Pranay Sharma

Windows Xp drivers for Gateway DX4710-05 with Intel G33 chipset motherboard

Here is a rar file for all the drivers:

http://www.gouravsharma.com/pranay/gatewaydrivers/Gateway_Drivers.rar

The SATA Driver is "Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller" located in the file: iaAHCI.inf

Use nLite to Slipstream it in your Xp CD.

nLite:

• Install Nlite
• Insert your XP Disk into the cd drive
• Run Nlite, it will ask you where your xp installation is. Chose the drive the XP disk is in, and it should recognise it.
• Next, it will ask you where you would like to save your installation.
• Next, Task Selection Screen should come up. Make sure you check Drivers, and Bootable ISO. I also like to check Unattended, so I have less work to do during the installation
• Next, you have the chance to insert the SATA Driver. Click Insert > Single Driver. From the f6flpy32_85.zip, chose iaAHCI.inf, it will open up a screen of the contraining drivers. Select the Intel(R) ICH9R/DO/DH SATA AHCI Controller
• Next, you have the options to change the default values of the XP install, you can pre-insert your serial number so you never have to type it in at installation, add desktop themes... you can toy around with some of the settings that you're familiar with at this point.
• Next, it will build your install of windows. Click yes if it asks : do you want to start the process
• Next, the final step. You have the option to either burn your install to a disk or write it as an image file.

DONE!!

Ajax Control Toolkit Calendar Extender date range - StartDate EndDate for AjaxControlToolkit CalendarExtender - Disable Dates

I found a fix for this somewhere.

It was hard to google it so I am putting it on my blog with compiled DLL for people who want it on-the-fly

And also a source code for people who need to incorporate in their custom dll's

The calendar provides you with startDate and EndDate in order to provide a dateRange and disables it.

Syntax:

<asp:TextBox ID="selected_date" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:ImageButton ID="Image0" runat="server" ImageUrl="images/cal_icon.gif" AlternateText="Cal"
ToolTip="Click here for Calendar" />
<ajaxtoolkit:calendarextender id="selected_date_CalendarExtender" runat="server"
targetcontrolid="selected_date" format="MMMM d, yyyy" popupbuttonid="Image0"
startdate="5/1/2009 " enddate="5/31/2009 " />

Here are the link:

DLL

Source Code

Lucid Dreams Wiki -A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that they are dreaming while the dream is in progress, also known as a conscious dream. When the dreamer is lucid, they can actively participate in and often manipulate the imaginary experiences in the dream environment. Lucid dreams can be extremely real and vivid depending on a person's level of self-awareness during the lucid dream.

http://gouravsharma.com/pranay/LucidRemix.mp3

Infinitely small!
What does that mean?
That it is the smallest thing in the world.

Infinitely big!
What does that mean?
That it is the biggest thing in the world.

Sounds simple.

But I reached a weird thought after watching these 2 different documentaries:

1.  PBS - Nova - The Elegant Universe - Part II - Strings the Thing

2. Dangerous Knowledge

A creative idea with no meaning or sense came into my mind on merging the two documentaries.

No matter how big you go, there is something bigger waiting to be explored.

From Earth to Multi-Universe, the moment we understand something, we find something bigger to be explored.
Almost like its unreal or illogical.

Could this be the other way round?
No matter how small we go, there will be something smaller waiting to be explored.
Like a circle of radius X is made up of infinite lines with no gaps in between. lets call the gap between the lines at center 'G' which is nearest to zero.(kind of like derivation).
We increase the radius of circle to X+1 and there is more space for lines, so there is a number between 'G' and zero. And there always will be a number between that and so on.
No matter how small you go, there is something smaller than that. There is no zero. Hence, there is no building block. It sounds absurd, maybe thats what our world is - absurd.

It certainly does not mean we should stop exploring, but what if it IS true?
What if we live in an unreal world.
Black holes, quantum physics all deal with infinity and randomness. Which is illogical.
At both the extreme ends of our world, lies something which cannot be explained using mathematics.
Its like the color band of light and our eyes.
We see only a limited band of wavelength of light through our eyes.
But it does not mean that is all that exists.
There exists more and certainly I believe there exists more beyond what can be explained by mathematics.
But poor us, our brains have developed to live and function in mathematics and logical world.
We cannot percieve beyond that.
Hence we may never know/feel/understand their working even if someone were to lay it down to us.
Just like we cannot imagine/see how a 4 Dimensional cube would look like.

