Thursday, October 8, 2009

Genie.exe

On a Wednesday, I completed the day's research work by reading 2 papers and had nothing to do in the evening. So, thought it would be nice to increase the knowledge and started looking for some tricks, funny codes which can do something funny. I googled for "Windows XP tricks and tips" and 32,400,000 results came in 0.3 seconds. Awesome I thought. As intranet in IIIT sucks, the links are taking long time to load.
While the pages are loading, I decided to finish watching the "Aladdin" movie. I was not concentrating on what I am clicking, I became deeply involved in the movie. After finishing the movie, I saw "genie.exe" on desktop. I opened firefox history to know from where it was downloaded. It showed a page with no url. So, I got suspicious and scanned it with Avira antivirus(AV). The AV got crashed and the entire system got stuck.
But, I took risk and clicked it. Do you know what happened?? Nothing happened. even after so many double-clicks nothing is happened. and even shift-del also dont work on it. I left it to its destiny. But, it is on my desktop and I notice it everytime.
Later I took the "Aladdin" movie to home for my 5 year old cousin from US. After watching the movie, She said "Rubbing 3 times, genie comes...thats silly". "why cant!", I thought "when superman can come from other planet". It gave me the idea. Immediately after coming to college, I went for lab keys and opened my system.
I have a strange feeling that I'm going to achieve something. I clicked "genie.exe" thrice. Do you know what happened?? Entire screen got blank. I went to press the restart button...but genie appeared. There is a lot of difference between genie in the movie and genie in my computer. He has lost his hair and has got spets. When asked about this change, he told that his parents forced him to do research and now he became expert in networks. He also told me that I'm his master and gave me 3 wishes.

1st wish: Without wasting any time, I copied him into my pendrive and transferred to chitti(my laptop) and asked him to connect the laptop to high speed net. There was a problem with my laptop's wireless card and I haven't opened any webpage since 3 years in room. From that day, I wasted so much time in orkutting, facebooking, searching for female profiles with pics etc etc...I and genie used to talk about personal things and became close.

2nd wish: I never needed another wish until the deadline of 7th assignment in C. I came to know that 5th program done by my crush is not getting accepted since the program contains only if and print statements(works for the sample inputs given). she is feeling very bad about it. So, I asked genie to make her program get accepted the next time she uploads. And now everyone is happy, she is happy as she got full marks. so, Im happy. Genie is happy as he can be free after another wish.

PS: to be continued...