem .. its not booting up … the hp guy tried removing the batteries .. changing the charger … and finally declared that motherboard is ****ed … added that it’ll cost around 25000 bucks to replace it because laptop was not in warranty period … this is major reason i hate these branded companies … 25000 for a motherboard … hell … [fourth disappoint]

but thanks to the other hp guy who gave us the address of a hp dealer somewhere near anand theater … sachin managed to bargain with some autowalah (its really an art … i think these autowalahs are good random number generators … ask them the price … they’ll same something which is not anywhere near the actual price ..) and we traveled to the anand theater …

the dealer over there treated us like he had a customer after centuries … he was a genuine hp dealer so he agreed upon bringing the laptop in warranty period at a cost of 6760 for a period of two years … now it rocks in india .. the laptop was out of warranty since dec, 2006 … the guy logged in and filled some form and see we have our laptop in warranty again (a spoiled piece in warranty .. getting insurance of a dead person 🙂 )

we came out of the shop and now its like a mania … i have urge to inquire for some hardware prices .. asked sachin to get to paradise(for those who don’t know, its a place in hyderabad) .. so he again bargained with some autowalahs … but this time it was strange … when autowalah asked him for the price … sachin said … 10 12 15 20 .. what the hell .. has he gone mad … i was feeling very embaraced .. how can you bargain at such levels …

we got to paradise … i inquired about some hardware(processor, gfx card, hdd etc) … was this a good reason to travel to paradise in this hot summer 😕

we headed back to IIIT, but i suddenly feel urge for eating biryani (the only south indian food, i like sometimes) … had a nice lunch in paradise … and headed back ..

while we were waiting on the bus stop at paradise … a bus numbered 49 came … though i knew that 49M is that actual bus we have to catch … sachin inquired from a person in the bus whether the bus will go to mehndipatannam and the damn person replied “YES” … we get in .. and on the way asked for the ticket .. the conductor said that the bus will not go to mehndipattnam and we have step down on the way … he dropped us somewhere near some under construction fly over at 2:00pm… ufff that was the hottest part of the day …. we stood there in the sun for 20 minutes(no sheds or shadows at all) … FcUk .. 🙁 .. [fifth disappointment]

we get a bus after that and came back to IIIT ….

while passing the TV room … just took a look at news … bomb blast in some masjid … hell .. its a shame …[sixth disappointment] …

a day full of disappointments .. it was my first day when i went out of IIIT in this summer vacations and it was reaaaalllllyyyyyyy HOT and disappointing ….

PS0: my longest post ever … dunno how it happened 🙂

PS1:came across 3-4 server room tragedies this week .. but will not report them …

PS2: thanks to saini for downloading the “paani aali paani pyade” a haryanvi song … i heard it for around 60 times in a row … great song ..

PS3:pati has written a really great post here …

PS4:amd has announced something really ambitious ….

PS5:cricket at basket-ball court is really enjoyable .. i am the bowler of the day 😉 …

PS6:learnt from the last post that a large part of IIIT janta love sleeping in the lab 😉 …

May 9, 2007 by Kulbir Saini on Computers, Life, Windows

Exciting Summer

This summer, life is pretty much exiciting as compared to the last year because a lot of colleagues are here in the campus. Age of Empires day and night along with a bit of project work and some other coding stuff. Day before yesterday, I was up all the night playing AOE. I slept between 11am-03pm in the ug2 lab. I attended my project meeting between 4pm-5pm. I was almost dead in the meeting due to sleep. Then, I slept between 5pm-00:30am in the hostel. After that canteen and from 2:00am-7:00am, guess what … AOE again.

I mentioned, I slept in the lab. Believe me, sleeping in the lab rocks, because you can wake up any time and start playing AOE again or browse some stuff or check your mails(No wastage of time in the transportation from hostel to lab). Though you can do all this from the hostel room as well, its kinda fun to spend time in lab and the CooL AC advantage.

Sometime we play AOE with seniors as well. They are quite ahead of us in the game but thats just due to the experience they gain in one/two extra years. In the beginning, a III year senior beat us in a 5 Vs 1 match :(. But now we can beat them in 2/3 Vs 1 match. Our AOE team mainly consist of me, ajay somani, kiran dandu, deepak vig, sanket and sometimes ankush and ojasvi as well …

Well, apart from all the above masti and fun, I am doing my project as well. Currently, I am mentoring two students in an Open Source project “True Type To Open Type Font Converter” under the guidance of Dr. C.V. Jawahar with the help of Mr. Sunil Mohan Adapa (IIIT Alumni).

PS: Found this site very useful if you are pretty upset …

June 14, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Life

Declaration !!!

This is the declaration for the readers of this blog, if any 😉 for their future readings. After this I’ll not be responsible if you feel hurt at any stage reading my blog.
Note:- This blog is not at all written for those who are looking for a good presentation using hi-fi english vocabulary and a good readability. I am not going to use any paragraphs and heading because as far as I think this is not my English literature note book where everything should be as accurate as defined by the rules. I am going to make the hazardous egnlish grramar mistooks and you may not like them. So, if you are looking for a very stylish, accurate, good looking blog, go here. As far as I think everybody tries to prove himself as the leader and more intelligent and so do I. If you feel hurt at any stage while reading my blog because I am trying to prove myself a geek or something like that, I’ll not be responsible. I generally post things which are useless but I dont find any reasons not to post. I am paying for the internet connection as my college fee and I have bought this microsoft keyboard for around 500/-, so I should use it as much as possible, irrespective of what garbage I type. Also you may not know me, but believe me, I am not posting here to introduce myself to you. Hey, wait you can read my blog if you hate PSs, because I use them on rare occasions.

