TriNetre - Archive for November 13, 2003
(no longer updated)
Good god. How did this guy become the President of the US of A?
The most important job is not to be governor, or first lady in my case. [side: **grin**]
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods. [side: I wonder what he would call the "foreign oil" - trans-hemispheric?]
I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. [side: duh! and huh?]
I understand small business growth. I was one. [side: what if he had not put "business" in that sentence?]
We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans. [side: no wonder US is where it is now]
This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve. [side: what did you preserve Mr. P? your brains so that someone else could use it better?]
Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. [side: i wish my boss thought so too]
You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box. [side: i agree. you can only blast it out of existence]
Inspired by a the eyeranian post.
I am greatly impressed by my iMP-550. So far I have used it to play normal CD and MP3 CDs, stationary, walking (horizontal and vertical orientation) and even running at a small pace. No skips so far, expect for a pretty badly ripped MP3 file.
The UI is very intuitive and clean. One of the cons mentioned in the reviews elsewhere is that there are no controls on the main body of the unit. Rather all the controls are on the remote control. I am not at all inconvenienced by this since I really can't think of a scenario where the remote is no accessible while the body is. Also, this lack of controls on the main unit is the reason why they have been able to make the unit so sleek!
I have done a firmware upgrade (from 1.03 to 1.20) and the whole process took around 5 minutes. Download firmware, burn into CD (I used a cheap CDR to be safe, rather than a CDRW) and just play the CD. As simple as that. I have heard that another upgrade in coming in December or so when the system will support Ogg Vorbis!
I am also impressed by the "multi-session" feature. If you have a CD with say 200 songs and you have heard 75 of them before you had to switch off the system, you can continue with the 76th song the next time you power up the system, as long as you have not changed the CD in the unit. It works on MP3 and audio CDs. It was also be able to play VBR encoded file pretty well.
One small annoying point I have noticed with my iMP is that when I stop the CD, it takes some time to come to a complete stop. Twice I had accidental opened the cover before the CD stopped spinning. I guess it is taking time to write the multi-session details into its memory. Disabling multi-session support (you can do that) should solve that problem.
Another often reported "problem" is the amount of time it takes for the system to read the contents of the disk when it is powered on. But I would say this is normal. It will take any similar system that much time to recognise the format, get the directory and file layout details. I don't think there is any way to escape that delay in a system that supports multiple formats.
God! I never knew so many notes and harmonics existed in the songs I listen to!The whole book "Handbook of Applied Cryptography" is available online chapter by chapter. Do read the copyright notice.
This is so ridiculous. 4 prominent Indian government websites were defaced by a group calling itself Anti India Crew (AIC) and the morons who claim to be the sys admins of the sites don't seem to even know about it. The sites under attacke are that of Employee Provident Fund Org., Indian Railways, Airports Authority of India and Central Board of Excise. As is quiet evident, all the four domains are hosted on the same machine at 203.197.214.100, a Solaris Sun machine with Netscape-Enterprise server. What is more amazing is that this machine has been defaced at the least 20 times now.
If you visit the site directly you will not see any defacement evidence for all the defacements seems to be done on the "robots.txt" of the respective host. The text on the defaced file goes:
greeted AIC
email for anti india crew will be public soon cheers!
we still own you inside out just dont ever forget that even if a thousand ankits try to secure your servers, thats a promise (;
Defaced by attic of AIC
we are attic and Mrgreat !
