My Punjab.

My Punjab is the “Land of the Five Rivers”.

My Punjab is not Punjab (India) or Punjab (Pakistan) - it is simply Punjab.

My Punjab is the land of great gurus like Guru Nanak and of warrior saints like Guru Gobind.

My Punjab is where there are Sikhs, Hindus and Muslims - with no difference.

In my Punjab people still discriminate on the basis of caste and call themselves the followers of Baba Nanak.

In my Punjab, a Punjabi would rather tolerate abuses on himself than his motherland.

My Punjab gave birth to 20-year-old warriors who sacrificed their life for the honor of the country.

In my Punjab bribing is a way of life; its an integral part of the system. The Government functions on that.

My Punjab is the place where the (Bihari : Punjabi) ratio per square kilometers is >> 1.

In my Punjab, a guest is still treated like a King.

In my Punjab you get Sarsoon da Saag with Makki Di Roti and a tumbler full of Lassi.

My Punjab has the worst police force on the Earth regularly accused of severe human right violations.

My Punjab is where you worship the soil cause of the glory it has.

My Punjab is where you get to listen the most lively form of music with a dazzling display of Bhangra.

My Punjab is the land of poets like Bulle Shah and Shiv Kumar Batalvi.

My Punjab is not Khalistan. My Punjab is not only for Sikhs. It is for our Hindu and Muslim brothers. The words of Guru Gobind, ‘Treat the human race as one’, will always guide us.

My Punjab is definitely not the corrupt Government officials who don’t work unless you stuff their filthy self with bribe money.

My Punjab is not for religious fanatics or people who have nothing else to do in their life except boast about the superiority of their caste.

My Punjab is my motherland. Canada or US. No matter where you are. There has never been nor will be a place like apna Punjab.

Vasda rahai mera Punjab. Proud to be a Punjabi.

Pulling together interesting search trends and patterns requires Google’s human and computing power together. Search statistics are automatically generated based on the millions of searches conducted on Google over a given period of time - weekly, monthly, and annually. With some help from humans, and a pigeon or two (LOL) when they have time, these statistics and trends make their way from the depths of Google’s hard drives to become the Google Zeitgeist report.

Or in other words, this means what specific terms did Indians search for most, using Google in April 2007.

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LOL. Ain’t it funny? Angelina Jolie? LOL LOL. We Indians. Phew.

2nd one is self explanatory.

Intex (India) is a computer accessories manufacturer, good all right but I never knew it was that popular!

DTDC is a leading Indian courier company.

Polaris - Can’t seem to fit this!!!!

SESA Goa is India’s largest exporter of iron ore in the private sector . . . Wonder . . .??

Franklin Templeton - Investment Firm . . . Must be mutual funds!

Homeopathy - Mostly found in all Indian homes. Trusted!

NCDEX - National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited

Online Hindi Songs - Papuyaar Yaar!

Mona Lisa - LOL. Now why this.

Northern Railway - The best thing to happen to Indian Railways. The online enquiry system REALLY ROCKS.

Valentino Rossi - People do watch MotoGP

Stress - Ha ha. Stress. Good one.

Jiya Khan - LOL. This really made me go ROFL. Long legs I guess ?

(Arun gave the idea for this! Greetings fly out to him.)

This rocks list - presenting before you stuff that brings a smile on your face and makes you realize that even if half of the world is going nuts, there are still things left to marvel.

1. Google Search Engine, Gmail, Picasa.

2. Mozilla Firefox

3. Broadband in excess of 2 MBps.

4. The GNU C Compiler Collection - gcc, g++

5. Intel Core 2 Duo and above.

6. Orkut (if used for social networking, not increasing your scraps)

7. Open Source Software - Long Live GNU

8. Linux OS (specially Ubuntu Linux)

9. Alternative, Classical, Progressive and Psychedelic Rock (aah!! the real thing)

10. GNOME Desktop Environment

11. Nokia Cell Phones

12. Good Bollywood Music (by people who can actually SING)

13. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) - these guys may be backward in many ways, but they rock. They don’t believe in religion based or quota based politics. And under their rule, never has the country been divided by uncivilized barbarians in the name of religion. Keep it up! Just grow with the times.

