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Bichunmoo trailer

2007-01-06T13:13:00.001+05:30

Bichunmoo (Korean) trailer

2007-01-06T13:10:00.001+05:30

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006-12-21T10:23:00.001+05:30

An epic drama from China. Worth to movie lovers if they had loved "Hero" from Jet Li

Curse of the Golden Flower

2006-12-18T16:40:00.001+05:30

Gone through the review below. Then its worth watching it here.

The Curse of Golden the Flower

2006-12-18T16:19:00.000+05:30

Another epic drama from the east. A tribute to the hollywood movie saga. I wonder the east is far advaced in story telling and the usage of technology. The "Curse of Golden the Flower" is a period high drama that concerns the volatile balance of power between the King and the Queen and his three sons, which entails betrayal, deceit and passion--pitting the King against Queen and father against sons.

The movie is also called as "The City of Golden Armor", i guess mostly due to the grand armour wore by the soldiers who gaurd the city. The limelight of the movie being our well known "Chow yun Fat" (the famous anti hero from "Replacement Killers"). The movies is worth watching as includes sentiment and action taking us to the golden age of China. Produced by Elite Group Enterprises, Edko Films, Beijing New Picture Film Co, Film Partner International and distributed by Sony pictures the film is soon gonna hit your nearest theater.

Hottest Couple around Hollywood

2006-12-18T15:59:00.000+05:30

Wanna know who comes next inline with the hottest couple in hollywood this year? Its the star pair from the movie "Sahara" Mathew McConaughey and Penelope Cruz.

It seems Mathew McConaughey says his relationship with Penelope Cruz dates back to her split with Tom Cruise. Neverthe less they have claimed their position in line with the other super star pain " Brad Pit and Jolie" and the war of the worlds fame "Tom Cruise and Ketie Homes".

Its quite interesting to see the pairs interchange in hollywood just as in their movies. We need to wait and watch next year and hope they have a better and lovely married life :-).

People are still scheptic aboout the report on Diana's Death

2006-12-16T19:45:00.000+05:30

At last after nearly a decade passed over the nights tragic accident of princess Diana we have the report out from UK.

Finally they have confirmed that the incident is an accident and not actually a murder attempt. It is also confirmed that the princess was not pregnant during the accident. The Princess was not actually planning to get engaged it seems, though there are lot of scheptics who think the other way.

We never know which one is correct but atleast let us hope that both the spirits rest in peace.

Another Kalpana Chawla?

2006-12-11T15:35:00.000+05:30

Will she be next Kalpana Chawla in bringing Indians pride?Another Indian American astronaut Sunita Williams, is all set to go into space on December 7 with National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) clearing space shuttle Discovery for its first night time launch in four years.
Flight engineer Williams will join six other crew as Discovery lifts off at 9:36 pm on December 7 in the third launch of the year and the fourth since the Columbia disaster killed seven astronauts including Indian-born Kalpana Chawla in 2003.
Williams has worked within the Robotics branch on the ISS Robotic Arm and the follow on Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator. As a NEEMO2 crew member she lived underwater in the Aquarius habitat for nine days.NASA required the three launches after the Columbia accident to be in daylight so clear images could be taken of the space shuttle's external fuel tank in case foam falls off it.

We wish her a good success and fame.

A Humble Nopbel price winner (2006)

2006-12-11T12:32:00.000+05:30

We still have people like Mahatma Gandhi alive in this era. One just best example is Mr. Mohammad yunus from Bangladesh who recently won the nobel prize for Peace year 2006.
Whats so significant achievement by this modest personality is his contribution that turned even beggars to sales force. The Grameen Bank founded by Yunun specifically targeted the people below poverty line and helped them with loans to start their own door to door sales activity.
So what finally we have even the beggars turning to sales executives and live a dignified life.
Hope the moral example set by Yunus is watched out by people out there in world and set similar examples.

Hollywood Top Actors

2006-12-09T18:39:00.000+05:30

Hey guys, look here who have made their position to the top 10 posts through their career as actors;

we have;

1. John Travolta having the Top edge. Highly popular young star of American TV and movies of the late 70's and later a likable lead of the 90's. He moved to Hollywood, where he got occasional small roles on TV, and now we have the mega star from the "Broken Arrow" ever since "Greece"

2. Will smith Although he initially became famous as a rapper, Will Smith went on to prove his acting talents in both television and films, eventually winning a reputation as an entertainer who could easily cross back and forth between musician and actor. Final we came to know about the star from the "Men In Black" series :-).

3. Ryan Phillip With his golden curls, sensuous mouth, and sculpted body, Ryan Phillippe looks more like he was peeled off a Botticelli canvas than 'discovered' in a Delaware barber shop. Phillippe, who was born September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware, has quickly risen from obscurity to become one of the most talked-about and drooled-over actors of his generation

4. Tom Cruise Thomas Cruise Mapother IV was born on the 3rd of July, 1962 (eerily similar to his film Born on the 4th of July), in Syracuse, New York. He was the only boy of four children. Since his father was an electrical engineer, he must have inherited his love for acting from his mother.

5. Leonardo DiCaprio Born November 11, 1974 in Los Angeles, Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio has become a modern day Casanova. DiCaprio has been romantically linked with so many models and actresses it boggles the mind, but more on that later. And finally we have the star not hopefully departing from films but on the silver screen with "Gangs of new york" and "The Departed"

6. Brad Pitt Brad Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Full name William Bradley Pitt has became the most desired man everywhere in the world. Maybe no one in the history of film has elicited so many women. We have the charming star now hooked up with beauty Anjelina Jolie :-). Have a look at him in "Mr & Mrs Smith"

7. Seth Green Seth Green changes his hair color as often as other people change their sheets. Just within the last few months, the natural-born redhead has dyed his spiky locks brown, black, blue, black and blue, yellow and magenta.

8. Russell Crowe Though perhaps best known internationally for playing tough-guy roles in Romper Stomper (1993), L.A. Confidential (1997), and Gladiator (2000), New Zealand-born actor Russell Crowe has proven himself equally capable of playing gentler roles in films such as Proof (1991) and The Sum of Us (1992). No matter what kind of characters he plays, Crowe's weather-beaten handsomeness and gruff charisma combine to make him constantly watchable: his one-time Hollywood mentor Sharon Stone has called him "the sexiest guy working in movies today

9. Ben Affleck Tall and handsome in a meat-eating sort of way, Ben Affleck has the looks of a matinee idol and the resume of an actor who honed his craft as an indie film slacker before flexing his muscles as a Hollywood star. He is lucky enough to escape from JLo and smart enough to get engaged with Jeniffer Garner.

10. Bruce Willis Burly, thick-featured and balding, Bruce Willis looks as if he would be perfectly at home behind the wheel of an 18-wheeler. Instead, he is one of Hollywood's more popular action heroes, thanks in part to the success of the "Die Hard" series.

His Holiness Dalai Lama

2006-12-08T14:14:00.000+05:30

Probably its nice for the young generation to know about this great personality. He is the one who was protected and went in to exodus when Tibet was endangered by China.

The simple and natural ways of living helps others in this world to learn more from the Tibetans. How they live and strive in one of worlds most extreme places is still a mystery.

I have read about Tibetan solar chi practise that helps them to stay in stone cold winter outside with out any woolen clothing's. Sounds a great mystery but the monks live a life like that.

learn more about the Lama from the government of Tibet it self .

Tai chi for healing

2006-12-07T16:57:00.000+05:30

The internal martial arts can be best used for healing purpose. It is recommended to use the art for healing rather than for destructive attitude as it will hurt you in turn back.

As the saying goes " you reap what your sow". The first step would be to release all the blocks in meridians and then start collecting the chi energy with in you.

Then you can start distributing the energy with yourself or use it to heal others.
I had a doubt. Is it possible to see the chi energy? there are few fortunate people who have this gift to see the chi. Based on their version, i came to know that the chi is some thing like a etherized mist that can be seen mostly in the dark greenish background.

some people who saw that have claimed it to be dark green cloud. But keeping it aside, if you wanna get an idea about this wonderful art just explore the taichi online tutorial

How does BIOS works

2006-11-30T16:42:00.000+05:30

Inside every PC out there is BIOS, which stands for Basic Input Output System. BIOS is software that interacts between a computers hardware and the operating system and software applications. There are several types of BIOS's, ranging from the motherboard ROM BIOS to adapter BIOS's such as video BIOS, drive controller BIOS, network adapter BIOS, SCSI adapter BIOS, etc...

