Posts by: Kalyan Varma
Weekend @ Techniche
Spent the whole of yesterday and daybefore at PESIT. Since this was purely a tech fest, The janta was quite less. Was blown away by JD’s talk on robotics and interfacing on sat. I wonder why he is not talking at LB/2002. I participated in the IT Quiz yesterday, and believe it or not, I screwed it all up on a linux question. If not for that, I could have come 2nd. Ended up in 4th place ( the Q was ” What does run level 2 in linux do ?”). Was seriously disappointed with that , whole of yesterday….
Was trying to evaluate some products from RSA yesterday. I felt like kicking the chap when he said ‘The RSA secureID is one of its kind. Its a very simple mechanism but works very well. We are the only ones who have this kind of solution in the world. The reason we are the only ones [at this point he is feeling very proud] is because we own the patent on this mechanism’ Sheesh, bye bye RSA, I am going for crypto cards :p
Last 5 days… the long diwali weekend was one of my best diwali till date and also few of the most memorable moments of my life. As you might have guessed already, I spent most of the weekend with noelladsa. Met up with her early friday, and we decided to have lunch at her place. Had some yummy fish curry and tons of chocolets. Spent rest of the afternoon together and headed out to IBAR in the night. Had an amazing time there. Managed to get noel drunk. more details of that day here . Met up with her a…
Back on Linux
Finally got around to install Red Hat 8 on my home machine over the weekend. All I can say is it Rulez. The new UI is simple amazing, ( ofcourse I got bored with it soon and shifted back to WM). I find some of the old tools missing. But heck. The new UI is a cross breed between WinXP and Mac OSX. They got all the blue from from Mac. The highlight of the whole install was my dad shifting to linux. He never liked linux , and always would boot to windows. ( He mostly works with MS…
Decided to go check out the *infamous* IT.COM. To put it plain and simple, it SUCKED. Its was very small compared to previous years, the people in the booths dont know anything and there were hardly anyone talking to you there. Worse, they dont even have the booth babes. Finished the whole thing in less then half hour and came out. Weekend looks very promising… damn it.. its still 2 days away. Came across this. Am totally blown away the stuff thats coming up. Intend to participate in few of the events. Great job on the site guys. It looks…
Back on LJ
The last couple of days have been very busy. Time to get back to LJ. Been to the *famous* Leela palace today for lunch. Must say the place was pretty impressive. From the outside, it looks like shit, but the inside is really amazing. Ofcourse amazing food to add to that. My body still feels heavy with the food and the desert. Rest of the day was pretty much lazing around at work. Till evening.. I was wondering what I should do with the long weekend that was coming up. Well… looks like it will be very exciting. Will post…