I have moved.....

I have moved my blog from blogger to wordpress and to my own domain, www.adityashevade.com.

Please click on the link, if your browser does not automatically redirect you.

Thank you,

Aditya Shevade

No time no time....

This has been very bad week for me in terms of finding free time. I think it's the first time since last 2 months or so that I have failed to update the blog for a week.

Not much time right now also. Got to study. Exams.

Aditya

Finally stage one passed....

I am very happy that my oral exams are finally over... well the internals are. The externals will begin from the 18th and go on till the 26th.

Sorry people. Not enough time to update the blog.

Keep in touch...

Aditya Shevade

Oral exams, Practical exams... submissions.... No time to wrote blog....

Well the title says it all. I have got practical and oral exams from today till 20th. So I may not be able to update the blog with the same frequency as was in the last month. I am not even able to finish the website of mine. And it is getting delayed day by day. Please, all of my loyal readers, don't stop reading....

Just as a sneak peak, I have to design and code a library management program in C++. And that is consuming most of my time on the computer.

I will still try to write a review about openSUSE desktop experience with Gnome tomorrow if I get free time, but that seems highly unlikely. Please be patient. I will be back. B-)

Aditya Shevade

OpenSuSE 10.3 - Review - Part 1 - Installation...

Finally I did download the DVD of OpenSuSE 10.3 and installed it on my computer. The configuration of the test machine was :-

• HP nx 6110 laptop
• 512MB RAM (DDR)
• Intel Pentium M (centrino) 1.6Ghz processor
• 2MB L2 cache memory.

The DVD booted into a very cool and refreshing looking welcome screen. Then I began the installation. The DVD however had a default video resolution of 800X600. My screen has 1024X768 resolution. And because of this, I was not able to see the installer of SuSE, YaST. I rebooted and selected the video mode to 1024X768 and it worked seamlessly.

Then I was asked some typical language selection questions and stuff. Then I was surprised to see that I was able to add the OSS and NON-OSS repositories before the start of the installation. I clicked the option to add the repositories. Then I was asked to configure the networking. The network manager detected both the wireless and lan cards on the laptop, but showed them as disconnected from the motherboard. It warned me not to proceed. But I knew that the cards were connected and I proceeded. And it worked fine again.

The next step was partitioning and software selection. The default partitioner scheme was good for me. Use the existing Linux partitions (root and home for SuSE 10.2) after formatting and then mount windows partition. I selected some additional software from the manager and proceeded to install.

The installation went pretty smooth. I was asked to chose a desktop environment. I selected gnome as I prefer it over KDE. But I am going to get KDE 4 once it's available. Another addition is XFCE is on the DVD. No problems encountered. The additional packages from the repositories were downloaded and installed. An addition made is that, you can view the release notes while the system is being installed. An upgrade from previous version.

Then the user configuration and root password setting was done. After that I was asked to configure networking and online update configuration. As the networking was already done for adding repositories, the installer just checked if I was still connected to net by downloading the release notes. Then the online update repository was added and I proceeded with the update.

After that the system configuration screen greeted me. Bluetooth was disabled. When I clicked on enable. The installer said that I did not have some essential S/W for Bluetooth. And that the installer will have to install the S/W. I clicked on install and the installer installed the S/W. One thing to note here is that, the S/W was not on the DVD but on the repositories. And so I dreaded the parsing of files as in 10.2 version of SuSE. But, as promised by the team of SuSE, the parsing of files is no longer required.

The package manager is improved a lot. It took literally 30 seconds to find the S/W on the repository and download it (I have 256kbps connection and in the 10.2 version, it used to take about a minute and half).

After that, I was shown the release notes and the the new system booted. The visual effects are great. Some new additions have been made. But for that stay tuned till the next part, Desktop - First look is published.
Total points for the installer :- 9/10

Pros :-

1. The installer is quick.
2. User friendly.
3. New features like adding repositories are very good.
4. The ability to download additional S/W after installation, for system configuration is very good.

