Posts by: Sachin Khosla

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Why you would like to be an IT Guy?

Top Reasons for why anyone like one of us would like to be an IT guy : 1) You get to know about latest gadgets and technology before they hit market. 2) You have geek excuses to give for your mistakes. 3) You can wake up late night without giving any explanation to your family[…]
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Life at Metro .. By Realin

I am a common man from a common city with some uncommon dreams. But like others i had to move to a metro for better job options and especially when talking about career perspectives. If you are from india, then you must be aware the northern part of the country i.e. Punjab is not much[…]
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LoveStory 2050, Flop, torture, boring movie

I am not a very big fan of Hindi movies, but some movies are really good. Yesterday my friend also my roommate wanted to see a newly released movie from bollywood for which people are crazy (as he claims). According to him, it is a movie based on science fiction and is full of action[…]
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Realin started cooking.. OMG

Sometimes life doesn’t give you a second chance, and so was in my case. Realin aka Sachin i.e. me is a normal MAN who always tasted the food cooked by his mother. But suddenly the conditions got adverse and realin was on a track where he to choose hunger or cook his own food. Yeah,[…]
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Disable Windows Vista Update

Hi, Yes this annoying vista’s a general mundane problem “automatic update” is a real pain. Well to stop that filthy prompt you can write the following line in the command prompt(make sure you open it using Administrator, this can be done by right clicking the cmd shortcut and then selecting Run As Administrator). NET STOP[…]
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What does PS means in email?

Hi all, More often we use P.S. or PS at the end of our emails. What does it exactly mean ? Some people just do not care and treat it as a note which is mandatory to be read by the reader or the recipient. But PS actually means Post Scriptum or some people claim[…]
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Open Command Line here in VISTA

Yup, i know you miss the powertoys in XP which embeds an option in the right menu bar to open command line anywhere in Windows XP. Well nothing bad in vista too, rather you don’t need any powertoy to get this thing done. Just Press right click while holding shift on any folder. You will[…]
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Yahoo, Google announce online ad alliance

Sources: 13 Jun 2008, 0413 hrs IST, AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Fresh from a failed courtship with Microsoft, Yahoo on Thursday rushed into Google’s arms in the hope an alliance will improve its sagging fortunes and quell a rebellion by stockholders. Yahoo and Google announced a deal to put the Internet search king’s expertise to work[…]
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CULTURE VULTURES

i read an article in Hindustan Times “Culture Vultures”. Every1 has right to speech nd i knw author just expressed wht he felt but i dnt agree with him when he says Indian culture is to be blamed bcoz it has double standards as it doesnt approve of issues like Homosexuality, Pre-marital Sex or live-in[…]
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YouMint.com spamming. How to unsubscribe?

Every other time i open my mailbox, i anticipate, that there must be some worth emails. But i just cannot believe it that more often i get a spammer(youmint) sending me mails. Here is the screenshot to show how badly they spam me. Damn 15mails in one go. i was wondering how do i unsubscribe[…]
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A mouse fable

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package… “What food might this contain?” The mouse wondered – he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap. Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning. “There is a mousetrap in the house! There is[…]
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Install java jdk jre in Ubuntu(linux)

Just when i installed UBUNTU in my virtual machine i looked for my development applications. And the prime need was JAVA, the language in which i talk these days :p So people like me, who are LINUX aspirant, and want to lean more about it, start by using java. A simple command in the console[…]