My random writings

FOSSkriti V 3.0

2010-01-19T11:41:00.001-08:00

After successfully hosting two versions of FOSSkriti for two years we now present FOSSkriti V3.0 .

If you are a student and are interested in FOSS , you HAVE TO ATTEND FOSSkriti.We will be organizing it as a part of Techkriti, techfest of IIT Kanpur. For more information go to techkriti.org

M Singh with children

2009-11-14T05:14:00.000-08:00

Today i happened to visit IBNlive and found this nice program.It is an interaction with Dr.Manmohan Singh with children at his house.He is as simple as ever and his answers show why he is one of the few ideal politicians in India :).

Go up on ibn live and search for it ..i have removed the player as ibn is such an arse that it shows up pop ups for embedded videos.grrrrr

I love you MS :).

Refuting Political Islam's Claims using open source software.

2009-10-24T02:31:00.000-07:00

Well in my last post's comments Rohitj asked to clarify to what extent Politicalislam.com's claims are correct.Well to disprove him i'll use an opensource Quran study software for Linux called Zekr. It is a brilliant software by which you can study Quran in whatevr language you want :).

Now lets start by his first claim.

As an example, there is never any reference to humanity as a unified whole. Instead there is a division into believer and kafir (unbeliever).

Right..Here is my answer , a quote from quran searched using the Zekr software :).

(Quran 49:13) O mankind! Lo! We have created you male and female, and have made you nations and tribes that ye may know one another. Lo! the noblest of you, in the sight of Allah, is the best in conduct. Lo! Allah is Knower, Aware.

Now this verse Doesn't speak about believer and unbelievers I guess?.His Second claim is

Humanity is not seen as one body, but is divided into whether the person believes Mohammed is the prophet of Allah or not.

Well , Its so obvious dude.. World is divided into people who are men and who aren't (women).But anyway to disprove you again I quote this verse..

(Quran 114:3)Say: I seek refuge in the Lord of mankind
The King of mankind,
The god of mankind,
From the evil of the sneaking whisperer,
Who whispereth in the hearts of mankind,
Of the jinn and of mankind.

Here it does not say God of believers , king of believers etc .

I would like to go on further but i would be wasting my time.But instead ill explain what tactic he used.Let me Quote a verse out of context from Quran.

(Quran 2:190)And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.

Like if i Quoted this verse alone you would say that Quran is speaking of violence and is discriminatory right ?Now let me quote the full verse in context, i.e quoting a few verses before and after it,

Fight in the way of Allah against those who fight against you, but begin not hostilities. Lo! Allah loveth not aggressors.
And slay them wherever ye find them, and drive them out of the places whence they drove you out, for persecution is worse than slaughter. And fight not with them at the Inviolable Place of Worship until they first attack you there, but if they attack you (there) then slay them. Such is the reward of disbelievers.
But if they desist, then lo! Allah is Forgiving, Merciful.

And fight them until persecution is no more, and religion is for Allah. But if they desist, then let there be no hostility except against wrong-doers.

Here the verse doesn't refer to disbelievers perse , It refers to the ones who persecuted Prophet mohammed (peace be upon him). It asks to fight against those who persecute and attack you.It doesn't say to go out in the maket and kill anybody you can find.Like what would you do if a few hooligans come and beatup all your family and throw you out of your house ? would say " I am a peaceful person , i will not harm thou" .Obiviously no .. you would defend youselves by attacking them.SIMPLE. It even says Allah doesn't like aggressors , What more proof do you want ?

Please dont quote verses out of context.And please dont believe what every drunken idiot like this political islam guy says.

Oh btw here is a screenshot of Zekr.

An awesome verse in Quran.

2009-10-13T11:00:00.000-07:00

I think this post will be pretty helpful to some of my friends.I am directly Quoting the Quran and its translation in english.It is an beautiful verse which i guess in short explains all the doubts regarding islam being intolerant towards other religions is rubbish.

Al-Kafiroon
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful

Say: O disbelievers! (1) I worship not that which ye worship; (2) Nor worship ye that which I worship. (3) And I shall not worship that which ye worship. (4) Nor will ye worship that which I worship. (5) Unto you your religion, and unto me my religion. (6)

And contrary to popular belief kafir means disbelievers in arabic , thats it . its not an abuse :P.

