Do you know that his videocache plugin caches only one version of the youtube video? That means if someone has seen a low quality version and they want to see the higher quality version – they can’t.

We (I, Rishabh and Sanrag) went to his lab to force him to fix that.

Now the list of WTF’s

1) He sits in CIE (Center for Internet Explorer).

2) His working notebook:

3) And more:

4) His room too houses Microsoft items – another keyboard and a mouse to be more specific.

5) His software works true Micrsoft style – does not do what it’s supposed to do.

All these proofs have led us to believe that Kulbir is a secret agent for Microsoft and he uses Linux as an undercover operation. You’ve been warned – don’t trust him.

Situation: Me and the MS fanboy were chatting about some random stuff and as usual were not in agreement.

MS Fanboy: Sucker !

me: Sure

Whatever gives you pleasure

MS Fanboy: Right now…closing this chat window

me: Be my guest

MS Fanboy: wtf !… u opened it again… biatch

me: Why don’t you try the “block” feature instead

MS Fanboy: Why don’t u just stop pinging me instead of suggesting alternatives

me: I will do what I wanna do shithead, you do what you can to avoid me

MS Fanboy: **sighs**

Arrogant Ppl !!

me: It is better to be arrogant rather than been an irrational sucker

MS Fanboy: Unfortunately… u r both !

me: As I said, whatever suits you

MS Fanboy has signed off.

(At this point, I was blocked)

PS0: The Internetz for the one who guesses the MS fanboy.

This post might be offending to homeopathy aficionados. I don’t care.

Got this mail in the evening:

Dear All,

The Campus Life council has arranged for the availability of the Homeopathic Medicine which helps to develop immunity against all kinds of Flu including the Swine Flu. For this purpose, we have appointed representatives in the Hostels who will be distributing the medicine.

Does homeopathy work? Various articles I found over the net claim it doesn’t. Wikipedia article says: Homeopathy is unsupported by modern scientific research. The extreme dilutions used in homeopathic preparations usually leave none of the original material in the final product.

Homeopathy medicines are based upon the “water memory” effect. The idea is as plainly epic as it sounds. The idea is, the more you “dilute” the drug, the more “potent” it becomes because the water actually “remembers” the drug.

Physicist Robert L. Park, former executive director of the American Physical Society, has noted that (from Wikipedia).

Since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth.

No, I don’t believe in homeopathy. And for something like swine flu, I suggest you too don’t.

PS0: Happy Independence Day to you all!

Ankit wrote a nice post about using Java to fill up a form, which is a FCFS allocation (can’t they just *provide* a quantity of good courses?). However, filling up the form can be simply done by a Firefox extension, Autofill forms; but what I would really like to do is be sleeping while the course registration goes on.

Ingredients: Firefox, bash, curl, a bit of common-sense

1) First of all, install two Firefox extensions – Web Developer and Firebug.

2) Fill up the form that you’re going to fill up. (don’t get lost in recursion here!)

3) Follow the screenshot below and convert POST to GET.

4) Now open up Firebug console (press F12), select the Net tab, and enable it.

5) Now click on Submit:

Ignore the “Registration is currently closed”, look at the console, you’ll have a big url that corresponds to your choices, just copy it.

It will be of the form:

<url>?<data>

6) To simulate this form submission, you’ll need this command:

curl <url> -d <data> -k -L

7) However, there is a problem, you have to authenticate first. No sweat:

curl https://isas/validate.php -d ‘StUdent=username&searchin=200&password=password&submit=Submit’ -c cookies.txt -k -L

This will save the login cookies in a file named cookies.txt

So now we finalize the script:

#!/bin/bash

while (( 1 ))

do

curl https://isas/validate.php -d ‘StUdent=username&searchin=200&password=pass&submit=Submit’ -c cookies.txt -k -L #Change username and pass accordingly

curl https://isas/registration/updateSpecialReg.php -d <data> -k -L -b cookies.txt

sleep 5s #We don’t wanna hammer the server down

done

While I sleep on.

PS0: If you can’t get this to work, read about HTTP 402.

Tagged by Karan. Apparently he has nothing better to do than surf the web all day.

