…Clueless

I know I’m a bit late on this but I just found out that Symbian v9.2 has been hacked. Yes… God does exist!!! The hack is available for pre Feature Pack 1 phones (N73) and Feature Pack 1(N95, N82) but does not correctly work on all firmware versions of N93.

I was in two minds recently on whether to buy a Windows Mobile based smartphone or a Symbian based phone. Ever since Symbian Signed forced all users out of their system, it had become a pain to install any application on your Symbian smartphone. I had begun to hate Symbian as it behaved liked a stupid locked system.

While the buzz was around with every second person hacking into the iPhone, it seemed that Symbian had been completely ignored. But along came some dedicated individuals who proved me wrong… and kicked Nokia’s ass!!

Hurray!! Symbian pwned!! Time to start collecting cash for the N82!!

If you wanna know more about the hack, read this post on the Symbian Freak’s forum :

http://www.symbian-freak.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17479

It took me some time sifting through the entire post (84pages) but it was well worth the knowledge I gained.

History has been created… finally!!

This is probably one of the funniest videos I’ve seen in a while.
If you follow the comments on any popular blog, you’ll easily get the humour.

…and every Indian is celebrating as if they won a lottery.

So India finally did it!! Against all odds, India finally managed to win the Twenty20 World Cup. Yes, a World Cup… that’s quite an achievement for our team. Sreesanth probably took the most memorable catch of his life. Harbhajan bowled one of the worst overs ever. Joginder Sharma was his normal crappy self as always. But we won.

The whole of Chandigarh celebrated. People dancing. Roads jammed… guys on roof of cars… dancing… the police failing miserably to control them. Rickshaw pullers, daily wagers on their bicycles… howling. Foreigners busy clicking pictures of kids sitting on the windows of their cars. TV reporters following insane fans on scooters. This was the scene in Chandigarh.

I don’t wish to write anymore. I have my exam tomorrow and I haven’t studied a word. I’ll leave you with a video of people celebrating inside (and outside) Café Coffee Day, Sector 35, Chandigarh. Truly amazing. Wonder what’s there in cricket that unites every Indian. Maybe it was the fact that we beat Pakistan!! JAI HIND!!

EDIT : Check out the condensation and water droplets falling from the AC vents. Might give you an idea of how hot (and crowded) it was in there!! Fun, nevertheless… better than watching at the stadium.

This week I came across an article on Lifehacker providing a way to hide and lock a folder in Windows XP. The moment I read it, I fond out that they were using the same technique to hide files that I used to use in the start of 2005 to hide porn on my PC.

Although there’s no porn on my machine now, I had still kept the folder structure and the tools that I had used to accomplish this task back then in order to document the procedure sometime later. I never really got the motivation until now. I used to be of the opinion that no one would really be interested in it. I had discovered this process by snooping around to find how a software, by the name of “Folder Lock” that I was using worked.

The process is fairly simple and requires little technical expertise. I would also like to address some of the issues faced by the readers of Lifehacker. This tutorial will cover mostly all of the aspects of creating special system folders and to use them to mask your secret files. Even though this method is not fool-proof, yet it is amazingly easy to implement and fools the other person effectively.
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You’re like a dog chasing a car. You’ll never catch it and you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you did.

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

Just got an e-card from Sharma…

Happy ‘ Play Basketball Day ‘
Jst take a moment & remembr the lovely days when v used 2 play basketball 2gethr….
It was so much fun………..

Ankit

Rightly said dude… same to you!

The funny things, the title bar says “A Greeting card for Rahul from Ankit” while the main card page starts with “Arjun,” !! Well done Sharma!!

I was in demand yesterday!! Khanna messaged me and told me that he wanted to see me as soon as I got down from my college bus. A little later, Abhit messaged me and told me that he was coming over to my place, around the same Khanna wanted to see me, as he wanted to pick up his stuff and his money :P. And then, while I was returning from college, Sonia messaged me and asked me to get down at 35 and meet her. I was like what the…?!!?! Everybody wants to meet me today only?

I told her to wait and that I would come after meeting Abhit and Ankit. I got down from my bus and rushed towards my house. On the way, I saw Anjum. He stopped me and wanted to tell me something!!! I talked for like 30 seconds and then pushed forward. I reached my place, threw my books and began searching for Abhit’s stuff. Khanna was in sector 34 so it was fine now. Suddenly, Sunnel called up and told me that the guy who’s teaching us Maths wants to see us a little early around 6.30PM. I managed to convince Sunnel to convince the man. He did.

Abhit came and so did Anjum. Anjum bugged me a lot :P. Kamina… sometimes he ran off with the keys to Abhit’s bike and sometimes he started talking LOUDLY!! The plan was that Abhit and I would go to CCD - 35 where we would meet Sonia who was sitting there with two other friends. We set off. On the way, Sonia messaged me that she was leaving. I called her up and she told me that she was getting bored with the guy sitting with them and was going back but since I had started from my place, she would stay back. We reached sector 35 where Abhit suddenly told me that he didn’t want to meet Sonia :D. I convinced him and he agreed. We went inside CCD, where we met Sonia and her two friends. Aastha and the guy (sorry dude, I forgot your name) left (the guy was leaving so Aastha went to see him off). So now it was just Me, Abhit an Sonia. Suddenly Sonia asked Abhit if he was the same guy who refers to her as “bhabhi” on my blog. Abhit was so surprised and shocked that he couldn’t speak!! ROTFLMAO!!! Maybe he thought she didn’t read my blog. Abhit went outside to find his bike keys then. He returned and told me that he was gonna leave now :P. Hahahah… he seemed a little embarrassed. Now I know Abhit, you won’t agree but you were!! Abhit said bye to both of us and just as he was about to exit, Sonia requested him not to call her “bhabhi”. Abhit replied, “I’m sorry, I won’t” and left. So Abhit apologized… and I didn’t have to do a thing to make him stop! Lets see what he does now… I’m waiting for you to reply dude!!!

You’ve already seen My college on a rainy day.

Now I present to you, My college on a bright sunny day… with a lil clouds scattered here and there…
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I’ve always been amazed by the smoke trails jets leave behind when they fly. It looks amazing… like someone drawing a painting on a HUGE canvas…
Here are two pictures I clicked…

Friday, November 10, 2006 at Bhavan Vidyalaya. This was when the Indian Express journalist had come to click our photograph.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 at CEC. This is a more recent one I clicked while I was soaking up the sun in my college.

And from now on, all the posts with pictures that I’ve clicked will be under the Photographs category.

I had my last sessional today. I’m gonna pass it. So, we took the bus from our college to Sector 35. Yuganshu (Honey), Sunnel and I, we went to Oven Fresh. We had our breakfast there. Now we decided to walk towards the Bus Stand (sector 17). We were near the Radio Station roundabout, when we saw THIS…. a golden haired freak… err… man!!! Amazing… what people do to look beautiful. THE GUY LOOKS CRAZY!!! I sneaked up behind him and clicked this photograpgh. Cheap thing to do but I couldn’t control myself.

And yeah… he was wearing a RED shirt inside with some muffler. Looked somewhat like Mithun Chakraborty!!

Waise, I think I didn’t even need to explain the picture… it says more than a thousand words!!