All of us have just about had it with Microsoft. Their products suck, period. For our project, we have been trying to install SQL Server, Sharepoint, all M$ s/w. But there is some problem with our boxes cos they just do not want to communicate with each other. It keeps giving some or the other problem due to which we were not able to access each other across.
The guy in the company who was helping us was pretty frustrated too cos he himself with all his experience could not figure out what the problem was. It wasn’t his fault either. It was just that we were/are using M$ products :-(
However, he finally managed to make them work and communicate across and we got the sharepoint server installation done too. Now we need to get to the meat of the project and get done with it. The deadline approaches at a fast pace :-(
I came across this article today which overviews Google Inc. practices and their motives. It is just some comments and views by someone whom I don’t know but agree quite a bit.
An interesting and a pretty good read.
This is one of the most awesome pranks that I have ever played on anyone.
I recently changed my Y! id to a new one but still retain the existing one. Now the prank idea came when I was chatting with a friend of mine on Y! and I rememberd a utility which allows me to start two instances of Y! which is normally not possible.
Now I started chatting with her through both the ids pretending in the old Id to be me and denying that it was me who was using that Id. I pretended that it must have been hijacked since I was not using it anymore. What made it even more plausible was that she did not know about the hack which allows multiple instances of Y!. I said check for yourself and see if you can indeed start the multiple instances.
We had the college fest today. It started of quite well in my view. Decent crowd, a local RJ, Darius to judge some events and the usual bustle associated with a fest. I headed directly for the comp labs where the Gaming event, my favorite ;-) was to be held. The set up was not complete as the games for the event were framing a bit. I helped for a bit, not really interested much in it tho since I was the one who had organised it earlier and wanted to let this year’s organiser, Vinod, a friend of mine do it himself. But I did tell him some ways to improve the performance and then soon left to check out the other events and happenings.
Last night was a bad one. It had rained earlier in the evening and in India, power cuts and rain come side by side. So as usual, late in the night, the power failed. But unfotunately for a family which lives on the floor above ours, they got stuck inside the elevator which stopped between the floors. And the worst part is that they had a small kid with them in the darkness which made the situation even more worse.
They sounded the alarm which I heard but did not respond to since the alarm has a history of souding without a cause. But I got a little alarmed when he banged the elevator entrance and I realized it was not a false alarm but an actual emergency. I tried opening the door by force but the damn thing wouldn’t open. Then I ran to the security and got them to get the manual opener and force the door open.
Man that was a bad situation for the family and they were very relieved to be out. I hope the management does something about the backup power. :-(
I have had it with girls. This time it is them who do not seem to understand me. Well its like this. I am a guy who usually pulls his friends legs, irrespective of who it is. But I also usually make it a point that I tell ppl that I am usually joking unless I explicitly say I am serious.
Now recently I was on chat with a girl over IM and was just joking as usual. I even made it a point that I used all sorts of smileys to ensure it conveys I was joking. It seems she still took offence and has been frosty since.
And this is not the first time. Makes me think that it must be me who is doing something wrong. Well I am just about ready to dump it all and block all the girls over IM. And I have taken a new resolution to never try and be funny with girls again if it makes any difference to anyone reading this :-(
My mom who had been out of station for the past month is finally back. Yippee.. I missed her :-)
The house will be more welcoming now that she is back.
One thing that I have noticed with a lot of girls whom I know and have spoken to over the phone or chatted over IM is that they all use a common phrase “so what else” to continue a conversation. Personally I find this phrase very very irritating. It almost makes me want to clam up. My reasoning is this – If I have something else to tell I will say it out. Do not try to continue the conversation by saying that.
Now guys, it is different. If two guys are speaking or chatting, it is limited to how much is to be spoken or conveyed and once done will be the end of the conversation. Both will go silent or disconnect as the case may be. It is such a simple scheme and easy to manage. With girls you would have come up with filler conversation so as not to seem rude.
Another of life’s little mysteries :-D
Thus speaketh