First update for the year

First of all, a very belated happy new year.

Nothing much about this post. Just to let you all know that CRAP is not dead. Got a bunch of days off on account of study leave as university exams are coming up, and here I am, online for about 14 hours a day and sleeping the remaining 10.

Summary of events since my last update : 

• Upgraded my DataOne connection to UL 750.  Bye bye 2mbps, welcome home 256kbps   No more automatic dialing though.

• New SIM.  Airtel Sucks. Good Riddance

• Manchester United are Champions of England, Champions of Europe and Champions of the World.

• Watched a whole lotta movies (WALL-E was great)

• Ghajini becomes Bollywood’s Biggest blockbuster ever

• 6 pack abs (ghajini inspired)

• No Haircuts since August. Hair hasn’t grown all that long though. Had done a ghajini style the last time

• Played NFS:UG2, Far Cry and FIFA 07 AGAIN.

• Into 6th sem

• Nothing happened on Valentine’s day

• Great celebrations at hostel for New Year and Hostel Day. Enjoyed a lot

• Almost broke up with a friend, and mended up a broken one.

• Still on the old PC with 40GB HDD and no DVD-RW. It has been full for a while and that means no more Downloads.

• Completed 50 100 150 days without CRAPdating.

• Opera 10 alpha released. Presto Rocks.

• The Dark Knight grossed over 1 billion $ Worldwide

• Rasul Pookutty, a mallu (yay) won an academy award.

• AR Rahman, wont two academy awards.

• Slumdog Millionaire won 8. Happy for it but this year’s academy sucked for snubbing The Dark Knight and WALL-E

• Scrobbled over 3000 4000 5000 tracks on last.fm.  My profile.

Guess thats all i can think of for now. Be Back soon (hopefully)

Hope Utd beats Mourinho’s Men

happy at last

finally, after a long time, everything is going just right for me and i’m on top of the world now. yaaaay.

Had the college tour last month and boy oh boy, it was just awesome. It definitely was the best trip i ever had. Dunno when was the last time I had so much of enjoyment in my life

Even though classes resumed a day after the tour, and they were boring too, I did not find myself thinking “why on earth did i take engineering”. Guesss my whole outlook to life has changed.

Just so you know, this blog isn’t dead yet. hey.. even olympics and WC occur once in 4 years.

kimi still rules. Hail Manchester United. More glory this season.

9 worst things in life

I wanted this to be 10 worst things in life but couldn’t find a 10th one So here goes the list :

9. Zero Balance

8. Public Toilets

7. Missing Someone

6. News Channels

5. ISP Downtimes

4. Results

3. Diarrhoea

2. Power Cuts

1. Loneliness

BSNL Datone Automatic Dialling

Ever since BSNL increased their speeds to upto 2Mbps, the home 500 series plans have become the best for downloads. Tired of waking up at 2 AM ? why not schedule your downloads then ?

If you have set your connection such that you have to dial it then read on. if your connection is such that you just have to reboot your router, see this

I’m assuming that you are using windows and IDM. needn’t necessarily be IDM. you can use any download/torrent manager that can schedule downloads. That part is upto you. I’ll just explain only how to dial the connection.

First go to internet options from control panel. navigate to the connections tab and select the radio button that says never dial a connection. apply changes.

next, open notepad and type

rasdial <connection_name> <username> <password>

for eg, if your connection name is BSNL_BB, username is vysakh and password is 123456, then use rasdial BSNL_BB vysakh 123456

save  the file as “dial.bat” (you can use any name ofcourse. just make sure you save it as a .bat file and not as a .txt file. hence use the quotes.)

open notepad again and type

rasdial <connection_name> /disconnect

for eg. rasdial BSNL_BB /disconnect

save this file as “disconnect.bat” now go to scheduled tasks (from control panel or from start menu) and click on Add scheduled tasks

The wizard will open up. click next and it shows a whole lot of programs which we are least bothered about. click browse and find the dial.bat and select it. select daily and set the time as 02:05  and click next, enter your username and password (not the connection’s, but your windows’)

if you get an access denied error, then double click the task from the task list and check Run only if logged on

Similarly, do the same for disconnect.bat and set the time as 07:55

BSNL’s timing is quite weird. so to be on a safer side, use 2:05 and 7:55 and not 2:00 and 8:00

Now schedule the download at 2:06 in your download manager and thats it.

Just keep your system on, preferably with the user logged on and your download manager running in the background. Retire to bed. Your computer  will automatically dial the connection at 2:05. the download manger will then start the download process a minute later and when its 7:55 you will get disconnected and so downloads would stop.

There you go, life made much more simple. Any queries/doubts, feel free to ask.