Karthik Chronicles

I woke up this morning(was going to be afternoon soon as I woke up around 11 am) and as usual I just went and took a glance at the paper, the next thing I saw horrified me. I saw this article in The New Indian Express(a faction of Indian Express which only circulates in South India). My first reaction was “What The F@#$” but when I read the whole news my reaction had calmed down since I realised it was once again one of those great Indian Media Follies; picking up news from places which are least bit credible.

Then I showed this article to Harsh in the evening, he said that he had seen that google watchdog link somewhere and gave me the link. I checked the site and searched for the specific post. What I found was utter crap. The so called keywords which lead you to malicious sites was not even listed there.

I don’t know how Indian media can believe any crap they see on internet. They verified it with some one person who said that he ended up on a malicious site when he searched something on google. I bet he was searching for porn materials on google that is why he ended up on some malicious site. People never even think before they click on the links they see on search indexes. First rule of using internet was and is to use ones common sense, which many people now a days don’t care to use and click away on any links they can find(Even if its scientifically impossible which includes crush calculating and taking photos through you rmonitor and many such stuff).

I hope Indian Media actually wakes up to the world of internet and understand that everything they read on internet is not always correct.

Well I had thought of writing the whole tutorial on how to make the scheduler of BitComet work. So I installed it(I personally would never recommend it to anyone) and then went to options and scheduler. Then I saw something I had never expected to see. The scheduler was exactly like the one in utorrent with no changes. And I can even prove that since I took screenshot of both to compare. This here is BitComet’s Scheduler.

And this is Utorrent’s Scheduler.

So if you want to know how to schedule downloads on BitComet you can just take a look at the Scheduling in Utorrent post that I had done some months back the only difference would be is that the first two steps given there are changed a bit I will list that here.

1. Start your BitComet and click on the Preferences button in the Toolbar as shown below.

2. Then click on Scheduler in the preferences box as shown in the screenshot below.

Then follow the third step from the post here.

Now this is something everyone studying college should have in their browser’s bookmark folders. I never actually thought that doing assignments in colleges would be so difficult. I didn’t actually think I would start getting assignments within two week of joining college but still. The professor who gives me assignment insists that we read some book and do it rather than getting stuff of net. The worst part is that I rarely find anything related to my topic on net which becomes quite tough then and as I have late college its quite tough to go to library and search for a relevant book as it might take hours to find something relevant. I always thought if we could google for books and find the specific page which we needed to look and I guess google had answered this sometime back.

One of my non-geeky friends was trying to help with my assignment and ended up giving me a link to this. I couldn’t believe that something like that existed. It was more of a dream come true. All I needed was the right keywords and it was done. I really sound like those cheap ass advertising comments that I get on my blog but really it was very helpful. It gives preview of books which one can then read from the browser itself. Some books have full book preview and some of them have just some pages for preview and one can actually select that which type of books we want to see which is also a good feature.

I was not mood in writing review of something old but still I thought it was something good and useful to guys like me who have Professors sitting on their head wanting them to go through a ton lots of books just to get two page of information, though its not bad its hectic and tiresome. I guess google gods always have answers for everything.

Oh yeah forgot that some guys in schools have these kinds of teachers too so its good for them too, didnt want to make it seem that college is tougher than school.

Link: http://www.books.google.com/

Technorati Tags: Google, Google Book Search, Book Search

          I am not going to post about how happy I am about Taj Mahal getting into the new 7 wonders of the world. I am happy but my post is not about it. What I actually want to say here is how every once in a while someone comes up with the idea of making a new list for the seven wonders of the world and people go totally mad over it. I mean voting for a wonder of the world is the most ridiculous thing. These things should be judged by the most experienced and the best architects and archaeologists of the world. But what happens is lots of silly votes are taken in and used to see who wins.

          I agree to what UNESCO had said about this that the method is not scientific and that its purely money making campaign. The method is definitely not scientific but the worst part is asking the people to vote and select it. I mean is this some kind of freaking reality show like American Idol or something. I did not understand how they could do such a thing. I mean architectural marvels like Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty were left out.

