TVS APACHE RTR EFI…………….

Well guys finally the wait is over at last. Those who had planned, are planning to buy and were waiting for this beast to be launched well heres the good news, its launched……….after quite some time.

Front View

Well in looks, it is not much different from the 2008 model of Apache RTR, apart from the racing stripes, a blue lcd display and ofcourse a rear disk brake.

Blue LCD display

Rear Disk brake

This bike as we all know features a 159 cc fuel injected engine which belts out 15.7 bhp at 8500 rpm of power, an increase of 0.5 bhp from previous RTR versions, does 0 to 60 kmph in 4.8 sec and 0 to 100 in 17.7 sec. Ex-showroom cost at Rs. 64990 (Delhi).

At this moment only Orange and Yellow colours are available, Titanium Grey will be launched in 2 months.

PS. The images and info on this post have been taken from Vikey.in forums. Please visit for more info.

Lock Any Folder

Well this post must be interest to almost all of us , as we all have our private content which we want to protect from unauthorised persons.If u share your computer at home or office, this tutorial could be of utmost importance to protect ur data from others . Keep your data in a folder and use this tip to lock that folder from being accessed . U dont need any of those expensive software for doing this .

give it a try. Forget the software itz a best way to lock ur files and folder

just give it a try…

1) create a folder in any drive (here D:/)
abc –> (ur files)

2)here in “D:/” create two batch files “lock.bat”, “unlock.bat”. write the following code in it.
In lock.bat
ren abc abc.{0000031D-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}
In unlock.bat
ren abc.{0000031D-0000-0000-C000-000000000046} abc

4) place ur personal files inside it. And now press lock.bat in D:, now try opening it. Bingo i think u got it. To unlock click unlock.bat.

Block Websites From Opening

Do you need to block any site from beeing accessed on your computer . Or want to keep check on ur children from accessing explicit content ,or just to play the trick on peers. Watever may be the reason ,this is a good trick , which dont require any firewalls or site bloacking software . Just do this

Block WebSites in Windows XP:

1. Browse to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc

2. Find the file named “HOSTS” .

3. Open it with Notepad.

4. Add 127.0.0.2 www.sitenameyouwantblocked.com , below 127.0.0.1 localhost line and that site will no longer be accessible.

A Ride on Delhi “Metro”

I am a regular Metro commuter  esp. now when i have to go to attend my training .But today it was a bit different , with many instances and experiences .I could not stop myself from writing about it .

Today i got up a bit late (Thanks to me watching movies till late night ),ending up getting late by about 15-30 mins for my training . But to make the matters worse, it was about 9:15 am, when i boarded up the metro for rajender place ,a PEAK traffic time . Was lucky to get a seat in metro to sit(even though it was rithala ,the station from where metro starts ) .

Metro was a bit unusual today . Four more seats were reserved for “ladies only” in each coach of metro . Man we live in India , where every one runs a rat race to get “reservation” . But that reservation for women had little effect .i did not see any women making any attempt to get their ‘reserved’ seat from men .

Journey till Kashmere Gate was Ok (for me only as i was among some of the priviliged person , having got the seat) . But the real fun was to begin.

Over Crowded Metro

As soon as the gates opened up at kashmere gate people just erupted out of the bottleneck .I was determind to be the last person to get out of the coach (avoiding all those pushes & pops ), but the scene seemed quite humerous . People looked like as if they were being chased by a dinosaur and their only way to be saved was to board the next metro to CP(Rajiv Chauk ) . I slowly reached the basement , for the metro to CP. Frequency of metro at that time was quite good with one metro in 2-3 mins. Then the metro came . Somehow i managed in . There were unlimited number of passengers in the metro . To me it looked more like a Mumbai local than the world class Metro ,of which we were very proud of .

Atmosphere in the coach was filled with different ‘fragrances’ ranging from that of sweat , to smell of hair oils .Acs were working fine  but its effect were nullified partly by the scorching Delhi summers and mainly due to the coach being over crowded .I was sweating like anything . At next station more people came in . In her pursuit to get in quickly a 100 KG ‘Bulldozer’ stepped over my feet with her heels. Thanks to my heavy duty shoes my feet were saved .In the scheme of sudden rush of people at Chawri Bazaar ,some how one of the four girls standing to my right was pushed quite close to me,the last thing a boy can think of when he’s sweating like i was . I got nervous(God only if i could i would have poured a full bottle of deo over me) .  Some how i managed for the next three stations.

