Tag Archive: Hard Drive


Back by popular demand

Filed Under: General
Jan.04, 2010

I have so many commenters telling me to get back to my fucking self. Pardon my profanity, but thats a message I got just now, asking me to stop posting PLR articles for traffic and linking and write shit about myself.

Well, here goes.

I, like most Indians, have a liking for Punjabi Pop. Not garbage like Daler Mehendi and Gurdas Mann. But music of higher levels of Bally Sagoo and Stereo Nation and stuff.

Taz-Mania was an album released by Stereo Nation, and heres my most favorite song in that album. Searched for it all over as I lost a hard drive and all my music in it some time last year, and am in an attempt to rebuild my entire collection. And guess where I found it. Raaga.com, the shittiest site I knew 8 years ago. Offering good quality streaming now, and they let me embed the player as well.

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Shopping For A Notebook PC

Filed Under: General
Aug.27, 2009

A Notebook PC, also known as a laptop, is ideal for carrying with you when travelling or allowing you to easily carry your work with you when on the move. Traditionally, though, the notebook PC has been more costly than desktop computers with decreased performance. However, advances in the technology inside your computer and wireless technology have dramatically increased. This increase in technology has seen more powerful machines emerge at reduced prices.

When you are shopping for a notebook PC you should consider the reasons you want to purchase one and exactly what you will use it for. In many cases, the most important thing will be a combination of performance, price and accessibility. If you are intending to use your notebook computer for work then the important issues will be the software that is already installed, the package that comes with the computer and the Internet access capabilities.

Wireless Internet has truly come a very long way and this advance is obviously to the benefit of the user. You can take your laptop wherever you go and easily access the Internet. This means you can send and receive files with very little difficulty and conduct your work on the move.

Be warned that notebook computers do differ greatly in specification. Always look at the size and type of processor as well as the size of hard drive and RAM type and size before you make your final decision. Shopping online allows you the convenience of researching each one that you are interested in, without feeling like you are being forced to make a quick decision. There are also some sites that give you the added convenience of comparing different models side by side. This is by far the best way to comparison shop for any type of product and it will make it much easier when shopping for a notebook computer.

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Windows Vista 64 bit and the Blue Screen of Death

Filed Under: General
Jan.27, 2009

I have heard a lot about vista and its bugs, but did want to try out the 64 bit version on my new computer. So I downloaded a torrent with a crack and an activator. Yes, those cracks worked perfectly well, and just like Microsoft is always, the activation area of their code had bugs too, and the hackers were able to crack it, and though I didn’t take any pleasure in installing a pirated version of Vista on my machine, as it erased all my previous installation of gOS on which I had stored all my passwords and stuff, I was still happy that I could install a cracked vista on my desktop.

Let me list out the bugs.

1. I downloaded the torrent and wrote it onto a dvd, and booted the computer with the dvd. The first bug said that the checksum didn’t match. Uh oh, did I waste a DVD then? I just hit the restart button and it booted again perfectly. The earlier message was a bug.

2. Before I booted vista, I had made an NTFS partition with gparted, a partition manager software for linux, and chose the options carefully that vista be installed on that specific partition containing about 40 GB of space. Vista erased the whole hard drive and erased everything on the other partition. I don’t know how it could do that.

3. Installation completed, and on the first boot came the blue screen of death. Rebooted, and the desktop didnt load properly. Installed the drivers, and midway it gave the blue screen of death again.

4. Somehow managed to set everyhting in order and installed the windows driver for reiserfs, the linux file system that I use for all my other drives. There is 1 small entry in the registry that you need to make which defines \\Devices\Hardisk1\Partition1 to x:. Fixed that and rebooted to find that the registry had completely failed.

5. Somehow fixed that and set up the drives on read only mode, and tried to install office 2007(pirated ofcourse), and the memory usage was about 3 GB. I do have around 16 GB in my drive, but still, 3 GH of memory taken by the base operating system is a bit too high.

6. Restarted, and found that the boot time was about 7 mins. Office is the only software that is installed. Installed firefox, and the browser crashed every 2 mins. Was there a virus? Installed norton immediately, the one that came free with the motherboard, Norton did something to the bootsector, and windows never booted again.

