Spell with Flickr

You can get your own word spelled using flickr. Below is how “amit” is spelled: <p> <img src="http://photos33.flickr.com/35859438_b7312902e4_t.jpg" alt="Stairwell A"/> </p> <p> <img src="http://photos30.flickr.com/55640946_84e4ecf9a9_t.jpg" alt="M"/> </p> <p> <img src="http://photos7.flickr.com/6338027_84787dca81_t.jpg" alt="neon sign I"/> </p> <p> <img src="http://photos25.flickr.com/46836718_1b3ea8a07d_t.jpg" alt="T"/> </p>

February 1, 2006 · Amit Bahree

WAIK will screw up VS 05/TFS RTM

Charles talks about how installing WAIK on a functioning VS 05 or TFS system will fail and screwing up the .NET 2.0 runtime bits; best to avoid doing that for now.

January 5, 2006 · Amit Bahree

10 tips to keep your computer spyware-free

I stumbled across this article talking about how to keep your computer spyware-free, all good advice. Now one less thing I need to be tech-support for the friends and family. :)

December 31, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Superhero - The Developers Song

Thanks to Wai for pointing this out, this is a rock song (I think) dedicated to Developers, you can download the songs in both mp3 and wma in various bit rates and they also have the lyrics; not bad I would say. :)

December 29, 2005 · Amit Bahree

The Ultimate Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide

Adrian’s Rojapot has published the ultimate desktop graphics card comparison guide with over 240 cards being compared, grouped by Vendor and 15 points of comparison.

December 27, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Belkin Screen Shots

As a few of you had requested below are links to some screen shots for the Belkin router. Current Status Login Screen LAN Settings DHCP Client List WAN Connection Type DNS MAC Address Wireless - Channel and SSID Security Use as Access Point MAC Address Control Firewall - Virtual Servers Firewall - Client IP Filters Firewall - DMZ Firewall - DDNS WAN Ping Blocking Parental Control Restart Router Restore Factory Defaults Save/Backup Current Settings Restore Settings Firmware Update System Settings

December 25, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Belkin Pre-N Wireless Router Rocks!

Well it has been a week+ and the Belkin Pre-N Wireless Router I got has been humming away merrily, no issues so far - zilch, nada, nothing, null, unlike the Linksys piece-of-crap-good-for-nothing-junk ! Awesome! Have been very happy. I would highly recommend it. The first thing I did was update the firmware (it also has an auto-update feature, but more on that some other time). And once it was configured and up and running, did not need anything else....

December 20, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Wiress Router - Firewall Log

If you have been following my Wireless blues here , you would know its been 48 hours (or so) and the new Wireless router is still going strong (touch wood) without any issues so far. This is what I had in the log so far (which is quite interesting when compared to Linksys as if I did have a similar log internally then I do not know how to get to it)....

December 15, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Xbox 360 copy protection cracks

BBC is reporting that the copy protection on the XBOX 360 has been cracked by a group called the Team PI Coders. It is not quite at the stage where its usable, but this is definitely the starting point. Today you can get just some of the information, and cannot run the dumps, but the day you can, then it might be worthwhile investing on one. :) My biggest rant is the fact that I have a US XBOX, why can’t I play those games in a UK XBOX?...

December 15, 2005 · Amit Bahree

How to test math models?

Say you want to test mathematical model of your friendly neighbouring snail, how do you test it? Why, with a robo snail of course! :)

December 14, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth

This is not new, but I recently stumbled on it. If you are developing or wanting to develop for bluetooth developing for Bluetooth technology (exposing Bluetooth services, enumerating devices or services, and connecting to services) the Windows Embedded Source Tools for Bluetooth Technology program provides a Win32 API Wrapper that developers can expose in Visual Studio .NET or the .NET Compact Framework. The class library wrapper provided helps make development for Bluetooth Technology faster and easier by reducing the lines of code necessary to develop for Bluetooth Technology from hundreds to just a few and the components include:...

December 14, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Update on Wireless

If you recall my previous posts about Wireless blues I have been having I did decide to get the Belkin Pre-N device. Well after a order screw up with Amazon where they delivered someone else order to me (with the correct address), I did finally get the device delivered yesterday and set it up last night. First impressions have been good so far; it seems to be working good although its only been 8 odd hours, but atleast it seems to be promising....

