I fully support this decision to cut power every day because we live in an underdeveloped country. We can’t really expect the Government to properly manage our natural resources and generate enough electric power. How can we blame the Electricity Board for being incompetent? They have better things to do than their jobs. Supply of 24 hours electricity is a nice dream but it isn’t realistic.

We just have to accept that sacrifices have to be made in an underdeveloped poor nation such as India. Until then we should ask other countries that are on the same level as us (Nigeria, Sudan, Bangladesh, Ethiopia) for some tips on how to manage our resources properly.

Entertaining.

Inspiring.

Watch the movie and see why Batman is the greatest superhero of them all.

During this time, Adithya will be the acting Ragha and try to maintain the level of bad humour and absurdity prevalent when the real Ragha is around. Adithya has proven himself to be a worthy Ragha by gaining weight, making bad jokes and weird noises but he still hasn’t reached peak form. So you should take this opportunity to sleep peacefully at night, travel safely on roads, use electronic items, enjoy uninterrupted power supply* and more benefits.

*Does not apply to people of Tambaram village.

It all started with my LAN card failing and then later throwing up a BSOD. So I thought I’d use the USB mode of the modem to avoid buying another Ethernet card. However I couldn’t get the modem to connect to Airtel through the USB cable (no, it wasn’t a cable problem).

I called Airtel tech support and they sent over this dull guy. He checked Device Manager under USB devices and found nothing. This was because the modem actually shows up under Network Adapters. I had already installed drivers for it and the device was active and working. Anyway,this dumbass put in his drivers CD, confidently double clicked setup.ico and was treated to the loading screen of Photoshop CS3 (since that was the program assigned to that extension). After fumbling about a bit he finally got to the setup.exe file… which froze at the end. So after a restart he finished the drivers setup and when there was still no connection he said that it was a USB problem. I showed him the modem listed under Network Adapters before kicking him out of my house. Then I went and bought a new LAN card.

The Intex card I bought for Rs. 150 didn’t connect to my modem either. It showed up in Device Manager but the LAN connection LED remained unlit. I took it to Ragha’s house for troubleshooting and figured out that the card was faulty. So I got it replaced, tested it at Ragha’s place and then installed it on my PC. There was a lot of running around checking if cables were the problem and wading into Windows options to see if there was a problem there in the middle of all this chaos. Extremely frustrating.

I’ve got it working now so I can get back to whatever I was doing.

The show has an unforgettable haunting theme song. Check it out here: ballad_of_serenity

Yesterday, my LAN card suddenly stopped responding and threw up a BSOD. Since it was really late at night (so late it was actually early morning) I didn’t troubleshoot it right away. It did start work perfectly the next day but the interesting thing is that all font formatting was restored.

Weird. I’m just happy that I’ve gone for more than 6 months without a reinstall.

Here’s another The Dark Knight poster:

Screw all the other lame superheroes. Sissy Spiderman, godmoding Superman and the others are just so pathetic compared to Batman.

Evaluation was lax this time and I easily passed all the subjects. So that finally ends The Curse of Engineering once and for all. I am supposed to be a Computer Science Engineer now but I dare not call myself knowing that most of what I learnt is useless in a professional environment. Thankfully, some of the skills I acquired through my own interests should help and I’m not too worried about work.

IT professional lands in prison for no fault of his
B.S. Ramesh

He spent seven days in lock-up and 43 days in jail

A mobile phone operator gave his IP address to Pune police

He is fighting to get compensation from company

BANGALORE: He was one among the many youth in Bangalore engaged in the software sector. His life revolved around his work at an Information Technology (IT) major, and his interest in cricket.

But Lakshman Kailash’s small world came crashing down when policemen from Pune arrested him for a crime he never committed.

Mr. Kailash was taken to Pune, where he spent seven days in lock-up and 43 days in Yerwada Jail.

