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Some Hacks..

Some intresting tricks which i found recently:-

1)this trick allows you to create anonymous folders.
for this trick to work use the num-lock numbers ie. numbers given on the right hand side of your keyboard.
first,create a new folder on the desktop.
now click rename.
then press alt + 0160
done.

2)this trick will help you to increase the speed of your internet connection.
do the following steps:-
i)go ---run----gpedit.msc
ii)Then go to:Local Computer Policy
then Computer Configurationthen Administrative Templates
then Network
then QOS Packet Scheduler and
then to Limit Reservable Bandwidth.
the properties will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the 'Explain' tab i.e."By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."
So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.It works on Win 2000 as well.

3)here's a gmail server update:-
the gmail server fails to recognise (.)-dots . so whats the use, well the thing is if your e-mail i.d. is ank3it@gmail.com then a.n.k.3.i.t@gmail.com is also valid. so if you compose a mail and send it to a.n.k.3.i.t@gmail.com or a.n.k3it@gmail.com or ank.3.it@gmail.com then the same person will receive it. however this type of recognition is invalid on the login page.


i found this blog- it will help the quizzer's
http://visual-facts.blogspot.com/
specially the photo's,they are good.

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Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos


As all of you should know, I - that is to say, Aragorn - am a WC fan. I may not be VERY good but I am getting there. I play orc and am working on diversifying into playing humans. I am not on Battle.net as yet ( got no net speed to boast of) but I am trying to get a good enough proxy that will let me play there.

Point is, I just wanted to show (off to) you two of my recent games played on a pre-patch version of WC3: RoC.

One is a 3v2 on Ice Crown with all players being organic, living, breathing, bipedal beings (as separate from being "human" ) ,with me on the handicapped side. Take care to note how I use my heroes and level them quicker than most, although it turns out that I lose the game in the bitter end thanks to a lousy human partner who gets to a point around 10 minutes after he's been called, when the battle-fires are doused and the towers mended.

The other is a 4v2, also on Ice Crown, with the team of 4 being "organic" and the team of 2 being comps (note that my version did not have easy/moderate/hard grading for comp players and they were on hard by default). The comps levelled their heroes much quicker than us owing to the openness of the map and the fact that we were much more crowded together than them, but here superior teamwork and continual and consistent attacks on our part did them in in around an hour.

In both games, note the choice of units of the leading players - it shows a particular bias towards certain combinations of heroes and units that tends to work well more often than not.


Here is to WC and World of Warcraft!!! (I hope to start on that soon, you know - I am Nazgrel, the Far Seer)

PS: I found these really cool places for more replays...
www.replayers.com
www.wcreplays.com

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Series Launch Notification

If Arkantos has come up with Tartarus, how can I be far behind? To keep him company I am starting my own quiz series on my personal blog. Check it out!

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If you thought DTC was crowded..


this thingy is worse than DTC!

Having sulked for two years while travelling in the DTC.. I thought there was no better way to ruin your day than to travel on a DTC bus (number 392, especially). But as luck would have it, I had my chance of travelling on the ill-famed Mumbai local train.

The train was jam-packed and some dare-hearts were swinging from the pole at the door.. may be they wanted to display their pole-dancing skills :p!

The duration of travel was three hours! Imagine travelling from Rohini to Greater Noida.. it was worse..

Anyways I learned loads of skills. The skill to kick my way into the coach to resisting ten varities of body odours for three continuous hours.

But that's the way life is..

 
 

Tartarus 1.0


Tartarus is a quiz/trivia aimed to crack ur skull into two (to put it in simple words)


I will put forth some questions (general knowledge) and challenge u to answer them....( to put it in simpler words)


Be honest to urselves. Do not go googling ur way upto anything and everything. Some questions are easy and some are relatively difficult. This may boost ur analytical skills and general knowledge. Remeber that every line itself is a clue. So read the questions carefully and work out ur answer. Post ur answers as comments. There are hints to every question at the bottom of the page. (for the weak hearted ). Do not search the net for the answers..........if u do....tu may find tartarus or worse.....tartarus may find u.......(to put it in simplest terms)




Q.1) The phrase A has been used as a metasyntactic variable by hackers and as a marker in program sources for known-incorrect or incomplete code.

The A Awards are presented annually to notable works of interactive fiction.

A is also a cheat for some versions of the Microsoft game Minesweeper

A is used to enable cheats in Road Rash.


A is the default password for Apple Computer's Network Assistant. It was also the name of a user interface (client) on the VMS operating system for the EARN/BITNET Relay chat system (the forerunner of IRC). On Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-11/44 processor, the full (but undocumented) form of the console processor's "X" command is A

On Data General's AOS/VS operating system if you type in the command A you would get back the response "Nothing Happens". On AOS/VS II it returns "Twice as much happens".

The phrase A is now internatonally identified with the computer hacker/geek......one who loves plaing dungeons and dragons............

What is the word A ?



Q.2)Arthur Wynne (1862 - 1945), born Liverpool, England, was a British editor and puzzle constructor in his home country and the United States of America. He invented something famous in 1913.


