2 blogs in a day. I must be bored. This blog is about one of the many non-male entities of this universe, some men defined as woman. (Woo Man). Some famous quotes about them.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her -- David Bissonette.
After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together -- Sacha Guitry.
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll be a philosopher -- Socrates.
Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, 'What does a woman want?' -- Dumas
I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me -- Sigmund Freud.
Some people ask the secret of our long marriage.. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays -- Anonymous.
There is a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage -- Sam Kinison.
I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the other didn't -- James Holt McGavran
Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming - 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it 2. Whenever you're right, shut up -- Patrick Murray.
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once -- Nash.
You know what I did before I married? Everything I wanted to -- Anonymous.
My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met -- Henry Youngman.
A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong -- Rodney Dangerfield.
A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: 'Wife wanted'. Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: 'You can have mine.' -- Anonymous.
First Guy (proudly): My wife's an angel.
Second Guy: Lucky you. My wife is still alive.
Be bachelors !
Friday, December 12, 2008
Funny one-liners
No reason. Just feeling bored. So, here you go.
-- Love thy neighbor...but don't get caught!
-- Save Water ! Save Water ! Take a bath with your neighbor's daughter.
-- It's not fair, so little life and so many girls.
-- Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
-- Behind every great woman there is a man checking out her ass.
-- A friend with weed is a friend indeed.
-- Not all men are stupid . Some stay bachelors.
-- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.
-- You're so boring that even if you throw a boomerang, it won't come back to you.
-- Born free. Taxed to death.
-- Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.
-- Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
-- One man's folly is other man's wife.
-- Life is a bitch. Be a dog.
-- I don't speak French. But I do kiss that way.
-- Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
-- Girls need a reason to have sex. Guys just need a place.
-- Gravity is a myth. Earth sucks.
-- Women are living proofs that humans exist without brains.
-- If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
That's all for now. Adios !
-- Love thy neighbor...but don't get caught!
-- Save Water ! Save Water ! Take a bath with your neighbor's daughter.
-- It's not fair, so little life and so many girls.
-- Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
-- Behind every great woman there is a man checking out her ass.
-- A friend with weed is a friend indeed.
-- Not all men are stupid . Some stay bachelors.
-- When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane and going the wrong way.
-- You're so boring that even if you throw a boomerang, it won't come back to you.
-- Born free. Taxed to death.
-- Booze is the answer. I don't remember the question.
-- Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.
-- One man's folly is other man's wife.
-- Life is a bitch. Be a dog.
-- I don't speak French. But I do kiss that way.
-- Ladies first. Pretty ladies sooner.
-- Girls need a reason to have sex. Guys just need a place.
-- Gravity is a myth. Earth sucks.
-- Women are living proofs that humans exist without brains.
-- If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
That's all for now. Adios !
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Orkut's fortunes !
Hello guys, long since I've written something here. Well, blame the tight schedule of Man Utd. I ain't getting even one free weekend to jot down my thoughts.
I have a habit of pasting my Today's Fortune of my Orkut profile everyday into my scrapbook. Some of them are really funny and some are inspirational. Recently, I've noticed a trend of funny ones for some 10 days or so. Will share them below.
Nov 21: The guy who reads your fortune lost his psychic powers (and his job). We hope you are feeling lucky.
Nov 22: The guy who reads your fortune is not feeling well. We hope you are.
Nov 23: The guy who reads your fortune disappeared and our boss is furious. We hope you have a lucky day.
Nov 24: The guy who reads your fortune is sick. We wish you to stay healthy.
Nov 25: The guy who reads your fortune is getting married today. Please wish him good luck !.
Nov 26: The guy who reads your fortune was fired. Until we hire a new guy, go visit a friend's album.
Nov 27: The guy who reads your fortune is sleeping. Don't wake him up.
Nov 28: The guy who reads your fortune is stuck in traffic. Until he arrives here, go send someone a testimonial.
Nov 29: The guy who reads your fortune is on vacation. We don't know what to say... Go visit someone's profile.
Nov 30: The guy who reads your fortune went on strike. No cookie for you today. Go send someone a scrap.
Adios !
I have a habit of pasting my Today's Fortune of my Orkut profile everyday into my scrapbook. Some of them are really funny and some are inspirational. Recently, I've noticed a trend of funny ones for some 10 days or so. Will share them below.
Nov 21: The guy who reads your fortune lost his psychic powers (and his job). We hope you are feeling lucky.
Nov 22: The guy who reads your fortune is not feeling well. We hope you are.
Nov 23: The guy who reads your fortune disappeared and our boss is furious. We hope you have a lucky day.
Nov 24: The guy who reads your fortune is sick. We wish you to stay healthy.
Nov 25: The guy who reads your fortune is getting married today. Please wish him good luck !.
Nov 26: The guy who reads your fortune was fired. Until we hire a new guy, go visit a friend's album.
Nov 27: The guy who reads your fortune is sleeping. Don't wake him up.
Nov 28: The guy who reads your fortune is stuck in traffic. Until he arrives here, go send someone a testimonial.
Nov 29: The guy who reads your fortune is on vacation. We don't know what to say... Go visit someone's profile.
Nov 30: The guy who reads your fortune went on strike. No cookie for you today. Go send someone a scrap.
Adios !
Monday, July 14, 2008
Inflation
What exactly is inflation?
Inflation is one of the several indexes used to judge a country's economy. Inflation provides or indicates how weak a country's economy is.
Why is it necessary?
Just as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used to indicate the progress of a country's economy, the inflation index is used to show the weakness or instability of a country's economy.
What is the current situation?
At the end of the week preceding the publication of this post, inflation in India is around 11.9% which is a huge figure. For an ideal growth-oriented economy, the GDP is above 7-8% and inflation is around 3-4%. SO, what does this 11.89 % indicate? It pretty much means that the country's economy is unstable at present. There are several reasons for the rise in inflation, most of which are not in the hands of the Indian government. The reasons include rise in crude oil prices, crash of global markets, etc.
11.89% is the highest in 13 years according to various sources. Last time it happened was in 1995-96 during which India was in a position of political turmoil with 3 Prime Ministers in 6 months (Deve Gowda, IK Gujral and AB Vajpayee). The inflation was around 20% (the highest in the history of Independent India) during the dark days of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi (1975-77). These incidents show that inflation also depends on the political stability of a country. And in such cases, it is possible for the government to control the rising inflation.
What are the effects of inflation?
Inflation leads to the increase of prices of the essential commodities like vegetables, grains, cement, books, etc because of which the middle class people are heavily affected. Rich class people can afford the increased prices and the people below the poverty line stop buying the higher-cost commodities and adjust with the lower cost ones. But the middle-class people cannot stop buying the goods (their pride wont allow them to). So, they are forced to dish out more money from their pockets.
What can the government do?
More often than not, the governments have few choices left. The only major thing any government can do is to give subsidies, decrease the price of the commodities and pay for the losses to the traders. It is generally the case where some traders take this as an opportunity and divert the available goods to black markets and create a pseudo shortage because of which the prices shoot up. The government should also make sure that this doesn't happen.
Inflation is one of the several indexes used to judge a country's economy. Inflation provides or indicates how weak a country's economy is.
Why is it necessary?
Just as Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is used to indicate the progress of a country's economy, the inflation index is used to show the weakness or instability of a country's economy.
What is the current situation?
At the end of the week preceding the publication of this post, inflation in India is around 11.9% which is a huge figure. For an ideal growth-oriented economy, the GDP is above 7-8% and inflation is around 3-4%. SO, what does this 11.89 % indicate? It pretty much means that the country's economy is unstable at present. There are several reasons for the rise in inflation, most of which are not in the hands of the Indian government. The reasons include rise in crude oil prices, crash of global markets, etc.
11.89% is the highest in 13 years according to various sources. Last time it happened was in 1995-96 during which India was in a position of political turmoil with 3 Prime Ministers in 6 months (Deve Gowda, IK Gujral and AB Vajpayee). The inflation was around 20% (the highest in the history of Independent India) during the dark days of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi (1975-77). These incidents show that inflation also depends on the political stability of a country. And in such cases, it is possible for the government to control the rising inflation.
What are the effects of inflation?
Inflation leads to the increase of prices of the essential commodities like vegetables, grains, cement, books, etc because of which the middle class people are heavily affected. Rich class people can afford the increased prices and the people below the poverty line stop buying the higher-cost commodities and adjust with the lower cost ones. But the middle-class people cannot stop buying the goods (their pride wont allow them to). So, they are forced to dish out more money from their pockets.
What can the government do?
More often than not, the governments have few choices left. The only major thing any government can do is to give subsidies, decrease the price of the commodities and pay for the losses to the traders. It is generally the case where some traders take this as an opportunity and divert the available goods to black markets and create a pseudo shortage because of which the prices shoot up. The government should also make sure that this doesn't happen.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Instant Messenger Survival Guide
Not sure what all these acronyms stand for – and feel stupid asking? Here’s some you may have seen .. and a few you probably haven’t.
AFAIC as far as I am concerned
AISI as I see it
AOL assholes on line
ASAP as soon as possible
AWGTHTGTTA are we going to have to go through this again
B4 before
BCNU be seeing you
BFD big fucking deal
BOT back on topic
BT byte this
BTW by the way
BTWBO be there with bells on
CMF count my fingers
CTC choking the chicken
CUL catch you later
CWYL chat with you later
FWIW for what its worth
FYM for your misinformation
GIWIST gee, I wish I'd said that
GR&D grinning, running and ducking
HAK hugs and kisses
HHOK ha ha only kidding
HTH hope that helps
IAC in any case
IAO I am outtahere
IBCNU I’ll be seeing you
IITYWMWYKM If I tell you what that means will you kiss me
L8R later
LOL laugh out loud
LTIP laugh till I puke
NPN no reply necessary
OBTW oh by the way
OMIK open mouth insert keyboard
PITA pain in the ass
RML read my lips
ROTFL rolling on the floor laughing
SH shit happens
TFN thanks for nuthin’
TIC tongue in cheek
TISEC tongue in someone else’s cheek
VI village idiot
YGBK you gotta be kidding
AFAIC as far as I am concerned
AISI as I see it
AOL assholes on line
ASAP as soon as possible
AWGTHTGTTA are we going to have to go through this again
B4 before
BCNU be seeing you
BFD big fucking deal
BOT back on topic
BT byte this
BTW by the way
BTWBO be there with bells on
CMF count my fingers
CTC choking the chicken
CUL catch you later
CWYL chat with you later
FWIW for what its worth
FYM for your misinformation
GIWIST gee, I wish I'd said that
GR&D grinning, running and ducking
HAK hugs and kisses
HHOK ha ha only kidding
HTH hope that helps
IAC in any case
IAO I am outtahere
IBCNU I’ll be seeing you
IITYWMWYKM If I tell you what that means will you kiss me
L8R later
LOL laugh out loud
LTIP laugh till I puke
NPN no reply necessary
OBTW oh by the way
OMIK open mouth insert keyboard
PITA pain in the ass
RML read my lips
ROTFL rolling on the floor laughing
SH shit happens
TFN thanks for nuthin’
TIC tongue in cheek
TISEC tongue in someone else’s cheek
VI village idiot
YGBK you gotta be kidding
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Federer loses final, wins many hearts !
The scoreboard read 6-4 6-4 in favor of Nadal and many of the Federer fans have lost hope. But when The King won 4th set tie-break 10-8, I thought I would witness the greatest comeback in tennis history. But the rain and darkness played a spoilsport and Nadal won the final set 9-7. Following gives my views about the epic final.
My dear Wimbledon organizers, you are doing a great job indeed. Make the courts slower and slower and the balls heavier and heavier by the year. Kill the art of serve and volley. Who the fuck cares anyway? After all even base liners should be given equal or rather more priority as it is difficult for them to adjust to grass just 2 weeks after French Open.
Eliminate 90 min Serve-Volley classics and welcome 3 hr snoozefests. The longer the matches are aired, the more money you receive. All this can be utilized to improve home-grown British talent. So, kudos for the greatest brains. I wish Agassi was playing now and Federer in Sampras era. That way I could have watched two of the greatest players playing their best on grass. But alas, life is unfair. I dont deserve that. Rabbits have more chances of winning Wimbledon these days.
Give tennis raquets to Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin, Asafa Powell and they will give Nadal a run for his money.
Stick the traditions up your arse. FFS, the top two players in men's tennis are playing in the final of one of the biggest sporting events with history weighing heavily on both sides and asking them to play in semi-darkness is ridiculous. I thought the organizers of the Caribbean Cricket World Cup 2008 are worse. Sorry fellas, you take the cake.
How many titles you may ever win, I'd still say Fuck you Nadal. The beastly bulls should be confined to the red dust of Roland Garros. Wimbledon is a place for class players like Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Patrick Rafter, Goran Ivanisevic and Roger Federer (the greatest of them all) and the fiery baseliners who slug it out for each point are not welcome here. I admire your humility and like you as a person off-the-court but do not expect respect from me as a Wimbledon Champion.
*Rant Over*
My dear Federer, do not lose heart. You just don't deserve this. You should have played in one of the eras of Borg, Becker or Sampras. You will still be the Greatest tennis player of all time for the tennis connoisseurs. You are the guy with the best 'WOW' quotient. Amazing and exquisite shots flowing smooth like silk.
The scoreboard shows that HRH Federer lost by the end of the day, but what it doesn't show is the number of hearts that cried for him. And you can be sure that mine of one of those.
My dear Wimbledon organizers, you are doing a great job indeed. Make the courts slower and slower and the balls heavier and heavier by the year. Kill the art of serve and volley. Who the fuck cares anyway? After all even base liners should be given equal or rather more priority as it is difficult for them to adjust to grass just 2 weeks after French Open.
Eliminate 90 min Serve-Volley classics and welcome 3 hr snoozefests. The longer the matches are aired, the more money you receive. All this can be utilized to improve home-grown British talent. So, kudos for the greatest brains. I wish Agassi was playing now and Federer in Sampras era. That way I could have watched two of the greatest players playing their best on grass. But alas, life is unfair. I dont deserve that. Rabbits have more chances of winning Wimbledon these days.
Give tennis raquets to Tyson Gay, Justin Gatlin, Asafa Powell and they will give Nadal a run for his money.
Stick the traditions up your arse. FFS, the top two players in men's tennis are playing in the final of one of the biggest sporting events with history weighing heavily on both sides and asking them to play in semi-darkness is ridiculous. I thought the organizers of the Caribbean Cricket World Cup 2008 are worse. Sorry fellas, you take the cake.
How many titles you may ever win, I'd still say Fuck you Nadal. The beastly bulls should be confined to the red dust of Roland Garros. Wimbledon is a place for class players like Boris Becker, Pete Sampras, Patrick Rafter, Goran Ivanisevic and Roger Federer (the greatest of them all) and the fiery baseliners who slug it out for each point are not welcome here. I admire your humility and like you as a person off-the-court but do not expect respect from me as a Wimbledon Champion.
*Rant Over*
My dear Federer, do not lose heart. You just don't deserve this. You should have played in one of the eras of Borg, Becker or Sampras. You will still be the Greatest tennis player of all time for the tennis connoisseurs. You are the guy with the best 'WOW' quotient. Amazing and exquisite shots flowing smooth like silk.
The scoreboard shows that HRH Federer lost by the end of the day, but what it doesn't show is the number of hearts that cried for him. And you can be sure that mine of one of those.
Monday, March 24, 2008
Dumb, Dumber and Dumbest !
If you think you're dumb when it comes to computers, read this and you'll feel better. This is an excerpt from a Wall Street Journal article:
1. Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "Send" key.
4. Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his bathtub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
5. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "Bad and an invalid." The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.
6. A confused caller to IBM was having trouble printing documents. He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had also tried turning the computer screen to face the printer-but that his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
7. An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happened." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse...
8. Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked, "What power switch?"
9. Another IBM customer had trouble installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and had some problems with the disk. When it said to put in the third disk, I couldn't even fit it in..." The user hadn't realized that "Insert Disk 2" implied removing Disk 1 first.
10. A story from a Novell NetWare SysOp:
CALLER: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
TECH: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
CALLER: "The cup holder on my PC is broken -and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
TECH: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
CALLER: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
TECH: "Please excuse me. If I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotional at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
CALLER: "It came with my computer. I don't know anything about a promotional. It just has '4X' on it." At this point, the Tech Rep had to mute the caller because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard.The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder and it had snapped it off the drive.
11. A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer.
The tech asked her if she was "running it under windows."
The woman responded, "No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point.
The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window and his printer is working fine."
12. And last but not least:
TECH SUPPORT: "O.K. Bob, let's press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter "P" to bring up the Program Manager."
CUSTOMER: "I don't have a 'P'".
TECH SUPPORT: "On your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "What do you mean?"
TECH SUPPORT: " 'P' on your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "I'm not going to do that!"
