Trying stuff out

This is me again, trying stuff out on the iGOOGLE page.
This is an amazing innovation from google, which allows us to add our favourite tools on to our google home page.
to make it lucid...i have on my google home page, my gmail, my facebook account pages, orkut pages, my blog(which i am accessing right now) and more cool stuff like thoughts for the day, the date time and weather, google maps!!!!
I hope this gets posted on the blog correctly!
Kudos to GOOGLE! :D

Make like the birds...

We have grown up knowing and taking for a fact that Birds fly south for the winter. Now, just because we make allusions to dumb people as bird-brains doesn't necessarily make the original owners of those brains dumb.These migratory birds, leave the northern regions in search for alternative food sources, or the 'beat the cold'. The northern parts of our planets can get frigid in the heights of winter, and so these birds fly south, where the climate is far friendlier. So also for the southern parts, where the birds fly North for their winters. These are migratory instincts, that the birds and animals have.

An instinct is an inherent disposition of a living organism to a particular behaviour -Wikipedia.en

The seasonal movement of a complete population of animals from one area to another. Migration is usually a response to changes in temperature, food supply, or the amount of daylight, and is often undertaken for the purpose of breeding.

-Dictionary.com

The instinct of migration was true even to animals and mammals. From the prehistoric era onwards man has recorded that mammals like the mammoth find that the grass is greener on the other side, often of the equator(considering all the continents were joined together). They all went in search of better land and places where food was agreeable to their palates'. And when the climates changed, they would return, to the very same place from where they had left.This shown in the popular film ICE AGE 2. When the ice begins to melt, all the animals begin to move from their habitat.

This instinct i feel was a part of the humans as well, but a little different in nature. Whenever our ancestors found climates were unfavorable, and could not carry on in the same location, they moved. i suppose the difference is that they moved away, which is to be understood different from migrate.Apart from the accounts of Mohammed-bin-Tughlaq, who kept moving his GHQ from Delhi to Daulatabad every so often, we really have not come across anecdotes of migration by our ancestors.

However i feel it is time that we took to migration and learn from the birds and animals. With the seasons of today, we are faced; at least in the city of Bombay, with torrential rains. Where in other countries rain falls, here it comes down with something that can only be described as a wrath or vengeance. And Thanks to all the reconstruction and badly spaced out areas, not to forget the low lying sections of our 'mega' city water collects, claiming lives, or worse, destroying everything that makes life live-able and sparing the life itself.

Why not make like the birds, and leave town starting Early June, and return to where we were, just 3 months later. We could make migratory patterns of our own. We could collectively leave this city, to go anywhere. Pack our stuff, and leave.

They city already comes to a standstill every so often in the rains. Us leaving would just make sure there is no loss of life and distance the inconvenience in living in this season.The picture clearly shows what this city is put through during the monsoons.An entire stream of traffic just clogged,waiting endlessly for the road ahead to be cleared. This is worse than a complete standstill to city life. We leave for a few months, and effectively bypass the devastation, saving us the frustration, anger, irritation and other negative effects the rains have on us. All the Governing body has to do it make if official. June to September is Bombay's Vacation Season.Whats better is we don't have to go only to one place each time, we could plan in advance, and go visit different cities. Every year a new place to see. Its not impossible to do, and since the city would be deserted, maybe the conditions that bolster the chaos causing rains could be corrected. Till then, Lets just Make like the birds...

Long time no 'Siege!'

Ah, its been long, or long enough that i haven't written. its beginning to scare me now. i realize that the less often i write the less capable i am going to be of articulating my thoughts! After a grueling session of examinations i found myself at the liberty to do whatever i pleased. and so i pleased to go on a trip with my friends to a city called Hyderabad. The trip was a good 6 days, not counting the days spent in travel to and back from the place. The noteworthy travel was within the city of Hyderabad. The notes that i claim as worthy on the travel within city limits will be left to another post another time. This time i concentrate on something of lesser worthiness. This is merely a comeback post, to let the ardent fans of this blog know that i am very much here and have not taken to another hobby. Just as Psmith does to reassure his superiors at the bank he works in by leaving his hat and glove at his desk when he leaves for a lunch break, that he will be undoubtedly back, that they at the bank needn't worry that the 'highly efficient, toiler' Psmith has left for good, when they notice his absence. After the 6 days -excluding the one day of travel which is in no great detail explained here because of its already assessed worthiness, i was kept busy with other engagements. First on the 24th when i arrived at home, was my sisters birthday, which we all who are younger brothers know- must be treated with the respect that it is due. the first half of the next day went in coming back to the state where there is no PARTY! and the second half went wastefully in the expectation of my birthday, which demanded its own importance. Having called some people over and asking them specifically to come with presents, i was done for the day. My birthday passed very well, thanks to my family and all the people who made it. it pleased me very much that everyone who did come- had with them some present or the other. those who had no particular object to offer as a present, said they have brought themselves. i made a mental note of that so i may use it when i go for the very many parties i am invited to. The 27th presented me with a driving engagement that i was unable to escape from. again the engager of my activity was an elder sibling , so all my friends who are younger siblings will imagine and take comfort in that imagination that Alcatraz would be a lesser challenge. 28th was spent tiring to figure out what would be my POA or plan of Action for the remainder of my vacations, which i spent ideally- wastefully watching movies on my laptop. the joys of wasting time along the vacations was not exactly what i was planning for the days ahead, only they seemed a fitting way to start. all other means of entertainment failed to present themselves in time to save me from passing away the time they could have occupied. today is the 29th, and i am writing faithfully. I feel that i owe all of the fans of this activity of mine an explanation and a detailed report of those chores that kept me from posting my works so that they may read it. I am glad that this day will mark my comeback to writing, and your comeback to reading. Till later and more noteworthy topics arise, Adios

Whats human about us?

I have this interesting piece of news to give you all. yesterday in Kentucky (a state in the US) there was a Hit-And -Run accident and the driver just drove off.
CNN made THIS NEWS, and it was news because the by standers DID NOTHING! In that country everyone was appalled how a 78 yr old man crossing the road was just allowed to lie there.
the approximately 2 minute video shows very clearly the incident, of him being knocked over.
and the driver just drove off.
(link to the video:=http://www.hartford.gov/Police/)


The police say they aren't sure if anyone called 911. Cars just drove by around the body, as if it were a rag doll on the road. EVEN THEN You would expect them to move it out. people gathered around the body and just stood there for a few seconds, and walked away.

The local paper reported it as "SO INHUMANE". the chief of police even said-"we no longer have a moral compass".

no one even attempted to get medical attention to him. it was only when a police rover came up that they manged to get him help.

Juxtaposed to situations here, we aren't unhelpful, its just that most people would rather stay out of it. a majority of people would do exactly like these particular Americans did, and it would be normal conduct here. While there its national news. Inhumanity is made news on CNN.The people are calling it BEYOND CHILLING.
we are obliged to think we are doing someone a favor if we help. We should help because its the human thing to do.We just haven't gotten civilized natures into us yet.

i'll Be there for you...

When the rain starts to pour...,
...Like i've been there before...,
...'Coz you're there for me too."

These words made so famous by the decade long run of the sitcom 'F.R.I.E.N.D.S'. Some how manages to -when not just heard, but also thought about- set a sense of contentment. We always as our second nature would dictate, lean on our friends for support for so many things. from the disastrous to the completely joyful , it would help to point out that in the latter's case the support would purely be when one - jumps in delirium,and trips, if there is such a phrase.

Everyday, we feel our day just is more exciting and fun to go through just because they are around us. We really can't imagine a fun day all by ourselves. Even if we are doing stuff we really like, the fun just seems to diminish without them around. During travel, when you are with friends, you would spend time sharing the joy in doing stuff that you do. Be it discussions, laughing at something funny that happened in college that day;or would laugh out loud alone?

No one can really say they don't need friends. or at least they can't say they don't NEED REAL friends. Everyone needs friends. as children, if we grow up in societies where they are fewer kids to play with, we end up making imaginary friends.
I can't provide to you living examples(i can't say that i had imaginary friends, but i did carry out discussions that were quite real with an imaginary person) but i can give you an example we all know of-Calvin and Hobbes. where the 7 yr old kid makes a friend in the stuffed tiger Hobbes.
At least they grow up with the company of someone they make dear to them.
Wonder about those people who outgrew these friends, and then never got incorporated into a group.
Most likely that never happened. like i said everyone needs friends, and these people don't stay out of friends groups....those people who dont fit in... can 'not fit in' TOGETHER!
so there's hope for everyone. :)

We all need friends, those that we can rely on, those that we can share our joys with, those that we can share our sorrows with. Those that make us feel good about who we are, and what we do. these friends may not be in the same person, these friends may be different people, they could be around you, they could be living your life with you, or they could even be in another part of the world.

So if having friends is such a good thing, something that should ordinarily make us happy, then why is it that people are so weary, so often of making friends? So many people are so reluctant to meet new people, and engage in friendly banter with. Everyone thinks it is the only done way to make new friends if you are introduced to a person. Why can't you just chat up with some u meet at the platform? Or you are working out at the Gym , why must there be a need to talk to someone? why cant you just walk up to a person and strike a conversation. why does it sound so absurd? Should it sound absurd?

I might think this person of the opposite sex from a class is a nice person to talk to(or would be a nice person to talk to) from the little i have seen her interact in class. it would still strike me as absurd to go up to her and introduce myself. why you would think i was hitting on her! !

Even in cases of same sex, people just NEVER want to get friendly out of nothing. there must be a reason. i have had issues where people don't on outings just because they don't have people they know with them...if you never give them a chance, you will never make new friends.
you might argue -'why do i need new friends?' and thats not the point at all. Thats the whole wrong outlook.
These people, people who feel that socializing is a talent, or job, or work that needs to be done, they ask for a REASON to talk to people. Well for them...the image is a simple reason...