Cons :-

1. The H/W detection is still not very good.
2. Too many options can confuse new users. A newbie friendly installation should be provided.

Screenshots :-

( I was not able to take screenshots during the installation process. Once I get them, I will put them here).
(you can enjoy the screenshots of the distribution on the official openSUSE website).

Aditya Shevade

I am ill.....

Hey all of you 'readers of my blog' (thought that it might look/read good) out there.... I am ill. Suffering from cold, cough and a little fever.

That is why, I won't be able to post much soon. Seeya when I get better. Till then, enjoy the earlier posts of mine.

Aditya Shevade

Beware Windows Vista here comes Linux Vixta

All you windows lovers out there... especially those who are drooling over Vista and it's eye candy. Linux has come up with a bang. Presenting, Linux VIXTA.

A clone of Windows Vista, but much more stable and FREE.

Screenshots :-











More Screenshots...

Download Link :-

Download here...

Aditya Shevade

OpenSuSE 10.3 released......

Download it here

Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: A Plethora of Improvements

With this last article the Sneak Peeks series comes to an end for this release. But don’t worry: it’s tightly packed with an extra share of information on the latest openSUSE 10.3 goodies! Today we’re going through all those things that either didn’t get the chance to have their own article, or are extra convenient small improvements that haven’t been properly covered. As you will know, it is all those extra little things that really contribute to a great user experience on the Linux desktop.

Today we’ll be taking a look at: the new updater applet; redesigned network card module; OpenOffice 2.3; Xfce; the new Kontact; Giver, an easy file sharing tool; KIWI, a system image generator; and much more! We’ll also be getting some closing thoughts from Andreas Jaeger, director of openSUSE, to find out about plans for the future and community contributions.

openSUSE Updater as an Upgrade Tool too

RPM “updates” are specifically defined to refer to RPM patches; for example, as issued in the openSUSE 10.3 Update Repository. RPM package “upgrades” refer to any newer, full RPM package, as you would see in Packman or the openSUSE Build Service.

In openSUSE 10.2, the openSUSE updater acted as just that — simply an updater, providing you with all the official RPM updates. In openSUSE 10.3 however, it provides you with he option of acting like both an updater read more...

Aditya Shevade

The truth about engineering that I am going through....

This is getting worse day by day. I have thought many times and even had decided that I will not have a go at submissions from now on. But the way they frustrate me and all..... it's too much for me to handle.

Not much time to discuss more now. A detailed post on this subject will soon come. But, for the moment, what I am thinking is, the only things I have been learning in this engineering course are that,

• You must be very good at writing. Or copying from others notebooks. If you are not, then you cannot survive.
  
• It does not matter if you have understood the subject. You can write whatever you want and still get marks.
• It does not matter if you don't have any skill other than mugging up and writing it down. These two make up for brains, understanding, ability to analyze things, coming up with ideas and much more. Actually, almost everything.
• There is nothing as, how, why, what like questions. Everything is as it is being presented in the books. You either mug it up and score or you get out or fail.

As I said, there is much more and with evidence, but I have to sleep now... Have slept only 4 hours out of last 30 odd....

Aditya Shevade

YaST survey has begun.....

OpenSuSE team has just published a survey on YaST, our systems management and
installation framework.

If you use any of the distributions openSUSE, SUSE Linux, SUSE Linux
Enterprise Desktop or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server, I encourage you to
participate in the survey to support the team improving YaST. The survey will
be online until mid November and the results will be published on
openSUSE.org.

Click here to take the survey:
OpenSuSE YaST Survey

By the way, if you like to know more about YaST, visit the openSUSE YaST wiki
at YaST Wiki.

Aditya Shevade

Another T-shirt Design.....

Hey... I got some good response to my Linux T-Shirt (from my friends, not on the blog... :-) and :-()

Here is another design.

I have embedded this picture into the shirt which gives me :-

Aditya Shevade

Design Demystified......

Had a great weekend. And because of that I was not able to post much about it. Me and my partner came second in a circuit design contest.

