Sting operation!

Initially.......

And then......

Finally the end....

MTV, Pleeeaaase Pimp My Ride....

This is our car, all dented and gone out of shape after an accident recently. So MTV Pleaaase Pimp my ride.....

A novell, fantastic,cost effective method to save Tax payers money.

Purnateja
purnateja.blogspot.com

Under the guidance of
Citizens of India.

Yes! this is my new paper I'm publishing online!

This paper describes a Novell, fantastic,cost effective method to save Tax payers money.

Abstract: After the NEW Karnataka Govt lead by Shri BS Yediyurappa collapsed taking help from the Gowda clan the state is heading for snap polls. However it may sound the best solution to the present situation, but not so to the Tax payers. Why should the Tax payer's money be wasted on some politicians who do all sorts of 'crap'py things without doing their actual job of leading the state? So here's a plan, Let those politicians go to polls how many times ever they want but let them shell out the money from their Illegal assets. The money spent from the state/national treasury could instead be used to some other good works. In this way we can avoid the polling of tax payers money and also reduce the filthy politics.

conclusion: when implemented this will help India to a great extent and could even make us a super power with in 2020!

The taste of success........

Today I tasted success at 'Niyam encore 2007' at Dr.AIT. The success was that my paper was chosen to be the best paper at the event!

My blog sees a Spike!

Extract from Google Analytics

Extract from Statcounter

On November 2 2007 by blog which usually has only 2 or 3 hits per day saw an all time high number of hits of 24 page loads! Thanks to Boiledbeans
When the site posted my question along with the blog address the blog saw a Spike which could be seen from the images.

ಮಸಣದ ಹೂ....

ಮಸಣದ ಹೂ
This was taken in the front yard of our home.

This the first post after my Blog got screwed up. Now I've done some hacking to fix it. But you can still see the residue of the screwed up code. I hope I'll fix it soon.

USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon install tutorial

This is a tutorial which helps you to put Ubuntu 7.10 on to your USB flash drive.

This content is copy righted material from www.pendrivelinux.com.

Do try it out and enjoy carrying Ubuntu anywhere you want....!

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USB Ubuntu 7.10 install from Linux: This tutorial enables you to install, boot and run Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) from USB. In addition to installing Ubuntu to a USB device and then booting Ubuntu from USB, this tutorial will enable you to automatically save your changes and settings back to the stick and further restore them on each boot using a second "casper-rw" persistent partition. The tutorial was written for those already familiar with working from Ubuntu or another Linux desktop environment. If you do not have access to or prefer not to use a Windows computer, this Ubuntu Linux on a stick tutorial is for you.

Ubuntu 7.10 takes slightly longer to boot than previous releases. However, once it's up and running, it performs much better than running from the Live CD.

USB Ubuntu 7.10 Essentials:

• Ubuntu7.10 ISO
• CD Burner
• 1GB USB flash drive (2GB+ recommended)
  
• U710fix.tar

Ubuntu 7.10 USB installation tutorial:

Hint: You can drastically speed up the install by Copying (Ctrl+c) and Pasting (Ctrl+v) commands into the terminal instead of manually typing them out. With the exception of replacing X with your drive letter.

