Random Thoughts

The release date of Kamal Haasan's much awaited movie Dasavatharam is announced.The shooting for ‘Dasavatharam’ is almost coming to an end.The movie is expected to release this coming April 2008.The movie was planned to be released on Pongal but now the schedule has gone too far till April.The movie will be released all over Tamil Nadu and a few centres in Andhra,Kerala and Karnataka.Kamal haasan is playing ten roles in the movie.Sure the movie has got a lot of expectations not only in Tamil Nadu but all over India.Asin Jayapradha and Mallika Sherawat play the female leads.The cast also includes Napoleon, Santhana Bharathi and M S Bhasker.

A.R.Rahaman who was supposed to compose music for the movie has supposedly walked out of the movie and Himesh Reshammiya has been hired to do the music.K.S.Ravikumar who is known for his excellent quick clever wits is directing the movie.Besides playing the lead role Kamal Haasan is doing the story, screenplay and dialogues.This turns out to be another huge expectation for the movie.The audio release of the movie is expected in the mid of March.Will this movie take Tamil cinema to the next level??.Let's wait for the answers till April.

Hrithik Roshan's latest movie Jodha was protested across the country on its release date.The film was mired in contoversies from the start. It began early on with People For Animals (PFA) charging that the 'Akbar' makers were abusing innocent animals on the sets. It continued through to the warnings issued by Maharashtra's Kranti Sanstha, and saw major burning of its actors, Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai, posters and effigies last week amidst threats of violence in Rajasthan by the Karni Sena there. According to Karni , none of Mughal emperor Akbar's 34 wives were named Jodhabai. Akbar married the former maharaja of Ajmer, Bharmal's elder daughter Karkbai alias Heer Kumar in Fatehpur Sikri on Feburary 6, 1562. Prince Salim was born in 1569."Jodhabai was the daughter of Moteraja Udai Singh and she would have been three years younger than Salim and hence, in no way could she have been his mother," Kalvi claimed.According to these organisations, Jodha was the daughter of Udai Singh of Marwar and was married to Salim, Akbar's son."Thus, she was Akbar's daughter-in-law. So, depicting Jodha as Akbar's wife is not tolerable," Karni said.

It is now seeing the controversy reach a national and international scale after those Rajputs of Rajasthan have called for a nationwide counterattack on what they are calling Bollywood's propoganda against their and India's history of struggle against Mughals and Muslim invasions, ignoring the real Jihad based slaughters, depicting Mughals as heroes, and showing the rajputs as in the end vassals complicit with the mughals with their women in the harems; when they believe with few exceptions, they were largely defying, resisting and fighting them before, during, and after the death of Akbar as well as the Mughal empire.

They've raised the question why no big budget commercial scale movie on the Rajputs' continual struggle has been made, implying an Islamist bias and political charge against Mumbai's film industry.The opening week box office collections of Jodha Akbar in India are a shocking 50%, totaling out at around Rs. 23 crores net when at full houses expected of it, it should have done closer to a 50 crore opening week. The movie was made on an epic scale, budget, and starring premiere stars; it was expected to have shattered all opening records in every corner of the country.

However, the makers miscalculated the response and overestimated their welcome. Not only was the film literally forced out of Rajasthan, forcing it to be a loser acrss the north west from day 1, it now is going to be a loser in Madhya Pradesh also; effectively neutering it in the entire CPCI-Rajasthan territory. Even in a liberal center like Bombay where the film should have shown record opening close to 8 crores net, it failed to match even a Heyy Babyy.
To be fair however, in terms of week 2, the film is expected to see a reasonably good weekend in Mumbai multiplexes and a few other metros. But overall, the Hrithik Roshan - Aishwarya Rai starrer has been rejected in most of the country led by Eastern Maharashtra, Gujrat, Jharkhand, Chattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and of course Rajasthan.

Given its mammoth cost and scale, the film is the first commercial disappointment of the year.

Ryan Fitzgerald is an unemployed who lives with his father.So, he decided to offer his ear, to anyone who wants to call.He posted a video of him saying he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care,".He began receiving calls and a lot of text messages to his number.He planned to take and return as many calls he could, but on Monday at 5 a.m., his T-Mobile cell phone payment will begin charging him for his generosity when he is no longer eligible for free weekend minutes.


