Vivek’s Blog

Yes I’m back! Got my internet up and running here after some effort. Had to reinstall my LAN card to get rid of all the old settings (read: settings for iGate in Mumbai). And yeah, the speed is really good although I haven’t tested the actual speed.

I hate international travel. I really do hate it. There’s a million things that need to go just right for the trip to be called a good one. If even one screws up, you could end up having a nightmare of a journey. Starting right from your packing to actually reaching where you intend to spend your next few days - there’s so much that could and does go wrong. Let me bore you guys with my trip details. The possible problem areas are in bold
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Yep, it’s a FARCE all right! What with high costs, low speeds, download caps, frequent downtimes, incompetent staff….the list could go on. Even after all these years, India, dubbed an IT super power by some, has pathetic internet infrastructure. The government tried to improve the scene with BSNL and MTNL providing “cheap” broadband. Yea right. Download caps of as low as 400MB mean that unless you use the internet for less than an hour a day, you will end up paying way more than the minimum charges that BSNL hooked you with. Having just ended a 3-month ordeal with iGate, I felt that it was the appropriate time to pen my thoughts on the broadband scene.
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Yep!! I just added a Coppermine gallery for my wallpapers, desks, and pix. It would be too congested here in WordPress so I went for Coppermine. I’m still working on it and configuring it but you can check out http://www.singhvivek.com/coppermine to have a sneak peek

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The demo for one of the most awaited games of the year, F.E.A.R., was released last Friday and I finished the download today via torrent. I could’ve finished it earlier but my connection was behaving erratically. The download is all of 646.67MB. It’s a pretty short demo though - at most 30 minutes of gameplay and that too because you will spend a few minutes getting used to all the controls. But the game itself is fantastic! Visually, it matches up to the likes of DOOM 3 and Half-Life 2, and at the same time, gameplay and sound are awesome too. Let’s look at different aspects of the game one-by-one:

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