Dedicated to my bro who thinks that he is a noob in computers---Emkay.
1. Compaq is considering changing the command "Press Any Key" to "Press Return Key" because of the flood of calls asking where the "Any" key is.
2. AST technical support had a caller complaining that her mouse was hard to control with the dust cover on. The cover turned out to be the plastic bag the mouse was packaged in.
3. Another Dell customer called to say he couldn't get his computer to fax anything. After 40 minutes of troubleshooting, the technician discovered the man was trying to fax a piece of paper by holding it in front of the monitor screen and hitting the "Send" key.
4. Yet another Dell customer called to complain that his keyboard no longer worked. He had cleaned it by filling up his bathtub with soap and water and soaking the keyboard for a day, then removing all the keys and washing them individually.
5. A Dell technician received a call from a customer who was enraged because his computer had told him he was "Bad and an invalid." The tech explained that the computer's "bad command" and "invalid" responses shouldn't be taken personally.
6. A confused caller to IBM was having trouble printing documents. He told the technician that the computer had said it "couldn't find printer." The user had also tried turning the computer screen to face the printer-but that his computer still couldn't "see" the printer.
7. An exasperated caller to Dell Computer Tech Support couldn't get her new Dell Computer to turn on. After ensuring the computer was plugged in, the technician asked her what happened when she pushed the power button. Her response, "I pushed and pushed on this foot pedal and nothing happened." The "foot pedal" turned out to be the computer's mouse...
8. Another customer called Compaq tech support to say her brand new computer wouldn't work. She said she unpacked the unit, plugged it in and sat there for 20 minutes waiting for something to happen. When asked what happened when she pressed the power switch, she asked, "What power switch?"
9. Another IBM customer had trouble installing software and rang for support. "I put in the first disk, and that was OK. It said to put in the second disk, and had some problems with the disk. When it said to put in the third disk, I couldn't even fit it in..." The user hadn't realized that "Insert Disk 2" implied removing Disk 1 first.
10. A story from a Novell NetWare SysOp:
CALLER: "Hello, is this Tech Support?"
TECH: "Yes, it is. How may I help you?"
CALLER: "The cup holder on my PC is broken -and I am within my warranty period. How do I go about getting that fixed?"
TECH: "I'm sorry, but did you say a cup holder?"
CALLER: "Yes, it's attached to the front of my computer."
TECH: "Please excuse me. If I seem a bit stumped, it's because I am. Did you receive this as part of a promotional at a trade show? How did you get this cup holder? Does it have any trademark on it?"
CALLER: "It came with my computer. I don't know anything about a promotional. It just has '4X' on it." At this point, the Tech Rep had to mute the caller because he couldn't stand it. He was laughing too hard.The caller had been using the load drawer of the CD-ROM drive as a cup holder and it had snapped it off the drive.
11. A woman called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer.
The tech asked her if she was "running it under windows."
The woman responded, "No, my desk is next to the door. But that is a good point.
The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window and his printer is working fine."
12. And last but not least:
TECH SUPPORT: "O.K. Bob, let's press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter "P" to bring up the Program Manager."
CUSTOMER: "I don't have a 'P'".
TECH SUPPORT: "On your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "What do you mean?"
TECH SUPPORT: " 'P' on your keyboard, Bob."
CUSTOMER: "I'm not going to do that!"
Dedicated to my bro who thinks that he is a noob in computers---Emkay.
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Wife 1.0
Last year a friend of mine upgraded GirlFriend 1.0 to Wife 1.0 and found that it's a memory hog leaving very little system resources for other applications. He is only now noticing that Wife 1.0 also is spawning Child-Processes which are further consuming valuable resources. No mention of this particular phenomena was included in the product brochure or the documentation, though other users have informed him that this is to be expected due to the nature of the application. Not only that, Wife 1.0 installs itself such that it is always launched at system initialization where it can monitor all other system activity. He's finding that some applications such as PokerNight 10.3, BeerBash 2.5, and PubNight 7.0 are no longer able to run in the system at all, crashing the system when selected (even though they always worked fine before).
At installation, Wife 1.0 provides no option as to the installation of undesired Plug-Ins such as MotherInLaw 55.8 and BrotherInLaw Beta release. Also, system performance seems to diminish with each passing day.
The features he'd like to see in the upcoming Wife 2.0 include:
- A "Don't remind me again" button
- Minimize button
- An install shield feature that allows Wife 2.0 to be installed with the option to uninstall at any time without the loss of cache and other system resources.
- An option to run the network driver in promiscuous mode which would allow the systems hardware probe feature to be much more useful.
BUG WARNING
Wife 1.0 has an undocumented bug. If you try to install Mistress 1.1 before uninstalling Wife 1.0, Wife 1.0 will delete MSMoney files before doing the uninstall itself. Then Mistress 1.1 will refuse to install, claiming insufficient resources.
BUG WORK-AROUNDS
To avoid the above bug, try installing Mistress 1.1 on a different system and never run any file transfer applications such as LapLink 6.0. Also, beware of similar shareware applications that have been known to carry viruses that may affect Wife 1.0.
Another solution would be to run Mistress 1.0 via a UseNet provider under an anonymous name. Here again, beware of the viruses which can accidentally be downloaded from the UseNet.
Friday, March 21, 2008
Fuck this world
Fuck You All!
Running out of ways to run,
i can't see,
i can't be,
over and over and under my skin,
all this attention is doing me in!
Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for,
Don't belong, don't exist,
don't give a shit, don't ever judge me.
Picking throught the parts exposed,
taking shape, taking shag,
over and over and under my skin,
all this momentum is doing me in!
Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for,
Don't belong, don't exist,
don't give a shit, don't ever judge me.
And don't you fucking judge me!
I gave you all my love, livin' in your own hate,
Drippin' hole man, lost step, no fate,
Show you nothin'but i ain't holdin' back,
Every damn word i say is a sneak attack,
When i get my hands on you,
Ain't a fucking thing you can do,
Get this coz you're never gonna get me,
I am the very disease you pretend to be!
I am the push that makes you move x4
Fuck it all, fuck this world, fuck everything that you stand for,
don't belong, don't exist,
don't give a shit, dont ever judge me. x2
Credit: SlipKnoT
Monday, March 17, 2008
Geek Jokes
After writing serious stuff for 7 continuous days, I feel like writing the funny side of IT today. Let me start with a real conversation that happened between a Netscape technical support guy and a female customer.
Tech: Internet Technical Support this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please?
Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person in charge immediately!
Tech: Speaking. What can I do for you?
Female Customer: I want to complain about the pornographic bookmarks your company put in my web browser!
Tech: We didn't put any pornographic bookmarks in your web browser.
Female Customer: Oh yes you did! I'm looking at them right now!
(Tech remembers the Netscape history list and grins to himself)
Tech: Where exactly are these "bookmarks" located?
Female Customer: In Netscape!
Tech: And where exactly in Netscape would that be?
Female: In that little list that comes down when you click the little down arrow!
Tech: The one right above the Net Search button?
Female Customer: Yes that one!
Tech: Miss, that's the Netscape history list. Netscape keeps the past ten links you typed in that box. The only way to put an address in that box is for someone to physically sit at your computer and type in a web address.
Female Customer: Well I certainly didn't type in those X rated web addresses!
Tech: Well somebody did. Who else has access to your computer, and uses the Internet?
Female Customer: Just me and my husband!
(Several seconds of silence pass ... Hey! I wasn't going to say it!)
Female Customer: ........ oh ............. OOOH! ... Thank you.
(She quickly hung up)
Microsoft to sell ad space in error messages:
This is another dig at my favorite software company, Microsoft. The following news is definitely not true.
Microsoft announced that it is selling advertising space in the error messages that appear in Windows. Acknowledging for the first time that the average user of their operating system encounters error messages at least several times a day, Microsoft is trying to take financial advantage of the unavoidable opportunity to make an ad impression.
"We estimate that throughout the world at any given moment several million people are getting a 'general protection fault' or 'illegal operation' warning. We will be able to generate significant revenue by including a short advertising message along with it," said Microsoft marketing director Nathan Mirror.
The Justice Department immediately indicated that they intend to investigate whether Microsoft is gaining an unfair advantage in reaching the public with this advertising by virtue of its semi-monopolistic control over error messages.
Office buzz words:
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
SITCOMs (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage): What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
TOURISTS: People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."
TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
CHIPS & SALSA: Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again. (Try not to dent the case.)
