gaurav tazz chaturvedi

I am going to foss.in

2009-11-20T18:49:00.001+05:30

I am going to foss.in

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2009-11-16T06:17:00.002+05:30

Indian Media

2009-10-12T16:14:00.002+05:30

You turn on the TV today. And see some sorry ass comedy-show. Oh!! hold on a minute is that the news channel ? Damn right it is.
Are they talking about some new alien species found here? What the fuck is going on?
Yup thats what has happened with me in recent times.
Why are they acting like jack asses on TV when they are supposed to be presenting news?
A) They dont have talent (or rather they have too much talent :) )
B) Every channel wants more ratings.
C) There is only so much news. (How can we spin this for it to look more spicy/sexy)
D) So many news channels showing the same stuff ( I guess this was expected for them to go over board.) NDTV,Aaj tak, CNBS-India,ibnlive just to name the worse ones.
E) A politician farted?? Hot damn thats good shit. A guy committed suicide? Who gives a fuck.
F) Fire the management and get them to hire new decent presentators,who dont think they are bigger then the news.
These dickheads forgot that they are complicating the simplest job of all standing in front of the camara and reading the news.
The news which they show has no content at all! You are taking about finding ailens/UFOs in India for crying out loud. And creating blackholes with the LHC. Do you have even the faintest idea of what you are saying? Get your facts stright for that matter. Doing a little bit of backgound homework wont hurt your credebility.
No sir dont give me the condenced version of the news. I dont want you to tell me what is what, and what is not. Do your job read the news and I'll make my own dessisions.
Currently the Indian tv media is rather like a badly dressed whore yelling "Look at me"
Lets all hope it will get better soon.

In the movies...

2009-09-20T02:01:00.002+05:30

In the movies, how come no one gets shot-at in the face?
Even if there is a barrage of bullets fired at you.

I am not a good teacher

2009-09-09T06:30:00.002+05:30

Seriously guys i suck at teaching stuff. I have no patience for all this.

The state of traffice in Bombay

2009-08-20T02:58:00.003+05:30

The state of traffic in Bombay is really bad. I mean I hardly drive around 15 kms from home to work and I see atleast 2 broken down vehicle (one of which is almost alway a rickshaw) .
Also even though I don't like breaking traffic lights, i must be doing it atleast 5 times a day. Oh yea! Some people just do it for kicks. I guess it must be boosting there egos to break the law on daily bases, heh. That is partially the local pandu's (traffic cop) fault. And it seems like hadly anyone givees a shit for all this everyday.
And rash driving is on the rise too. I would consider myself a hell of a lucky guy if I dont endup in one of these accdents the comming year.
Not to metion most of the traffic lights them self dont work.
I consider Bombay the worst city traffic wise, when compared to Delhi and Banglore.

So who is to blame? Will this ever improve?
You go figure.

My poitical compass

2009-07-17T13:27:00.003+05:30

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

This graph was generated at http://politicalcompass.org/

Just another brick in the wall

2009-07-13T11:45:00.001+05:30

Just another brick in the wall....

Mom Dad's Anniversary

2009-06-23T23:27:00.003+05:30

Mom Dad's anniversary, took them out for dinner yesterday.

Moved to blogger

2009-06-23T01:54:00.001+05:30

I got tired of hosting my blog at 10 different places, so finally i moved the entire thing to blogger.

Things have been quite

2008-11-24T19:56:00.000+05:30

08:53:18 up 152 days, 11:21, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
gaurav pts/0 203.199.114.33 02:39 0.00s 0.06s 0.00s w

Why?

2008-10-26T01:51:00.000+05:30

Why do i find it hard to smile?

Work is going great, everyone thinks i am quite productive. Still i dont feel satisfied.

Just bought a an awesome bike. People notice when i drive in but i dont feel happy.

At nights i feel like crying, but i cant even manage that right.

What is missing? Why do i seem so distant from everything?

I cant figure it out.

My new bike, Yamaha YZF R15

2008-10-11T22:17:00.002+05:30

Its been a month now since I bought this bike, this is supposed to be my first geared bike. Just got the first servicing done.