It was arranged by the Electronics Engineering Students Association on University level. And the circuits given to us were.

• Design an XOR gate using IC 7400 (NAND TTL).
• Design 4 bit Adder Subtracter using IC 7483 (4 bit Adder) and IC 7486 (TTL XOR).
• Design BCD adder by modifying the above circuit.

Now, we finished the first two stages. And the first team designed the third circuit on paper but did not build it. So we came second. Still I am happy. Especially after that C debugging contest where we did not get a prize even after coming third. :-(

But, this was good. The only fact is that there were only 6 teams. :-| And the winners were having the degree of Diploma in Electronics. So, I am still happy that we were first among those who have joined this degree course after doing 12th.

Nothing much. Got a nice shield, some 200/- and a certificate (the most important... it actually mentioned that we came second.... refer debugging C...). Apart from this, I have taken a recording, visual one, on the mobile of my partner after the completion. I will soon post it, but first I have to get it.

Aditya Shevade

Had a lot of work and sleep to do......

Hey... nothing much to write today as I spent the most of the day while sleeping. Watched the Dreamers a bit. Can't say good or bad. Then there were some guests for dinner. And then there was submission as usual....

Nice work by Michael Clarke, hopefully Australia's captain to be, scoring a hundred. Bad rain.... Saved a point for India and lost one for my team...

Gotta sleep now. Have a circuit design competition tomorrow morning at 8:30. Kudos....

Aditya Shevade

I completely forgot......

To write about how this day went.... As usual, I went to the college and wasted my time in doing stupid practicals on those breadboards. I hate them, the wires keep coming out and that is a real pain in the a** when working on a big circuit, and the part that even sucks more is that we don't have any big circuits to work on... Anyways, then had a couple of off lectures...

After that, we had a meeting about the discussions related to a T-Shirt that we are going to launch. Of our batch of electronics. So, we were chatting and a group 'X' was against my friend (mentioned in the legendary chat) and my choice of design. We had been working on it from our group, say 'Y' for long time. And we were not going to change it just cause 'X' said so.

We showed them a big thumb and said, 'Suggestions come with a responsibility', so if you want to suggest, make sure that the thing actually pays off. And upon hearing this, the 'X' group accepted all that we had suggested, the color, the design, the format... everything.

You might have guessed, but in case not, then this 'X' group was all the girls in our batch and 'Y' was we boys.

Morale of the story :- We are a couple of bigheads who thought that we were doing a good work for the class. But in the end it turned out that brutal refusal and a little frustrated anger was all that we needed.....

A classic chatroom conversation......

I was chatting with this friend of mine. He has asked me not to reveal his name, so I will say me for myself and replace his name by my own, Aditya. So I was having this conversation with Aditya.

As usual, he posted a scrap in my scrapbook in Orkut, asking me to join Ricky Ponting hate club. I love Ricky Ponting. So, I went on a rampage against him..... It was funny, take a look....

me: scrap

12:13 AM HAD

Aditya: :)

me: no wonder most of the members are from India

12:14 AM I don't see any outsiders.

typical.....

:-|

12:15 AM Aditya: how ca n ther be outsiders because they always support thir players,they r loyal and as our population is big ,people like u support outsiders

12:16 AM me: I am not talking only about Aussies

why not any english people?

siuth africans maybe?

12:17 AM ever wondered why there are no new zealanders ?

Aditya: maybe they r neutral

me: yeah

actually SA is supposed to be like Pakistan for Australia

enemies forever

12:18 AM but they don't say that they hate Aussies

Aditya: and ponting lways such crap thngs only about india not about other countries

me: they either support their team.... or they stay Neutral

and your knowledge about Australian cricket team is not good enough

Ponting says these things before every series

and even others

Aditya: i dont care about it

12:19 AM me: remember the substitute filder issue?

in ashes?

remember him fighting against SA?

