Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Uninstalling visual studio quickly!

I needed to reinstall it:
It helped [because normal uninstall is very slow]:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907965

Saturday, January 26, 2008

WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT?

This site has nice answers to this question by eminent thinkers of our time.
http://edge.org/q2008/q08_1.html

Thursday, January 24, 2008

God Created The Integers

God Created The Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History

Edited by Stephen Hawking

it is one of the most beautiful books [or rather collection] I read. It has great works from all the mathematicians! you really come to understand what people like Euclid, Archimedes or Descartes did!

what is the big deal about drawing to straight lines at right angles and calling them x and y respectively, right?

You will really appreciate how intelligent ancients [India, Greece etc.] were.

Must have for every mathematics or science enthusiast!

Vista system restore!

Vista system restore works like charm!

I totally screwed up my tablet by fooling around with registry using autoruns.exe from sysinternals to cleanup unwanted startup programs.

afterwards my display got totally screwed up. Reinstalling video driver won't solve the problem.

I simply used vista system recovery -> system restore to restore the version earlier to my screw up.

Lo and behold - everything came back to normal!

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Great lecture for kids by Richard Dawkins!


If I were to have a girl I would show this to her as soon as she can understand: