Just saw this news on digg . AMD today announced plans to buy Ati in a deal worth $5.4 billion . There aim is to create products that can have innovative capabilities in terms of processing and Graphics . Lets see what it turns out to be .

Read the Press Release

After 2 months of Holidays my 3rd year finally started today . During the next three days we wont be having many classes as the Time Table is finalised and we try to select our elective subjects . Most of the subjects we are going to have this semester are core subjects ranging from Operating Systems , Microprocessors , TOC etc and even subjects like Social and Legal Issues .

I am really excited about the electives as they include .

1. Computer Graphics
2. Scripting
3. Conceptual Modelling
4. Nanotechnology
5. Optimizational Technique

We have to select any 2 from these five and i would be going for Scripting and Computer Graphics . Scripting will include various languages related to Web Designing like HTML , DHTML , XML , PHP , JavaScript , Perl , Python , ASP etc. And in Computer Graphics we will learn rendering techniques etc , hope they also teach us 3d max and Maya . Now that is something i am looking forward to.

Anyways i would also have to do well to improve my GPA as my placement also starts from next semester . Lets see what happens .

Italian Serie A sides Juventus , Lazio , Fiorentina have been demoted to Serie B for there involvement in Italian match Fixing Scandal . AC Milan , one of the clubs under investigation will stay in Serie A but will be docked 15 points for the new season and will also be kicked out of the Champions league . All the clubs have also been kicked out of Europe .

The most serious sufferers are Juventus also known as the old lady who will be competing outside Serie A for the first time since its formation . To make matters worse , it will also be docked 30 points which will make it two seasons in the Serie B guranteed . To add insult to injury , they will also be stripped of there last two Serie A titles . The Club which has enjoyed vast success over the last few years , now faces one of the most shameful events in the clubs history .

The clubs have three days to appeal against the decision which i think they will all do but still there European journey is over as the italian Football Federation has to submit the list of European participants by 25 July . This will also throw the transfer market wide open as Juventus has got some World Class players and i dont see them playing in Serie B . There top stars include Buffon , Thuram , Pavel nedved , Ibrahimovic , Trezeguet etc. For the next few days expect the transfer market to be in full swing .

Now it will be interesting to see whether Juventus will be able to recover from this and regain the lost Glory ..

To know the value of an inch , ask France who lost the World Cup . The result could have been diffrent had David Trezeguet’s penalty been an inch deeper .

The game was set for Zidane to finish his career on a high by winning his second world cup for France but it turned out to be a shameful episode in his glorious history . Zidane gave France an early lead to France through a well taken penalty but later foolishly got himself sent off for a head butt on Materazzi . But he might have won it for France had his goalbound header in the latter stages hadent been saved acrobatically by Buffon . The game was level in extra time and Italy calmly went on to win 5-3 on penalties .

But Credit should be given to Italy who have been terrific in this tournament whether from Defensive point of view or Offensive . Cannavaro was again instrumental in the win as he cut out various France attacks . Italians played well in the first half and could have taken the lead if Toni’s effort wouldnt have hit the crossbar . In the 2nd half we saw a better of France team with Thierry Henry being the danger man and creating oppurtunities . But Italy hung on during the extra time and went on to win on penalties by scoring all five .

Anyways it was a great final to round off an exciting World Cup but it will be remembered with the incident of Zidane . It was such a sad end to his illustrious career -sent from the World’s Biggest stage in shame and down to retirement .

Golden Boot Winner : Miroslav Klose

Golden Ball Winner : Zinedine Zidane

Thilak has posted a good article on his site telling users how to search for a free Rapidshare account .

Rapidshare periodically releases free account for its users which are valid for 2 days . After 2 days they are not deleted but the account can be extended by user free of cost by collecting Premium Points . Points can be collected by Uploading materials and making other users download them .

I tried the latest technique mentioned in the site and it worked for me and i got a free rapidshare account for 2 days . Give it a try might work for you .

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Microsoft have now closed there Vista Preview program . The downloads are available till 14th July but they have stopped giving the product key .

Luckily i have downloaded it and even installed it once but removed it as it was showing some incompatibility with few games and VB.NET . But they have really made the desktop and interface more interesting and 3d . I will give a detailed review later when i install it in a my new Hard Disk

Via Microsoft