Ravi, A Capitalist

I use Ubuntu 7.04 and i simply love it. Its not an OS, its a religion and I follow it (my brother would kill me if he reads this for copying his dialogue)

I made a decent compilation of a good list of apps that you could use with ubuntu 7.04. Total size is about 3 gb, and the torrent is well sorted and you can download what ever you want without having to download the entire set.

If you want this torrent, just post your mail id in the comments (dont worry, I wont publish them and get you spammed), and i shall forward the torrent to you, and you can download.

* New theme / splash screen / wallpaper
* VCD Gear debian style
* Subversion & build tools
* Wireless Internet integration
* Bluetooth integration
* PPP integration
* Networking tools
* 35 Additional fonts
* Tons more themes
* Repository driven Beryl
* New sounds theme
* Integrated Custom repository support
* All current Updates 158 at time of posting
* IPod support
* Beagle
* Gramps – Genealogy software (thanks poweruser2600)
* Legends – Video Game
* Kapote – Instant Messenger
* Integrated codecs (the good the bad & the ugly)
* Mplayer, VLC, Songbird & Amarok players with mp3 support
* Mencoder, K9Copy, DeVeDE, DVD Shrink – dvd copying software.
* Integrated Nvidia drivers (will work with other cards)
* Automatix 2 & Automatix Bleeder (in case you want additional software)
* Gaim beta 5 & plugins
* GFTP – FTP Client
* KVIrc – IRC Client
* Additional Themes, icons, cursors & logins
* XSnow
* Samba
* NFS
* EasyTag – MP3 Tag Editor
* GDesklets
* Inkscape – 2D vector drawing
* Screem – HTML Editor
* Gambas – Programing environment
* QEMU & Kqemu Accelerator – Emulation
* Screem – HTML Editor
* Avidemux – Avi (divx /xvid) editor
* GDesklets – Eyecandy & info
* NTFS read / write support
* Lamp – web server (Apache2, mysql, PHP5)
* phpmyadmin
* Azureus – P2P software
* MS core Font’s and extra fonts
* Wine – Windows emulation (always newest version – through repo)
* Alien – Allows installation of foriegn packages (RPM, suse etc)
* Gobby Team programing software
* Ksnapshot – Screen capture software
* Google Picasa – Graphic editing software
* Frostwire Pro – P2P software
* Kolourpaint – Graphic editing software
* Qcad – Autocad wannabe
* Archive Suite – virtually any archive can be handled.
* Ajunta IDE – Programing environment
* Bluefish – HTML Editor
* Glade – Interface designer
* Gtranslator
* Bit Tornado – P2P Software
* Amule – P2P software
* Kino – Flick editor
* Audacity – Sound editor
* Debian Menu (pdmenu)
* Dvdrip – Dvd ripping software
* Democracy Player
* Listen Media Manager
* Steamripper
* Ilinux (banshee)
* Gnucash – Financial software
* Aria – Download manager
* Build Essentials and make utility’s
* Quanta Plus and extras – HTML Editor
* Graveman – burning software
* New Grub splash screen and animated “very pretty” boot up screen
* Bum – Boot-up manager
* Sum – Startup manager (newer improved version gtk and terminal based)
* Istanbul – Live screen capture
* Ghex – Hex editor
* Gourmet – Recipe manager
* Isomaster – CD / DVD ISO editor
* GPHPEdit – PHP Editor
* Kino – Clip editor
* Aria – Download manager
* Democracy – Movie streamer
* ClamAV – Anti-virus software
* Listen – Media manager
* DVD|RIP – Dvd ripping software
* Lifrea – RSS feed reader
* Brasero – Disc burning tool
* X-Chat – IRC Client
* QDVDAuthor – DVD authoring software
* SMP Support (dual core CPUS) / works with single core as well
* 121 Additional Updates
* New Grub boot screen
* New theme and animated bootscreen
* New GDM theme
* New splash screen & wallpaper
* Updated Beryl
* Capture card support – TVTime / ATI-All-in-wonder
* Gaim Beta 6 – prebuilt with plugins.
* GKRealm – Realtime hardware monitor
* MGM – Moaning Goat Meter
* Newer Amarok then can be obtained from edgy repos
* Hardinfo – System information
* GTKPod – Ipod Sync software
* HTop – Process viewer
* Sysinfo – System information
* IPodder – Ipod sync software
* XSensors – Hardware sensor software
* Addition networking and wireless tools
* Gpixpod – Photo sync software for Ipod
* IPodslave – an iPod IO slave
* Xpenguins – Thanks Maddog
* Alienarena 2007
* Actioncube
* Sauerbraten
* Nexuiz
* Angry drunk dwarf
* Advanced statgic command
* Astromenace
* Blinkensisters
* Blobby
* Crimson
* Funnyboat
* Fuzzy
* Glchess
* Glob 2
* Goonies
* Gtetrinet
* Hannah
* Magicor
* Megamario
* Nikwi
* OpenArena
* Openyahtzee
* Pengupop
* Polypuzzle
* Rocks and diamonds
* Scourge
* Sive
* Stax
* Supertux
* Tomatoes
* Warsow
* Warzone 2100
* Wesnoth
* Wormux
* Viruskiller
* Xracer
* Torcs
* Armagetron
* Bzflag
* Lxdoom
* Foobillard
* Vegastrike
* Barrage
* Airstrike
* Atanks
* Boson
* Gtkpool
* Trackballs
* Flying
* Kasteroids
* Xoids
* Xgalaga
* Defendguin
* Gnome-breakout
* Penguin-command
* Xarchon
* Blob & Conquer
* Gnuchess
* 3dchess
* Brutalchess
* Childsplay
* Eboard
* Gcompris
* Gtkboard
* Jester
* Kwin4
* Lletters
* Scrabble
* Spider
* Wmtictactoe
* Yics
* Kbattleship
* Ggz-gtk-games
* Junior-games-card & Gl
* Lmemory
* Mathwar
* Sillypoker
* Pouetchess
* Gnome-hearts
* Khangman
* Kmahjongg
* All the supertux, tux cart etc.
* Tuxmath
* Tuxtype
* Hide & seek preference changer
* NTFS Write support with the click of a mouse
* New Start-up and logout sound theme
* New Dark theme / Wallpaper / Glass icons are back

