January 2011
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Dear Tumblr
oatmeal:
If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:
Please use it.
Please oh please.
-The Oatmeal
Update: Tumblr used the TumblBeasts! Check it out :D
November 2010
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July 2010
1 post
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First look at N900
So today morning I got my Nokia N900 given to me by @WOMWorldNokia to try it out. When I clicked on the Menu, the icon on which my eyes stuck was “terminal”. Being a Linux enthusiast, this was the first place I am supposed to visit.
When entering the terminal I was greeted by
Busybox v1.10.2 Debian 3:1.10.2
I had always heard that it runs Debian. Here I believed it myself. Now...
June 2010
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How much technology has progressed?
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May 2010
2 posts
Why people worship anything they find unusual?
On BBCScientists say that the dinosaur site at Balasinor was accidentally discovered when palaeontologists stumbled upon dinosaur bones and fossils during a regular geological survey of this mineral-rich area in the early 1980s. Fossils were found. Fine. The find sent ripples of excitement through neighbouring villages and many residents picked up fossilised eggs, brought them home and worshipped...
We all 2009 joinees went to 3 quarter chinese. The...
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April 2010
7 posts
Most of the great men think Sachin is God. Here is...
“Nothing bad can happen to us if we’re on a plane in India with Sachin Tendulkar on it.” - Hashim Amla, the South African batsman, reassures himself as he boards a flight. “Sometimes you get so engrossed in watching batsmen like Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar that you lose focus on your job.” - Yaseer Hameed in pakistani newspaper. “To Sachin, the man we...
Application form for politicians
Application Form To Be Filled For Contesting Indian Elections ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Name of Candidate: _______________________ 2. Present Address (i) Name of Jail: _______________________ (ii) Cell Number: _______________________ 3. Political Party: _______________________ (List ONLY the Last Five parties in the Chronological (Order) 4....
Notepad++, Launchy and other OSS awesomeness on...
If you are a windows programmer or work using Windows at your workplace, here is my list of awesome windows applications/softwares/utilities which will boost your performance tenfold. Notepad++Do I need to introduce this application. Go drown yourself if you havn’t used it. LaunchyDoes windows have any better application launcher Paint.NETSuperb! Zero-bloat and lightweight software esp when...
Good news from Apple, Microsoft and Google in one...
Today we got good news from three big companies who are actually fighting in web, mobile and browser space AppleOpera Mini approved for iPhone. Kudos Apple! MicrosoftVisual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 released. Visual Studio’s new ribbon interface is surely going to help all the poor souls (read windows programmers) GoogleGoogle to open VP8 codecs of On2 technologies Today was...
The Apple hypocrisy re-visited
I admire Apple for their products and a lot lot for their marketing. They can turn a stone into gold by just saying that “stone is going to be the future”. Now let’s look at how Apple makes it’s move SDKOctober 2007 - We, don’t need a SDK. Web is the iPhone SDK. Apple fanbois exclaim — “Yes, who needs a shitty SDK when web is awesome”March 2008:...
Finally a step in forward direction: Live-in and...
I stumbled across a Supreme Court ruling which dismissed a plea in which a Tamil actress was charged for live-in and pre-martial affairs Note: This post contains some strong language. If you too are di-illusioned by the culture,ethics and moral, then you might find this post offensive. Leave immediately. If you find this post offensive, all you need is a gesture from my side — m|m I was...
The window button story
Once upon a time, there existed an OS called UnbutnuThis OS had a great following, a truly self-declared democratic organization.One day the founder of this OS(Mark) decided that the window buttons will be on the leftShit! What a fuckin mistake!550 people liked and the rest 50 didn’t50 people were enraged that they were not considered in this decisionPeople who agreed on this decision kept...
March 2010
1 post
A place where Google Search fails
Business Today: Employees ask “Why am I not allowed to bring my pet to the office?” We say: Why not? You are a smart guy, you won’t bring your kid or pet to the office everday. So, go ahead. Of course, there have been instances of pets getting lost in the office. In the New York office, an employee lost his pet python, and the Wall Street Journal ran a story with the headline...
February 2010
1 post
Get a better Survice at Reliance Fresh
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January 2010
8 posts
An awesome use of windows: Drag and Drop
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Avoid unnecessary drama
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My new year resolution
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Who is cared the most? Humans or Animals?
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IRC facing a new sort of spam
Looks like there is a new kind of spamming. Just got this Global Notice on Freenode IRC -christel- [Global Notice] Hi all, we are currently experiencing a “new sort of spam” — where the spammer claims to be tunelling via HTTP POST and encourages you to visit a url. Visiting the URL opens another connecting via YOUR ip which spams further, we encourage you to NOT click the link...
