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Santhosh

Yup, I finally started using Twitter from past few weeks and twitting every now and then.

Twitter is so fun, it keeps you in touch with your pals and other important people you like or hate

If you are new to twitter and wondering what it is, then Twitter is a MicroBlogging Platform which lets you post what you are doing in 140 characters as updates which is popularly known as “Tweets”. The people who follow you can read your tweets on time line page.

Twitter also has many interesting goodies like widgets and applications to keep tweeting. You can also use twitter on the move!

Anyway, come follow me on twitter!

Santhosh

It’s been almost two months since I started using Ubuntu on day-to-day basis. Though I had Ubuntu 6.x installed on my computer from early 2007, I just never used to boot into it, but just used to upgrade to the latest version.

But, from the past two months, I have started using Ubuntu everyday and I’m pretty happy with it’s performance. But I still continue using Windows XP everyday because windows is my productivity corner which I use to design themes and templates with Dreamweaver CS3 and Fireworks CS3. I tried to use those two softwares in Ubuntu via Wine, but had no good luck and they didn’t run like in windows. Also, I still use windows to play games whilst I am free.

Now, myself I’ve considered Ubuntu as my learning curve. I would have not started using Ubuntu if 8.04 would’ve not supported my ZTE EVDO modem properly. In the earlier version of Ubuntu, like 7.04 and 7.10, I had to modprobe my device once in everytime I boot into Ubuntu and it was not comfortable for me. And also, the device was soon unrecognized and my internet connection was terminating with no good reasons. It was totally bad for me, who always stay online whenever I switch on my PC. And also, the earlier version didn’t allow me to connect my ZTE EVDO to an USB hub, which was another reason.

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Sorry for not posting lately. I was quite busy with my real life rituals.

Anyway, I bought a new wireless combo for my desktop today and thought of blogging it. I am not interested in writing any reviews for this thing, coz there are already enough reviews available on this particular model. But yet, I like to post my user experience as of now. This is entry level wireless combo that most people can afford easily. In fact, it’s much more than a entry level combo. There are plenty of features that will sure impress you.

I bought this combo for 1,850 Rs (including tax) here in Bangalore at S.P Road.

So far so good, I am having a good experience. The ergonomics is really good. The mouse is bit large compared to my old Wired 500. It is large coz it houses two AA batteries inside it. It’s also heavy coz of the same reason, but you won’t find any issues with the weight, because it is large and fits in your palm very comfortably.

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I started to feel a strange kinda pain at the back of my head from yesterday night. A soft pain at the right side of my back head. Just beside my right ear. Yesterday night, I thought it could be some small problem and will be alright when I wake up in the morning. And it was kinda okay in the morning. But after sometime, the pain appeared once again. The pain isn’t hurting me too much, but it makes me not to do anything for a long time in a same gesture. It keeps paining.. Softly.. Weird.

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Err.. I had a bad Sunday today. Everyday, as soon as I wake up, I check for new mails on the bed from my Opera Mini. I did the same today and was excited to see a new mail regarding the release of myBB 1.4 Bulletin Board Software. I was waiting for the release from past 8 months. Well yes it’s the major release. And was also excited to upgrade my BSNL EVDO CLUB Forum.

As soon as I completed all my daily morning rituals, I started the FileZilla FTP Client and connected to the server. All set… Read the documents…. And finally started the upload process. It was 750+ Files and 6 MB upload. Just after few minutes, my ISP went down. Almost 2 MB (150+) files were uploaded. After 30 minutes, ISP was up, and resumed the upload process. My net connection was really bad at that moment, yet it was pretty good. Have a look at the below screenshot. My ZTE EVDO app is highlighted in the screenshot, notice: it has no signal bars!

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No, i’m not talking about the slang word “Flick”, but just using that word because flickr did something bad to me thinking that I’ve done bad to it :p

I used to upload all my screenshots, images, photos and whatever to share it online with friends and to use it on my websites, blogs in tutorials and reviews etc. But flickr says it is against the terms & conditions to upload images or photos that doesn’t belong to me

Now I wonder why my screenshots doesn’t belong to me.