A private mobile phone operator had given his IP address to Pune police following a complaint regarding a “derogatory blog” on Maratha king Chhatrapathi Shivaji, on Orkut.

The real offenders have now been caught, and Mr. Kailash has been released from prison.

His employers, who stood by him through his ordeal, have relocated him to Chennai.

He intends to carry on his fight to get compensation from the private mobile phone operator.

“It is their communication which led to my arrest and the 50 days of incarceration,” he says.

During a chat with The Hindu on the High Court of Karnataka premises on Saturday, Mr. Kailash relived his “dark” days in jail.

He had come there to consult his lawyer for initiating action against the mobile phone operator. Mr. Kailash said that on August 30 last, he had gone to sleep after watching a cricket match, in which India was playing, till 3 a.m. Five hours later, he was woken up by eight policemen from Pune, at his residence on Airport Road.

Even before Mr. Kailash could gather his wits and ask them what wrong he had done, the police began firing questions at him and “searched” his computer.

He was told that they had received a communication from the Bangalore office of the mobile phone firm saying that the “derogatory text” on Orkut against Chhatrapathi Shivaji had come from his IP address.

Unable to comprehend what the police were talking about, he contacted his brother who stayed near Hebbal.

But the police refused to believe that he was innocent. They took him to the airport police station, and then to Pune by road.

Mr. Kailash said that he had reached Pune on September 1, and had to spend seven days in “filthy” lock-ups at two police stations there.

The bail application he filed on the eighth day of his stay there was rejected by a magistrate, and he was sent to Yerwada Jail. With bed bugs for company, sound sleep was out of the question in the jail, and it was difficult to have jail food, he said.

With 200 undertrial prisoners packed in one of the wards, Mr. Kailash said that they had to sleep with hands on their chest.

He said he had refrained from telling the inmates the reason for being jailed.

The Pune police had told him that he would land in trouble if he told others that he had made “derogatory” references to Chhatrapathi Shivaji.

Jail life was a nightmare that Mr. Kailash still cannot forget. What is more annoying is the fact that he is not even remotely connected to the “crime” for which he was picked up.

Life in a high-security jail with hardened criminals was never easy, he said. The “blog” on Orkut seems to have changed Mr. Kailash’s life forever. He says that his family and friends have been helpful and encouraged him to start life anew.

He is determined to see that others do not suffer the fate he has.

He wants to ensure that adequate safeguards are put in place so that nobody is punished for a crime he has not committed.

Now what is wrong with badmouthing Shivaji? Making ‘derogatory references to Shivaji’ is not illegal in any way. Every citizen is entitled to Freedom of Speech and Expression (which is a Fundamental Right - Article 19, Indian Constitution). What happened to this freedom?

India claims to be a tolerant country but we all know that this is completely untrue. Everything is taboo and everything is subject to moral judgement by a small group of narrow minded people who deserved a slow painful death. Intolerance is the way of life here and everything is controlled by politicians/thugs, religious fanatics and the rich. Don’t think you are safe. If this can happen to some random IT professional it can just as easily happen to you.

Welcome to India, where freedom is a lie.

George Bush, considered the worst President ever. Bush will be given the boot later this year. I hope the Americans figure out a way to impeach the bastard and take away the billions he and his cronies made.

The Vice Chancellor of a well known university who was so afraid of technology that he banned cell phones in all affiliated colleges finally went away last week when his term ended. He then justified his decision by claiming that the overall pass percentage improved. Instead of improving the quality of education and restructuring the messed up syllabus he amused himself with petty issues like this and the dress code.

The Principal of ***T who was the personification of pettiness was finally fired. He was arrogant, childish and completely devoid of any qualities that people would expect in a Principal. Yet he held the job for two years. Did I mention that he wasn’t even qualified for the job?

Why am I not mentioning names? It is because India is a fucked up country where freedom of speech exists only in dusty books and two of the assholes mentioned above are still in a position to screw up things for me.