1. Grab the Ubuntu 7.10 ISO and burn it to a CD
2. Insert the CD and your USB flash drive
3. Reboot your computer into Ubuntu from the Live CD
4. Open a terminal window and type sudo su
5. Type fdisk -l to list available drives/partitions. Note which device is your flash drive (example: /dev/sda) Throughout this tutorial, replace x with your flash drive letter. For example, if your flash drive is sdb, replace x with b.
6. Type umount /dev/sdx1
7. Type fdisk /dev/sdx
   • type p to show the existing partition and d to delete it
   • type p again to show any remaining partitions (if partitions exist, repeat the previous step)
   • type n to make a new partition
   • type p for primary partition
   • type 1 to make this the first partition
   • hit enter to use the default 1st cylinder
   • type +750M to set the partition size
   • type a to make this partition active
   • type 1 to select partition 1
   • type t to change the partition filesystem
   • type 6 to select the fat16 file system
   • type n to make another new partition
   • type p for primary partition
   • type 2 to make this the second partition
   • hit enter to use the default cylinder
   • hit enter again to use the default last cylinder
   • type w to write the new partition table
8. Type umount /dev/sdx1 to ensure the 1st partition is unmounted
9. Type mkfs.vfat -F 16 -n ubuntu710 /dev/sdx1 to format the first partition
10. Type umount /dev/sdx2 just to ensure the 2nd partition is unmounted
11. Type mkfs.ext2 -b 4096 -L casper-rw /dev/sdx2 to format the second partition
12. Remove and Re-insert your flash drive
13. Back at the terminal, type apt-get update
14. Type apt-get install syslinux mtools
    
15. Type syslinux -sf /dev/sdx1
16. Type cd /cdrom
17. Type cp -rf casper disctree dists install pics pool preseed .disk isolinux/* md5sum.txt README.diskdefines ubuntu.ico casper/vmlinuz casper/initrd.gz /media/ubuntu710/

Ignore any "cannot create symbolic link" errors


18. Type cd /home/ubuntu
19. Type wget pendrivelinux.com/downloads/U710fix.zip
20. Type unzip -o -d /media/ubuntu710/ U710fix.zip
21. Restart your computer, set your BIOS or Boot menu to boot from the USB device and reboot again.

You should now have a USB Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon flash drive that should automatically save your changes, restoring them on boot.

Note: If your having trouble getting Ubuntu to boot, your memory stick may have a corrupted MBR. To repair the MBR of your USB device, at the terminal type sudo apt-get install lilo then type lilo -M /dev/sdx (replacing x with the letter of your flash device)

Ubuntu® is registered trademark of Canonical ltd.

©2006-2007 Pen Drive Linux Credits and Resources
Linux is a registered ™ of Linus Torvalds.

A huge resposibility accomplished successfully!

After My parents returned back to home on 17th Oct from Theertha yatre , My responsibility of taking care of our house has been successfully accomplished!

But during the tenure I did two blunders.

1>One day I forgot to close the local water tap which turned our house into a water pool! however I cleaned the whole mess, spending a whole one and a half hour trying to clean it.

2>Another day when I was trying to cook myself a decent meal using the steam cooker, due to some technical snag in it , it just blew up in front of me ! Fortunately the safety valve saved me from tasting disaster. The metal in it just melted down and came out. This halted all the kitchen activities for almost half a day.
However that wasn't my fault since it was a technical snag!
Even after doing these blunders I managed to keep our home intact! The house is safe and clean(that's very important!).

After successfully accomplishing the responsibility, I've now earned the certificate that I'm a GROWN UP!

The Torture called Sivaji

This is an interesting post I found on this blog.

he's a Chennai based blogger who calls himself 'ada-pavi'.
This review of Sivaji the boss actually tells what I wanted to say 2months ago when I saw Sivaji.
If you feel the same do post in ur comments.
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In one word, Sivaji sucks. The movie can be divided into the post interval and pre interval portions. When Rajini romances Sherya it sucks, its plain unwatchable. And the movie is loaded with Rajini’s usual style. He has lost it, his style too now sucks, its unwatchable.

Now there is a 60 year old man. As is the case with any 60 year old man, Rajini’s face resembles Indian roads. To make him look younger, extensive make up is used, the make up sucks. For two reasons, first every time a close up of his face is shown, it looks like a wall which has been painted with cheap whitewash. Now this wall if it rains will absorb water and some portions will be lighter than the others. That’s how Rajini’s make looks.

Another fall out of this make up is that his face becomes expressionless. How is it possible to express when one has white cement on their face? When Rajini romances Sherya, he uses his trademark style. To carry it off it requires his face to be expressive. He is an expressive actor, but with white cement on his face, none what so ever is visible. Its terrible and plain unwatchable. In Pudhu Kavithai, Thambiku Endha Ooru, Nallavanuku Nalavan, even Padayappa there are closeup shots of Rajini’s face, and the expression is visible. This is even in scenes where he sight-adichifies the heroine, that expressive face is now missing. Rajini is a shadow of his former self.

Pre-interval, its not even worth writing about. This movie has one of the most pathetically scripted comedy scenes ever in a Rajini movie, plain torture.

In the post interval it’s the usual masala chase sequences. That is entertaining, its watchable. But the hype over Rajini and his style in the movie makes me want to puke. There is too much emphasis on Rajini and his Superstar status. Every bloody scene reinforces Rajini’s super star status, and the need show his style. The beauty with his style, be it the swagger or the smoking or the punch dialogues was that it seamlessly blended in with his character, Rajini’s status never stood out, here his status as superstands out in every scene, it kills the movie. The previous movie where Rajini’s status stood out was Baba, and we all know the status, with white cement on his face, Sivaji might follow Baba’s status. What is even more audacious is Rajini comparing himself to MGR. Mottai Boss says M G Ravichandran, MGR, clearly indicating he is as big as MGR. That is audacious, MGR even today, 20 years after his death can win elections. The only reason JJ wins in some areas of south TN is because voters vote for the “Rettai Elai” the symbol of MGR, not for JJ. Rajini can never match that feat. Both MGR and Rajini share some common traits, their loyal fan base. Towards the later end of his career, only MGR fans could sit through his movies, Rajini now is in that stage of his career, only those who want to see him on screen can sit through his movies, apart from this they have nothing in common. Rajini is no MGR.

Songs? Shankar’s grandeur has killed them. I feel like puking, the picturisations suck.

Unless one is a Rajini veriyan, stay away. Even for a veriyan, my advice would be get a DVD of Rajinis 80s movies, and watch them. Rajini rocks in them. Now he should stop acting and play with his grandchildren. Or else if he acts, he should act as an old man. That’s what makes Padayappa rock, Rajini with the beard and Kurta rocks. None of that is there in Sivaji.

Actually, a long time fan of Rajini, who has seen his movies from the Aborva Ragangal, would feel let down. Ratha kaneer varum. Sivaji magnifies all the short comings of Rajinikanth. The Rajinikanth who acted in Padayappa, Baasha, Annamalai, Mr Barath, Nallavanuku Nallavan, Naan Maahan Allai, Thani Kattu Raja is dead. The Rajini in Sivaji is a pitiable shadow of his former self, yet he tries to act like his former self. Its sad. Rajini’s time is up, he should ideally pass the baton onto the next generation of actors, still carrying the baton is terrible. Or else he should accept his age and act in movies as a 50 year old, a-la Padayappa where in second half, as an old man he rocks. Now as a young man, Rajini Sucks, plain sucks.

I wonder whether the Executive Producer S.P Muthuraman must have been sleeping while working on this movie. This guy knows how to write a good script, and he has directed some memorable Rajini movies like Muruttu Kalai and Netrikan. He should have had the sense to read the script and clean it up, because the script is by Shankar. Shankar is an idiot who restricts to just one issue and recycles his script, so its understandable he will write bullshit, but Muthuraman is no idiot, the bugger should have cleaned up the script, the only explanation for him not doing so is that he was probably sleeping or Shanker being arrogant decided not to use Muthuraman's knowledge during the making of Sivaji.

In one word, Sivaji Sucks! Its Terrible and Plain unwatchable. Sivaji is just one notch above Baba, it has to be amongst Rajini’s worst movies. This movie is strictly for those who just want to see Rajinikanth on screen. Im sure a two hour documentary tracing Rajini’s career released in theatres would be more watchable than this crap.

The movie is an insult to the vibrant tamil flim industry which churns out movies like Mozhi and Chennai 600028. The producer and director assumed that with Rajini on screen and a pre-release hype, there will be enough idiots willing to watch the movie and therefore it will make money, and issues like script, dialogue acting dont really matter. I strongly believe that any creative venture has to be driven by the burning desire to engage in that venture. Movies should be made because the all the parties involved have the burning desire to make the movie. Once it is driven by money, the quality drops, actually there is no quality. Using this logic, one can conclude that the driving force to make Sivaji for all those involved was money and not the desire to make a good movie. This clearly is visible in the end product, which sucks.

PS: If one wants entertainment, and can stand TR on screen, Veeraswamy is way more entertaining than Sivaji, Sivaji is torture. If you want to kill someone, and the person is not a Rajini Veriyan, buy them a ticket for Sivaj
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Tamilnadu Youths deprived!

On 11th October 2007 the Karnataka Governor (who's ruling us now....) declared holiday on behalf of the Mourning of Bommai's death(The heaven holds the faithful departed) who was the then CM of karnataka . As a part of the glorious student life I enjoyed the holiday.

Since two decades there are many CMs coming and in our state due to political turmoil, dirty politics etc. So when each of these Dudes die we get a holiday!

But the poor, unfortunate Tamilnadu counterparts can get only two holidays at the most!
The reason being that Tamilnadu has only two CMs alive right now. In every election the Dudes get either Dummi akka(ಡುಮ್ಮಿ ಅಕ್ಕ) or Kurudanidhi(ಕುರುಡಾನಿಧಿ) as their CM. Whats the use of it kanna ?

When they pass away the TN students can get a maximum of two days holiday thats it! But we karanataka youths..... can get so many holidays since we have so many CMs in the list, first being(the list has been overwritten after Bommai's death)Devegowda :p.
So the karnataka Students are luckier than the TN kiddos.... ha ha ha ha ha....

Set Reset Bommai R.I.P.

This Idea was originally inspired by my friend Ullas R Naik of EWIT.

My first Hardware hack!

Yeah a hardware hack!
Yesterday I saw an absurd thing. When my mobile phone which was kept near a digital radio(its digital since it can be switched on and off with a press of a button) started ringing the Radio suddenly switched on! Then when I tried it for many times with some more phones, it worked!
However I don't know the reason why it happened like that. The experts reading this post could help me with it.
This can be used for many purposes both useful and destructive...

A similar thing happens with iPod also. Whenever a a mobile phone kept near a switched on iPod receives a radio signal it acts bit weired. While playing a song it just gets paused and within a jiffy gets switched off. The reason behind it..... again I don't know.
so Expert opinion in need.

After experimenting with all these I decided this was my First hardware hack!

Engineering word list 1

After completing my 1st year engineering successfully I'm posting this post which contains a random word list(with no specific order) of things which impacted my 1st year engineering the most/or mostly/or some impact . The words for if they have any add-ons are mentioned in parentheses and comments/remarks are mentioned in square brackets. So please go ahead and read the crazy list of words.....

[list]

1.Councelling(cet)
2.Casual vacancy
3. Attendance :P[the most obvious part of any engineering student's life!]
4.HOD(ADD-ON censored on request)
5.Internals(only 2 :X )
6.No-reimbursement
7.Originals(withhold)
8. VTU!
9. Results
10.AICTE
11.Foss.in
12.VRLinug
13.Linux
14.Opensource
15.Multi core processors
16.Geek
17.CMS
18.Technical seminar/s
19.Principal
20.iPod(iPod linux)
21. RMS
22.Drupal,wordpress
23.Boiledbeans(Yaksha)
24.Blogspot
25.WiFi/LAN
26.K/Ubuntu
27.Pendrive linux
28.Field theory, Network analysis
29.Dell
30.Car
31.VOIP
32.SAT
33.USA
34.Transfer
35.Pheonix
36.Bi-Cycle
37.accident,drag
38.RSS(atom feeds)
39. /.
40.Digg
41.Mass bunk
42. Work shop(low marks!)
43.Quiz(3rd place,no certificate!)
44.Mosquito collection (buggy!)
45. Ass(numb)
46.KSC,DSC
47.Discount
48.Nokia 1100
49.Orkut
50.Rants(got screwed up for it!)
[/list]

India's growth hindered by yet another cricket series!

