Linus Torvaldo in a Speedo, Brin Cross-dressed

Photos of Linus Torvaldo is a Speedo. Hah!


And below is Sergey Brin, Co-founder of Google.

Apple Safari 3.0.2 , and I am loving it!!

The initial Safari release was packed with a box of bugs all over. Well, there were problems much important to me. The most important bug in my case was solved in the latest release!

2.When I try to access websites which ask for authentication through Prompt, it asks for proxy authentication and crashes after several attempts because it neither accepts proxy login nor the website's login. Some strange problem.

Yay!! This has been solved, and now I am able to access my favourite private forum!!

The safari website says following updates in the latest release:

Changes in Safari 3.0.2 for Windows beta:

• Latest security updates
• Improved stability
• Fixes for text display, non-English systems, and start-up times

The first one is not that important to me anyway. The second, is infact quite important. When I used to visit www.digg.com and look at news with huge number of comments, like greater than say 200, the safari used to just crash! Same was the case with www.perezhilton.com. But, now Safari 3.0.2 is quite stable and it doesn't crash. The third, font issue, is not important to me again anyway, because it was working fine since the initial release.

With these fixes, I am already in love with Safari. It looks sleek, awesome, beautiful. I love the Apple's style of displaying text fields and buttons in its elegant trademark style. Look, http://mail.yahoo.com to see what I am talking about. Look at the sign-in button and see the boundary of the selected text field. They are all Mac style! :) and I love them. And I am a Windows XP user :D

Though I hear reviews that Safari 3.0.2 has slowed down a bit while loading pages, I didn't see much difference. To speak the truth, yes, I am FED-UP with Firefox, it hogging on resources, losing history & bookmarks when computer crashes, add-on bugs etc! I need a change in browser and I have all of it in Apple Safari 3.0.2.

But, then there are some MOST SIMPLE user-friendly tweaks to be done in safari to be the best browser in the world. For example:

• New Tabs: To open a new tab,a double-click feature should be there. Double click on the empty tab space. Like in Firefox/opera.
• Bookmarks: There is no facility to sort bookmarks! What a douche! This should be really taken care of quick.
• Skins: Yes, custom skins facility would be great. But then I think they are going to release them as plug-ins. At least, changing the colour of the browser should be possible by default. The current one seems a little bit dark, though I love it anyway :D.
• Maximize-Minimise issue. I am not sure but, it might be Mac's style. and i don't like it.
• Proxy settings exclusively for Safari.
• Thats it for now!!

Happy Browsing webnuts! Safari Rocks. :)

Formula One in Delhi, India by 2009

Well the news is already out that the Indian Olympic Association(IOA) got a proposal from Bernie Ecclestone, CEO of Formula One for conducting the Formula One Grand Prix race in 2009. The IOA has chosen Delhi as possible track. Of course, its very tough for India to construct a track specifically for Grand Prix in such a short notice. They are studying the feasibility and if everything goes just fine it would be fabulous :).

1. They have proposed for a street circuit! Knowing the conditions of the Indian roads this might seem a bit ridiculous, but then coughing up enough finance will surely make it possible.
2. They're trying to make the Rajbhavan road (the road which has India Gate, Republic day parade road) into the street circuit. That is a perfect one! The wide neat roads have decent stretches too!
3. The Kingfisher owner Vijay Mallya is tring to push the proposal hard and one can even expect him sponsoring the whole thing, if one wants to see fast results(unlike the Indian Govt. sluggish movement).

Hoping for the best!

And I am sure every one is excited about tomorrow's Grand Prix, the United states circuit! If only Hamilton can bag his second victory! He was too magnificent last week, with a lead of around 20 seconds till the safety car was out.

favicon : An Idendity Image for your website

You see the little spider on the left of the URL bar when you visit my site? Its called a favicon. It is a simple 16x16 dimension image file in .ico format. Ofcourse it is a different issue that creating something meaningful on such small scale is quite difficult. If you are a good artist, or you picked up a fabulous art image which can represent your website, even though its a little bigger like 64x64 dimensions, there's a wonderful way to make your own favicon.

