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Archive for June, 2009

Finally confirmed!! My IQ is….

In Cool, General Stuff on June 13, 2009 at 11:07 am

I had a long standing suspicion that I’m too retarded. So, I finally braced myself and took an IQ quiz.
Here’s what the IQ scores mean:

iq-bell-curve

Here’s my result:

150 iq

Free-IQTest.net – Free IQ Test

Take that! (Evil Laugh!)

Opera 10 Out Now: Is It The Best Browser Ever? (UPDATED!)

In Cool, General Stuff on June 4, 2009 at 10:21 am

opera logoUpdate: I’ve just been informed that OPERA 10 FINAL VERSION IS OUT!!! Here’s the excerpt:

Opera 10.0 Stable Version is out and it has clocked 10 million downloads in one week!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, get ready to put your hands on the v10 final release and experience web like never before!

For those running Ubuntu, there’s a good news. You can now download (.deb) Opera from its official site. You don’t have to compile your own Opera 10 anymore if you intend to use it!
Here are your download links:
LINUX 32 bitLINUX 64 bit

<– Original Article begins here –>

The endless war of the browsers may now have a clear winner: the OPERA 10 BETA 1. It was released a few days ago as an open public beta but the non-developer Opera-fans like myself couldn’t keep their hands off it because it is just too cool to resist. And the reason why I’m writing this blog post is because I believe you should have a shot at the best browsing experience too!

Ladies n Gents, let me give you a few reasons (read list below) to throw Firefox into the dark corners of your computer. We shall not speak of Internet Explorer because it would be a shame to take its name in a post about the best browsers.

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AIIMS PMT 09: Paper Leaked… Really?

In AIIMS, General Stuff on June 1, 2009 at 2:50 pm

AIIMS or All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New-Delhi, INDIA conducted its Pre-medical entrance test on June 01, 2009. Not even a few hours had passed when rumors of paper leak in Ghaziabad started coming in. I don’t know if there is any truth in all this because most such news tend to end up as media-hooplah!

I happened to be at a centre in Delhi when this exam was being conducted and the instructions were so strict that candidates were not allowed to take even their pens inside the centre. All that was allowed was the admit card, a water bottle, and money. I refuse to believe that any candidate could be able to leak the paper by him/herself because once the exam begins, no one is allowed to go out until it ends three and a half hours later. So, if anything, an entire school has to be involved for any paper leak to occur.

But in my personal experience, the examination section of AIIMS has been conducting few of the most honest examinations in the country (including our internal and university exams) and it’d be unlikely that they would be careless enough to allow such transgression. We will have to wait for a few days to find out if there is truth in all this or it is just a figment of Media’s imagination. The students need not worry though because it is extremely rare a possibility that the exam will be taken again.

If you happen to be one of the students or parent of a student who took this exam and feel like saying something, you are most welcome to do so. COMMENT BELOW!

That’s all for now,
Ciao,
ARPIT