Oh and btw i am on Puppy linux now and it is totally awesome complete post coming soon

Salaams (peace ).
zakir

Mumbai and a few things I am missing here

2009-05-29T11:19:00.000-07:00

Hi , I am in mumbai right now and i guess i am doing ok . The work here is kinda cool and my guide is so awesome that i dont have to work much ( Somehow his enthusiasm is greater than mine by orders of magnitude).But i must say my work is interesting.Also Mumbai is so huge that the fun u get by going to places is negated by the amount of effort u need to make to reach that place.

For instance i need to take 3 these red busses and the local train to reach from iit to BPCL.

And now i am missing somethings desperately here .. i would rather like to post their pictures ( note these pictures do not include my family and home which i am missing like hell)

The Awesome UPMA

My Hometown

I hate to say this , but yes i am missing my college people and awesome internet

India Elects its new Leader

2009-05-16T04:13:00.000-07:00

714 million voters in india finally decided who will be the next prime minister.He will be none other than the awesome Dr.Manmohan Singh. So, the month long arduous process has finally yielded fruits :)

Computer Center filter phail!

2009-04-25T11:33:00.000-07:00

this post is dedicated to lut4rp ( pratul )

Advani is a m0r0n!

2009-03-15T10:30:00.000-07:00

Yes, you heard it right , he is a moron. wondering why I am so pissy about him ?
-> For irritating me with his absolutely horrible ads
->For trying to show that he is in tandem with the netizens , when actually he is a old fart who is happy to divide india on basis of religion.
->For even advertising on sourceforge.net . ( for which i decided to not to visit sfg till elections finish)

and finally hope you loose in elections dear dreadful granpa..

edit: i now blocked that ad with AdBlockPlus after nareshov's suggestion :P

~zakirs

Do right and fear no man

FOSSkriti .. Finally Web is a bit more FREE ..

2009-02-16T11:14:00.000-08:00

The Open Source mini Conference at IITK ( aka as FOSSkriti) ended this sunday.We had to run around a lot to organize it and i wish FOSSkriti never ended.The people i met and the kind of work we did was awesome to say the least ...

On 12th night we had a workshop by Arun and Seth on open source web technologies during which they released bespin to public for the first time ever (\o/) and next day we had a talk on HTML5 by Arun again.

The 13th night we had the awesome Drupal guys ( Pratul and Gurpartap) conducting the Drupal Usability Sprint and it went pretty good and two girl even learnt to write a drupal module on the spot!

Our Inhouse guys ( Praneeth and Nareshov ) had a general webserver talk "Put it out the web way"and it went good.

Then Came the Sahana talk and hackfest by Ajay Kumar with Sahana's lead and author of Web2py available for us on the IRC to guide our people at the hackfest

Finally on the last day we had a Talk on Open web by Shwetank Dixit,Opera and a talk on Webkit by my favourite dev , Siraj Razick through Video Conference.

For me FOSSkriti09 was a awesome experience .. how was ur experience , please do comment

Zakirs,
Team FOSSkriti

FOSSkriti-Free the Web

2009-02-11T07:36:00.000-08:00

hello all ,

This time around FOSSkriti is going to be big.We are focusing on Open Web and web standards this time.1 day to go to FOSSkriti lots of work needs to be done and all of us are very busy, so if u are around come along to IIT Kanpur.

http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti

stickers ,Tshirts , hackfests, workshops , talks and lot more ----->

ciao

An Unique and Awsesome prime minister of India

2009-01-28T21:10:00.000-08:00

Well He is my favourite Indian politician and as a person he is an ideal person to me.This few lines describe him (taken from thousands of well wishing posts for PM)

The PM is a rare person, an endangered species in this age.
1. When every 2-penny politician wants to promote his progeny, he has kept his family out of the limelight.
2. When every politician in the country is busy scoring political points, he has kept himself to his work ignoring all taunts.
3. Above all, when the prestige of every politician is measured by the number of court cases pending against him for thuggery and corruption, he is one person against whom even his bitterest rivals cannot point a finger.
4. He stands out for his simplicity and hardwork in stark contrast to the ugly profile of the average politician.

May God bless him with a successful treatment so that he returns to serve the nation with greater vigour and strength.

yes iam alive

2009-01-19T23:15:00.001-08:00

muzpic

heroes ... of the real life ..

2008-11-30T06:09:00.000-08:00

hi people ,

i know nobody reads my blog .. yet i like to write .. hmm so after a long ordeal with end semester exams iam finally up with exams .. but the happyness was shortlived due to mum attacks .. i really feel all those police officers were real life heroes , they sacrificed their lives to save people :( .and why do those (terrorists) fcking bstards need to kill people , cant they just go and kill themselves ..

anyway .. iam going hometown tommorow .. yaay!

nice ascii art and the message

2008-11-08T05:32:00.000-08:00

http://pastebin.com/f607d08f1

MASSA is the champ no matter what !!

2008-11-02T11:16:00.000-08:00

"I'm very proud and I'm leaving the track with my head completely up because I think we did everything we could."

for those of u who missed the finish of brazillian grandprix u missed a lot .. although the result came out as expected :( [ the driver i dislike won WDC (LH) ] .. massa did a stunner .. vettel was absolutely awsome .. and glock sucked .. yes the reason massa lost was because of glock . with all due respect to glock . why the hell did he give that place to hamilton , it would have been again a miracle win for massa ....if not for glock i would have been jumping around like a guy who won a zillion dollars :( !.

here is the list of events ..

lewis on 4th massa 1st
rain starts with 5 laps to go
glock stays out and every body pits
glock 4th , hami 5th vettel 6th
vettel overtakes hami awsomely and hami down to 6th
massa set to win WDC with corner to go
glock screwes up inlast corner lewis comes 5th and wins the championship ...

but inside i still feel massa lost because of his badluck .. not because of his abilities .. So inside my heart massa will always be the champ for me

" the infamous hungary screw up that might have cost massa the title :(

All in all it was a great year ... but it would have been magnificient if only massa would have won :( ....

F1 WDC who will be the winner

2008-11-02T08:49:00.000-08:00

well iam going to watch the race on tv in 5 mins .. hope massa wins some how :( . .. expect a long post later

welcome to sajjanpur ....

2008-09-22T09:50:00.000-07:00

very few movies i saw recently have actually managed to make me write about them(actually none) but i must say welcome to sajjan pur is a true master piece .. the way teh characters are sketched is awsome and the songs are pretty entertaining .. although this would not be a movie in which you would be coming out crying but you would surely have a happy face ... and my favourite part in the movie has to be the elections in which a eunuch stands for elections and the way his/her character is shown .. and they way the movie ended was awsome...
totally worth a watch ...

shreyas did awsome as usual :)

web statistics of my blogs visitors ( go firefox go !! )

2008-09-18T05:20:00.000-07:00

well as the picture says firefox is the major browser of my blog's visitors ... although the statistics may not be exactly right coz people who use firefox may be vsiting more than people who use internet explorr but these stats are encouraging :P and look at linux .. its not far behind too :P

What Exams taught me ......

2008-08-30T00:41:00.000-07:00

So , here it is finally the day came , the day whn i become free , the day when my exams finish . I had in total 5 subjects ( thanx to Prof.Basu for deciding not to hold one or else i had to give 6 exams so .. I learned few things from these exams..

I am a loser
Iam a loser
Iam a big loser!
No matter how much i study or try to study i have a semi-unique(saiteja is also one) ability to screw up
Iam the dumbest person to be born on this earth after george bush...
eric cartman (southpark) can do better math than me
i have a good habit of sleeping 12 hrs a day with my eyes open when iam preparing for exams ..

ok thats it guys enugh of exams!! ... now i want to write about SOUTHPARK yeah ,,, recently i have become addicted to this and iam planning a mamotth task to watch entire 11-12 seasons of it .

