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.

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 :)

Readboard wars!

The following portion of the readboard(the relevent posts have been put together) has created quite a stir....enjoy

Saini @ 10:43:06 24:01 : Vivah Making of Movie and Music added in movies/vivah folder..

poiuytrewq1 @ 12:01:45 24:01 : @saini are u fucking retarded ??

sid1 @ 12:07:20 24:01 : @saini what the fuck man ?

Saini @ 12:18:44 24:01 : ..Fine that is my last addition then..

matrix1211 @ 12:28:07 24:01 : @saini if you are going to download such shit , then Thank GOD ur going to stop wasting bandwidth

KhanBhai @ 23:07:49 24:01 : @sid1 and matrix1211 ..... assholes...who ya think you r...if somestuff is being download

KhanBhai @ 23:08:28 24:01 : add2board thn is it a pain in your ass...if fuckers you r so much worried abt the bandwid

KhanBhai @ 23:09:13 24:01 : then ya don't you fuckers take up the responsibility and lets see for how long you ppl get

sid1 @ 23:34:37 24:01 : @khanbhai there's a limit to what nonsense you can download ..

sid1 @ 23:36:53 24:01 : what ppl are downloading now is more like shit piling up all over the place ..

Saini @ 23:47:15 24:01 : @sid1 who r you to define the limits..

Yippeeee_:) @ 23:54:54 24:01 : ppl plzz calm down :) ...... let ppl download wat they want to

Saini1 @ 00:02:16 25:01 : @yippieee thanks dude but it's his fault who started all this ..he must have controlled h

Saini1 @ 00:03:00 25:01 : Yaa fir shuru se ghar walon yehi language sikhayi hai usko..

15.26 @ 01:04:08 25:01 : if u download shit keep it to urself and shut the FUCK up

15.26 @ 01:04:54 25:01 : if you stop downloading garbage then someone else will start downloading

15.26 @ 01:05:12 25:01 : so pls STFU and stop and i will start downloading stuff

Here is iv's response(i think it was iv's response. correct me if i'm wrong):With all due respect to the downloaders ... such situations (read the board for more details) rarely used to come up a few years ago. While I may not speak for the majority, it'd be very nice if YOU chaps (people who download - Saini, maskedmeance, firefox etc) could atleast discuss amongst yourself before downloading anything and everything that you find. DF on 14.6 was initially started for this purpose (and for BC :D).

Question 1: Why would anybody for the love of humanity download "The making of vivah" and then post it on the readboard??
Question2:Cant we remove stuff from the readboard
Question3:How can we decide what to download and what not to??

PS1. I lost in a badminton tournament again :(
PS2. I have a really bad throat
Ps3. I have decided to attend a jivan vidya shivir sometime before i pass out. Lets find out what all the commotion is about :)

A post long due

I last blogged on 17th oct 2006. Now that was a long time ago. I didn't post because i thought there was too much to pos about and if i started i would never end.

Finally liverpool kicked chelski's ass :) :) Manure lost to gooners and it kinda works out well for liverpool(Yes i belive they still have a chance!!)

Holidays were very hectic. Did a lot of travelling in almost freezing weather. Was playing qukae the rest of the times. I've put on weight but some people claim that i have thinned down :)

I have decided to play basketball and football everyday. Basketball is not nice. Some guy landed with his elbow on my head(ouch) and its really irritating to watch dhruvan and rathi bickering on the court. However it does give me a decent workout.

And now for the tragedy of the day.....I love ommlettes. The NBH was supposed to serve omlettes for breakfast today. I changed my registration two days ago went to bed on time yesterday and got up on time today, went to the NBH and FUCK no omlettes !!! reason..... there is a shortage of eggs!!!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!! a shortage of eggs !! thats the most absurd thing i have ever heard. All this waking up in time and no omlettes. :( Bastards :((

PS1. After watching Notting hill,Love actually and i think bridget jones diary rathi doesnt know who Hugh grant is :0
PS2.Somebody stole my goal keeping gloves! I have no idea what anybody would want with them ...
PS3.Had a cheese burst pizza It is heavenly :D
PS4.Rathi told me abt a place in hitech called Nihals. It is pretty good and cheap.

How I let in 6 goals in my best performance :(

For the uninformed i'm referring to our football game at the inter university tournament in Madras. Yes we got beat 6-0 by the university of Madras. The scorline suggests that we got thrashed but i think it was the best performance I have seen our college team put in. We played for 90 minutes for the first time. And 4 of the goals came in the last 20 mins. Considering we play football primarily for recreation thats a pretty decent performance. I know some ignorant a$$holes may think differently and say that the team must really suck to get beat 6-0 but then they are a$$holes so they can go to hell. I'm sure we'll put up a much more credible performance in the ICFAI thing(I wont be there though :(( ).

ps1. Mess Food really really SUKS
ps2. Somebody really flamed zulu in the compilers feedback form. looks like some body from vizag
ps3. Wtf is wrong with liverpool! How can they be so incosistent :(
ps4.Unable to find linux drivers for my gfx card i have a go 7800. A treat to anybody who helps me get working drivers
ps5. Firefox told me that rapidshare has been blocked. The sysadmins are now officialy a$$holes