no

you will not

cause you only know one thing. You like India and you hate Aussies

and that is a typical Indian supporter

12:20 AM and you will never care

cause you know

that you don;t have facts to prove what you say

Aditya: xcuse iam not aussies only ponting

me: facts gathered from search

OK

Ponting

replace Aussies by Ponting

and read all sentences

they are still true

12:21 AM you keep supporting India

Aditya: read what symond said

me: don't say a word against him unless you have proof

again, you said Ponting

not roy

roy is Symonds

Aditya: read wht ponting said

me: I know

he did

so what

it's a mind game

12:22 AM and as I said, Indians are too polite for their own good

Aditya: he shud show his game on grnd

me: and even I am like that

Aditya: it is not

me: he has been shwoing his game

he is No1 batsman

in tests since 2005 DEC

currently at number one in ODI ranking

12:23 AM he still reains the best captain in the world

Aditya: his language might be different if aussies shuld have won wold cup

me: he has earned the right to speak

and he will do that

no

see after 2003 W/C

or, as Aussies say, they prefer ashes over W/C

Aditya: every player has his gud and bad days

me: and, he spoke like this after this years ashes win

12:24 AM he is having good days

Aditya: and ponting is having gud days

me: and he is speaking now

maybe when he wil have bad days

he will not speak

right now

he speaks cause he has earned that

aapan bolato te kon print karat nahi

but he has reached that level

12:25 AM proved himself

Aditya: he has been speeking like this

me: look what they did after Champions Troffy

that is how they arer

aggresive

and I love that

Aditya: is sachin not proved himself

me: and, as I said, I regret that I am not like them

so... no one is stopping Sanchin from speaking

12:26 AM Aditya: hw can all teams be aggresive

me: it's his choice if he wants to or not

who said all teams should be aggresive?

Aditya: no i thnk one shud kno enough wht one shud speak or not

12:27 AM then i like indian attitude

me: and he has not spoken anything bad

Aditya: and u like aussies one

me: I don't see anyone but the indians complaining

yeah that is the point

I like them

Aditya: even they cant praise other team for others victory

me: you like India

so, what I am saying is that

12:28 AM you support your team

I will support mine

don't post I hate them things to me

Aditya: none wl change his side so change the topic

It was over after that and we spoke about usual Submission, the class T-Shirt and other stuff.... Gotta go now, still chatting with him....

Aditya Shevade

Now I am officially a nocturnal animal.....

Bahh.... it has been 3 days and I have not had sleep for more than 5 hours. I have been awake till minimum 3am and then I have college at 9am so I MUST wakeup at 8am.

This submissions stuff is really bad. It is getting on my nerves. I have to write about 200 pages with diagrams and graphs before the start of next week. And I am very slow at writing. It would have been much better if printouts were allowed. My typing speed is greater than my writing speed.

It is not going to be easy. I also have participated in two contests. One is a mobile movie making contest and then a circuit design contest, the subjects of both will be given on the spot. And it is going to take entire weekend. And I am again going to have to stay up long.

Off I go now, must sleep in order to be awake during the lectures....

Aditya Shevade

Digg digg and keep digging.....

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. From the biggest online destinations to the most obscure blog, Digg surfaces the best stuff as voted on by our users. You won’t find editors at Digg — we’re here to provide a place where people can collectively determine the value of content and we’re changing the way people consume information online read more...

This is what the about page on the site of digg says. It is a very good place to increase the popularity and traffic of your website. It is very good place for initial marketing of your blog if you are a new to blogging.

You can also use the buttons of digg on your site or the blog, as I have on each post in the blog, on the left. It shows the number of times this story has been submitted on digg.

There is a very good blog on the use of digg on blogger on a blog. Please follow this link for more information about how you can add the buttons to your blog.

Aditya Shevade

You have lost that lovein' feelin'.......

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No comments.....

Aditya Shevade

OpenSuSE 10.3 :- Gnome 2.20 Sneak peaks...

The new release of OpenSuSE... The 10.3 version comes with (will come with) Gnome 2.20. And SuSE developers have added a verity of things to the new release.