Just Because There is no such thing as too many friends

These Humans are crazy!!!

"When did that bolt of lightening hit the ground mate?"
"just as i got there!"
"And what about the second one?"
"IT TOOK RIDICULOUSLY LONG"
"really? The humans couldn't even scamper off fast enough when i saw them...are you sure?"
"POSITIVE"
"a friend of mine in printing said the humans wrote it as within '30 seconds' of each other."
" '30 seconds' ? what does that mean? i know it happened when i was around equator , and the second one when i was around the moon."
" i dont understand why they cant describe everything normally? either it was before or after a definite event"

"These Humans are crazy!!!"

this is probably what a photon would discuss with another photon.
Our concept of time is flawed. that is according to them. and theirs would be flawed according to us. This is the major thing in the theory of relativity. first we must get our perspective right.
the underlying concept being in the most simplistic terms, as an object moves faster, time is supposed to go slower.
Albert Einstein, came up with this new perspective and showed it to the world.He said that everything depends on the observer.
i could say that 2 events were simultaneous from where i stand(logic would tell me i am in the mid point of the distance between the 2 places where the events occurred) where as a person at the place where event -say - A occurs, would undoubtedly claim that EVENT A occurred first!
but are we wrong? or is one of us lying? it would be incorrect to say either. we are both correct in our judgments.

Time is not absolute, like so many before Einstein felt. time is relative. if in the same example of the 2 events, a rapidly moving particle were to observe this, it would find that the 2 events were separated by a HUGE gap in "ITS TIME".

I get this knowledge from a book called ' THE ABC of RELATIVITY- By Bertrand Russell"
the only absolute is the velocity of light. no matter who the observer, or where they are, or in what motion they are.
the book uses an example to show this. if i am on a crowded street, and i suddenly open a source of light waves that propagate in all directions...after the first second i would say that the light from my source is 186,000 miles away from me.
The fun part is...an observer who has his watch matched exactly with mine and would be about a at some distance away from me, would at the same instant say quite accurately that the same light was 186,000 miles away from him too!
thats the implication that when your moving as fast as light...time has different meanings all together.

no wonder they would think " we humans are crazy".

ps: the theory of relativity is something that is amazing and also something that i with my limited understand of this will be unable to explain to anyone. i provide my apologies if any of my analogies in the post are inaccurate and are irreconcilable with the ideas presented by Einstein.

Dont make it a big tissue

At the risk of being read as completely clichéd, i ask you, have you ever had an annoying cold when your nose kept flowing like one of those irritating tiny holes in the roof? have you ever eaten a meal with your bare hands and not found a single source of water to wash your hands with? Or when u really want to get that stain out of the glass, and you cant find a decent enough cloth to get a hold of, yet a cloth that qualifies as a rag to wipe it off?

i sound like a dubbed russian commercial yes, whats the point i am getting at?-> Tissues. tissues are a god send. its a substitute for so many things.to the aforementioned problems(albeit only a small glimpse into the wonderful uses of tissues) when u have a cold, u could blow into a handkerchief and then really keep folding it over and over till u find a spot un-smothered, OR...u could use a tissue for each use, and throw the damn thing out. thats the end of that problem. next time u want to blow, use another tissue that was as easily available as the previous one.
You need to wash your hands, and u cant find a wash basin, you certainly dont want to use a water bottle to rinse your hands in the grass. What comes to the rescue? a tissue! wipe your hands, and then keep the used tissue in a small 'throw away when u get home' bag. or find a waste paper basket and throw it in that.
easy huh?
tissues are easy and more clean solutions to water and cloth pieces. You could wipe the stain off the table and just throw the dashed thing out, without having to clean it over and over.
The most common claim is that Foreigners (to india) are the only people who use tissues. If you are an indian u will use water like everyone else. Thats not true.
the only case where i can agree that using water is better than using tissue paper is in the loo. thats mainly because our food is more with gravy and wet. their food is by and large dry food.
but in all other places that is fathomable to my mind, tissue surpass all other forms in terms of clean efficient disposal, or clean efficient usage.
you never have to worry about cleaning is over and over as you would do with a rag cloth, or handkerchief on a day of a real bad cold. you dont have to worry about finding appropriate sources of water to wash soiled hands.
Whats more is that you even get Cold Tissues, or scented tissues! the moment you feel hot u just whip out one of them cold tissues and wipe your face and hands...viola! you will begin to feel much better.
If all of that is not reason enough, picture this, you have your boss's family over for dinner, and his kid spills some drink on the table. you cant bring yourself to soil that absolutely new towel you bought, and the one cloth you usually use for wiping is over due on its cleaning schedules.
dont embarrass yourself-> use TISSUES!
PS: had i had a tissue brand to name, i would do i gladly, already this is like a commercial for them:)

