Got up at 9am, and when I get online, I am welcomed by : — sush: you? sush: :O sush: awake? kalyan: yeah its me sush: what happened? sush: how come? sush: go back to sleep — pman: dude are you unwell. or its just sunday nite — vineeth: thot you were awake and my machinez acting weird — What ?? None of you have seen me up at this time ??
Earlier this week, there was a power surge and my place and my machine and my sweet old hub got fried. Lucky replacing the SMPS in the box took care of it. But don’t know about my hub yet. Its a 7 year old , 16 port hub which me and all my friends have been using though out the college days. So got frustrated to know , I could not get my laptop onto the home network. Luckily I borrowed the crimping tool from a friend and googled for cross-over crimping tutorial. After 1 hour of playing with my…
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.user/117910 Someone has cracked all the servers of the Debian Project. There has been a severe security mishap and guys should uninstall all stuff downloaded and installed in the past 2 days. Please do not apt-get anything right now! Please wait till an `official’ release happens! Wonder how true this bit of information is. If I were you I would not touch apt-get till this mess is sorted out. btw how many of the LUG oldies remember ragOO ? 😉
Today I had my pre-joining medical checkup. Coz of some legal issue, I am being rehired into the company and I have to go through the medical checkup for that. Most of the tests were ok, expect for the stress test. Not because it was stressful, but coz they had to stick these sensors on my chest for which I had to shave off my chest hair. Since I did not do it before I got there, a guy at the hospital did it for me. And boy it was a mistake. Not only did he shave it badly, I…
I made my first $1000 online purchase from Amazon this morning. Finally settled for the Nikon CoolPix 5700 instead of the Canon EOS 300D. Since I can’t ship it to India, I shipped it to Jeremy‘s () place. He agreed to get it for me under the condition that I let him use it while he is in India :p And now for the tough path : the 3 week wait
Went to watch the Aussie vs India cricket match today(along with 45 others at work wearing a “Do you Yahoo?” and “go India” shirt). Well.. what can I say ? though India lost, had amazing fun. I never though I would end up spending the whole day there without getting bored. The only issue was, all mobile phones died there ( maybe they had some jammer ?). Of all the days, shit happened at work and everyone was trying to reach me. And ofcourse at the place where we were sitting, it was raining bird shit all the time. The…
After waiting for 3 months, today I finally nuked the hard disk on my laptop and installed Linux. It was not too much pain, though am sitting and doing all the drivers and windows updates right now. Fedura so far looks good. I am using linux after almost a year ( have a machine with RH8 at home doing nothing) . Lately I’ve been only on FreeBSD and windows. But fedura does not have all my fav stuff : windowmaker, pine , rxvt 🙁 Oh well. update (2:51am): windows update still going on.. looks like it will take all night
khorgath and gromhellscream managed to get tickets for tomorrow’s Matrix revolutions 1st day 1st show at the Multiplex. Finally this time I don’t have to stay away from all the blogs where matrix theories were discussed last time around.( Apparently this is the 1st time in history, a movie is being simultaneously being released both in the US and India at the same time ) and looks like a lot of LJ’ers are coming there too. *Good Stuff*
I should never try to fix my sleeping cycle. Last night I slept at 12 and thought I’d start my monday early by reaching work before lunch etc. Got up at 10 this morning and I’ve been feeling feverish and drowsy ( feels like I’ve slept only few hours ) since then. Got ready and was about to put on my socks on and I just crashed into the sofa and went of to sleep. Now its close to 2 and am still feeling too sick to get to work. With monday starting out like this, Its going to be…
Was going home this morning at 5am ,with my new tripod and my friends (sagarika, thanks for letting me borrow it) new Canon S400 camera. Could not resist the dark patch on airport-kormangala road. Here’s the outcome with the long-exposure photographs I took this morning Rest of the pics here