Is Hell Endothermic or Exothermic

I'm sure many of you have seen this before (I know I have), but I just got in my email again today and was highly amused, so I thought I ought to share it with all of you .
The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term.

The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared itwith colleagues, via the Internet, which is, of course, why we now havethe pleasure of enjoying it as well :

Bonus Question: Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic(absorbs heat)?

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law(gas cools when it expands and heats when it is compressed) or some variant.

One student, however, wrote the following:

First, we need to know how the mass of Hell is changing in time. So we need to know the rate at which souls are moving into Hell and the rate at which they are leaving. I think that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to Hell, it will not leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving.
As for how many souls are entering Hell, let's look at the different religions that exist in the world today. Most of these religions state that if you are not a member of their religion, you will go to Hell.

Since there is more than one of these religions and since people do not belong to more than one religion, we can project that all souls go to Hell. With birth and death rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in Hell to increase exponentially. Now, we look at the rate ofchange of the volume in Hell because Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in Hell to stay the same, the volume of Hell has to expand proportionately as souls are added.

This gives two possibilities:

1. If Hell is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which souls enter Hell, then the temperature and pressure in Hell will increase until all Hell breaks loose.
2 If Hell is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of souls in Hell, then the temperature and pressure will drop until Hell freezes over.

So which is it?
If we accept the postulate given to me by Teresa during my Freshman year that, "It will be a cold day in Hell before I sleep with you," and take into account the fact that I slept with her last night, then number two must be true, and thus I am sure that Hell is exothermic and has already frozen over. The corollary of this theory is that since Hell has frozen over, it follows that it is not accepting any more souls and is therefore, extinct......leaving only Heaven, thereby proving the existence of a divine being which explains why, last night, Teresa kept shouting "Oh my God."

THIS STUDENT RECEIVED THE ONLY "A"

Remember to Seed on a P2P network

Here are my sharing ratios on a popular bittorrent tracker and on uTorrent for the last month or so:

Goodwill, and the will to share, and reciprocate is what the entire p2p network runs on.
p2p file transfers are responsible for atlease 80% of the traffic on the internet.(That's a weak estimate).

Also sharing files on a peer2peer network is completely voluntary, there is usually no personal gain in seeding files, still so many(believe me, there is huge number(including you)), who always do it.

This gives a wonderful insight on the human mind. Left free, without too many regualtions, on their own consceince, humans generally tend to do more good than bad.
(Of course there always are the odd exceptions, but that is just probability).

Hence we can conclude that men, usually are of a helpful nature, and left on their own, they will tend to help their needy among them.

Another good examples of this theory are :

Wikipedia - The most comprehensive encyclopedia on the web, runs totally on user-written articles. This means that me, and you can write new articles, even edit the old one if we have something more to say. Of course, there is a panel of admins and mods who regulate the changes, so it'd be of no effect to just delete an article, or spam it.

As always, we do have the odd spammer, but it is quite possible to weed them out, and more good than bad is done.

So before I get completely lost, all I wanted to convey here, is that on a P2P network, seeding is as important as leeching. Seed all the files to atleast a ratio of 1. Seed small files which you use often to a ratio of 3-5.

Help and keep the scene alive. =)

All the best and Happy Sharing.

Windows XP Hidden Applications

If you are not new with Windows XP, you must have noticed there are several applications which are available in C:\windows, and C:\windows\system32. Some of them are not available anywhere else, so many people dont know about them. If you learn to use them correctly, they can be very useful. Here are a few useful ones, in order of importance for the average user. Do try to experiment with them.

To run any of these apps go to Start -> Run and type the executable name, for example: charmap

WINDOWS XP HIDDEN APPLICATIONS:


1. System configuration = msconfig.exe (can use to control starup programs)

2. Character Map = charmap.exe (very useful for finding unusual characters)

3. Registry Editor = regedt32.exe [also regedit.exe] (for hacking the Windows Registry).

4. Clipboard Viewer = clipbrd.exe (views contents of Windows clipboard)

5. Dr Watson = drwtsn32.exe (Troubleshooting tool)

6. DirectX diagnosis = dxdiag.exe (Diagnose & test DirectX, video & sound cards)

7. Private character editor = eudcedit.exe (allows creation or modification of characters)

8. IExpress Wizard = iexpress.exe (Create self-extracting / self-installing package)

9. Windows Media Player 5.1 = mplay32.exe (Retro version of Media Player, very basic).

10. System Monitor = perfmon.exe (very useful, highly configurable tool, tells you everything you ever wanted to know about any aspect of PC performance, for uber-geeks only )