In order to complete the Boot ProcessTo get to the operating system, a computer must first boot from the BIOS. The BIOS performs a number of tasks when a computer is started. From initializing the microprocessor to initializing and testing hardware to starting the operating system. Starting a computer is not a simple task. It's a methodical process that is performed every time power is applied to computer. Here is a detailed description of the boot process. This process will vary with different computers and different BIOS', but the overall goal is the same. When you first turn on a computer the very first operation performed by the CPU is to read the address space at FFFF:0000h. This address space it reads from is only 16 bytes, which is not nearly enough space to house the BIOS found on a motherboard. Instead, this location contains a special instruction called a jump command (JMP) that tells the processor where to go to find and read the actual BIOS into memory. The process of the processor reading the jump instruction and redirection to the actual BIOS is called the bootstrap or boot. So, when you apply power, it's not the operating system that's working. It's the BIOS. First, I want to get something straight. The CMOS and the BIOS are two different things. The BIOS refers to the firmware instructions that are located on the BIOS ROM. CMOS refers to the low-power RAM that holds the system's setup parameters. The BIOS reads the CMOS RAM into memory at boot up and provides the setup routine that allows you to change the contents of CMOS, but the CMOS RAM/RTC device is a totally different IC. The CMOS holds the information provided by the BIOS. This is why you "lose" the settings of a system when the battery dies or you clear the CMOS through a jumper on the motherboard.With today's high performance 32 bit operating systems, the BIOS becomes less used, but it is still there, always interacting with the operating system. Disk access, for example, is done through the operating system with 32-bit routines, whereas the BIOS is using 16-bit routines.

Here is a basic rundown of what is happening:

Power is applied to the computer.When power is applied to the system and all output voltages from the power supply are good, the power supply will generate a power good signal which is received by the motherboard timer. When the timer receives this signal, it stops forcing a reset signal to the CPU and the CPU begins processing instructions.
Actual boot The very first instruction performed by a CPU is to read the contents of a specific memory address that is preprogrammed into the CPU. In the case of x86 based processors, this address is FFFF:0000h. This is the last 16 bytes of memory at the end of the first megabyte of memory. The code that the processor reads is actually a jump command (JMP) telling the processor where to go in memory to read the BIOS ROM. This process is traditionally referred to as the bootstrap, but now commonly referred to as boot and has been broadened to include the entire initialization process from applying power to the final stages of loading the operating system.
POSTPOST stands for Power On Self Test. It's a series of individual functions or routines that perform various initialization and tests of the computers hardware. BIOS starts with a series of tests of the motherboard hardware. The CPU, math coprocessor, timer IC's, DMA controllers, and IRQ controllers. The order in which these tests are performed varies from motherboard to motherboard. Next, the BIOS will look for the presence of video ROM between memory locations C000:000h and C780:000h. If a video BIOS is found, It's contents will be tested with a checksum test. If this test is successful, the BIOS will initialize the video adapter. It will pass controller to the video BIOS, which will in turn initialize itself and then assume controller once it's complete. At this point, you should see things like a manufacturers logo from the video card manufacturer video card description or the video card BIOS information. Next, the BIOS will scan memory from C800:000h to DF800:000h in 2KB increments. It's searching for any other ROM's that might be installed in the computer, such as network adapter cards or SCSI adapter cards. If a adapter ROM is found, it's contents are tested with a checksum test. If the tests pass, the card is initialized. Controller will be passed to each ROM for initialization then the system BIOS will resume controller after each BIOS found is done initializing. If these tests fail, you should see a error message displayed telling you "XXXX ROM Error". The XXXX indicates the segment address where the faulty ROM was detected. Next, BIOS will begin checking memory at 0000:0472h. This address contains a flag which will tell the BIOS if the system is booting from a cold boot or warm boot. A value of 1234h at this address tells the BIOS that the system was started from a warm boot. This signature value appears in Intel little endian format , that is, the least significant byte comes first, they appear in memory as the sequence 3412. In the event of a warm boot, the BIOS will will skip the POST routines remaining. If a cold start is indicated, the remaining POST routines will be run. During the POST test, a single hexadecimal code will be written to port 80h. Some other PC's send these codes to other ports however. Compaq sends them to port 84h, IBM PS/2 model 25 and 30 send them to port 90h, model 20-286 send them to port 190h. Some EISA machines with an Award BIOS send them to port 300h and system with the MCA architecture send them to port 680h. Some early AT&T, Olivetti, NCR and other AT Clones send them to the printer port at 3BC, 278h or 378h. This code will signify what is being tested at any given moment. Typically, when the BIOS fails at some point, this code will tell you what is failing.
Looking for the Operating System Once POST is complete and no errors found, the BIOS will begin searching for an operating system. Typically, the BIOS will look for a DOS Volume Boot Sector on the floppy drive. If no operating system is found, it will search the next location, the hard drive C. If the floppy drive (A), has a bootable floppy in it, the BIOS will load sector 1, head 0, cylinder 0 from the disk into memory starting at location 0000:7C00h. The first program to load will be IO.SYS, then MSDOS.SYS. If the floppy does not contain a DOS volume boot sector, then BIOS will next search the computers hard drive for a master partition boot sector and load it into memory at 0000:7C00h. There are some occasions in which you will encounter problems with the proper loading of the Volume Boot Sector. Below are some of those:A. If the first byte of the Volume Boot Sector is less than 6h, then you will receive a message similar to "Diskette boot record error".B. If the IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS are not the first two files in the Volume Boot Sector, then you will see a message similar to "Non-system disk or disk error".C. If the Volume Boot Sector is corrupt or missing, you will get a message similar to "Disk boot failure"

