Finally i watched “Pirates of the silicon valley”.

Pirates of Silicon Valley is a 1999 film based on the book Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer by Paul Freiberger and Michael Swaine. It is an unauthorized made-for-television docudrama written and directed by Martyn Burke which documents the rise of the home computer (personal computer) through the rivalry between Apple Computer and Microsoft.

I had been looking for this movie since a long time a movie about how Microsoft & Apple emerged, but my continuous search didn’t help me find it on a DVD so i tried torrents and attempted to download twice which failed. Once the file got corrupt and the second time i downloaded a version in German language so the torrents didn’t work out for me, but thanks to a friend who had successfully downloaded an English version & i was able to get the copy and watch it over finally.

A very interesting movie and of course i recommend it to all technology enthusiasts and clearly shows that Microsoft & Apple are build on a foundation of stolen technology but the credit goes to them as they were the ones who could envision its future while others discarded it.

As Picasso said “Good artists copy, great artists steal“

Today a weired thing happened for first time after two years my Windows Vista which came pre installed in my laptop crashed. I had been using it for an year now and so far strangely it didn’t cause any problems, i optimized it for high performance removed a huge junk of softwares pre-installed into it and shifted it to be in optimized high performance mode.

To be frank i was a bit satisfied with windows Vista. But today a strange thing happened, while working i was downloading some huge files via ftp and immediately a blue screen came with a message Memory Dump. Grrr ! the first thought in mind and concern was my data. To my luck the windows Vista recovered back and returned back to its desktop there crash agent opened who warned me that the windows didn’t shut down properly and you should scan to detect where the problem came from so i said yes go ahead the application scanned for a few minutes and then came up with a success message that the problem of the crash has been discovered. I was quite excited that they have gone so smart but to my shock the message the gave me was
“The problem was caused by Windows Vista, which was created by Microsoft Corporation”

for a moment i though were they kidding me, i am using a software that is created by Microsoft Corporation and when it crashed the reason that the software detected was the software its self . Hahah so was this a confession by Microsoft!