Dell XPS M1330 configured by me...

SYSTEM COLOR Tuxedo Black

PROCESSOR Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T6600 (2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)

OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition SP1

WARRANTY AND SERVICE 1Yr Ltd Hardware Warranty, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis

LCD AND CAMERA Standard Display with 2.0 Megapixel Webcam

MEMORY 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz

HARD DRIVE Speed: 250GB 7200rpm SATA Hard Drive Free Fall Sensor

INTERNAL OPTICAL DRIVE CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)

VIDEO CARD 128MB NVIDIA® GeForce™ 8400M GS

WIRELESS CARDS Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-card

BLUETOOTH Built-in Bluetooth capability (2.0 EDR)

BATTERY OPTIONS 56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)

SOUND OPTIONS Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition

ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter 15-months

OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft Works

REMOTE ACCESS Dell Remote Access, free basic service

ENVIRONMENTAL OPTIONS Recycling Kit and Plant a Tree for Me

FINGERPRINT SCANNER Biometric Fingerprint Reader 

This is one of those configurations that I made for myself out of a Dell XPS M1330. This is more than enough for me as of now. Just thought to share with you. This would cost me around $1100 but guys believe me this is worth it. And if you had a chance to configure your system from Dell don't forget to add the Recycling kit and Plant a Tree for Me option, just do your part in protecting the nature and it is free...

Delhi - 6 review ...

When you see the title of this movie, the director, the music director and especially the ads you expect a lot from the movie. But the movie Delhi 6 has failed to reach the expectations on it. But it holds some good ground when it comes to the basic idea. 

The director Rakeysh .... Mehra was able to extract some good action from the lead pair as well as from other actors. The visuals were good when it comes to the interiors of Delhi but there wasn't much exposure to the virtual Delhi(I used 'virtual' here because, everybody feels that real Delhi is in the slums and poverty). Almost all the actors have done justice to their roles and nobody went overboard. 

Things I liked::

• Abhishek's character as a confused NRI born to a hindu father and muslim mother.
• Atul Kulkarni's soft character.
• Strong diggs at the religious blindness and stupidity of the morons in the society around us.
• Definitely the tunes from Mr. Rahman.
• Sonam Kapoor was pretty good as the old city girl with high aspirations.
• "Dilgira" song has some cool graphics and it was really a colorful song.
• The Kala bhandar concept was definitely a innovative thing.

Things I ......, you know me::

• First of all the placement of songs, this really irritated not just me but everyone in the theatre. I don't know what the hell was the director thinking. It wasn't any freakish mujra damn it.
• The reason why Abhishek wants to stay back in India wasn't justified to the fullest.
• The narration of the story was a bit slow.
• The Ramleela episode was a prolonged one which some times freaks you out.
• The climax was good but didn't by any means helped the movie.
• The first half was a bit slow with all those introductions of different characters.
• Rahman's music was wasted big time. It was for the music otherwise the movie would have fallen flat on it's face.

Finally the movie is definitely not a must watch. You can skip the movie in theatres but can relish the music after the dvd hits the stands. One thing everyone who watched the movie quoted was

Idea is good but execution bad...

UCLA professor searching for Obama...

A University of California professor located in LA has done what the American intelligence and federal agencies funded in Billions couldn't accomplish in 9 long years. He has zeroed in on the location of the dreaded terrorist Osama Bin Laden. He has used his skill in geography coupled with some other technologies and a lot of common sense to find the hide out of Laden.

He has come to a conclusion that Laden must be in one of the three houses that he has cornered on. The present location that he is pointing to, is in the rural areas of Pakistan, the town of Parachinar which is very close to the Afghan border but still the Pakistani Government denies these charges...

Hope Mr. Obama catches Osama as soon as possible which will become a blow in the arm for the terrorists...

Leaked pics of Rajni's ROBO...

These are the latest pics that have been leaked to the net from the upcoming movie of RajaniKanth, a south Indian superstar. It is rumoured that Rajni is playing the role of a robot in this movie and it is going to be the costliest movie ever made on Indian screen.

Oscar Winners leaked...

There is this list of Oscar winners that is said to be leaked over the internet. This list is somewhat close to the general predictions but the question here is, whether the list is genuine. You have to wait till the Oscar's night to cross check the list.

One sad thing for me in this list is that it doesn't predict my fav musician A.R.Rahman. I am waiting with my eyes wide open, ears pointed outwards and hands stretched to the fullest just to know that Rahman has won an Oscar. I would be really disappointed if he doesn't win the Oscar. This may not be his best composition till date but still he deserves this prestigious award.

Here goes the list of winners::

Actor in a leading role: Mickey Rourke
Actor in a supporting role: Heath Ledger
Actress in a leading role: Kate Winslet
Actress in a supporting role: Amy Adams
Animated Feature Film: Wall-E
Art Direction: The Dark Knight
Cinematography: Slumdog Millionaire
Costume Design: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Directing: Slumdog Millionaire
Documentary feature: Man on Wire
Documentary short: The Conscience of Nhem En
Film editing: Milk
Foreign language film: Departures
Makeup: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Music (Score): Defiance
Music (Song): Down to Earth (Wall-E)
Best Picture: Slumdog Millionaire
Short film (animated): Presto
Short film (live action): Auf Der Strecke (On The Line)
Sound editing: Wall-E
Sound mixing: The Dark Knight
Visual effects: Iron Man
Writing (Adapted screenplay): The Reader
Writing (Original screenplay): In Bruges

One of the doubts that I sensed is that they did not mention the director's name in place of the award for the best director, instead they mentioned the movie.

Single Google Query uses 1000 Machines...

Some spokesperson from Google has recently revealed that a single query that we make in Google uses about 1000 machines, which by any means might be one of the large numbers. Considering the fact that the work it does is pretty little, I guess this might be a huge huge number of machines in usage.

Source::Labnol

My latest desktop...

The wallpaper is downloaded from interfacelift, a wallpaper hosting site and the calendar that you see at the bottom right is a new calendar from rainlendar. The calendar has got some cool todo lists and you can set alarms as well.

Don't talk loudly, Don't live at all...

This is the news I read today regarding Indian students in Australia. The police in Australia have decided to teach some manners to Indian students studying in Australia. What??????

It is a known fact world wide that we Indians are the well mannered, respectful, highly praised people world wide. And now the Australians think we don't know manners and they think we should learn manners from them where 'racism' is the norm of the day. 

They feel that talking loudly in once own language is bad manners. I dispute a lot with this statement. The Indian students are talking freely without any restrictions but they are not rude to anyone out there. We Indians, just do our job and never interfere in other's work but still we are targetted every other day. This trend has to change or else the world has to bare the brunt of.....

Source::Here

Man drinks, falls on rails, becomes Millionaire...

This is the story of a NewYork drunkard, Dustin Dibble, age 25. Why am I calling him a drunkard. Just because of jealousy. One night he drank, lost consiousness, fell in front of a subway train, got his leg severed and now he gets a compensation of $2.33 million from the MTA which makes him a millionaire. This is the story of sheer luck in disguise. 

If I were offered such amount, I would have jumped from the leaning tower of Pisa. But this is injustice on the part of the attorney, who ruled the case in favor of the drunkard. I felt the reason was funny. It says that since the driver of the train didn't stop the train before hitting Mr. Dustin even though he had time, the judgement goes in Dustin's favor. But come on who expects a living being to sit on the rails in the night unless he wants to commit suicide, or something else like that...

Source::CNN

Laptop buying guide for the novice...

Makeuseof website has published a laptop buying guide for 2009. This has come as a refreshing thing from this site which is more fun loving than any other tech site. It was more like telling the novice what to look in for a laptop before buying it. 

They have not taken any one side when it comes to Mac or Windows. They have shown that there is not much selection when it comes to Mac but you can find a lot of offers when it comes to Windows is what they say...

You can download the PDF version of this guide HERE...

My go at NASCAR for PS3...

Yesterday, I played this game called NASCAR on PlayStation 3. This is my first stint with the PS3, yes I sound wierd but true, this is my first time. And the game I played wasn't that great a game. This was the feeling that I had after I played it for twice or thrice. But when I read about the championships and the "chase" mode in this game I felt that it is not so bad either. 

There are a lot more things to explore in this game like the drivers, tracks, and most importantly the rubbing of the cars. I felt the best part was that a small mistake could send you from the front of the race to the end position in the race. The feel of the joystick wasn't that great for me. May be my hands weren't meant for this kind of a joystick. But still there must be a few out there who feel the same way as I do...

For a complete review of this game Click Here

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Creative Obama...

Source:: Eenadu

Jaalimudi Air Water Project

Jaalimudi is an age old village which has been suffering from drinking water problems from ages. At last they have got something to talk about err drink about, not just by the local media but international media as well. An innovative company air-water corporation of Miami Beach Florida have built an air-water machine which helps in providing clean pottable water for the local villagers. 

Thanks to this technology, the local villagers have been able to get some drinking water. Otherwise they would have to walk for hours just for fetching a pot of water which by any means isn't fair. I hope this technology would spread to other villages and under previlaged areas where some pure drinking water is a dire necessity.

In this new technology, moisture from the air is collected as water into some tanks by the air-water machine and from there it is supplied to the villagers through taps. This technology is supposed to produce around 800 to 1000 lts of water everyday.

Adobe, Are you listening???

There is this weird problem that I faced this evening with Adobe Flash Player. It wouldn't let me reinstall it. I tried every other means I know but with no victory. Then finally I googled it and after 3 hours of rigorous search I found the reason. This is one funny reason which I even reported to Adobe.

The flash player doesn't install in your system if the root directory isn't named as "C:". I was like what the cr**!!! My root directory was an F: which meant I can't install flash player. 

My USB stick came up as the savior. When I mounted it on my laptop it came up as the "C:" drive and the problem is solved but don't you think this is stupid...

Satellite debris or some fireball...

Today morning the people of Texas were in for a surprise when some of them witnessed the fall of a fireball like thing from the sky. There is no confirmed report whether it is the debris from the satellites that collided recently or any interterrestrial object that entered earth's atmosphere but that thing has created a furor in the cowboy state.

Source:: CNN