Pascal Nunes

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2007-03-15T12:12:00.000-07:00

This blog has moved. You can now read it athttp://www.nunespascal.com

Where should I work?

2007-03-11T23:28:00.001-07:00

Interestingly, the use of a technical test in interviews canactually work both ways. In my recent hunt for a new job Iautomatically turned down any vacancy where I was *not* given atechnical test. My reasoning behind that is that I know *I* canprogram, but do I want to work with *other* programmers who haven'tbeen tested?The harder the test I was given, the more excited I was about the vacancy.If

Google cacheing...

2007-01-29T20:46:00.001-08:00

Google caches some webpages for quick access, but some webmasters donot like that. The procedure is quite simple. All you have to do iswrite a line of code between your HEAD tags. META NAME=”ROBOTS” CONTENT=”NOARCHIVE” - should be enough to stopall robots from caching and archiving the page where the code isembedded.

Undereducated software developers

2007-01-15T19:39:00.001-08:00

I was just readingMore Trouble with Programming The second part of our interview with Bjarne Stroustrup, the inventor of C++.When I came this line... Indeed, one serious problem is that currently, too many software developers are undereducated and undertrained.and I couldn't agree more. Holding a degree from any college hardly makes one a software developer... Colleges here in India are churning

Where are the posts?!

2007-01-07T01:54:00.000-08:00

Oh no, its not that I am not writing... I am just not publishing...Most of the posts are saved as unpublished entries; cause I have not finished them, or I don't want them to be on public display.Now I want blogger to have feature where you can tell if a particular post should be public, or seen only to friends. Thats the way things are... users keep wanting more!!

Happy New Year!!

2007-01-01T09:42:00.000-08:00

My new year resolution:A post a day!Now that will be a little difficult to keep, but aren't resolutions supposed to be challenges?!Lets hope I can keep this one.

CSS

2006-11-28T19:23:00.001-08:00

Just something that you should remember when using css. CSS uses the box model.BOX MODEL height; width; margin-top; margin-right; margin-bottom; margin-left; padding-top; padding-right; padding-bottom; padding-left;powered by performancing firefox

Getting past the red tape

2006-11-22T07:30:00.000-08:00

Today I went to the Vasai court to get my house rent agreement (HRA) prepared. How I qualify as a tenent is a long story... which I may never bore you with, but lets leave that aside for now.The first thing that strikes you about the place is that everything is in Marathi(मराठी). There is no use of Hindi or English... Even the computer software is entirely in Marathi(मराठी) . I wonder how people

There was a time when things were used; and people were loved...

2006-11-22T07:05:00.000-08:00

There was a time when things were used; and people were loved...No, ones broken my trust or something of that sort... I just saw this line as sandy's status today, and thought that I might put it to use some day.

Dhruvisms

2006-11-12T02:29:00.000-08:00

Dhruvism of the daySidd knows how to break ice.... he comes with a fucking sledge hammerOn the first time Sidd spoke to him. It seems the first line was; "Dhruv when I first saw you, I thought you were a total loser".

Bad signal

2006-11-10T00:27:00.000-08:00

Bad programming at this signal at Kashimira, Miraroad; wastes 15-20mins of my time everyday.How? you ask!First you got the understand the trafic that flows this way, Kashimira is the junction where all trafic bound for Miraroad and Bhyander turns right while that bound for Borivli goes straight.This signal never turns green for traffic to turn right, thus all Miraroad bound traffic is stopped.

