November 22, 2006
· Filed under Intellectual Talk
So how many of you have heard of those old sayings and stories where you need to overcome all your desires? Sidharath found his peace when he did that. While he was trying to overcome his desires, he still fulfilled them in one way or the other. :s There are people who would see things so clearly that their desires would be dead before they overcame them. They would do things in the world not because they hae any concern with it, but because it is life and you have to spend it one way or other so why not make it easier for ones around you? Things are just done done according to the habit… and the person sitting right next to you won’t even have a clue whats going on inside your head.
I would like to conclude this post with this quote from the TV series Angel:
There is no sunset or painting or finely-aged scotch that is going to sum up my life.
November 19, 2006
· Filed under Counter-Strike, Technical Jargon
I wrote this post a long time ago on http://gotfrag.com CS forums and it remained a sticky there for over 2 months. Since my job started, I have hardly found time to play any CS, I was thinking I would archive this post here which took experience of around 4 years of playing CS day and night. Too bad my MX518, Ultimat and gaming keypad have gone almost useless these days :s I’ll have to do something about it :@ Here goes…
This mouse acceleration thing never comes to an end :/ There is always something you don’t know.
Anyway, there are few things to know when you are messing with acceleration:
1. -noforce commands (game setting)
2. m_filter (game setting)
3. cpl mouse fix (os setting)
4. windows sensitivity (os setting)
5. enhance pointer precision (os setting)
6. no/low/medium/high acceleration (os setting)
First step is to uncheck the “enhance pointer precision” This would remove acceleration from windows. However, windows tends to mess this up and turns pointer precision on again in different circumstances. There are a few ways to fix this ‘bug’.
The first is CPL mouse fix. This fix would adjust the smoothing curves to compensate the effect of pointer precision.
The second way is Razor acceleration fix. This would render the pointer precision box useless and will make sure that acceleration stays off at all times.
Now HL provides noforce commands for fixing this issue on its own. The noforce commands will make sure that the windows settings also apply in the game, thus keeping pointer precision off.
It is reccomended to use one (or more) of the above three methods.
m_filter uses the previous mouse traking values to make the crosshair movement smoother. Turning it zero will make the aim more precise. This doesn’t really have something to do with acceleration.
A lower windows sensitivity gives more adjustibility to the game sensitivity. You should play around with it to find the best for you. People with lower dpi mouse might like to boost up the windows sensitivity.
The last option is given by some versions of windows in the control panel. It is also supported by some mouse drivers. Keep it to no acceleration if you get this option somewhere.
And yeah, the post is still there at http://gotfrag.com/cs/forums/thread/193314/
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November 13, 2006
· Filed under About me
Dilemma is when you are not sure. When you make up your mind, its not dilemma, its a fight… When you know what to do, its not dilemma anymore. People should evolve. When you refuse to evolve, you kill yourself. Honest people always evolve. Its because being realistic and truthful to yourself is the key to evolution.
The dilemma that started 2.5 years ago is no more… The dilemma which made me what I am today, which made me the psycho that I am. And hell I don’t wanna change a thing about it. This dilemma was I guess the only major abnormality in my life. Other things that happened in my life were not that crucial. I hated how it all started, the stuff which happened during it, but the end is not that bad.
Dilemma no more… Now its just this little world and little people stuck in small time. Of all the attributes of this material world, time is the most painful.
November 9, 2006
· Filed under Technical Jargon
Though I work in a mobile service provider, I can’t really say that I was a big fan of cell phones until a few days ago when Gmail Mobile was released by Google. I have been using it since day 1 and I’m stuck to it! Its absolutely revolutionary! Let me give you an idea.
Okay so what? We always had an e-mail service of some kind or other on our mobile phones. Why is Gmail Mobile special? First, you don’t need to sign up for anything new. Second, this service is not associated withyour service provider either.
Alright, these two things can be achieved otherwise too if you have a cell phone with HTML browser with a GPRS service which supports HTML browsers. Thats where Gmail Moble is different. It comes in a little Java App which reduces time required to load all the HTML and makes it so much faster!
Sync’d Mail: There are some services which also come in Java App and are actually pretty good. But that doesn’t change the fact that you will have to sign up for a new mail account and inform everyone about your new mail address.