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?
   I need to replace this broken one.
2. How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?
   Rs. 700.
3. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?
   chor
4. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?
   Avi Dullu
5. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone?
   Always keep my cell in silent mode.
6. What are you wearing right now?
   T-Shirt and Capri.
7. Do you label yourself?
   Somewhat.
8. Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently own?
   Woodland, Reebok
9. Bright or Dark Room?
   Dark one. Though wouldn’t mind one with a switch.
10. What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?
    Hardworking (Early to bed, early to rise)
11. What does your watch look like?
    
12. What were you doing at midnight last night?
    Having a nap
13. What did your last text message you received on your cell say?
    A phonecard message.
14. What’s a word that you say a lot?
    Nothing strikes as of now.
15. Who told you he/she loved you last? (please exclude spouse , family, children)
    Ouch. This hurt.
16. Last furry thing you touched?
    A stuffed animal.
17. Favorite age you have been so far?
    The school age.
18. What was the last thing you said to someone?
    so kar utha hoon.
19. The last song you listened to?
    Currently listening to A Movie Script Ending by Death Cab For Cutie.
20. Where did you live in 1987?
    Born in 1988.
21. Are you jealous of anyone?
    Not really.
22. Is anyone jealous of you?
    Who cares? It’s their problem.
23. Name three things that you have on you at all times?
    Watch, my ever wandering and lost thoughts, ready-to-kick-you-if-you-annoy-me attitude.
24. What’s your favorite town/city?
    The tricity (Chandigarh, Mohali, Panchkula)
25. When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?
    Never, I guess.
26. Can you change the oil on a car?
    With the manual.
27. Your first love/big crush: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?
    No idea where she is, deleted her orkut account long time back.
28. Does anything hurt on your body right now?
    My ass. Been sitting for the last 2 hours.
29. What is your current desktop picture?
    From the KDE4 wallpaper set: Fields of Peace.
30. Have you been burnt by love?
    What does this mean?

What word comes to your mind when you open a session like this?

FUCK!

PS0: Didn’t know the music was also being recorded. But I suppose adds a nice touch.

PS1: If anyone has an idea how to reset my session, it would be appreciated.

A chat transcript with an Anonymous Researcher (who insisted on being so), henceforth referred to as AR.

1:56 AM

AR: there ??
we have a small problem

me: Yeah
Hmm?

AR: there is a series called “The Unit”
uske seasons 2,3 and 4 hain
unfortunately season 1 nahin hai

me: ye problem hai?

AR: it’s a pretty good series…
it’s a serious problem…..
for research students
you have no idea how hard it is to do research without good series to watch

me: seriously.. rofl
I thought ki kuch ho gaya types

AR: it’s true man
if and when you do research you will realise it..
no series => no research

me:

AR: i submitted a paper to an A+ conference and it was made possible only by watching the west wing
woh bhi just the first 4 seasons
imagine if i had watched the 3 other seasons….

me: You know what.. I’ll blog about this

AR: turing award winning kaam kar liya hota….
dude..
it’s a well known fact

me: I’m not arguing

AR: ok

This Sunday, we went to Anand Buddha Vihar as part of activities of the Photography Club. If you want to read the description about the trip, you can read that on Kulbir Saini’s blog.

Here are some of the pictures that I and Vidit took during the trip:

Tagged by Karan.

Thanks to last.fm! The top most ten songs scrobbled in my playlist are:

Not necessarily my favourite tracks, which (after a lot of confusion ) I would list as:

The top scrobbled artists in my playlist are:

PS0: A post long time coming.

PS1: I tag Aakanksha, Sanrag, Vishnu Fafat, Kulbir, Aniket.

I just logged into wordpress yesterday and realised it’s been a month since I blogged. And with February about to get over, I thought it would be good to have at least one post this month, however small as it may be (considering the last few posts I’ve been writing )

This happened in Parallel Programming class, Prof. Govindrajulu was calling out names of those who had not submitted the assignment. He called out this guy’s name (which I’ve again forgotten). I asked Kshitij, “He’s an M. Tech. guy, isn’t he?”. And the reply I get: No, he’s doing MS. He lives next to your room, buddy!

I was like, wtf.

PS0: No, this isn’t fiction. You can ask Kshitij and confim.

PS1: External hd crashed. All the movies, music and TV series lost.

PS2: Above that, WD site sucks like hell.

PS3: And more above that, down with a cold.

PS4: Bad times!