Beautiful Life

2006-11-09T23:43:00.000-08:00

It was a lovely landscape. It was idyllic, poetical, and it inspired me. I felt good and noble. I felt I didn'twant to be sinful and wicked any more. I would come and live here, and never do any more wrong, andlead a blameless, beautiful life, and have silver hair when I got old, and all that sort of thing.Reminds me of the time when I was in Lourdes . It was such a serene place, that it was

Hexaware TechSummit 2006

2006-11-06T10:14:00.000-08:00

Tech Summit 2006 at Hexaware was an event where I had a lot of fun. It was organised on 4th and 5th November by Hexaware (That is where I work ) . I participated in a lot of events, won loads of prizes. The main event that I took part in was the quiz. Managed to bag the first prize there. It was a really close shave, won by just one question, in the very last round. So that tells you that all

How true

2006-11-01T09:14:00.000-08:00

There men in a boat - Jerome K. JeromeHow they pile the poor little craft mast-high with fine clothes and big houses; with useless servants, and ahost of swell friends that do not care twopence for them, and that they do not care three ha'pence for; withexpensive entertainments that nobody enjoys, with formalities and fashions, with pretence andostentation, and with - oh, heaviest, maddest lumber

Elevator calls

2006-10-30T21:19:00.000-08:00

Elevator call buttons are also idempotent (until the called elevator has arrived and redeparted), though some people behave as though they are not, pressing the button multiple times in the hopes that this will make the elevator arrive sooner. Found this in an article about IdempotenceI have seen that happen so many times....

I just got featured

2006-10-27T09:08:00.000-07:00

I was on rediff... don't ask me how. I had not opened the account for two years... It was a nice surprize!

Oil Spill

2006-10-09T22:29:00.000-07:00

This photo was taken today morning during heavy traffic when a stupid truck driver rammed an oil tanker. The tank did suffer a dent, but thankfully didn't rupture.As if travelling by the Thane-godbundar road is not bad enough... that we were going to have exploding tankers too!

Here is another one

2006-09-09T22:12:00.000-07:00

WHY NOT A BIT LATE…Why are you scared of being alone?People here have hearts that’s already torn,Why are you troubled to see the end?Look around you will definitely find a friend.Why do you need a hand to hold?Try and face this world being bold.Why do you strive to be the best?Just be yourself, just as the rest.Why do you need a shoulder to cry?Accept that this world is simply a lie.Why do you

Been a long time since I posted poems...

2006-09-09T21:08:00.000-07:00

Stop Running…Have you ever heard the birds?Composing music on the treesOr listened to the rainsIn a cold evening with breeze.Time is short,Don’t run so fast,Life is not going to last.Have you told your parents?That you will meet them tomorrow,And in the busy days of work,Forgot them and didn’t see their sorrow.Time is short,Don’t run so fast,Life is not going to last.Have you let a friendship die

Ah long time! Lots of tales!!

2006-08-13T01:49:00.000-07:00

Its been such a long time since I have written, there are so many tales to tell.Soon after the exams I had to leave for Pollachi for job-training. Remember I had tod you about getting placed for a job last year?! For those who have never heard about it, I don't blame you, I had never heard of it myself. It is a really beautiful place, you usually get to Pollachi from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu.

A lot of junk

2006-06-09T06:53:00.000-07:00

The address that I used to e-mail blog entries got added to some mailing list. And so a lot of junk had been posted here. Just cleared it. Have to change that email address yet.

Ages since my last post!

2006-05-23T18:24:00.000-07:00

It has really been ages since I worte here.No reasons, no explainations.Just an update of what has happened over the last few days(/weeks/months)My project TDDB, completed in terns of college work. There is still a lot to be done actually. It did keep me busy for some time. The project presentation went well. I ended up thinking that I could have present any stupid thing to these examiners and

NS2 - Network Simulator

2006-03-29T20:39:00.000-08:00

I conducted a seminar on NS2 (The Network Simulator) on 24th. Wanted to post about it for a long time.. but have been busy for the last few days.What is the Network Simulator?Well this is the way they define it Ns is a discrete event simulator targeted at networking research. Ns provides substantial support for simulation of TCP, routing, and multicast protocols over wired and wireless (local and

BE picnic

2006-03-20T16:08:00.000-08:00

My class went for a picnic on 17th. We went to the "Pali Beach Resort". Was great fun. I spend most of the time in the pool. I don't know to swim; but got a crash course in swimming. The big pool was about 7ft deep at one end. Very few ppl managed to stay there. I happened to be amoung the lucky few who had grabbed a life buoy, and hung arrond at that end. It was such fun being in the water, I

ITS TOO LATE (along with my reply to it)

2006-03-13T16:37:00.000-08:00

A friend mailed this to me recently... And I just had to reply to it, in verse ofcourse!!ITS TOO LATE >I've always wanted to be loved, loved unconditionally, till the end, till I die...!>But now I've realized I don't have the one whom I really love. Realisation is a begining, even if to an end That that you cannot hold, must away be send >I've always wanted to make

I am lazy

2006-03-11T07:53:00.000-08:00

I am really lazy... and who knows, one day civilization may progress due to me!Did that sound stupid to you? Think again! Those who are not lazy, usually go about doing the same routine tasks daily. And most of them even feel proud about that. It is us lazy ones who bring about change, invent new ways to make our lives easier, and that is how civilization has progessed.We need to be very clear

Musings ...continued.

2006-03-08T06:06:00.000-08:00

Of the several things that I wanted was about "The Fountainhead". This is a wonderful book by Ayn Rand. I don't totally agreed with everything in the book. But I think it is a good work in human thought. Most ppl follow others, who are just as confused and following someone else. So what you get is a whole lot of confused ppl, living with no particular goal, not sure of what happiness is or how

Musings

2006-03-07T09:27:00.000-08:00

Its been such a long time since I wrote here. A lot of things have happened. Sem8 is nearly over. I spend most of the time participating in all the fun activities in college... took a lot of photographs.Now, did I mention that I have a cool new camera, Nikon P1 (8Megapixels) ... you should see the quality of those photos, really awesome!! I have uploaded a lot on flickr ... but those are scaled

Squid

2006-01-18T05:17:00.000-08:00

I use linux very frequently these days. And I did not have a proxy server running on linux. Due to this no one could use the internet on the other PC. Today atlast all those problems have been put to an end. Thanks to squid!! It is a real nice proxy server. I knew nothing about a proxy server or how to setup one. The online help for squid is good enough. If you plan to setup squid for your

Gaim 2 can doodle :D

2006-01-12T10:30:00.000-08:00

I recently downloaded gaim2. It comes with a lot of improvements. I really liked it. There is this feature in gaim "doodling", that lets two ppl draw an image. May come handy in some technical conversation... but I found it really entertaining. It can be fun to draw images... nice how two ppl can complete an image.This is the first time I am mailing images to my blog... wonder how it will display

I am alive

2006-01-06T22:09:00.000-08:00

No, I am not dead... for all of you who thought that you had got rid of me; you are wrong! I had just been taking a long vacation. There are a lot of things to write about. A lot of thoughts. I missed Christmas, missed New Year! But I celeberated those well. Hope you enjoyed a lot too. No new year resolutions on my blog. 2005 was great! It was fun, it rocked and roared. 2006 seems to have

Sandy's new PC

2005-12-21T09:55:00.000-08:00

Sandy got a new PC yesterday. An AMD athlon 3000+ machine, with 1GB of RAM(I would love to have RAM like that). And a 200GB harddrive... do you even need that much space? But then if the price differences are not too much, a little extra space has never hurt anyone!! If you want a more details about the config you can ask Sandy. Then why am I so exicted about it? Cause Sandy and I assembled it

eGovernance

2005-12-07T06:56:00.000-08:00

The Governament of India has been playing about with the idea of eGovernance for some time now. I used to be a person who would laugh at the quality of government web-sites, and how stupidly useless they were. But things are changing. Both the user friendlyness of these sites as well as the services they offer are improving. I recently came across this site Indian Government Portal, that links

Vivas done at last!

2005-11-11T09:23:00.000-08:00

I am feeling elated today! I might as well be in the 7th heaven... or floating on cloud nine. It feels that nice to be done with the vivas. What adds to this state of pure bliss is that, we have such a long PL(supposed to be preparation leave... for the exams), and the fact that our 5 exams are scheduled over a period from 29th november to 17th december, does not leave me in any mood to study.