Icici bank, who claim to make banking a pleasure are pathetic. But still its the second largest private sector bank in India. Has the largest number of branches, makes online fund transfer easy, offers bill pay services and Credit Cards.

You cannot do a direct cash deposit across the counter these days, you need to put it in an envelope, and they will process it before the end of the day, or may be the next day, though they claim that they process it in 2 hours.

I happen to use ICICI for my business purposes, and they have given me a credit card for it, with a decent limit. Its a Gold HPCL master card, nice looking with a photo and signature of mine on the front side of the card.

I use it primarily for my business, and as Im running a Hosting Company (indyahozting.com, sorry, cant help advertising it in every post) I need to make a lot of payments with it, which are refered to by the bank as “High Value”. Every hour, every minute I get an offer from the bank asking me to convert all of them to EMI. I have even tried giving death threats to the ones calling me, but it never stops.

Every odd day I get a call from them letting me know that I have been chosen at “The Best Customer of ICICI Bank (am i really…?!)” and start offering me insurance packages and health packages which are totally useless and hopeless.

Inspite of registering several “Do Not Disturb” requests on their site and thru their phone banking, they are still calling me. I heard there was some new Law on Telecalling, like protecting privacy etc, but am not sure if its really working.

The thing I hate about them is they lock your money into some Unbilled transactions they would claim that we have placed, and purge it back in 21 days. A month ago, my available limit went back to Rs. – 40,000. This money was purged back in 21 days and I didnt use that card in the meanwhile

What they might have expected would be that I would pay money and continue using the card, so that they could enjoy the money for 21 days, and the money that they would be enjoying would be Rs 80000 if I had paid. Since I did not pay, they just charged me an Over Limit charge of Rs 500 /- and i continued uisng the card after the locked money was purged back.

Phone banking or internet banking never replies to queries such as, What are the unbilled transactions against which the money is blocked towards? Who have billed me? I have never made these transactions etc.

Imagine the kind of money they would be having for themselves doing this every month to customers like me. And at the monthly interest rate of 3%, imagine the money they would be making in the 21 days that the money gets locked in.

Nice business, Banking. If you know how to play, and if the referee [ Mr. P. Chidambaram in this case] wont question you, why wont you be the 2nd Largest Private Sector Bank in India?

For nearly 10 years, I have called myself a member of a community which calls itself The Microsoft Eradication Society. The sites name is microsuck.com. There are a few other domains as well, which point to this site.

