Ubuntu's latest version (Hoary 5.04) got released last week. I have been using Ubuntu Development version Since I got Broadband, thats almost couple of months. Somehow, I feel Ubuntu is the way to go for any Gnome enthusiast. For all this time I have just been using Ubuntu & totally stopped using Slack.
The best thing as of now in Hoary is that it activates my PPPOE connection at startup, so I need not worry about manually connecting to internet. I dunno if this feature was there previously, as I did not have Broadband when I first installed Hoary's development version. The only thing i miss in Ubuntu are packages for Mono 1.1.X. In slack I would happily compile everything, but I wanna use the package manager to install stuff in ubuntu. But getting Mono packages for ubuntu seems to be a real headache. Maybe I'll just install it by hand.
Another cool feature is the Update Manager, which happily checks for updates & lets u know when there are some. For me this is the LINUX DESKTOP, how about you ?
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
Monday, April 04, 2005
The Week that never was.....
The past week has been quite a hectic one. These days I'm not doing anything useful, my Burn proj is stagnant & so is my DB2 preparation. It's gonna be like this till May-End, I guess. Anyway, the only fun that I have been having is playing Baldur's Gate-2 with my sis. But even that's gonna stop from today, as her model exams are gonna start :-(
I watched couple of very good movies sometime last week.
A Walk to Remember - This is a very romantic movie, Such a good one. Having seen quite a few Indian (romantic) movies, it's very much like them. I dunno, whether some of our movies lifted their theme from this one or vice-versa. But any it's one of the good Romantic one from Hollywood.
Eternal Sunshine of an Spotless mind - This one was very refreshing one, such a cool one. A different approach to a movie, I don't wanna reveal anything about this. Go watch it ppl......
I watched couple of very good movies sometime last week.
A Walk to Remember - This is a very romantic movie, Such a good one. Having seen quite a few Indian (romantic) movies, it's very much like them. I dunno, whether some of our movies lifted their theme from this one or vice-versa. But any it's one of the good Romantic one from Hollywood.
Eternal Sunshine of an Spotless mind - This one was very refreshing one, such a cool one. A different approach to a movie, I don't wanna reveal anything about this. Go watch it ppl......
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Making the Day
After a Very long day, I just thought would catch some updates about the first day's play of the Bangalore Test.
I came across this article & this made my day. There are lots of people who believe in India & wanna stay here to help it in it's journey to greatness, unlike a lot others. :-)
I came across this article & this made my day. There are lots of people who believe in India & wanna stay here to help it in it's journey to greatness, unlike a lot others. :-)
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Weekend
The last weekend I saw 3 movies. Maayaavi, Swades & Finding Neverland.
Maayaavi : - This movie is full length masala & is a money spinner only 'cause of surya's presence.
Finding Neverland :- Johny Depp proves again why he's one of the best in the business. I think kate winslet also performs too well, we wonder if she was the same lady who worked in Titanic.
Swades :- This is the best movie I have ever watched. I think this is the only non-romantic movie which is in my all time favs list (except for The Matrix). ShahRukh excels & showcases his acting abilities. I recommend you all to see this movie.
Per the movie's female protagonist, NRI - NON RETURNING INDIANS.... very true.
Maayaavi : - This movie is full length masala & is a money spinner only 'cause of surya's presence.
Finding Neverland :- Johny Depp proves again why he's one of the best in the business. I think kate winslet also performs too well, we wonder if she was the same lady who worked in Titanic.
Swades :- This is the best movie I have ever watched. I think this is the only non-romantic movie which is in my all time favs list (except for The Matrix). ShahRukh excels & showcases his acting abilities. I recommend you all to see this movie.
Per the movie's female protagonist, NRI - NON RETURNING INDIANS.... very true.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Alexander - The Great ?
The past few days have been really hectic, I'm just unable to find time for replying to mails, returning calls et all. I have conf call tomorrow morning & gotta sleep early but just before I hit the sack, I thought I would post a few thoughts.
A couple of weeks back I saw the movie Alexander (rather pathetic in its own right) with a friend of mine. I told my friend that I don't believe that Alexander was that great a guy (leave alone an Emperor). My friend just humbly reminded me that there are just 2 men who are called 'The Great'. One's the guy in question Alexander & our own Asoka.
Before talking about Aleaxander we just need to spare a couple of moments to Asoka. Asoka was one of the greatest Emperors in the Indian History. It's a historical fact that Asoka is one of the greatest warriors & was one of the very few to have defeated Kalinga. Kalinga has always been a very brave kingdoms & almost every war over Kalinga has resulted in enormous Man & Material damage to both the sides.
It's well known that Asoka transformed in to something more than a normal man or an Emperor after the Kalinga war. It's mainly for this tranformation & his efforts to in serving the humanity that he's known as Asoka The Great. Asoka & his son Mahendra (or Mahinda as known in SriLanka) spread Buddhism & followed the principles to the best possible extent. These gentlemen were one of the very first to spread buddhism in Srilanka, where currently Buddhism is one of the predominant religions.
Alexander, born to an greek Emperor, (I know bits & pieces of greek mythology) had most of the world known to men under his control in his early 20's. Thats a cool thing, but we need to give a few thoughts to this. As per the myth once he started on the conquests, he never returned back to his homeland. I really doubt if he made it to India in the first place, leave alone capturing babylon, persia et all. Even if we assume that he had captured all these countries & made it to India, he would have waged war with few kingdoms in the North western part of India (if he came via Hindkush). If my memory serves me correctly he won a war against King Purushotamma (PORUS), Porus demanded that he be treated as a king & Alexander did treat him as one. These are common history stuff in India.
Emperor is someone who has everything under his control. If Alexander was busy going on errands to capture kindoms, who'll make sure that everything is under control for him ? Man has been a horrible creature from the time he walked on the surface of mother earth. Alexander would have made more enemies than friends, for killing so many (if there had been wars) on both his side & the opposite. I feel Alexander was lucky that he was born such a long time back, had he been present during the days of Mauryas, Moguls or Lodis he would have been sent home packing.
Is it really correct to call a man great 'cause he rode through barren lands & fought with a few cities or towns with a larger than life force ? Other question is India, back then India was bigger than what it is today. just fighting with some tribes somewhere doesn't make anybody great or make him the Emperor for India.
I wanna say few more things, but am feeling too sleepy to state them now :-)
A couple of weeks back I saw the movie Alexander (rather pathetic in its own right) with a friend of mine. I told my friend that I don't believe that Alexander was that great a guy (leave alone an Emperor). My friend just humbly reminded me that there are just 2 men who are called 'The Great'. One's the guy in question Alexander & our own Asoka.