Cool

2005-11-08T06:09:00.000-08:00

You tell me I am cool You think I am a fool Cause I am not troubled by petty worries I carry along a bounty of sweet memories You tell me, you did love to live your life like me But, all the good things in life, you refuse to see You tell me, I waste dear time You tell me, it’s such a crime But you waste even more of it Planning life to the last bit Plans that seldom work

New Template

2005-11-05T20:00:00.000-08:00

That template had been in use for long... I felt a new look would be good.So, here is the new template.Work in progres... please send suggestion, report bugs... and leave comments. :)

Word verification - NOPE. NEVER.

2005-11-04T04:11:00.000-08:00

This blog has been getting a lot of spam comments lately. However I just can't get myself to turn on word verification... It is what blogger has come up to ensure that the comment is being posted by a human. But that would mean, everytime some friend wants to post a comment here, they will have to type some garbage charecters, that blogger would randomly throw at them... to prove that they are

Happy Diwali!!

2005-10-31T23:48:00.000-08:00

A very Happy Diwali to you! Hope you have a great time. Eat a lot of sweets; Enjoy the fireworks; Avoid those noisy ones... they are a real pain to everyone. again A very Happy Diwali to you!

Vivas

2005-10-27T18:25:00.000-07:00

My vivas for sem 7 have begun. Its real bad to have vivas this sem, cause only sem7 students have vivas. So we have to study as others enjoy their the PL(supposed to be preparation leave for the exams). Besides these vivas are so soon after our journal submissions... hardly got anytime to study. One viva, Advanced Computer Networks,already done, was nice. Answered most of the questions. We have

Who knows when life decides you have had enough!!

2005-10-16T04:06:00.000-07:00

I received a mail today titled PLZ DONT DRINK Now, I am a teetotaler, and definitely do not support alcoholism. And most certainly do not endorse drunken driving. But this was probably the 10th time I received this stupid poem. By now I have lost all appreciation for the person who wrote that (No, I didn't like it from the start... but I appreciated the effort). I replied back with a poem, an

Term end is here!!!

2005-10-06T08:07:00.000-07:00

Believe it or not, sem 7 is ending. It feels like just yesterday when the sem started. And now its the term end. I always hate term end time. I doubt if any engineering student will disagree!! It is the time when we complete journals. Complete here prefers to copying the assignments from anyone who has written it. The worst part is printing the various programs and outputs, that are left pending

Suse 10

2005-09-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

I just installed SUSE 10. A real cool OS. Runs much faster than FC3(Fedora Core 3); atleast I felt so. No, I did not run glxgears to test the graphics rendering gears. The CD iso images that I downloaded, seem to be slightly damaged..., so I could not install a few tool. Could not install gcc :( . The good part is that it detected my sound and graphics card. SUSE does most of the configurations

Me, an Engineer!!

2005-09-18T11:11:00.000-07:00

I took a presonality test today. It says I am an engineer. So, I decided to study the right thing. Guess it must he good, if it could predict that well.Why don't you take it too!!Here are my results: ISTP - "Engineer". Values freedom of action and following interests and impulses. Independent, concise in speech, master of tools. 5.4% of total population.

Alone

2005-09-17T08:22:00.000-07:00

Be alone sometimes, away from the buzz of life, it feels nice. A lot of time to think. I spend a lot of time reading my blogs at http://www.pascal_nunes.blogspot.com. They had some many things that I had nearly forgotten. Was fun to remember all the thoughts had passed my mind. Recently I have been writing very little. I could not find a reason good enough to spend time updating my blog. But

As vague as an astrologer!!