Fitzgerald, who said people consider him "easy to talk to," was inspired by Juan Mann. YouTube video clips of Mann offering "Free Hugs" to strangers became wildly popular on the user-controlled Internet site. Within a day of posting Ryan got more than 5000 calls and a lot of text messages.Now his video in many video hosting sites.I have included the video from megavideo.

I agree with you when you say the games for the PS3 are for older audiences. The Xbox 360 is a rather wide range, but has lots of shooters and driving games, which he might like but would probably get bored of them quickly. The PS3 is EXTREMELY expensive, and in my opinion a waste of money. The Blu-Ray system is far too expensive, and so the cons out weight the pros. However, the systems are very reliable, with only a 0.2% chance of system failure, or something like that. Xbox 360's are unreliable, and if they overheat you get the Red Rings of Death, which is a sure sign of permanent system failure. The DVD drives are normally faulty, and the lasers break a lot. There are some very good games however, and the Xbox will be good to you if you look after it. Wiis are a lot cheaper than both consoles, more reliable and the games for Wii are for a wide range of audiences.

Comparing Game Prices:
PS3: Average New Game Price: $130.00
Xbox 360: Average New Game Price: $110.00
Wii: Average New Game Price: $90.00

...not to say the games are better for PS3 and worse for Wii, though. PS3 has it's really good games, like Resistance: Fall of Man (aimed at older audiences...) but also has it's terrible ones, like Lair which the movement controls don't work properly in. Xbox 360 has some great games too, like Perfect Dark Zero which I quite enjoy playing. It doesn't have any that are totally absymal, so it is good. Wii has some games that people believe are perfect, like Zelda: Twilight Princess (I am one of them, note my profile picture) but there are some really bad ones which you need to stay away from, such as Rampage: Total Destruction.

So in the end, it is really up to you. Only get an Xbox 360 if you look after your things and doesn't go destroying all your stuff. Don't get a PS3, they are a waste. Choose between a Wii or an Xbox 360 for him. I am sure he will love either of them!

My final ratings:
PS3 - 6/10. Most of the games are short, shallow and not very good anyway. But there are some very good ones, and the system is very reliable so won't break down easily.
XBOX - 8/10. Due to the high amount of system failures, the Xbox gets a lower rating. But it has some great games, and if you look after it will last you for a long time.
WII - 8/10. The system is revolutionary, ingenious and amazing. There are some spectacular games, but there are some bad ones too which lowers the rating. Also, they chomp through the remote batteries.

A computer worm is a little like a computer virus. It invades computer systems, interfering with their normal functions. It travels along any available compatible computer network and stops to knock at the door of systems attached to that network. If there is a hole in the security of the computer system, it will crawl through and enter the system. When it does this, it might have instructions to do any number of things, from sending computer users a message to trying to take over the system. What makes a worm different from other computer programs, such as viruses, is that it is self-propagating. It propels itself forward, wiggles into a new system and propagates itself at the new site. Unlike a virus, a worm doesn't latch onto a data file or a program. It is autonomous.7

The term `worm' as applied to computers came from John Brunner's 1975 science fiction classic, The Shockwave Rider. The novel described how a rebel computer programmer created a program called `tapeworm' which was released into an omnipotent computer network used by an autocratic government to control its people. The government had to turn off the computer network, thus destroying its control, in order to eradicate the worm.

If for some reason you haven’t seen The Bourne Ultimatum yet: Go. Now. It’s not just the best movie in the Bourne franchise, it’s the best movie of the summer and maybe even one of the best action movies ever made. It’s that good. It’s also the perfect way to end the Bourne movie franchise… should it come to that. The film wraps on a note that could easily finish the story off in satisfying fashion, but leaves enough unanswered that a fourth installment in the franchise has plenty more to explore.

For the most part though, it’s sounded like Ultimatum is the last we’ll see of Jason Bourne. Back in May Matt Damon was quoted as saying, “The Bourne thing I'm definitely done with.” Now though, after the massive critical and financial success of Ultimatum, it sounds like he may be softening.