The Indian population being a die hard fan of cricket, hinders India's development by watching this hopeless game. Here's the shocking facts with statistics:

considering half of the Indian population to be watching a cricket match(of 50 overs):

50 crores(500 X 10^6 or 500 E 6)

one cricket match roughly takes place for:

8 hours

so when this population watches a cricket match for 8 hours continuously:

500 E 6 X 8=4 E 9 hours of work power is wasted!

that translates to:

168.98 E 6 equivalent days of work power waste!

or

462.96 E 3 equivalent years of work power waste!

Considering the "Loose all time" trend of the Indian cricket team it is not guaranteed that all these hours are *spent* happily! so the time invested is obviously a waste not only for the country's economy but also WRT the viewer who is dissatisfied at the end of the game.

And also considering pre&post match analysis and discussions some more time is wasted!

Thus a humble request to all those who watch the lotus eaters game
please help making India a developed nation atleast by 2020 with your valuable work power.

Jai Bharatha mathe

Wild life photography!

My many day dream of becoming a wild life photographer finally came true with this picture.
This was taken near the the river side of "Kumudvathi" in Maasoor,Shivamogga Karnataka.
The best part was the Deer didn't run away seeing me. It gave a good pose so that I could get a good picture. So thank you deer!

Teja Raja now Yaksha Raja!

Yaksha as you all know was the one who questioned Dharmaraya when the Pandavas were in Vanavasa. Yaksha was the disguise of Yama Dharmaraya who wanted to test Pandavas.
Then he was the one to ask Questions, but today Teja(me!) is disguised as Yaksha who would rather tries to answer questions!
Yes , its answering.......
Recently I've become the top scorer of the tech quizzing website "boiledbeans".
Intitally when the scoring started I was in the 2nd place and tried to maintain it. But for a brief period of time I declined to the 3rd place due to some technical snags with my internet connection.
But then when i returned back after answering a question correctly I jumped to first spot!
Now as you can see in the image I'm topping the charts! But it wont be easy to maintain it. and all these hype is only short lived!

A "How to" install Linux tutorial for new bees....by a Linux enthusiast

This is an interesting post found on a Tech blog by a Linux geek Who calls himself as "Just another computer hobbyist- binary blues"
This is interesting and easy especially for New bees.
courtesy "Binary blues". For more geeky stuff visit his blog here.
Thanks a lot Binary blues.

I am going to write a very basic HowTo for those who are willing to use Linux. I assume you already know and use Windoze XP/98. Though I cannot guarantee that every concept in Linux will relate to that in windows analogically. There can be many new commands, procedures to be followed and concepts, while learning Linux for the first time.
So here it goes
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First of all allocate some space for installing Linux on your hard disk. You may use this tool to resize you partition, make some free space(say 10GB) and use that free space for Linux. Discussing how to partition your hard disk is out of scope, just make some free space in your extended partition by resizing logical drives. Then you will create SWAP partition(logical) in that space which will be typically of double the size of you RAM( If your RAM is 256MB, keep your SWAP 512MB approx.) Next you will create EXT3 partition(logical) of size around 9GB(10GB-512MB). Now thats done, partitioning part is over.

Its time to decide which Linux flavor you wish to install. For the first timers, Ubuntu(Kubuntu/Xubuntu) is recommended. Though you are free to try any other flavors listed below:
Fedora
Vector
Slackware ( ~ - ^ )
Debian

Download ISO image and burn it to CD/DVD. If you have very less bandwidth or limited download you can give me blank CD and I will return it to you with one of the flavors of your choice (currently I have slackware12DVD, Debian3.1CDs, Ubuntu7.04Cd, VectorLinux5.8SOHO CD etc)

Now its time to boot your install CD. Put it in drive, enable CD booting in BIOS settings and set priority to CD before your hard disk. Reboot, the CD will load its default kernel. At the boot prompt(if any) hit Enter.