2005-09-08T07:33:00.000-07:00

I use this phrase often, and credit myself for its invention... If there is any other inventer, copyrigh t holder or the like I am not aware of you. I use this whenever one of my friends make a statement that conveys little information, but may appear to be telling you a lot.I do not believe in astrology. My opinion is that astrologers make sufficiently vague statements to be able to fit a very

Individuality

2005-09-07T07:14:00.000-07:00

The uniqueness of the human mind is such, no two will be the same. I doubt if even clones will be the same. This because what we think is often influenced by past experiences. And if we are so unique, why do we group people together? Classify then by race, religion, or many other parameters. Blondes, Sardars, Pakistanis... ?Such classifications are an insult to human indivisuality. Even I am

PCs crashed

2005-08-20T03:06:00.000-07:00

Yeah!! both my PCs crashsed...I managed to get my old PC working just a few days back. And that on hardware that once discarded as junk. New Pc still awaits repairs. Hope it gets fixed soon.

A lot of things

2005-07-28T05:38:00.000-07:00

Holidays are over and I am back to college... The hangover of the holidays kept me from writing for a few days. A lot of things have happened over the last few days.My results are out. Scored 64%. YEESSS!!Had been to Pune for a few days. Was great fun travelling with friends. Stayed at Dhruv's(dhruvbird) place in Pune.Reminds me... here is a photo of the bird in a cage... he managed to get

Sidd in his harem, surrounded by his beauties!!!

2005-07-07T11:18:00.000-07:00

Had been to sidd'd place. This photo is taken by me. Got some photos of myself scanned too. Will upload them soon.

My Placement

2005-06-19T02:39:00.000-07:00

Guess I was lucky to get placed at the first try itself!!During the presentation, we were informed that we would have to sign a 2 year bond( Yes, can't escape that :( ). But I had started getting thoughts about Hexaware, I was not sure if I wanted to join them in first place. But then, who else would employ a fool like me... so I decided to stick around. Thus it started, with a very skepticalThis

This bloke's got a job!!

2005-06-15T11:13:00.000-07:00

Now can you believe that!! I got a job. So you want to meet my employer? It is Hexaware.Exams are over. I have been wander around with friends... Hope you will understand that is why I have not been posting.Really tired after the Aptitude Test, Group Discussion and Personal Interview. Will write a detailed account later. Must say I enjoyed every aspect of it.

Indian Astrology

2005-06-06T08:17:00.000-07:00

I wanted to test if blogger allowed me to have HTML form and Java-scripts in a blog entry. I plan to change the look and feel of the blog after my exams(Yes, another template!). Decided to make it a little interesting. If this work you will be able to calculate your lucky number according to indian astrology. (I am no expert on astrology and this is just for fun. So don't sue me if my predictions

Exams?! nah, these are just memory tests

2005-06-04T10:24:00.000-07:00

We are currently having our sixth semester exams. What are the purpose of exams? I am sure you would agree that they are supposed to test your knowledge of the subject. It is very disapointing that the Mumbai University has promptly forgotten this. They ask the same questions every few years. All the exams need you to memorise and just write out "expected answers". What do I mean by "expected

Exams just around the corner

2005-05-25T08:55:00.000-07:00

My exams are starting on 28th. As usual I am not prepared... Hope to give it all the time I have from tomorrow. So I may not be around for a while.Exams end on 9th June. I may post a comment about I am faring in between though.

Limewire (How good is it?)

2005-05-24T17:48:00.000-07:00

I decided to wait for sometime and evaluate the Limewire, before I had anything to say about it. It sure is faster than eMule. When I run both together, eMule's download speeds drop drastically... Could it be that LimeWire is using up most of the bandwidth? I am not sure. But so long as it is faster, why should the user care!!Well, there are a few reasons why I do not like LimeWire. It is not

eMule Rocks

2005-05-22T05:02:00.000-07:00

No, eMule is not one of Uk's overfunded donkey farms. It is a pretty neat client for the eDonkey network. eMule is one of the biggest and most reliable peer-to-peer file sharing clients around the world.I had been dis-satisfied by the P2P networks in India. Torrent download speeds are just too slow. I have read a lot of reviews about the great speeds you get with torrents... but in my case this

Getting down to some real work

2005-05-20T05:48:00.000-07:00

Its the last week for exam preparations. Did get quite some work done today. Hope I can keep that speed for the entire week.Will post more soon...