June 9, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Computers, Hacking, Life, Tips n Tricks

Golden opportunity for lovers ! Dont miss it …

Hey guyz there is something very attractive for those who are in love. Nowadays our students server is flooded with these loving spam mails. Some are from faculty ids with subjects which I dont want to mention. 🙁 I dont know why, but this guy srinivas is very famous, there are almost 20 mails from his id with subjects like “see you tonight!”, “fwd:love” ,”will you be my valentine ?” but beleive me reading these mails is fun in itself. They contain awesome heart touching love poems. I am making an archinve of those spam mails on my gmail account as a remeberence of our greatest sysadmin we can ever have.

OK, in the mean time if you want to propose someone, its a golden oppertunity for you. Just send a mail proposing him/her from your students account. You can either announce your love, by sending it to the whole mailing list on which he/she is subscribed. Others will consider it a spam, and you will end up proposing him/her.

PS: If you have any other idea let us know…

June 7, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Computers, Hacking, Life, Linux, Programming

My Geek Code Block …

—–BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK—–
Version: 3.1
GCS>/E/M d? s:>+:+ a19 C++++ UL++>++++ P+>++++ L+++>++++
E—>+++ W++ N+ !o K- w>– O– !M V- PS PE Y–
PGP—>+ !t !5 X R tv- b+ DI- D+ G++ e>++ h r- y–
——END GEEK CODE BLOCK——

I found this geek code block very instersting. Making a geek code block is a real fun of almost one hour. You can also make one for you. check it out here …

June 6, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Life

B’day bumps to a senior :D

Isnt it so amazing… you are giving birthday bumps to a person whom you never knew, and would never know if a moment like this doesnt come. Well he was the only senior in GHEB who felt like ragging the students when we arrived in the hostel last year, who approached my room for the second time (first time to ask for a matchbox … i really dont know for what purpose he want that) and asked us to come and give b'day bumps to one of his batchmates. I and my friends (three of them) are electrified instantly. We were in a dilemma, neither we can refuse to go, nor we can give bumps.. after all the person who is to be given bumps is our senior … well after a damn small thought to the situation, we all stood up and followed him … all were exicited to give bumps but when we saw a herd of seniors outside, we just got scared .. it sounds like a plan, roger(CZ) … all were just looking at us. But who cares … two of us helped to lift the b'day boy with other seniors and other just hit him traditionally …

ohh .. for the first time in life … pleasant experience to hit(ohhh sorry … 😀 to give bumps to) a senior … neway many many happy returns of the day to the b'day boy … 😀

May 30, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Life, Movies

Dus Gangster …

Today I am going to start a new category on My blog … Movies. The movie I’ll see, I’ll post my reviews on it. So here I go …

Today I saw Dus and Gangster in succession, not even a break of an interval. Dus was worth watching and I liked the suspense very much. Sanjay-Shilpa love story was quite bad … Half of the movie was copied and thats quite good thing which fascinates us – The Engineers, b’cos copy-paste is the key feature that we learn while doing our engg. degree course. I like this spirit. Overall I liked the movie and it was not a time waste.

The gangster was not bad. Here also, I liked the suspense in the story but the girl’s dialog delivery was toooo bad. She never spoke like an actress. “Ek dari hui si aawaj”. Again, Emran did his job quite well. No mistakes at all. The songs was very good, especially the “Tu hi meri shab hai …”. Overall the movies was worth watching and focused on the terror. I liked them …..

May 29, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Life, Movies

Movies day n night …

I was never like this. I never liked movies. But what happened after buying this computer. I am just watching movies day n night. Its not so long, I bought my computer, but I have already watched around 20 movies. I think its just because of these windows. Because now and then, I just double click the thing and video starts, in the beginning I watch it in forwards and then I start watching the whole movie.Yesterday, I watched Ek Khiladi Ek Hasina and V for Vendetta. I watched V twice and for the third time yesterday. Its a good movie actually and the diolog delivery is specially admirable. I would like to have suggestions if you can, for a list of some good movies.

PS: Try to suggest some hindi movies, if possible old and emotional …

May 24, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Computers, Hardware, Life, Windows, Wireless

My Computer

I bought a desktop last week on Tuesday the 16th May, 2006. Though we are supposed to buy the laptops, i preffered the desktop as it can be a good partner for developing things and of course its cheeaper than a low end laptop. I bought AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 939 pin, the Gigabyte nVidia nForce2 motherboard, Samsung SyncMaster 739S 17″ , Seagate 200GB SATA-II with other necessary accessories. Well, it cost me only 30700/- and that is quite cheap. One bad thing that i didnt buy any graphics card b’cos in case we are forced to buy the laptops, i’ll have to buy a laptop within 25000/- so that total cost can come under 55000/-. Even that is quite lower than the cost of a high end laptop. As i didnt take any project i m just watching movies and playing games and i shud admit that AMD rocks for gaming. Its enough alone to check the graphics details of the popular games like UT, NFS Most Wanted , Doom 3, Prince of Persia etc … But i m sad that still i m not able to configure my wlan card in linux. its WNC-0301 level one lan card. If you have any suggestions please let me know, i m just killing my time using windows and this norton really sucks. it reports windows registry file as trogen, i dunno why ?????????

May 24, 2006 by Kulbir Saini on Computers, Hacking, Life, Linux

My Nerd Score …

I took this test from http://unpredictablerulz.wordpress.com . I was asked questions from science that I forgot a long time back after giving the competitive xams for the engg. entrance. i cant believe that i was given this score. neway it was a good test .