Finally watched the movie, and here are the customary thoughts:
– Too bad the director and editors didn’t trim the movie length. They should’ve made it closer to Milkha’s 400m dash rather than a marathon.
– Farhan Akhtar has sure put in some effort, and awards are guaranteed for his performance.
– A couple of anachronisms that I noticed – the modern ceiling fan in the opening scene with Nehru and the Ambassador with a plastic bumper in the Indian contingent that goes to Pakistan.
– They had to put in the “Are you relaxing?” joke into the movie.
– The world record breaking effort is sort of ambiguous as the record was apparently bettered before he got 45.8s.
– Nice songs to round off the commercial flavour.
– Last but not the least, who cares if we didn’t get an Olympic medal as long as we managed to defeat a Pakistani. That formula has served the Indian cricket team quite well in the World Cups after all.
Author: Aditya
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Bhaag Milkha Bhaag
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Adblock plus and paid whitelisting
Very disturbing if true, and this is one slippery slope for sure.
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USA turning 2013?
Gotta love the education system.
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The ISS flight control room photo gallery
That’s a lot of terminals, and there’s one for Capcom too (Capsule Communicator, not the Video Game maker).
There’s also an Android app for a virtual tour of the NASA setup.
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Free to Play Game Monetization Tricks
There is a method to the in-game purchase price structuring.
Gamasutra: Ramin Shokrizade’s Blog – The Top F2P Monetization Tricks.
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Removing ads from uTorrent
If you were as annoyed by the ads introduced in the bit torrent client uTorrent, check out this simple how to and make it ad free as before. All you need to do is toggle a few of the advanced settings in the preferences.
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Modem settings for MTNL broadband
I finally got an MTNL broadband connection at home (Mumbai). Since I decided to get my own TP-LINK modem+wi-fi router (a good value for money model that I plan to review after a couple of months of use), I had to do the modem settings on my own. The settings for some models are available on the MTNL site, but it was missing for my particular model. The modem’s default PPPoE dialer settings did not seem to work, so I decided to check out one of the MTNL documents, and here’s the configuration that I found:
Username: <phonenumber> OR <phonenumber>@a E.g. 12345678 OR 12345678@a
Password: <CA number> (you can find this from your bill, or by calling 1500 from the landline) E.g. 4567890123
VPI: 0
VCI: 32
(The VPI & VCI settings chosen by my modem were different due to which it failed to connect & I had to change them manually to the above settings)
Connection Type: PPPoE LLC
MTU: 1400 bytes (another setting that had a different default on my modem)
MRU: 1492 bytes
Default route: Enabled
NAT: Enabled
Firewall: Disabled
You can also set the DNS servers manually to point to OpenDNS (208.67.222.222/208.67.220.220) or Google’s DNS servers (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4) which should prevent ISP level DNS blocking of sites, and most likely provide better lookup speeds.
Below is the D-Link modem settings from the MTNL document from where I have picked the settings.
As for the wi-fi settings, you can stick to the defaults – just don’t forget to secure your network using a passkey to keep away free riders.
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From Google Reader to the Feedly Cloud: Summary of the last 100 days
Really liking Feedly as a Google Reader replacement, particularly the cloud sync ability along with its Android & iOS apps. Let’s see how this evolves after the Google Reader shutdown on July 1.
