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Are you tired of chain/hoax mails ?

Are you sick and tired of the junk chain / hoax email deluge.?
Meaningless email supposedly sent to warn/inform you of total drivel madeup by someone with nothing else to do ?

The next time you get such an email, instead of hitting your head on the walls, try replying to your sender the text of the following emails.

Chain Mails :
This email was sent to me years back by someone (Possibly as a response to one of my emails). It makes very good reading. Pasted below - unedited.

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Hello, my name is Basmati Kasaar. I am suffering from rare and deadly diseases, poor scores on final exams, extreme virginity, fear of being kidnapped and executed by anal electrocution, and guilt for not forwarding out 50 billion fucking chain letters sent to me by people who actually believe that if you send them on, then that poor 6 year old girl in Arkansas with a breast on her forehead will be able to raise enough money to have it removed before her redneck parents sell her off to the travelling freak show.

Do you honestly believe that Bill Gates is going to give you and everyone you send "his" email to $1000?

How stupid are you? Ooooh, lookyhere! If I scroll down this page and make a wish, I'll get laid by every Playboy model in the magazine! What a bunch of bullshit. So basically, this message is a big "FUCK YOU!" to all the people out there who have nothing better to do than to send me stupid chain mail forwards.

Maybe the evil chain letter leprechauns will come into my apartment and sodomize me in my sleep for not continuing the chain which was started by Jesus in 5A.D. and was brought to this country by midget pilgrims on the Mayflower and if it makes it to the year 2000, it'll be in the Guinness Book of World Records for longest continuous streak of blatant stupidity. Fuck them.
If you're going to forward something, at least send me something mildly amusing. I've seen all the "send this to 50 of your closest friends, and an amazing wretched excuse for a human being will somehow receive a nickel from some omniscient being forwards about 90 times". I don't fucking care.

Show a little intelligence and think about what you're actually contributing to by sending out forwards. Chances are it's your own unpopularity.

The Four Basic Types of Chain Letters

Chain Letter Type 1:
(scroll down)
Make a wish!!!















No, really, go on and make one!!!















Oh please, they'll never go out with you!!! Wish something else!!!















Not that, you pervert!!















Is your finger getting tired yet?















STOP!!!!
Wasn't that fun? :)
Hope you made a great wish :)

Now, to make you feel guilty, here's what I'll do. First of all, if you don't send this to 5096 people in the next 5 seconds, you will be raped by a mad goat and thrown off a high building into a pile of manure. It's true! Because, THIS letter isn't like all of those fake ones, THIS one is TRUE!!! Really!!!

Here's how it goes:
• Send this to 1 person: One person will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
• Send this to 2-5 people: 2-5 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter.
• Send this to 5-10 people: 5-10 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter, and may form a plot on your life.
• Send this to 10-20 people: 10-20 people will be pissed off at you for sending them a stupid chain letter and will firebomb your house. Thanks!!!
Good Luck!!!

Chain Letter Type 2
Hello, and thank you for reading this letter. You see, there is a starving little boy in Baklaliviatatlaglooshen who has no arms, no legs, no parents, and no goats. This little boy's life could be saved, because for every time you pass this on, a dollar will be donated to the Little Starving Legless Armless Goatless Boy from Baklaliviatatlaglooshen Fund.
Oh, and remember, we have absolutley no way of counting the emails sent and this is all a complete load of bullshit. So go on, reach out. Send this to 5 people in the next 47 seconds. Oh, and a reminder: if you accidentally send this to 4 or 6 people, you will die instantly. Thanks again!!!

Chain Letter Type 3
Hi there!! This chain letter has been in existence since 1897. This is absolutely incredible because there was no email then and probably not as many sad pricks with nothing better to do. So this is how it works: Pass this on to 15,067 people in the next 7 minutes or something horrible will happen to you like:

*Bizarre Horror Story #1
Miranda Pinsley was walking home from school on Saturday. She had recently recieved this letter and ignored it. She then tripped in a crack in the sidewalk, fell into the sewer, was gushed down a drainpipe in a flood of poopie, and went flying out over a waterfall. Not only did she smell nasty, she died. This Could Happen To You!!!

*Bizarre Horror Story #2
Dexter Bip, a 13 year old boy, got a chain letter in his mail and ignored it. Later that day, he was hit by a car and so was his boyfriend (hey, some people swing that way). They both died and went to hell and were cursed to eat adorable kittens every day for eternity.
This Could Happen To You Too!!! Remember, you could end up just like Pinsley and Bip. Just send this letter to all of your loser friends, and everything will be okay.

