From what I can understand The O.C. has come to an end with episode 416. I'm sad coz the oc was the first drama series I ever watched and it's brilliance inspired me to watch more stuff. It had a really good cast, good story lines and perhaps the best music ever heard on television. Admittedly season 4 wasn't as good as previous seasons and cut-throat competition for ratings in the US have forced the show to shut down. I will miss hearing the familiar Tu ru ru ru - Tu ru ru ru ....Tu ru ru tu ru ru california here we come......right back where we started from........
PS: Day one of Felicity was really good. Congratulations to everybody involved for a lovely fun day. Looking forward to day two :)
Saturday, February 24, 2007
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
unReal MAD-rid
This is a football related post. For the uninformed Real Madrid has not won a single trophy for the last 3 and a half years. Sunday night I watched Madrid Vs Levante and after that osasuna Vs Barca. The difference in class between Madrid & Barca was just too evident. And no matter how many coaches Madrid hire and fire they always seem to be struggling. The reason is pretty simple. Look at two starting lineups of madrid. One is sundays game and the other is a champions league quarterfinal game with ManU at old trafford almost exactly 4 years ago.
The most interesting thing is that the lineup for last sundays game is madrid's first choice lineup. Comparing the teams on the left and the right the difference in class is sooooo obvious. The midfield of Zidane,Figo,McManaman and makelele won madrid 2 champions leagues,2 spanish leagues and a a uefa super cup. In this period madrid were so good that even they way barca play today with ronaldinho, messi, deco, giuly etc...they would have most probably been murdered.I know people will disagree with that statement but people who would have watched madrid's matches during that time would agree with me.
Madrid kept selling good players or players retired or they became too old and they never replaced them. No replacement was found for either Hierro(retired)or carlos or helguera or salgado who are all 33+. No replacement was found for makelele or zidane or figo or McManaman. Morientes and Eto were also sold. Madrid's last decent signing was Michael Owen who did really well to score 18 goals from about 30 apperances. Apparently that wasn't good enough and he was also sold!
But the biggest mistake was to sack Vicente Del Bosque. In 4 years incharge at real madrid he won 2 champions leagues and reached the semi-final twice,won 3 Spanish leagues,2 Spanish cups , 2 super cups and the world club cup. And he was fired because the then president thought that del Bosque wasn't good enough for the future!!
I feel kind of sad because I used to enjoy the brand of football Madrid used to play. No team plays like that anymore. All teams now depend on one or two individuals to provide creativity. With the old madrid you never knew who the threat was. Even defenders like carlos and Hierro were regular scorers. It think it was pretty much the "Total Football" of the modern era.
The most interesting thing is that the lineup for last sundays game is madrid's first choice lineup. Comparing the teams on the left and the right the difference in class is sooooo obvious. The midfield of Zidane,Figo,McManaman and makelele won madrid 2 champions leagues,2 spanish leagues and a a uefa super cup. In this period madrid were so good that even they way barca play today with ronaldinho, messi, deco, giuly etc...they would have most probably been murdered.I know people will disagree with that statement but people who would have watched madrid's matches during that time would agree with me.
Madrid kept selling good players or players retired or they became too old and they never replaced them. No replacement was found for either Hierro(retired)or carlos or helguera or salgado who are all 33+. No replacement was found for makelele or zidane or figo or McManaman. Morientes and Eto were also sold. Madrid's last decent signing was Michael Owen who did really well to score 18 goals from about 30 apperances. Apparently that wasn't good enough and he was also sold!
But the biggest mistake was to sack Vicente Del Bosque. In 4 years incharge at real madrid he won 2 champions leagues and reached the semi-final twice,won 3 Spanish leagues,2 Spanish cups , 2 super cups and the world club cup. And he was fired because the then president thought that del Bosque wasn't good enough for the future!!
I feel kind of sad because I used to enjoy the brand of football Madrid used to play. No team plays like that anymore. All teams now depend on one or two individuals to provide creativity. With the old madrid you never knew who the threat was. Even defenders like carlos and Hierro were regular scorers. It think it was pretty much the "Total Football" of the modern era.
Saturday, February 03, 2007
My Vista Experience
I Installed Vista on my system.(Thank you FireFox for the assistance :D)
Pros: 1. Vista definately looks better
2. I Somehow have shared video memory (only with vista :D) Now I have 512 MB of video Memory
3.Booting is faster(unexpected surprise)
4.Ram Boost really works but you need a flash drive 4 times the size of your ram to make it work properly. With 1GB ram and a 4gb flash rive i got a performance equivalent to 2 Gb ram
5.Media player 11 is reasonable
6.System tools are much better organized and powerfull(read as linux like :P)
Cons: 1.Vista is a resource hog. Minimum requiremnts are too high
2.Degraded gaming performance. Now this might be down to the drivers but i have the latest nVidia drivers for vista. Generally there was a 10%-20% drop in FPS for most games I tried(q4,fear,nfs-c,bf2). You can expect this problem to go away as better drivers come out
3.OS occupies too much disc space. Xp took about 1.5 Gb. Vista takes 7.5 Gb !
4.Indexing is crap. It occupies a lot of space(2 gb), memory (about 20 mb) and is totally unintelligent.
My Verdict- Most of us don't have systems that can run vista properly. By properly i mean avoiding long delays to do simple stuff. If you want to run vista properly make sure you have
1. DVD Rom(for installation :D)
2. Atleast 1 GB ram
3.GeForce 6/7/8 or ati X1000 (integrated graphics suk big time)
4. Vista Drivers for your Hardware(although vista does support a lotta stuff better to have drivers supplied by your manufacturer)
5. And yes of course the crack :P
Please leave your vista experiences/questions as comments :)
Pros: 1. Vista definately looks better
2. I Somehow have shared video memory (only with vista :D) Now I have 512 MB of video Memory
3.Booting is faster(unexpected surprise)
4.Ram Boost really works but you need a flash drive 4 times the size of your ram to make it work properly. With 1GB ram and a 4gb flash rive i got a performance equivalent to 2 Gb ram
5.Media player 11 is reasonable
6.System tools are much better organized and powerfull(read as linux like :P)
Cons: 1.Vista is a resource hog. Minimum requiremnts are too high
2.Degraded gaming performance. Now this might be down to the drivers but i have the latest nVidia drivers for vista. Generally there was a 10%-20% drop in FPS for most games I tried(q4,fear,nfs-c,bf2). You can expect this problem to go away as better drivers come out
3.OS occupies too much disc space. Xp took about 1.5 Gb. Vista takes 7.5 Gb !
4.Indexing is crap. It occupies a lot of space(2 gb), memory (about 20 mb) and is totally unintelligent.
My Verdict- Most of us don't have systems that can run vista properly. By properly i mean avoiding long delays to do simple stuff. If you want to run vista properly make sure you have
1. DVD Rom(for installation :D)
2. Atleast 1 GB ram
3.GeForce 6/7/8 or ati X1000 (integrated graphics suk big time)
4. Vista Drivers for your Hardware(although vista does support a lotta stuff better to have drivers supplied by your manufacturer)
5. And yes of course the crack :P
Please leave your vista experiences/questions as comments :)
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