Happy New Year 2008.

Resolution.
weight, careers, 10 technical exams the year,time,money,ponder on ...

ps: i have also send a mail to me in 2037. Try www.futureme.org

1 am L3g3nd !

I can say without any doubt that this is the best movie i have seen in 2007 (specially 2day). Will smith is gr8 as the guy on his own trip and yet losing his mind. His dedication to get things back on how it is is simple obsessional. One thing i find is the degree of oppressivity in the movie specially the tense 'hunt' scene. I did not like the way the 'top model' was barge into the movie. (she is not a bad actress..but not knowing bob marley..is treason..!!)

How could she manage in a big city at night ? These 'monsters' seem to be very quick and fast. The book , if i am not mistaken, has a different approach whereby 'legend' is what the monster called smith.

He is their 'dracula' culling hives at night. But the filmaker has skipped that angle. It is too morbid anyway..

G0ss1p Gal.

I have been watching gossip girl on and off. As a series, it is sort of ok for the OC 'need a fixup' rest of us. But I am kinda of hanging on, on how much we will be able to stretch that one.

The acting is good..surprisingly..I kinda like the actresses doing blair and serena. I wonder if high life society is that bad..We also wonder on how can these kids manage high school..they seem never to study..more interested in socialite..(duh, this is not the real world hans !)..

I think next quarter the writers could add an element of mystery/crime would be more appropriate..socialite tend to be boring for the rest of humanity after a while..but, hey, that's my two cents.

Empire of Dragons.

I have just finished the manfredi's book empire of dragons. Not a bad read but a bit weak at the end. I did not like the hollywood cliche about the saviour of the empire lies beneath the ground in 'ancient' technology.

I prefer the Alexander trilogy.

Zachary Qu1nto and the can of 'bleep'

The best episode of heroes so far. (I mean this season). I feel that everyone agree that this volume 2 was a bit lame. Was it done on purpose ? probably yes. The climax will be volume 3 which has already a youtube.

ADSL in Mauritius ... well it sucks...maybe not...

I have read with interest the post on avinash's blog, more specifically the comments.

Point 1: definitely bandwidth is being throttle.

point 2: it is done by almost everybody (isp)

point 3: even in the corporate world we do it. i.e. if i have a 2MB conn to manage and have 150 users, i definitely need to place some serious management tool in place.

Three things come to my mind in mauritius: packeteer distributed by ..., DBAM distributed by ... and finally buckets on SQUID on Linux (Our internal clustered proxy).

What do the isp used ? i can only speculate, packeteer, dbam for sure and maybe even some cache engine such as cachelogic.

but more interesting what can be done.. The bandwidth management is not as dumb as you might think, they have implemented several policies depending on time zone and most importantly service i.e. peer to peer etc.

It depends on what usage is being done with the bandwidth. If you are peer to peering, then try to get a proxy service outside mauritius, better register with one.

otherwise, for the rest..we are all doom...

but if you are into the next step of downloading such as easy-share, rapidshare.com, i would seriously advise you to take the following step.

1. Get a premium account, stop being a leech !
2. Get Mozilla
3. get flashgot
4. get a download manager
4. read this article

S3cur1ty.

Finally, the boys and girls from redmont has posted a security blog. It is very good actually but with some serious technical twist.