Pale Blue Dot

This picture was captured by Voyager 1 satellite.

Some interesting features of the Satellite:

• It was launched on September 5, 1977 by NASA. It is currently the farthest man-made object in universe. 
• It's been operational ever since. The systems are shutting down one by one and will continue to operate until 2030. 
• It is currently outside Solar System and travelling at speed of 17 KM/s.  No latest satellite can ever catch-up with Voyager 1 no matter how fast they are launched. If it continues to travel uninterrupted, it will be in proximity of next star in 40,000 years. 
• A golden disc is attached to satellite with pictures and sounds from Earth, so that any intelligent life form that encounters the satellite can gain knowledge about earth. 
• It is currently at a distance of about 11 billion KM from earth. At this distance any communication from earth to satellite and vice-versa takes about 17 hours when travelling at speed of light.

More updates to follow.

The most versatile word in English language

"F*CK YOU"

Perhaps one of the most interesting and colourful words in the English language is the word "f*ck". It is one magical word, which, just by its sound, can describe pain, pleasure, love and hate.

In language "f*ck" falls into many grammatical categories. It can be used as a verb, both transitive (John f*cked Rosy) and intransitive (Rosy was f*cked by John).

It can be an active verb (John really gives a f*ck) or a passive verb (Rosy doesn't give a f*ck); or an adverb (Rosy is f*cking interested in John), and as a noun (Rosy is a terrible f*ck).

It can be used as an adjective (Rosy is f*cking beautiful).

Besides its sexual connotations, this incredible word can be used to describe many situations:

1. Greetings.............."How the f*ck are you?"
2. Fraud...................."I got f*cked by the car dealer"
3. Dismay.................."Oh, f*ck it!"
4. Trouble................."Well, I guess I'm f*cked now."
5. Agression.............."F*ck You!"
6. Disgust.................."F*ck Me!"
7. Confusion.............."What the F*ck...?"
8. Difficulty................"I don't f*cking understand."
9. Despair................."F*cked again."
10. Incompetence......"He f*cks everything up."
11. Displeasure.........."What the f*ck is going on here?"
12. Lost......................"Where the f*ck are we?"

As you can see, there are very few words with the versatility of the word "f*ck".

It can be used to tell time..."It's five-f*cking thirty." It can be used in business..."How do I wind up with this f*cking job?" It can be maternal...as in "Motherf*cker". It can be political..."f*ck Bill Clinton".

And never forget the last words of the Mayor of Hiroshima..."What the f*ck was that?" and the immortal words of the Captain of the Titanic who said "Where is all this f*cking water coming from?"

The mind fairly boggles at the many creative uses of the word! How can anyone be offended when you use the word "f*ck"???

Use it frequently in you daily speech; it only adds to your prestige.

Lets all F*ck the Communications Decency Act .

Add only videos to playlists in iPhone/ iTouch

Hi there everyone,

I have been doing some research on internet and came across a problem that many people are facing. They say they cannot add video's to any playlists in iphone/itouch or rather the device doesn't recognize the video playlist. The simple solution for this is the smartplaylist feature in iTunes. Let's see the procedure of creating it......

Hypothetically speaking, Let's say you have 25 video's that you are adding to your device and some of them are English, some Spanish. Now I will show how to create two playlists which contain only English videos and only Spanish videos.

1. Add all the music videos that you need in a playlist to your iPhone/iTouch normally.

*** I recommend you check the "Manually manage music and video" option on your summary page in iTunes because you don't want to accidentally delete the entire content of your device.***

2. Select all the videos that belong in English playlist.

3. Right-click on the selected videos and select "Get Info" option in the pop-up menu.

4. iTunes will ask if you are sure you want to change the Information for all the selected items. Just click on OK or if you are not paranoid about it, you can click in the box that says 'Do not remind me again' and then click OK.

5. You will get a pop-up screen which looks like follows.

Here in the Genre field specify the tag for your purpose. ( Here you need to specify it is English Video).

Then click OK.

6. Go to File>> New smart playlist.

You will get a pop-up screen which looks like below.

7. In the first drop-down menu select Genre. In second drop-down menu select contains. In the following text-field type 'English Video'.

8. Make sure the check-box next to Live Updating is selected and then click OK.

Repeat Step 2 - Step 8 for Spanish videos.

9. Now you should find two new playlists on your device listing in iTunes.

10. Start your device's Ipod/Music application and browse playlists to play and select the new smart-playlists that you just created and enjoy the non-stop video playback.

The Discman!

The CDs and DVDs we so wantonly use and throw today wouldn't have even be possible had it not been for mind of James T Russell. He started off with his inventions at the age of 6, when he crafted himself a remote-controlled battleship, complete with a chamber for his lunch. After his B.A. in Physics, he worked as a physicist with General Electric, and was one of the first people in the world to use a colour TV and a keyboard with a computer.

