Monthly Archive for November, 2008

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Uses for an old Laptop !

Welll i n a few days time i will be having me a brand new viao

So i now will be having two laptops…what do i do with two laptops?? Many people ask me that

I got this laptop for 30k a couple of years back and for me to sell it off for a dirt cheap price is a heart breaker.

After pondering on this question for a long long time i come to the following options

Using it a multiscreen thing like you see in matrix and other movies

Using it as a Multi computing thing… Cannot be done

Using it as a server…for what…mp3′s naah

So here is what i am going to do with my old faithful lappy

I am going to buy my self a external TV tuner card and make my laptop to a LCD flat screen tv

Yes i am

I have even found a external tv tuner card

Well it seems i am not the first one to come to this point…i one of the many following the footsteps.There are apparently Operating systems made for this kind of a thing..I just need to find one and install it.which i will soon

For all those who want to follow my foot steps ..just go to Nehru place ( or the respective Nehru place of your locality) get yourself a external tv tuner card and hook it up with your lappy and you will be done.

Now a days all the OS detect Tv turners cards.

If you lappy is low on Computing power then get a low end version of linux like a puppy linux and install it,Put your tv tuner card in and you are good to go

DO you know how you can make this better?

Just hook the Tv Tuner card to a DTH…

Well if you are a student then you might want to get DD direct plus…just because of the cost..and if you are like me who has no regard for money then you will just sell the laptop and use it for other recreational purpose instead of investing more money on it

Some channel on DD direct plus

DD Direct + Channels

Capacity for total number of Television Channels on DD Direct Plus are 50

Private Channels on DD Direct Plus (21 Nos.)

News Channels (5Nos.)

1.India news (Hindi)
2.News 24 (Hindi)
3.Total TV (Hindi)
4.News live (NE Channel:- Hindi,English & Assami Language)
5.PTC (Punjabi News Channel)

Music Channels (4Nos.)

1.9XM(Hindi)
2.B4U Music(Hindi)
3.Music India(Hindi)
4.ETC(Hindi)
5.ZEE TRENDZ .(English) (Free to air from DISH TV.)

International Channels (3 Nos.)

1.DW-TV (English/German)
2.NHK world (English/Japanees)
3.KBS world (Korean)

Religious Channels (3 Nos.)

1.Aastha (Hindi)
2.Shraddha (Hindi)
3.Shakti TV (Hindi)
4.Time TV (Punjabi)
5.Zee Jagran (Hindi) (FTA from dish tv)
6.CGN TV [Christian](Korean) (FreeTo Air))

Well i do have long held the belief that Doordarshan is nothing but a propaganda channel for the govt of india but then it is free rite…i mean there is only a one time fees that is it.

If you are lucky or if you believe that you are lucky then ……Get a reality check, your name cannot be lucky and if it is and if you are a girl living some where in russia ,please be kind enough to ask salman khan to visit my blog and drop in some comments

Coming back to my point if you are lucky you can get a second hand tata sky or bug tv or shit like that ..so be sure to ask

Also …….you will be getting FM music channels on those DTH service…and hel you can even record yuour favorite TV shows on your lappy

get creative

Age of Empires

When i saw the game “Age of empires” on sale on ebay i was so so happy,not that i could not afford this all this time but never really had the computing power to play it….

I always have had the pleasure of running a Underpowered PC….but yes, there was a time in the late 90′s when i could run a game like tomb raider.

Coming back to the point the reason i got happy was that for the first time in year there was this game for which my pc met and exceeded minimum system requirements.

Yes …. I can now finaly play it…

Well i got the cd and the day i received it was the day i realised that my laptops cd rom had stopped working .

But still i am not the one who gives up easily,i went to a friend of mine and copied the cd to my pen drive,came back and installed it

Now guess what happens….No there is not a nuclear war

I install the cd nice and fine the game starts up …and then i get the prompt …”Insert cd to continue”

It is not that i could have downloaded a cracked version…which now it seems would have been the right choice seeing the condition of my PC but i waned to own a game which was original.

I have not given up though

I will play this cd

All i need is a new Lappy

Which i will get by this year end.Just a few months more wait, Muahahaha (Evil laughter!!!!!!!!!!)