“OK, I know a lot of people are saying Microsoft’s bad, and they were taken to court for something. But, like, why?” If that’s you, then you need to read this story right away. After all, not everyone who visits this site knows what makes Microsoft so bad. So we dropped a line to Timothy Macinta, the author of this very informative piece from KMFMS.com, and he delivered. Even if you’re a battle-hardened warrior against the Redmond army, you’ll probably learn things here that you didn’t know. Educate yourself.

I use Ubuntu and Fedora. I dont Use Microsoft Products. Will write more about this tomorrow, time to go home.

My new born baby’s name is Dhananjay, I call him DJ. Shot a video of his,

There were about 4 sites in India that made online trading easy for anyone in the 2000s. The most sophisticated on at that time was bidorbuyindia.com which was in colloboration wiht a South African company into the same business Bidorbuy.co.za. There was also a similar site called bidorbuy.com.au which was a site that targetted australia.

Then there was another site called baazee.com. A dumb looking site at that time, hosted on vsnl, dead slow, stupid script and no features and an ultra ugly rating system. The software was horrible, and their mails most of the time landed in spam.

The third one was auctions.indiatimes.com in which people could sell anything. This was the first one to close down.

The 4th one was the dumbest, was popular 7 yrs ago, but forgot its name. Apart from these there were several chota mota sites that were budding and vanishing now and then, but they didnt have much activity.

Bidorbuy lost interest in India and Australia and sold its Indian site bidorbuyindia.com to baazee.com and bidorbuy.com.au to Ebay. Thats when baazee started to get its good looks. All features of bidorbuyindia.com were imported, and after about 5 days of downtime, baazee.com emerged as a beautiful trading portal around 2002. Baazee has created its own payment gateway similar to ccavenue’s gateway called paisapay, and offered gateway services to its clients for Rs 2000 as one time registration fee, and about 2% as TDR, which was claimed from the client, something that was supposed to be borne by the seller.

auctions.indiatimes.com stopped registrations of new users initially, then suspended its existing users one by one for one dumb reason or another, and started auctioning its own products.

Later in 2004 or 2005, baazee.com was sold to ebay.in a country specific site of Ebay, the world’s largest portal for online trading. Ebay brought in several new policies like buyer protection systems, freed the payment gateway and made it open to everyone, and did several things to protect the buyer’s and seller’s from any mishap.

But later on, Indiaplaza.in formerely known as fabmall.com, and several other sites such as shopping.indiatimes.com, shopping.rediff.com emerged with better prices than ebay, and people prefered to shop there, where all products sold are monitored by rediff, and when you buy from rediff or indiatimes its their direct responsiblity to guarentee delivery of a good product.

Ebay still doesnt do much to ensure the credibility of the seller, whild rediff and other online shopping sites do that. Ebay still remains to be a site where collectables are sold more than conventional items. Sellers these days are preffering to tie up with sites like these rather than ebay.

Nigerians are playing a great deal at ebay. Scammers from Nigeria buy your item at ebay, then send you a mail saying that your payment will be made thru Western Union and once we receive the products the payment will be delivered to the seller. New sellers at ebay, who dont know what is what, and without a good warning or alerting system from ebay, they fall for this and end up loosing the money. Ebay does not support this, and at the end would come up saying that we cannot pay for a mistake that you have done, in page 643, para 74 line 24 word 56 says NOT, which is a part of the sentence that says You should NOT ship an Item before receiving payment.

I have seen several people who sell google invites for Re 1. It is ofcourse illegal, and if google finds out they will block all the email accounts created with the chain of invites ( Gmail didnt have open registration untill very recently, you needed invites to sign up). They sell these invites not to make money. They never care if the buyer pays or not, and he pays the ebay minimum fee of Rs 3 for the sale. This they do just for the sake of building a database of ebay users, whom they can spam later n get some offsite orders for the products that they offer. Activities of this sort have been regulated too.

I have tried to sell hosting on ebay. If you search for indyahozting in google, you will find listings of ebay pages more than those of my own site. I didnt find ebay very friendly, they just blocked my id just because i included our support email id, and mentioned that the client can mail this id any time for support, in the Ask the seller a question area. I have never been to ebay again.

For books, fabmall is the place. For electronics rediff is the best. and for Home appliances like refrigerators, microwaves, auctions.indiatimes.com is the best, where you will get a better deal than in any of your local dealers. It is heard that they buy in real bulk, and they can afford to ship it at a very low cost, and therefore maintain the prices low.

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