And my favourite character is kenny :D

I love the way he dies all the time in every episode and returns back without any explanation :P

tiring week

2008-08-21T09:11:00.000-07:00

Well this week has been pretty tiring :( ... iam tired like a dog right now and yet i have 1 quiz and 2 assignments due tommorow.So , in short life sucks at the moment and mid sems are approaching so as usual pressure builds up :| ... gosh i feel like hell now :(

alone , rejected , frightened

2008-08-03T03:15:00.000-07:00

well thats how iam feeling right now :( , the past few weeks have been bad for me .. my laptop has a problem .. now i need cash to get it repaired , I screwed my phone ( i was foolish enough to carry in my pocket while i was dancing in rain ) ... and now the semester starts and its really a pain in the bottom to go to all classes and finish assignments.
I dont know what kinda coincidence it is but very few people are replying to my gtalk messages ..may be every one hates me :( . i lost my cycle keys , ferrari is doing bad :( . hope good days come back soon :pray

DIGSBY ROCKS!!!

2008-07-27T08:23:00.000-07:00

well i happened to find this amazing piece of software called digsby which gives pidgin a run for its money ... well its an awsome multi im chat client and it also supports facebook, my space and can be used for email alerts :| ... i am pretty amazed by this piece of software and also its UI is one of the best ones i have ever seen ...
simple clean and highly cutomisable , all in all digsby rocks ... plzzz give it a try ;)
http://www.digsby.com/?utm_campaign=old1&utm_content=old1

also it has awsome forum and community :)

copyrights copyrights copyrights

2008-07-05T01:22:00.000-07:00

well these days i met many intellectually sound people , and you know what i found common in all of them they want copyrights even for small silly things that actually don't mean that much when you observe things with common sense, yet people want to keep their knowledge with themselves .. they want to get the control over knowledge .. but little did they know that the more you control the more harm you are doing to yourselves and the society.why do they want to do copyrights over such silly thing as a simple animation or a web design that it selves looks crappy and i in no way would copy that .

well i dream of living in a world where people work for sharing things , people like to spread knowledge , people like to help others , people are happy seeing others happy rather than becoming jealous.... hope that day comes soon or iam already starting to feel suffocated to live in this freedom less world where people are greedy for money and fame.....

but i see some hope in FOSS/ FSF / Creative Commons ... most of my friends say " what do people earn by supporting FOSS/ CC/FSF , they cant make people earn money, they are doomed" .. the fact that they cant make people earn money may be true but dont forget they do more good than most poor-people's-blood sucking multinationals whose main aim is to earn money at any cost ...

i hope u agree with me
please comment
- zakir

prophet mohammed ( PBUH ) 's last sermon ...

2008-06-08T22:48:00.001-07:00

This sermon was delivered on the Ninth Day of Dhul Hijjah 10 A.H. in the 'Uranah valley of Mount Arafat' (in Mecca).

After praising, and thanking Allah he said:

"O People, lend me an attentive ear, for I know not whether after this year, I shall ever be amongst you again. Therefore listen to what I am saying to you very carefully and TAKE THESE WORDS TO THOSE WHO COULD NOT BE PRESENT HERE TODAY.

O People, just as you regard this month, this day, this city as Sacred, so regard the life and property of every Muslim as a sacred trust. Return the goods entrusted to you to their rightful owners. Hurt no one so that no one may hurt you. Remember that you will indeed meet your LORD, and that HE will indeed reckon your deeds. ALLAH has forbidden you to take usury (interest), therefore all interest obligation shall henceforth be waived. Your capital, however, is yours to keep. You will neither inflict nor suffer any inequity. Allah has Judged that there shall be no interest and that all the interest due to Abbas ibn 'Abd'al Muttalib (Prophet's uncle) shall henceforth be waived...

Beware of Satan, for the safety of your religion. He has lost all hope that he will ever be able to lead you astray in big things, so beware of following him in small things.

O People, it is true that you have certain rights with regard to your women, but they also have rights over you. Remember that you have taken them as your wives only under Allah's trust and with His permission. If they abide by your right then to them belongs the right to be fed and clothed in kindness. Do treat your women well and be kind to them for they are your partners and committed helpers. And it is your right that they do not make friends with any one of whom you do not approve, as well as never to be unchaste.

O People, listen to me in earnest, worship ALLAH, say your five daily prayers (Salah), fast during the month of Ramadan, and give your wealth in Zakat. Perform Hajj if you can afford to.

All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action. Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

Remember, one day you will appear before ALLAH and answer your deeds. So beware, do not stray from the path of righteousness after I am gone.