My downloading Speeds

Well here is a nice surprise….Wannna see my dowloading speeds on “U torrents”

here is a screen shot…

Check out the great speed

I must say that I am impressed

It touched 180 kbps…now that is a WOW!

A long haul for ISRO

T.S. Subramanian

Moon Impact Probe mission: they got it right the first time itself

CHENNAI: What was remarkable about the Moon Impact Probe (MIP) separating from Chandrayaan-1, its 25-minute descent and crash-landing on the moon’s surface was that “we were able to do everything for the first time and correctly too,” said J.N. Goswami, Principal Scientist, Chandrayaan-1 mission, on Saturday.

At 8.31 p.m. IST on Friday, India emphatically registered its presence on the moon when the MIP crash-landed on the Shackleton crater in the moon’s south polar region. The panels of the MIP, which is a box-like instrument, were painted with the Indian flag. After the MIP separated from the mother-spacecraft at 8.06.54 p.m., it followed a curved path for 25 minutes before it impacted on the moon and self-destructed. The MIP had three payloads: a video camera, a radar altimeter and a mass spectrometer. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has received enormous amount of data from these three payloads throughout the MIP’s flight.

“Whatever we did [during the MIP mission], we did for the first time and without anybody telling us how to do it,” said Dr. Goswami, who is also Director, Physical Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad. ISRO was able to release it from Chandrayaan-1, spin it up, reduce its velocity of descent and then “approximately impact it at a point where we wanted to go,” he said. The 35-kg MIP, which was “a mini satellite of Chandrayaan-1” did everything it was expected to do. Its three instruments collected the data during its descent and transmitted them to the mother-spacecraft, which sent it to the ground. “We were doing something new and for the first time. That is why we have reasons to feel happy about whatever we have done,” Dr. Goswami said.

It has been a hectic journey not only for Chandrayaan-1 but a long haul for the ISRO. It was on November 21, 1963 that a Nike Apache rocket from the United States took off from the beachhead in the fishing village of Thumba near Thiruvananthapuram and climbed to an altitude of 208 km. The two-stage rocket weighed 715 kg.

The Nike Apache released sodium vapour which, with its orange trail, lit up the twilight sky. The sight created a sensation in Kerala and the neighbouring districts in Tamil Nadu. The Kerala Legislative Assembly was adjourned for a few minutes so that the members could watch the spectacle on the western sky. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, former President, was present at Thumba on that day and was in charge of Nike Apache’s payload.The launch signalled the start of India’s rocketry programme.

The indigenous space programme began on February 22, 1969, when a “pencil” rocket weighing 10 kg. from Thumba soared a few km. into the sky.

The Chandrayaan-1 has travelled 3,84,000 km to reach its final orbit of 100 km. above the moon. The PSLV-C11 that put it into its initial orbit around the earth stood 44.4 metres tall and weighed 316 tonnes.

M. Annadurai, Project Director, Chandrayaan-1, said: “Some decades ago, man never imagined that he could set foot on the moon. Decades from now, human colonies on the moon can become a reality. India also should be in the forefront of this challenging and exciting endeavour. Chandrayaan-1 is the first calculated and well-planned initiative by ISRO in this direction.”

So the next time you look at the moon…do think of india

First pictures of moon

Moon as viewed from chandryan

Hurrah for Chandaryan

Monthly Archive for November, 2008

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Uses for an old Laptop !

DD Direct + Channels

Doordarshan Network (21 Nos.)

Private Channels on DD Direct Plus (21 Nos.)

News Channels (5Nos.)

Entertainment Channels (6Nos.)

Music Channels (4Nos.)

International Channels (3 Nos.)

Religious Channels (3 Nos.)

Radio Channels (21 Nos.)

Age of Empires

My downloading Speeds

A long haul for ISRO

First pictures of moon

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Monthly Archive for November, 2008

Page 3 of 6

Uses for an old Laptop !

DD Direct + Channels

Doordarshan Network (21 Nos.)

Private Channels on DD Direct Plus (21 Nos.)

News Channels (5Nos.)

Entertainment Channels (6Nos.)

Music Channels (4Nos.)

International Channels (3 Nos.)

Religious Channels (3 Nos.)

Radio Channels (21 Nos.)

Age of Empires

My downloading Speeds

A long haul for ISRO

First pictures of moon

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