Archive for February, 2009

Maha Shivratri – A Hindu Festival!!

February 23, 2009

“Shankarji ki Jai” (Hail! Lord Shiva) Today, 23 February 2009, all Hindus in India are celebrating Maha Shivratri, Maha Sivaratri or Shivaratri or Sivaratri (Night of Shiva or “Great Night of Shiva”). It is a Hindu festival celebrated every year on the 13th night/14th day in the Krishna Paksha (waning moon) of the month of [...]

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Slumdog Millionaire – Oscars!!

February 23, 2009

Yesterday, 22nd Feb 2009, as we all know, the 81st Academy Awards ceremony was held by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, California. In this event the much talked about movie “Slumdog Millionaire” which had 10 nominations in it and swept off with 8: Best Picture - Christian Colson Directing - Danny Boyle  Music “O Saya..” - Music [...]

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W32/Virut.Gen infected my PC!!

February 21, 2009

Recently my PC was infected by a deadly virus, actually not so deadly enough, just said that to lay stress on the topic. The virus was detected as W32/Virut.Gen (a generic detection for the W32/Virut family of polymorphic, entry point obscuring (EPO) file infectors with IRC bot functionality) by my antivirus Avira Antivir Personal Edition (which [...]

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3G in India!

February 19, 2009

Few months back, 11 December 2008 to be exact, the most awaited 3G service was announced in India by MTNL under its post paid mobile service named Dolphin. Initially it was only for corporate usage and for individual usage its been launched few weeks back. Right now the service is only available in Delhi and [...]

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re-Welcome to AvantA’s.NET

February 19, 2009

I was thinking of starting a blog, way back in Jan 2007, so I got myself this domain and started this blog right away then and there only. But sadly things didn’t worked out as expected, thanks to my busy schedule of 24×7 laziness and I don’t regret it coz someone has rightly quoted “Forget [...]

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