1). The World Clock (on the left) that allows you to keep track of the worldwide time.

2). Tomboy comes with a Note Synchronization feature that allows you to synchronize all your notes on the PCs that run Tomboy.

YaST2

YaST2 is now integrated with Gnome and comes with a cool new look and feel.

Desktop Improvements

In the past, extensive usability studies in the SUSE usability lab lead the GNOME team at SUSE to re-design the GNOME menu and panel. The result was SLAB, a new menu for GNOME. After further testing in openSUSE 10.2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 10, a few additional changes were made to the menu that improve usability, ease-of-use, and of course top it up with a polished and professional look that gives you a better desktop:

Read the full news here...

Aditya Shevade

Yes.... Driving License.....

Finally, I got free time today and I bunked 2 lectures to give my driving tests. You would know if you are from India, or have seen anyone give a test in India, in small cities, then you would know that this so called test is just a formality.

But finally I did give it and as you might have guessed, passed it as well. So I am waiting now for the permanent license to reach my hands. And then... I will start terrorizing people on highways.... (Not actually, my driving is good).

Aditya Shevade

Convert your media on the fly.....

Have a piece of audio that won't play on your media player? Or a movie clip maybe that will not play on your mobile.... a ringtone perhaps? No need to worry now, visit Media-Convert for all of your conversion needs.

The site has an online tool that lets you convert media files from size NIL upto 150MBs. Video, Audio, Image, Documents, and much more.

The site is great, don't forget to visit, you will need it at least once in your life....

Aditya Shevade

OpenSuSE 10.3 RC2 LIVE CDs released for public download.... RC2 being tested internally....

OpenSuSE has released it's latest version OpenSuSE 10.2 RC2 in the form of LIVE CDs of gnome and KDE. You can find then here.

The RC2 of the entire distribution however is internal and will not be made public to avoid the heavy traffic on mirrors all over the world.

One more news is that OpenSuSE survey revealed the information that around 69% of users give very much importance to the multimedia support. So now amarok will be able to get mp3 support directly off the non-OSS repository via Fluendo.

The release also uses the One-Click-Install technology to get the Fluendo codecs (This will be added in the final release) in case you did not add the non-OSS repositories.

Read the entire post here...

Aditya Shevade

OpenSuSE 10.3 RC1 KDE LIVE CD.... my first experience.... a short review....

I am using the RC1 KDE LIVE CD release of Novell's OpenSuSE 10.3. And I hate to say, impressive though it looks, I am not much satisfied with it.

System Used:

• HP nx-6110 notebook.
• 512MB DDR RAM,
• Pentium M - 1.6GHz.

Maybe it is because of the Live CD or maybe because of KDE (I use gnome otherwise), but this release, which is supposed to be almost the final release, not an RC, is not what I had in my mind.

The things began with the CD unable to configure the X server. It was not able to recognize the screen resolution. Then, I manually gave the resolution and booted into the system.

I was welcomed by a very good looking welcome screen. The looks are killing. But, when the system started and I was trying to view the installer, I was greeted by an error saying that KDE returned with an error regarding 'su'.

I have been using OpenSuSE 10.2 on this very system for about 9 months now, and never experienced anything of this sort. To add to the problems, the OS cannot recognize the scroll zone of the touchpad.

I will give it another try, but if the final release is going to be like this, then SuSE is loosing it's touch. It may well be dipping low. BUT, I will have a go at this LIVE CD again and then will return with more. Till then, let me enjoy (???) this new release...

For more info, visit the announcement regarding this release.

Aditya Shevade

One of the assignments given to us for the coding contest.....

Hey, here is one of the assignments that we were given in the C/C++ coding contests. Check it out and suggest any optimization, suggestions, anything....

