How Much MP3s are Enough?

Back in 2005 when I first purchased my PC it had 80GB HDD installed.
I was thinking of 40GB but the difference in price was merely 200 bucks.

I partitioned my HDD making about 20GB for audio songs, and I started collecting.
In about 6 months 20GB was full with old hindi classic songs (believe me, I was a hindi fan @ that time).
I thought this was enough because there would be no more classic songs.

But, when I brought my PC to college, I was changed a lot.
I deleted all hindi songs in single two key combination of (Shift + Delete) and all my love for hindi classic songs was gone.

I started collecting english songs, barely started with a CD with some 104 songs which my brother brought.

Initially, I liked "Somewhere I belong" of Linkin Park. For some it was quite loud but I didn't care.
English songs were rare in my college.
Only some seniors had some good songs.
I hated "BSB" and they had only "BSB".

Then came era of Evanescence, Limp Bizkit, Avril and many more.

Internet was costly and slow at that time.

Then a senior gave me Rammstein. I got mad !!!

In fall of 2007, the Golden Era of 2MBps internet in my college.

I started using it from Feb 2008 and till now the amount of data I have downloaded exceeds 1 TeraByte ( 1024 GB).
Even after cleaning up bad tracks and removing duplicates, I still have 60GBs of songs left.

I don't think I would be able to listen to them all atleast in next 5 years.

Yesterday, I downloaded two more GBs of songs of t.A.T.u (Russian Lesbian Band)

I have english, bulgarian, russian, spanish, ukrainian and even some arabic tracks.

Now, I have got problem of how to keep this.

I am running out of free space for more downloads and I don't want to loose any track.

I don't know what to do.

I guess, I would be deleting other data for creating free space like movies and tv serials.

But, do I really need to have 60GBs of songs???

Wanna Make Wall-E of your Own

Well, I love Pixar and their movies like billion other people on this Earth.


I wanted to make a Wall E Cabinet of my own but I lacked those Workshop skills (coz my instructor told me that "you computer/IT students don't need to learn these", and he did all the assignments for us).

But, russians are hell of engineers !

If you want to make a Wall E for your own, here is the link

http://casemods.ru/section10/item490/

Since it's in russian, you will need online tools such as Google Translator ( http://translate.google.com/translate_t?hl=en# ) or Yahoo Babefish ( http://babelfish.yahoo.com/?fr=avbbf-us ). I assume that you know how to use these tools.

It's a complete guide to make Wall E Cabinet. From steel sheets cutting to your whole Wall E. It has pics of every procedure.

So far as we can tell, this robotic PC even opens up his own optical drive, and he can also send out love letters to one "Eeeevvvaaaaa" without human intervention. A thing of beauty, no?

Update: The link is sometimes down. Try opening it later.

The World in one picture

Well, try to identify as many as you can in this picture.

I could only identify 19 out of these.

If you could identify more than that, I guess you have nice general knowledge.

best of luck

Who is educated? English Babu or Hindi Guy

Last December, when I was traveling from Jodhpur to Nagpur, I witnessed a usual happening but the effects were unusual.

I believe all Indians must have faced this. The dabbawala / caterer in the train was selling dinner packs at Rs. 45. It's more than the price fixed by the Rail Ministry but who cares for extra 3 bucks.

I like many others had ordered the food and paid 45 bucks for that. But, there were two people who were unhappy with this. I appreciate their effort.

The Hindi Guy and the English Guy.

The HINDI guy called the TTE and discussed this matter with him but TTE didn't paid much attention because he was speaking in HINDI.

What the heck? In Hindustan where national language is HINDI, no body pays attention to you just because you speak HINDI.

The TTE went away ignoring the HINDI guy.

On the other side of me, there was this ENGLISH guy, I am only guessing but this guy was a service man in Armed forces because it was there in his style of speaking. He translated the whole HINDI guy's words with poor grammar into ENGLISH and TTE was paying attention to him. This time TTE took action, he called the caterer and ordered him to say sorry and return 3 bucks. Then the ENGLISH guy showed off that 3 bucks didn't concern him.

I guess this type of incidents didn't happen only in trains. Everywhere in India, these kinds of things happen. I am not anti-ENGLISH, it's required in profession and you should know that but still it can't be our first language.

People around me use ENGLISH to impress others, to show that they are well educated.
How could anyone be well educated if he/she doesn't have a command over his/her national language?
They show off using this foreign language. And the accent thing is like "Sone pe Suhaga". They tilt their mouth and try different accents but they don't know that this shows.

This is not good.
You will have to come back to HINDI when you are sad, when you cry, when you want to show your real emotions.

My suggestion: Use ENGLISH only in professional things and if other party's first language is ENGLISH. Except those, use HINDI it's accepted everywhere in India. We are the only one who will have to preserve HINDI.

It's All About The Pentiums

Parody of "It's All About The Benjamins" by Sean "Puffy" Combs
New lyrics by "Weird Al" Yankovic
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It's all about the Pentiums, baby
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
Uhh, uh-huh, yeah
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums, baby
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
(Yeah!!)

What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers?  Code crackers?  Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
Workin' at a desk with a dumb little placard?
Yeah, payin' the bills with my mad programming skills
Defraggin' my hard drive for thrills
I got me a hundred gigabytes of RAM
I never feed trolls and I don't read spam
Installed a T1 line in my house
Always at my PC, double-clickin' on my mizouse
Upgrade my system at least twice a day
I'm strictly plug-and-play, I ain't afraid of Y2K
I'm down with Bill Gates, I call him Money for short
I phone him up at home and I make him do my tech support
It's all about the Pentiums, what?
You gotta be the dumbest newbie I've ever seen
You've got white-out all over your screen
You think your Commodore 64 is really neato
What kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
You're usin' a 286?  Don't make me laugh
Your Windows boots up in what, a day and a half?
You could back up your whole hard drive on a floppy diskette
You're the biggest joke on the Internet
Your database is a disaster
You're waxin' your modem, tryin' to make it go faster
Hey fella, I bet you're still livin' in your parents' cellar
Downloadin' pictures of Sarah Michelle Gellar
And postin' "Me too!" like some brain-dead AOL-er
I should do the world a favor and cap you like Old Yeller
You're just about as useless as jpegs to Helen Keller

It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!

Now, what y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers?  Code crackers?  Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?

Uh, uh, loggin' in now
Wanna run wit my crew, hah?
Rule cyberspace and crunch numbers like I do?
They call me the king of the spreadsheets
Got'em all printed out on my bedsheets
My new computer's got the clocks, it rocks
But it was obsolete before I opened the box
You say you've had your desktop for over a week?
Throw that junk away, man, it's an antique!

Your laptop is a month old?  Well, that's great
If you could use a nice, heavy paperweight
My digital media is write-protected
Every file inspected, no viruses detected
I beta tested every operating system
Gave props to some, and others?  I dissed'em
While your computer's crashin', mine's multitaskin'
It does all my work without me even askin'
Got a flat-screen monitor, 40" wide
I believe that yours says, "Etch-A-Sketch" on the side
In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user
You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total-loser
Your motherboard melts when you try to send a fax
Where'd you get your CPU, in a box of Cracker Jacks?
Play me online?  Well, you know that I'll beat you
If I ever meet you I'll control-alt-delete you
What?

It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!
It's all about the Pentiums!

What y'all wanna do?
Wanna be hackers?  Code crackers?  Slackers
Wastin' time with all the chatroom yakkers?
9 to 5, chillin' at Hewlett Packard?
What?