 This online utility website(click here) can convert any sized image to 16x16 ico image. Simply browse the image, give it an online name and click generate. You can download it and upload on some filehosting service. Google pages is a better, free file uploading option.(Note that, normal photo sharing websites donot accept .ico format images. Not atleast flickr, since I have tried.)

After you have the URL of your ico image, simply follow the below steps to configure the favicon to your blogger website.

• Go to the HTML editor in the layout of your blogger.
• At the beginning of the html code, look for this line.

               <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

• Below this line, paste the following code

              <link rel="shortcut icon" href="URL of your icon file"/>

where, "URL of your icon file" should be replaced by your ico image link

And voila! Your done!

It is always cool to have an identity symbol for your website :)

If you are hosting your website on your own, simply place the ico image in the index.html folder and rename it to favicon.ico. Your website will automatically pickup the favicon when someone visits. When someone bookmarks your website your favicon gets shown up in the bookmark list along with the description they chose.

Safari 3 Beta for Windows XP : Issues

Currently, there are numerous issues related to Safari 3 for windows.

Issues:
1. I am not able to change Proxy Settings for safari seperately. It seems to ask for proxy authentication by default settings(i guess from lan settings, internet explorer)
2. When I try to access websites which ask for authentication through Prompt, it asks for proxy authentication and crashes after several attempts because it neither accepts proxy login nor the website's login. Some strange problem.
3. It doesnt seem to store proxy authentication. Prompts everytime I start the browser.
4. Gmail doest load. Asks for login and all, but the mailbox doesnt load. Even, this problem seems to have corrected by itself. But the chat browser is not visible :)
5. I am posting this entry in blogger on Safari 3 browser and there is no rich text editor. (nor the html/compose tabs). Now, this problem seems to have solved by itself. Now the New Post composer seems just fine :)!
6. Fonts issues refer Amit Agarwal for more details. I havent faced any problem regarding fonts as yet.

If I am able to figure out these many issues within half an hour of installation, there's something seriously wrong with this broswer :P. Truly BETA

Plus point is: browsing DOES actually SEEM faster ;)

Skype: Error "No Proxies Found"

This is a very common problem while calling users through Skype from behind a firewall. I had a similar problem with Skype. My college firewall was a HTTP proxy with only 80 port allowed. The skype logs in(signs in) without any problem and also makes user-searches seamlessly. But, when you message a Skype user, you see that the message has not been delivered. Moreover, when you try to make a call to someone, after a while you get an error message saying "No Proxies Found" in red fonts in the calling tab.

Reasons for this could be one of the following:
1. The internet connection is slow, as in the bandwidth of the corporate connection is at its full usage.
2. Half open TCP/IP simultaneous connections are limited by default on Windows.

While, the first problem cannot be handled there is a solution for the second case.
By default, the number of half open TCP/IP connections are set to 10. When I did some searches on the internet I found a patch to fix this thing. I downloaded the file, executed the .exe file, and set the TCP/IP connections to more than 100.
Before you too imitate the same in order that your skype works, be aware that the limit on TCP/IP connections as 10 was set as a security reason by Windows. It seems that the more your TCP/IP connections open(anything more than 10), the faster you are prone to and can spread viruses and trojans. Since I was behind a safe network and also maintain my computer healthy -- I do update anti-virus and personal firewall, I had no issues in installing this patch.

For those who are sure of what they are doing, here's the link for the patch.

http://www.lvllord.de/

People who have no other way can try installing this patch and see if they are able to make calls through Skype behind a proxy firewall. There's no loss in trying. If Skype doesn't work even after installing the patch, it is recommended to uninstall the patch. The same .exe file is run to perform both install and uninstall.

World's First Solar Mobile Phone

It might seem corny, but its true. A Chinese electronic company has claimed to have developed world's first solar-powered mobile phone. Solar-powered devices use sun's energy to run. The solar powered mobile phone uses sun rays to recharge its battery. A scale-like solar panel on the top side of the clamshell design can also be recharged by other sources of light, including candles.



Features at a glance:
1. Solar powered.
2. Provides 40 minutes of talk time charge, after sitting for one hour under the sun.
3. The solar rechargeable battery has a lifespan 2.5 greater than traditional batteries.