14. Pink Floyd, Radiohead and other such great bands who define (defined for Pink Floyd) music.

15. Lata Ji, Sonu Nigam, Udit Narayan and Roop Kumar Rathod - SINGERS. The real ones. Himesh Reshammiya can rot in hell.

16. Winamp Music Player, VLC LAN for Videos

17. Windows Vista Ultimate OS - Whatever critics may say, this version of Windows does really score over XP in many many ways.

18. Yahoo! Instant Messenger, Google Talk - Windows Live Messenger makes me want to puke.

19. NDTV 24 X 7, Times Now, CNN - IBN (news channels worth watching)

20. Karan Thapar (This guy is way too good) and Barkha Dutt - journalists.

21. South Park (cartoon)

22. Youtube.com - On my connection, streaming takes a lot time - still . . . !

23. WordPress - Blogging Platform! I love WordPress!

24. Last.fm - Internet Social Music Revolution - Helped me discover Radiohead!

25 (Request, should have added earlier): India and Indian Food

And finally people I had like to meet - Richard Stallman, Linus Trovalds, Bjarne Stroustrup, Dennis Ritchie, Nandan M. Nilekani, Anders Hejlsberg, Rogers Waters, David Gilmour, Bono, Thomas Yorke, Chris Martin, Tom Hanks, Hilary Swank, Steven Spielberg, AR Rahman and more I will add as soon as I recall!

Here is the ultimate list of ALL THINGS THAT SUCK (according to me). If you have any problem with what is on the list, post in the comments section and I will explain why that particular thing does indeed suck.

The order is random. And so is the ‘type.’

1. Internet Explorer, Windows Media Player and Hotmail (I ain’t anti - Microsoft!)
2. Limewire, eMule and others - ALL P2P except BitTorrent
3. Companies who offer ‘Broadband’ @ 64 Kbps
4. Turbo C++ Compiler
5. AMD Processors
6. Hi5
7. Closed source software
8. Living without the Internet
9. Abhishek Bachan and Aishwarya Rai
10. Sania Mirza
11. Rap and Hip Hop music (Akon sucks)
12. Himesh Reshammiya
13. Ekta Kapoor and ALL HER SERIALS
14. K Desktop Environment (doesn’t suck, but GNOME is lot better)
15. Stupid Bollywood Item Numbers
16. Motorola Cell Phones
17. Remixes (all types)
18. Rakhi Sawant
19. Navjot Sidhu and his stupid laughter
20. All political parties dividing India on communal lines
21. Arjun Singh and his quota policy
22. Websites which force you to use IE.

. . . Suggest more and I will add!

Officially declared by Rolling Stone magazine as the #1 song of all times, Dylan makes your skin crawl. Check out the video.

The song is exceptionally brilliant - more so when you understand what it is about.

The meaning of the song can be found HERE.

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LOL. I am not found of taking these so called ‘Nerd Tests’, however I didn’t have anything else to do so I went over to NerdTests.com and took the Computer Geek Quiz

The score? Well well well.




LOL! A Computer GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The test was pretty easy I think! (0% scored higher or 0% scored the same same as 100%. LOL)

Overall:

0% scored higher (more computer geeky),
0% scored the same, and
100% scored lower (less geeky).

What operating system are you taking this quiz on?

Response	% Response	Avg. Score
Windows	82%	45
Apple	7%	60
Linux	7%	84
Unix	2%	89
Other	2%	52

Sadly, Linux is still at 7% while Windows continues to lead with 82%.

A properly configured Linux system makes Windows look pathetic.

People think Vista is too good. I had installed Vista and believe me, it sucks! After an uptime of 2 days, the OS started giving problems - frozen windows and stuff. Just waiting for Fiesty Fawn to release!

Now time for some fun. Which includes going out and writing some kewl programs. I love this life!

In BTW, if music is for the soul, then this is it:

The song is With Or Without You by U2 from the album ‘The Joshua Tree’

Can’t understand how people manage to live without music! Seriously. In BTW, check out the

Music

page on the top.

Republic Day congratulations to all my fellow countrymen.

May the following things be banned in India - in the true spirit of being of an Indian.