Side Effects of Working in the IT Sector
Bhavik: I once went out to the market wearing my Infosys ID card and did not realize till my friend told me why I was wearing it !!!! Ashok: few days back I slept at 11:30 in the ni8 and woke up in the morning at 7:00 and suddenly thought that I haven’t completed 9.15 hours and laughed at myself when I realised abt that. Jyotsna: One from me too… Just after our training...
December 2009
2 posts
How to recruit the right person for the job?
Put about 100 bricks in some Particular order in a closed Room with an Open window. Then send 2 or 3 candidates in the room and close the door. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours and then analyze the situation. If they are counting the Bricks. Put them in the Accounts Department. If they are recounting them.. Put them in auditing .. If they have messed up the whole place with the...
The world according to the Americans
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BOFH takes on a n00b
I just came across this comment on slashdot. This is precisely the reason why Desktop Linux is still stuck up. No year can be the year of Linux Desktop if incidents like this keep on happening. From http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1465620&cid=30311756 Noob: I don’t know how to use Linux! Won’t someone help me? BOFH: *grumble*grumble* Look, here’s the...
November 2009
9 posts
Tree in deep waters
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American Idol auditions worst performers
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Extreme Cost Cutting
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The worst worst worst dance ever
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Star Wars Toaster
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The Fastest Auto-Focus in this world
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Rangoli Competition at Office
Today we had Rangoli Competition at Office. Sorry for the poor quality snaps. I took them after dusk, using the mobile’s flashlight. See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via email from Manish Sinha’s posterous | Comment »
Microsoft's sudo patent. As complicated as it's...
Microsoft sudo patent claimThe invention claimed is: 1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-readable instructions therein that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to present a user interface in response to a task being prohibited based on a user’s current account not having a right to permit the task, the user interface comprising: information...
Balmuri Falls
Place: Srirangapattana, Karnataka This is actually a small checkdam where water is overflowing. Posted via email from Manish Sinha’s posterous | Comment »
October 2009
20 posts
My Heaven
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An Ant's view of the world
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Droid Does
I just came across this commercial by Verizon advertising their phone - Motorola Droid. The specs are impressive, but the video commercial is one more page in the chapter of product bashings. “I am Mac” and “I am PC” weren’t enough? Posted via web from Manish Sinha’s posterous | Comment »
The Addon bloat
Suddenly I noticed the status bar of Firefox. It was a shock to see so many icons just littered on the right side. I never paid attention to this section, using the one as and when required. I opened Addon Manager to find the list of Addons which I kept on installing as I needed. Adblock Plus Echofon Firebug Googlegears Greasemonkey IdentiFox is.gd Creator Prism Scribefire Sxipper User-agent...
Savings on Blonde creams
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Who is not into Yoga these days?
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How Technology Changed Us
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Home Sweet Home
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The Bday card from my Team
The Birthday card shown above was gifted by my colleges (read team members). I think they still feel I am a kid. Obviously, I am one of the youngest employee in my office including the other freshers. Posted via email from Manish Sinha’s posterous | Comment »
Indyarocks password stored in plain text?
I just got an SMS from Indyarocks which was mere a reminder that my password would be archived in 7 days. I need to login to keep it active and then they even sent the username and password in the SMS itself. The SMS is as follows: Your Free SMS account on Indyarocks.com will be archived in 7 days. Login now to keep it active. Ur Login Id: ManishSinha pwd: ********** Looks like Indyarocks...
Last night BDay celebration cake
One of our flatmate has his bday today. I took this pic last night. Notice something important on the right. It is necessary for his survival. Posted via email from Manish Sinha’s posterous | Comment »
Heinz Hot Ketchup Ad
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Prison v/s Work
IN PRISON AT WORK you spend the majority of your time in an 8X10 cell. you spend most of your time in a 6X8 cubicle. IN PRISON AT WORK you get three meals a day (free). .you only get a break for one meal and you have to pay for it yourself. IN PRISON AT WORK you get time off for good behavior. you get rewarded for good behavior with more...
Latest dialogues from the movie "Ghayal Coder"...
*Sunny Deol*: Bench pe bench, bench pe bench, Log paglon ki tarah training mein raat raat bhar padhte rahe aur unhe mili toh sirf bench! Analysis of algorithm karte karte unki khudki life ban gayi ek unsolvable algorithm aur unhe bhi mili to sirf bench! Training ke baad proj milega, phir appraisal hoga, phir onsite jaoonga isi soch mein logon ne training clear kar di aur unhe bhi mili toh sirf...
Tried my best to get a pic in that dark end of the...
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Firefox embarrassed itself
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