Code:

/* This program calculates the value of a mathematical function and gives */
/* the output depending on it. The function is defined as follows :-      */
/* f(1)    = 1                                                            */
/* f(2n)   = n                                                            */
/* f(2n+1) = f(n) + f (n+1)                                               */
/* The inputs should be taken till a negative value is inputed.           */
/* The maximum number of inputs is considered to be 100.                  */

#include<iostream>

#define _maxInputs 100

using namespace std;

float Function(int);

main()
{
 int* inNumberArray = new int[_maxInputs]; 
 float* outAnswerArray = new float[_maxInputs];
 int cnt, counter;
 
 cout << endl;
 cout << "Please enter the variable values. Enter negative value to exit";
 cout << endl;
 
 for(counter = 0; counter < _maxInputs; counter++)
 {
  cin >> inNumberArray[counter];
  
  if(inNumberArray[counter] < 0)
   break;
  
  outAnswerArray[counter] = Function(inNumberArray[counter]);
  
 }
 
 cnt = counter;
 
 for(counter = 0; counter < cnt; counter++)
 {
  cout << "F(" << inNumberArray[counter] << ") = " 
       << outAnswerArray[counter] << "." << endl;
  
 }
 
 delete[] inNumberArray;
 delete[] outAnswerArray;
 
 return 0;
 
}

float Function (int inNumber)
{
 if(inNumber == 1)
  return 1.0;
 
 else if(inNumber % 2 == 0)
  return (inNumber/2.0);
 
 else if(inNumber % 2 == 1)
  return (Function((inNumber-1)/2) + Function((inNumber+1)/2));
 
}

Output:

EXECUTING:
/home/aditya/Mathematical-Function-1
----------------------------------------------

Please enter the variable values. Enter negative value to exit
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 -1
F(1) = 1.
F(2) = 1.
F(3) = 2.
F(4) = 2.
F(5) = 3.
F(6) = 3.
F(7) = 4.
F(8) = 4.
F(9) = 5.
F(10) = 5.
F(11) = 6.
F(12) = 6.

----------------------------------------------
Program exited successfully with errcode (0)
Press the Enter key to close this terminal ... 

Aditya Shevade

Start page of OpenSuSE wiki website changed....

The homepage of OpenSuSE wiki website at en.opensuse.org has been changed. The new and improved interface is much better than the old one.

This interface was already in use for the Software and Build section of the website.

Aditya Shevade

OpenSuSE 10.3 Gnome meeting on Thursday 1600GMT.....

This particular meeting will be centered around 10.3 cleanup, 11.0 planning and the process/planning improvements for the team.

The meeting will be held on the #opensuse-gnome IRC chanel.

For more information about the meeting, please visit this link.

Aditya Shevade

God help my college..... and unuversity.....

I never thought that I would come to hate the people at our college this much. The reason, they are still living in the 90's.

I just found out that each and every PC in our college, running Windows has Turbo C/C++ 3.0. Build 1990.

The compiler it has, does not know 'iostream' it does not know 'namespace's concept. And this sucks. Even many of the PCs running Linux use Red Hat 9. They don't know other Linux flavors. And there is not a single mac in the lab.

Disgusting.

Aditya Shevade

Due to one reason or another.....

As usual, you would have guessed that I have not written any journal yet. I am falling back... I have a headache. For reason, consult the last post.

Right now, I am feeling a bit ( a lot) bored. So I am just writing stuff here.... Aaahh.... it's no use...

Aditya Shevade

My debbugging skills were tested by a system with bugs........

Today, I had to wake up at 7am for the programming contests. And doing that after a short sleep of 5 hours is not enough. But I finally woke up. Then in the college, me and my partner reported at the reception. Then we were given an MCQ paper each for debugging C code and general coding competition. The first impression that paper left on me was.... BAD. scaling 2/10 on the scale of quality. It was based on Borland compiler and Turbo C/C++. Which violate the ISO standards of C. Like 'void main()' which is not allowed. And use of 'getch()' and 'clrscr()' which are not a part of standard library functions.

I am not against those functions, but the contest was a C contest. Not Borland C contest. If I ever use 3rd party libraries, I use documentation. I cannot mug everything up. And so, the papers were poor. I even wrote Turbo C sucks on the question paper, which was submitted later. :-)

We ( me and my partner) were selected. He did most of the work related to Borland.... And I was providing a few logical answers.