Lin-ux perience

Its 2:16 in the morning, and i am sitting at my comp -most of my entires start of like this...i think i should find a new way to say it;

Tonight, my most recent want has been taken care of. i have been looking forward to using Linux for many years now, and when i got a comp of my own, i decided to give it a shot. So asked a friend(BOOTSTRAP BILL) to download Fedora 9 for me.
its a 3.38 Gigs file, and he had the means to do it in good time. Major thanks to him is on record here.
Before going any further i should tell u THIS IS NOT A GUIDE TO INSTALLING FEDORA.
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First after a mad search ,trying endlessly to figure out if my system architecture is i386 or i686 or x86_64, i figured mine was x86_64.
for those who are not sure,
Most systems are i386. that is if u are not using a MAC. a MAC or macintosh has an architecture called PowerPC, or PPC.
Intel Core2 Duo is an x86_64 architecture.
all those pentium 4, 3....etc are i386.

anyway, after having figured that out(i add that wikipedia is the source of all knowldge), i downloaded a torrent file.
a torrent file is used when we do not download directly but from a number of peers who are downloading the same file.

sat down to install it this evening, things weren't exactly how i wanted them to be, ran in to absurd errors that claimed that a corrupt file was downloaded. but all the same, stuff started rolling.
Now i did not know that linux uses 3 seperate partitions.
one is the 'root' the notation is '/' - that is the ROOT directory, where everything is supposed to begin.
it also needs something called a 'swap' partition. when frequently accessed files are present, they are placed in the swap partition. they say the larger the swap the better it is. and the third is '/boot' this is required to store the boot information. and well, the installation is good enough to do this for you, but what kind of a comp science student would i be if i didn't notice all this.

after the installation was done, as if i didn't run into enough problems during the installation, my Windows refused to boot. apparently, i had messed up my boot file.
soon enough i managed to fix that, and now can use both vista and Fedora properly.
Fedora is new to me, and as all new things are- novel to the mind, it is novel, and interesting.
I hope i can figure this out and manage to gain "Extensive knowledge and experience"
All the best to me!

Ugg...M sick of it

Today was wonderful. I feel sick. :( i know all of u know how lousy it is to fall sick, but i'll tell you my view on it anyway.they do say, share your sorrow, it'll become less--so here SHARE WITH ME;
To start things off, there's this nauseating feeling, associated with severe distention(thats what a balloon is when u fill it up)...how they co-exist within the same body i'll never figure out. you cant do much, all you really do is lie around going...uhhhh....m not feeling welllllll.....it gets u the attention just like the squeaking hinge.

you cant eat anything nice, but thats not that bad part, coz with the nausea u dont feel like eating, the whole though of food is full repulsive.If you have loose bowels then you are all set, make a dash for the closest available loo, and when u are out, and think u can finally rest that aching back, owing to the fatigue and lack of food intake, and u have to run back to that same available loo.

the nights are the worst...u keep twisting and turning in your bed, and then you're so groggy and u still want to visit your new favorite place in the world, so you are like a person far from sobriety reaching for the lights; and thats if u are lucky to have the time to reach for the lights. Otherwise u're just running hell for leather for the aforementioned place.

but given time and medication(fully supervised) things get better. m now feeling better though, therefore this post :D so its just a matter of time till u are able to recount to others the sorry and kinda disgusting tale to everyone else.


but sometimes some of these are just preludes to more major illnesses. we always hope that we are lucky enough not to be infected by any of those. i recall something my dad said to describe life and illness inducing germs. (i dont remember it verbatim, but its something along the lines of-)

"We walk on a path that is surrounded on both sides by virulent and dangerous bacteria and other illness causing agents, we are lucky if we get through without too many scratches"

i suppose falling sick is part of life as my mum put it, and the best way to deal with any of them is to laugh it away. they do say "Laughter is the best medicine". my sister helps me laugh whenever i am unwell :)

anyway...now i well. so i must get back to my books....I HAVE A FRIGGIN EXAM in 2 days!
i'll leave u with this thought:

"Those people who feel time heals everything, have not sat it out in the doctors waiting room"

-(i dont know who said this)

blogger

In the constant drive for writing blogs, i suppose i forget the whole aim. for a few days now i have been in search for ideas to post a blog. while realization dawns on me (always if u notice...realization dawns on one ...suggesting that before that they were in the dark) that i am writing for myself primarily. the others who read this are reading it for me.
Thank you to my readers.
Just done with my first exams, it was ok-ok. i wasnt ecstatic or anything, a run of the mill paper. i suppose had i studied some more answers i would have done better enough to be ecstatic.
but that approach strikes me as the worst kind of approach possible towards after exam reflection. If we did have a choice among how modes of after exams reflection...this would be the least productive. even in other spheres of life, regret is never something worth holding on to. learning from the past mistakes yes...but i dont think i gave my paper as bad as to have to go through it again.
4 more days for the next exam and i cant even pull myself to get off the net and start. this is the sem i wanted to do really well. i KNOW i am going to regret this kind of management of time where i pretend like i am a millionaire in time. I am sure its happened with you, *snigger* and then finally a dash to the finish line. dash it i say, time should be spent well, and when u must read u must read, when u must write u must infact, write.
i think i have reached what they popularly call a writers block, only it seems ludicrous to suggest i have that since i have hardly ever written much in my entire life. i suppose when u begin to write u begin to develop all the symptoms as well!
till next time, or till the block is removed--Adios Amigos