11. Program Manager = progman.exe (Legacy Windows 3.x desktop shell).

12. Remote Access phone book = rasphone.exe (documentation is virtually non-existant).

13. Disk Cleanup = cleanmgr.exe

14. Volume Control = sndvol32.exe (I've included this for those people that lose it from the System Notification area).

15. System Configuration Editor = sysedit.exe (modify System.ini & Win.ini just like in Win98)

16. Mcft Telnet Client = telnet.exe

17. Windows for Workgroups Chat = winchat.exe (appears to be an old NT utility to allow chat sessions over a LAN, help files available).

The complete list is longer, but most are useless, or have better substitutes, so I have included only the most useful ones. If you have any more, please share.

Working with Adsense: (Dis)Functionality

Disclaimer: The following post may appear to be confusing, idiotic, incorrect, etc to most people. And I bet it is. Dont read it, I just included it for including's sake.(huh?)
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Here's yet another tip about the Google Adsense system(as if you hadnt enough of these from the net already). If you have mixed posts in your blog/website, and try to include high paying keywords on your blog, which dont match your blog header and title, Adsense doesnt display any ads related to that at all. This is a result of a random experiment from my side.


Here's the original post that I included:

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Lawyers Buy Real Estate.

A recent survey shows that lawyers from across the United States invest all most all of their exorbitant fees in Real Estate. This is further proof to the booming nature of the real estate market. No lawyer was available for comment. Meanwhile, I'm off to buy real estate too.

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This ended up with no ads for an hour(probably adsense was confused(?)), and after some(a lot) time, I ended up with completely non-blog related ads. Presently my blog is filled with Linux ads, and I havent included the word "Linux" even once in the whole blog.


Funny eh? This just goes to show that no one is perfect(not even google(shit)).

Pay attention in the classroom.

Here's what happens otherwise

Yup, cant say theses dudes are wrong...

Anonymous Surfing: How to use a free proxy

Would it be nice to surf anonymously on the web, so that no one can trace you again? How wonderful it'd be. And now it's possible. Using free proxies, you can surf anonymously through the web and never get caught. And it just takes a couple of minutes to set it up. Here is how it's done:

1. Go to a website that provides free proxies. There are many of them. A few good ones

• www.proxy4free.com
• www.stayinvisible.com
• www.freeproxy.ru/en/free_proxy/cgi-proxy.htm
• www.proxyblind.org

You can find many, many more on google.

Lets use http://www.proxy4free.com

2. So go there.

3. Now click on the link that says "proxy list".

4. Search for one for your country. For India, proxies for India, Pakistan, and sometimes even China work.

5. Note the port: 80, or 8080 or whatever it is.

6. Now open your browser.

• If you use firefox:

1. Click on the Tools menu->Options->Advanced->Network(Tab)->Settings.
2. Click on the Radio button for "Manual Proxy Configuration"
3. Enter your proxy(whatever it is) in the box. It should be something like 59.xx.xxx.xx, or something simlar
4. Enter the port(80 or 8080 or whatever it is).
5. Click Ok

• If you use Internet explorer

1. Read this carefully. Internet explorer sucks. It has absolutely no protection against spyware, malware, and all sorts of atrocious-ware.(=p)
2. So dont use it(except for checking you BSNL account usage(but you can install a firefox add-on to do that from Firefox too(more about this later)))
3. Download it from the link on the right ===> or from a friend or from someones else's affliate link. I dont care, as long as you get it. There are many reasons why you should get firefox, and I'm gonna write a post about it soon.
   

So now that you are on a proxy, "piracy is your birthright(sic)". Enjoy your new found anonymity.

PS: You can use a proxy with uTorrent too to make your P2P downloads anonymous too, but no one cares about that, so as long as you have a HTTP proxy, I dont think you should need anything else(except if you are a l33t, but then you wouldn't have been reading this post.)

My Download Speeds on BSNL Broadband

More proof that my techniques work better than anyones.


These are my download speeds in uTorrent using a BSNL Broadband Home 500 plan. And i get it consistently for about 16 hrs a day, speeds upward of 125 KBps(KiloBYTE per second).
My neighbour gets speeds of about 50 KBps before i showed him my tricks.