O People, NO PROPHET OR APOSTLE WILL COME AFTER ME AND NO NEW FAITH WILL BE BORN. Reason well, therefore, O People, and understand words which I convey to you. I leave behind me two things, the QURAN and my example, the SUNNAH and if you follow these you will never go astray.

All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly. Be my witness, O ALLAH, that I have conveyed your message to your people".

Yet another sucide at IIT Kanpur

2008-05-31T02:18:00.000-07:00

what can i write ... well just knew about the suicide about 4 hours ago ... imagine she committed suicide 12 hrs before convocation :(( ... the reason was she couldn't pass out this time .. with due respect to her iam not going to comment about why she committed suicide or about the academic pressure and so on . But i would like to say that imagine how alone she would have felt .. or why would she commit suicide , so i feel this is a failure of student community also , were we so self centered that we couldnt notice somebody in distress .. i feel sad but what can i do nothin i write here will effect any body or will change anything but it will just get erased along with time.

May God take care of her in after life , hope i wont see any more of this during rest of my time at IITk.

PS: for all those curious ones NEWS LINK

DUST STORM

2008-05-22T05:46:00.000-07:00

well we had a dust storm in our college .. i had taken some pics after it had subsided so here are the pics ....

this is near the acad area

why hijab

2008-05-16T22:24:00.001-07:00

This article is taken from http://www.alinaam.org.za/library/hijaab.htm,
written by Sultana Yusuf Ali,
17 Year Old High School Student
Published in Toronto Star - Young People's Press

WHY DO I WEAR HIJAAB !!

I probably do not fit into the preconceived notion of a 'rebel'. I have no visible tattoos and minimal piercings. I do not possess a leather jacket. In fact, when most people look at me, their first thought usually is something along the lines of 'oppressed female'.

The brave individuals who have mustered the courage to ask me about the way I dress usually have questions like: 'Do you parents make you wear that?' or, 'Don't you find that really unfair?'

A while back, a couple of girls in Montreal were kicked out of school for dressing like I do. It seems strange that a little piece of cloth would make for such controversy. Perhaps the fear is that I am harbouring an Uzi underneath it.

Of course, the issue at hand is more than a mere piece of cloth. I am a Muslim woman who, like millions other Muslim women across the globe, chooses to wear the Hijaab. And the concept of the Hijaab, contrary to popular opinion, is actually one of the most fundamental aspects of female empowerment. When I cover myself, I make it virtually impossible for people to judge me according to the way I look.

I cannot be categorised because of my attractiveness or lack thereof. Compare this to life in today's society: We are constantly sizing one another up on the basis of our clothing, jewellery, hair and makeup. What kind of depth can there be in a world like this?

Yes, I have a body, a physical manifestation upon this Earth. But it is the vessel of an intelligent mind and a strong spirit. It is not for the beholder to leer at or to use in advertisements to sell everything from beer to cars. Because of the superficiality of the world in which we live, external appearances are so stressed that the value of the individual counts for almost nothing. It is a myth that women in today's society are liberated. What kind of freedom can there be when a woman cannot walk down the street without every aspect of her physical self being 'checked out'. When I wear the Hijaab I feel safe from all of this. I can be rest assured that no one is looking at me and making assumptions about my character from the length of my skirt. There is a barrier between me and those who would exloit me. I am first and foremost a human being and not vulnerable because of my sexuality. One of the saddest truths of our time is the question of the beauty myth and female self-image. Reading popular teenage magazines, you can instantly find out what king of body image is 'in' or 'out'. And if you have the 'wrong' body type, well, then, you're just going to have to change it, aren't you. After all, there is no way that you can be overweight and still be beautiful.

Look at any advertisement. Is a woman being used to sell the product? How old is she? How attractive is she? What is she wearing more often than not? That woman will be no older than her early 20s, taller, slimmer and more attractive than average, dressed in skimpy clothing. Why do we allow ourselves to be manipulated like this? Whether the 90s woman wished to believe it or not, she is being forced into a mould.