Catching up

I am sitting at my lappy, and i have nothing particular to do. keen on finding something to do...i begin hunting for sidebar applications. these are small apps that go on to something called the sidebar in windows vista( yea baby...VISTA!!! WOO HOO) .
searching for cool apps, since i am on the MSN site, i remember that i had a blog going there. that was when i was in the first sem or second sem.
now whenever i look back at myself i tend to believe that i was an ass! in a way its a good thing to have believed that we are better today than we were yesterday. i figured i just had a post or two, so i started reading. turned out i had more than a couple, at least five!! (may not seem much to you full time bloggers... jobless buggers) as i read through them the feeling of a distance from my past self crept in. i swear, i began to wonder when was the time i used to think like this.
its a satisfying feeling to be able to listen to yourself speaking your mind a few years back. the way i spoke about serious on going rallies(youth for equality) or young love.
i think the most amazing thing was when i read myself say,

"i am using blogs like a diary entry, i have never bothered to use a diary cause it involves writing, and that ...u guessed it, is a lot of work. so that even if no one reads this, i will atleast read it yrs from now, (cause i will still have nothing better to do then!) and thats going to be fun."

i find my current boredom ebb away, and make place for immense joy. its like i am traveling back in time, and i know now thanks to documented evidence how i used to think, how i used to function.
the feeling is rejuvenating.in all this i feel i should have stuck to blogging, at least i woulnt find myself now, not being able to express this joy and ecstatic sense. the name of the blog is idiosyncrasies ... thats exactly what i recall of my time then.

The Write of way?

its not everyday that people get epiphanies.Today isnt one of those special days either. i just decided to take up writing as a stronger hobby. when i say hobby, i mean to dedicate some time to this avocation, and when i say stronger i mean spend more time than i do now.

i like to write, i just dont dedicate myself to it. unlike many of my blog buddies, i dont find a lack of topics to write about. i can come up with simply wonderful or strange, depends on your state of mind when u read it, topics and then try to build on them. its just my laze that keeps me from writing.

hopefully with time i will get good at it, (or better...again depends on your state of mind when u read it) .
Wish me luck again!

Sleepless in bombay

Its 2 30 am and i feel a lil strange. i am not the kind who finds himself turning and twisting in bed, when all signs indicate that i should be fast asleep. that of course under the implication that one who turns and twists in bed, is not in fact fast asleep! what can i do now is the most popluar thought in circumstances such as this? i went through my mobile contacts...is there anyone i would like to call? finally after debating over who to call..., anyone who thinks the debate it self would be stimulus enough to bring sleep, hasnt really spent a night so completely distanced from sleep, i decide to just read my cells inbox. so thus...i start reading through 450 odd messages!

i always wanted to delete those messages, but a certain happiness filled me, that they were there, with happiness, some hope, that reading messages in the dark would be the soporific medium i was wishing for! like they say -it wasnt meant to be!

MUSIC!!! thats what will put me to sleep, nice soothing music. i got out of bed, and hunted for my iPod. made a playlist of the songs that i figured would be lullaby like. which they were, i assure you, the fact that i was still awake is no fault of the songs. they could put some who awake after a marathon sleep, into a doze. having failed in this attempt, my mind was figuring new ways to get sleep.i share with you a secret, thinking of new ideas to find sleep is not way to get sleep.

Fine...i said to my self...i have a viva tomorrow...i'll study for that! super idea that was...i decided, anyway i would be getting up early, better if i used my time well now and then i can get up late in the morning, which was inevitable. enthusiastically i tossed aside my blanket and turned on the lights and found my book. i opened it to the chapter, and found my self no different from what i do in the day! forgive me...i dont think there is word but i was nightdreaming. still thinking, if i could find sleep.

i tried, drinking water, going to the loo, (which remains unconnected with the drinking water part), turned on the comp, decided to blog. after writing some my account to a certain point in time, i lean back to stretch my arms, and think of a suitable way to end this. my dilemma i am sure you all will appreciate, how does one end a story about trying to get sleep, especially when he hasn't slept yet! thus i begin to find ways NOT, to sleep...BUT to relate how i slept.
within minutes i hear someone calling out to me!? Oo? at such a late hour?
it was 5 hours from the time i started this blog, i had dozed off in front of the laptop thinking of a way to sleep! well...atleast i managed to get sleep! (next time i'll just think about telling people how i slept ;)

Man Vs Woman!