Before talking about Aleaxander we just need to spare a couple of moments to Asoka. Asoka was one of the greatest Emperors in the Indian History. It's a historical fact that Asoka is one of the greatest warriors & was one of the very few to have defeated Kalinga. Kalinga has always been a very brave kingdoms & almost every war over Kalinga has resulted in enormous Man & Material damage to both the sides.
It's well known that Asoka transformed in to something more than a normal man or an Emperor after the Kalinga war. It's mainly for this tranformation & his efforts to in serving the humanity that he's known as Asoka The Great. Asoka & his son Mahendra (or Mahinda as known in SriLanka) spread Buddhism & followed the principles to the best possible extent. These gentlemen were one of the very first to spread buddhism in Srilanka, where currently Buddhism is one of the predominant religions.
Alexander, born to an greek Emperor, (I know bits & pieces of greek mythology) had most of the world known to men under his control in his early 20's. Thats a cool thing, but we need to give a few thoughts to this. As per the myth once he started on the conquests, he never returned back to his homeland. I really doubt if he made it to India in the first place, leave alone capturing babylon, persia et all. Even if we assume that he had captured all these countries & made it to India, he would have waged war with few kingdoms in the North western part of India (if he came via Hindkush). If my memory serves me correctly he won a war against King Purushotamma (PORUS), Porus demanded that he be treated as a king & Alexander did treat him as one. These are common history stuff in India.
Emperor is someone who has everything under his control. If Alexander was busy going on errands to capture kindoms, who'll make sure that everything is under control for him ? Man has been a horrible creature from the time he walked on the surface of mother earth. Alexander would have made more enemies than friends, for killing so many (if there had been wars) on both his side & the opposite. I feel Alexander was lucky that he was born such a long time back, had he been present during the days of Mauryas, Moguls or Lodis he would have been sent home packing.
Is it really correct to call a man great 'cause he rode through barren lands & fought with a few cities or towns with a larger than life force ? Other question is India, back then India was bigger than what it is today. just fighting with some tribes somewhere doesn't make anybody great or make him the Emperor for India.
I wanna say few more things, but am feeling too sleepy to state them now :-)
Monday, March 14, 2005
India - few more thougths
I love chocolates, I just can't let a day or two go without having some chocolate. But I know one fine day, I might wake up to find out that I have sugar. But then everything has side-effects.
Diversity that we have in India is pretty cool, something any country would just envy. Of course there really are some shortcomings with us. Castes is just one of them, Classes are a different topic. Politics is not bad, Politicians are. They capitalise on the power of their group of people, to come to power & do almost next to nothing.
Let's just think for a couple of minutes, in the past 10 years India has taken some major strides in all aspects. I chose ECE bacause my friend said he's gonna take it up. There were hardly any IT companies in chennai except for Infy (in Alexander Square), Wipro (just across Infy), HCL & a few others. I heard of CTS only when Arivu & Anand got in to that company, that was when the boom started. No looking back after that.
If we see in the big picture the growth rate has been pretty good in the past few years. But again the problem is simple we see what's obviously more visible.
Say we wake up a fine day, find that our road has been laid freshly & unfortunately there's a small ditch in front of our gate. What do we say? we don't see the stretch of the road which is pretty good, we just give a mouthful to the poor fellow (wherever he was) & question a lot about his working capabilties.
Improvements in BSNL or Registrars office are just a very few. Even then our ignorance is such that we brand the improvements of BSNL as due to competition due to Reliance & other private operators. we don't see the effort that should have gone in for this change.
we all are pessimists, we always think about the negative things that go around us. we never ever try to look at the positive things that happens around us.
Technological Advancements due to Britishers ? that's a really bold statement. Technology for Green Revolution might be affordable for Farmers who could afford. But for the majority getting a tractor is a big deal, it's their hard work that resulted in Green Revolution & not due to frigging technology.
India had self sufficiency long before the Europeans came along. Europeans came to India as traders, if India was not self sufficient how can it attract Europeans ?
There were Greeks, Turks & Arabs trading with India since the days of Karikal Peruvalathaan. Harshavardhana had trading relations with the chinese king, Cholas had trading relations with Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand, China & quite a few south east Asian countries. As a sign of good will an Indonesian King had built the famous Chudaamani Vihara in Nagapattinam for his traders & other people to worship. These are historical facts.
A little bit of even Tamil History would show how self sufficient we Indians were.
"Chozha Naadu Sorudaithu", "Pandy Naadu Muthudaithu".
India was the wealthiest country, before the Europeans came along.
Technologically India is a respectable power in space & in military, no thanks to any single country. The only country which has helped India is Russia, it has helped but not donated some technology.
USA, the only remaining superpower, used the voting machines that we have been using for the past 3-4 elections during the presidential elections in November. You should have seen the ads in US it said 'This Election Americans will vote using the latest technology in the world' They forgot to mention that it was Indians who invented & use it.
We all forget one major thing, when we criticise India we criticise ourselves. It's necessary for us to change.
Do you expect APJ Abdul Kalam & Manmohan singh to come & give a jist of what the constitution says? If you want to know the basic stuff there are 'n' number of abbr versions of our constitution available. we have to go get it & do with it what we want.
But unfortunately we hardly have any time to code programs, watch movie, whack our head off....... how to go spare time for these things.....
We need not know a single IPC to do right things, we just need balls to say no to the guy asking for bribe.
For us what's Election ? Going & casting vote to some guy & watch the debate on NDTV. Have we done anything at all other than this.
There's no point in just sitting & saying India is not improving & to quote Gaurav "my life here in Japan has really got me to realise the amt of dirt we live in ... in India"
The life in a country which is striving hard to make progress & break all the limitations that time has imposed on it is quite different & quite good.
If you expect some miracle & expect to wake up to a new India, then you are dreaming & yet to wake up. We all are here to do something towards the evolution of a new India.
I dunno if any of you watched the tamil Movie 'IVANN', Parthiban makes quite a few excellent points in that. to just tell one 'You can't expect a hero to come & solve your problems. You have to solve it yourself.'
Time to quit cribbing & post about what we can do to make a difference. Even ONE could make a difference, after all The ONE bent the Matrix to his will :-)
Diversity that we have in India is pretty cool, something any country would just envy. Of course there really are some shortcomings with us. Castes is just one of them, Classes are a different topic. Politics is not bad, Politicians are. They capitalise on the power of their group of people, to come to power & do almost next to nothing.
Let's just think for a couple of minutes, in the past 10 years India has taken some major strides in all aspects. I chose ECE bacause my friend said he's gonna take it up. There were hardly any IT companies in chennai except for Infy (in Alexander Square), Wipro (just across Infy), HCL & a few others. I heard of CTS only when Arivu & Anand got in to that company, that was when the boom started. No looking back after that.