She is being coerced into selling herself, into compromising herself. This is why we have 13-year-old girls sticking their fingers down their throats and overweight adolescents hanging themselves. When people ask me if I feel oppressed, I can honestly say no. I made this decision out of my own free will. I like the fact that I am taking control of the way other people perceive me. I enjoy the fact that I don't give anyone anything to look at and that I have released myself from the bondage of the swinging pendulum of the fashion industry and other institutions that exploit females. My body is my own business. Nobody can tell me how I should look or whether or not I am beautiful. I know that there is more to me than that. I am also able to say no comfortably when people ask me if I feel as though my sexuality is being repressed. I have taken control of my sexuality.

I am thankful I will never have to suffer the fate of trying to lose/gain weight or trying to find the exact lipstick shade that will go with my skin colour. I have made choices about what my priorities are and these are not among them. So next time you see me, don't look at me sympathetically. I am not under duress or a male-worshipping female captive. I've been liberated.

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well .. my brother thinks the same

2008-04-14T02:15:00.000-07:00

here is what my brother zubair has to say in his blog iam just pasting t he text here

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HI,
This is Zubair and i belong to a country where u can be killed for residing in your neighbouring state. Infact you might b forced to leave a city if it is in an another province. You can be killed for Voicing your opinions. Money talks louder than everything here,

--and I would always be thankful to Shahnaz , Sabiha m,Sir Prakash( he deserves the title), Steve Jobs ,
Mubin, Chicken lol , a very FEW others who supported me .
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We have
Wonderful News Broadcasting channels in INDIA , Ill List a few IMPORTANT Headlines in all the Newschannels

*-Kareena Kapoor looses 10 Kgs

*-Kareena's name onSaif's Arm

*-Dhoni Plays football in ranchi

*-Gautam Gambheer Changes his hair style

*-Sreeshanth dances on the ramp with priyanka chopra

*-Deepika Padukone plays a Triangular love story in real life too

*-Last but not the last least; An interview with Yuvi's Ex-Girl Friend

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--This is the current scenario of the so called Indian Electronic media, Forgetting that a Television set is the biggest influence amongst the indian families of the current generation , Media displays such hopeless and poor stories in the HEADLINES?

where are we heading ????????????????????

The situation is just getting worse and if everyone out there is not doing his/her bit to change , SHAME ON YOU

stop pointing fingers at everyone and do something for the well being of society

PS:- his highness Gandhiji ,would be more than happy now, for being murdered long back, else he would have committed a suicide

india : unity in diversity or is it????

2008-04-04T04:35:00.000-07:00

Well we all have read that India is a multicultural country with blah blah religions and blah blah cultures and they say there is unity in diversity in India and i too agree with most part of it .... but i think we are failing to see the whole picture , today i read in news paper that some Muslim family wasn't allow to buy a apartment because 15 other families ( of 16 flats) in the apartment were Sindhi and wouldn't allow Muslims .. what the hell is this are we living in india which is communally divided and no i dont say that being a muslim i faced this before because somehow i have been lucky enough to be living in some great cities where people dont divide themselves on communal basis.

Also i am very disappointed these days because most of my friends dislike Gandhi ( mk Gandhi) .. .when i say some thing about this great man , they say " hey dont you know about Gandhi he was a fraud he did all these things for fame" .. hell with you do you think he lived wearing a khadi cloth like a poor guy and walked all over india or fasted to almost death for fame .. shame on you and i dont know somehow people blame him for the partition. I am ashamed that they didnt even care to read our county's history properly , it was Gandhi who was trying to stop the communal riots when nehru , s.patel and others were happily signing the forms or partition like class A politicians.

and why all this speech about gandhi ??? because he was the man who first tried whoel heartedly to stop riots that were rampant those days and yes i knew he made some mistakes such as giving importance to jinnah while he wasnt teh right representative for the muslims in india , but hey he was a human.And people here hate Gandhi but they like the MOF modi who was happy burning many muslim's houses and killing people while he was supposed to stop riots... and no i dont say that all of india is communal ( i love my country and in no way i dislike it , just that iam sad that even these kinds of incidents are happening in the greatest democracy of the world )..