Matt Damon spoke to The Guardian (a publication which plays a prominent role in The Bourne Ultimatum) about his Bourne movies and their future. In the interview he talks a lot about the problems they had in getting the first movie, The Bourne Identity off the ground, but he’s also started to hint that a fourth movie wouldn’t be an unwelcome addition to his upcoming calendar. He says, “It wouldn't be the worst thing.” At least that’s progress. It sounds like the main holdup for him is a fear of becoming stale. He continues, “You identify your beachhead and then vow to protect it. In doing so, you start making safe choices, and I don't want to do that.”

I don’t think Matt needs to worry about playing safe. In between this Bourne movie and the last one he did critically acclaimed, high-profile work in The Departed and The Good Shepherd. He’s currently slated to work again with Paul Greengrass soon, but this time on a controversial examination of the United States’s “Green Zone” in Iraq. As long as they space these Bourne movies out by a year or two, he has plenty of time to change things up. It’s worked so far. Give us more Bourne!

The nominees are
Picture: "NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN," "Atonement," "Juno," "Michael Clayton," "There Will Be Blood"
Animated Feature Film:
"RATATOUILLE," "Persepolis," "Surf's Up"
Actor:
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS in "There Will Be Blood," George Clooney in "Michael Clayton," Johnny Depp in "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street," Tommy Lee Jones in "In the Valley of Elah," Viggo Mortensen in "Eastern Promises"
Actress:
MARION COTILLARD in "La Vie en Rose," Cate Blanchett in "Elizabeth: The Golden Age," Julie Christie in "Away From Her," Laura Linney in "The Savages," Ellen Page in "Juno"
Supporting Actor:
JAVIER BARDEM in "No Country for Old Men," Casey Affleck in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," Hal Holbrook in "Into the Wild," Philip Seymour Hoffman in "Charlie Wilson's War," Tom Wilkinson in "Michael Clayton"
Supporting Actress:
TILDA SWINTON in "Michael Clayton," Cate Blanchett in "I'm Not There," Ruby Dee in "American Gangster," Saoirse Ronan in "Atonement," Amy Ryan in "Gone Baby Gone"
Director:
JOEL COEN AND ETHAN COEN for "No Country for Old Men," Julian Schnabel for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly," Jason Reitman for "Juno," Tony Gilroy for "Michael Clayton," Paul Thomas Anderson for "There Will Be Blood"

ANd the winners:

I would buy it without hesitation :)

People spouting off about which they no nothing irratates me... so with that said here goes.

Acer has been in business for a very long time, before they left the USA Retail market, they were a higher-end PC company. When they returned, they aimed for the low-price market. I've helped people buy Acer computers, they are easy to convert to XP since ACER has easy access drivers of both XP & Vista available.

If you're buying a NAME-BRAND computer - they are ALL THE SAME. Acer has been making parts for other companies for decades.

Acer believe it or not is/was the parent company of Ali (Acer Labs Inc) and AOpen (Acer Open), as well as BenQ (the mobile division was sold off to Siemens). They do a lot of peripherals and I believe OEM for 3rd parties. They're also very big in Taiwan, one of the large computer manufacturers out there, I believe.

I also have personal experience with several Acer notebooks, including tablets, all of which were of acceptable quality.

Note that pretty much every Tier1 manufacturer out there will contract the big component makers (often many different ones) in Taiwan to manufacture their components... Asus being the largest, currently used by Dell and many others I am sure.

Acer ranks second in the global PC market for the EMEA region. Acer strengthened its leadership in the EMEA notebook sector and is positioned at the top of the rankings in: France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Spain, Turkey; still in the notebook sector Acer is ranked second in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Norway, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

ACER RESULTS – Source GARTNER DATA 4Q 2007
SUMMARY NOTEBOOK MARKET

COUNTRY
POSITIONING

SPAIN
# 1

ITALY
# 1

THE NETHERLANDS
# 1

RUSSIA
# 1

FRANCE
# 1

POLAND
# 1

HUNGARY
# 1

GERMANY
# 1

CZECH REPUBLIC
# 2

FINLAND
# 2

UNITED KINGDOM
# 2

DENMARK
# 2

BELGIUM
# 2

SWITZERLAND
# 2

AUSTRIA
# 2

SWEDEN
# 2

NORWAY
# 2

For those of you who don't know about the company Moserbaer ,Moserbaer is India's largest and World's second largest producer of digital storage media.Now they have entered into home video market.Moserbaer is offering VCD's and DVD's of movies in affordable and cheap rate.Initially they have released old hindi and tamil movies.Most of the people who want to watch a movie in home or computer do so by renting a pirated DVD or by downloading a pirated copy of the movie from the internet.Instead of watching a pirated movie Moserbaer offers a cheap way to watch movies legally from home.