Anyway as a result all the images I published in my sites and blogs went blank which says “The current photo is not available”!! And when I try to login to my flickr account it says my account is no longer active!!

I’m still in process of updating all my tutorials, reviews and photos where ever I posted it. Well not again with another flickr account, now I’ve switched to photobucket or imageshack :p

So the moral of the story is, if you are doing the same, then stop it and switch some other image hosting sites before all your images goes white.

This thing happened to me about a month ago, but posting it now coz of some busy life. So please apologize me if any inconvenience is caused if any images are not appearing in any tutorials or wherever. I will try to fix it ASAP.

Later..

Santhosh

Yes, as I mentioned earlier when I bought the 7300 GT graphic card, I bought the new Samsung NWX 2243 Widescreen Monitor yesterday. Since I don’t have much time to spare, I can’t write a review, sorry. But will tell you few things about the monitor if you are really interested in this model.

Some Specifications & Features:

• 22” wide viewable area. (55 cm)
• 1680 x 1050 max resolution.
• 5 ms response time.
• Magic Color Chip
• Magic Brightness
• Flat TFT-LCD
• Pitch Black Screen (when its turned off :p)
• D-Sub Connectivity.
• VESA Wall Mount
• Black Glossy and Rounded Corners Bezel.
• Feather Touch Buttons.
• And more….

Package Contents:

• TFT-LCD Panel
• Stand
• D-Sub to D-Sub Cable
• Power Cord
• Clamp for stand.

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Funky title isn’t it? Well yes, but its true coz I had nVidia MX 400 64 MB DDR1 64Bit AGP 4X Graphic card so far and I was able to do ‘a lot’ and play NFS UG2 at 1024 x 768 x 32 at full throttle (at medium quality, though). And now my brand new nVidia GeForce 7300GT 512 MB DDR2 128 Bit AGP 8X Graphic card will obliviously to much more things easily. Sorry for those long specifications :p

I had no plans to buy this card, coz I’m not a gamer (am a casual gamer). But, I was planning to buy a Samsung 2243 NWX 22” Widescreen LCD monitor next month and I came to know that my old MX 400 gfx card cannot support the resolution of 1680 x 1050 which the monitor sports. So I googled around and found that 6600GT will support the resolution, but it was too old and opted for 7300GT, which supports as well. The good thing with this card is that it has 512 MB onboard memory and Shader Model 3.0 which does a very good job while using Aero on vista or while playing few games such has NFS MW. And yes I can play NFS MW at 1024 x 768 x 32 at all eye candies turned on. I don’t have a high-end computer coz I mentioned you earlier (am not a gamer). The current configuration I have is P4 3.06 GHz CPU with 768 MB DDR 400 MHz RAM. This is more than enough for me to run Photoshop CS3, Fireworks CS3 and Dreamweaver CS3 without any glitch.

I am a web designer, so I don’t need much hardware horse power. The reason why I posted is that, if any web designer or someone who is willing to become a web designer and has low end PC, just upgrade or add a graphic card such as 7300GT without upgrading the entire rig and burning a hole in your or dad’s pocket. Being a web designer, display is the most important thing that you will have to consider a lot. Calibrate your monitor to best contrast and brightness. I will recommend a widescreen monitor, because you can see more and do more. And it will give enough room in the taskbar for all your applications so you can switch them easily. I will buy the monitor in july first week and will post the review (if not just an brief info) and do let you know my experiences.

And, I bought this card from my first own earning ever and am really feeling happy about it. Since I spent all my first month’s earnings on my family and friends, I could only buy this card which is priced at ~ $95 USD. I will spend this month’s earnings to buy the monitor

7300GT really added some extra horse power to my computer and made my work easy

Santhosh

I was one among the first to grab the BSNL’s EVDO back in September 2007.