Like i was pushed in at Kashmere gate , i was pushed out ‘automatically’ at CP . Actually Kashmere Gate and CP form the intersection of two lines each , and thus cater to maximum traffic .

From Cannought Place(CP) I boarded the metro for Rajender Place. The ride was much better this time ,me being able to get myself in a very comfortable position to ’stand’ . Rajender place is only four stations apart from CP. But this small route provides you with a lot of eye candies .

Five years back when metro was launched in delhi it seemed like a dream come true for the city .. Truly it was world class .Now also It  is, catering to about 7.5 lakh people daily,surely one of the world’s busiest . Its fares are quite cheap too. Since its induction It has served a lot in development of Delhi .It shortened the distances. Decongested the roads of lakhs of private vehicles . People from all classes of society use metro , from students to entrepreneurs,poor to richest.Delhi never saw that before .Metro is expanding its web .But with each expansion number of people choosing metro over private vehicle and buses is increasing .Metro should figure out to how to cater to such a high rush ,esp. at Kashmere Gate and CP, as they get most affected . They will have to maintain a ’standard’ ,its comfort level,  else metro might loose out to private vehicles again , as all other public transports,in past have and that would not be good for the city,for our environment  .

Ubuntu Guide ………

So this is it .. . . My guide for ubuntu beginners .It contains some of the tips and tricks to efficiently use ubuntu .

Few things i worked hard to find ,but turn out to be really simple . Listing them

CHANGE THE ICON SIZE
Gnome comes with default big icons . Can be frustating . To change the icon size just do the following :-
open nautilus(just open any folder ,or type nautilus at terminal).
Goto :- Edit>prefereces . in the first tab in icon view default select icon zoom level (75%) or so.
see its quit easy.

One interseting thing :-
If u want to change the size of individual icon just right click on any icon ,select stretch and just stretch it too the size u want ……………..its so simple.Does XP have dese functions!!!!!!!! (naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa)

To install a new theme
download any .tar.bz file . Goto system>preferences>themes .
click install new theme
point it too the .tar.bz file u r done with.
For some it might be funny ,but it took me long to figure it out . i used to extract the .tar.bz fil in beginning so getting screwed up .

Downloader for linux
Well this is the part linux lovers wont like to discuss . Linux dont have good downloaders as windows have till date(sorry if i hurt the feelings of any die hard linux fan) . But that doesnot mean linux doesnot have any .
For any newbie its a bit tricky . U have to understand its working. Wget is the best utility to download files(In linux).But its a console app. i.e. u have to write command in terminal to use it.i m not goin to discuss its command line funtion. Now der r many frontend(or download managers) using wget as its backend . Downloader for x is the best i have found . But it does not integrates itself with firefox . u have to manually enter the link . To integrate it with firefox we use flashgot. its a firefox extension. get it here :- http://flashgot.net/
restart firefox. goto tools>flashgot and explore the options.
Select ur downlaoder . Ur downloader for x will work gr8 now (if not better than windows counterpart)
well dere is an interesting link u must read :-
http://gwutama.de/2007/04/06/integrating-wget-with-firefox-and-using-it-to-download-files-from-rapidshare.html

Video Driver
This is an important thing.Many hardware manufacturers dont care to make driver for linux,but to our rescue Ubuntu comes with driver for most of the hardware, but sometimes it does not by default select the appropriate driver for itself.i faced this thing with my display driver(which is intel 8245 integrated chipset) . Ubuntu is know to have problem with intel integrated chipset(it selects vesa as driver instead of i810) .

do
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
it will ask u many questions . ans dem correctly
den the main question of driver will come select i810(or intel if its der)
it would be better if u do lspci before to know ur config.

Getting (Correct) help
if new to ubuntu just download ubuntu guide from https://help.ubuntu.com/pdf/ubuntu/C/desktopguide.pdf without a second thought . Read it thoroughly ,experiment a bit .U r now ready with enough armour to work on ubuntu efficiently.

Now the second level of help :- ubuntuguide.org

If u go through documentation link of ubuntu u will find a plethora of help.go through them . If u find any thing intersting and useful enough bookmark it. There are also links  to ubuntu wiki , and launchpad .Do research on them to know better.

The third level of help and the most important:-Ubuntu Forums
Well in my point of view the strongest point on which ubuntu scores over its competetors are its forums which r the most active i have found (Really i mean it,just try posting something)
goto http://ubuntuforums.org/
register ur self
(just see the number of posts,and members)
U will find all ur doubts cleared there.

6)LINKS :-Now i m going to give some external links and of ubuntu forum threads which r a worth reading:-

>>>Terminal For Beginners
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=73885

>>>Tweaking and Speeding ubuntu
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491
and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140920

>>>How To :Compiz Fusion
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481314

>>>All About Conky(A must for any linux user)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=205865&highlight=conky
and
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=281865

>>>For ur Video Probs
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=129379&postcount=21

>>>Guide to tweak up desktop look
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=490398&highlight=vista+icons

If u wanna see the screenshot of my desktop then visit :-
http://profile.imageshack.us/user/romihim/

>>>Link to The Linux Documentation Project main page where these guides and many others are located:
http://www.tldp.org/

THE MOST IMPORTANT WORD TO LEARN LIUX :- MAKE GOOGLE YOUR BEST FRIEND

With This much now u have quite a lot of knowledge about ubuntu so i will suggest some of my fav programs ,give them a try . us will surely love them:-

1) PCmanfm-File manager ,alternate to nautilus
well i love this file manager over nautilus ,because of many reasons most imp being:-
-Very light Weight(smaller and better than even thunar)
-Fastest(visit its site for more details)
-Tab feature
install it by
sudo apt-get install pcmanfm
2)Mplayer
3)Conky
4)XMMS
5)Grid Wars(Game really addictive,search it urself)

userinit.exe

Well i have seen many a people(esp. my hostel frnds ….itz for you ) confused by a thing called userinit.exe….what is it aactually? Is it a visrus or a windows process ?if  its a virus then how to handle it …..huf……

let me give the formal description of it

(1) Userinit.exe is a key process in the Windows operating system. On boot-up it manages the different start up sequences needed, such as establishing network connection and starting up the Windows shell. This program is important for the stable and secure running of your computer and should not be terminated. This executable file resides in system32 folder .

(2) USERINIT.EXE :- This is the dreadful viruses haunting many .Technically its a trojan horse. Trojan.Coban2k is disguised as userinit.exe in the Windows folder .

Now the real thing ..how to remove the virus from the computer .I have seen many antiviruses not being able to detect userinit.exe (I m not offending any one ….).

Most of the people use winrar . So one way is using it . log into the system normally and using winrar browse to the windows folder .delete the userinit.exe file from it .

If that does not work ,try logging in safe mode and repeat the process. To goto safe mode press F8 at bootup to get windows boot menu and select safe mode

if that does not work too.well den the ultimate saviour is linux . take ubuntu live cd and boot into the system using livd cd . browse to the windows folder using nautilus(ubuntu counterpart of explorer) and delete the file…..

Hope this aritcle of help to you ……

Hubs Vs Switches

HUBS VS SWITCHES

Hubs and the switches both accomplishes more or less the same thing . Both can be used to regenerate the signal (repeater), and both can be used to divide the signal into multiple (for ur personal home network ), but they differ in the way they function.

Hubs functon at the Physical layer and the switches actually function at the data link layer .

when a hub receives a data it is transmitted to all its ports, which results in bandwidth wastage and also it results in more collisions .now also hub works in haf duplex i.e. To say data can flow in one direction at a time . So suppose u have a 10 terminal network and have 100 kbps net connection , so each terminal will get maximum bandwidth of only 10kbps speed . This also means a lot of bandwith wastage.

In case of switches , they work at data link layer. They reduce all the problem of hubs like- collisions . Switches dont broadcast the data and data is only routed to a particular system in the network . So if the collision occurs when data is transmitted b/w two computers there is only one collision domain,i.e. Switches use microsegmentation, as opposed to hubs in which collision can occur b/w any two computers due to broadcasting(thus also slowing down the speed)

Switches always keep track of the address of computer belonging to a particular port. That means data for comp A will only be sent to comp A(as opposed to broadcasting) . So for above example each of the terminal can get a maximum of 100kbps speed .

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