I am not trying to go anywhere with this.
Its just a meaningless random though.
Say, could it be that sky is red and we only see it as blue?
Well certainly if you see it with red glasses, it will look red since it will reflect everything but red light.
But would it mean it is red?

So ya, just a thought.

Can Artificial Intelligence have Creativity.

It all depends how we define Creativity.

Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. An alternative conception of creativness is that it is simply the act of making something new.

Surely we can just create a machine and have it output random numbers but that would be more like a retard's creativity than an artist's creativity.
In order to complete the process we also need analytical thought which would in-turn judge the application/use of the thought.

As seen in the video, our brains(right side) randomly generate thoughts due to noise generated by heat.
And then these thoughts are processed by our logical analytic part of brain(left side) to decide if it is of any use to process it.

Clearly the logical analytic for humans can be linked to quering from a huge database of knowledge.
New borns do not have that and hence rely on adults to do teach them. Same is the process with AI.

Another key requirement lacking currently is the ability to gain knowledge, learn knowledge and curiosity(interest) to learn.
Again the field of curiosity is again a result of creativity and analysis deciding which field is more beneficial for them on a sub-conscious level.

So, what I believe is that we need to research in generating algorithms for analysis.
I am afraid the organisation "In Its Image" does not seem to have attained it as they claim to have it since 1970's.
It is a complete scam since such a breakthrough in technology is in demand and still researchs are going heavily by huge companies like IBM
and they say that all they have attained so far is the intellegence of a drunken cockroach who takes an 30 minutes to figure out his way out of a room.

But it sure gave me ideas.
Being a software programmer, I do try to write programs that have basic intellegence.

For eg: An operation is being carried out. Error occours. The program retries. Error occours again. If its the same error, it gives it a final try and if it happens again, its informs the tech support by emailing/paging them.
If another error happens, it gives it another try. If different errors happens it tries until 10 errors happened in succession before contacting support.
(Don't worry, its not a critical process that needs attention for every error).
What would be AI in my understanding, it keeps an error log. And refers that everytime an error happens.
If the error log suggests that everytime Error 'X' happened, it kept happening again and again, It would stop and contact support.
Even better would be
If there are any situations that Error 'X' happened and did not happen in second try,
there would have a random bit deciding if it wants to give it a try or not.
The chance of randomness would be affected by number of time Error 'X' happened before and corrected AND number of time Error 'X' happened again.
This process gives the program ability to grow its database.
Since the chance of selecting an error happened earlier depends on previous behaviour, the program keeps getting wiser.

It sounds complex, but is no comparison to the calculations that take place in our minds deciding if we want to take Road 'X' to work or Road 'Y'.
But they are on similar grounds.

Still, the technology still has hurdles with space of storing database to speed of processing queries.

And what lacks most is the reliability of human judgement which is achieved by huge database of our experience/knowledge and complex queries we do for our decisions instead of just few like this program.

But creativity is complete different game.
Our program can only decide in case of an event. It does not and figure out way to fix the error.
Hence, all we acheived was analysis, not creativity.

In order to have creativity, we would again need a pre-defined database for quering the usability of the thought.
In the case of our program, it would be like using the existing database, and while the program is running without errors, the program in the background,
searches for most common errors that occour(field of curiosity), keeps making patterns of errors happening in succession(creativity) and then refffering the source code to find out possible causes of errors(It would query another database with list of errors and possible causes and solutions). With a list of possible causes, it would go ahead and implement the changes to a testing program checking to see if it fixes the errors from happening again(analysis) and do some testing, make sure its run a couple of times. And then edit the real source code and save it.

Thats when I think the complete process of creativity would be complete.

But could we device a system that could query the causes of erros and their possible causes & solutions and create solutions for unknown errors?
Means combine, defragment existing solutions and create new better solutions by testing their efficiency.
A constant need to improve. 

Just like this post, every bit was written as it came to my mind.

Let me know what are your thoughts

I was eager to write my own thoughts after watching the documentry: In Its Image