Hugs

2008-10-01T12:19:00.000+05:30

Most problems in this world can be solve by a hug! :D

Read good, read slow

2008-09-04T04:17:00.000+05:30

I see a lot of people brag about how fast they an finish a book, i used to see kids waiting in line to get that latest potter book and finish it over night.

Well me on the other and read slow, and i mean slow. Usually i take around 15 days to a month to finish a single book. Read a book reflect on what you read. Books are like fine wine sip through them.

I bet my ass J.R.R and J.K. didnt write all those books to be read overnight.

Music... Its power

2008-07-26T06:40:00.000+05:30

I don't think there is a single human (and animal for that matter of fact) which has not heard music. Even def people can stand next to a huge speaker and feel its vibration. There is something very special about music, it is absolute, i cant put it in words, i just cant...

I feel i can describe my entire life in music. I cant think of a single situation which i have been in, whatever time i can remember, which i cant describe in music. People may say they prefer a certain type of music but none will say they hate it all together.
Music is incoherent, it is chaotic, but it all makes sense at the same time. It is a form of art. People can speak more with music then with words.
People listen to music when they lonely. When they party. When they are sad, when they are happy. It can make you angry. It can serve as a motivation.
Believe it or not, music has the power to move nations.
Music has influenced entire generations, and yet it is something very personal to me.
Music has the power to instantly transform your mood. Music is more powerful then caffeine, dopamine more addictive then cocaine and yet it is legal.

I can in all honesty say that i have gotten high on music.

--thanks for the gramatical correction kim

Move along people nothing to see here...

2008-07-10T15:10:00.000+05:30

Havent been doing much, just work and sleep.
went shopping for cloths after a year :D

Hospitalized for the first time

2008-06-20T14:03:00.000+05:30

I was hospitalized for the first time last week due to typhoid. I dont care what they say, its agony. In a place like that you feel sick even if you are not sick.

I gots kde svn account

2008-06-20T14:02:00.000+05:30

I got a svn account for kde quite a while a go, just didnt get time to blog about it.

I was bugging annma and nixternal with patches so they desided that i get my own account to commit and stop bugging them ;)

The blog is up again.

2008-05-23T07:53:00.000+05:30

A lot has happened since my last post, let me see if i can recollect some of the stuff.

Argo died, Argo was the server on which tazz.in was hosted previously, sam just didnt have the funds to continue. After that, it was pretty much the downfall of the NIPL community. I tried to keep govinda up but even amimusa started having problems so we had to pull govinda down.

Foss.in happened when it was expected to happen, i landed in Bangalore on on the 1st of the 5 days, and i didnt have the slitest idea in hell where i was going to stay for the next 4 days till. The very end of the 1st day. Luckily Ramkrisna's house was nearby and i got invited to his place. Barkha joined us the very next day. Met a lot of people i had never met before.

Freed.in in feb of 2008 also went well, i kinda liked the open street map idea the most out there. It was a wonderfull event all thanks to Raj, Gora, Kishore, Tirveni, Andrew.

Tazz passed away, he meant a lot to me, i am still not used to the idea of not having him around, maybe i never will....

Foss.in 2007

2007-11-14T03:00:00.000+05:30

Booked my tickets for foss.in Will be there from 3rd morning till 9th morning.

If anyone is interested here is a shortlist of talks http://foss.in/2007/shortlist.php

Of Faith and God.

2007-10-28T13:20:00.000+05:30

Most of us believe in god, the though of a higher power tends to calm our soul.

Well i was just in a reflective mood this morning trying to think why do some people believe in god and others dont.
There has been so much wrong going on in this world which has no accountability.

Well the atheist believe that the universe is just random chaos, while the theist believe that there is some method to the madness. That there is right to every wrong.
A couple of points struck me then, the world today is driven by the western people. Mostly by The United States of America and to some extent by The United Kingdom and those to me are not the kind of people who should prosper if there was anything such as the proverb describes "What goes around, comes around."

Let us see why i say that shall we? India was ruled by The English for a very long time, and the natives suffered, all of there wealth was taken back home by the English so India grew poor while English grew wealthy. Yes, they were over thrown, and there queen did some to India after independence. She issued a statement saying she was 'sorry' for what her ancestors did to the colonies and thats it, end of the story. Did you believe justice was served there? I don't.

