Yay! I have a Demonoid Account

The dream account for every P2P participant is to get a Demonoid account. Somebody tells you they have the most active and fastest trackers of all and you rush to their site to register for an account but wait, 'Registration is Closed'. You read the FAQ section on Demonoid and they say that registrations usually open for the first 2-3 days of the month, alternatively you can use a demonoid invitation. You wait for the 1st of the next month, probably visiting demonoid every day to see if registrations are on but they don't just seem to update the site!!

You look all over the net and find scores of sites which claim to be sending Demonoid invitation codes to those who register with them. WARNING!! They will sell your email id to some spammer. You already have enough spam so please don't bother them.

So you get all pissed off and forget it. Then you come across this noble and charitable group on Facebook called Demonoid. Even they claim the same but don't ask for your email id so you go on and join it. Within a week you get a message from the group owner that whoever wants invitations must contact him by replying. Half believing him you do the same and whoopeee!! in 2 minutes you see that the guy has sent you an invitation code, that WORKS.

Congratulations! Go Seed.

Windows to Linux (Ubuntu) - 1

Its been two full weeks since I installed Ubuntu inside Windows XP (click here to see how) and and I have booted into XP just once (Oh God! I love Windows' games). I'll say thats not bad for a person who has always been critical of non-Windows systems for the fact that the variety of software packages just can't be compared. I did miss Windows for two days, which I spent getting Xampp to a good working condition and I even pulled my hair at the mess wrong (too less or too much) permissions can create. After that, it was a smooth drive. Installing new software can't be easier - just one command. Startup and Shutdown speeds are also very impressive. Memory consumption is less (thanks to no Avast and no ZoneAlarm) and firefox performs better although I can't update it to the latest 3.5 as Firefox for Ubuntu is customised and it takes a few months for the latest version to be customised.

Games aside, Ubuntu is a brilliant OS to work on, whether you are a developer or a casual user. Whichever software you may have been using, there is an alternative available for free ("Free as in Beer, and Free as in Freedom") in the Open Source world. If you just can't work without MS technologies like Silverlight or the open source alternatives don't seem to fill the place of your expensive software, then its no compulsion (obviously!).

Now, let me see more of it to write more of it.