Cost Of Moserbaer CD and DVD's:

Hindi and regional language film VCDs are priced at Rs 28, English movie VCDs are priced at Rs 49, DVDs priced at Rs 34 onwards.For the price of a pirated one you get original one. Even if you thought of taking a VCD on rent and making a copy using your DVD writer, it still makes more sense to buy original one.

Moserbaer stores:

Moserbaer original CD's and DVD's in your nearest exclusive moserbaer home video stores.They
are also available in every leading music and video stores.You can also buy online through their site Moserbaer home entertainment.

Why buying a Original Copy:

Gives a satisfactory feeling of buying a original and legal copy.

Rather than watching a low quality pirated video it is better to watch a good quality original.

Cheap and legal

Free shipping and Free CD case for purchase of 20+ Units

What kind of movies are available:

Latest movies may not be available like this. Only those which are few years old are sold this way (if the movie is good and if you’ve not watched it yet it is still worth collecting it.) (Note: Some exceptions may be there: for example, "Apne" and "ek chalis ki last local", Hindi movies few months old but weren’t a success at box office, are already available with MoserBaer. Newer movies may cost a little high yet in a affordable price.

Support anti piracy by buying original high quality Moser Baer CD's and DVD's.....

Friends,if u receive any notification to join in a site
named makemyclick.com ,please make sure
that you are not pulled towards it.

The site says,it pays the registered users on the
basis of clicking ads.It's not sure because,when you join itself
they offer you $5.
Who offers this amount jus for signing up ?
Just think over it.

More over they don't even verify your mail id,
immediately after your registration you are automatically signed in
and for signing bonus you get $5,and after that you are
asked to click on 5 ads,after that they say,you have earned
$7.50. good joke.!!!

My friends are folling themselves ,please don't join.

Seems to be fraud as there is no concrete
records or guarantee from the company that you are
paid money.moreover for your clarification
please read the terms and conditions
carefully and you decide for yourself.
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please my friends don't join....

Tomb raider Anniversary is the most popular game in the tomb raider franchise.This game is very much similar to Prince Of Persia games .All the acrobatic moves are very much similar to Prince of Persia games.But the combat sequels are something new and different from pop games.Lara Croft(Angelina Jolie ) is the main leading character of the game.

Tomb Raider Anniversary follows the tale of Lara's hunt for the Scion of Atlantis as she does battle with conniving businesswoman Jacqueline Natlas and her various henchmen. You'll explore ancient tombs and forgotten cities in Peru, Greece, Egypt, and more, performing plenty of death-defying acrobatics as you work your way through massive, ancient, and often deadly puzzles. The whole experience is highly evocative of the original, and there are certainly plenty of moments that seem specifically designed to create an odd sense of déjà vu; but nothing in Tomb Raider Anniversary has been regurgitated verbatim--everything is bigger and better. The environments are larger and more detailed, and existing puzzles have been elaborated upon, to an incredible degree. The experience just feels bigger, and there's so much new content that it honestly feels less like a remake and more like its own game.

Compared to Prince Of Persia and it's previous versions this game is a little bit tough and difficult
for players.Especially the bosses are really tough to face in the hardest difficulty settings.To successfully complete this games players should be more quick with the control schemes.The ingame environment and graphics are really cool..You can fight with crocs,dinos..,,climb tall buildings,statues....,,,explore ruined temples and lot more things..

Anyone who likes Prince Of Persia and previous versions of Tomb raider games will definitely find this game much interesting.So every Prince Of Persia lovers can give a try to this game.