Another example let me take you to U.S.A. when you imagine the people of U.S. i bet your first though is not of the native red indians(I know mine isnt). The natives were killed mercilessly during the time of the wild wild west. Again the red indians were tortured by the new settlers (Gun trotting White Brits, who still prefer to live by the gun, in this day and age), and all they got in return was the 'Thanksgiving day'. Today the state is that they have to live on reservation land. The white said sorry (again). Was justice served? I dont see how.

This i was saving for last. Hitler, yes Adolf Hitler. The great evil dictator. He has been persecuted as being the most evil man to walk the earth. Well, he was doing what the brits have been doing all along. They made it such a big fuss about good triumphing over evil. I just see it as propaganda.

Think about the medieval times will you, its called mid-evil for for a reason.
The theist may reason that god is testing us, and so i ask. Has god been testing us for the past 1000 years? i dont think so.

[P.S. :- People may call this post racist, but it is the truth. I have not twisted any part of the above. Go back and read again if you like. They will say this post is less about faith and belief and more about bashing the white.]

My first contribution to metasploit :-D

2007-10-26T10:28:00.000+05:30

I just made my first contribution to the metasploit project. I submitted my first bug.

Here are the details:


The Database Backend Commands are not working properly in kubuntu 7.10, I get the following error http://pastebin.ca/749829 After installing 'ruby1.8-dev' for the same command i get the following error http://pastebin.ca/749834

Eg:- "#
Call stack:
#
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:566:in `initialize'
#
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:566:in `new'
#
/var/lib/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.15.2/lib/active_record/vendor/mysql.rb:566:in `scramble41'"

And nothing gets written into the mysql database.

[EDIT]

The bug was fixed by updating my ruby gems.

I fixed this problem by running the command "gems update"

the details are as follows :-

gem update

The details are here:- http://pastebin.ca/750556

also i installed ri:-

sudo apt-get install ri

Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby

2007-10-23T01:10:00.000+05:30

Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby Is not just another book on coding in ruby (we need more of these) but it is really fun book to read. With onions an foxes and people from future and what not :P

Are You A Patriotic Indian,Sir?

2007-10-23T00:37:00.000+05:30

Why are the god damn politicians so insecure about there patriotism? And why must they impose it on everything we see and everything that walks?

When I go to a movies I see a mockery being made of the national anthem, I bet if you ask Laloo or Modi or Advani or Thakre they wont even be able to resite it those filthy fucks.

We make such a big deal if Mandira wears a tri-colour sari or if Tendulkar cuts a tri-colour cake or if Sonia Gandhi was to become PM. (Listen up you cunts, it is because you don't have the balls to be anywhere near the post to run this country and the people know it.)

They talk of swadesh and swadeshi while there children get drunk (on foreign booze),with (foreign) music playing in a disc and enter into a brawl showing off daddy's power. If you haven't heard of the kids of some politician it is probably because they are not in India at all, while there daddy is going busting couples on the street in the name of "culture", they are in a foreign country because there daddy didn't think this country's education system was good enough for them.

If you ask me, the next generation is going to be the least patriotic of all. Have you seen how many people want to rush out of this country for a better future in search of a better education or a better job.

I don't pretend to be the most patriotic guy who ever lived, nor am I preaching it but at least I am not imposing my idealistic belief on everything that walks.

gaurav tazz chaturvedi

I am going to foss.in

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Indian Media

In the movies...

I am not a good teacher

The state of traffice in Bombay

My poitical compass

Your political compass

Economic Left/Right: -2.12Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

Just another brick in the wall

Mom Dad's Anniversary

Moved to blogger

Things have been quite

Why?

My new bike, Yamaha YZF R15

*Hugs*

Read good, read slow

Music... Its power

Move along people nothing to see here...

Hospitalized for the first time

I gots kde svn account

The blog is up again.

Foss.in 2007

Of Faith and God.

My first contribution to metasploit :-D

Why's Poignant Guide To Ruby

Are You A Patriotic Indian,Sir?

Economic Left/Right: -2.12
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -2.92

Hugs