pascal learns pascal

2005-05-17T00:37:00.000-07:00

After finishing all the Harry Potter books, there was nothing much to do. Well, not really, I have so much of studies pending that I will never complete before the exams. But when have I ever studied seriously...For long I have wanted to know something about "pascal". It felt a bit bad knowing nothing about the language that shares my name. Lets see what I can learn...So far I have just learn't

A matter of choice

2005-05-15T01:35:00.000-07:00

I received this in a mail, today. Just wanted this to be on my blog.So much of what we are, is what we choose to be. This just tells you to make the right choice.The 90/10 Principle...Fanastic .... may be all of us know this...still just a reminder..Please read this throughly... takes just 3-5 mins.Have you read this before? Discover the 90/10 Principle. It willchange yourlife (at least the

The ways of work

2005-05-12T10:12:00.000-07:00

There are those days when you get a lot of work done( often effortlessly) and those when you get nothing done( even after making quite an effort). Today was one of those when I got nothing done. Exams in 15 days time... I have lots of work pending. So have to keep this short...

Telnet, VNC, Quake and lot of fun

2005-05-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

My study leave has started. This is the time of the year when are supposed to make up for not studying all the term. But as usual I am wasting time. It get really boring at home with nothing to do. Today was a real relief. Sandy was here today. We played around with telnet, VNC, tools that let you remotely control another PC. It was fun. Especially when I managed to make sandy's PC reboot.Then we

Mindless Mirth

2005-05-03T10:08:00.000-07:00

Today my vivas/practical are at last complete. It is nothing short of a miracle that these went very well, cause I had studied very little. If there is one thing I learn't it is that I have a long way to go.But... Today is a day to celebrate. To wonder over all those small miracles that made my vivas seem to go well. Today is a day for mindless mirth.

Done at last.

2005-04-25T04:45:00.000-07:00

What a relief! I have completed all the dumb paper work that comprises my journals. Vivas and practical exams start tomorrow. I must say that I am counting on my luck for this. Studying? Yes, but knowing how little time I have been giving studies lately, they are not going to be easy.

Dreaming?!

2005-04-24T08:59:00.000-07:00

"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live"-Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter, in "The Sorcerer's Stone". How very true! I am sure you will agree. But dreams are not all that bad. Just remember that the real world is very different. Remember that you have to live here. Dreams may make you happy, but they can never get you satisfaction. True happiness is what you get out of a sense of

Limits or No Limits

2005-04-23T06:01:00.000-07:00

What are abilities? What are the limits to which you can perform? Do these limits always exist or do you create these yourself?Very often we create limits: barriers that we are not ready to cross. The power of the human brain is limitless. If only you could free yourself of those barriers you brain would never desert you. Try convincing yourself that you can do something, and you will be able

A Transition

2005-04-16T20:09:00.000-07:00

Today Sidd was here(For those who do not know Sidd, Sidd is my childhood friend, and probably the person who knows me best). Lately he was busy giving GRE so we had not met for a very long time. We talked a lot and about a lot of things. Sidd was trying to convince me that I should have some goal in life. Even I know that I should, but the question is what? I asked the same thing to Sidd. I have

A rustic morning

2005-04-15T18:13:00.000-07:00

I am entralled by the rustic perfection of today morning. The fresh morning air seems to be adding new life to me. Sun-beams create beautiful patterns among the palm leaves. A gentle breeze plays music to perfect harmony. Song birds chirp merrily among the branches. A lonely red rose has blossomed to spread its sweet fragrance around.Life seems to have come to a standstill as I enjoy the scenic

A poem about me

2005-04-10T02:12:00.000-07:00

Oh no! I did not write it. This was written by a friend. She has written quite some poems, and won prizes for them too. I have directly converted this from Word to HTML so some formatting may be bad. Here is the poem. PaScAL NuNeS The Guy I Know Is My Friend, I Know This Friendship With Him Will Remain Till End. Pascal Nunes Is His Name, The 11th October Born Guy