I am sitting at home, and watching Star Movies.A movie called The Namesake is on. what the movie is about isnt really even close to what the central idea of this post is. the scene is where the son of the just deceased man is performing the final rites. it occurs to me that the son is always the one chosen to carry on the family legacy.
whether its the family name, or inheriting the family business. its always the son who must carry on the family's ....everything...even the last name.

what comes to me next is that thats NOT the way it was intended! if you actually take notice, God wanted it to be the LADY to take on the family legacy. Which sex is it who is given the power to give birth? who is the kid attached to naturally? i am sure you have heard....."its the hand that rocks the cradle that rules the world".


even for every mating season among animals(or man) the man spends the time attracting the female, and very rarely the other way around! so really the way of the world is for the females to be WAY WAY superior to man. she should carry on the family legacy! the current situation where the male takes on the legacy is all set up by the human man. ...i think we should just abscond, before the women figure it all out and overthrow us! :D

Woah!: Setting up a router (linksys WRH54G) to a modem

Woah!: Setting up a router to a modem

Setting up a router to a modem

I bought a wireless router from linksys yesterday, to connect my laptop and my desktop pc to the net. and i ran into quite a few problems(although setting up a router is supposed to be the easiest thing on the planet! )
so i blog this for anyone who wants help.....

basically its just another network device that connects your computer to the modem. i use a PPPoE connection, so what i am documenting is for that kind.
PPPoE means Point to Point Protocol over the Ethernet.

try all this only if u are sure u want to do it yourself, and dont want to get professional help.
we do the wired connection first. then any wireless connections.(u can use the wired connection as a wireless connection later if u like. )
before we start....make sure u have recorded the ip setting of your machine.
open command prompt (start->run->type cmd)
there type ipconfig/all
just copy all that u see exactly as you see it and save it as a notepad file. (you will have to type it down)
Run the Cd provided with the router, and things should start working.
If they dont.....Continue read, thats why you are here :D
many ISPs bind your computer with the modem, that is the modem will accept and send packets only with your computer.
that is because it recongnizes the address of your computer, not the IP address, but another kind, the PHYSICAL address, or MAC address. so either u call your ISP and tell them to bind the routers MAC address with the modem, or use a feature called MAC cloning.
this just makes the routers PHYSICAL address the one that was your machines. so that the modem still thinks that it is communicating with the computer to which it was bound.
to do this:
go to your browser and there put in the ip address of the router, most routers come with the default ip of 192.168.1.1
in the address line of the browser just type http://192.168.1.1
it should open a page that describes the setup of your router.
if it doesnt,
then check your LAN card (Ethernet card) settings.go to network connections, right click on LAN, goto TCP/IP and hit properties. there make sure the ip is obtained automatically.

set the DNS field to obtain automatically.
the page should open in your browser now.
if it the linksys router, then goto advanced setup, and there on the setup tab to MAC cloning.
now, in the fields provided enter the PHYSICAL address from the notepad file that u saved. it should be a 12 digit alphanumeric. and save the settings.

now go to the command prompt and do the ipconfig/all command again.
for your Ethernet Controller(LAN card) make sure the default gateway is 192.168.1.1

this means that for your computer the gateway to the internet is your router(with the address 192.168.1.1)
you do not have to change any other settings. just enter your User name and password correctly that u use to dial to the modem.
other problems that could hamper connection is that the comp and the router now have the same MAC address. common sense has it that that cant be....so we will manually change the MAC address of the computer.
read carefully if you have never done this before.
goto network connections. right click on your Ethernet controller card, (lan card),when the window opens, u will find a button with the name configure. hit that.
a new window opens, hit the advanced tab. there u will find network address, change that from not specified to value, and enter the MAC address u noted down, but with any one digit changed (the value must range only from 0 to 9, or A to F)and save it.
thats should help connecting.

after each step, it takes a while to identify the changes, so my advice to u is not to get impatient.
its not complicated, but if it goes wrong, u will have to change a lot of things.
anyway...after a lot of banging my head on the wall, (which i realize now is of no particular help) ITS WORKING. u can set your wireless connection after the wired connection. the wireless connection must obtain the IP automatically too.
i dont think i have missed anything, mostly if u did everything right, u wont have to dial at all after the router is set up. u should be all set to access the net.
All the best, i hope this helped u, many sites give a varied way of doing this. i hope this helps you out.

