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Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Stupid TATA Guys

Normally I am a very calm person but this time I just could not take it. These TATA Indicom customer care guys are simply ass-wholes.

I could not connect to the internet for the last 3 days, i.e., my pages were not loading but I got connected (ping was okay)... thus it was awfully slow. I cleared my cache, tried Midori, tried Ephiphany, but all in vain. Thus I phoned 121, the TATA Indicom customer care. hey told me to clear my cache! I said I already did that and I was using Linux. Now this guy tell me to goto "My Computer"... imagine my angst! I kept still. He continues, and tells me to goto properties, and some blah-blah later, he tells me my bit-rate should be set at 115200, he knew very well I was doing well only 2 days ago. Yet, he suggests me the same. I tell him, what to do in case it does not work out that way. He tells me to call again. So I go ahead and check my baud-rate from /etc/wvdial.conf. It was 115200 all right.

I call again.

Sunday, February 8, 2009

The limits of Creativity

I had been to Kshitij recently, a techno-management event at IIT-Kharagpur. And I was exposed to the world! Yes... I lost both events I participated in but have I really?

Finalist in coding and Software Development. But a Loser. Wrong. A winner. Why? Well because I could learn even more that the world is an ocean, and I am a molecule of H2O.

My Software ranked after 6 others... but there were a few ties at the top. So what do I for next year? Oh... something on Linux. No MORE of that crappy OS again! But maybe I'll load it up on QEMU and run Windows on Ubuntu! Yes!

I will punch my current software into an installer and make a process explorer. And down the line I'm sure I'll come up with something more.

But I look forward. Next up is Srijan (of JU) and WILL rock it. But tomorrow we have Bitwise (!! IIT again!!)... that's something I'm desperate to do well at... Let's see.

Well... I'll leave this minimalistic blog and quit now... it's pretty late and I'm hungry!

Monday, January 19, 2009

Software Dreams

From London Dreams to Slumdog Millionaire, A.R.Rahman has really inspired me. From his music to an extent but also about what is music is really about... it's about being original.

He is genuine.

Being selected in the top 17 of Khitij '09 Software Development contest with an ignored software says that I can. I will keep saying that. I can. But then I have to do it!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Exams from tomorrorow

and I am here!
Just opened up an IBM and site and well in my mind hoping that sometime in the future I could join the company. Okay dreams apart...
I just wrote my proc-list viewer for Windows in VC++ (what else?)... I worked around the problems of last time and it's working fine! I am also getting the modules loaded... but some functions need to be added... like kill task and reading the process handles (how?)... also perhaps information about it's windows (if present) and threads... but not now! Exams are TOP priority...
I just installed MANDRIVA and it didn't quite live up to it's reputation of being the easiest Desktop Linux distro around... perhaps I just don't like KDE much... but yeah some parts were fine...
well as of now... lets see tha IBM site and Khitij.. what's going on there?
Bye for now.