Archive for November, 2005

PCI Security Chip

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

This evening, I received a mail from a Chennai based computer firm. (GMail marked it as spam, but that’s a different story). Apparently they are manufacturing a security chip for the Windows environment which protects against virus, FDisk and low level formatting. This chip fits into a free PCI slot on the motherboard.

What intrigues me is the way this works (or is supposed to work, anyway). Is it even possible for a PCI device to control the IDE channel? Or would this work only with some specific interfaces?

Any answers from the hardware experts out there?

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Angry SMSes

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

I received a rather strange SMS a couple of days back. The content was rather direct, but I don’t think it was intended for me. All I know is that it came from a Chennai Airtel number. See for yourself…

“I am fed up of ur talks . The only thing i like is ur back”

What do you think?

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Travelling in Chennai

Friday, November 25th, 2005

It so happened that I had to take a bus back home today. The clouds had to open their heart out and drench me. To top it all off, the bus I took was flooded on the inside!!! Yeah, crazily enough, there weren’t any drainage holes anywhere in the bus. I was standing in ankle deep water, inside the bus…

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Chennai All Out, TNCA No Loss

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005

Given that today’s match was a complete washout, the TNCA should have refunded the ticket costs or at least adjust the ticket towards play on another day. However, going by a report in The Hindu, ticket costs will not be refunded “at any cost”.

The ticket rates start from Rs. 200 for squatting to Rs. 8000 for a pavilion seat. There are hundreds of people in Chennai who are willing to pay that kind of money for watching the match. Nobody would give daanam to TNCA for a match that was washed out.

The root cause of all this would be the BCCI. As it is, international matches in Chennai are few and far between. To top it all off, when the BCCI schedules matches in November – December, the monsoon season here, the odds are a thousand to one that the matches is going to be washed out.

News via Navin

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Flash News

Monday, November 14th, 2005

Autos in Bangalore are charging people double the meter fare. Is this a trendsetter?

For details, visit Vikkki

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