The original article is available in the site for Computer technology

Aikido

2006-11-29T11:50:00.000+05:30

Aikido is a martial art founded by Morihei Ueshiba that emphasizes harmonizing with an attacker. The art can be performed and practised by young and the old. It teaches about feeling the Ki (or Chi) in our body and the methods to utilize them for our self defense.

Combined with the eligance of Japanese Samurai swordsmen ship Aikido becomes a deadly martial art for the oponent. Its a kind of "moving zen" and helps you in a healthy spiritual mind too. The martial art is not only for combat but also for our spritual harmony.

find out more about it in the link "What is Aikido".

for those who are in the city of Bangalore, you have the option to learn it from the Bangalore Aikido Club

The fall of a dictator

2006-11-28T12:39:00.000+05:30

Once a president and a successful dictator for more than 10 years now behind prison bars.
This person is none other than our famous target for US that's Saddam. Now having his life under stakes lets us what is this personality doing and what had done.

Is it just to have him sentenced to death. In my personal survey a majority says yes, they also say to hang Mr.Bush along with him. There could be many reason for such comments, but we believe this is the right phase for Iraq to come to their democratic rule and make use of this situation instead of getting into an internal civil war and drowning their own economy.

This link is a good place to explore about it.Trail of Saddam

Hitler as a Leader

2006-11-27T21:19:00.000+05:30

Adolf Hitler one of worlds most renouned tyrant. Is that the reality or there is a real leader within him. Its a million dollar question. I have some interesting facts. How come a gentle artist truned out to be great dictator.

If we consider just his role as the ruler of Germany he has been a great source of trigger to invention. Probably the only greatest mistake in life he had done is the mass killing of jews.

If he had not done so we would have marked him as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever had.

Find more about it in the below link;

Hitler: Biography

Yin-Yang Theory

2006-11-27T17:11:00.000+05:30

The theory of Yin-Yang is well known in chinese province. They depict the philosophy with the symbol shown at the left side of the blog. We might have seen that symbol in many shirts and fancy accessories without knowing the truth behind it.This Simbol(Yin-Yang) represents the ancient Chinese understanding of how things work. The outer circle represents "everything", while the black and white shapes within the circle represent the interaction of two energies, called "yin" (black) and "yang" (white), which cause everything to happen. If you notice they are not completely black or white, just as things in life are not completely black or white, and they cannot exist without each other. While "yin" would be dark, passive, downward, cold, contracting, and weak, "yang" would be bright, active, upward, hot, expanding, and strong. The shape of the yin and yang sections of the symbol, actually gives you a sense of the continual movement of these two energies, yin to yang and yang to yin, causing everything to happen: just as things expand and contract, and temperature changes from hot to cold. You can find a whole lot of this idea in the below link

Yin-Yang