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2000 - 2007 A journey from the phase of lucks to phase of failures ... I am not sure if I could add this year 2007 to the phase of failures ... 2000 has been really lucky year for me, I almost outperformed my expectations in all the 3 goals I wanted to reach to ... 2001-2005 was just joyful phase where I had my ups and downs, beaten up expected failures and unwanted luck ... 2006 I was back to square one, loosing all I got in luck and even that I got by little hardwork ... Atlast, I am now back in my rebuilding phase in 2007, hoping not too get carried away by the luck and not to stop putting my hardwork at halt ... But one thing that always I had in my mind was the 'HOPE', that I can get back even if I am at bottom of the well (or) if I am 5-19 in the table tennis game. Uday this is a warning for you ;) Hope this 'HOPE' is always with me :)

Is it really necessary to get AAA??? I am not really sure whether it makes any sense of getting AAAs? My friends made fool of me when they knew that I got BCC, may be everyone in this world thinks that marks on the sheet are more important than other things in the world ... Every semester or year, when I am studying I put up some targets myself, not really related to the technical stuff, more of presentation or other skills. I have been utterly failing from few years and the same happened with the grades B,C,C in this Spring 2007 ... Should I leave the targets and go ahead with new ??? Not really, C,C in two subjects hmm, I will have to retake the two subjects again. This remembers me of favorite quote from my father's prayer in the morning ... Arise, Awake and Stop not till the goal is reached ... - Swami Vivekananda

Worry ?:? May 6th 2007 I have never worried much about the exams before ... May be because I have never aimed for something from the exams ... May 6th having two exams and a shift in subway, I was rather much worried :?: Suddenly where did this worry attack me from ... The worry came from a burn on 4 fingers of my hand ... But atlast with handful of bandages from my friends, I did write my exams well and done the shift at subway too ... Hopefully I will get an A ... Keep peeking friends, I will keep updating more worries too ;)

Installing Bochs/Unix_v6 on your 32-bit Linux machine Start of with downloading the latest bochs source from this site . I have downloaded this snapshot. Extract to a folder tar -zxvf bochs-20070421.tar.gz Change to the bochs extracted folder cd bochs-20070421 Configure the bochs to be built in Debug mode ./configure --enable-debugger --enable-disasm Check that debugger flags are enabled config.h #define BX_DEBUGGER 1 #define BX_DISASM 1 Compile the bochs in debugger mode gmake Install the bochs in debugger mode make install Bochs is all set to run in the DEBUG Mode :) What next, I need OS for Boch machine, I have tried Linux, Windows, Mac OS all these are stupid they dint work on my Bochs machine, so I took the simple and the best OS Unix v6 from one of the google code. Building the Unix v6 OS for Bochs machine Get the Unix v6 source from this googlecode project svn checkout http://iitcs450.googlecode.com/svn/lab1/trunk/ lab1 change to the source directory cd lab1 Build the kernel and...

Syntax vs Logic Just got an idea while preparing for interview ... Does the knowledge in a syntax/grammar for a programming language really beat the logical knowledge. I was preparing for lab interview who has asked for php, perl, cgi, bash, html, sql etc ... skillset. I knew syntax only for C language, no other language. Will I be able to convince the interviewer is the question, with my logical knowledge ? First round of interview seems to have gone thru, will see what happen with the rest? Will wait n see and for the remaining interview rounds and let you know.

KISS &#153 In fact everyone likes a KISS :) ... So atlast I have found some platform to write about a KISS ... From from previous experiences and the small projects I have done, this is the best working principle I have found so faar ... "Keep It Sweet and Simple" or "Keep It Simple and Stupid" Many ways that we think become complex as we go on in the process of solving the problems that come in this real world. But my experience has really thought me that the real solutions become simpler and stupidish as we try out all complex possibilities and find that the solution is very simple compared to all the complex solutions tried out so far. This reminds me of my first lesson in C++ way back 5 years, where you divide a huge problem into 100's of smaller tasks that appears to be simpler and easier to understand and solve. May be my lifetime favorite C is moving to C++ while trying to solve these complex real world problems. I dont want to make this small post mo...

I am not a real movie buff to criticize the movies ... Its just my view :o The first impression I got after seeing Stalin was a cinema with good message and spices added to make it commercially viable. But after seeing "Pay it forward ... ", I felt the Indian remakes really missing the reality part of the message. While the english version tries to show that good deeds are very hard to be carried on (being very closer to reality), telugu version simply puts it off to say "Nothing is impossible". Instead of putting a fight One vs Thousand rowdies in Stalin, they should have shown how the good deeds would have tried to bring a change in the minds of the worst people. I feel that the idea of "Nothing is impossible" is putting a wrong notion in the minds of the mass audience (the illiterates), forcing them to take dangerous steps with out proper thought into it. I would prefer a more real and practical oriented message would bring in a change in the thinking ...