It’s (not) Alright

If you are a regular viewer of the TV series LOST from ABC, then you will know which secrets and what Lost I am talking about. For those who don’t know anything about Lost, even briefing will take 2-3 LONG blog posts, still I will try…

Lost is one of the best TV series I have ever seen. It is about a plane that crashes on an island. Mysteriously, almost 44 people survive the crash and live on the island hoping to get rescued. The events that happen during the time they spend on the island is what makes the serial Lost. It also has many insights and briefings of all the characters in the serial. (Flash backs). And that’s not all… they are not alone…

Experience a thrill, soon the survivors come to know that they are not alone… and the other side is not exactly a friend… Soon the series gets filled with a lot of (yet) unexplained secrets, many branches to the main story line and yet remains to keep the viewers glued to their seats… Continue reading »

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WHOA… All the Tennis lovers around the world who watched the Wimbledon 2008 Men’s Singles Final on Sunday the 7th of July 2008 will agree that the match was a stunner. Nadal might have won the championship BUT, having said that, one must remember the way Federer was fighting back all the time.

The longest final ever in Wimbledon history and a title for a Spaniard after 42 LONG years. wow. It simply cannot get better than this. With the scores of 6-4, 6-4, 6-7(5), 6-7(9), 9-7, Rafael Nadal became only the second Spaniard to win the Wimbledon title. The match lasted for almost 4 hours and 50 minutes.

Along with some spectacular play, there was some drama added in the match due to 3 rain interruptions. The first came before the match, second came during set 3 and last in set 5. And then there was wind. A lot of wind. Really, no words can describe the match. Simply Brilliant. I am very happy to have witnessed one of the greatest tennis matches ever.

With whatevr knowledge I have about tennis, there were some things I noticed. One was, for the first time I saw that Nadal was making a lot of use of the drop shot and some spinning volleys. It was good to see some touch of elegance along with the power play. Also the second server top spins of Nadal have improved a lot.

Now about Federer. The one thing I noticed about him today. He was looking a little anxious. Or little excited maybe. I don’t know why, but I have never seen Federer not being able to return the serves of his opponents for 30-35 odd times. The nerve he showed was brilliant. He literally saved the match for some 20 occasions and that includes 3 championship points too. The way he came back. Awesome.

Really, I am sure that this match will be remembered for a long time, not only by Nadal’s supporters but of Federer’s too. It was a day when the game, the level of play was above all the rest. I have nothing else to say cause I am stunned by what I have seen…

Aditya

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Hey, long time no post I know. I have been busy with something for 2 days now. I have been trying to use SSH. SSH means Secure Shell. Some of you might know about the free UNIX shells some services provide to you. They have a Linux running on the server and they give you an account with a limited set of command and a limited disk space. You can save your files and do your work and so on.

I had an account on one such shell. I seldom used it and it was deleted later. About a week ago, a friend of mine, Kalpik jumped on arch Linux. He went all the crap about how arch is good and all. What it did was all the people at #think-digit on irc.freenode.net (almost all) went on to install it. Some like me installed it as a VirtualOS. The other one was Mehul.

Couple of days ago, Mehul was trying to access the virtual machine from the host OS. He did a lot of things that I am mostly unaware of, and somehow, got the 2 to access via ssh. He then sent me the port, URL and the user/pass for the virtual OS on his PC to me and I logged in to it. This incident brought back the shell in my mind. I thought about giving it a try and maybe, have my system configured for SSH and use it anywhere. Continue reading »

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When I first started watching the movie, I was expecting something big. Sarkar, even after being a remake of Godfather to an extent, was a very good movie. Based on that fact, I was bidding on the point that this might again be a very good movie. Alas, but I am slightly disappointed. This movie is certainly below expectations. As I already stated, the first movie was very good. It had raised the bar very high and Sarkar Raj fails to reach it.

Just to remove any doubts you might have, this is a very good movie. After watching the likes of Jannat and Crazy 4 in recent past, this was actually an Oscar winning movie. But comparing it with Sarkar (as a sequel) fails.

I will try to keep this review as spoiler free as possible. Continue reading »

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