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A New IP, A New Beginning

Many people using BSNL and Airtel connections seem to think that they have the same IP on the internet. They’re all completely wrong. Every time you connect to the internet by using a dialer or by turning on the modem (the modem configuration contains the login details) you are assigned a new IP address. This is called a dynamic IP. (You can always leave your modem on for a long long time and keep a single IP address but this isn’t even an exception. Just holding the IP with an active device.)

Now for sites like Rapidshare that enforce silly limits per IP, dynamic IP comes in very useful. You can simply disconnect and use the dialer program to reconnect. Takes only seconds. But if you have set the modem to automatically connect to the internet you’ll have to turn off the modem and turn it on again for a new IP. The fastest method is to use the dialer to disconnect and then reconnect.

Edit: Creating a batch file to release and renew IP address gives you back the same IP address as ‘A Test’ explained in the comments.

Oh by the way, law enforcement agencies can track you to your house with your IP address depending on how much your ISP cooperates with them. They can simply look up the user account to which the IP address was allotted and then get the address of the user from their billing database. I’m not saying it is often done in India. I’m saying it is possible but it will take time (to contact ISP, get records etc.)

Microsplot - Vista and Zune Bashing

I found some other awesome things on this site called Microsplot after finding this 100 Things People Are Really Saying About Windows Vista article on Digg yesterday. Read that article. They have totally convinced me that Vista is not worth upgrading to for any reason. In fact, people are moving back to XP from Vista and are calling the process ‘upgrading’!

An Essential Upgrade For The Zune

A Zune Poll
“Welcome to the social” is so not working. What new tag line better fits Microsoft’s Zune music player?

• Welcome to the lonely
• What’s brown and comes from Microsoft?… Okay, but what else?
• An iPod costs 250 dollars; a Zune costs only 200 Microsoft Points
• Bend over and get Zuned
• Available in three styles: Zunedenberg, Zunetanic, Zuneterloo!

Makes You Think (thinking not applicable to engineering students)

Searchers find man by his iPod’s glow
iPod helps rescuers locate lost hiker. If they’d found him by a Zune’s glow, would they have tossed him back?

Now let’s wait for the fanboys (all three of them) to start supporting the Zune claiming the new firmware upgrade makes things amazing and all. I am no fan of the iPod (it is overpriced and overhyped) but the Zune just makes me laugh.

Hallowed Be aXXo

Xavier emailed me this prayer beseeching aXXo to come back to us. (This was found on a TorrentFreak post here).

Our Ripper, who art on mininova,
aXXo be thy name.
Thy torrents come.
Seeding will be done,
Here as it was on suprnova.
Give us this day our latest rips.
And forgive us our leeching,
As we forgive those that leech from us.
And lead us not on to private trackers;
But deliver us from the MPAA;
For thine is the ripping, the seeding, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
Amen.

If you haven’t been following the news lately or you are a complete noob, some information to bring you up to date:

About aXXo

aXXo Takes A Break

However not everyone feels this way. The people who have an understanding of The Scene are aware that aXXo does not deserve this respect. I shall elaborate in successive posts.

No, It Isn’t Neil Armstrong

Here’s a picture I found somewhere.

Can you guess what this is? Obviously it’s a guy in some suit. But what is he? Come on, it’s not that hard. (What kind of an idiot smokes inside an airtight suit anyway?)

If you know the answer for sure please consider posting it after everyone else to give them a chance to guess.

LOLCAT Attack

Found some real good LOLCAT pics in the I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER feed.

One | Two | Three

These things make me smile every time! The expression on the cats faces is too good. I need to go get George’s cat to do some funny stuff.

I M HO?

I was watching this video and found this in the comments:

King
I don’t get it. I had one of those in highschool, I could easily do it… It’s not really difficult (a 4×4 cube is imho the hardest vs a 3×3, 5×5, or a dodecahedron…) check out mefferts.com

Scott C.
no one says imho anymore, just say imo. fag.

Myriam
I think he was telling us he’s a ho.

When are they releasing the StupidFilter?

How It Happened

Ew! Not that again…

If you don’t get this, I am definitely not going to explain it. Trust me, you are better off not knowing. If you really really really want to know and are willing to be totally revolted, I still won’t tell you.

Google Reader Improved

I’m beginning to think that Google really is evil.

Their most recent feature is the shared feeds on Google Reader. (If you don’t know what feeds are you should go read up before you continue reading this.)

How this works is that the feeds that your friends and contacts on Gtalk choose to share are available to you within Google Reader. So you can click on their name under Friends’ shared items and read all their feeds.

I have hundreds of posts and comments to sort through every day from the feeds I’m already subscribed to. This takes about half an hour a day not considering the time spent to leave comments or reading really long articles. Now by enabling users to access feeds of friends Google has ensured that people can never leave their computers. They will die from starvation reading feeds all day. Why did you do it, Google? Why?

I Can Has Internet?

A few days ago I received a text message from Airtel.

oh hai. u has AIRTEL LIVE. i sendz u settinks. plz save.

I thought to myself:

o rly?

And I saved the settings that were sent a few seconds later. Airtel then sent another message:

ya rly. congrats settinks saved 2 ur fone. i no asks monies for lukin. onli downlodin. kthnxbye.

So I fired up my browser and hey, I actually had interent access. I changed some preferences in the new Opera Mobile browser and tried out the different display modes. Then I went to the Gmail application and testing to see if it worked too. It did. And it looked like they weren’t charging me anything. It was connecting at EDGE speeds too. (Yes, my phone has that.)

Unfortunately I lost access in a few minutes and couldn’t connect again. Perhaps my balance was too low. I’ve deleted the settings and I’ll request them once again.

George Bush On Dollar Bills

The U.S. treasury is considering the following design for dollar notes in honour of George W. Bush, the missing link between humans and monkeys.

(Click on the image and see the slightly larger version.)

There are all sorts of tiny details on the note. Check the denomination and all the small text on the dollar bill.

More about Bush here.