After a month long of usage, I decided to write up a review in my old blog. Now the old blog doesn’t exist. The review which I wrote in late October 2007 made my blog much more popular. I saw people visiting my blog to read and the review and get the information. The comments were flooded and my blog almost turned into a discussion forum by the end of December 2007.

In January 2008, I bought ThemeBin.com and created a sub-domain as bsnlevdo.themebin.com and moved my review there with added discussion forum. The forum was a hit and attracted people and they found it very useful. And finally, the user database has been increasing considerably high. So I decided to move the site to a main domain and bought www.bsnlevdoclub.com. And moved the forum to www.bsnlevdoclub.com/forum yesterday.

Now the homepage uses wordpress for easy content management and with very minimum ads. I believe, I’m doing my best to broadcast the information about the BSNL’s one mighty little device.

Visit the hompage at: www.bsnlevdoclub.com and the forum at www.bsnlevdoclub.com/forum.

Santhosh

Image Courtesy: Wikipedia

As usual, I was studying in my room at 1.00 PM and was totally immersed in my studies. At about 1.01 PM, I took my cell phone which was lying beside my monitor and checked for any SMS or missed calls. But there were no messages and missed calls, but I noticed my cellphone was running out of battery.  I was about to connect my cellphone to charger, suddenly I got a call from unknown number. I received the call without connecting to charger.

And here goes the conversation:

The guy at the other end: Hello
Me: Hello!
Guy: Can I speak to Ganesh ?
Me: Sorry, its wrong number.
Guy: Wrong number ?
Guy: #%&#**^!
Me: huh ?
Me: Who do you want ?
Guy: Ganesh,
Guy: Hey, its me Hindi Film Actor, Hrithik Roshan!
Me: What ?

Guy: Yes (And suddenly I was able to recognize his voice and his way of speaking)(I wasn’t excited, but shocked!)
Me: No, sorry sir its wrong number.
Hrithik: Sorry!
(And hung up immediately)

Soon after that, I saved the number and noted the call duration. The call lasted for 25 Seconds.

I couldn’t believe myself for few minutes. I analyzed the number and it was from Bangalore and it wasn’t a cellphone number. It is either a fixed landline or the CDMA wireless phone. The number starts from 4 . Though I live in Bangalore, I can’t exactly make out the service provider of that number.

I think he wanted to speak with Kannada film actor Ganesh and ended up with me. I don’t know why he was in Bangalore. But an interesting fact is, I live in a place called “Kirloskar Layout”, 15 KMs off from the Bangalore’s city center. Just 300 meters away from my home, there is a huge area called Chikkabidarakallu. 1 KM off from Chikkabidarakallu’s Bus stand, there is a huge a Estate called Feroz Khan Estate. Yeah, this estate belongs to Hindi film industries classic Feroz Khan. And AFAIK, he spends his free time here. And this was the Estate where Hrithik Roshan got married with Feroz Khan’s daughter Suzanne!

Click here to read the article about Hrithik’s marriage in Feroz Khan’s estate, if you can’t believe it. He was married in the estate and was celebrated in Golden Palms Spa, which is another 8 KM from my home. And even if you search for “Chikkabidarakallu” in google, you can find about his marriage article and about the Feroz Khan’s estate in the second or the first page.

Feroz Khan’s estate is a hotspot to see celebrities. The estate is so good and attractive, it is used to shoot films too often by many film industries across India. I have seen a large number of Hindi Celebrites here during his marriage, back in 2000.

I lived in chikkabidarakallu for 6 years and moved to Kirloskar layout 2 years back. And I think, Hrithik has a strong bondage to this area, coz he called me, and I’m a guy who belongs to that area also where her spouse belongs to

And I feel i’m kinda lucky coz Hrithik called me and I spoke to him and everyday I used to switch off my cellphone, while i’m study, but I didn’t today!