Later part varies according to the flavor. In slackware installation is very straightforward if you have done partitioning beforehand. I will discuss the ubuntu method here. Most probably you will have Ubuntu Live CD, where you will get a nice GUI after booting. Click on Install icon on dektop. And just folllow the procedure. Its very simple. But at one point, it will ask about partitioning, select the option which says 'Manually set the partitioning'. Then you can assign the SWAP system on SWAP partition and the ROOT filesystem on the EXT3 partition you've just created. When the installation is complete you will probably reboot your pc and then Grub will appear on you screen. Grub is a bootloader, used for multi-booting with different OSs. Now you will have a complete Linux system with you, and surely you can play with it.

Try following tutorials for getting started with Linux,

http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/commands.htm
http://www.reallylinux.com/docs/basic.shtml
http://rkrishna.tp.googlepages.com/slackerbasics
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/cli.html

After spending one week on command line[;-) seems adventurous] , you may like to check the GUI. For that try KDE, Gnome, XFCE and fluxbox ...

Backyard blossoms-2

Another series of Backyard blossoms.

Happy Independence Day

Mother INDIA completes 60 years of Freedom!

On the eve of India's completion of its 60 th Independence day I wish you all a very
Happy Independence day.
We are all proud of this auspicious movement.
I Pledge that I will contribute something that will help my country in my life.

My new art work

This is my new art work.
The original background photo was taken in Harihara,Karnataka. The river flowing is TungaBhadra. The water level had reached an all time high since 1992!
The clearance between the surface of the water and the bridge was only 10 feet!(approx)

Jesus ever fails!

We've all seen some chappies stickking things on public places(like the traffic signals,display boards,trains buses) saying Jesus never fails etc but see here, some desperate chappie modified it to look as Jesus Ever fails !
Now this is the way of answering back to such crack chappies!
PS:The answer is simple- Do not mess up public property! It belongs to the public.

Ubuntu logo in a Kannada movie?!!

The Ubuntu Logo was found in this movie advertisement in one of the local newspapers in Bengaluru(Bangalore). I think the designer just used the logo with out the consent from Canonical Ltd or without knowing what it is, but simply to fit it in the Ad's theme which has many circles around it. what does Canonical have to say about this?

0 to Ubuntu in 3 minutes!

Yeah that's true. You may have heard "0 to Linux in 5 minutes"(TM Knoppix) from Klaus Knopper but this time it's "0 to Ubuntu in 3 minutes!". My many day old dream of booting Linux from my USB came true , finally! It was possible only because of a rare combination of Funds+Time+Sources.

Initially I'd thought of making my USB stick to boot PCLinuxOS(the second best Distro) but then couldn't succeed then tried Knoppix again failed since My laptop didn't have the right driver to boot Knoppix. Then tried Fiesty Fawn ,again faced compatibility errors.I also tried to make the boot stick from windows and tried to port Slax, That also failed. Later succeeded with Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. It just boots quickly within 3 minutes and 'viola' you are all set to use it!
Though the usb boot concept is now a pretty old one I'm feeling so happy that I was able to do it finally.
Thus all the credit should go to :
1]www.pendrivelinux.com(main source)
2]www.launchpad.net(for answering my pesky questions)
3]The open source world(for making such an amazing project)
4]My Brother(for his suggestions and for answering my crazy doubts)

Vroooooooooooooooom

Dominoes scene- V for Vendetta

My favorite scene in the movie V for Vendetta

Some more flowers

These were taken when i had been to Shimoga/Karwar in June 2007.

Back yard blossoms

This is one of the few flowers which bloomed in our back yard garden recently.
A very soft flower and is pretty small in size. (Dont know it's general/scientific name)

Thunderstruck!

No words to explain this!
Photographs taken by myself on our Olympus c-5000 zoom camera.
Originally captured as a video and then extracted using Kaffine.

courtesy: Kaffine

The SAT-My only ticket to that continent.

