31 July 2005

Hungarian GP: The Horse Prances to the front

Source : Ferrari.com

Michael Schumacher stuns with his 64th career pole position on Saturday afternoon in Hungary. Schumi’s pole was Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro’s first pole this season since the final round of 2004 and Schumi’s first since the penultimate round last year, in Japan. The Pole position is a tremendous result for the Ferrari after such a struggle in recent races. We have to wait for the Race day to know if Ferrari is back to winning ways or it’s just a case of the F2005-Bridgestone tyre package being particularly well suited to the demands of the Hungaroring circuit. Whatever happens on Race day, it’s a great performance by Ferrari and Schumi in the Qualifying
Well done Ferrari and Schumi.

27 July 2005

It’s more paying to be Cheeranjeevi than SRK

Source :TIMES NEWS NETWORK

This is from the article published by The Economic Times on SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2005 01:16:48 AM. Ignore the spelling mistake of Chiranjeevi by them.

With its advertising market ballooning at Rs 4,000 crore, star power is going south. Marketers are rushing to snap up southern stars for brand and product endorsements. Shahrukh Khan and Aamir Khan, the most sought after stars in the endorsement orb, charge around Rs 2-3 cr a year per deal, while Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgan and others are paid around Rs 1-1.5 cr a deal. Whereas Cheeranjeevi, Vijay, Madhavan and Vikram, top stars in south, charge around Rs 2-4 cr depending upon the exposure required.

Cheeranjeevi, incidentally, is one of the highest paid actors in the country. He charges around Rs 7-8 cr a film, whereas SRK, the highest paid actor in Bollywood, gets around Rs 5 to 6 cr a film, say sources.Amitabh Bachchan, with a price tag of around Rs 4 cr a deal, of course, remains the costliest star. But sources say that if Rajnikanth, the mega star of south, were to jump into the fray, he would be as pricey as Big B.

wooo

27 July 2005

Highest ever rain in India’s history

Nature?s fury knows no geographical boundaries. Mumbai was witness to this on Tuesday as the highest-ever rainfall (94.4 centimeters, 37.1 inches) recorded in a single day in India shut down the financial hub of Mumbai, snapped communication lines, closed airports and thousands of commuters were stranded on the way home or were in their offices far away from home.

Tens of thousands of people were stranded for hours on roads in Bombay. The All India Radio reported about 150,000 people were stranded in railway stations across Mumbai, India’s main financial center.

Due to heavy water-logging in low lying suburban stations, the local trains services had to be suspended.Thousands of commuters were stranded on trains for 5-6 hours without water or food.

The heavy downpour forced the AAI to shut down Mumbai airport — one of the busiest in the country and divert all Domestic as well as International flights to Ahmedabad and New Delhi as dark clouds and showers hampered visibility on the two runways.Hundreds of passengers were stranded at the airport as all flights were cancelled.

India’s previous heaviest rainfall, recorded at Cherrapunji in the Meghalaya state, one of the rainiest places on Earth, was 83.82 centimeters (33 inches) on July 12, 1910.

22 July 2005

Niru-Ragz-Suresh-Me

This is the picture taken by a juice shop guy when Ragz came over to meet me, niru and suresh in Hyderabad.

13 July 2005

How To: Mount NTFS partitions for win XP, 2000 in Fc4

This is for all the newcomers who wants to mount those NTFS partitions in Linux. You must begin here and download according to your kernel.

These instructions are only for users of Fedora or RedHat kernels.

Which RPM

It is important to install exactly the same version of NTFS kernel module as the kernel you have installed. Below are some simple instructions to help you find the file you need. A quick way to find the version is to use the whichrpm script. Save the file and run it.

chmod 700 whichrpm
./whichrpm
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13 July 2005

Transit

I have changed my hosting from 1and1, as it is expiring this month. So its time to make a move to new housing. This time it is provided by people at Novacyber.net. Thank you very much niru for your generous hospitality, it has been most welcome. Hope to start blogging soon.