Tata IT wiz!

Tata held it Quiz this year in Delhi. I got to know that I am going to participate in it yesterday. So we went and got to know that around 200 teams for differnt schools had come for the quiz. My Partner was Vibhor . The Prelims were kinda easy and we made it to the final 6. The finals were totally killer. We were only able to answer two questions and came 4^th from the six finalists. It was okay as I did not know that it was going to happen and also the standard of quistions according to me was very very very high. but, stilll the prizes that I got were great(some would say, I found them rather boring or useless) . Here is the list -

• Speaker Set
• Coffe Mug
• T-Shirt
• Coffetable books
• Fastrack Watch
• Manorma Year Book
• CD Case
• Sports Bag

Useless thing wont you agree. But still the first prize was a laptop and the secod one was an iPod Nano. Next time I am sure I am gonna study and appear for this quiz!

Exin 1-2-3!!

Ah! Exun the big one! This computer symposium was a really good one for me. I went for four competetions from which I won at three of them. The Results were -

• Third in Senior Quiz
• Second in Junior Quiz
• First in Programming

The senior quiz was really reall really tough man I mean we had no idea what was goin on. We had chances of winning the Junior Quiz too if Vibhor and I hadn't screwed up a little bit.

But still! It was a great experienced and one of the DVD's that I got from Exun that was suppose to contain the video was empty I can be put to personal use! Yipeee! Free 4.7 GB!!!!

Mario was everywhere!!

Do you remember those good old days of what we now call Retro Gaming. Games such as Mario, Donkey Kong, Popeye and even Space Invaders. Then, gaming was not as intense as it is now it used to be plain fun. I have also noticed that at that time Mario was everywhere. Here are a few examples -

Punch Out: It was the only official NES title to make use of MMC2, Multi Memory Controller. dont you see that the guy that is saying "fight" looks a lot like Mario.

Donkey Kong: As we all know that Mario made his debut in video games in Donkey Kong.

Cleaning: Even the NES Cleaning Kit features a huge picture of Mario cleanging the box.

Two Chapters to complete!!

Okay! So now I am home and I have around two chapters of maths to complete so that I can give the B.T. mock test and actually get good marks in it. I need to get like above 85 so that I can have the confidence that I need for the PrePreBoards. So, probable I will be dishing out a post on Quake and Condition Zero maps when I have completed them. If I dont complete them I will be up all night to do some other study and then probably blog.

I have to go to MODEM tommorow...so wish me luck!!

Dilli Bandh!!

There has been a Dilli Bandh everal times here but the first time ever has it ever effected me and it is quite annoying. Due to this the schools are closed and I cant meet my friends. Also several computer symposiums are being postponed. For example WARP that is the computer symposium of DPS Mathura road was on 7th and 8th of Novembor but the government advised all the private schools to remain closed on these days. I mean I was to go to around 2 competetions one the first day and on 1 on the other day. But now this symposium has been posponed until further notice. I hope that something like this does not happen to MODEM or Exun.

The butt-shot!!!

I recently got Counter Strike: Condiotion Zero and while I was playing I realized that apart from the head shot that kills the other person immediately, one can also use the "Butt Shot". Just aim at the enemy's buttock while playing through a sniper rifle and shoot. The person dies immediately. I am also sure that, that person's health was full cause I was playing de_dust with me alone as terrorist and three others as counter terrorists. I had only seen two other bots whom I had killed in one shot(the headshot that time). I will try this more number of times and confirm!!

I won SD!!

After a long struggle this year to go to computer symposiums and and actually win and finally achieved that breakthrough. I got first prize in Software Display in Silico Battles. the judges really liked the presentation and that was what I was doing so WE WON!!. Yipeee!!

chmod web 777

It turns out that lots of people don’t like (well, okay, despise) the term Web 2.0 because they see it as just a bunch of marketing hooey. If you fall into that camp, an alternative name is becoming increasingly popular as some folks, their inner geeks in full view, are stumping for the phrase chmod 777 web.
Unix mavens will recognize the inference immediately and will be chuckling to themselves. For everyone else, here’s the background: chmod is short for “change mode,” and it’s the Unix command you use to change the permissions on a file or directory. There are three types of permissions—read, write, and execute—and each one is either on (1) or off (0). So if a file has read, write, and execute permissions turned on, you write that as 111, which is the binary equivalent to decimal 7. Lastly, you specify three different sets of permissions for each object: the owner of the file, the members of the file’s group, and everyone else. So if you give read, write, and execute permission to all three sets of users, that’s written as 777, and the command that applies these permissions is chmod 777.
So what does this have to do with Web 2.0? Well, the Web has always been about reading (users have “read” permission), but Web 2.0 is characterized by socially produced knowledge such as that found on wiki-based sites (“write” permission), and by sites that look and feel like desktop programs (“execute” permission). So chmod 777 web has all the essential characteristics of this new phase of Web development built right into the phrase.
That’s not to say that chmod 777 web is destined for lexical stardom. It’s not a phrase that trips lightly off the tongue; explaining what it means takes too long; and it’s Geeky with a capital “G.” Still, I love it, because it exudes an in-your-face cleverness and an admirable compactness (so much meaning in such a short phrase!). It wouldn’t surprise me to see this phrase take up residence in some of the blogosphere’s nerdier neighborhoods, especially those where “Web 2.0” is a verboten term.

Song Tracks for Movie

I have decided all the song tracks that I will be putting in the movie. In the starting of the movie when Siddhant calls me I will play Cho Large by Teriyaki Boyz. When Varun and I are hacking the server I am thinking of playing either Act a Fool by Ludacris or the soundtrack or Gone in 60 Seconds. When Siddhant and Apoorva are hitting me and Varun I was thinking of playing Watch Your Back which was in the movie 2 Fast 2 Furious. Any comments or suggestions are welcome.

I need SP2

Today I feel that I need Windows XP's Service Pack 2 CD more that I ever did in my life. Evne more than the time of this post. It is not actually the problem of the CD. I think the problem is in the OS. I downloaded Service Pack 2 from some website and a file was corrupt. I downloaded Service Pack 2 from the Windows website and a file was corrupt. I got the CD of SP2 from my dad's office and the file was corrupt yet again. So even if Bill Gates persoanlly give me the Service Pack 2 CD most likely some or the other file will be corrupt.

If I had SP2 I would be able to install Windows Movie Maker 2.1 on my computer and I wont have to wake up at 4:00 in the morning just to complete the movie which by the way is coming out to be pretty well.

I have to go off to sleep now. I am not sure if I will work early morning or late in the evening. Wish Me luck. Good Night.

Apeejay NOIDA saves Rs.18/-

Today my school Apeejay NOIDA has successfully been able to save Rs.18. We had to got to Mother's Internation School today for there computer symposium "Minet". Like always we left a little late and we were sure that we would reach there in half an hour by taking the DND flyover. But no, our school wanted to save the 18 rupees that they would have spent on DND. So we do not take the DND flyover and go throught the mornal route. It took 2 hours to reach there. We missed the most important event that was Senior Quiz but it was all worth it as the school was able to save 18 bucks. And the thing that pissed me off the most was that when coming back from Minet the driver took us from DND and we reached in 25 minutes. Isn't that just great

First movie

Today was the first time ever in the history of CODE, that we had shot the whole movie in school in one day and the DVD on which we had written it has actually work. Unlike the past experience with movie making this DVD(which again is of a local company) seems to be working just fine. And the competetion is on 7th September so I still have a lot of time left to edit the movie.
I think I will use all the idea that I had had for the the pervious movie. This one is for eSpice that is Delhi Public School NOIDA and the topic of the movie is "A Day in a Geek's Life". We seem to have a pretty good story which I had thought of...Thank You. We shot it in around 4 periods inside the CODE lab only. We played Counter Strike for only 30 minutes(kasam se). I hope this one truns out to be good.