Author: niranjan

My Son’s Saturdays and Sundays

My son’s fathers day gift to me 🙂 He’s now 8 and half. Here’s a masterpiece he made when he was 5 and half.

Amazon Marketplace scam

For last few months I’d been craving for a DSLR. I thought it was about time to take a step forward from my old point n shoot Canon Powershot S50 and upgrade it to a decent DSLR. BTW, my wife

No display in MacBook Pro – NVIDIA graphics processor failed

Suddenly my MacBook Pro failed to wake up from it’s sleep. I thought it’s one of those problems which gets fixed after a hard reboot, but I was wrong! There’s no display after several power cycles. My MBP is one

Sourcefire and SFCP Certification

Hurray…! My intense work for last couple of weeks has finally paid off. Yeah, I’ve just passed my SFCP (Source Fire Certified Professional) Certification Exam. First briefly about the company – Sourcerfire was founded by the author of Snort (an

Shame on the Hong Kong police who shot an unarmed homeless Nepali man

I felt very sad and angry after hearing this news… A Hong Kong police constable shot dead an unarmed homeless Nepali man. A life was lost unnecessarily. Why? Because a policeman couldn’t subdue a single suspect with pepper spray and

facebook’s new terms of service: “anything you upload can be used by facebook”

Thanks to facebook I’ve come in contact with many of my childhood buddies, neighbors, old school mates to university friends. It’s a place to be. Even when you’re busy, you just login once a day to check what your friends

Heavy snowfall in the UK

My son was very excited from yesterday after he saw the snow forecast in BBC news. This morning he just jumped up when I opened the curtain to show him 10 to 12 inches of snow outside. The best part

How To Install Windows7 in Mac with Vmware Fusion

I downloaded Windows7 beta on the first day of it’s public release, but didn’t get around trying it. Finally I got a chance to install it today. The installation was smooth and straight forward. This is how I installed Windows

Buddha Boy is back and starts preaching

Update: You must read the first hand account from LTJ in the comment. Ram Bahadur Bomjan has started his public appearance from November 10 to November 18 2008. He’s given a 45 minutes long speech and is planning to talk

I’ve joined Vanco (Reliance Globalcom – Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group)

After a vigorous job hunt of little more than a week, I’m glad to let you all know that I’ve joined Vanco (Reliance Globalcom, Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group) as a Security Engineer, which provides global managed network solutions with assets

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