          It was certainly amidst a lot of controversy with the whole Pyramid of Giza fiasco then later on UNESCO claiming it to be just a money making campaign. Well, I personally believe that it should not be accepted as something of a great importance. The only reason for me saying this thing is that I don’t general public can actually make out what is a wonder in terms of archaeological and architectural ways. It just reduces the seven wonders of the world to some cheap reality show on a world wide scale.

Technorati Tags: new seven wonders, voting wonders

That was my reaction when I heard about a networking site bigadda(be gadha=be donkey) but it actually meant big adda(big hangout). I went through the site to see what exactly was it and how good exactly was it. I realised that it was just a spruced up version of DesiMartini.com(whose ads has been making rounds of the TV now-a-days.) It was very much similar to Desimartini even the whole look and feel of the site exactly same except for its login page which reminds me somewhat of Hi5.

I checked out the whole site and it seemed kind of dull. It had around 88 members when I had logged in which obviously might have increased by now. Most I mean most are men looking for women. Then 1/4th profiles out of 88 are of women and out of those 1/4th are active. People there can just add people even without the other person knowing about it. It seems that they had added the feature just sometime back so I hadn’t known about it, it’s now quite similar to orkut in terms of friends requests. There are definitely some bugs in it. The image resizer for profile images and album is not at all good compared to the other sites. They have some kind of minimal blog for every account there which is like the usual ones we see on all networking sites. It even has video feature in it which is quite good for a site that new and which is still in its alpha stages. They definitely have lots to improve in it.

From what I have heard from here and there, it seems that the site is owned by reliance. They really want to put their heads in every other thing that they can think of. I actually wanted to know to which reliance brother does this belong, if my guess is right it should belong to the younger brother Anil Ambani. It would make sense since he is the one who has put his money in most of the internet related activities since he owns the Reliance Telecom. I personally don’t think that this site has any big hope until and unless it goes under a radical change in terms of its design and also in terms of its features. It’s trying to compete with Google’s Orkut, Hi5 and MySpace kind of rivals; it definitely need loads more than what it has now.

I have been thinking to type this for a long time now. I had taken screen shots for this long time back. I have now got the time and the mind to type. Now below is the simplest way to setup scheduling in utorrent. It’s quite easy since scheduling is an internal part of it rather than like in Azureus, where it is a plugin so read this carefully. Though it’s quite self explanatory still newbies will like this as I have explained this step by step.

These are the steps you will have follow to get scheduling working. I have taken the model time for the scheduler to work from 2:00am to 7:59am (BSNL Dataone free timing).

1. Start your utorrent and press Ctrl+P or go to Options->Preferences.
   
2. Then click on Scheduler.
3. Now you will have to enable the scheduler for which you will have to check the box which says “Enable Scheduler”. This will allow for us to start the Scheduler.
   
4. Next step needs a bit of explaining. You can see that there are some thing around 24 boxes X 7 rows = 168 boxes. The rows represent each day from Monday to Sunday and each of the 24 boxes next to the days represent 59 minutes of the day starting from 12:00 am to 12:59 am and ending at 23:00 to 23:59. Then there are the dark green boxes, light green boxes and white boxes. The dark green boxes means that at that specific time the download will be at full speed. The light green box means the speed of the torrents will be according to what you set (which can be set below it). The white box means the downloads are queued or to put simply waiting for the right time. Here you can change the color in the box by simply clicking them once to make them light green and again to make it white and again to make it dark green again (One small trick is to make one box white and without clicking again or releasing the mouse button move the mouse to the parts which you want to keep white, it makes it easy). I have done the setting in picture above for your reference. Another thing to note is that you will never have to use the light green color box but you can use it to keep the bandwith usage to minimum but it might spike sometimes increasing from the speed set by you, so beware.
5. So just simply click “Apply” and “OK” to finish it.

Now you can sleep safely and be rest assured that your utorrent will download all those things you want correctly at the free time. And if you are scared that the BSNL Dataone times might be late just change your desktop clock to about 10 mins or so late, just to be on the safer side.

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