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
mahatma gandhi

PS : all in good faith ... and no i havent joined any terrorist groups lately :P

Slightly Dorky High Nerd

2008-03-20T23:13:00.000-07:00

well i happen to take the nerd test and the title says it all here is my scorecard :P

welcome to kingdom of boredom

2008-03-15T08:23:00.000-07:00

well starting from today my holidays start from a week so iam happy that i dont have to study for a week but iam pretty bored
:(

my parents are visiting my college but iam still missing my home

back with ubuntu sound woes

2008-03-01T13:00:00.000-08:00

hi finally the alsa problem came back to bug me the sound went off after a short 5 min stint (visit to ) in vista.... hope i can solve some how or shud re install every thing :(
*UPDATE*- i dont know how the sound mysteriously came back after a restart but yes its working now ...... so once again f**** vista

linux and open source stickers ... wow

2008-02-28T09:31:00.000-08:00

thanks a lot to rohitj i am loving my laptop still more ..... . i just replaced the ( actually pasted over) vista sticker with linux one ... my laptop rocks

the penguin sticker is actually covering the ugly M$ one :P

FOSSkriti - promoting Open Source

2008-02-20T05:21:00.000-08:00

Well for the past 1 1/2 years at iitk i never had such great time as this i had this time in FOSSkriti .. IT supposed to be a minor part of techkriti but infact it turned out to be a major event.
FOSSkriti was basically to promote free and open source software( and hence the capitals for FOSS ;)) .It was fun to work for a cause u support and also when we had great people like arun , rohitj , chintal , nareshov , lord , nirbheek , praneeth , suryajith , mani shankar around me .
as far as events we had Linux kernel work shop and clutter lecture which were great success and also RoR workshop by saurabh nanda also rocked.We also managed to distribute 200 cds of various distros.....

MANI and ME

the happy gnome guy( me :P ) and arun raghavan

fosskriti team minus nirbheek

Fosskriti team and our stall

have you tried mac for linux theme.....

2008-01-17T20:18:00.000-08:00

well if you love mac too much but cant have one u can still have a linux looking like mac ... yes this is a great theme which includes complete transformation to mac like desktop......just give it a try :)

click here to go to mac4lin webpage

partition not detected in gparted

2008-01-15T01:30:00.000-08:00

Well after trying out mandriva i decided that i didn't like it that much and shifted back to ubuntu ..but to my surprise ubuntu didn't detect my partitions ....then after a lot of searching i realized that two of my partitions were conflicting so i had to re edit my partitions using vista and deleted the conflicting partitions...

:)

offtopic this time :) ..happy eid to all

2007-12-21T10:13:00.000-08:00

happy eid to all of you again..well i'm writing this post after returning from my aunts home where we celebrated our festivals together with relatives.hmmm... today was quite good all our relatives got together had lunch and celebrated eid together.I got chance to even get some photographs for you.

kitten too tries biryani ....(our dish)

well this is biryani being made :)

close up look of wood stove

grandma arranging meat for drying

have you used firefox personas

2007-12-17T23:38:00.000-08:00

ever thought that ur mozilla themes werent that colour ful why not try personas ...its from mozilla only and it looks great why not use this for your chrismas theme...eh????

http://labs.mozilla.com/2007/12/personas-for-firefox/

yes those are screen shots of my firefox .....great eh why not try urself ....

aah i love open source

compaq sound problem in ubuntu solved

2007-12-17T21:16:00.000-08:00

yipppeeeeeee....my sound problem with ubuntu solved after countless chats, forum posts it was finally a guy named erik who helped me out. here is description of my problem and solution:

problem:
the sound was completely absent in my gutsy even system sounds could not be heard.Sometimes weirdly the sound would re appear after a restart and again silence is back after a restart.i had intel hda ich7 family with conexant cx 20549 codec:

solution:

actually the problem came because the alsa should be configured manually because it could not handle the cx20549 codec so had to test various values for model in

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

search for a line like

options snd-intel-hda model=somethin (for most somethin=3stack)

u have to replace that 3 stack with the proper key.for what word to replace,

find these options in the Alsa documentation that comes with the driver.

ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...1.0.15.tar.bz2

Look in the "alsa-kernel/Documentation/" folder a file called Alsa-Configuration.txt

in the document search for something like this

Model name Description
---------- -----------
ALC880
3stack 3-jack in back and a headphone out
3stack-digout 3-jack in back, a HP out and a SPDIF out
5stack 5-jack in back, 2-jack in front
5stack-digout 5-jack in back, 2-jack in front, a SPDIF out
6stack
...................
..................
"laptop" was magic word for me .whats for you

ofcourse u need a RESTART

finally i would like to thank erik mitchell again for helping me out :)
by the way here is my screen shot with my ubuntu playing rythmbox after long period of silence
aaaah..............

new year new challenges

2007-12-17T03:42:00.000-08:00

well lets see what happens but i hope as a tifosi member that ferrari again wins it...but yeah there is going to be real competition this time as both renault and bmw look quite good of coure mlaren too. but i feel mclaren wont be that competitive as they are goin through a lot of inspections and investigation which will sure hinder thei developement. for all those f1 fans out there i have prepared a chart of next years drivers ....sorry if there are any mistakes....

the most important move i see is move of hekki kovalinen to mclaren i think he is a great driver (remember ROC in which schumi was defeated by a young kid named kovalinen) ..lets see what happens keep you fingers crossed

The cutest(and useful) puppy i have ever seen ...

2007-12-16T00:51:00.000-08:00

well most of u who will try linux might have thought about trying ubuntu or mandriva or pclinuxos ....... but i came across one day a really strong comepetitor which comes in a 90mb iso yes you heard it right NINETY mb of iso which contains whole os
welcome to world of puppy linux ....if u are a person who puts performance and hassle free experience before looks(but wait dont think puppy loks ugly watch out for screenshots )then puppy is just for you dont be fooled by its size it contains almost everything need and if its not suffice for you there are many programs ( they call them pet packages
puppy's official site :)

here is my complete review of this amazing OS:

when i downloaded this OS i thought it may be just a rescue tool meant only for emergency use
but now i know what barry ( pups developer) made was not a simple emergency tool but a complete OS...

well after putting the cd into drive and booting into it it asks for soem configurations...like keyboard and video conf etc...Xorg worked for me unles urs is a prehistoric device theres no need of selecting Xvesa.

after then just run sound and network configration tools and voila ur system is ready to goo...
there are quite good programs . abiword,gxine,mtpaint it has it all it even has gaim(now pidgin)
and for browsing we have our good old mozilla seamonkey suite ....

i was blown off by puppy's speed and usability also puppy can be installed onto a pen drive to take along with u where ever u go.now puppy's system requirements are amazing... 64 mb ram and even 400MHz processor would do ..so if u have a old sytem which u are thinking of throwing away why not puppify it :).

also forgot to tell you puppy runs completely of ram ( the whole os :P 90 mb) ie it loads itself into it and runs form it so its sped is quite amazing....so if u have a 200mb ram and no hard disk at all puppy can run on it also :) wierd isn't it .

its quite amazing what people have done with this puppy watch for those screen shots

my first contact with linux.....

2007-12-14T02:13:00.000-08:00

well i happened to know nothing much about linux(still its the same) when my beloved friend mythreya installed ubuntu fiesty on it ...ooh and i loved it except for the fact that it didn't give sound ..yeah it went deaf i tried googling ,asking support on irc channel didnt help ..mine is intel hda ich7 card with conexant20549 codec ...if u can help just mail me at shkhzakir at gmail.:P

well except for that iloved my ubuntu ..it was the easiest and goodlooking os i have ever seen .well a snap shot for you :D

well this is what i get when i start vlc or some thin in vista ....

2007-12-14T01:55:00.000-08:00

it frustrates you when u are trying to watch a movie on ur laptop on VLC and ur beloved vista gives u this .....

why moving away from vista that shipped with my laptop...

2007-12-14T01:47:00.000-08:00

well i can give u many reasons regarding this...here they are
1.)vista sucks ( home basic sucks big time)
2.)why the hell does vista need 512mb of my ram to do NOTHING when i only have 1gb ram on my poor old lappy
3.)do you think its fair to differentiate among diff version of vista ..i mean its hard enough bearing vista and its still harder bearing vista home basic
4.)takes hours to start up and shutdown.
5.)basically i hate vista ..... i used to find xp manageable but icant live with vista any more( other than few times i have to stick with it like while playing lan games like aoe , CS ) :P