Yes its official, Today I finished my SAT reasoning test. This was the only long pending thing on my To-Do list for quite some time.
It all started when I screwed my CET/AIEEE ranking in 2006.Though I really didn't know much about the next better alternative to the CET/AIEEE, this was the time when I came to know the SAT by people around me.
With depression already set in my life, I didn't care to have a look at it.
But things seemed to mount on me, this compelled me to register for the SAT during my 1st semester final exam wasting 3 complete hours for registering.
Then I prepared a bit in my semester holidays and then finally gave it a shot.
However the results will be out only on 30th may 2007. So till then cant tell how I've performed.

ಅಲ್ಲಿವರಗು ಒಸಿ ತಡ್ಕೊಳ್ಳಿ ....
good bye!

Lunar Eclipse -As captured by Kalyanvarma

Lunar eclipse as taken by Kalyanvarma from Eravikulam, Kerala on March 2007.
Though the image is taken by Kalyanvarma ,I've Published this on my blog Since I'm a huge fan of Kalyanvarma's photography.

Linux distro timeline

This is the Linux ditro timeline.

courtesy: http://kde-files.org/
Free to copy and spread this content. Free Documentation License.
*Creative Commons *some rights reserved

ಕಾವೇರಿ ನದಿಯ ತೇರದಲಿ-By the river of Kaveri

ಇದು ದೊಡ್ಡ ಗೋಸಯಿ ಘಟ್ಟದ ಬಳಿ ತೆಗೆದ ಚಿತ್ರ.
This is the panoramic view(of two photos) of river Kaveri at Dodda Goasai ghatt.

ಇದು ಸಂಗಮದ ಭಾವ ಚಿತ್, ಇಲ್ಲಿ ಕಾವೇರಿ ಮತ್ತು ಲೋಕಪಾವನಿ ನದಿಗಳ ಸಂಗಮವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ.
This is the Panoramic view(of 6 photos) of sangama, where Lokapavani and Kaveri combine.

Windows Vista vs Beryl on Ubuntu...

This video shows the Aero effect on windoze and Beryl on Ubuntu, its very good simply because the Beryl Project is itself amazing!
Here's a Howto Install Beryl on your (K)Ubuntu desktop. click here

The Forum mall and you!

I had been to the Forum mall twice within a span of 1 week!
(exclamation since I'd never been there before this visit).
Though the mall is good for time pass ,shopping, entertainment etc... I wasn't impressed much. It's almost on par with the American style mall except for the number of people visiting these malls.

The main intension of this post is ....... The Forum mall's Logo says
" Your time.Your space"(the image in the left)
But after shopping few things you'll feel that the modified image in the right is the most appropriate!
If you still cant get me what I am saying..... then take a break, go to the Forum mall NOW and shop few/many things, watch a movie in PVR and tell me whether the image in the right side is true or not.


I'm waiting for your answer..................

Panoramic view-2

This is picture is the panoramic view of the horizon near my home and is a tile of 7 pictures .
The stitching part was superbly done by Adobe Photoshop CS 3 with just a click!

Panoramic view 1

This is a tile picture of the sunset and horizon taken from my home.

SC stays 27% quota for OBCs in IITs, IIMs

The Supreme Court has stayed the OBC quota! The government wanted quotas for OBCs based on the 1931 census data!! Finally some rational and sense seems to have prevailed over illogical nonsense. And now the government wants to collect data backing its decision for quotas! It is like sentencing somebody to death and then trying to manufacture the reasons for which he was sentenced to death. The Supreme Court in its judgment has clearly stated that the government’s intention to implement OBC quota was for divisive vote bank politics and not the welfare of the people. It is indeed unfortunate that the government has successfully misled several millions of people that this move was for the ‘upliftment’ of ‘poor and backward’ people. Thankfully their bluff was called by the judiciary.
In fact it is not just the government but all political parties as a whole that this judgment indicts. They are the people whose minds need to be ‘uplifted’ and these are the minds that are truly ‘backward’.
I think the Supreme Court needs no proof that the people who are mentally backward and in dear need of reservations are the politicians. So, now the Supreme Courts should transfer this quota from OBCs to politicians. This should solve a lot of problems. Let us hope and pray that at least an education at the IITs and IIMs changes these people and India moves ‘Ahead’ instead of falling over ‘Backwards’. Only then it will be time to celebrate..