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
CLM (Career Limiting Move): Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
DILBERTED: To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been Dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him ... he's 404, man."
Leave your comments.
Tech: Internet Technical Support this is so-and-so speaking. May I have your username please?
Female Customer: Yes I want to speak to the person in charge immediately!
Tech: Speaking. What can I do for you?
Female Customer: I want to complain about the pornographic bookmarks your company put in my web browser!
Tech: We didn't put any pornographic bookmarks in your web browser.
Female Customer: Oh yes you did! I'm looking at them right now!
(Tech remembers the Netscape history list and grins to himself)
Tech: Where exactly are these "bookmarks" located?
Female Customer: In Netscape!
Tech: And where exactly in Netscape would that be?
Female: In that little list that comes down when you click the little down arrow!
Tech: The one right above the Net Search button?
Female Customer: Yes that one!
Tech: Miss, that's the Netscape history list. Netscape keeps the past ten links you typed in that box. The only way to put an address in that box is for someone to physically sit at your computer and type in a web address.
Female Customer: Well I certainly didn't type in those X rated web addresses!
Tech: Well somebody did. Who else has access to your computer, and uses the Internet?
Female Customer: Just me and my husband!
(Several seconds of silence pass ... Hey! I wasn't going to say it!)
Female Customer: ........ oh ............. OOOH! ... Thank you.
(She quickly hung up)
:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
Microsoft to sell ad space in error messages:
This is another dig at my favorite software company, Microsoft. The following news is definitely not true.
Microsoft announced that it is selling advertising space in the error messages that appear in Windows. Acknowledging for the first time that the average user of their operating system encounters error messages at least several times a day, Microsoft is trying to take financial advantage of the unavoidable opportunity to make an ad impression.
"We estimate that throughout the world at any given moment several million people are getting a 'general protection fault' or 'illegal operation' warning. We will be able to generate significant revenue by including a short advertising message along with it," said Microsoft marketing director Nathan Mirror.
The Justice Department immediately indicated that they intend to investigate whether Microsoft is gaining an unfair advantage in reaching the public with this advertising by virtue of its semi-monopolistic control over error messages.
Office buzz words:
BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.
SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.
CHAINSAW CONSULTANT: An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee headcount, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
CUBE FARM: An office filled with cubicles.
MOUSE POTATO: The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.
PRAIRIE DOGGING: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.
SITCOMs (Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage): What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.
STARTER MARRIAGE: A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.
SWIPED OUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because the magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.
TOURISTS: People who take training classes just to get a vacation from their jobs. "We had three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists."
TREEWARE: Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.
CHIPS & SALSA: Chips = hardware, Salsa = software. "Well, first we gotta figure out if the problem's in your chips or your salsa."
PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the heck out of an electronic device to get it to work again. (Try not to dent the case.)
SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.
CLM (Career Limiting Move): Used among microserfs to describe ill-advised activity. Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.
ADMINISPHERE: The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.
DILBERTED: To be exploited and oppressed by your boss. Derived from the experiences of Dilbert, the geek-in-hell comic strip character. "I've been Dilberted again. The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week."
404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located. "Don't bother asking him ... he's 404, man."
Leave your comments.
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Spam King pleads guilty
Spam King pleads guilty:
The notorious spammer Robert Soloway whom authorities dubbed "the King of Spam" is facing a possible 26-year jail sentence after pleading guilty in Seattle on Friday to charges of fraud and tax evasion. Robert Soloway, 28, had already been found guilty of spam charges in several civil cases -- Microsoft won a US$7.8 million judgment against him in 2005 -- but had avoided paying fines in those cases. The criminal charges to which he pleaded guilty on Friday followed his arrest in 2007 by the U.S. Justice Department.
Robert Soloway is known to brag a lot in public. In 2005, when he raked in more than $300000, he posted on a public forum "I've been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and have had my business running for over 10 years without ever paying a dime regardless to the outcome of any lawsuits". Soloway has avoided fines in the past, but this time around he may not be so lucky. In addition to the jail time he now faces, he has also agreed to discuss his financial assets while being monitored by a lie detector.
Though several cases have been registered against spammers, this is the 1st case where criminal charges were laid to deter others from spamming.
Well, if you spam and pool in money, then shut the fuck up and enjoy the money instead of bragging about it in public. Spammers and hackers should NOT be attention-seekers, FFS.
Intel comes with Quad-core:
For those of you who think that your dual-core processor is cool, think again. Intel has said that it had developed quad-core chips for laptops and will ship them later this year. The chip will be released after Intel's Centrino 2 platform, code-named Montevina, is launched in the second quarter. Montevina is an upgrade to the current Centrino mobile platform that puts WiMax and Wi-Fi networking capabilities on a single chip. Montevina will include processors based on the Core 2 microarchitecture and the quad-core notebook processor could be included in the platform.
But they make laptops heavier and are not recommended for MacBook Air. Gaming enthusiasts will be interested in these chips, as quad-core combined with a separate graphics card gives a top-notch performance. The initial quad-core processors will strain battery life and may first make their way to the high-end gaming and workstation notebooks that require heavy processing power.
Red Hat buys Amentra:
Linux developer Red Hat has purchased Amentra, an IT consulting firm with an open-source expertise to sell its JBoss Java infrastructure to enterprises as the basis for SOAs (service-oriented architectures). Amentra, a privately held systems integrator that specializes in SOA and business process management, will continue business as usual as an independent company owned by Red Hat.
Amentra is a certified JBoss systems integrator that has a solid reputation among enterprises; ExxonMobil, Pfizer and Merck are among its clients. The company also has been recognized for its expertise in providing open-source and SOA services by research firm Gartner.
Red Hat purchased JBoss in April 2006 and, like its Linux OS, now has two versions of the software -- a community ".org" version that is free for everyone to use and an enterprise version that has fees and maintenance tied to it. The company is hoping to use JBoss as a springboard to become successful beyond its enterprise Linux business and quiet critics who claim the company can't make a multi-product portfolio work.
Hmm, no entertainment news for today. You can check some cool posts here. If you've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, then don't miss to read The Last Supper one. I happened to read a great article on Surface computing. Check the article here.
The notorious spammer Robert Soloway whom authorities dubbed "the King of Spam" is facing a possible 26-year jail sentence after pleading guilty in Seattle on Friday to charges of fraud and tax evasion. Robert Soloway, 28, had already been found guilty of spam charges in several civil cases -- Microsoft won a US$7.8 million judgment against him in 2005 -- but had avoided paying fines in those cases. The criminal charges to which he pleaded guilty on Friday followed his arrest in 2007 by the U.S. Justice Department.
Robert Soloway is known to brag a lot in public. In 2005, when he raked in more than $300000, he posted on a public forum "I've been sued for hundreds of millions of dollars and have had my business running for over 10 years without ever paying a dime regardless to the outcome of any lawsuits". Soloway has avoided fines in the past, but this time around he may not be so lucky. In addition to the jail time he now faces, he has also agreed to discuss his financial assets while being monitored by a lie detector.
Though several cases have been registered against spammers, this is the 1st case where criminal charges were laid to deter others from spamming.
Well, if you spam and pool in money, then shut the fuck up and enjoy the money instead of bragging about it in public. Spammers and hackers should NOT be attention-seekers, FFS.
Intel comes with Quad-core:
For those of you who think that your dual-core processor is cool, think again. Intel has said that it had developed quad-core chips for laptops and will ship them later this year. The chip will be released after Intel's Centrino 2 platform, code-named Montevina, is launched in the second quarter. Montevina is an upgrade to the current Centrino mobile platform that puts WiMax and Wi-Fi networking capabilities on a single chip. Montevina will include processors based on the Core 2 microarchitecture and the quad-core notebook processor could be included in the platform.
But they make laptops heavier and are not recommended for MacBook Air. Gaming enthusiasts will be interested in these chips, as quad-core combined with a separate graphics card gives a top-notch performance. The initial quad-core processors will strain battery life and may first make their way to the high-end gaming and workstation notebooks that require heavy processing power.
Red Hat buys Amentra:
Linux developer Red Hat has purchased Amentra, an IT consulting firm with an open-source expertise to sell its JBoss Java infrastructure to enterprises as the basis for SOAs (service-oriented architectures). Amentra, a privately held systems integrator that specializes in SOA and business process management, will continue business as usual as an independent company owned by Red Hat.
Amentra is a certified JBoss systems integrator that has a solid reputation among enterprises; ExxonMobil, Pfizer and Merck are among its clients. The company also has been recognized for its expertise in providing open-source and SOA services by research firm Gartner.
Red Hat purchased JBoss in April 2006 and, like its Linux OS, now has two versions of the software -- a community ".org" version that is free for everyone to use and an enterprise version that has fees and maintenance tied to it. The company is hoping to use JBoss as a springboard to become successful beyond its enterprise Linux business and quiet critics who claim the company can't make a multi-product portfolio work.
Hmm, no entertainment news for today. You can check some cool posts here. If you've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code, then don't miss to read The Last Supper one. I happened to read a great article on Surface computing. Check the article here.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Trend Micro attacked by hackers
Trend Micro attacked by hackers:
Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to widespread Web attacks that were reported by McAfee recently (check yesterday's post). As discussed earlier, the pages are infected with malicious code that tries to install a password stealing software on the PCs of people who visit the sites. Reportedly 20,000 websites have been attacked.
Researchers are still not sure how the attackers are managing to hack these Web pages, but the pages all seem to use Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology (Oh, not again, screw you Microsoft!!!), which is used by many Web development programs to create dynamic HTML pages. A software bug in any of those programs is all the attackers need to install their malicious code.
It's embarrassing when security vendors fall victim to the attacks they are supposed to prevent, but Trend Micro is not the only company to have had its Web site hacked in recent months. In January, parts of CA's Web site were infected with a very similar type of attack.
My last appeal to Microsoft: Please develop more softwares rather than more bugs. Huh, when will you people understand??
Microsoft buys Rapt for its Ad management tools:
Days after Google made a deal with DoubleClick (check previous posts), Microsoft buys Rapt, of San Francisco. Rapt sells advertising yield management tools for online media companies. The tools are designed to predict demand for advertising and optimize the price and placement of ads, improving revenue. Microsoft plans to incorporate Rapt's tools and consultancy business into its Atlas Publisher Suite. That will allow it to offer publishers an integrated service to manage advertising sales, it said.
Yahoo said that they are considering the new $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft (check below) and Rapt will work along with Yahoo if there is a Microsoft-Yahoo merger. But if there isn't any merger, then Rapt will be a stiff competitor to Yahoo's online ads.
For the sake of outgoing MS chief, Bill Gates, I want the Yahoo deal to be done. But $44.6 billion is too much. Screw Yahoo!!!
Talks between Yahoo and MS?
A month after Yahoo rejected its $42 billion deal, Microsoft has approached Yahoo again with a new $44.6 billion deal. Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo and Microsoft executives met this week to discuss about the latest cash and stock bid from Microsoft.
According to me, there are several advantages of this merger and it can give a competition to Google's supremacy in online search. I personally don't like the way Google searches the content. Too much of useless pages and it takes hell lot of time to finally locate what we need. Screw Google!!!
What's your view, should the deal be done or not?
Snippets:
Security vendor Trend Micro has fallen victim to widespread Web attacks that were reported by McAfee recently (check yesterday's post). As discussed earlier, the pages are infected with malicious code that tries to install a password stealing software on the PCs of people who visit the sites. Reportedly 20,000 websites have been attacked.
Researchers are still not sure how the attackers are managing to hack these Web pages, but the pages all seem to use Microsoft's Active Server Page (ASP) technology (Oh, not again, screw you Microsoft!!!), which is used by many Web development programs to create dynamic HTML pages. A software bug in any of those programs is all the attackers need to install their malicious code.
It's embarrassing when security vendors fall victim to the attacks they are supposed to prevent, but Trend Micro is not the only company to have had its Web site hacked in recent months. In January, parts of CA's Web site were infected with a very similar type of attack.
My last appeal to Microsoft: Please develop more softwares rather than more bugs. Huh, when will you people understand??
Microsoft buys Rapt for its Ad management tools:
Days after Google made a deal with DoubleClick (check previous posts), Microsoft buys Rapt, of San Francisco. Rapt sells advertising yield management tools for online media companies. The tools are designed to predict demand for advertising and optimize the price and placement of ads, improving revenue. Microsoft plans to incorporate Rapt's tools and consultancy business into its Atlas Publisher Suite. That will allow it to offer publishers an integrated service to manage advertising sales, it said.
Yahoo said that they are considering the new $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft (check below) and Rapt will work along with Yahoo if there is a Microsoft-Yahoo merger. But if there isn't any merger, then Rapt will be a stiff competitor to Yahoo's online ads.
For the sake of outgoing MS chief, Bill Gates, I want the Yahoo deal to be done. But $44.6 billion is too much. Screw Yahoo!!!
Talks between Yahoo and MS?
A month after Yahoo rejected its $42 billion deal, Microsoft has approached Yahoo again with a new $44.6 billion deal. Wall Street Journal reported that Yahoo and Microsoft executives met this week to discuss about the latest cash and stock bid from Microsoft.
According to me, there are several advantages of this merger and it can give a competition to Google's supremacy in online search. I personally don't like the way Google searches the content. Too much of useless pages and it takes hell lot of time to finally locate what we need. Screw Google!!!
What's your view, should the deal be done or not?
Snippets:
- Companies rarely use the 802.1x access protocol in Wi-Fi connections and thus leave the door open for hackers.
- Red Hat Linux tests its new Linux update.
- IBM unveils its SMash technology to secure software mashups.
- Boston Acoustics announces two new PC speaker systems.
- Although Apple updated its MacBook Air this week with a fix for the laptop's fan, some owners of the ultra-thin notebook continue to report that their machines overheat.
- Sustainability and other energy matters are priorities in many firms, but the cost is stalling progress, a survey says.
- A new software from UK's Access Accounting calculates carbon footprint.
Friday, March 14, 2008
Hackers attack Web yet again
Password-Stealing hackers infect thousands of web pages:
Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days. These attacks have originated mostly from China and were first noticed by McAfee researchers 2 days ago. Within hours, the security company has tracked 10,000 web pages infected on hundreds of websites. As so many sites have been hacked in a very less time, the attack must have been an automated one.
The attackers use search engines to track websites with weak security measures and use them to spread the malicious code. The attacked web sites look no different from normal ones, but they contain an extra JavaScript code inserted into them, that re-directs the browsers of the victims to China-based servers from where invisible attacks are launched. Most of these attacks contain a data-collecting software that runs in your system, once your system is attacked. Depending on how much valuable information your system contains, the loss varies. If yours is a individual desktop PC used for mostly home needs, then the damage may not be big. But if you are a top official in a business organization, then there can be a huge data loss.
Most of these attacks are identified and the patches are released. So, if you play online games regularly, don't forget to install the patches released by your anti-virus vendor, most importantly the patches of ActiveX controls and JavaScript.
Gates asks for more H-1B visas:
According to Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates, US is driving away the best incoming talent by reducing the number of H-1B visas every year. More than half of the computer science students in US universities are from foreign countries and by reducing the number of H-1B visas, not many students can stay in US after graduation and are forced to leave.
In his own words, "We provide the world's best universities ... and the students are not allowed to stay and work in the country," Gates said. "The fact is, [other countries'] smartest people want to come here and that's a huge advantage to us, and in a sense, we're turning them away." These comments represent his long standing views about immigrant workers in US companies.
But there is an alternate argument that nearly 150,000 Americans have lost jobs because of foreign workers since 2000 and by limiting the number of H-1B visas, unemployment among Americans can be reduced. Gates says that these arguments are flawed. According to him, the big companies aren't giving jobs to Indians and Chinese just because they are foreign. According to him, Indians are getting jobs because they are more eligible than US citizens. So, if people who call themselves as US patriots are worried of this, then they should ask the Americans to have better qualifications.
You get a job not because you are a White or a Black or a Brown or a Yellow or a Red, but because you are qualified and are eligible for the job. A fitting reply to so-called patriots, Mr. Gates. We love you (except for the part that Microsoft manufacturing more bugs these days than software).
Google launches hosted ad management:
Google launched a free hosted service on Thursday that helps Web site publishers sell advertising faster and fill unsold slots on their sites. Ad Manager, which Google said has already been tested by a few businesses, is designed to streamline how ads are placed on Web sites and generate performance reports detailing how successful those ads are in reaching consumers, including click through-rates and revenue paid by the advertisers for those clicks.
I was very very bored and out of the boredom have written a very very lengthy blog.
Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days. These attacks have originated mostly from China and were first noticed by McAfee researchers 2 days ago. Within hours, the security company has tracked 10,000 web pages infected on hundreds of websites. As so many sites have been hacked in a very less time, the attack must have been an automated one.
The attackers use search engines to track websites with weak security measures and use them to spread the malicious code. The attacked web sites look no different from normal ones, but they contain an extra JavaScript code inserted into them, that re-directs the browsers of the victims to China-based servers from where invisible attacks are launched. Most of these attacks contain a data-collecting software that runs in your system, once your system is attacked. Depending on how much valuable information your system contains, the loss varies. If yours is a individual desktop PC used for mostly home needs, then the damage may not be big. But if you are a top official in a business organization, then there can be a huge data loss.
Most of these attacks are identified and the patches are released. So, if you play online games regularly, don't forget to install the patches released by your anti-virus vendor, most importantly the patches of ActiveX controls and JavaScript.
Gates asks for more H-1B visas:
According to Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates, US is driving away the best incoming talent by reducing the number of H-1B visas every year. More than half of the computer science students in US universities are from foreign countries and by reducing the number of H-1B visas, not many students can stay in US after graduation and are forced to leave.
In his own words, "We provide the world's best universities ... and the students are not allowed to stay and work in the country," Gates said. "The fact is, [other countries'] smartest people want to come here and that's a huge advantage to us, and in a sense, we're turning them away." These comments represent his long standing views about immigrant workers in US companies.
But there is an alternate argument that nearly 150,000 Americans have lost jobs because of foreign workers since 2000 and by limiting the number of H-1B visas, unemployment among Americans can be reduced. Gates says that these arguments are flawed. According to him, the big companies aren't giving jobs to Indians and Chinese just because they are foreign. According to him, Indians are getting jobs because they are more eligible than US citizens. So, if people who call themselves as US patriots are worried of this, then they should ask the Americans to have better qualifications.
You get a job not because you are a White or a Black or a Brown or a Yellow or a Red, but because you are qualified and are eligible for the job. A fitting reply to so-called patriots, Mr. Gates. We love you (except for the part that Microsoft manufacturing more bugs these days than software).
Google launches hosted ad management:
Google launched a free hosted service on Thursday that helps Web site publishers sell advertising faster and fill unsold slots on their sites. Ad Manager, which Google said has already been tested by a few businesses, is designed to streamline how ads are placed on Web sites and generate performance reports detailing how successful those ads are in reaching consumers, including click through-rates and revenue paid by the advertisers for those clicks.
Google said Ad Manager's purpose is to ease some of the problems that come with managing advertisements on a Web site, such as gauging available inventory and how to pick the highest-paying ads. The service is hosted on Google's servers, and Web site publishers can access it through a Web browser. Google's AdSense delivers text advertisements that are matched with the content of a Web site. Google will let publishers use Ad Manager in tandem with similar technology from other competing ad placement networks.
Ad Manager can also target ads at specific users. It is capable of delivering ads based on a user's domain, the brand of Web browser and language it uses, the PC's operating system and how much bandwidth is available on their Internet connection. That information may seen potentially sensitive, but it's automatically revealed when a browser visits a Web site. Increased attention has come around how Internet advertisers target ads to users and how they handle personal information.
Even this blog has Google ads. Check on top right corner of this page. Well, if you click that ad, I get paid. According to Google's terms and conditions, I am not supposed to directly ask the visitors to click those. But by now you must have guessed that I want you to click those. I really can't ask you. So, understand my position and do whatever needed (whatever I need). Huh, screw Google.
Snippets:
- Nintendo's upcoming Mario Kart Wii features 16 new courses, four control options.
- Intel CEO Paul Otellini defended the company's business practices at a two-day antitrust hearing in Brussels.
- Changes in software and computing over the next 10 years will affect all facets of life, says Bill Gates.
- Nintendo says errors encountered by some Wii owners playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl are linked to dirty DVD drive lenses.
- ZapMedia is suing Apple for "recklessly" infringing on its digital media distribution patents.
- The next-generation version of Windows (code name Windows 7) will face an antitrust review by U.S. regulators.
- Microsoft adds to its virtualization tool kit with the acquisition of software developer Kidaro.
- Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has started shipping triple-core Phenom processors.
- Mozilla's Firefox 3.0 is dramatically faster than its predecessor and rivals, benchmark tests claim.
I was very very bored and out of the boredom have written a very very lengthy blog.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Security updates from MS
Security updates from Microsoft:
Microsoft released security updates exclusively for MS-Office this Tuesday. These include a fix for the bug in Excel that was being exploited by attackers ever since the related virus code was posted on net. There were four security updates released for Excel, Outlook, Office 2000 and Office's web. Although MS releases security patches for Windows or Internet Explorer every month, the recent updates are considered special as they exclusively focus on Office. Between 2006 and 2007, the number of attacks on Office were doubled. Malicious entities are looking toward Office as a vector for delivering malicious code.
The trust that business organizations had in MS is in decline these days. Considering the fact that Bill Gates is stepping down in June this year, these are tough times for Microsoft.
Say yes to wide screen displays:
A study found that wide screen displays boost employee productivity and achieve a production gains of 76 extra work days a year per worker. The study also found out that wide screen displays realize an annual cost savings of around $8500 per staff member working on an annual salary of around $32500. Other interesting findings are:-
1. Large wide screen or dual-monitor configurations are better suited for work that involves multiple documents or applications.
[See point 1. Blogging and Chatting come under multiple applications;)]
Ah, I'd love that.
Companies ban social networking sites:
A survey condusted in UK found that nearly 20% of UK companies have blocked social networking sites like Orkut, Myspace, Facebook, etc due to various reasons. These reasons include reduction in employee productivity and malware. These sites accounted for nearly 47% of usage of employee work time and companies feel that they are reducing the concentration and work levels of their employees.
The survey also found that the usage of Gmail increased (this may be attributed to the cracked CAPTCHA of Gmail). But still Yahoo leads the way with 90% of spam generated from its accounts.
I was just wondering if the companies can allow social networking sites as well as install 24-inch screens. Social networking sites decrease productivity and wide screens increase productivity. It all evens out in the end (w.r.f this topic and the above one). My little grey cells must have been excited up there today.
Snippets:
Microsoft released security updates exclusively for MS-Office this Tuesday. These include a fix for the bug in Excel that was being exploited by attackers ever since the related virus code was posted on net. There were four security updates released for Excel, Outlook, Office 2000 and Office's web. Although MS releases security patches for Windows or Internet Explorer every month, the recent updates are considered special as they exclusively focus on Office. Between 2006 and 2007, the number of attacks on Office were doubled. Malicious entities are looking toward Office as a vector for delivering malicious code.
The trust that business organizations had in MS is in decline these days. Considering the fact that Bill Gates is stepping down in June this year, these are tough times for Microsoft.
Say yes to wide screen displays:
A study found that wide screen displays boost employee productivity and achieve a production gains of 76 extra work days a year per worker. The study also found out that wide screen displays realize an annual cost savings of around $8500 per staff member working on an annual salary of around $32500. Other interesting findings are:-
1. Large wide screen or dual-monitor configurations are better suited for work that involves multiple documents or applications.
2. 24-inch wide screen displays are better suited for text editing than both single standard format (17-inch and 19-inch) and dual standard format (17-inch and 19-inch) monitor configurations.
3. Dual-wide screen configurations in 22-inches or larger are better for spreadsheet editing than single wide screen or standard format displays.
If my employers listen to this and give me a 24-inch screen, then I can chat and blog from a dual monitor configurated screen.[See point 1. Blogging and Chatting come under multiple applications;)]
Ah, I'd love that.
Companies ban social networking sites:
A survey condusted in UK found that nearly 20% of UK companies have blocked social networking sites like Orkut, Myspace, Facebook, etc due to various reasons. These reasons include reduction in employee productivity and malware. These sites accounted for nearly 47% of usage of employee work time and companies feel that they are reducing the concentration and work levels of their employees.
The survey also found that the usage of Gmail increased (this may be attributed to the cracked CAPTCHA of Gmail). But still Yahoo leads the way with 90% of spam generated from its accounts.
I was just wondering if the companies can allow social networking sites as well as install 24-inch screens. Social networking sites decrease productivity and wide screens increase productivity. It all evens out in the end (w.r.f this topic and the above one). My little grey cells must have been excited up there today.
Snippets:
- SanDisk introduced Sansa Fuze MP3 player, a competitor to iPod Nano.
- Microsoft to introduce 60GB XBox360 instead of the current 20GB model, by the end of June.
- Sluggish sales prompt Wal-Mart to remove $199 gPC (a Linux based PC) from its shelves.
- Security researchers say that a previously patched IE 6 bug can still be exploited (Ah!! bugs, bugs and bugs from Windows. Sometimes I wonder whether MS develops software or bugs)
- Hackers claim that they unlocked the Apple iPhone 2.0 software.
- Younger online shoppers are more likely to fall for scams and identity theft.
- Mozilla releases Firefox 3 Beta 4.
- A warning is issued that some security access cards that use RFID technology are vulenarble to hack attacks. RFID-Hack Hits 1 Billion Digital Access Cards Worldwide.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
500 GB USB now!!!
Buffalo unveils 500 GB portable drive:
Buffalo Technology introduced a 500GB version of its MiniStation TurboUSB hard disk drive. The 500GB model joins other systems in the MiniStation TurboUSB line and costs US$329. The device features a plastic chassis equipped with shock resistant technology. The drive connects to a host Mac or PC using USB 2.0 and 1.1. The USB cable is built into the drive and wraps around the outside for easy storage. Inside is a 5400 RPM mechanism connected via a USB to SATA bridge. The drive measures 5 x 0.8 x 3.3 inches and weighs 0.42 lbs. It's powered over the USB interface. Software is included, but it's Windows-only. Regardless, the drive is Mac-compatible.
European Union approves Google-DoubleClick deal:
European Union approved Google-DoubleClick merger. After Microsoft failed to make a deal with Yahoo recently, this deal might thwart Microsoft's bid for Internet supremacy. In a statement released, European Commission rules that the Google-DoubleClick merger is unlikely to harm consumers in ad serving or online advertising intermediation markets.The E.U.'s competition regulator reached its decision after a four-month in-depth investigation of the US$3.1 billion merger, which received the approval of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission in December.
A merger of Google and DoubleClick will not hurt competition because the companies are not competitors, the Commission said. The Commission also examined the risk of Google tying sales of its services to use of those of DoubleClick, or vice versa, to boost revenue. However, it concluded that Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL present sufficiently strong market alternatives that a merged Google-DoubleClick would be unable to exploit the link in that way.
BlackBerry Servers Ripe for the Hacking:
A penetration testing consultancy NTA Monitor has found that many companies running BlackBerry Enterprise Server (BES) with Microsoft Exchange were taking the path of least resistance by opening unencrypted ports from the heart of their network to service providers. The providers, in turn, opened a return back to the BES that would pass through firewalls without any policies being applied. This left the network open on several levels, including session hijacking, IP spoofing, or just the interception of unencrypted traffic.
"A hacker could potentially use this back channel to move around inside an organization undetected, removing confidential information or installing malware on to the network," said Roy Hills, NTA's technical director. The company recommends implementing a BES in a demilitarized zone (DMZ), which would isolate attacks against the sever from the wider network to fight back the security flaw. However, this added complexity, and added complexity added expense. So, companies now have to choose the combination between expenses and the security that provides the best possible results.
Snippets:
- Apple Updates Radeon HD 2600 XT Firmware
- Symantec's new Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection protects Mac OS and
Windows partitions on Macs running Boot Camp. - eMusic, the world's second largest music service after iTunes, announced Monday that its catalog now contains more than 3.5 million tracks.
- Verizon Business plans to start deploying a 100Gbps network over its major routes at the start of 2009.
- Microsoft and Sun expand their collaboration.
- Toast 9 Features Blu-Ray Video Streaming.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Spam, spam, spam!!!
Spam outsmarts Gmail filters:
Spam originating from Gmail accounts has doubled from 1.3 to 2.6 percent in February and not even the CAPTCHA technique is able to catch these 'creative' spammers. Google is the latest free Web mail provider to be victimized by spammers' efforts to create software to solve the codes, or at times, also employ people to solve the codes en masse. It is only a matter of time before CAPTCHA is removed from major web servers. Last month, security vendor Websense ascertained that spammers were using two hosts to crack Gmail's CAPTCHAs. The method appeared to be successful only 20 percent of the time. But if the procedure is repeated thousands of times, many new accounts can be generated and used to send spam.
Google is not alone. The CAPTCHAs of Microsoft's Windows Live Mail Service have been cracked too. Spammers use messages and links to advertise adult entertainment sites. So, next time you see a mail sent by a stranger having the message subject that arouses you, DON'T CLICK IT!!! If you do, then you can definitely say bye-bye to your email account.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
IBM and Hitachi team on chip research:
IBM and Hitachi, the giants of the chip business have decided to team up and share development efforts which will focus on making chip circuits even smaller that may extend to the atomic level. This will be a two-year agreement and the financial details were not enclosed. Researchers from the companies will try to accelerate the miniaturization of chip circuitry by researching at the atomic level for 32-nanometer and 22-nm semiconductors. Making chip circuits smaller should allow computing devices to deliver power savings and performance gains. By teaming up together, the companies hope to reduce the costs of developing advanced chip technologies.
Chip makers such as IBM, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are constantly upgrading their chip technologies. IBM has achieved a 45-nm chips last year and AMD is expected to make such an announcement soon. IBM already has a strong profile in advancing technology and it has ties with several US universities to develop carbon nanotubes, smaller transistors that could deliver better performance than current transistors.
Apple and MS may have Blu-Ray soon:
Sony is talking with software giants Apple and Microsoft about offering Blu-Ray disc drives for their systems. A Blu-Ray disc has the same dimensions as a standard CD or DVD and can have a storage capacity of 25GB (single layer) or 50GB(double layer). It is mainly used for data storage, high definition video and to play PS3 games. Although many companies have already incorporated such drives in their systems, Apple and Microsoft preferred to stay on the sidelines till now. Microsoft can accept this offer considering that the rivals to XBox 360, namely Sony's Play Station 3 has included this feature. Apple generally doesn't comment about the features prior to their products' release. So, we will know whether Apple included the Blu-Ray disc readers, only after Apple releases a product that contains them.
P.S.
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Spam originating from Gmail accounts has doubled from 1.3 to 2.6 percent in February and not even the CAPTCHA technique is able to catch these 'creative' spammers. Google is the latest free Web mail provider to be victimized by spammers' efforts to create software to solve the codes, or at times, also employ people to solve the codes en masse. It is only a matter of time before CAPTCHA is removed from major web servers. Last month, security vendor Websense ascertained that spammers were using two hosts to crack Gmail's CAPTCHAs. The method appeared to be successful only 20 percent of the time. But if the procedure is repeated thousands of times, many new accounts can be generated and used to send spam.
Google is not alone. The CAPTCHAs of Microsoft's Windows Live Mail Service have been cracked too. Spammers use messages and links to advertise adult entertainment sites. So, next time you see a mail sent by a stranger having the message subject that arouses you, DON'T CLICK IT!!! If you do, then you can definitely say bye-bye to your email account.
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart.
IBM and Hitachi team on chip research:
IBM and Hitachi, the giants of the chip business have decided to team up and share development efforts which will focus on making chip circuits even smaller that may extend to the atomic level. This will be a two-year agreement and the financial details were not enclosed. Researchers from the companies will try to accelerate the miniaturization of chip circuitry by researching at the atomic level for 32-nanometer and 22-nm semiconductors. Making chip circuits smaller should allow computing devices to deliver power savings and performance gains. By teaming up together, the companies hope to reduce the costs of developing advanced chip technologies.
Chip makers such as IBM, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are constantly upgrading their chip technologies. IBM has achieved a 45-nm chips last year and AMD is expected to make such an announcement soon. IBM already has a strong profile in advancing technology and it has ties with several US universities to develop carbon nanotubes, smaller transistors that could deliver better performance than current transistors.
Apple and MS may have Blu-Ray soon:
Sony is talking with software giants Apple and Microsoft about offering Blu-Ray disc drives for their systems. A Blu-Ray disc has the same dimensions as a standard CD or DVD and can have a storage capacity of 25GB (single layer) or 50GB(double layer). It is mainly used for data storage, high definition video and to play PS3 games. Although many companies have already incorporated such drives in their systems, Apple and Microsoft preferred to stay on the sidelines till now. Microsoft can accept this offer considering that the rivals to XBox 360, namely Sony's Play Station 3 has included this feature. Apple generally doesn't comment about the features prior to their products' release. So, we will know whether Apple included the Blu-Ray disc readers, only after Apple releases a product that contains them.
P.S.
Do not forget to tell your views about the blog. There's a poll at the bottom of this page. Do vote and help me make the blog better.
