Welcome (back) to the command line

The Windows "Monad" Shell Beta 2 can be downloaded from MS, here. To quote em:

Windows "Monad" Shell is a new interactive command-line and task-based scripting technology in Windows that enables administrators to more efficiently and securely automate and control system management tasks on both desktops and servers. "Monad" Shell provides powerful task-based control (via built-in command line tools and utilities) and a powerful scripting language that enables comprehensive scripted control of the Windows operating system and applications. The key features of Monad include


* Simplified command-based navigation of the operating system (including drives, startup files, and registry).

* Command extensibility that allows administrators to quickly write scripts, customize commands, and author their own shell tools.

* Powerful object manipulation capabilities (objects can be directly manipulated or pipelined to other tools or databases).

* Direct control of system data (without the need to perform error-prone text parsing and object lookup).

* Powerful aliasing and output formatting capabilities.

* Support for existing scripts and command line tools.

Note that you also need to download .Net Framework Ver 2.0

Did one of those personality test things. Cos it was on stumble upon.

INFP - "Questor". High capacity for caring. Emotional face to the world. High sense of honor derived from internal values. 4.4% of total population.

Free Jung Personality Test (similar to Myers-Briggs/MBTI)

Community Bookmarks and searching

Since I work(?) of a lot of machines, need a way of keeping my bookmarks with me and updated. I use del.icio.us to store my bookmarks online. I find it convenient and and the tags make for quick searches. Most importantly is very very light since its text. Today I looked at another free service that lets me store and share my bookmarks and a lot more. Shadows. But its a bit heavy. Yahoo is into the act too, with My Web 2.0 BETA. If you visit Yahoo! Next (Yahoo's equivalent of Google Labs) they have got a whole bunch of things happening including Yahoo! Mindset figure that one out.
Clipmarks takes things further letting you bookmark things on a page. But it seems to be OS specific. Jeteye is a lot lighter and also lets you save and share searches.
I wonder with all these community bookmark offerings is there not a lot of wasted work by the end user? Your saved searches/clips on one site is not shared to others (obviously), so then you will need a cliping service search engine just like a blog search engine. Also, unless they provide a method to backup your saved data, what happens when they decide to close shop?

Im sticking to del.icio.us for now.

Evening and the Sea

Evening and the Sea,
originally uploaded by lecercle.

Really great sky. Did a Flickr search for Bandra.

Horsing around

Doma natural en Goikomendi,
originally uploaded by Tenebris.

Can't quite figure out this photo.

Opera is free

Opera the browser I like best is now free. I had stopped using Opera for a year and switched to Firefox. I liked Opera a lot and was uncomfortable to use a hacked copy. I really liked it that much. Just the night before I had downloaded ver 8.02 and now its upto 8.50 and free.
The only thing I miss is the ad blocker in Firefox. Opera has an ad blocker via filter.ini, but its a bit messy. There is a utility to help though, by diplo.

Search for Podcasts

Was looking for podcasts. Think I found the site I need. loomia. Check out the mashups section for a laugh. And no, you don't need an iPod.

Ggggggggggggggames

Lots of them. Go to Millions of games. Kind of a blog of downloadable games.

Take a pee....seperately

The NoMix toilet from NOVAQUATiS is a swiss toilet bowl that seperates pee n crap.
I am at a loss for words.

Search some more

Google has a new search tool for blogs. Try Blogsearch.

Back

At last yesterday I have shifted to a new ISP and on my new PC. Hope I will be blogging regularly again.
Right now going through the pain of reinstalling all my tools, restoring bookmarks. I am very impressed with MTNL as an ISP. Tried out their helpdesk this morning, they called back in less than 5 minutes. The guy who called back actually seemed to have knowledge of computers, not just a call centrer idiot. They solved my DNS issue instantly. Unlike Reliance Communications (my previous ISP) where I had to hold the line for 20 minutes then talk to a total idiot.