tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39185472007-08-14T13:20:03.322-07:00aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1068237026310363522003-11-07T12:30:00.000-08:002005-07-08T07:08:24.713-07:00

Ok, folks, end of blogger for me! Not the end of blogging though. I've moved over my blog to http://sood.net.in/journal. All the old blogger posts have been migrated too. Also put up a wiki at sood.net.in. Go ahead, visit and update bookmarks :) See ya all there!

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1068099460741597062003-11-05T22:17:00.000-08:002003-11-05T22:17:58.780-08:00

Managed to reach EBG's end. Feels so good :-D

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hurray! Finally figured out how to upload stuff to my website's ftp server from behind the corporate firewall. All thanx to TransConnect. So i fix the links in the writings section, update the bookmarks and contacs, fix some speliling mistakes and all that. Not a good idea to post a link here, those in the know will know where to look :-) And I rented some hosting space from b-one. On

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My manager just stopped by for a talk sometime ago (after I had written the last blog entry). He was pretty concerned over /me raising issues of comp off in front of other people, which [he said] could give rise to such demands in the whole team. He mentioned the amount of time I put in office and work (or used to, till last month: Once you get a reputation of staying a lot at work you don't

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Management wants us (me and two other workers) to work over this weekend to finish a project. When I raised the issue of Comp Off (compensatory off) during some time when the work load is light I got an evasive answer which turned out to be a 'No'. I've been pretty angry at this. With me putting in extra effort at what I see as a management problem (get this product out of the door by this

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hiya! I'm almost towards the end of EGB (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid). I've immensely enjoyed reading the book, even though I did gloss over the parts where it required me to do some math. I guess I'd be coming back to it sometime again and finishing all the exercises and puzzles. Which is what I did with The Emperor's New Mind. Tried reading it twice in college, but got

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These days I'm reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, an amazing book about almost everything. It is certainly turning my head into mush, forcing me to think about a lot of things which I had stopped thinking about a long time ago. Since childhood. The review mentions "some compared reading it to giving birth" . This is true. The other book I'm messing around with is

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The infuriating thing about an individual way of life:: People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.                    --Nietzsche I've noticed this fact all my life. The moment you do something very individualistic, people get very

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Surpirisngly life just got cooler. As in I stopped working in this emergency mode I always used to. All my life I've had this two modes of working: Chill Out Mode:: Do nothing, chill out, doze off, read interesting stuff and what not Emergency Mode:: Shit! The project's due, and we're out of time; hack! hack! hack! Which, superflous to say, is an extremely stupid way to manage one's

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http://photos.yahoo.com/vaishalee_a has rest of my pics under "my experiences..." folder...

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Got this image, check it out (from http://www.grassouille.org/emacs/index.en.html) Exactly my feeling too! :-D

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062975664400315612003-09-07T16:01:00.000-07:002003-09-28T14:18:36.830-07:00

It is 4 am here in office and the Dell Inspiron 8500 is fully functional with Debian/unstable at last. The only thing not working was the ACPI support; the laptop always ran on full speed and full power, hence getting very hot. Detailing the stuff I had to do here so I (and possibly others) might benefit in the future again: Get the kernel-source-2.4.20 ACPI patched kernel from http:/

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062683247953365812003-09-04T06:47:00.000-07:002003-09-28T14:20:02.533-07:00

The pics have arrived! The pics have arrived! You can see them at Yahoo photos in the folder `Durgam Lake'.

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I missed writing about my trip to bangalore. I went there some 2 weeks ago, and had a blast. After a long long time I took a day [friday] off, and caught a bus on thursday evening. Presto! On Friday morning I reach bangalore. Roshan ("Papa Rosh" aka OCR), being the kind soul he is, came to pick me up from the Bus stand which is almost like 15-20 kms from where they live. Having arrived at

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062433689022146662003-09-01T09:28:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:31:05.276-07:00

My friend V has gone off to bangalore for 4 months. And I'm already missing her. It is fun talking to her, and having verbal fights with her (she does have a sharp tongue ;-) ). Though she cribs like hell about everything when she is in the mood (I'm guilty of that too, but she is incredible: I never knew someone could crib so much!) She's left today morning. On sunday she wanted to take

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Finally I got debian up and running. I've been working on GNU/Linux for so long that I've forgotten how to deal with Windows. The most basic, sureshot, nuke-'em kind of solution: Reinstall! I reinstall XP. Put in the gateway address, the IP address, subnet mask, DNS IPs and viola! It Just Works (TM). So I hastily get Mozilla-Firebird for Windows (can't get no satisfaction from IE6), and

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The damn thing installed after an hour and now it refuses to recogonize my DVD/CD-ROM drive. So I'm back to installing XP Home. For all practical purposes it turns my Rs 1 lakh laptop into a piece of junk. Lord knows what I'll do if this doesnt' work...

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062340055308252802003-08-31T07:27:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:29:41.966-07:00

Yay! I finally became a FSF Associate member. Member #1541. Forked $120 for it though, which means quite a significant sum in Indian Rupees. But WTF, I owe FSF the ca$h, much much more than that infact. So I can get mail as: aaditya at member dot fsf dot org, which is awesome :-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062339761119833982003-08-31T07:22:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:30:10.000-07:00

I've been trying to get the Dell laptop to network under windows XP. So far it has proved to be a losing battle. The version of XP I got is XP Home. Which does not support Windows domain controllers. Or more than 5 computers on the same network. And when I try to set up good ol' TCP/IP networking (an IP, subnet, Gateway address) it doesn't work. Arghhhhh... Finally I'm trying to get

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Finally the long held dream of a notebook pc got fulfilled. And my dream was to say no to Microsoft EULA and to have only Free Software on this machine. Which is a shattered dream... I got this Dell Inspiron 8500. The machine is bigger and heavier than normal laptops. But a great 15.4 inch screen :-) It got delivered to a friend's place in Bangalore, the taxes being lower there. So I head

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I've been getting worked up about a policy my office has: I sit on the 4th floor. Whenever there is a mail/courier for me which requires my signature (which is, almost all mail, since my cell service provider is paranoid that I might not get my bill (heaven forbid!), so they *have* to courier it ofcourse. Ditto for every other service I subscribe for) I get a call from the 3rd floor

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1059605112248934242003-07-30T15:45:00.000-07:002003-07-30T15:45:52.070-07:00

After reading my Saturday post, my dad called me up. PRetty concerned about my state of mind, and the lack of a laptop in my life ;) So he persuaded me to get a laptop. He's paying. I ordered this Dell Inspiron 8500. More than 1 lakh. Which just goes to show that writing down your feelings does help ;)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1058629052840197692003-07-19T08:37:00.000-07:002003-07-19T08:38:32.886-07:00

Slept over in the office. Too drowsy I guess. And couldn't get mucho done either. Hmmm. That calls for some quick hacking ;-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1058564153668539082003-07-18T14:35:00.000-07:002003-07-23T23:44:21.726-07:00

Is it possible for one to grow totally detached from the work they do? I seem to have. It just doesn't matter anymore what I do. Almost like an automaton. There seem to be just two goals now: get a laptop and get out of here. The latter is being held over due to the former. I've more or less forgotten about anything else. I just keep working dumbly for the laptop and watch my bank balance

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1058556749546617912003-07-18T12:32:00.000-07:002003-07-18T14:36:37.460-07:00

Drunk! Had dinner with a friend and then we went out for some beers. And headed back to office. Irresponsible I know... So I'm technically a bit on the woozy side. Plus V has gone out of town to her folks for a few days; I feel lonely. Not mucho else...

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