Google Docs: Moving with World

How many times it happened to you that you got a laptop to edit your word document  or create a presentation in 30 mins!! just to find that the laptop doesn'nt have office suit in it.

Gone the days when you needed a office suit in your computers. With Internet technologies improving at rapid speed. You have all the office suit with Google Docs at your finger tips. Google Docs allows your to create basic word doc, excel-sheets , presentations , images at your Google home page.
Just follow http://docs.google.com/
All of your word documents , spread-sheets, presentation travel with you. Yeah no more pen-drives :)
No more shouting on cunning neighbour children who delete your stuff from computer when your are away.
No more headaches of finding the documents.
Google Docs also has an import function. Moreover it also allows you to link your spreadsheet or presentation to webpages. Nice isn't it.
Also has Template feature.Templates allow you to quickly create those Resume, Monthly bills etc.
Its better to watch it in action yourself.
Cheers. :)

Witch doctors and Computer Virus Infection

This article is dedicated to my good friends, who regularly get virus in their laptops and then bring them to me for the "cure". ( and I cleaned them with help of "Decease Cleansing Totem" (dedicated to my World of Warcraft friends) ).
Common Mistakes that lead to infections :

• "Antivirus are useless". Funny but true, most people think antivirus are worthless.
• "I checked this pendrive. It doesn't have any viruses". Really?? think again.
• "This pendrive may have viruses but don't worry, I just need this song from your HDD.". Great Work Einstein.
• "I formatted the pen drive, No more viruses!!!!". LOL.

You have virus infections: Symptoms.
Most of the symptomsare easily observable.

• Right clicking pen drives give Odd looking Menu items.
• Task manager has some unusual processes running.
• Task manager is blocked or not showing.
• Msconfig shows unusual entries at startup.
• Msconfig is blocked.

Avoid double clicking pen drives, either right click->explore or type the address at addressbar.  Get an anti virus!!! regularly update it. Scan every pen drives, even if the owner claims that its empty.

"Prevention is better 'then' cure".

P.S : thanks akshata, luv your comments.

Guarding my Computer: My Avast

Its been 3 years, yes three long years and no other anti virus program has come even closer to Avast. I use Avast home Edition and its awesome.
Being on Internet is not safe specially if you are not aware. Mal ware, Trojans, Root kits crawling around. Your friends running with scissors (pen drives) ready to hurt your computer.
How does Avast prevents all of these?

Avast Home Edition

• On access protection: protects you when files are accessed, very important for pen drives where virus auto run most of the time.
• Network shield: when your firewall fails, which usually do. prevents infection from Networks.
• Low memory print:  yes you wont even know Avast is doing its job.
• Boot time scan: very important, if you are caught off guarded, which is rare with Avast.
• Regular Update: gets updated 3-4 times per day automatically.
• Home Edition: free registration for 1 year.

"I was checking the traffic details on my blog. when i saw new links. I curiously clicked on them, to check the source of this traffic. And suddenly Avast blocks a JS-infection from the site.

Thanks to Avast my computer is safe again. :P

This article was written after that incident."

Together We Stand

The fun parts of job are the moments you share with your fellow colleagues. I have been fortunate, having great colleagues at work. Working at college has been like being in college once again. Cheers

Quotes and lines

Mark of  Genius, You throw rocks at them they make a wall  out of it , climb on it and say  "hey I am still over and above you   :P !!!".
I love such quotes. These small lines just describes the pain,barriers, struggle of a person. I usually get such good qoutes from my friends' SMSes,who get them from thier friends etc. But I rarely get programming qoutes. I searched the net and found some really funny one.
some of the quotes I really like:

• “The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it’s too late.”
• “In C++ it’s harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but when you do, you blow off your whole leg.”
• “Fine, Java MIGHT be a good example of what a programming language should be like.  But Java applications are good examples of what applications SHOULDN’T be like.”

Some lines by me :P (here it comes):-

• Programmer devotes 80% of his time on one half of the program and 80% of people like the other half.
• Programmer 1:" your code looks seriously messy!!". Programmer 2:" yeah I optimised it, so only I can correct it".
• For a programmer, who crys the most? the "keyboard" ofcourse.

Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems

AI has been the most mysterious topic for me. I have always wondered about human like systems, System which can show intelligent behaviour. Describing intelligence is quite tricky, as human minds can do such things that a AI system cant even imagine (imagination in system is whole new topic to discuss).

blogging on the fly

currently testing bloggers mobile blogging capability. I am using opera 5 and nokia 6300. The editor works directly in html mode. no fancy compose mode available for opera 5. rest seem to work fine. One more thing. sometime the auto save doesn't work, so make sure to hit save (yup i wrote this thing twice ;)  ).

Spending Money on Recharges

What do you get when you have a lot of idle time, a mobile phone  and a spreadsheet. You get a pretty weird research topic. :)

How much you spend on your mobile phone per month?. Tricky right? with so many tariff plans available for your network, the amount you pay will vary with network to network, person to person.

Migration: Windows to Linux

Here I am with my Ubuntu System (10.04 Lucid Lynx), migrated from windows. Why? well I like to keep exploring new things. So whats new? well I tried following following distributions

1. OpenSuse 11.3 DVD version.
2. Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) 1CD version

So what did i found about? Well lets break it down to some criteria.