Setting up a linksys route(WRH54G)r to a modem

Woah!: Setting up a router to a modem

Setting up a router to a modem

I bought a wireless router from linksys yesterday, to connect my laptop and my desktop pc to the net. and i ran into quite a few problems(although setting up a router is supposed to be the easiest thing on the planet! )
so i blog this for anyone who wants help.....

basically its just another network device that connects your computer to the modem. i use a PPPoE connection, so what i am documenting is for that kind.
PPPoE means Point to Point Protocol over the Ethernet.

try all this only if u are sure u want to do it yourself, and dont want to get professional help.
we do the wired connection first. then any wireless connections.(u can use the wired connection as a wireless connection later if u like. )
before we start....make sure u have recorded the ip setting of your machine.
open command prompt (start->run->type cmd)
there type ipconfig/all
just copy all that u see exactly as you see it and save it as a notepad file. (you will have to type it down)
Run the Cd provided with the router, and things should start working.
If they dont.....Continue read, thats why you are here :D
many ISPs bind your computer with the modem, that is the modem will accept and send packets only with your computer.
that is because it recongnizes the address of your computer, not the IP address, but another kind, the PHYSICAL address, or MAC address. so either u call your ISP and tell them to bind the routers MAC address with the modem, or use a feature called MAC cloning.
this just makes the routers PHYSICAL address the one that was your machines. so that the modem still thinks that it is communicating with the computer to which it was bound.
to do this:
go to your browser and there put in the ip address of the router, most routers come with the default ip of 192.168.1.1
in the address line of the browser just type http://192.168.1.1
it should open a page that describes the setup of your router.
if it doesnt,
then check your LAN card (Ethernet card) settings.go to network connections, right click on LAN, goto TCP/IP and hit properties. there make sure the ip is obtained automatically.

set the DNS field to obtain automatically.
the page should open in your browser now.
if it the linksys router, then goto advanced setup, and there on the setup tab to MAC cloning.
now, in the fields provided enter the PHYSICAL address from the notepad file that u saved. it should be a 12 digit alphanumeric. and save the settings.

now go to the command prompt and do the ipconfig/all command again.
for your Ethernet Controller(LAN card) make sure the default gateway is 192.168.1.1

this means that for your computer the gateway to the internet is your router(with the address 192.168.1.1)
you do not have to change any other settings. just enter your User name and password correctly that u use to dial to the modem.
other problems that could hamper connection is that the comp and the router now have the same MAC address. common sense has it that that cant be....so we will manually change the MAC address of the computer.
read carefully if you have never done this before.
goto network connections. right click on your Ethernet controller card, (lan card),when the window opens, u will find a button with the name configure. hit that.
a new window opens, hit the advanced tab. there u will find network address, change that from not specified to value, and enter the MAC address u noted down, but with any one digit changed (the value must range only from 0 to 9, or A to F)and save it.
thats should help connecting.

after each step, it takes a while to identify the changes, so my advice to u is not to get impatient.
its not complicated, but if it goes wrong, u will have to change a lot of things.
anyway...after a lot of banging my head on the wall, (which i realize now is of no particular help) ITS WORKING. u can set your wireless connection after the wired connection. the wireless connection must obtain the IP automatically too.
i dont think i have missed anything, mostly if u did everything right, u wont have to dial at all after the router is set up. u should be all set to access the net.
All the best, i hope this helped u, many sites give a varied way of doing this. i hope this helps you out.

Ho Ho Ho!

"Jingle bells,Jingle bells,jingle all the way...oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh..."

ah, the songs of merryment, and joy. The children sleep on chirstmas eve with expectations of a jolly elderly man coming down the chimney, and giving them gifts!
the joy of recieving those gifts, and opening a beautifully wraped present, is what we see on the childs face.
Singing songs that bring cheer to everyone, spending time with family, laughing, playing games, eating together, bringing back the life from the day to day mundane existence. What a feeling!!

in all this...when do i make a reference to any religion? these songs and ideas are now merely a symbol of happiness.

for example:

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Oh! You better watch out,
You better not cry,
You better not pout,
I'm telling you why:

Santa Claus is coming to town!

He's making a list,
He's checking it twice,
He's gonna find out
who's naughty or nice.

Santa Claus is coming to town!

(http://www.christmas-carols.net/carols/santa-claus-coming-town.html)

image from(www.wikipedia.org)

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Its got a nice beat to it, its catchy, and its telling kids something nice. why put a label of religion on it? I'm not chirstian, so what? i like the idea of a grey haired old man, who makes children happy!
Santa is so much of a "global figure"(considering his size and where he lives! :P), and hey, he seems like a fun guy.
look at him, he looks like he loves kids, and that kids would love him instantly. Children deserve all the fun they can get. Childhood never comes twice, and they should spend it laughing, dancing playing, (yea...lets be honest...learning too). Happy childhood, ensures they will live happy lives.
Its all about a fantasy, and kids love fantasies..fairy god mothers, large giants, small friendly birds, and now the newer flying brooms, wizardry.
So what if this one fella has something to do with a saint. (saint nicolas)

So its decided santa is fun...and kids should be told about him, and allowed to bask in this big bellied tank of happiness. heres hoping that all kids can enjoy the spirit of christmas, and partake in the cheer and happiness santa brings.

Sing carols, spend time with your family, eat good food, and be happy....coz "Santa Claus is coming to town....."