Quoted from the community "Reservations must be removed", by Aditya

The Indian cricket team DEPARTED!

BANGLADESH or SRI LANKA, it doesn't matter when you are facing INDIA!

Not surprisingly the Indian cricket team DEPARTED from the ICC world cup like every edition.
But this time with more humiliation with an oust in the very 1st round of the cup.
The much hyped 'MEN IN BLUE' lost on the so called minnows/underdogs Bangladesh cricket team(note there is no exclamation for this sentence!). And then were defeated terribly by the one time champions Sri Lanka.
So as the caption of the movie Departed says "cop or a criminal, it doesn't matter when you are facing a pistol!" on the same lines a new caption for the MEN IN BLUE says..........
"BANGLADESH or SRI LANKA, it doesn't matter when you are facing INDIA!"
this simply means any team can thrash the MEN IN BLUE!
What do you say????

I've no words for this ultimate thing................

This was taken in the Flower conservatory, San Fransisco,California

Solar eclipse on the very first day of the Lunar new year.

The first pic was taken around 7.00am IST. and the last was taken around 7.30am.
However I was not awake for the first contact =)
This was the first solar eclipse in 2007 and also in the 'SARVAJITH' samvathsara.

Wishing you all a happy new year.

ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು. ಸರ್ವಜಿತ್ ನಾಮದ ಸಮ್ವತ್ಸರ ತರಲಿ ಯೆಲ್ಲರಿ ಹರ್ಷ.

Wishing RMS a very happy Birthday!

I wish Richard Stallman a very happy birthday. As you can see here in separate photos myself and my brother along with RMS!

I'm also happy to celebrate my birthday on this day(march 16th)!

ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳನ್ನು ಕಳೆದಿದ್ದೇನೆ ನಾನು!

ಮಾರ್ಚ್ ಹದಿನಾರಕ್ಕೆ(೧೬) ನನಗೆ ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳು ತುಂಬುತದೆ!
ಈ ಹದಿನೆಂಟೂ ವರ್ಷಗಳನ್ನೂ ವ್ಯರ್ತ ವಾಗಿಯೆ ಕಳೆದಿದ್ದೆನೆ ಎಂದು ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಹೇಳಲು ಆಶಿಸುತ್ತೆನೆ :P. ನನಗೆ ಹದಿನೆಂಟು ವರ್ಷಗಳಾಗಿದ್ದರೂ ಈ ವರೆಗು ಜೇವನದಲ್ಲಿ ಏನೂ ಸಾಧಿಸಿಲ್ಲ ಎಂಬುದೆ ಈ ಮೇಲಿನ ವಾಕ್ಯದ ಅರ್ತ!

Californian apples

Looks beautiful....tastes disgusting!

iPod Linux demo

Want to install Linux on to ur iPod ? then see this video

Dance on the death!

Well this is the daily mode of transport for these people. They are the bravest of the brave people dancing on death!

I saw a Monkey eating ice cream for the first time in my life!

From nandi trip 2007

A white lilly thingy found on top of nandi hill

From nandi trip 2007

This badly focussed image was taken on nandi hill

Its official, Iron Maiden will be in Bengaluru on march 17 2007!

Be there if u want to play with madness!
Iron maiden live on march 17th

ಸೆಗಣಿಯ ಹುಳವೆಂದು ನೀನೆಕೆ ಕೊರಗುವೆ?

ಸೆಗಣಿಯ ಮೇಲಿರುವ ಹುಳು ಕೊರ್ಗುಹುದೆ?

Shell-Konsole/BAsh

This is a snail shell. Nam mane hatra pasandagi sigthade