If we see in the big picture the growth rate has been pretty good in the past few years. But again the problem is simple we see what's obviously more visible.
Say we wake up a fine day, find that our road has been laid freshly & unfortunately there's a small ditch in front of our gate. What do we say? we don't see the stretch of the road which is pretty good, we just give a mouthful to the poor fellow (wherever he was) & question a lot about his working capabilties.
Improvements in BSNL or Registrars office are just a very few. Even then our ignorance is such that we brand the improvements of BSNL as due to competition due to Reliance & other private operators. we don't see the effort that should have gone in for this change.
we all are pessimists, we always think about the negative things that go around us. we never ever try to look at the positive things that happens around us.
Technological Advancements due to Britishers ? that's a really bold statement. Technology for Green Revolution might be affordable for Farmers who could afford. But for the majority getting a tractor is a big deal, it's their hard work that resulted in Green Revolution & not due to frigging technology.
India had self sufficiency long before the Europeans came along. Europeans came to India as traders, if India was not self sufficient how can it attract Europeans ?
There were Greeks, Turks & Arabs trading with India since the days of Karikal Peruvalathaan. Harshavardhana had trading relations with the chinese king, Cholas had trading relations with Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand, China & quite a few south east Asian countries. As a sign of good will an Indonesian King had built the famous Chudaamani Vihara in Nagapattinam for his traders & other people to worship. These are historical facts.
A little bit of even Tamil History would show how self sufficient we Indians were.
"Chozha Naadu Sorudaithu", "Pandy Naadu Muthudaithu".
India was the wealthiest country, before the Europeans came along.
Technologically India is a respectable power in space & in military, no thanks to any single country. The only country which has helped India is Russia, it has helped but not donated some technology.
USA, the only remaining superpower, used the voting machines that we have been using for the past 3-4 elections during the presidential elections in November. You should have seen the ads in US it said 'This Election Americans will vote using the latest technology in the world' They forgot to mention that it was Indians who invented & use it.
We all forget one major thing, when we criticise India we criticise ourselves. It's necessary for us to change.
Do you expect APJ Abdul Kalam & Manmohan singh to come & give a jist of what the constitution says? If you want to know the basic stuff there are 'n' number of abbr versions of our constitution available. we have to go get it & do with it what we want.
But unfortunately we hardly have any time to code programs, watch movie, whack our head off....... how to go spare time for these things.....
We need not know a single IPC to do right things, we just need balls to say no to the guy asking for bribe.
For us what's Election ? Going & casting vote to some guy & watch the debate on NDTV. Have we done anything at all other than this.
There's no point in just sitting & saying India is not improving & to quote Gaurav "my life here in Japan has really got me to realise the amt of dirt we live in ... in India"
The life in a country which is striving hard to make progress & break all the limitations that time has imposed on it is quite different & quite good.
If you expect some miracle & expect to wake up to a new India, then you are dreaming & yet to wake up. We all are here to do something towards the evolution of a new India.
I dunno if any of you watched the tamil Movie 'IVANN', Parthiban makes quite a few excellent points in that. to just tell one 'You can't expect a hero to come & solve your problems. You have to solve it yourself.'
Time to quit cribbing & post about what we can do to make a difference. Even ONE could make a difference, after all The ONE bent the Matrix to his will :-)
Not so obvious solutions to the Problems in India
Now to the second post by Gaurav, this is really an interesting one. Infact many people I know, used to ask me the differences between US & India. I would just give a brief answer, that I usually give to others.
US is a very good place to go, visit & have fun. People are very good at following rules there, the roads are very good, the technology is very good, there are no buffalos in the road.
But you can't stay there forever 'cause you are an alien there. It's not your home, I feel better here in Chennai amongst the people who have fun by running in the middle of the GST Road at the peak hour traffic. I feel better waiting to let a buffalo pass b4 continuing on my bike.
The comparison between India & Somalia is worse, with or without English Indians survive. Just think, how many Indians know English. India is so diversified, you just can't think about having a single common language. That's the reason why there are so many official Languages.
I remember there used to be a mail from Abdul Kalam, that used to circulate between us. He would have stated that Indians going abroad behave very well, which they don't do in India. We don't put wastages in the Road, we don't run across the road when we are abroad but in India are we doing the same ?
Noone needs to know all the IPC's in Indian Law. We all know what's right & what's wrong. Say a police fellow catches you for a mistake that you made & asks you to pay fine. What'll you do? you'll just try to pay him off with a bribe of Rs.50/-, but you won't pay a fine of Rs.100/-. The damn problem is with us, we encourage these things.
I don't know if any of you have been to Sub-Registrar's office. I have been there twice, the first time was almost 4 years agao to get an Encumbrance certificate. Back then you had to fill a form give it to a guy outside (& pay him ofcourse). that Guy will say when to come & collect, he's not a government servant, but a broker kinda fellow. You just can't expect to fill a form & get the work done by yourself back then.
The second time I went was 6 months back, again to get an E.C. This time I just filled the form there was a counter & I just went gave it. The fellow there asked me to come back in a couple of days, I got it promptly. There were brokers but there are not the only way to get things done. India is improving whether you are aware of it or not.
Far away pastures always looks green, 'cause they are far away. We all are educated, so how many times did a chance occur where we can get the work done by saying no to 'Corruption'. A few months back i got a dedicated internet telephone line for my home. I remember the time, when we got our primary phone line (almost 8 yrs back). The line-men just demanded 500/- so that they'll activate it. This time around things had changed, I had informed my mom to not give any money to them.
As usual they installed the phone & demanded money saying that they have toiled blah blah. My Mom seeing that there were 5 guys, decided to give 50/-. The lead kinda guy for the group said this is not enuf & started arguing. My Mom said 'you can remove the connection & go away. we'll do what needs to be done & no money for u guys'. They said nothing & just went off. Nothing happened, the phone got activated in a couple of hours. I got a Broadband connection from BSNL a few days back. Men came installed went off, they never opened their mouth about money.
India is changing, the problem is not all people are aware of it. Some of us went to Mahabs a few months back, back then my insurance for the vehicle had expired & I never renewed it. We got stopped at a check-post, that guy asked for all our papers. Checked mine & said that my insurance had expired. I said I'll be renewing it in a couple of days. That Guy said fine & just gave me my papers back & we went on with our journey. Not everybody is bad here.
We all talked a lot about Tsunami, but do you know that India denied any international assistance. we took care of the problems we faced during that time. Moreover we sent a fleet of our ships to SriLanka to help people there & India made a financial contribution to the relief efforts there. India was part of the Global Four countries which started relief actions inspite of it being an affected country.
The difference between India & Japan (or US) is simple. You go to your colleagues house, his dad might be a drunkard, his brother might be a thief & so on. But when you are in their home they'll make sure you have a good time there.
The difference, IMHO, whatever may be India's shortcomings It's my Home. We all try to solve the problems in our home (in any little way possible) don't we?
US is a very good place to go, visit & have fun. People are very good at following rules there, the roads are very good, the technology is very good, there are no buffalos in the road.
But you can't stay there forever 'cause you are an alien there. It's not your home, I feel better here in Chennai amongst the people who have fun by running in the middle of the GST Road at the peak hour traffic. I feel better waiting to let a buffalo pass b4 continuing on my bike.
The comparison between India & Somalia is worse, with or without English Indians survive. Just think, how many Indians know English. India is so diversified, you just can't think about having a single common language. That's the reason why there are so many official Languages.
I remember there used to be a mail from Abdul Kalam, that used to circulate between us. He would have stated that Indians going abroad behave very well, which they don't do in India. We don't put wastages in the Road, we don't run across the road when we are abroad but in India are we doing the same ?
Noone needs to know all the IPC's in Indian Law. We all know what's right & what's wrong. Say a police fellow catches you for a mistake that you made & asks you to pay fine. What'll you do? you'll just try to pay him off with a bribe of Rs.50/-, but you won't pay a fine of Rs.100/-. The damn problem is with us, we encourage these things.
I don't know if any of you have been to Sub-Registrar's office. I have been there twice, the first time was almost 4 years agao to get an Encumbrance certificate. Back then you had to fill a form give it to a guy outside (& pay him ofcourse). that Guy will say when to come & collect, he's not a government servant, but a broker kinda fellow. You just can't expect to fill a form & get the work done by yourself back then.
The second time I went was 6 months back, again to get an E.C. This time I just filled the form there was a counter & I just went gave it. The fellow there asked me to come back in a couple of days, I got it promptly. There were brokers but there are not the only way to get things done. India is improving whether you are aware of it or not.
Far away pastures always looks green, 'cause they are far away. We all are educated, so how many times did a chance occur where we can get the work done by saying no to 'Corruption'. A few months back i got a dedicated internet telephone line for my home. I remember the time, when we got our primary phone line (almost 8 yrs back). The line-men just demanded 500/- so that they'll activate it. This time around things had changed, I had informed my mom to not give any money to them.
As usual they installed the phone & demanded money saying that they have toiled blah blah. My Mom seeing that there were 5 guys, decided to give 50/-. The lead kinda guy for the group said this is not enuf & started arguing. My Mom said 'you can remove the connection & go away. we'll do what needs to be done & no money for u guys'. They said nothing & just went off. Nothing happened, the phone got activated in a couple of hours. I got a Broadband connection from BSNL a few days back. Men came installed went off, they never opened their mouth about money.
India is changing, the problem is not all people are aware of it. Some of us went to Mahabs a few months back, back then my insurance for the vehicle had expired & I never renewed it. We got stopped at a check-post, that guy asked for all our papers. Checked mine & said that my insurance had expired. I said I'll be renewing it in a couple of days. That Guy said fine & just gave me my papers back & we went on with our journey. Not everybody is bad here.
We all talked a lot about Tsunami, but do you know that India denied any international assistance. we took care of the problems we faced during that time. Moreover we sent a fleet of our ships to SriLanka to help people there & India made a financial contribution to the relief efforts there. India was part of the Global Four countries which started relief actions inspite of it being an affected country.
The difference between India & Japan (or US) is simple. You go to your colleagues house, his dad might be a drunkard, his brother might be a thief & so on. But when you are in their home they'll make sure you have a good time there.
The difference, IMHO, whatever may be India's shortcomings It's my Home. We all try to solve the problems in our home (in any little way possible) don't we?
Madraasi - The word Explained
It's a good day to start the week. I have lots of work to be done by COB today, but a couple of blogs by one of my friends prompted me to set everything aside.
Now let us see the first probs that Gaurav has mentioned.... Who's really a Madraasi ? Now Since India is a vast country geographically it was know as North, South, East & West India. But the people in all these parts are INDIANS. The people in northern part of India, identify those in their southern counterpart by Madras (The State), In the days of Britishers Madras was the state which comprised the whole of south india back then. In those days it was known as Madras Presidency. Hence the name Madraasi, it's not something to be ashamed off, after all we all are brothers & sisters (except beautiful gals). So basically all varieties of people living here are people who speak a variety of languages, so we classify thoset c groups by their languages.
This all to it, nothing to do with we eating rice & they eating Wheat......
Now to the British policy of Divide & Rule, they just capitalised on the diversity. But then we all united to drive them out, didn't we?
To quote Bharati " Seppu Mozhi Pathinettudaiyaal, Eninum Sinthai Ondrudaiyaal"
Now let us see the first probs that Gaurav has mentioned.... Who's really a Madraasi ? Now Since India is a vast country geographically it was know as North, South, East & West India. But the people in all these parts are INDIANS. The people in northern part of India, identify those in their southern counterpart by Madras (The State), In the days of Britishers Madras was the state which comprised the whole of south india back then. In those days it was known as Madras Presidency. Hence the name Madraasi, it's not something to be ashamed off, after all we all are brothers & sisters (except beautiful gals). So basically all varieties of people living here are people who speak a variety of languages, so we classify thoset c groups by their languages.
This all to it, nothing to do with we eating rice & they eating Wheat......
Now to the British policy of Divide & Rule, they just capitalised on the diversity. But then we all united to drive them out, didn't we?
To quote Bharati " Seppu Mozhi Pathinettudaiyaal, Eninum Sinthai Ondrudaiyaal"
Friday, March 11, 2005
DB2 - Decisions
Couple of years back I was asking my friend some help to learn Java, I got this idea mainly 'cause IBM is a strong supporter of Java (& it's possible to do java programming in mainframes as well). It was a mail conversation & I told him my reason's behind my interest in Java. He just put a reply giving me the right pointers. He also mentioned there's no point in going on learning all the programming languages as there are N possible ways to present the data to the user, but very few ways to manage it.
To quote him "Every fool can Present Data,only few can Manage it.", thats when I really started thinking about the position I (& all similar application programmers) are in. I had got my first IBM DB2 certification the previous month & then I decided what I wanted to be. I got the next certification in another couple of months, now there's just 1 more thing for me to do to move away from application programming. Y'day I started with the preparation for the IBM DB2 DBA cert. I would get a chance to do the right things after that, who knows I might conquer my dream of presenting a paper on DB2 in the prestigious IBM DATA MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE.