Chain Letter Type 4:
As if you care, here is a poem that I wrote. Send it to every one of your friends.
Friends
A friend is someone who is always at your side,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you stink of shit, and your breath smells like you've been eating catfood,
A friend is someone who likes you even though you're as ugly as a hat full of assholes,
A friend is someone who cleans up for you after you've soiled yourself,
A friend is someone who stays with you all night while you cry about your sad, sad life,
A friend is someone who pretends they like you when they really think you should be raped by mad chimpanzees, then thrown to vicious dogs,
A friend is someone who scrubs your toilet, vacuums and then gets the check and leaves and doesn't speak much English... no, sorry that's the cleaning lady,
A friend is not someone who sends you chain letters because he wants his wish of being rich to come true.
Now pass this on! If you don't, you'll never have sex ever again.
The point being?

If you get some chain letter that's threatening to leave you shagless or luckless for the rest of your life, delete it. If it's funny, send it on. Don't piss people off by making them feel guilty about a leper in Botswana with no teeth, who's been tied to a dead elephant for 7 years, whose only saviour is the 5 cents per letter he'll receive if you forward this mail, otherwise you'll end up like Miranda. Right?

Now forward this to everyone you know otherwise you'll have to look at me naked!

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Hoax Mails :

Sometimes its difficult to find out if a mail is a truly a hoax mail. To be sure check with the following sites

posted by FunkiBluDawg @ 4:44 pm 1 comments

Calibra - The most stylish Vauxhall/Opel ever.

The most stylish Vauxhall/Opel ever ?

Yes. According to me, most Calibra Owners and Wikipedia
(The Calibra, styled by the American head of GM design Europe, Wayne Cherry (retired), is considered by some the most stylish Vauxhall/Opel ever, but being based on the Vectra chassis its ride and handling were not significantly better than that of the family car from which it grew. It was, however, the most aerodynamically efficient Opel ever, with a drag coefficient (Cd) of 0.26. It remained the most aerodynamic mass production car for the next 10 years, until the Honda Insight was launched in 1999 with a Cd of 0.25.)




I have owned my Calibra for 4 years now. And even though its a bit old, I havent found a good reason to get a new car. Frankly I dont find anything else in the market which is has the same jaw dropping good looks. The Alfa Romeo 159/GT comes close but I cant affort it. ;-)

Looks wise, the Calibra still turns heads and gives "modern" cars a good run for their money.
Calibras are fast but dont take well to twisting roads due to its tendancy to understeer. Also tends to wander about at low speeds. But in a straight line, they are very good. Motorway miles disappear quickly and steering in the excess of 100mph is needle sharp. Cruising on the motorway is a real pleasure.



Though classed as a sports car, the Calibra is surprisingly roomy, with space for 4 adults and a real big boot. The boot can be extended by dropping the rear seats, like other family cars. I have used mine for putting a big subwoofer but still leaves enough space for the weekly shopping.

Calibras can take lots of punishment and are known to take lots of miles if properly taken care of. Its common to find them on sale with high mileages in excess of 150K.

One can find them on sale for 2-5K in resonably good condition.
Some common faults to watch our for are :

• Anti-roll bar mounting nuts disintegrate every so often (60-90£)
• Minor electrical Faults. Power Window system generally problem prone.
• Headlights are not bright enough. Most Calibra owners always have the fog lights on !!.

With a little care, Calibras last well and provide years of enjoyable driving.

posted by FunkiBluDawg @ 8:32 pm 1 comments

Caught Speeding ? Tips on saving your licence..

I got done for speeding some time back. 39mph in a 30mph zone.


When I did get the "Notice of Intended Prosecution", I did a fair amount of research into how to avoid this. Note that if you plead guilty straight away, they generally give you a fine+points on your licence.

My findings/tips :

• The "Notice of Intended Prosecution" must be given to the offender (you) within 14 days of the offence. If you have been stopped by the cops, they must give you this in writing or verbally.
• If you do end up being stopped. Beg the officer for mercy. Be genuinely repentant. Depending on how bad your offence is or how your begging performace goes, the office MAY just let you go after a caution.
• If begging fails and you get the NIP. Most people payup straight away. But you can still fight through the judiciary. (If in doubt you can fight it, the worst thing you will be convicted of, is your original offence). It is only worth it, if you are sure that you are innocent otherwise be prepared for hefly bills if you fail.
  
• If you do intend to fight the case, DO NOT admit guilt. DO NOT surrender your licence at the road side. Or give ANY excuses which will then be taken as admission of guilt.
• Make sure its you who was been caught by the camera. You could try to plead that it was someone else. (Ask for the photographic evidence).
  
• Failure to identify the driver who committed the offence will still lead of prosecution with possibly even BIGGER penalties. Recent cases have failed using this method.
• See "Fighting it out in the court"

Notice of Intended Prosecution

Make sure the proof against you exists. Ask the following :

• Photographic Evidence. Is the car in the picture the same car which commited the offence. If the offender identified from the picture / police video ?
  
• Is the speed detection equipment accurate / maintained properly ?
  
• Correct procedures have been followed during the offence being recored ?
  

Fighting it out in the court

• Gather your evidence. (ie evidence to help prove you are not guilty). Location, detection equipment details, position of other cars.
• Investigate possibility of mistakes on the officers part.
• Revist the scene of the offence and note any details which can prove that the officer may not be in the best position to record the offence correctly.
• It pays to be well dressed in court. And be courteous to everyone.

Avoid Detection

• Drive sensibly and obey the rules.
  
• Speeding in Builtup areas and school zones is meaningless. Try to impress somewhere else.
• Flash cars, bright colours will attract attention. Including the cops.
• Be the 2nd fastest. Let the fastest one attract all the attention
• Devices :
  Radar Detectors => Generally work well. Though some types will detect more types than others.
  Jammers => Illegal in several countries. May not work for all types of speed detectors.
  Special "Magic" Number Plates => I dont think these work. I think similar to snake oil.
  GPS Based Warning => Either stand alone or as a part of a SatNav solution. These work very well, though they depend on a database of speed camera locations. Normally this method is the cheapest and the best.
• Once detected, if the cops are following you, Do not attempt to evade/outrun the cops. Almost always you will be caught. (Cops have better/faster cars than you. If not they have helicopters, so dont even bother). There are better ways on appearing on TV.
• Learn to identify unmarked cop cars.

Unmarker Police Cars

Though normally difficult to identify, something they can be easier to spot.

• Cars with 2 occupants and in flourescent clothing/ some kind of similar attire.
• Attempt to conceal their detection equipment in the car. Maybe suspicious lumps ?
• Multiple Aerials sometimes.
• Vauxhall Omegas, Vectras. New Volvos. Generally black or dark colours.
  

posted by FunkiBluDawg @ 10:46 pm 0 comments

MacOS on PC

Yes. Its possible !!

I have a beautifully working MacOS (Ver 10.4.6 - Tiger) on my PC,
which multi-boots nicely along with Windows XP & SuSe Linux.

Its so good that I will be among the people rushing to buy MacOS if ever Apple
decides to sell it for PCs. This means what you are going to read below is only
meant for enthusiasts and contains information available publicly.



What you need :

• A PC (Preferrably Intel, but AMD is also fine) as long as the processor supports
  atleast SSE2 instructions (Check using CPUz)
  
• An MacOS installation DVD (Available from popular torrent sites, search for Myzar)
• Partition Management Software (Partition Magic or dd for windows etc.)
• Atleast 6GB of space.

Settings up your harddisks :
Lets assume that you have Windows installed already on your harddisk.

First of all you need to create a partition for MacOS. Using you Partition Manager, create
a "Primary Partition" of the type af (file system format used by MacOS known as HFS+).
This partition needs to be atleast 6 GB (you can convert the free space of your existing partition for the new HFS+ partition).

Take the installation DVD (which you downloaded earlier) and boot your pc from it.
Now this is where things get interesting.


MacOS will either recognise your harddisk and therefore your existing HFS+ partition and will prompt you to install on it. OR it will not recognise your harddisk/partitions and will not
proceed to install.

If it does not, there may be several reasons, most common ones are
Your partitions are not setup right. HFS+ needs to be a primary. (Not extended/logical)
Your hardisk controller is not recognised (SATA ?)
In this case, you can either try a more roundabout route. Boot windows.
Install VMware to setup a FreeBSD system with a raw file of 6GB. Now install
MacOS onto this VMWare image. Once installed find out the additional components
need for your PC configuation and edit your VMWare insttallation accordingly.
Once done, copy the VMWare image onto your HFS+ partition.

If it does find your hardisk/partitions, make sure you select your HFS+ partition and install on it. Hopefully it should continue till the end successfully.




TODO rest./

posted by FunkiBluDawg @ 8:33 pm 1 comments

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