Monday, March 10, 2008
IT is 'sexy' and other news
IT is 'sexy' says European Union:
IT industry in Europe is facing a shortfall of around 300,000 skilled professionals and European Union's idea to make up for it is by bringing in more women. According to Viviane Reding, information society commissioner of EU, women should be convinced that IT isn't just for geeks and IT jobs are very sexy indeed. Given the stats that 58% of graduates are women but only 19% of IT professionals are of fairer sex, the comments are justified indeed. Women bring in more skill, dedication and motivation to the work environment and we guys who sit in a very small cubicle that is half occupied by a computer, will have something to be happy about when we go to the office.
C'mon women, make IT industry more 'sexy'!!!
Windows hacked using Firewire:
Widows is found to have yet another security bug that Microsoft overlooked. A New Zealand researcher Adam Boileau has hacked a Windows system at a security convention in 2006 but decided not to release the code. But after seeing that no measures are being taken by MS in these 2 years, he decided to go public. According to him, the attacker needs to have a Linux system connected physically to a Windows one with Firewire cable, to run his tool.
Apple last week purchased a patent for the iPhone from British Telecom. The patent (U.S. patent 6,956,564) covers sensing technology originally invented by Lyndsay Williams for BT in 1997. The technology was originally deployed in a touch-sensitive computer called SmartQuill. This was capable of handwriting recognition, and could be used to write documents on paper the computer would then remember and store.
IT industry in Europe is facing a shortfall of around 300,000 skilled professionals and European Union's idea to make up for it is by bringing in more women. According to Viviane Reding, information society commissioner of EU, women should be convinced that IT isn't just for geeks and IT jobs are very sexy indeed. Given the stats that 58% of graduates are women but only 19% of IT professionals are of fairer sex, the comments are justified indeed. Women bring in more skill, dedication and motivation to the work environment and we guys who sit in a very small cubicle that is half occupied by a computer, will have something to be happy about when we go to the office.
C'mon women, make IT industry more 'sexy'!!!
Windows hacked using Firewire:
Widows is found to have yet another security bug that Microsoft overlooked. A New Zealand researcher Adam Boileau has hacked a Windows system at a security convention in 2006 but decided not to release the code. But after seeing that no measures are being taken by MS in these 2 years, he decided to go public. According to him, the attacker needs to have a Linux system connected physically to a Windows one with Firewire cable, to run his tool.
The tool, called Winlockpwn, allows users to bypass Windows authorization, was originally demonstrated at Ruxcon in 2006 at a talk called "Hit By A Bus: Physical Access Attacks With Firewire".
The attack takes advantage of the fact that Firewire can directly read and write to a system's memory, adding extra speed to data transfer. According to Boileau, because this capability is built into Firewire, Microsoft doesn't consider the problem a standard bug.
Firewire has become common on Windows systems in the past few years, and is especially prevalent on laptops.
The problem can be remedied by disabling Firewire when not in use.
For more information about Firewire, check the link below.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FireWire
Apple last week purchased a patent for the iPhone from British Telecom. The patent (U.S. patent 6,956,564) covers sensing technology originally invented by Lyndsay Williams for BT in 1997. The technology was originally deployed in a touch-sensitive computer called SmartQuill. This was capable of handwriting recognition, and could be used to write documents on paper the computer would then remember and store.
As it applies to the iPhone, the patent covers the devices designation as a portable computer that's responsive to movement and produces an electrical output signal representative of such movement. SmartQuill carried a small screen that offered different views as the device was turned around. The patent purchase could be designed to protect Apple's iPhone's movement detection sensor, which moves the screen and changes the representation offered on screen when iPhone is moved around.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
A futile travail
I realize
All I want
All I need
Always lies just out of reach
I've been coming up empty
I realize I've
Run as fast as I can run
Pushed as hard as anyone
Still, there's nothing for me
I've tried as hard as I can
I've taken all I can stand
But I am running a race
Against myself
Burning out, strung along
Now my sorrow is my song
My whole world is half hearted
For my pain, I have none
After all is said and done
Now I'm back where I started
I've tried as hard as I can
I've taken all I can stand
But I am losing the race
Against myself
Yeah, losing the race
Against myself.....
All I want
All I need
Always lies just out of reach
I've been coming up empty
I realize I've
Run as fast as I can run
Pushed as hard as anyone
Still, there's nothing for me
I've tried as hard as I can
I've taken all I can stand
But I am running a race
Against myself
Burning out, strung along
Now my sorrow is my song
My whole world is half hearted
For my pain, I have none
After all is said and done
Now I'm back where I started
I've tried as hard as I can
I've taken all I can stand
But I am losing the race
Against myself
Yeah, losing the race
Against myself.....
Saturday, February 16, 2008
In The End
(Verse 1)
It starts with loveOne thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To explain in due time
All I know
Time is a valuable thing
Watch it fly by as the pendulum swings
Watch it count down till the end of the day
The clock ticks life away
It's so unreal
You didn't look out below,
Watch the time go right out the window
Tryin to hold on
Didnt even know, I wasted it all
Just to watch you go
I kept everything inside
And even though I tried
It all fell apart
What it's meant to be
Will eventually,
be a memory, of a time
Chorus:
When I tried so hard and got so far
But in the end, it doesnt even matter
I had to fall, to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
(Verse 2)
One thing, I don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind
I designed this rhyme
To remind myself
How I tried so hard
Despite the way you were mocking me
Acting like I was part of your property
Remembering all the times you fought with me
I'm surprised it got so far
Things aren't the way they were before
You wouldn't even recognize me anymore
Not that you knew me back then
But it all comes back to me
In the end
You kept everything inside
And even though I tried it all fell apart
What it meant to be, will
Eventually, be a memory of a time
When I tried so hard,
Chorus:
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to lose it all
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
(Verse 3)
I've put my trust in you
Pushed as far, as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've put my trust, in you
Pushed as far as I can go
For all this
There's only one thing you should know
I've tried so hard,
And got so far,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
I had to fall, to lose it all,
But in the end, it doesn't even matter
Credit: Linkin Park (LP)
Friday, February 15, 2008
Pardon us, Busby Babes
February 6th, 2008 marked the 50th death anniversary of the Lost Babes. On 06-02-1958, the plane carrying the team of Manchester United crashed on the runway in Munich. The team was coming home after drawing 3-3 in European Championship quarter final match against Red Star Belgrade of Yugoslavia. On that fateful day, 7 of the first team players died in the crash which included Roger Byrne, Geoff Bent, Tommy Taylor, David Pegg, Mark Jones, Eddie Colman and Liam Whelan. After fighting for 21 days, Duncan Edwards succumbed and whole England mourned. But fortunately for United, Matt Busby survived. He built a young team comprising the deadly trio Bobby Charlton-George Best-Dennis Law often called The Holy Trinity. They won the coveted European Championship in 1968 and Busby's dream was fulfilled.
Special events were held at Old Trafford to mark the 50th anniversary of the Munich tragedy. The South End Tunnel was renamed The Munich Tunnel. A free exhibition of Busby era was opened. MUTV Online was available free to all the netizens on that day and telecasted the events live. 4 days later an EPL match was scheduled against cross-town rivals Manchester City. United's players wore the kit of the 1950s similar to the one worn by the Busby Babes. One minute silence was held prior to the match. Removing all the doubts that City fans may disrupt it, the Blues were well behaved and observed the silence.
From the word go, City showed the urgency and the will to win which brought them 2 goals in the first half. United were nowhere near their best. Rooney and Evra had to sit out of the game as they picked their 5th yellow card in the previous match. City's defence dictated the terms for most part of the match. Ronaldo, who is in ominous form this season had yet another off-day. Hargreaves and Carrick were brought on in 2nd half, but Utd couldn't get that elusive goal. Though Carrick got a goal in 90th minute, it was too late for the champions and the City were deserved winners on the night when nothing went right for the Red Devils.
Man Utd slumped to their 1st home defeat of the season. Red Devils including me were heart broken. The last time Utd lost to City at Old Trafford was in 1974 when Dennis Law's goal sunk the home team's hopes of avoiding the relegation. After 38 years, City did a double on United (they won the earlier derby 1-0 at Maine Road). Arsenal extended the lead on the top of the table to 5 points. With only 12 more games left in the League, it is extremely difficult for Man Utd to bounce back and retain the title. But what hurt the most is that Utd lost on the 50th death anniversary of the Lost Babes. Accepted that Utd played shitty football and was nowhere near its best, but at least the big occasion should have spurred the Reds to win. Though Ferguson refuses to admit it, the players were overwhelmed by the occasion instead of getting inspired.
R.I.P Busby Babes. We owe you an apology.
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