To quote him "Every fool can Present Data,only few can Manage it.", thats when I really started thinking about the position I (& all similar application programmers) are in. I had got my first IBM DB2 certification the previous month & then I decided what I wanted to be. I got the next certification in another couple of months, now there's just 1 more thing for me to do to move away from application programming. Y'day I started with the preparation for the IBM DB2 DBA cert. I would get a chance to do the right things after that, who knows I might conquer my dream of presenting a paper on DB2 in the prestigious IBM DATA MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE.
Hindi.........
Today morning Viji had sent a one word reply (sahiii was the word) to one of the (fwded) mails I sent & that started a comical discussion of all our hindi talents...... As Manoj has mentioned, I learnt the hindi that I knew mostly due to watching Hindi movies. I never got the chance to use my hindi properly (other than singing when nobody's around:-)) until we went to Delhi, when my dad got the National Award from Abdul Kalam. We were in Fatehpur Sikhri, when we got swindled something around 1000/- by a old fella (who talked as if he was the direct descendant of Akbar). It was like there's a small tomb of a holy man & it's believed that it's good if offer a cloth in the tomb (u might have seen in movies where they put clothes over the tomb). My sister was busy saying 'achaa', samjaa' to this guy, finally he said take 4 clothes & the price was around 2k.... I got pissed of started my hindi & clearly told him we don't need any (I don't remember the hindi wrods I used).... Now, that guy started begging & I said we'll take 1, that guy said u shud take it as a pair & all kachraa.....
My hindi always starts with "Kyaa Baaisaab", the best comedy was in one of the markets Karolbaarg or somewhere.... we were just going around to get soome presents to friends & I was bargaining with all hindi words I knew "yeh kuch zhyaadha hai", "itna kaon dega" & all :-)
There was another incident on the way to Delhi (from Agra), A guy was sitting beside my dad..... That fella looked like a well educated guy & he started a conversation with my dad in hindi. My dad can understand but not talk, he was answering in English, suddenly that guy asked why r u not replying in hindi..... My dad said "I dunno Hindi" & immediately that guy asked "R u Foreigners?".... It was so comical.....
But It also shows what diversity really is, what India really is, My aim is to see most of the indian landscapes in my lifetime.....
My hindi always starts with "Kyaa Baaisaab", the best comedy was in one of the markets Karolbaarg or somewhere.... we were just going around to get soome presents to friends & I was bargaining with all hindi words I knew "yeh kuch zhyaadha hai", "itna kaon dega" & all :-)
There was another incident on the way to Delhi (from Agra), A guy was sitting beside my dad..... That fella looked like a well educated guy & he started a conversation with my dad in hindi. My dad can understand but not talk, he was answering in English, suddenly that guy asked why r u not replying in hindi..... My dad said "I dunno Hindi" & immediately that guy asked "R u Foreigners?".... It was so comical.....
But It also shows what diversity really is, what India really is, My aim is to see most of the indian landscapes in my lifetime.....
Wednesday, March 09, 2005
BSNL Rocks....
Atlast I got Broadband. I have been longing for this for ages...... There are lots of good things about BSNL's Dataone.
1. I easily clock between 35 - 40 kb/s, which's damn fast compared to dialup
2. The setup is quite simple. u just need an adsl modem & ann ethernet card.
3. IT WORKS OUT OF THE BOX FOR LINUX - This is what swept me off my feet :-)
till june usage is unlimited, I'm planning to make the best of it......
1. I easily clock between 35 - 40 kb/s, which's damn fast compared to dialup
2. The setup is quite simple. u just need an adsl modem & ann ethernet card.
3. IT WORKS OUT OF THE BOX FOR LINUX - This is what swept me off my feet :-)
till june usage is unlimited, I'm planning to make the best of it......
Monday, March 07, 2005
Movie..........
This weekend I saw RAM. My friend & I went to Mayajaal in hope of some movie & there was no movie except this at the time we went. we decided to take the risk & catch the movie. I expected it to be really horrible, but it turned out to be better.
The first half is good & the second is usual masala, tried in a different angle.
Overall the movie is watchable. Raguman (Rahman ?) is very good & watchable. Literally he looks more the hero than Jeeva. Jeeva too has did his homework this time around. Kajala was very very good. I somehow didn't like her in her previous ventures, she looks ravishing in this. Maybe 'cause the usual cinema elements is not present in this.
Old wine in a refreshingly new bottle......
The first half is good & the second is usual masala, tried in a different angle.
Overall the movie is watchable. Raguman (Rahman ?) is very good & watchable. Literally he looks more the hero than Jeeva. Jeeva too has did his homework this time around. Kajala was very very good. I somehow didn't like her in her previous ventures, she looks ravishing in this. Maybe 'cause the usual cinema elements is not present in this.
Old wine in a refreshingly new bottle......
Hoary
This weekend was a pretty good one. I did some useful things, IMO. On friday evening I installed Ubuntu - Hoary, the next release of ubuntu to be released sometime next month. I got the hoary DVD with the current issue of Linux-magazine. Once Installed, I found that the GNOME was as good as it is. There's a new places menu in the Menubar. Ubuntu comes with a clean desktop, with no icons at all. It's really good, I think.
Then with the dial-up I decided to update hoary. There were about 200MB worth of updates to be downloaded. I downloaded some friday night & the rest on saturday night/ sunday daytime. I'm just waiting for my BSNL dataone connection, then atleast I wud have the freedom of broadband.
Then I'm making some progress with the burn library I'm creating in C#, the probs is time. If only I can get a week or 2 of freetime, I can concentrate on that.
Then with the dial-up I decided to update hoary. There were about 200MB worth of updates to be downloaded. I downloaded some friday night & the rest on saturday night/ sunday daytime. I'm just waiting for my BSNL dataone connection, then atleast I wud have the freedom of broadband.
Then I'm making some progress with the burn library I'm creating in C#, the probs is time. If only I can get a week or 2 of freetime, I can concentrate on that.
Friday, March 04, 2005
Freedom Atlast
Despite my busy schedule (too much, right ?:-^)), I learnt about working with Linkedlists in C#. How easy without pointers, it is.
I may have to come to office tomorrow, depends on how well my miraculous program screws things by EOD. Anyway there's a movie in the cards for this weekend, although I haven't decided which to catch. Then should continue my adventures with PS2. My sis is doing great in the co-op mode of Dark Alliance-2. I'm proud to say that I'm pretty horrible when compared to my sis. But then she can't even finish POP, NFSU in her dreams..... My dad has been shouting at both of us for playing games in PS2.
I remember my parents telling me that I shud not play games & concentrate on my studies when I was a kid. But now, the question they pose to us in an amazing oxymoron. The q is "r u 2 still kids playing games?". What am I suppose to answer....