After that we had to go through a series consisting of 5 levels. It was very good. Nothing related to Borland. All based on ISO C. There were folders locked containing problem statements. And we were given passwords once we finished the preceding level. (They were also checking the code so no point in cheating there...).

We were doing great until the last stage. Where we took about 25-30 minutes in debugging. And finished in about 1:15hours. We were the third to finish. Then there was judging. We were asked some questions based on the changes made in the code. We did very well scoring 09, 10, 10, 07, 10 in the 5 levels. Scoring 46/50. Our hopes were high. We went to the second event in that heat.

We had to code 2 programs there. Both were mathematical functions. We finished the first one quite well. And even finished the second one, but with problems in multiple inputs. In short, we did not finish the second one properly as asked. But the first one, we did. And then while judging, the judge asked, why we had not allocated the memory. Frankly speaking, I have no idea about thing thing in C. Called 'malloc()'. I only know 'new' and 'delete'. So, I let my partner speak. But he (judge) was not convinced. And he left saying that program will crash for sure. But it did not. Anyways...

So, back to prize distribution. We had our hopes high. But we were not chosen. Only 2 prizes were given and we were third. OK, they wanted to give prizes to only 2 teams. Fine. But at least write that we were third on the certificate that you (they) are giving me. But no. They gave us a certificate of participation. :-| ...

We checked with the judges and found that the first team had scored 47. The second had scored 45. And we had 46. But, as the second team finished earlier (about 25-30 mins) before us, they were declared runner ups.

No complaint there. We were slow and we had to pay the prise. BUT, even Olympics have 3 medals. At least they could have given a certificate for 3rd number......

Aditya Shevade

I have to tell this to someone....

I am writing this post because of the last post which I had to erase due to some reasons. I cannot hold it off anymore. Read for yourself....

This is it. Today I have decided it.... I am
confused. Why do people behave like that with me? Anyways.

The
trouble I am having is because of the fact that Aussies lost. To tell the truth,
I don't care. But it's the people who always tease me. And I hate that. And it
gives me trouble, and so this thing happens (I get mad).

If only
people would stop teasing me, they would know that I really don't care who wins
and who loses. Cause I just support them. It does not mean that I will kill
someone if they lost. But just to get rid of the teasing thing I do a lot of
stupid things. And it gets me in trouble.

I have decided, no more
'fanboy'ism in these kind of things. I am better off with SuSE Vs Ubuntu or Linux
Vs Windows. (and mac :-D).

Huh... it feels good once I have got it
all out.

Aditya Shevade

... I hate....

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The paradox of our time....

Is that we have taller buildings, but shorter tempers
Wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints
We spend more, but we have less.
We have bigger houses, but smaller families
More conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense
More knowledge, but less judgement
More experts, but more problems
More medicines, but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.
We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often
We have learnt how to make a living, but not a life.
We have added years to life, but not life to years.
We've been all the way to the moon and back
But have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbour.
We have conquered outer space, but not inner space.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted our soul.
We've split the atom, but not our prejudice.
We've higher incomes, but lower morals.
We've become long on quantity but short on quality.
These are the times of tall men, and short character;
Steep profits, and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare,
More leisure, but less fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition.
These are the days of two incomes, but more divorces;
Of fancier houses, but broken homes.

I found this on blog of Goobimama a fellow member of mine on the Digit forum. His blog is quite good... read more...

I hate Yuvraj Sing..... and Aussies play.....

Yeah yeah... don't flame me. I am watching the semi final. And Yuvraj is hitting the ball like a madman. A maniac. (And they dropped another catch, 96/2). I hate him being a supporter of Autralia.

Now, just waiting for Aussies to fire again. I hate Yuvraj. I really do. He should get out. Rather, someone should nail him down and then he should throw (another catch dropped).

Worst bowling performance I have ever seen.... BAD

Aditya Shevade

Of goods and bads....

