No time for blogging exams on my neck(?)

Hi readers(the few people who read this are close enough to b eaddressed very informally), there have been no posts for a long time and this is getting me into frust (KGP lingo for 'frustration').

What can I do, absolutely helpless.Four class tests and three vivas in 9 days dont help. Infact the heavy schedule has caused my ill health.I have recovered now only to face the end-sems beginning 20th Nov.

So it is a no-brainer that a post beginning like this would only imply no further posts till I finish my end-sems.

Some news about a website which I'm enrolled:
Indianwebmaster.org a forum site had a 'hack-attempt' the site is up for a database update .Here is the mail I received.
"
As you may be knowing that We'd a hack attempt on our forum, and coz of that we lost most of the data....

So I need to do a database backup...and I hope i'll get most of the things back...but all the new users who registered after that date will need to register again.

Regards.
~root://
"

So, I'll have to see if I need to register again.

And for guys/gals having blogs, go check out Autopinger.com. It says it has tied up with ZingFast.com to their services so that your blog will get more exposure. Well, as far I'm concerned, "Unlucky - no time to blog" ;-(

Ganguly hitz a ton-I'm loving it

06/11/06-Today

I finished my electrical viva-not exactly screwed up nor a hit but satisfactory.

The only news cheering me up today is that my hero- Sourav Ganguly hit a century and showed that it's still not over.

He hit an unbeaten 118 against North Zone in the Duleep Trophy match today. Along with Abhishek Jhunjhunwala and Deep Dasgupta , he shared valuable partnerships to frustrate the North's bowlers who earned only to wickets for all their efforts today.

The match apart ,it is a hope for me that he'll return for the World Cup.With the more-than-disappointing performance in the Champions Trophy , it is definitely a chance.Atleast , I think so.So hope for the best and leave the rest.

Hmm, good point made.

The Ga(y)le that swept the South Africans away

The Last Crusade

He returned, yes he did
The consecrate knight
of burnish armour
His mighty steed
galloped, with him
on a thousand thoughts
of his maiden so fair

Left behind were blood and gore
wounded pride, crusades,
promised lands of death and wrath
the shining sword ...had served

It kept him alive, the purple flower
that spoke
of thimbleberries, by the brook that was
of the puerile love, that had been
of innocence, trust and unabashed faith
of her it spoke with tears of joy.

Return he did from the righteous crusades
The sands of time had turned vicious
tears of blood, of betrayal, of her
had washed it all
the dream was gone
love vanquished, hopes swallowed
by the agony of destine dismay

The cold that was
in her eyes, distant,
spoke of love gone awry
rage or despair?
unknown the feeling was

And he rode into nothingness
his mighty steed
galloped quick
He tried to his end, but in vain
to elude the shadow that was.

Copyright:Unknown. But taken from Perdition ,posted by SATAN.

The Kentsfield arrives- Ready to ravage the High-end

2 November,2006 will remain a day to remember in history as Intel takes us into the multi core era with the release of the much anticipated quad-core processor:The Kentsfield.

Codenamed Kentsfield, this will be known as the Core 2 Quadro and wiil be numbered QCxxxx.

For all those who were thinkin if this would really boost performance...perish the thought.This beast flays competition.The performance boost is awesome.Work time is cutdown to half.An encoding from MPEG2 to WMV9 that would take 5:08 mins on a Core 2 Duo E6700 now takes only 2:55 mins.Now thats performance.

The other end: applications not written to take advantage of the new multi core architecture will NOT show any performance boost- however this is not the case with most demanding applications like renderers and encoders or even games.

So, all in all , Intel's on a rampage ,literally , with its back to back releases ,it is trying to push AMD onto the wall.

All will be decided two weeks down the lane when AMD is all set to release its quadcore version.

Till then , Intel can hold on to its much-fought-and-won "King of the processors" crown.