Heres a song thats nice to hear, if u get a chance to hear it...do so, its by Jim Reeves:
The Merry chirstmas polka

This is Christmas season so there isn't any reason we can't dance the Christmas polka
Hear sleighbells ringing everybody's singing dancing the Christmas polka
Christmas trees and holly make everyone so jolly and love just fills the air
It's a wonderful world for a boy and a girl while dancing the Christmas polka

The merry Christmas polka let's dance let's dance let's dance
Everyone's so happy the air is filled with romance
Watch the sweethearts kissing as they dance neath the mistletoe
It's a sight to behold for the young and the old the merry Christmas polka

This is Christmas season...


MERRY CHIRSTMAS TO ALL, and TO ALL A GOOD NIGHT!

Education and the masses

I was watching a movie called Swadesh again, it talks about a young man who returns to a village in India, from the comfortable life in the United States, and upon return, sees the pitiable condition of this counrty.

Now, I have always wanted to leave here, and go abroad, and many of my friends, after watching that movie, taunted me about it. But, what are those who stay here going to do?

What is our purpose? Do we have one? We study to become engineers, businessmen, lawyers, we form the layers in society, and help build a beautiful cake. What about those places where society is a fable. Unheard, unseen, and not understood. We worry about an exam that is two weeks ahead, or the car running out of gas, but there ar people who can do NOTHING, but worry about a square meal.
We(as families) live with the comfort of not worrying about where our next meal is going to come from, therefore we dont understand what a life it would be, when the thought, of a eating a dry chappati means eating a morsel too much.
I know people who talk about education as if its our job. We attend classes, colleges, various institutes of supposed learning, to do what? move on with our lives. Then what am i doing different? I just choose to do it in a different place. Just life people move from Infosys in Bombay to Infosys in Banglore.
Who can really USE this educated state of mind? We learn things , applications of the mind, and we do what? work our ass off so that at the end of the day, WE get to live a comfortable life.
but arent we as human beings supposed to help each other??
Why not try to help those who need what we have? There are children out there, who dont know abc, dont know numbers, are so ignorant that no civilized world would accept them.

What good use is our knowledge of the abc's and the tables if we cant help others who dont have access to it, to understand use the power that it holds. for if it wasnt for numbers, we would never have had computers.

I just gave my Electrical networks paper a few days back, now what can i do with what i have learnt? NOTHING...absolutely NOTHING. but if i were to teach a village boy, how to handle current, and voltages, what the best way to connect lights and fans are, what the concept of wattage was, about storage batteries. THEN, he has gained immensly. he can now do his best to get more power out of what little electricity he gets.

Another example, if those people knew, how to treat minor ailments. it would help. they wont have to worry each time the youngest gets a bout of diarrhea. they'll know what to do.

if someone knew how to work the finances, we would be able to set up funds, we would be able to help those who need it most.
i hope u are getting my drift.

The very foundations of our society was build by educated minds, that were tuned to help the other man, not for his/her own needs. and a fact remains that the way we learn today, cant help anyone ever. we are growing into a worthless breed of spawns, that can do no service to humanity, and can only think of themselves.

Education wasnt about gettin money and big jobs, it was so that, life would be easier for all of mankind. not just for one of us.

Doing the right thing

"I have come to the crossroads in my life, ..and I always knew the right path, but I never took it, Why? Cause it was too damn hard..."
-Colonel Slade(Scent Of a Woman(1992))

Isnt that so true for so many of us. Anything that is right, but is uncomfortable is never done. we have some how lost our sense of right and wrong in a world where everything is done to play it safe. An office stamps on a little guy, we call it bureaucracy bitch about it a little, and then continue to roll in the mud we fell in. some just get out of it, and walk away to let others fall in.

Who has the guts to stand up and question it? Maybe they would if they didnt stand to lose. We fear a backlash. It would displease the people in question and they would make life difficult for us. People who are that worried deserve no better.

If we ever feel that we are being wronged, we must by all means ask, for if we never ask, we will never know. and then find a solution for that, instead of throwing up your hands and saying, thats how the system is. why is it that when ever it is a matter of asking a superior for what is rightfully yours to know, we shy away. we look fr 1000 reasons not to ask, and just say leave it.

Large scale examples? Iraq war, the UN did nothing. small scale? The office charges you with unaccountable fees, we dont say a word.

i clearly remember a time when we were charged soemthing called "breakage" fees, not one person asked to know what it was that was broken. was it so difficult? its not right charging it, we know that, but then who wants to have issues with the office?

Despite this trend being so popular with todays youth, we expect a change in our nation. i dont think that will ever come, the idea of taking the right path probably didnt come with Gandhi, but it sure as hell died with him. Because we dont have the guts, we dont have the courage to say- "I know i am right, and i am willing to face the consequences" . thats what beats the system, and to know that u did the right thing despite what people might say, it feels too damn good.