He worked for the New York World, then one day was asked to invent a new game for the paper. Wynne thought of a game he had played in his childhood called Magic Squares, and soon came up with this, which was first issued in the December 21st, 1913 issue of the World. What did he invent.

Q.3) The motto of the international organization X is In varietate Concordia. Established under the Maastricht Treaty, X’s official anthem was composed by Ludwig van Beethoven. X is estimated to have an annual GDP of 13.4 trillion USD.. If X were to be considered as a separate country it would rank first in the GDP rankings and 22nd on the HDI.
What is X?





Q.4) ‘X’is a very famous work(s) of fiction written by Y. X first appeared in the Le Vingtième Siècle and after that it became a huge success. Released at the time of the Bolshevik uprising in Russia, the Second World War, X ’s plot(s) straddles a variety of genres: swashbuckling adventures with elements of fantasy; mysteries; political thrillers; and science fiction, engulfed in political satire and slapstick humor.


Although Y was believed to be the next charles dickens as his characters were as good as those of dickens, he/she had been criticized for the dirty portrayal of the Africans.


One of the major characters of X, Archibald(one of protagonist’s best friend) owns the Moulinsart Mansion, always favours the Loch Lomond brand of whisky, and is popularly associated with phrases like “troglodytes", "bashi-bazouk", "kleptomaniac", "anacoluthon", and "pockmark".


The other famous characters include Professeur Tryphon Tournesol, Dupont et Dupondand and Milou.


In music, X has been the inspiration to a number of bands and musicians. Stephen Duffy, a former member of Duran Duran, performed the minor hit single "Kiss Me" under the name X; he had to drop the name under pressure of a copyright infringement suit. The protagonist (on whose name the work is based)appeard in the national postage stamp of one country in 1979, in another country in 1999 and in another country in 2002.


On June 1, 2006, the Dalai Lama bestowed the International Campaign for Tibet's Light of Truth award upon the character of X, along with South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The famous president Charles de Gaulle once said "My only international rival is X”.


Name X and Y.







Hint for Q.1) A is taught by math teachers the world around as a mnemonic device to remember how to do cross products. If A = BC, where A, B, and C are the vectors (Ax, Ay, Az),(Bx, By, Bz) and (Cx, Cy, Cz), then: Notice that the second and third equations can be obtained from the first by simply rotating the subscripts, x -> y -> z -> x. The problem, of course, is how to remember the first equation…….


Hint for Q.2) Go and chk out ur newspaper.......


Hint for Q.3) The number 12 has something to do with X ’s flag.....


Hint for Q.4) The author's original name is Georges Remi.....he is a Belgian....

 
 

Here and Back again

The (few) days of pure and unadulterated inaction, lethargy, partial enjoyment and partial boredom are over.....i'm back at thapar to start the new semester. Feelin a bit homesick.....but hope to recover soon.....Guess what... i got 10 CGPA....(Puneet is also a tenner...undoubtedly)......Bad news : LAN's not working.....so we have to spend our time watching movies. Just watched Kill Bill vol I and II back to back. Well, i gotta say its da weirdest movie i have ever seen(perhaps second only to Lemony Snickett's Series of most unfortunate events)the movie has action, drama, romance and even animation. The only thing i liked abt the movie was the stunning music. I think that gotta be the best soundtrack of any movie ever made......

We got very pathetic and boring subjects this time around(except C programming i suppose...).....Solid mechanics...Engineering Graphics..(content too graphic coz it was engineered in hell!!!!)

My luck with warcraft isn't that good. I burned a CD last time around from my place and brought it here...it didn't work....again tried it....CD refused to respond. Got a CD from a guy in hostel.....no crack available......mota goes to the cyber cafe to copy the crack....and he copies an empty folder into the pen drive....!!!!!!!!!

Talking about warcraft....Aragorn...weren't u supposed to upload some recorded games....?

Just to pass my time and urs... i thought of uploading a weekly trivia/quiz.....some of u who consider themselves good quizzers may attempt to find the answers........

Be prepared to get slaughtered in Arabia on the 26th day of the month of janus......and there's another thing....

REMEMBER TO LAUNCH AN ATTACK on spitachu............coz a lot of PUBLICITY is at stake!!!!

 
 

BOINC!


Whadda ya know? You can use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research! All you have to do is to quit playing World of Warcraft for a sec, and Alt+Tab it to download BOINC - an open source software for distributed computing that uses the net. BOINC is an initiative of University of California, Berkeley that allows you to volunteer to allot your idle computing power to major scientific initiatives that may (or may not) change the future of mankind.

UC,Berkeley itself uses the platform to let people run SETI@home, which searches for evidence of radio communication by extraterrestrial beings using data collected by the Arecibo radio telescope. Read more at http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/.



Rosetta@home, an initiative of Howard Hughes Medical Institute at University of Washington, uses BOINC to aid research concerning the 3D shape of proteins, which would help in designing new proteins to fight diseases such as HIV, Malaria, Cancer, and Alzheimer's. The project site is http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/.
These are only two of a huge number of things you can get into with BOINC.

BOINC is available as a free download at the BOINC site http://boinc.berkeley.edu/download.php With a size of 9.3 MB, it is a neat little package considering the variety of nice stuff you can put it to. Cool stuff, give it a thought.

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