Reactions to Mininova policy and other tidbits

30Nov09

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Another week passing by as i try hard to catch hold of interesting thoughts and memories to put down on blog, but nothing seems worth noting or sharing with the general public. Times have been interesting, exciting, educating, depressing, but old times go and new times come.

• Trying to keep this post as non-tech as possible. but nothing so non-tech happening in life. Stuck for 8 hrs in front of a comp. there is only headlines from the non-tech world i can recite from my RSS and twitter streams.

Twitter’s a fun thing. Everyone’s on twitter. Best way to spread the word, get the word. Only place where you do interact with just about anyone from “who the fuck” to the “who’s who”

• Currently, my choice of twitter client is PeopleBrowsr. It is heavy on computer resources if your machine is not from the last 1-2 yrs atleast, i’d say. Atom processors are weak. Lighter alternative would be twitiq, but once you use PB, there’ll be too many things you’ll be missing on other web based twitter clients.

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Tags: BitTorrent, Mininova, twitter

Data Security in Simple Terms

01Nov09

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Getting back to technical topic now, but as usual aiming to make it plain and simple for every person. In short this post aims to get you a practical idea of how easy and important it is to protect your data from falling into the wrong hands. It does not matter who you are, what data you think you store or where you store, there are people and programs who have a keen interest in everything you save on your hard drive or pendrives. Security tools in today’s age has become more and more freely available and with the dire need for them, more popular. Having a set of security tools to keep your data safe is not a geek status but an essential part of any person’s computing setup.

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Tags: Computer data storage, Encryption, Security, TrueCrypt

Where are your Best Friends at?

30Oct09

My best friend from primary school (kolkata) is studying in mumbai now.

My best friends in high school (goa) are in US, studying and working.

My best friend in higher secondary school departed

My best friend in undergrad college is somewhere I’m not aware of…been a long time.

My best friends in postgrad college are working in Pune.

My best friend for life is studying in one of the best dental colleges.

Where are your best friends at?

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Mafia Wars: The rise and fall of addiction

26Oct09

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Writer’s block is now less of a problem, with me taking note of ideas, on my desktop and mobile. Sometimes the ideas are time-relevant and without immediate content it sometimes gets hard to compose a full-blown blog entry. Last time I composed a poem, that I posted on my wikidot site.
If you’re wondering why Mafia Wars, its because I’ve experienced both obsession and total disinterest with the game. Given that I’d joined quite early, I’ve seen many developments in the gameplay or the lack thereof.

How I got in?

• Desperate Classmates :- When Mafia Wars came out on Facebook, I was really really bored of all the games which flooded my activity feed. I didn’t want to allow another app access to my account and my time. As days passed, classmates took an interest to chat with me on Facebook, persuading, pleading to join their Mafia (team) on Mafia Wars. I skipped the requests.

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Tags: Facebook, Mafia War, Zynga

4 movies in a week – II

16Aug09

This is the concluding part of 4 movies in a week. I reviewed Twilight and Taken last time and am going to cover Punisher and One Missed Call in this post. Hope you enjoy the reviews. Click here for the previous part.

Punisher:War Zone

“Splitting heads open and spraying around brains is fun”

Cover of Punisher 2: War Zone [Blu-ray]

What’s all the fuss about?

Its a Marvel Comics movie, that for the first time, that I have seen, is about a character in the lead who’s not exactly a superhero (no superpowers, no hero-like nobleness) and is full of gore and vulgar language. Dunno if the latter is a movie-only feature, or something the people reading Punisher comics have learnt since years past. Punisher is a bitter man, with special arms training (or summat like that) and a dead family, who delivers brutal death to all the crime families. Punisher screws up in more than one ways. Kills a FBI officer, leaves that officer’s family to be protected by an inexperienced bad-turned-good guy and lets his best friend die to save a kid. Also this is where one man takes on all kinds of bad guys and though not a superhero, still has unbelievable powers of jumping across buildings and breaking into boarded windows.

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Tags: horror, Marvel Comics, movie, one missed call, Punisher, reviews, warner bros