So I just installed ubuntu 64 bit and installed vista again on vmware, and in vmware too it seems to show the same sort of troubles.

Maybe thats why the 64 bit vista isn’t that popular. Why dont everyone just start using linux for a change? Everything is free you know. And you dont have to spend time looking for hacks and cracks everywhere, and you dont have to risk a virus atack either.

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The Need for Adware and Spyware Blocker

Filed Under: General
Dec.28, 2008

There is this one law school student whose thesis is about money laundering so oftentimes she would google the term to come up with a ready list of online references. This proved to be useful to her and the entire process of writing her paper. After several months of doing so, she was confronted with problems like being directed to a weird page totally not related to money laundering every time she types the same words.

At first she thought it was just a glitch in the internet system and then she rationalized that no it maybe a glitch in the search engine she is using but the persistent occurrence of such a thing made her think that someone bugged her. We all hate bugging people us but people we can fend of. What this law student is confronted with is a computer bug that she cannot fend off. In the first place she is not a technology savvy person and in the second place she never uses her laptop for any other things than academic research and actual writing of her papers.

The situation above is not an isolated case. There are many people who find themselves caught up in technology problems that are mind boggling but actually can be answered with two words and those two words are spyware and adware. The infamous term of spyware was first coined in the year 1995 but it was popularized in the year 2000. Spyware is a computer software innocently infiltrated in a personal computer to be able to access personal information of the user.

This is done by studying logging keystrokes, web browsing history and even scanning a user?s hard drive. Sounds like something we see only in James Bond movies but apparently we are wrong for anyone can be a victim of spyware. It is safe to use the word victim because no one wants to be monitored of all their online activities. Spyware can understandably be used to spy on criminals because such use is beneficial to society but how about the use of spyware to intercept credit card details and the like. There is simply no excuse for the lax of the use of spyware.

What ordinary people can do to protect themselves is to block spyware and all other software programs similar to it like adware and malware. This can easily be done by availing adware and spyware blocker programs online. The role of these blocking programs include to remove or disable existing spyware programs or to avoid the installation of these malicious software programs.

Spyware, adware, malware are not like virus or worms that self replicate but they can be just as hassle as their counterparts for whoever wants to be disrupted of their normal personal computer activities. One of the more popular hassles cause by these infectious software programs is the slowness of the computer which can really be annoying because when you are at work you tend to want to finish things quick not just because you are required but also because you want more done or you want to be able to go home early.

In some infections, spyware is not even evident as the bad guy so it can get away with its crime. It is best then to have a ready blocker to at least do something for preventing any infection to occur in the first place.

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Why look for a software when ubuntu can do it with a simple command?

Filed Under: General
Oct.17, 2008

Almost always, I prefer to save things on my hard drive than on a cd or a dvd. CDs and DVDs are just for the movie players and for backups and not for daily use on the computer. I like everything that is for daily use on my computer on my hard drive. And unfortuantely i work a lot with virtual environments and that woudl require bootable cds, meaning, ISOs.

People are making ubuntu look like windows and mac. You get software for every task and the good thing about all that is theat they are allfree, andthis makes it easy for anyone to use the operating system. But a guy like me who has been working on computers for the past 14 years should be able do better than to hunt for software. And that is one main reason that I moved to linux.

This morning I wanted to make an ISO of an operating system that I had on a CD which I wnated to install on Vmware, and I realized that I didnt have a software installed on my computer that would do the work or converting the cd into an ISO for me.

It is linux that we are talking about. Everything is built in. We dont need no software for linux, everything comes with it. So I just checked linuxforums.org and found the right command for the job.

cat /dev/scd0 > path/isofile

And surprisingly the command toom only 2 minutes to rip down the cd into my hard drive and make it an iso while nero or any other software would have taken ages to make it.

If it was a software, I would have had to open the software, select the cd, select the path and this alone would have taken me a few minutes and wait patiently for the cd to be ripped into the hard disk. The command line was a lot faster.

Linux can do a lot more than you think. Quit windows and start using Linux, and make the best out of your time and your computer.

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