under $5 wireless antenna

for those of you who want to increase ur wireless range, heres a good option

lawns…

we have a backyard that is about 150 sq. meters… couple of days ago it looked like a “baby jungle”… we asked a guy if he could put lawn on it.. he said yeah and that it wud cost us $1950 only… YIKES!!! so we ( my cousin and I ) made a gameplan to [...]

aaaaaaaaaaaah!!! this is an unsafe world!!!

this world is unsafe.. heres why..
i thought WEP was secure until i read a couple of articles online.. tools like kismet and aircrack (along with airdump) can be used to crack the network key… i even saw a video that showed how to use these tools… use a network key for ur wireless connection that [...]

shopping advises

to compare prices for almost anything go to shopzilla.com or pricegrabber.com
to check out the latest deals go to dealnews.com or slickdeals.net
my favorite shopping site is amazon.com for the variety of things u can get and also for the customer reviews..

mixer – gain, eq, fader, aux

i’ve been involved with music from a fairly young age, 2nd grade to be precise.. i started learning carnatic music from Nilamboor Karthikeyan, a person who was part of KJ Yeshudas’s band called Tharangani.. learned for almost one year.. i used the skills attained to play the keyboard.. after around 11 years, i migrated to [...]

payday

today i got a payday ( a candy bar with slightly salted peanuts glued together with caramel and which i really like ) for FREE!! u might ask, “what the big deal mate?” well, the last time i got something for free was many years ago.. the big guy who refills the vending machine had [...]

sept 11, 2001… 5 years later..

i view the events that happened on 9/11/01 in couple angles.. i’m not being insensitive, just objective..
1. years of meticulous planning executed in almost precise fashion in just couple of hours..
2. a catastrophe that brought majority of the whole nation under the banner of prayer… when was the last time a prayer was offered in [...]

xv6700 firmware update and s/w

went here and installed the new update as per instructions… although it said itll take 20 min, it just took around 10… also applied the
1.portrait/landscape speed increase and
2. storage card cache increase
registry changes as seen on the linked page… was concerned if it would screw up my phone but it didnt… now i have a [...]

good opensource alternatives

to spare myself from some guilt (for reasons i dont want to discuss here… coz i can see MS eyeballing this place! peekaboo!! i c u!), ive decided to turn to free/cheaper alternatives… listed below are couple of ‘em i found pretty OK but honestly not as satisfying as their commercial counterparts.. (prolly because [...]

steve irwin and reuters report

great guy.. everyone in my family was awed with the risks he took… “crickey!”… though not an avid follower of his show “crocodile hunter” on animal planet, i felt sorry when i heard about his freakish demise..
i saw two reports on reuters about him.. the headings were different.. posted approx 12 hours apart.. but exactly [...]