Finally I have reinstalled gnome and am back on my laptop. As mentioned in the last post I had some problems with the installation of OpenSuSE 10.2. I had tried to update gnome. But the version that I updated to did not have any other common package contents in the repository. So the things went bad. And I ended up with a system with the front-end of gnome 2.18 and the common packages of 2.16.

So, when I booted back into SuSE, I was greeted by a new look that did not have any menu items, it did not recognize any other gnome components. So, the system was in a state where I was not able to do anything in gnome. I mean.. not even the gnome terminal was accessible.

I tried using FFWM, TWM and even CLI, but was not able to restore the system to the initial stage, before the upgrade. So, I used the final option and restored the entire gnome system right off the installation DVD.

Now I have to spend hours again on system upgrade. But I have a better option. Wait for the stable release of OpenSuSE 10.3. That is scheduled to release on the 4th of October this year. And I think that would be better. So, no updates, just wait for some 15 days + the time required to D/L the DVD on this so called crap broadband connection.... Time off....

Aditya Shevade

The battle.....

Finally.... moments away from the big game. Australia Vs India. T20 semifinal. Do you know that saying from the lord of the rings? "Fighting in a battle is bad but waiting on the edge of one you cannot escape is even worse" (Not exact sentence... )

So.. Aussies will bat second. Good for them. They have lost both their matches when they batted first. So.... good.

I am on my old PC currently. Will catch up later with both the stories.

Till then....

Aditya Shevade

last.fm.....

Hey.... I found a website today. last.fm. It's an internet radio station. I am embedding the widget here on the sidebar. Enjoy.

Waiting for the big game..... And to get flamed.....

Aah.... This is it. The moment of truth. India Vs My (Favorite) Team. I mean Australia. The last time these 2 teams clashed in a World Cup, Indians were thrashed by the bat of Ponting and then the Bowl of McGrath by removing Tendulkar.

But this is not a 50 over match. Ponting is not there, so is McGrath. So the task is a little difficult for the Aussies. And, Indian team has got the ideal people for T20. Many are there with almost NIL test and ODI experience. So it's gonna be a big match. I wish that Aussies will again repeat the history and thrash India.

Now back to the flaming part. I am again behind on my submissions. I wasted the whole week sleeping and stumbling. StumbleUpon is the best and the worst thing to have happened with my internet life (If you know what I mean ;-)).

So, I have to write about a 100 pages with diagrams and thats not cool. Thats bad. And I hate when something like this happens. But again, as usual I am here writing a blog post. And as I already mentioned, I am not even sure that even 10 people read it in a month. (And you have blogs with more that 1000 hits a day). That is not the point however. I know I am not a very good writer and maybe most people hate my writing and the way I write. But the point is that even though I have to write all this, I am here writing blog.

This has to change (Don't worry, I am not going to stop writing). I must find a way....

Aditya Shevade

Getting used to the basic idea now....

Finally, after reading some tuts and watching the visual tuts provided by Joomla on their site, I have begun to get used to this idea of a CMS managing a site.

The tuts are very well written (sometimes annoying for people like me, because many too basic things like editing a file using notepad in windows (I hate windows) have also been added. But that is required for people who are new to this world of computers. Anyways....

So, I am sitting tight, listening to songs and reading the tuts. First I was thinking that I hate this CMS thing, but managing a site is easier there. So what to do? Now, I am starting to like it (Looking forward to the day when I will start liking the subjects I have to study for my engineering... which seems highly unlikely). Change is good.

Aditya Shevade

I think choise has been made....

I was just browsing through the website of Joomla. And found some very good tutorials. And extensive 183 paged user manual and visual tutorials on their help site. And, it's forum is very popular with more than a million posts. And it is looking very good.

I also compared the CMSs on CMSMatrix website and found that Joomla was best suited for my purpose. So... I think there are 99% chances that I will be using Joomla.

There might be this kind of tuts and a very big support for other CMSs also, but I am unaware of that fact right now.

Aditya Shevade