Frustrated with the way his vinyl records were degenerating, he wanted to work on a system where audio could be read without any physical contact between the moving parts. The best way, he figured, would be if he represented the binary 0 and 1 as intesities of light - dark and bright respectively. Furthermore by squeezing more dark and light areas into the same space, he saw that he could store huge amounts of music on a piece of film.

His work on optical storage began in the Bettelle Memorial Institute, where he worked as a senior scientist, and he constructed his first prototype of a digital optical recording system. Data was recorded on a photo-sensitive platter, which became the first CD-ROM. The idea evolved through the 70's, but with few takers at first. Eventually, though, audio companies realised the obvious benefits, and the rest is history.

The Bit Defender

Prof Fred Cohen, on the 3rd of November 1983, created the first documented computer virus. He "injected" this virus into a graphical program called VD that was written for Vax mini-computer. In his demonstration, the virus paralyzed the operation of the computer.

The term 'virus' was coined only the next year. More than 110,000 virus exist today. Cohen started theoritical research in the early 1980's; he set up practical experiments involving viral programs to demonstrate data theft and to show how a virus could seize the functioning of computer by virtue of it's ability to replicate. In 1989, Cohen won the International Information Technology award for his work on data integrity protection.

Cohen has designed network protocals for secure tranfer of voice, video, and data. He helped to develop a cash-watch, which we now know as the electronic wallet. His recomendations for good practices in the data protection are now used the world over, including the idea that only system administrators should have complete access to critical components of a system like file servers, and that other users should have limited access. The ideas of regular backups and audit trials to be maintained regularly are also due to Cohen.

NTLDR is missing

Problem!!!!!

when i turn on my computer while it is coming up , it says NTLDR is missing press alt+ctrl+del to restart and when i restart, it's happen again how can i fix it?

Now time for solution......

seems either your windows installation is formatted or the drive is corrupted or may be only the file is missing.

if the file is missing, boot your computer with windows xp installation cd. go to the repair screen that appears in the first phase. by typing 'r'.

select which xp installation you need to repair and then type in your administrator username and password.

then copy ntldr.ex_ from i386 folder on your cd into your windows installation directory

use this command:

copy z:\i386\ntldr.ex_ c:\windows\ntldr.exe

it should work for you.

if there was no problem with the missing file and the file system itself is corrupted then follow this procedure.

. Start your computer with the Windows startup disks, or with the Windows CD-ROM if your computer can start from the CD-ROM drive.
2. When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press R to select the repair option.
3. If you have a dual-boot or multiple-boot computer, select the Windows installation that you want to access from the Recovery Console.
4. Type the administrator password when you are prompted to do so.

NOTE: If no administrator password exists, press ENTER.
5. At the command prompt, on the drive where Windows is installed, type chkdsk /r, and then press ENTER.
6. At the command prompt, type exit, and then press ENTER to restart your computer.

If this procedure does not work, repeat it and use the fixboot command in step 5 instead of the chkdsk /r command.


and finally if it were the case of deletion of windows installation you need to install windows again. if there is any doubt of data loss, then install the os without formatting. later after installation try to access the folders to see if your information is still available. or you can try the repair option available just before proceeding to format.

How to add "Reboot into safe mode" buttont to your start menu??

First of all we require a free utility known as BootSafe to achieve add "Reboot into Safe Mode" to your start menu. BootSafe can be downloaded from here. Copy this folder on your hard drive. A good place to store this file is \Windows\System32 folder.

Open the registry editor. Navigate to:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{2559a1f6-21d7-11d4-bdaf-00c04f60b9f0}.

Double-click "default" in the right pane and set the value to "Reboot Into Safe Mode". Under this key, create a sub-key called "DefaultIcon" and set its default value to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\safeboot.exe".
Create another sub-key "InProcServer32", change its default value to
"%SystemRoot%\system32\shdocvw.dll", create a String Value "ThreadingModel" and name it "Apartment".

Next create a sub-key "Instance" and create a String named CLSID with the value
"{3f454f0e-42ae-4d7c-8ea3-328250d6e272}".
Under this create another sub-key "InitPropertyBag" and in the right pane, Create strings
CLSID with value {13709620-C279-11CE-A49E-444553540000},
"Command" with value "Reboot Into Safe Mode",
"method" with value "ShellExecute", and
"Param1" with value "C:\WINDOWS\system32\bootsafe.exe".

Restart the computer and you will find there's a new button called "Reboot Into Safe Mode" just above "Log Off" and "Shut Down" in the Start Menu. Click on this button once and select the type of Safe Mode you wish to boot into-Minimal, Networking (typical), or Repair, then click the Reboot button.

Once you have booted into Safe Mode, you can perform any actions needed, such as scanning for viruses, spyware, adware, malware, or repairing a system component.

When you have completed your tasks, Click again on "Reboot Into Safe Mode" on the Start Menu. Select Normal Restart option and click Reboot. XP will reboot in normal mode.