December 13, 2005 · Amit Bahree

VMware Player 1.0 is released

Now this is something cool that almost everyone will find very handy. If you are a developer, engineer, architect or just an enthusiast and want to play around with a few different configurations, the best way to do that is using a Virtual Machine. So if you got a hold of some beta’s or demo VM and to use it till now you had to have a licence for something along the lines of Virtual PC or VMWare Workstation....

December 13, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Dual Core Laptops?

Not sure why one would need this kind of power on a laptop (from a practical point of view), but if you do need it, then it seems like the new dual core laptops are just around the corner . Rumor has it that Dell is going to be releasing some in February next year and Toshiba in Q1. But if I was you, I would probably wait for a x64, instead of a dual-core on the laptop, but then thats me....

December 6, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Sick of Wireless

I am quite fedup of the Wireless Router I have at home; lots of connection drops, lots of reboots. If the Wireless is working then the router packs up or vice-versa. I currently have a Linksys WRV54G and it sucks! Don’t take one even if its free! So, now after living through its irritation for a year+ (what can I say, I am either brave or foolish), This is my second Linksys device with which I have had issues....

December 1, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Geeks gone wild!

Picked this up on one of the communities at work, and is possibly a true case of Geeks Gone Wild ! Make sure you have your volume turned on to appreciate the effort gone into it. I want to know where does this chap live and the cost of electricity, especially on this cold, foggy, mysterious night here in London :)

November 22, 2005 · Amit Bahree

How to install Mac OS X on a x86 machine?

So, if I want to do something like this , and install Mac OS X on an old machine (with an Intel x86 CPU) then where do I get a version of Mac OS X (10.4.1 I think will work), so I can play around with this? I have never had a Mac so not sure where to start. Thoughts?

November 22, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Multiple Forms to ASP.NET

I stumbled upon this via a colleague of mine who was answering a different question on our internal newsgroups at work. Paul Wilson shows how you can have multiple forms in ASP.NET

September 29, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Screen shots of Yahoo Mail (Beta)

Zilla Smash has some excellent hi-res screen shots of the new Beta Yahoo Mail and as someone else said, boy does gmail look clunky in comparison!

September 25, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Mono running on Nokia 770

Hats off to the mono guys who got this running on Nokia 770 (their new internet appliance running Linux); screen shot here .

September 22, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Getting old versions of Java JDK

Meenakshi wanted an old version of a JDK, and it was quite interesting to try and find an old version at Sun’s site, they don’t plainly display a link - one would suspect that it should be somewhere on the download page itself, but if only things were made using common sense. E.g. Meenakshi wanted to get J2SE 1.4.2_05 (not very old from the current shipping which is 1.4.2_09), try googling it and you will see what I mean....

September 21, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Converting from PDF to other formats

Creating PDF’s is relatively easy these days, but I have found so many instances, where I wanted to convert to other formats from PDF’s for some reason or the other, and till I stumbled upon PDF Conversion Central it was not possible (as far as I knew), without too much trouble. But now I can convert it to word documents, RSS, html, xml, etc - even audio formats - cool.

September 8, 2005 · Amit Bahree

How to install Linux from Windows?

I have an old server which right now is running Windows 2000 Server and I want to install Linux on it. Unfortunately, I cannot boot from a CD as the BIOS was on a different partition (this is an old Compaq machine), and there is no way for me to get into that now. Also, I don’t have any floppies lying around that I can use. Which means I was stuck....

August 15, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Einstein as the first agent for time travel

I don’t know if you knew or not, but as a kid Physics was my favorite subject (yep more than Computers), and I almost went into that line of things, but the idea of controlling a machine at my will (machine being a computer here) was more fun, so here I am many moons later. But, every now and then my old physics roots still pull me to something interesting I read about (its only reading now, no more experiments)....

July 1, 2005 · Amit Bahree

Official API for Google Maps

This is very cool! Google now has officially released their API’s for Google Maps; till now there were a few hacks in place such as my where I work , but now its all supported. You would need to get a key, which is associated with a specific url, you can get that here and also read up on all the fun details here .

June 30, 2005 · Amit Bahree