Bentley beauty

Ok so I live in a place where this is not a regular occurance. Actually there is a Audi showroom that has comeup in the city. Since the IT industry booming, Pune has lost the “Pensioner’s Paradise” tag, and has become a regular metro-style city. So the average salary of a Punite has increased. So the number of cars have gone up in the recent times. Now why am I telling you all of this, its because I saw a beauty hidded near the Audi showroom. And me and my friend were travelling in between 2 or our offices the HQ and the branch at which I am located. So it was a to and fro fare. While going to the HQ I (me has a keen eye for cars than chicks) spotted a Bentley, now this is a ultra rare occurance for me because I never am outside much and I also am freaked out by the thought of a travel in the heat of this summer. So when I saw this Bentley perched in the shade of the Audi showroom, I told my couleage to keep my mobile at reach. So off we went, the Audi showroom is hardly 300 mts aways from our HQ. So armed with my mobile, me and my coulleague set off, I drove nimbly and wanted to stop in front of the Bently click and then go, but the watchman from the Audi showroom was approaching us, there is a history in Pune that the high off shops dun allow anyone to click pics of their premises. So we quickly changed plans I yelled “click”, and my friend clicked a pic of the beauty. And to top it there was a grey Land Rover standing next to the Bentley which was a bonus. Now enough of my talk talk and here goed the pic. God I dun regret buying a 5610. Now the well spent money comes to my rescue.

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OMG

Ok, this title is so apt because I just saw a review site that had a pic of 4 ATi gfx cards in CrossFire. I was like OMFG what the hell is that. And to top it those were ATi HD 3870 X2 ’s. Give the page a read here

Brain Disintegration.

I was chatting with my netpal Anuj about Nemi’s latest blog entry and this is a snippet of it.

djMyKey: hmm
djMyKey: anyways read nemi’s latest blog entry
Anuj: yeah… nemi went to the auto show
djMyKey: wish I wudve got to go
djMyKey:
djMyKey: the babes
djMyKey:
Anuj: hehe
djMyKey: I wudve died of brain disintegration
Anuj: not brain disintegration
Anuj: but the viagra effect
djMyKey: nahi brain disintegration
djMyKey: coz I wudnt have decided
djMyKey: whom to ongle at
djMyKey:

Bored bored and bored.

I am bored to death. For quite some time I havent found anything interesting to do. And also havent found anything to do. So I thought why not look at my blog. It looks OK. so this is it. Am so bored that I cant come up with anything to write as well.

I’m alive.

So its been quite a long time since I last posted on my blog. Actually again my excuse is my job is not allowing me to do any thing else. And to top it I got VPN access, which means I can work from home also Actually I love my job and I don’t have any complains. But now I’m kinda realizing that there is a social component in life that I lack and hence am trying hard to get it right socially. I had me MBA-CET for Pune University, I couldn’t study because it was a long time since I last studied and hence had lost the touch. Actually I didn’t study just went on to the exam center that was in a totally different section of the city. (Had to ride for almost 1 hr in uncertainty to reach there) Since the CET exam is over now I am free once again, so looking out for different stuff to do. One is I wanna try out FreeBSD, which I downloaded at my office. Actually the BSD flavors of Linux scare a lot of peeps so I thought why not give it a shot. So now have to go to office (here we go again….) Cya till the next time.

Nokia 5610

So had a very busy month. Actually it was my birthday on the 11th of this month and due to some official commitments I couldn’t blog for quite sometime. So I bought a Nokia 5610.

So now more on this phone, This phone is awesome feature wise.

Features

Review

So the music is awesome pictures are huge, phone looks cool and its a OS4 v5 phone. So all in all the top of the line except for 6500 Slide, which has a Carl Zeiss lens. WTH I dun wanna spend lots of money after waiting for a really long time for the 6500. So this was my choice.

Sweet Wideness

So I went to this data recovery guy for some official work and I notice that he has a wide screen monitor. I instantly fell in love with it. So I decided to give my new mobile plan a ditch and buy a monitor instead. So keeping that in mind I went to my comp dealer and asked him about 19″ wide screen monitors. He showed me  a ViewSonic vw1912 and a Samsung SyncMaster 920NW. So it wasn’t difficult to make up my mind. And as per  Luigi’s words “Blackwall tires, they blend into the pavement, but these white wall tires, they say look at me, here I am, love me.” So that was it. Samsung it was! And to top it the 920NW was a plain monitor meaning no useless shapes and curves. I like simple stuff. Yeah curves do excite me but not on electronics So after getting it back home I unpacked it and plugged it in. Set the resolution to 1440×900 and viola !! Sweet space on my desktop. First I needed to scroll all the time. Now all I do is move my eyes sideways to look at the complete content. After hunting for some wallpapers got some really kewl walls and now am up and running.

Some pics of the beauty.

OpenSuSE 10.2

Now that I had some disk space lying around I thought why not dabble around with Linux. And my first choice was SuSE, because it was the best stock looking (in my personal opinion) linux.

 

So I went ahead by installing it in VMWare from the 5 CD’s that I had downloaded. After installing, as always, I wanted to install VMWare tools in the machine (so that I could have that option where the input was directed to the guest machine when my mouse hovered on the guest machine window), but even after installing the RPM I could still see that the VMWare tools weren’t installed. Then after googling around I found out that there was a script that was needed to be run so that the VMWare tools worked properly. The script name was ‘vmware-config-tools.pl’. Once you run this say yes first and then no and viola VMWare tools were setup.

 

Now I noticed that my audio wasn’t working in SuSE linux. So I issued the command lspci which showed me the below output.

See the line highlighted in red. That is the name of the soundcard that got detected by the OS. So then again I went on Google to search for sound drivers. At first I got all garbage, then I came across the ALSA page. From there I downloaded the latest pack of sound drivers and then unzipped it. Then the usual ‘./configure’, ‘make’ and ‘make install’.

 

After this finished I had to run a new command ‘./snddevices’. This created all the required sound devices in the /dev/snd directory. (Mind you I did not have the /dev/snd dir before running this command). After this is ran the ‘alsaconf’ utility from the utils dir and it detected my soundcard, asked me whether I wanted to load the same sound driver or a diff one, I said yes and then it ran something else and viola sound was up and running. After doing all this I gave the guest OS a reboot and everything was working like a charm. So if any of you guys get stuck somewhere, you can use this guide to help ya. Have fun.

Get Firefox

Now I know that firefox rulez. But just in case you still had doubts about it just take one look at this and then it will all go away.

You know what I mean , use firefox.

Customize Firefox 2

This thread was my inspiration. There are lot of recommendations on that page. You can try what suites you. But here are the ones I like…

Menu Editor

This addon gave me the much needed power. Actually the default FF comes with a lil big rt click menu. I didn’t need much of the entries at all and hence was searching for this thing a long time from now. As you can see its just a matter of a single click and you can get rid of individual annoying menu entries.

Flashgot

This addon has been used by me for as long as I can remember. This addon directs the downloads to your fav download manager. Mine is flashget.

Download Statusbar

This addon adds a download statusbar right at the bottom line of the FF window. If you browse and download a lot of pictures like me then you need this. Sometimes we save images and then due to some or the other reason ff starts downloading the whole image from the site instead of taking it from the cache. That and also the download window doesnt open up on my FF by default if a dl is in progress. That is coz it takes up lot of taskbar space so that is why I use this.

FireFTP

This adds a FTP interface to FF. I personally dont use much of FTP’s but still I have this just in case