We ain't no Picasso

Well off late i have been coming to know the true meaning of life, love, survival. Things seem fine like a walk under the chilly moonlight when you were little still trying to wonder the meaning of life, thinking why is the moon and the stars so far away?, what is it that you find at the Horizon?. Funny isn't it how life can turn the air around you. I name this post of mine " We ain't no picasso", coz picasso was the master of painting and sculpture, with the stroke a of brush and the work of his hands he could portray just about anything to anybody. Eyes the main means of communication. You see and u feel, you see and u understand, u see and you learn.
I believe it is us who carve our life for the future, no matter how many external factors you may depend on.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Love gives meaning to our lives – as do friendship, or art or faith in God. These are factors of true happiness, of inner peace, of feelings of harmony, allowing meaning to our existence.

But there is the other side. There is the cruelty of life, the pain, the evil, not to talk of death. They are the hidden tigers, ambushed and ready to attack the imprudent,(to use an image present in the Buddhist Scriptures).

Is between these pendulums - the positive, the one that gives happiness and meaning, and the negative - that our lives are lived. And when we meditate about all that, we arrive at a diverse and disagreeing set of thoughts about the meaning and purpose of life.

When I consider the short duration of my life i have spent till now, laughing and crying, sleeping and struggling, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, why now rather than then.

God has created things in an equal balance love-hate, friends-enemies, life-death, but i never learnt until yesterday that i was following up things the wrong way. Missed out on love to get more of hate, missed out on the enemies by making friends(thought i did this one thing right, never gave the importance to the one's who had truly were my well-wishers and i repent for it now), but God always has mercy for the one's who walk an extra mile and he has left me out with a hand-full of good, caring, fun-loving, friends who like a guiding star help me come out of the darkness of life showing me the right path. Thank you buddies. :)

Since a very long time ago, people have searched for the meaning of love. But even the great philosophers, with their profound definitions, could not fully touch its true essence. Hhhhhmmm.. Doesn't make any sense now, life without love, life without friend's, Life in the modern race to climb up the ladder, turns materialistic, but stop, pause everything around you and look behind you the path that we have tread so far, the journey of our life we had missed out on all of the beautiful things that we had given up for something which was not needed. Life changes with the stroke of time like a painting does with a stroke of brush, and you spend years together trying to correct it, but you cannot as it has to be started again from the beginning and as we being mortal, loose the morale and the true essence of life, love, friends and perish without achieving anything in the end. Just wanted you all to know plan well in advance, work just once on the perfect stroke so that you don't have to look back and feel the pain of repent in your future. Adios. :)

My 1st week at WIPRO!!!

Well well the journey from my student days takes a break and now at this juncture, where things are really going at a rather slow pace, got an opportunity to join Wipro as a Technical associate. The first one week was pretty adventurous, made a lot of friends, pretty fun loving, enthusiastic bunch of friends i must say!!!.

Feel really good to be trained along side such cool buddies. Coming to the training part, hhhhmmmm, pretty much the same old blah blah stuff :( . Hope to clear the first assessment with ease.

Day begins at 6 in the morning with the cab guy picking me up from my place, and i come back home at around 5 in the evening. Though we haven't got much to do, rather than just sitting and looking at those boring ppt's and stuff, all the energy somehow gets sapped by evening. Hope the next few months too go on well, until we hit the floor. from there on its going to be a smooth ride.. :)(Atleast hope it does.)

Problems with the new iPhone 3G :(

Do you think the iPhone 3G is awesome? Well, I can't say I totally disagree, but it seems there are a lot of problems with it, some real, some that may appear in time, while others are nothing more than fiction at this time. While the dock issue is a real one, there are plenty of things to think about, as we're going to see right away, but before anything else, let's see what's up with that dock, shall we?

According to an Apple Store employee, quoted by IntoMobile, your old iPhone dock won't be able to host the new iPhone 3G. As the guy said, "the iPhone 3G is shaped differently and doesn’t fit in the same dock," so you can leave all hope. The worst thing is that all audio systems featuring universal docks build so far will also be incompatible with the latest iPhone! What a pity...

Well, at least let's hope someone will manage to come up with a "iPhone dock to iPhone 3G dock converter," so those audio systems I mentioned above won't instantly become obsolete as soon as their owners will upgrade to the iPhone 3G, but this is not all - now, let's see what else can be bad about the iPhone 3G!

Another possible issue with the iPhone 3G is long term cost. To make a longer story short, during the first two years, you'll have to pay $160 more because the pricier data plan for the iPhone 3G, compared to the old iPhone.

The iPhone 3G's camera still doesn't have a flash, and there are no replaceable batteries for it, either.

Defending Openness in the European Union

One of the most surprising recent developments in the field of openness has been the rise of Europe as a key player there. This is not the result of some grand plan, despite what the conspiracy theorists in proprietary software companies might think, but simply a natural evolution of the European Union itself, and a consequence of its attempts to become more tightly integrated.
The OOXML fiasco at ISO is perhaps the highest-profile manifestation of this, where a closed, proprietary standard was gradually made to seem open. Here, the “open standard” label represents simply a box that must be ticked to keep that pesky EU and its communistic member states happy, not a real Damascene conversion to fairness and a level playing-field.
The key issue here is that of patents. The EIF rightly insists that everything must be on a royalty-free basis. Opponents of free software and fans of intellectual monopolies - who seem to believe that they have a right to extract licensing fees from what are supposed to be totally open standards - are trying to paint this as discriminatory, when it is exactly the opposite: anything but royalty-free will lock out all open source solutions, which are unable to charge their users. By contrast, proprietary companies can not only function perfectly well with royalty-free open standards, but positively thrive, as the Internet and Web both show.

