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April 8, 2005
hmm…
Online Journalism Sucks!
April 7, 2005
do me a favour
“can you do me a favour?”
Its sooo saddening after hearing that phrase for the fourth time in the SAME day.
Was known people - not unknown either. damn, I’d surely do what they were asking, why do they need formality to this extent! Just asking right out would have been just as happy for me to do it….
March 18, 2005
More hassles with Net4India
We had to buy a domain www.sat-india.net. We went to net4india and bought the domain using our cyber wallet. The backend processed the order successfully (or so we were told). The money was deducted from our account. Everything seemed to be just fine.
Even on the next day, the domain did not get activated. We checked and found it was still freely available in the market. We tried to book the domain again from net4india. It showed that the domain was still available! The same domain we had already booked and paid for 24hours earlier.
I went to my GoDaddy account and bought the domain easily and the site was activated in 45 minutes flat. The backend of net4india still shows that we have paid for the domain and it is under our control.
How sad can a mismanaged backend get? The company now says that we delayed in processing the order hence it was bought by a third party. And this happened after we had actually paid for the domain!
Excellent work Net4India. GoDaddy? Here I come…
March 7, 2005
unpatched windows PC gets infected within 18 minutes on the net
YAY! Pop the corks off the celebration. Bring home the ‘naya kampooter’.
“Babloo ko bulaaaao……”
Nice scene ain’t it? 
The family just bought a new PC for the home, and their “clever” son in 7th standard managed to convince his parents to get an internet connection. Ahhh…. the joys….
SCREEECH !!! (gasp) What was that? What did that dialog say? What’s this about “we can see what you’re doing” and advertisements and pop-ups and pop-ins, and pop-unders and all? Some red-warning there?
huh? Welcome to spyware, worms and trojans push-downloaded from the Internet without the awareness of the victim. You need to keep your Windows OS updated with the latest hot-fixes all the time, and have the clunky tools of the trade - Antivirus, Firewall, Ad-Aware, and what not! Else within 18 minutes of jumping onto the Net, you get infected. Read the report here.
Viruses do not necessarily create visible symptoms for you to detect, and before you finally get to know, the infection has taken its toll upon your machine, almost invisibly! Sure, not everyone gets infected - but it pays to be safe. A stupendous phenomena lately seen round-abouts here is….
“I (sic) run Windows XP which I couldn’t upgrade to any service pack level (because of being a pirated copy) - and I have none of that anti-virus/firewall crap you tell me to install, but still see! See how my system still functions fine?
So says the person, blissfully unaware that:
1. He has no backup
2. Not even hell hath as many viruses as crawleth his hard-disk! (which he simply doesn’t even come to know of due to not having an antivirus) - And he spreads his mentality and files to others. Small wonder then, that we don’t seem to ever be able to see infections gone?
Like Arnold Schwarzzeneger, so viruses - “THEY’LL BE BACK!”
Internet Explorer 7
pffft…. another year, another challenge, another proposal.
That of Internet Explorer 7 to be released - which looks like a joke since its not going to have anything significantly changed since IE6. Moreover, its only for Windows XP users!
Microsoft seems to lose and gain just the right amount of things year-after-year to keep them going!
February 22, 2005
Net4India is totally Incompetent
More than a week that I went to their office and paid the money in advance in cash… and they still have not managed to get my partner’s account fixed up with all the existing domains. I wish I had the time and resources to sue these incompetent people to get some sanity back in my working life.
February 21, 2005
Ctrl-C & Ctrl-V
Yesterday, I went to a restaurant in FC Road (Pune) to have lunch. Most of the people there were wearing Jeans/TShirts/Jackets etc, except for 3 girls. They looked really beautful in normal Salwar Kameez. And, they were not Indian!!
I was just wondering, why Indians like to ape the west, and westerners like to copy Indians? Why? 
Microsoft Update Service
I went to Microsoft’s Windows Update Service to check for any updated drivers for my computer components. The crap service offered me to install updates to the WINDOWS UPDATE SERVICE itself to enable me use the service to CHECK for WINDOWS UPDATES. After I did the updates to the Update Service, the idiotic service wanted me to restart my computer to continue further work on it!
Yeah right, here you go… Why don’t I just go and kill myself instead?