I may have to come to office tomorrow, depends on how well my miraculous program screws things by EOD. Anyway there's a movie in the cards for this weekend, although I haven't decided which to catch. Then should continue my adventures with PS2. My sis is doing great in the co-op mode of Dark Alliance-2. I'm proud to say that I'm pretty horrible when compared to my sis. But then she can't even finish POP, NFSU in her dreams..... My dad has been shouting at both of us for playing games in PS2.
I remember my parents telling me that I shud not play games & concentrate on my studies when I was a kid. But now, the question they pose to us in an amazing oxymoron. The q is "r u 2 still kids playing games?". What am I suppose to answer....
Monday, February 28, 2005
Weekend
This weekend happened to be a full fledged roaming weekend to me. Saw a couple of movies & got a few dvd's. Apart from them I found a few things about programming.
This weekend I had hoped to write the code to blank out a cd-rw using libburn/nautilus-cd-burn. Finally they created all sorts of problems that I had no other option but to spend my time analysing a lot about those 2 libraries. It seems basically nautilus-cd-burn uses cdrecord for burning, it's more like a wrapper library with a good amount of advanced functions. As for Libburn it's the perfect library but the development is very slow. I think a C# wrapper to it would be real nice. Thats would make lots of things easy for me. There are 2 roads b4 me now...... 1. Either use cdrecord (which somehow I'm not comfortable with) 2. Libburn - This lacks a lot of features, but it's a library. To use this, I have to concentrate on creating a wrapper to libburn; to make things simple for me. Before choosing one of the ways, I have decided to understand/learn all theoretical concepts related to optical media burning. Few days of reading is something which lies b4 me.
Meanwhile I have to improve the gui for this. Lots of work to be done......
This weekend I had hoped to write the code to blank out a cd-rw using libburn/nautilus-cd-burn. Finally they created all sorts of problems that I had no other option but to spend my time analysing a lot about those 2 libraries. It seems basically nautilus-cd-burn uses cdrecord for burning, it's more like a wrapper library with a good amount of advanced functions. As for Libburn it's the perfect library but the development is very slow. I think a C# wrapper to it would be real nice. Thats would make lots of things easy for me. There are 2 roads b4 me now...... 1. Either use cdrecord (which somehow I'm not comfortable with) 2. Libburn - This lacks a lot of features, but it's a library. To use this, I have to concentrate on creating a wrapper to libburn; to make things simple for me. Before choosing one of the ways, I have decided to understand/learn all theoretical concepts related to optical media burning. Few days of reading is something which lies b4 me.
Meanwhile I have to improve the gui for this. Lots of work to be done......
Thursday, February 24, 2005
Sleepless Days
After a very long time, I'm back to my routine of sleeping less in the nights & more in the daytime. For almost couple of weeks I'm sleeping at 1.30 - 2.00 in the morning. For the past 3 days the reason I stay awake is valid, IMHO. Y'day I did the samething that I have been doing for the 2 nights b4 that. I redesigned the basic window for my app using GTK.ActionEntry. Man, Gtk is so cool. That to with the C# wrapper it's too simple to code (IMHO). The Window is ready now, I have to think about the rest.
Now, that I'm atleast doing what I intended to, I can tell what this app of mine is gonna do. I'm planning to develop a Gtk based CD burning app. But the probs that I face now is how to go about this. K3B is the best CD curning app available for Linux, IMHO. It uses cdrecord & other cdrtools. I dunno whether to use this or libburn (the development for this is very slow) or libnautilus-burn (this might be a good choice). For now I'm just gonna use libburn to erase the CD, this I hope to finish over the weekend. Then, I have to learn a lot about libnautilus-burn & see if it's fine to use that.
This is the big picture, It's gonna take lots of time & ofcourse, hardwork to get something done. I hope I can get this done.
Now, that I'm atleast doing what I intended to, I can tell what this app of mine is gonna do. I'm planning to develop a Gtk based CD burning app. But the probs that I face now is how to go about this. K3B is the best CD curning app available for Linux, IMHO. It uses cdrecord & other cdrtools. I dunno whether to use this or libburn (the development for this is very slow) or libnautilus-burn (this might be a good choice). For now I'm just gonna use libburn to erase the CD, this I hope to finish over the weekend. Then, I have to learn a lot about libnautilus-burn & see if it's fine to use that.
This is the big picture, It's gonna take lots of time & ofcourse, hardwork to get something done. I hope I can get this done.
Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Thoughts
Being a M/F programmer for sometime, I think I'm not thinking like an App Developer (end user s/w). I sat with Monodevelop & started with the glade file I had designed. Then suddenly, I wanted to do everything from scratch, i.e to not use Glade but to do everything in the code with GTK. I think it was a really gud thing, 'cause I atleast get a fair chance to understand how the widgets r used in GTK. Finally it was 1.30 in the morning, when I finished the coding for the window I had designed earlier using Glade.
Now I have to make a few careful choices on how to go from here. I want the app to be modular, so that it wud be easier to program. That can be achieved, I think, without much probs. The actual problem is that, I have decided what this app shud do.... But the irony is, I dunno how to do :-)
Anyway I'm enjoying C# & GTK...... Maybe my 15 minutes wud come sooner than I presume....
Now I have to make a few careful choices on how to go from here. I want the app to be modular, so that it wud be easier to program. That can be achieved, I think, without much probs. The actual problem is that, I have decided what this app shud do.... But the irony is, I dunno how to do :-)
Anyway I'm enjoying C# & GTK...... Maybe my 15 minutes wud come sooner than I presume....
Tuesday, February 22, 2005
Mono, Glade & Me.....
Atlast I surprised myself. I successfully downloaded Mono 1.1.4 & installed the same on my slack. Then I sat with Glade to design the thing (I don't wanna say what app I'm planning) that I had in mind. That was when I realized that I forgot the little bit about GTK that I had learned a while back. But anyway that's not a probs. I'm sure I can get back to pace in a short while. The good thing is that I have started something seriously. If I can get a basic working model, then I wud feel good.
Y'day was a real bad day, too much of work. Today I plan to give a read thru the GTK+ tutorial that I printed long ago (I have to find out where it is in the mess, that I call my room). Then I question myself what I wanna do ? I'm somehow not content with what I, already, am. Should do something different..... But the question is WHAT?
This weekend was one of those rare ones, when I miss catching a movie. I was feeling tired & desired to fiddle with my comp & get some sleep. But I ended up playing games with PS2.
Incase some of you wonder what Mono/Glade/GTK means....
Mono - An opensource implementation of MS .NET for Linux, OSX (MAC) & Windows. A gem of a programming platform.
GTK+ - It's a toolkit to build anything. GNOME is an amazing example.
