ek aur sher

Phir koi aaya dil-e-zaar! nahin koi nahin


rahroo hoga kaheen or chala jayey gaa


dhal chuki raat, bikharney laga taaroun ka ghubaar


larhkharaanay lagay aewaanoun main khuwaabeeda charaagh


sogayi raasta tak tak k hur ik rahguzar


ajnabi khaak nay dhundlaa diyey qadmoun k suraagh


gul karo shamain, barhadou may-o-meena-o-ayyaagh


apnay beykhuwaab kawaarhoun ko muqaffal karlo


ab yahan koi nahin, koi nahin aayey gaa!!





Faiz Ahmed Faiz!!



the last four lines were used in mammo!

Mammo - - awesome movie!

kaise reviews - ye ghazal hi kafi hai!





Yeh Faasle Teri Galiyon Ke Hamse Tai Na Huye

Hazaar Baar Ruke Hum, Hazar Baar Chale



Na Jaane Kaun Si Mittee Watan Ki Mittee Hai

Nazar Mein Dhool Jigar Mein Liye Qaraar Chale



Ye Kaisi Sarhadein Hein Uljhee Huee Pairoon Mein

Hum Apne Ghar Ki Taraf Ruk Ke Baar Baar Chale







----------------------------------------------

Singer : Jagjit Singh

Poet : Gulzar

The Ghazal is from film "Mammo" -directed by Shyam Benegal

4th day

behold for we have got a new headline now ..

"For the first time in its history, Indian Space
Research Organisation (ISRO) launched a third-party satellite as a
primary payload in its vehicle."





how in the world did we become so efficient .. and successful?

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3 days 3 headlines

agni 3, then brahmos and finallly pslv c8. all successful. a great achievement indeed for india. wished to write more but alas! got exam tomorrow. but will surely come back on this topic.

List of Microsoft Management Consoles and their File Names

Taken from : http://firechewy.com/blog/archive/2005/08/27/914.aspx



I too do not like to go through helllot of shortcute to these services. win+r and command works charms for me!!



MMC Name File Name



Application Server appsrv.msc

Fax Service Manager fxsadmin.msc

Authorization Manager azman.msc

File Server Management filesvr.msc

Certificates snap-in certmgr.msc

Shared Folders fsmgmt.msc

Certificate Services certsrv.msc

Group Policy Editor gpedit.msc

Certificate Templates certtmpl.msc

Internet Authentication Service ias.msc

Indexing Service ciadv.msc

Internet Information Services iis.msc

Computer Management compmgmt.msc

Local Users Groups lusrmgr.msc

Domain Controller Security Policy dcpol.msc

Removable Storage Manager ntmsmgr.msc

Device Manager devmgmt.msc

Removable Storage Operator Requests ntmsoprq.msc

Disk Defragmenter dfrg.msc

Performance Monitor perfmon.msc

Distributed File System dfsgui.msc

Routing and Remote Access rrasmgmt.msc

DHCP Manager dhcpmgmt.msc

Resultant Set of Policy rsop.msc

Disk Management diskmgmt.msc

Local Security Policy secpol.msc

DNS Manager dnsmgmt.msc

Services Configuration services.msc

Active Directory Domains Trusts domain.msc

Telephony tapimgmt.msc

Domain Security Policy dompol.msc

Terminal Services tscc.msc

Active Directory Users Computers dsa.msc

Remote Desktop tsmmc.msc

Active Directory Sites Services dssite.msc

Windows Management Instrumentation wmimgmt.msc

Event Viewer eventvwr.msc

xfce "set as desktop" and random desktop background wallpaper option

now these two options were what i missed much in my xfce desktop. so i tried to google and came up with a trick solution.

as u can easily google out "killall -USR1 xfdesktop" works as charm for changing the desktop bg from the list of images (set in the desktop settings wizard. so here's what i did-

1. set as desktop context menu - put this in a new custom action of thunar

====================================
Name: Set as Desktop
Command: echo '# xfce backdrop list\n%f'>$HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrops.list;killall -USR1 xfdesktop
File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Image Files
====================================

Note: u can also put it into mirage custom actions - if u use mirage as ur image viewer. btw, mirage is a very light weight decent image viewer much better than eog etc...

2. script for choosing random wallpaper in xfce: this script was actually written for gnome by someone else (David Loschavio, Steven Ingelgem). I modified it for xfce.

====================================
#!/bin/bash
# script: change_backgrounds.sh - bash version
# version 2007.3.7
# description: randomly replace gnome background with one from a directory
# credits: David Loschiavo [http://www.djlosch.com], Steven Van Ingelgem, Sudhanshu [http://home.iitk.ac.in/~sudhansh]
# license: GPL
# change bg_path to ur wallpapers folder. the subfolders are automatically added.

bg_path="/media/D/XTRA/wallpapers"
extensions="jpg png gif jpeg JPG GIF PNG"
temp_bg_list=/tmp/bg_change_list

rm -f $temp_bg_list

for extension in $extensions
do
find $bg_path -iregex ".*.$extension" "$temp_bg_list"
done

cnt=`wc -l "$temp_bg_list" | cut -f1 -d" "`
all_bgs=`echo \`expr $RANDOM % $cnt\``

selected_bg=`head -n$all_bgs "$temp_bg_list" | tail -n1`
echo "Changed desktop to: $selected_bg"

# use the follwing command if u want the script for gnome.
#gconftool-2 -t string -s /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$selected_bg"

echo -e "# xfce backdrop list\n$selected_bg">$HOME/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrops.list
killall -USR1 xfdesktop

exit 0
=====================================

so just copy this into a bash executable file (say .ranbg.sh). make the file executable (chmod a+x .ranbg.sh) and run it whenever u need to get a new wallpaper. u can put it in ur sttartup applications to get a new wallpaper on every logon.

howzzat!!
njoi!

calvin strikes!

warnings!

Wizard of Id again

if u know dassa , this is dedicated to him.

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Wizard of Id

Have you checked google gadget?

ultimate tool! a must for ur personalized homepage if your browser is always open (like in my case). u can also add it to any other page (ur web page for instance) - well this option is available to any other gadget u like. cool!

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April 1

The Fools day!
Since last two days I was aching to get some idea of playing a prank on my wingmates. I cudnt think of anything interesting. It just happened in the evening that I snatched a ball from one of my friends (who normally has a tendency to have friendly "vocal" spars) and accidentally threw it off. I also had a small hubbub trying to not go to fetch the ball.
Now that's when I came up with the idea - to have a false fight. Everything went according to plan. We (I and Tewari) gave excellent performances to make my wing believe that we were really having a quarrel. Many of them tried to pacify us but we continued. And then the worst thing happened. No, I didnt laugh. But my wingies started to move back to their rooms. I don't know why. I am still trying to get this answer. Some say they were afraid and others refuse to comment. Anyways, we had to then abruptly stop the dispute and declare that all this was just a little april fool's stuff.
Well, in any case it was a good memory, specially when we are in the fourth year readying ourselves to be a part of the larger community and leave this small hub of ours.

I remember now, I was also the one who started this stuff in my first year with a very sluggish prank with the old "cool website" thing. That was a success too as the knowledge of creating a good web page was something majority of the people lacked lacked.

Though I wished to be more creative this time, but nevertheless something was better than nothing. Now we will try to curb our enthusiasm with a year book!

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