Chairman of Hi-Tech Wealth, Zhang Zhengyu said," With more than 400 million mobile phones in th country, China would save a great amount of electricity if all its mobile phones were recharged by light"

My review:

Ok. So, this phone takes ONE FULL HOUR for a talk time of 40 minutes. That too, under hot burning sun. Literally thats too much, and it would be a commercial flop if it is targeted towards working class customers. However, the company can target a particular class of people namely "tourists". Especially the ones who visit beaches. Its of course a definite comfort for a Caucasian women not to worry about her Mobile's battery charge level when she is tanning herself on a beach ;)

I remember a renewable energy technology being developed in India for recharging of mobile phones,almost 5 years ago when I attended a seminar. It was for travelers in trains. The basic idea was to make a device which can utilize the wind energy. A small fan is made to rotate by placing it against the wind through the window seat and make the battery recharge. I don't have an idea though of what stages it is now in. I don't even remember the name of the technology. :D

Visit the company's Website here: HiTech Wealth

Bob Woolmer case Timline

The Jamaica police refused to comment after the Yard detectives revealed that Woolmer was not murdered. Has the two-and-a-half months of speculation finally been answered? What surprises me of all the events is the long period between his death and funeral (cremation) - almost one and a half month. Lets pray now that his soul may actually RIP, even if it was actually a natural death as claimed by the Scotland Yard or murder.

Below is a time line of events that occurred( Courtesy HT):

March 18
Woolmer found unconscious in hotel room. Within hours it is confirmed that he is dead.

March 20 - 21
First autopsy inconclusive and the pathologists asks for more tests. Jamaica's top cop Mark Shields says that the death is "suspicious". A day later, the polics confirm start of a murder investigation

March 26-27
Three members of Pakistan team questioned before granting permission to the team to return home. Police reported searching for three mystery fans who they want to question.

March 29
Shields claims Woolmer was strangled definitely.

April 1
Memorial service held for Woolmer in Lahore.

April 6
Gill Woolmer says her husband did not mention match-fixing in his final emails.

April 12
CCTV footages sent to Scotland Yard in London

April 22
Woolmer's family tells paper that cops believe a 'natural substance' poisoned him.

May 4
Woolmer cremated in Capetown.

May 9
Jamaican cop say there is evidence of murder, after Pak investigators say otherwise.

May 10
According to Pervez Mir, Pakistan's media manager, two champagne bottles found in Woolmer's room were given to him by Mushtaq Ahmed, Pakistan's assistant coach.

May 13
Jamaica Gleaner carries a report claiming evidence that Woolmer was not murdered.

May 20
Sunday Times said police in Jamaica have privately admitted that Dr Ere Seshaiah, the Kingston pathologist, was wrong to say that Woolmer was strangulated.

June 2
Daily Mail say Yard detectives told Jamaica cops that Woolmer was not murdered.

June 3
Jamaica Police decline to comment to the media.

After 19 Years Coma a Polish Communist stunned to see democracy

You might see it as a classic rip-off from the story of a king waking up in the present modern society from his grave. Not a complete rip-off though, since this man is not from the times of Imperialist regime but from the 'despised' Communism times in Poland. 19 years is not a joke and since I do not know much about brain functioning and grey cells, I think this man is faking when he says he remembers about things when he was active.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere"

Thanks to his wife who rejected the idea of euthanising him all these years.

More info here

Say cheese! to Google

Now the dumb ones can rejoice! Those who aren't able to locate a restaurant/address exactly, Google's "Street View" is at rescue. Yes, through Google Maps you can zoom into to streets and get a feel of the place. This is how a typical Street View would look like...

(Click on the image to enlarge..)

But then, google tends to intrude privacy of citizens by putting up such views. To tackle this, google said it would change the images frequently so that same person would not be on net for lengthy periods :).

See it for yourself. Google Map's Street View is limited to New york, San Francisco, Miami, Denver and Las Vegas .

Microsoft Surface

After the apple's iPhone mega release and all the hype, Microsoft is set to conquer the multi-touch interactive surface technology through this awesome system. Prices are high, USD 5000 to 10000. Can it do all the things my system does? or is it for just photos and some fun activities?

view the video :)

More News on Microsoft Surface

Virgin

Deflowered by the owner.

Now everyone can savour her by throwing in some coins. She's hot and sleazy. ;)