Archive for April, 2009

If it Rains, Shutdown Everything!

// April 25th, 2009 // No Comments » // Outamamind

Hi all…

This was a disastrous week for me. Nearly a week without Internet and my laptop! I am one like you guys , who thinks that rarest things wont happen to me .. but this week  i was proved wrong. After nearly a month of “Severe” summer , we had a great rain on Monday , and I was very delighted , I almost forgot to do the very basic stuff, disconnect all the electronic items! I was enjoying the rain soo much that I didn’t know that a lightening has struck a phone wire somewhere and it passed right down to my modem , fried it and passed further to my laptop which was connected to the modem through LAN and  fried it too . When i got back from my “enjoying of rain ” , I was taken back by a strange display on my laptop with pure white screen ! i thought my laptop has hung.. i tried to turn it off.. but i cant.. then i had to pull the battery from the laptop to power off .When i tried to restart.. it was all too late! My motherboard was fried!


I called Dell CC and they responded and pinpointed the fault with my motherboard! and they told me that the service person will be on or before Friday! But i should thank Dell for their fast service.My laptop was on and running by Wednesday! Then when i tried to hook up to the net , i was only able to connect for a maximum of 10 minutes. My modem/router was so much fried that when it heats up , it would simply disconnects from the internet!

Anyway my advice to all is , when its raining , with or without ligthening , shutdown everything. And also the important thing is to disconnect all the cables and wires. Remove the phone line from the modem , remove the cable to TV , remove cable from Set-top-box to tv. And also unplug everything.

I was lucky , i got away with a few days off the internet .It may not be the same for all. what if your electronic product is not covered under warranty or warranty just got expired ? Just a few hours without internet , Tv will save days without it! Think wise

Thanks to all who left a comment on my previous posts.

C ya soon on another post!

Will Newspapers Become Absolete ?

// April 18th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Outamamind

Hi all…
Today i had a chance to go to my hall , talk about the laziest guy…!!! and found a Thing called ” NEWSPAPER”… How weird ?? Actually its been a long time i read newspaper. When i was in hostel I used to read it daily and used to steal a few pages to read them thoroughly , I really love to read stuff , loads of stuff… or say read stuffs which ever doesnt relate to my subject. … :-) Anyway coming to the issue.. what was that prevented a guy like me , who goes to a extent to steal few pages and read to completely forget about a thing called NEWSPAPER ??

Its very simple .. the TV .. The internet …

These both have the latest news around the planet and are crisp in presentation , and needless to say provides all the latest happening around the world within seconds …


So If i can get all the news around the world within seconds .. What is the use of newspaper now ??

This is really a hard question .. Newspaper has served its purpose greatly for years and its been the main media. Newspaper is still the real mass media for many and a the main media in rural areas and for people who cant offer.. Newspaper will continue to exist but in a different form.

We have been hearing much about thin LED`s and they are thin enough to be flexible and folded .. if this can be incorporated along with say wifi and automatic news update… people may well find their next version of newspaper.

Still today , even after many improvement .. people find it easier to read a novel or article off a paper based material instead of on PDF or TXT version.

Newspaper will continue to be here , A simple thing like a power failure will put your ” Up-To-Date” process to Complete Halt!

Newspaper is a media where still today the subscribers are in billions. But cant say how it will be in future, it depends on how people in Newspaper industry take on the Generation Wave ! Will they change to futuristic Foldable OLED ?  No one knows.

But one thing is sure , We will get all over updates one way or another. And tommorow it will be more customized to users interest. !

I will leave here with a video .. A nice video indeed !