Customized for your handset: Gmail Mobile that you will use is specially made for your handset and keeps the limitations of your set catered.
The interface is amazing and so comfortable, best mobile mail interface I’ve seen so far! Here are a few pictures of Gmail as it looks on my Motorola L6.
Yes I know that picture quality suck so don’t whine about it. This is what happens when you use another cell to snap your cell screen.
Motorola L6 is a rather sucky handset when it comes to screen size, resolution and colors but Gmail uses its limited capabilities to the max and runs pretty fine. You shouldn’t expect Gmail for L6 to be as sleek as Gmail for Blackberry. And shutup! I still love L6 
Costed me Rs. 200 (~$3) so who cares if it doesn’t have SMS delivery reports 
And I will close this post by telling you all about a little tip to all you mobile surfers out there. If you don’t have an HTML browser in your cell phone and you want to view an HTML page, all you have to do is point your WAP browser to mobile.google.com/gwt/n?u=<url> (e.g. mobile.google.com/gwt/n?u=stinger.wordpress.com) and Google will convert the page to WAP compatible format and display it to you.
Have a nice day staring at your cell! 
November 7, 2006
· Filed under A Day Flashes By..., About me
I wrote a few scraps in my own scrap book today. I think they are worth quoting here. (Atleast to my standards)
Today’s fortune:
When winter comes heaven will rain success on you
And what does success mean anyway? Being able to fullfill our instincts better? Or should I say God granting you circumstances where your instincts are fullfilled better? Oh and God is the biggest player around!
*sigh*
Those who have listened to it, recall the Max Payne sound track. When I started writing this scrap, I somehow wanted to express that feeling in words: the feeling of being sad, being sad about your very own existance, being sad about the way God made things. Everything in the world – and by world I don’t mean this life – is set out in a rather unimportant way. And the sad part is that you have to live your misery, there is no way to cut to the chase…
When I think about myself, think about things which I think make me the person that I am, all those material things which make me what I am in this material world, I believe even more that this world is meaningless. Because the fact is that I am an illusion, my characteristics are illusions, you all are illusions. When I start to write about things, I plan to explain them in detail and say powerful words, but when I do write, the things seem small enough to be bothered about. But then, my words are very small too and so am I.
And there was a time when I used to think about stuff and I changed in the direction my mind directed me. Now, my mind thinks but my thought doesn’t affect the person that I am. But wait… its just a realisation that I never changed before either! My thought was never strong enough to change the person that I am! My thought only told itself that I was changed before, but now it sees things more clearly to let that happen.
And I hate it… I hate realisations. All the good things in my life can be attributed to my emotions.. My intellect brought me nothing but sadness…
November 4, 2006
· Filed under Intellectual Talk
So what I did was to submit my last post at different forums. I was faced by a swarm of angry 17-20 year olds. A few observations:
1. They won’t understand the meaning of logical explanation. They would keep putting “care and love” as arguments.
2. They would often take the discussion out of perspective by saying that they don’t care if the person is their biological father or not provided he cares for them enough.
3. They would say that DNS test is there to prove that the person is your biological father. They failed to realise the question.
In short I was faced by a very immature bunch of people. The only mature people there were already had their own agendas in mind so I never bothered to discuss with them. People failed to realise that I was not advocating theists.
I agree that DNA test is the final word about proving your relationship. So anyone who wants to know can get the poof. I also agree that there is no such hard proof for existence of God. Let me re-phrase my initial question to explain my point: Do you believe that your dad is your biological dad without the need for a DNA test? When I asked this question on forums, everyone said ‘Yes’. My next question in line of arguments was: If you have the right to believe in things without a proof, then why not give everyone else the same right too?
People normally do believe in stuff without a solid reasoning. This is what belief is all about. What people would do is to attach some reasons with their beliefs. People would associate stuff like care and love with their belief in their fathers subconsciously. Similarly, most people would associate reasons with their belief in God. Theists on those forums were explaining those reasons they had in their mind. I could hardly agree with any reason they put up.
Even you will find teachings from Islam which support associating small reasons with your belief in God. Though such reasonings will probably not be anywhere near to the levels defined by an original thinker, if they are enough for a common man to believe in God, its really worth it.
