End sems going on........ :(

well my third semester end semester examinations are going on,rather they have just started.Well,its the eve of my maths exam and m still left with more than half of the course.Conventionally m not supposed to do what i m doing right now but yeah if i do tht i wont be myself.
So the situation is i hv taken a half an hour break and less than 10 minutes are left.
To begin with my signals paper was good,now its my maths paper,i dont know wht is goin to happen,i just realize tht taking whole number breaks is not a convention either,so m back to studies........ :P :D :) :( :X
PS-i dont know my state
bye

She gave me the colour of Life

And this is how i used it........................

New Year Woes For Microsoft

THE ZUNE PROBLEM:

For most of the people this night were enjoying and taking pleasure of the new year eve,some nerds may have been found working with their slogged heads infront of their LCD's!!  :P

I am talking about the Microsoft ZUNE team. A Y2K like bug seems to have hit 30GB Zune users all over the world. It seems that the users were quiet frustrated as they reported a huge number of complaints at zune.net.Let us take a look at the issue.

What the problem was???

The 30 GB Zune experienced a Y2K-like mass failure at around 6:00 am on the 31st, where the portable media player goes to the loading screen and freezes permanently. Zune.net's service status today warns: "Customers with 30gb Zune devices may experience issues when booting their Zune hardware.  We're aware of the problem and are working to correct it.  The Zune Social might be slow or inaccessible. Sorry for the inconvenience, and thanks for your patience." 

Microsoft's Zune support forum has been hit with a mass of complaints, but the problem has yet to receive a public diagnosis from the Zune team. Hundreds of users have each reported the identical problem.

The solution..........

This evening, Microsoft posted an official explanation on Zune.net detailing why all 30GB Zunes suddenly froze up this morning.

"The technical team jumped on the problem immediately and isolated the issue: a bug in the internal clock driver related to the way the device handles a leap year. The issue should be resolved over the next 24 hours as the time change moves to January 1, 2009. We expect the internal clock on the Zune 30GB devices will automatically reset tomorrow (noon, GMT). By tomorrow you should allow the battery to fully run out of power before the unit can restart successfully then simply ensure that your device is recharged, then turn it back on. If you're a Zune Pass subscriber, you may need to sync your device with your PC to refresh the rights to the subscription content you have downloaded to your device. "

THE LAYOFFS:

The layoffs, if true, are part of a pattern in the technology industry and certainly not isolated to Microsoft. Just last month, Adobe laid off 8 percent of its workforce (or about 600 people). Rumors have it that Google has let go thousands of contractors (although it's really hard to confirm this story and Google has not been forthcoming about it). So that Microsoft could be laying off 17 percent of its workforce (or about 15,000 people) is hardly a surprise. The economic slow down means people are buying less software, certainly waiting to upgrade and with Microsoft's issues around Vista, it's all coming together at a bad time. (At least Microsoft waited until after the holidays; give them credit for that.)

Well,another big release for Microsoft is round the corner.Yes,Windows 7 may be released by the end of this year(according to CNET) and Microsoft wants to put Vista behind. The last thing everyone would want is another Vista.

Chalo,best of luck to the oldbees!!!!

Back in Delhi

Finally i am back in Delhi.After a fairly long semester at Manipal Institute Of Technology,these holidays of mine seem quite a lot deserving in one sense.For the other,i hereby tell you tht my end semester exams sucked big time.
Well,no regrets for the past now!!I will be writing quite often now.

Google Android and HTC Dream

Google Android is a software stack for mobile devices based on the Linux operating system kernel and developed by Google and later the Open Handset Alliance. For those of you who dont know about the open system alliance,it is a consortium of 34 hardware, software, and telecom companies devoted to advancing open standards for mobile devices.
Android uses a Java based platform and only Java programmed codes can run on it.The Android Platform provides a rich security model that allows developers to request the capabilities, or access, needed by their application and to define new capabilities that other applications can request. The Android user can choose to grant or deny an application's request for certain capabilities on the handset. Great efforts have been made to secure the Android platform, but it is inevitable that security bugs will be found in any system of this complexity. Therefore,
the Android team works hard to find new bugs internally and responds quickly
and professionally to vulnerability reports from external researchers.

Now regarding the HTC Dream.Well its gonna cost you around $180 and it would be sold along with a T-mobile plan.HTC dream has a Qualcomm 528MHz processor,tochscreen interface,GPS,3.1 megapixel camera.The phone shall come along with inbuilt YouTube player,Gmail and much more.

As far as i can predict,i should say that the iPhone's much eatablished market in the US is in danger.

Finally I am writing

It has been almost one and a half months since i have gt admitted at Manipal, i hvnt been free for even a second so just cudnt write for my much beloved blog.
So,wht i hv gt in my store to write upon????
Recently i attended many workshops-Robotics,Google Android,Symbian...
I ll also talk about the life and times of Manipal in detail.

For All Those Beat Makers-FL Studio

Finally i got my hands back on something which i really used to love during my school days.Anyone who knows me could have guessed the answer in no time.Its Fruityloops.Its probably the best digital music making software that i have heard and used.Here's a brief intro regarding FL.
FL Studio (formerly Fruity Loops) is a digital audio workstation, developed by Belgian company Image-Line Software.

FL Studio features a fully automatable workflow centered around a pattern-based music sequencer. The environment includes extensive MIDI support and incorporates numerous features for the editing, mixing, and recording of audio. Completed songs or clips may be exported to Microsoft WAV, MP3, and as of FL Studio 8, the OGG Vorbis format. FL-Studio saves work in a proprietary *.FLP format.
From classical to non classical,this beat buddy would never let you down.
Here's a video tutorial for all those beat lovers.