Xbox 360 is the next gen gaming console coming from microsoft.Xbox 360 is much more better and advanced compared to it's predecessor Xbox.Speaking of features in Xbox 360 Xbox 360 allows users to play online and download content such as arcade games, game demos, trailers, TV shows, and movies. The Xbox 360 was officially unveiled on MTV on May 12,2005.The Xbox 360 is marketed in 3 different versions, the "Arcade" the "Premium", and the "Elite" console, each having its own set of included accessories and features.So far only Xbox 360 console has been released in India and it's other competitors like Nintendo Wii has not yet arrived in market in India.The premium version of Xbox 360 has been priced to around Rs 27,000 and the core version has been priced to around 19,900.But you can expect to buy in a much cheaper price in the local market.X box 360 also has an additional HD DVD support.

Presently more games are available to Xbox 360 compared other consoles.So far only 1300 units of Xbox 360 have been sold in India.This low sales figure of Xbox 360 in India is mainly due lack of proper advertising in India.Indians consider the pricing of Xbox 360 as to much to afford.Most of the customers here want to buy a PS3 rather than buying a Xbox 360 and are waiting for the arrival PS3 in Indian market.The sales of Xbox 360 has not done well compared to global sales here in the Indian market.

When i downloaded bittorrent and installed it for first time I can never open my ports. I have internet hooked up to a netopia modem, which is hooked to a dlink router, and nothing I do is opening ANY port that I need.I came across a lot of bum steer form google search.Then one of my friend who is a techieXpert and the most prolific Xpert i have ever come across came to my help.He gave me 2 ways to do this

1.Go to the and set up IP Passthrough TO the router. Then in your computer setup a static IP. Then the ports should be opened.

If this does n work just follow the steps below

2.If the modem is a routing modem, you have to emasculate the router*. You also have to either turn off your firewall or allow utorrent's port in the firewall (the same port you forward).

Go to http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/routerindex.htm and see if your modem is listed. If it is, you forward the port in the modem and emasculate the router. If not, you just forward the port in the router. (After you select the one you're going to forward the port in, select the torrent program you're using in the next screen, then follow the directions.)

Also remember - you're not downloading from a fast server, you're downloading from users like yourself, so your download speed is their upload speed.

*Disable the DHCP server in the router. (Connect to it with your browser and find the place to disable it or turn it off.) Connect the modem to a *LAN* port on the router, not to the WAN port (which is where it's normally connected). Your router is now a non-routing wireless access point.

Do you take a lot of time to write a blog post? A lot depends on how well you can type. If you don�t type well, you should try out some freely available Typing Tutot Software improve yourself. The better you get at typing, the lesser time you need to spend on writing the post.

While there are many softwares that teach you to type faster, the freeware that I liked the most so far was TypeFaster that teaches you how to touch-type and improve your typing speed.

This program has been designed to teach people to touch-type. Touch-typing is a skill that can be learnt with practice and perseverance. Touch-typing is a method of typing which uses 8 fingers and one thumb. Touchtypists do not have to look at the keyboard to find the keys they want to type.

When you first start TypeFaster, it introduces you to the software and gives you basic info like what are homekeys and which keys each of your finger should rest on. Once you are ready you can start the tutor.

TypeFaster even includes a 3D game make learning to touch-type more interesting.

Speaking of games, here are some more that will help you improve your typing speed:

• QWERTY Warriors
• Typing Invaders
• 10 Finger BreakOut

You can find more typing games at freetypinggame.net and onlytypinggames.com

Do you know any other good softwares or games to help improve typing speed?

When i first heard about emulating Mac Osx on PC from my friend.I did'nt beleive him.Then he showed me his PC booting up Mac Osx without any problem .So,last weekend i decided to give a try on emulating Mac Osx on my PC.Before trying i decided to take a back up all my data.So, i copied all my data to a friend's PC. After backing up all my data i got a bootable DVD of Hackintosh(Mac OSx for PC) from my friend.My friend told me to follow the same procedure of installing windows to install Mac Osx.
So i inserted the dvd and made my PC boot from DVD.It booted up well after showing some scribbles for sometime like around 10 minutes it went inside the installer screen.Everything went fine till this part.In the install options it showed only my DVD drive and not my SATA hard disk.
I searched many forums and found that no SATA support is available for nforce 4 SATA controller.So last weekend turned out to be a sad and frustrating weekend for me.Thank God i made a back up of all my data.Here are my PC specs:

AMD 3800X2 processor
250 gig seagate SATA HDD
Asus M2NPV-VM mother board

DVD used :uphuck 1.4i released by KILL33R

Some of my friends have successfully installed Mac Osx tiger on their Intel PC.Anyway rather than trying to emulate Mac Osx on a PC it would be better to a buy a Mac book to experience the full power of Mac Osx .Now I'm planning to get a Mac book this July.If you really want to try it on a PC before buying a Mac book these websites might help you a lot getting through the process.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSx86
http://www.insanelymac.com/
http://www.uphuck.com/

I have account on both the networking sites and each one is unique in their own aspects.Though am relatively new to facebook am impressed with it. Let me write what impresses me in FACEBOOK:
FACEBOOK has Simple and professional user interface,Explanation for being added as a friend,Unique groups or communities,Security of user’s profile and information,Many other fun applications.
I still use ORKUT but it has the following disadvantages: Amateurish interface,Open scraps and profiles owing to less security,No provision for providing reasons to “Add as friend”, Repetitive groups or communities.But one unique feature of orkut is it was easier to find old friends and colleagues as compared to Facebook.
The only drawback of Facebook was that in the resistance of a beginner to join in for the first time.

Though am not that proficient in linux i am an hardcore fan of this elegant but powerful os.Let me tell you guys wat really gavitated me towards linux.




LINUX is nothing more than a (more or less) free version of UNIX that is open-licensed for use by everyone. Although all versions of UNIX have a "standard" set of commands that all versions are supposed to support, every single version of UNIX has its own proprietary set of commands also.With today's hard drives, you should not have any problem. Last time I looked, I couldn't find a hard disk under 80 GBs, which is more than enough for just about any PC based OS.Yes, you can have two OS's on one PC, but you will need to do some special configuration to allow you to "dual boot" by chosing the partition you wish to use at boot time. If I were you and really wanted to work more with LINUX, I would get a second PC (UNIX is a very good system and works very well with older hardware. Since it is so much more efficient, you don't need the latest and greatest to perform well), and load the LINUX on the second PC. LINUX works well as a server, especially for database and web server applications.The list of features is equivilent to the vocabulary of a language, and unless you are a System Programmer, System Operator, or developer, you will probably never come close to using anywhere near all of its features. Even a UNIX System Administrator for over 11 years would still never touch more than 40% of the commands.
Bottom line is, unless you hack 24/7 and live on Jolt cola and Twinkee's, you will probably never figure out all the features

BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing (P2P) communications protocol. BitTorrent is a method of distributing large amounts of data widely without the original distributor incurring the entire costs of hardware, hosting and bandwidth resources. Instead, when data is distributed using the BitTorrent protocol, each recipient supplies pieces of the data to newer recipients, reducing the cost and burden on any given individual source, providing redundancy against system problems, and reducing dependence on the original distributor. The protocol is the brainchild of programmer Bram Cohen, who designed it in April 2001 and released a first implementation on 2 July 2001. It is now maintained by Cohen's company BitTorrent, Inc.
The popularity of torrent over other p2p applications like Kazaa or Morpheus or Limewire is that the Torrent protocol makes the most efficient use of the bandwidth,ensuring downloaders do not crowd each other out.A fake file is more easily caught by the torrent community and viruses are difficult to slip through.A free programme like PeerGaurdian will block most dubious IP addresses.

Torrent is not just for new movies but you can also find cinema classics like 12 angry men,a few good med etc...that are hard to find.You can also download running series like Heroes or download and store Friends in your harddisk.
One disadvantage about the torrent is that it is easy for the recording industry to know your IP. However the possibility of legal action is very less in most countries because the recording industry prefers to go after torrent sites rether than the downloaders.But AXXO(the legendry and prolific uploader) and others like him continue to upload and the torrenting community hasn`t skipped a beat so far.
Famous torrent sites are
1. http://btjunkie.org/
2.http://www.mininova.org/
3.http://www.isohunt.com/