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Minal Panchal, whose desire to become an architect like her late father, brought her to the picturesque campus of VirginiaTech. All was well till the morning of April 16th 2007 when she along with 30 other students and faculty, fell victim to the bullets fired by a fellow student. That’s when I like so many others around the world heard about Minal Panchal.

Google’s Orkut.com is a popular online community especially amongst Indians. Being an Indian myself, I had a strong hunch that Minal too would have an account on Orkut, which indeed was the case.

Continue reading “Remembering Minal Panchal”

Resize Web Fonts using Mouse n Mozilla Firefox. To increase or decrease the font size of a web site, hold down the Ctrl key and move the wheel up to decrease the size, and down to decrease the font size.

In Internet Explorer (IE 6 and above)The mouse wheel-Ctrl key combinations works in IE as well, albeit with a small difference. Unlike Firefox, moving the mouse wheel up increases font size, and moving the mouse wheel down decreases the font size.

Bonus Tip: Via the Vista Reviewed blog

Resize icons quickly using your mouse wheel in Windows Vista:
The title says it all. Hold down Ctrl and move your mouse wheel up or down to enlarge or shrink your icons in Windows Explorer. When you right click an area of empty space in a Windows Explorer window, you are only given 3 different sizes to choose from.

According to OneDayBlogSilence.com:

Silence can say more then a thousand words.This day shall unite us all about this unbelievable painful & shocking event and show some respect and love to those who lost their loved ones.

On April 30th 2007, the Blogosphere will hold a One-Day Blog Silence in honor towards the victims of Virginia. 33 died at the US college massacre.

The Blogosphere is in deep mourning.

All you have to do is spread the word about it and post the graphic on your blog on 30th April 2007. No words and no comments. Just respect and empathy.

via: Lorelle on WordPress

Have spent the last hour or so trying to gather my thought and do a post on this blog. But I don’t have words to express my sorrow at what’s happened at VirginiaTech. The only two words that I can think of are “intolerable cruelty”. What could provoke a 23-year old docile looking human being to kill not one but 33 people who didn’t even know him! I don’t think anyone can answer this question, and it doesn’t matter anyways.

An eye witness account of the incident on Wired.com

“Shooter is an Asian male, showed up at his girlfriend’s dorm (it was co-ed) and shot her to death. He wound up shooting the RA as well when he or she attempted to investigate the gunshots. Two hours elapse where the campus is NOT locked down and authorities attempt to search for the gunman. Well gunman appears at an engineering building looking for his (now dead) girlfriend’s new lover, chains the doors shut, and proceeds to go classroom by classroom wearing a bulletproof vest and wielding 2 9-MM pistols opening fire on students and faculty alike. The current count is 32 dead, 29 wounded and the gunman dead to an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.”

UPS is short for uninterruptible power supply, and that’s exactly what it does. It allows users to continue or complete on-going operations during a power outage. The keyword here is “uninterruptible” as the user can continue working normally without any hindrance.

But why do most UPS devices start making loud annoying beeps at short intervals during a power failure? This beep sound is so annoying that the user is left with no choice but to turn off the system and wait for regular power to be restored. I consider this as interruption, and ironically a UPS does just that.

Common logic states that a UPS should be silent and start beeping say 5-7 minutes before the battery is about to run out? On the brighter side, some manufactures have models that can be controlled through the operating system.

So if you are planning to buy a UPS in the near future, look for one that allows you to at least increase the beep frequency, if not disable it altogether.