Pranks 2.0

I just came across a very sophisticated pranks local teens have been playing over who they believed have done them some wrong..

The Sentinel says "Students from Richard Montgomery High School dubbed the prank the Speed Camera "Pimping" game, according to a parent of a student enrolled at one of the high schools.

Originating from Wootton High School, the parent said, students duplicate the license plates by printing plate numbers on glossy photo paper, using fonts from certain websites that "mimic" those on Maryland license plates. They tape the duplicate plate over the existing plate on the back of their car and purposefully speed through a speed camera, the parent said. The victim then receives a citation in the mail days later.

Students are even obtaining vehicles from their friends that are similar or identical to the make and model of the car owned by the targeted victim, according to the parent."

The pranks we used to play when we were kids i guess were nothing in front of what this guys are doing.

TIME FLIES

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Hibernation Mode

Having been in forced Hibernation its takes a quite a bit to resume bogging ..the thing with blogging with me is that moi has never made that necessary push to write things...Anyways before i return back to hibernation mode ..my longest dream i always had, has been achieved to do masters in America .But the view from here once you achieve your dream is not of satisfaction .."Yeh Dil MAANGE MORE"..Looking forward to achieve my next grand dream..again its break between quarters need to utilize my time in the best way i can....thinking of giving time to gtk+ programming and networks and my Achilles heels (Algorithms).

My thoughts go to Heroes who lost their lives on 26/11.

Netvibes Down .....WTF

Netvibes is down ....what the heck its my lifeline on the internet ......

A perspective Graduate Student's Dilemma

Its been four months since i got the admit to RIT for MSCS with specialization in distributed systems..I know its a good university with a very good Computer science dept .I know im trying to justify myself but i think its a good grad school.But im still waiting for USC and usc is damn good school with a very good research in Wireless Mesh Networks/Ad Hoc Networks /Wireless Sensor Networks but Masters student dont get to do research at USC unless you are a prodigy which im not .While @ RIT it may simply be possible becuase some of the professors are doing some research in it.

The dilemma that im in is i dont know what i want to be ...I mean i have be playing around with computers when i was in Fifth grade and hence only logical field for me in undergraduate was computer science .But my kind of computer science /programming is more of a open source kind of thing where you do what you want to do and the language in which you want to do in the company you work ,which probably wont be possible unless i become extraordinary in programming ( i can do it but will take time ).. But the ultimate AIM if its going to be to make money than i think im pretty good @ Finance and i think ill be good @ Investment banking .MBA than is a logical choice ...But than Masters is needed too my stint at Intel proved it ...And maybe i wanna do research too because kind of shitty work you get to do at the so called top companies in india is well know which i dont want to do... Asked my dad whether i need to be in IT ...he says A BIG NO ...SAYS YOU NEED TO BE IN MARKETING......more confusion prevails ...and the wait for usc is getting on my nerves ...

why cant those lazy bozos just wake up and give me a reject if they have too... ill be happy with that ill go with RIT and make my plans firm ...else if they give admit at the last moment ....ill die of the fact that i had a chance to go to USC and dint go there especially california ... i know some ppl call usc not worth while say its too expensive .... best i can say is they have forgotten to do their MATH ...and are just spitting out the words said by someone else without doing their Homework ...LET ME BE EXPLICIT HERE IF YOU CANNOT DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK YOU DONT DESERVE TO BE A MASTERS STUDENT......

BumbleeBee

Hardy Heron is Out........Party Begins

On 25tH April Canonical released Ubuntu/kubuntu/xubuntu 8.04 LTS to the world ..it is probably the most anticipated Linux distro for a while with number of enhancements

• Gnome 2.22
• KDE 4.00 In Kubuntu
• The wubi installer which i probably i consider the most important tool to take linux to the masses .Wubi allows you to install linux within windows without worrying about the working of the installer and stuff.
• Enhanced photo experience: The enhanced default photo manager, F-Spot, together with improved camera and phone recognition means users can upload, tag, manage, display, delete, print and share photos with friends and family more easily.
• Slick desktop: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS combines the latest GNOME applications with desktop visual effects, giving users a smoother, better-looking and more intuitive experience.
• Longer support: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is supported with security updates and maintenance for three years so corporate and individual users have a longer upgrade planning cycle. Those who want the newest applications will be able to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.10, due in October 2008, those who prefer longer deployment cycles can stay with Ubuntu 8.04 for three years before moving to the next LTS release.

Pricing and Availability

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Desktop Edition is free of charge and available from 25th April from http://www.ubuntu.com/download.

Try it out its cool........

Apart from that im waiting for the Ubuntu ultimate edition 1.8 which is based on Ubuntu 8.04

I always believed that ubuntu ultimate is the operating system to be recommended if someone wants to try out linux .The feature list is simply fascinating and huge ,below is just the sample of it apart from the features that you get in the original ubuntu 8.04.

• Its a dvd Distro containing Gnome as well as Kde
• BUM,SUM,Anjuta
  
• Glest
• Alien Arena 2007
• Bos Wars
• RTCW - Enemy Territory
• Action Cube
• Scourge
• Warzone 2100
• Inkscape
• Google Earth
  
• Google Picasa
• And Lots more
  

If you want to try it out head to http://ultimateedition.info/ and download ultimate 1.7 DVD

Shantaram.....Is it for real...

I Just Finished Reading Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts and found it to be one of the best pseudo-fiction( a cross between fiction and non-fiction ,a word penned by me) novel, i have read in a long long time ... The way the author has introduced some of the characters has completely bowled me over ...esp Karla and Modena and the way the author has described some of the scenes especially when lisa betrays Modena and when khader khan is killed in the mountains of the war ravaged Afghanistan made me feel guilty in a way as if i was the person who had actually carried out the act.The story is quite fast paced and you dont feel bored considering the size of the book which is quite huge considering the 900 odd pages in it.But at few places it does seem to drag especially when lindsay or Lin goes to jail in india .Hope that Mira nair does justice to that scene ,Infact the author himself is the scriptwriter for the movie,In an interview he said that the book is an excellent script for a movie because he visualised it as if he was writing it for a movie ,no wonder when you are reading it you do feel you are a kind of third person watching the whole thing from above the way you have spectator camera in doom or Counter strike.

The author has done an amazing introspection on life and has written a number of pearls of wisom to say that one can easily relate to.

"Every human heartbeat, he’d said many times, is a universe of possibilities. And it seemed to me that I finally understood exactly what he’d meant. He’d been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I’d always thought that fate was something unchangeable: fixed for every one of us at birth, and as constant as the circuit of stars. But I suddenly realised that life is stranger and more beautiful than that. The truth is that no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter now good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love ".

"when we fall in love with someone our greatest fear is that they wont love us back,what we should fear instead is that we wont stop loving them.. “

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart
that only loneliness can help u find them again.”

“sometimes we love with nothing more than hope.
Sometimes we cry with everything except tears”

"Happiness is a myth, which was invented to make us buy things".

Some of the characters i felt were quite unneccesary esp Johhny cigar (others may disagree with it but i felt it was unneccesary).Without going much deeper into the story line i would say whoever has read Maximum city by Suketu Mehta wil love this book.....

I hope Mira Nair does Justice to the book ,and hope Big B can live upto his character in the movie.

A Link To the Authors website
Link To the Forum
Movie Link.

Hello Blogger

Well I just migrated from wordpress to blogger and this where ill be posting my ramblings hence forward..... welcome to my new Blog....