Glade - A GUI designer for GTK. Speeds up ur Application Development time.
Y'day was a real bad day, too much of work. Today I plan to give a read thru the GTK+ tutorial that I printed long ago (I have to find out where it is in the mess, that I call my room). Then I question myself what I wanna do ? I'm somehow not content with what I, already, am. Should do something different..... But the question is WHAT?
This weekend was one of those rare ones, when I miss catching a movie. I was feeling tired & desired to fiddle with my comp & get some sleep. But I ended up playing games with PS2.
Incase some of you wonder what Mono/Glade/GTK means....
Mono - An opensource implementation of MS .NET for Linux, OSX (MAC) & Windows. A gem of a programming platform.
GTK+ - It's a toolkit to build anything. GNOME is an amazing example.
Glade - A GUI designer for GTK. Speeds up ur Application Development time.
Friday, February 18, 2005
Today
Today's a really good day. One of my cousin's got married & somehow I feel that Marriages are real tiresome.But anyway due to our traditions & comedies we just can't help it. I finished POP: Sands of Time y'day. Somehow I really find myself loving the game, it's too good.
I talked with Manoj & Vaish y'day to do a raincheck on their marriage life. It seems Manoj is torturing Vaishu within a week of their marriage :-) Juz kidding, they are doing just fine. Some of us from bistece have started a blogspot, ofcourse Its due to a brainstorm from Yours Truly.
I talked with Manoj & Vaish y'day to do a raincheck on their marriage life. It seems Manoj is torturing Vaishu within a week of their marriage :-) Juz kidding, they are doing just fine. Some of us from bistece have started a blogspot, ofcourse Its due to a brainstorm from Yours Truly.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Firefox
If u r reading this in a browser other than Firefox & have never used Firefox then it's time you gave it a try. I have been using Firefox since v0.7 & today it seems there are 25 million souls out there who are using Firefox. It's such an amazing browser, I'm using this at my work place (shhh...).
Try it, I'm sure it would sweep you off your feet.
Try it, I'm sure it would sweep you off your feet.
Past few days
It's really a wonderful place but the weather was more like chennai. I thought it would be a bit cool as it's in the mountains..... For the past few days I have been concentrating on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. It's a really cool game. I have finished more than 90% of it & look forward to wrap it up by this weekend. I should ask someone to get POP:Warrior Within when they come back to India.
My cousin is getting married tomorrow & I'm sure her married life is gonna be great. This weekend I'm planning to sit with mono. I hear from everyone that C# is pretty easy to learn. Then there's the Assembler stuff which I have to concentrate on & ofcourse I shud allocate sometime for PS2. It looks as if 24 hours is just not enuf for me..... :-)
My cousin is getting married tomorrow & I'm sure her married life is gonna be great. This weekend I'm planning to sit with mono. I hear from everyone that C# is pretty easy to learn. Then there's the Assembler stuff which I have to concentrate on & ofcourse I shud allocate sometime for PS2. It looks as if 24 hours is just not enuf for me..... :-)
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
The Kid in me
Atlast I got my PS2 on Monday. It's time for me to act my age & use it extensively. Now the major probs is the daily soaps in the T.V. My mom watches some of them & I hardly get a hour (after a long day at office) to play. I think it's time to get a new T.V (sony, ofcourse). Being a guy who's addicted AOK series, other strategy games & NFS series. I have found my love for action in POP:sands of time. It's an wonderful game, with the nibble prince doing all types of cool movements.
I hope to get a POP: Warrior within soon. Apart from games, I haven't done much this week.
I just formulated a plan for my Mono learning. I'm thinking of developing something (I don't wanna say what as of now) using Mono. The little bit of C I knew during my college days is nowhere to be found in my rusty brain. These days it's just cobol & other M/F stuff which I think about.
I know that C# is very easy & hence I wanna do something productive with it. 'cause being an ardent Linux user, I think it's high time I gave something back. Let us see how my plans work out.
I hope to get a POP: Warrior within soon. Apart from games, I haven't done much this week.
I just formulated a plan for my Mono learning. I'm thinking of developing something (I don't wanna say what as of now) using Mono. The little bit of C I knew during my college days is nowhere to be found in my rusty brain. These days it's just cobol & other M/F stuff which I think about.
I know that C# is very easy & hence I wanna do something productive with it. 'cause being an ardent Linux user, I think it's high time I gave something back. Let us see how my plans work out.
Monday, February 07, 2005
Movies atlast
It's been a long time since I saw some Movie. Mostly 'cause I broke my hand & was handicapped for the past month. But atlast I'm back in action. This Saturday I saw not 1, not 2 but 4 movies.
I saw BLACK on saturday. It really was good. Actually I thought it would be boring, but then it was very very good. It's a film of different genre & a must watch. Rani, Amitabh & the little Rani (I dunno the gals name) were too good. Then I got 3 movies in Landmark. Lakshya, The Village & A Walk in the Clouds. Once I got back home in the evening, I started with The Village & finished with Lakshya (around 3.00 AM, when I hit the sack).
I felt A walk in the clouds was pretty good of the lot. A different Keanu Reeves was there to watch.
I can easily recollect 2 r 3 Indian movies, which pick their basic plot from this movie.
Another weekend has gone & a long week ahead.
I'm looking fwd to the Wayanad trip that we (our college guys) are making this weekend.
I saw BLACK on saturday. It really was good. Actually I thought it would be boring, but then it was very very good. It's a film of different genre & a must watch. Rani, Amitabh & the little Rani (I dunno the gals name) were too good. Then I got 3 movies in Landmark. Lakshya, The Village & A Walk in the Clouds. Once I got back home in the evening, I started with The Village & finished with Lakshya (around 3.00 AM, when I hit the sack).
I felt A walk in the clouds was pretty good of the lot. A different Keanu Reeves was there to watch.
I can easily recollect 2 r 3 Indian movies, which pick their basic plot from this movie.
Another weekend has gone & a long week ahead.
I'm looking fwd to the Wayanad trip that we (our college guys) are making this weekend.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Fun with Ubuntu
If you know me & if you are reading this, then you very well know that I'm in love with Linux. If you know this & know what Linux is, then you may also know that I like GNOME very much.
Ubuntu is a new kid in the block, Even though its new it's based on the big dad DEBIAN. whats in Ubuntu that's not available in the other distros out there ? I dunno. I just know GNOME blends pretty well with Ubuntu. I dunno whether GNOME was made for Ubuntu or Ubuntu was made for Gnome, but they really make a good marriage.