Forget the Iphone...

Nokia's announcement this week that it would purchase London-based Symbian Ltd.--a cellphone operating system it co-owned with Sony, Ericsson and Samsung, among others--and distribute the once costly software for free.
To oversee that distribution, Symbian is establishing a nonprofit alliance studded with other tech giants, such as AT&T,LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics ,Texas Instruments,and Vodafone.
The move sparked comparisons to two other mobile consortia: Google's Open Handset Alliance (OHA), a group of more than 30 tech companies that is building an open-source mobile platform called Android, and the LiMo Foundation, which has similar plans. With consumers demanding more advanced services on their cellphones, pundits speculated that Nokia was trying to steal momentum--and developer talent--away from these competitors.

How to Remove Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications

Windows genuine advantage notifications occur when your computer hasn't passed the validation test. The validation test can be failed due to being sold a pirated (non-genuine) copy of XP, or because you have changed your XP product key to a software-generated key, or sometimes it just happens for no reason at all. The failed validation installs three types of notifications on your computer: one on the log in screen, one log in timer, and one balloon. It also stops updates from Microsoft and disables your ability to install IE7 and Windows Media Player 11. This solution can get rid of all three notifications, even though you will still not be able to update through Windows Update. You will not be able to download things from Microsoft that requires a valid license either.

STEPS TO FOLLOW

1. If you have only just installed Windows Genuine Advantage notifications, simply using the system restore function will remove the program. Then refuse to accept the WGA update next time Windows updates... Otherwise, proceed as detailed below. (NOTE: If you try these steps while you are in "Safe Mode," step #8 is unnecessary).

2. First Try the Following:

3. - Open a CMD Line Window by Clicking on Start ==>Run ==> type CMD and Press OK.

4. - Change Directory into the System32 Folder (Like Cd c:\Windows\System32)

5. - Open a notepad Window and type the following lines:

6. taskkill -IM wgatray.exe

7. del wgatray.exe


8. del wgalogon.dll

9. - Highlight and copy to the Clipboard the three lines above

10. - now Paste the the contents of the Clipboard to the CMD Window

11. This should kill the wgatray.exe Process from the Taskbar and imediately delete both files wgatray.exe and wgalogon.dll without the need to to go through all steps bellow.


FOR NEWBIES BETTER TRY THIS

12. If that does not work, then continue and follow the steps bellow

13. Open System32 by either A or B of the following methods:

* a)
Click "Start", "Run", then type-in "System32". Click "Okay".
* b) Find System32 manually by clicking "Start" > "My Computer" > "(C:)" (Replacing "C" with the drive letter of the host of Windows) > "Windows" > "System32".


14. In "System32", go to "Tools" > "Folder options" > click on the tab, "View" > Uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types". Now you can begin...

15. Check to make sure the window that comes up has a full screen of various files. The files are in alphabetical order, which makes it easier to locate the specific file.

16. Find "WgaLogon.dll" and rename it "WgaLogon.dll.bak".

17. Create an empty copy of WgaLogon.dll:

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Right click on a blank space in System32 and select "New" > "Text Document".
* Leave the text document empty and label it "WgaLogon.dll". Press Enter (on your keyboard).
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You may get a warning from the above step that says, "If you change a file name extension, the file may become unusable. Are you sure you want to change it?". Click "Yes" on this warning.

18. Be ready to complete the next two steps very quickly! Find "WgaTray.exe" in "System32" and delete it. You will then have 5 seconds to find "WgaTray.exe" in the Task Manager (the next step). NOTE: If you remove the files mentioned above while you are in "Safe Mode," step #8 is unnecessary.

19.Immediately open Task Manager. You can do this by pressing the Ctrl, Shift, and Esc keys simultaneously, pressing the Ctrl, Alt, and Delete keys simultaneously, or right clicking the Taskbar and selecting "Task Manager". Click on the process tab and click end process when "WgaTray.exe" is selected. Note: If you take longer, do NOT panic! All that will happen is that "WgaTray.exe" will keep reapearing in the processes list (i.e. you won't be able to delete it as required). To remove the notifications after this, return to system32. You will find two files:"WgaLogon.dll.bak" (the one you renamed) and an Application Extension (0KB) called "WgaLogon.dll". Delete the Application Extension, rename "WgaLogon.dll.bak" to "WgaLogon.dll" and repeat the steps from the fifth one onwards (at a greater speed!!).

20. Restart your computer once you have finished. All the notification messages should be gone.

TIPS

* This process will only get rid of the notifications, and will not validate your copy of XP. It will remove the timer at the beginning of your XP log on, the white notice on the log on screen, and the annoying yellow star that appears in the bottom right corner of the screen.
* This is easier to do if you have someone reading the steps to you while you do it.
* You may need to Find Hidden Files and Folders in Windows to get to System32 manually.
* If task manager programs are moving, click the title of the "image name" row to freeze them.
* If you are having problems after this, disable the updates before rebooting.
* There is a program called RemoveWGA which does all of this for you. Just run the program, click yes, and you're done. (See External Links, below.)
* If you have problems changing files in the System32 directory, you will have to turn off "system restore". "Start" -> "Control Panel" -> "System" -> "System Restore" -> Check the "Turn off system restore" check box.
* You will not be able to download Automatic Updates anymore. This is not to say you cannot update your system anymore, Microsoft just won't do it for you. In the links, there is a program that will allow you to update any system, regardless of if it is genuine or not.
* You can also rename WgaTray.exe to WgaTray.exe.bak if you can't remove WgaTray.exe from your Taskbar.
* It will be useful to have task manager open first before deleting WgaTray.exe

Being punished for not doing homework on time