1. Congress and BJP (Political Parties) - Congress for the anti - Sikh riots in 1984, in which innocents Sikhs were massacred in many parts of the country. People like Jagdish Tytler and Kamal Nath were responsible inspite of that, they were introduced in the Cabinet. The Nanavati Commission took 20 years almost to submit its reports. This happens only in India.

BJP for the 2002 Gujarat riots. Innocent Muslims were killed throughout Gujarat. And yet Narendra Modi escapes, fights the elections again and wins. Pathetic. Had it been some other country, such a person would have been brought to justice immediately, his role in the riots was clear cut. Yet he continues to be the Chief Minister. Rightly said, sometimes in a democracy all the fools are on the same side of the majority.

The surprising part? In both the cases, the police actually helped in propagating the riots. This speaks volumes about the police force in our country.

See the videos of either the anti - Sikh riots or the Gujarat riots. Then you will realize how insane some people can be. You won’t weep, you will cry out loud.

2. Television - Ekta Kapoor and her stupid shows in which according to her she shows the empowerment of women. Right. 6 to 7 marriages of the same lady and this is called empowerment. The only thing she is bringing out to the audiences is - that she is lousy. Her concepts are pathetic. The audience? I am really surprised how people see these shows. I even heard that some of my friends watch them. How sick can someone get I mean?

Big Boss. It sucks so much that I won’t even talk about it. Stupid show. Stupid people.

3. Religion Based Politics - Any party that uses religion as its base should be banned and the leaders be sent to a maximum security prison - they are like terrorists. Seriously.

4. Cellular Companies - Of course its not feasible to ban them but the way they loot customers its really pathetic. Misleading consumers by calling a 64 Kbps connection as BROADBAND.
Our country can do a lot better if people stop this caste crap and religion bullshit.  Jai Hind.

Mozilla Firefox is slowly becoming the de facto web browser - making people finally realize that IE is pathetic. On a personal level, almost all of my sane friends use Firefox (thanks to me!) . This post deals with the memory leak problem in Firefox (what a memory leak is; explained further)

Programmers are familiar with the term memory leak. For others, memory leak is un-intentional memory consumption by the program wherein it fails to release memory no longer needed. Think of it like this - whenever you run a software, a specific amount of memory is allocated to it. Since we are dealing with Firefox, let us concentrate on that. When you open Firefox assuming an empty page, it takes up some amount of memory to load the interface. Next, supposing you open Gmail. The memory consumption increases (cause of Gmail). After that you sign out of Gmail and once again return to an empty page. If Firefox is still consuming the same amount of memory it was when Gmail was open - this is a memory leak. Gmail is no longer loaded but Firefox has failed to release the memory it allocated. This way the leaked-out memory keeps on increasing and hence slows down your computer if you have less RAM. (Programmers: memory leak does not mean that the memory is physically lost, it means that the program logic can’t access the memory due to faulty code)

“To check how much memory Firefox is using:”

Right click on the Taskbar and choose Task Manager. Now choose the Processes tab. Look for firefox.exe And note down the memory usage.

Typically, if you have no open windows or tabs (a blank page; which can also be brought about by typing about:blank in the address bar), Firefox should not consume more than 50 MB of memory. Anything more than this and means memory has already leaked out. (just a sentence!) Time for action.

1. The easiest solution is to restart Firefox. This will bring the memory back to a level it should actually consume.

2. Many a times, the themes and extensions cause a memory problems. The way to check this is to start Firefox in safe mode. To do this, go to Start > Run. Enter:

firefox -safe-mode

Press Enter. This starts Firefox in safe mode. Now check the memory usage after using it for sometime. If memory allocated decreases dramatically, means that the themes or the extensions are causing problems. Using the default theme or updating that extension might help.

3. Clearing the Firefox cache might help. To do this, press Ctrl + Shift + Del in succession.

4. Another method to cure the memory leak problem. Click here. (For advanced users only)

The ironical thing is that the Mozilla guys have done nothing to resolve this issue. For most people the easiest way out is method number one. Restarting Firefox.

Advanced people who know how to mess around with about:config, check the link in point 4.

Firefox rocks. Except the memory problem and loosing bookmarks!