I installed Ubuntu for the first time more than a month back, back then I had a bit of probs. X didn't start automatically & I had to make some changes. It was not a probs for me, As I'm a slack user I usually like the adventure in doing everything by hand. The major app that I missed was KPPP. The only reason why I have KDE in my systems. It's such a wonderful dialup tool.
I just uninstalled Ubuntu without even trying to connect to Internet, using the gnome-network tool (it's a good starter but pales when compared to the functionality offered by KPPP). Yesterday, somehow I got the itch to install Ubuntu again. Installed it & to my surprise X started on its own (dunno how). Then I wanted to browse net using Ubuntu. Tried the Gnome-network tool & failed. My modem is one of those for which you should not wait for the dial tone. this option was missing in Gnome-Network tool. Then I found that Ubuntu installs Wvdial.
I used to use wvdial as my connectivity tool, long back when KPPP hadn't matured. But the funny thing was I forgot the options that shud be used to enable "do not wait for dial tone". Then after some trial & error, my brain started working (after a long time:-^)).
Then came the most surprising part, previously sometime back I had lots of problems trying to connect to net using wvdial in SUSE/SLACK mostly 'cause my ISP (BSNL) has some horrible authentication method instead of VSNL (my previous ISP) & It took me a lot of time & effort to fix this.
But y'day once the wvdial.conf was ready, I just ran wvdial & it got connected happily. It was so good. The only hindrance in me using Ubuntu was down. Then I opened the popular (not popular among Slackies) Synaptic, it had a neat interface & was pretty good. That was basically what I accomplished y'day.
Am I gonna replace my Slack with Ubuntu ? NO. But Ubuntu is gonna be my secondary OS & maybe in time Ubuntu might become my primary os, provided it doesn't succumb under the pressure I give to it :-^)
Ubuntu has impressed me so much, that I have downloaded the y'days ISO (development ISO). let us see how it fares.
Ubuntu is a new kid in the block, Even though its new it's based on the big dad DEBIAN. whats in Ubuntu that's not available in the other distros out there ? I dunno. I just know GNOME blends pretty well with Ubuntu. I dunno whether GNOME was made for Ubuntu or Ubuntu was made for Gnome, but they really make a good marriage.
I installed Ubuntu for the first time more than a month back, back then I had a bit of probs. X didn't start automatically & I had to make some changes. It was not a probs for me, As I'm a slack user I usually like the adventure in doing everything by hand. The major app that I missed was KPPP. The only reason why I have KDE in my systems. It's such a wonderful dialup tool.
I just uninstalled Ubuntu without even trying to connect to Internet, using the gnome-network tool (it's a good starter but pales when compared to the functionality offered by KPPP). Yesterday, somehow I got the itch to install Ubuntu again. Installed it & to my surprise X started on its own (dunno how). Then I wanted to browse net using Ubuntu. Tried the Gnome-network tool & failed. My modem is one of those for which you should not wait for the dial tone. this option was missing in Gnome-Network tool. Then I found that Ubuntu installs Wvdial.
I used to use wvdial as my connectivity tool, long back when KPPP hadn't matured. But the funny thing was I forgot the options that shud be used to enable "do not wait for dial tone". Then after some trial & error, my brain started working (after a long time:-^)).
Then came the most surprising part, previously sometime back I had lots of problems trying to connect to net using wvdial in SUSE/SLACK mostly 'cause my ISP (BSNL) has some horrible authentication method instead of VSNL (my previous ISP) & It took me a lot of time & effort to fix this.
But y'day once the wvdial.conf was ready, I just ran wvdial & it got connected happily. It was so good. The only hindrance in me using Ubuntu was down. Then I opened the popular (not popular among Slackies) Synaptic, it had a neat interface & was pretty good. That was basically what I accomplished y'day.
Am I gonna replace my Slack with Ubuntu ? NO. But Ubuntu is gonna be my secondary OS & maybe in time Ubuntu might become my primary os, provided it doesn't succumb under the pressure I give to it :-^)
Ubuntu has impressed me so much, that I have downloaded the y'days ISO (development ISO). let us see how it fares.
Thursday, February 03, 2005
Long way from 8085
During my college days there was this 8085/86 Assembler programming lab for a semester. It happened to be the only Lab which I really hated partly 'cause of Assembler & mostly 'cause of my Prof who handled the lab.
She was pretty brainy but considered that the marks that we get in exams reflect our intelligence. So arrogant & ignorant she was. I told her openly once, that she's wrong in thinking like that.
'Cause history says Einstein was a poor student during his school days.
I'm not implying that I'm Einstein :-^), but I ,certainly, am not what she thought I wud be.
I'm currently learning Assembler/370 Programming. It's a bit tough, but then what's easy in life ?
My plans for Mono haven't changed, I'm unable to find time due to this new ASM requirement.
She was pretty brainy but considered that the marks that we get in exams reflect our intelligence. So arrogant & ignorant she was. I told her openly once, that she's wrong in thinking like that.
'Cause history says Einstein was a poor student during his school days.
I'm not implying that I'm Einstein :-^), but I ,certainly, am not what she thought I wud be.
I'm currently learning Assembler/370 Programming. It's a bit tough, but then what's easy in life ?
My plans for Mono haven't changed, I'm unable to find time due to this new ASM requirement.
Tuesday, February 01, 2005
Gud news
I should have posted this y'day, but then y'day was a busy day (after how long?).
Couple of my college friends, Manoj & Vaishu got married. It was really good to be there, few of us went in the morning to the marriage & it was so much fun. I miss the college days, when I was the perfect example for being irresponsible :-^)
I feel really sleepy now & am looking forward to go home & hit the sack. I hope to start with Mono sometime this week. (maybe today?). The weekend is so far away:-( hope time runs away fastly....
Couple of my college friends, Manoj & Vaishu got married. It was really good to be there, few of us went in the morning to the marriage & it was so much fun. I miss the college days, when I was the perfect example for being irresponsible :-^)
I feel really sleepy now & am looking forward to go home & hit the sack. I hope to start with Mono sometime this week. (maybe today?). The weekend is so far away:-( hope time runs away fastly....
Saturday, January 29, 2005
Plans
I removed the bandages in my Left hand today & I'm feeling much better. Hopefully I shud be alright in a couple of weeks.
I'm thinking about learning C#. The only reason I'm planning to do this is, somehow I like Mono & wanna use it extensively. The question is how to kick off my laziness ? I just dunno :-)
Maybe I'll get lucky :-^)
I'm thinking about learning C#. The only reason I'm planning to do this is, somehow I like Mono & wanna use it extensively. The question is how to kick off my laziness ? I just dunno :-)
Maybe I'll get lucky :-^)
Friday, January 28, 2005
First Blog
I created this blog quite sometime back, but being the lazy guy (that I really am) I decided to post something (atleast) today.
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