Purpose of Life

2005-04-10T01:24:00.000-07:00

Why do we live? What is the purpose of life? These are some question that I have not been able to answer lately. It is a bad situation when you are not sure why you are living. It makes a lot of things seem futile. This has been depressing me to no end. The answers to such questions are not easy, but you need to know them.This is the end of our term, so we have a lot of paper work to do. It makes

Dumb paper work

2005-04-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

I do not understand the purpose of making copies of data on paper for journals. Data can be represented so well in digital form. It is so much more easier to handle. Still our colleges insist on taking copies on paper. This is not only a waste of paper but also leads to a lot of waste of time. If there is one improvement that the current engineering system needs, it is to get rid of its

Just another Post

2005-04-02T22:55:00.000-08:00

Its been so long since I last posted an entry here. I have been busy these days. The term end in nearing now, and we have to complete our journals and assignments. That takes a lot of time. It is real boring work. I don't want to be in as bad a state as I was last time, so I have started studying (very little but started). This term we have some very interesting subjests like System Programmng,

Runner-up for open software competition at VCET

2005-03-20T07:31:00.000-08:00

Today was spent at VCET. This inspite of the fact that I have a Web-Technology exam tomorrow. I have hardly studied anything.I managed to win the second prize at VCET for open software. The entire credit to this goes to Sandy. I had not carried my software and did not plan to present it (cause I believe that it is too simple to win anything). Sandy carried me back home and took the software to

Won Programming at Praxis'05

2005-03-16T11:51:00.000-08:00

Sandy and I won the first prize for programmng at Praxis'o5, Technical festival of VESIT. I must say though that the questions were not really challenging, there was no time bonus for completing first( I am saying this cause we completed first, as you must have already guessed), the number of questions was small.This post should have come a few days back, but I was a little busy over the last few

Mutual Exclusion

2005-03-09T11:12:00.000-08:00

How many of you find life too complex? I do. Indeed it is. Have you ever wondered how the Operating System of you computer works? It was while studying about this that I learn about "mutual exclusion". It is the property to keep different jobs seperate, and not let them intefere with the working of other jobs. It would be great if we could apply it in our lives. Schedule all the things that you

Ideas'05 : Day 2

2005-03-05T05:19:00.000-08:00

Today I did not have to do anything. So we attended a couple of seminars. Though I will write about only one. This seminar was conducted by Mahesh Murthy. And it did one great thing, My encounter with our TPO had left me feeling very low. He managed to brighten my mood. So what was he speaking about? This is my personal interpretation of what he said, and so may not match what others felt. He was

Today was a BAD DAY

2005-03-04T05:10:00.000-08:00

Today was a really bad day. Yesterday night Prakash called me and told me to see our TPO(Training and Placement officer). All students had been asked to see him, but burdened by the low marks my class scored this semester no one, including me was very excited to see him. We were supposed to go in a group of 4-5 students. Whenever I did try to go I could not find anyone willing to come along. Now

Ideas'05

2005-03-03T04:28:00.000-08:00

We had been told to reach thakur by 10:00 am. I was (thankfully) late. When we reached thakur, there was total dis-organisation. I had to first find someone from the college to give me a lab that I could use for the event. It turned out that none of the labs were free till 1:00 pm. So we had to wait. After 1:00 we did get the lab, but not the premission to install anything. The lab incharge

Creating Complexity

2005-02-27T03:35:00.000-08:00

What is complexity? Is it the collection of many simple objects, some one object that can perform many simple tasks, or a useless object that is too overloaded with functions for its users to learn to use it? Sandy recently remarked that we have never really created any complex code. Thinking about it, he is right. The reason why my site does not have a programming section is probably that I

Living your dreams

2005-02-19T11:22:00.000-08:00

Paulo Coelho is a remarkable author. If there is one thing that he tries to convince his readers, it is to follow their dreams. He says that we like to believe that we never had the opportunity to follow our dreams. When we do get the chance to pursue many don't. We just like to believe that life could be much better, but rarely are ready to run the risks to fulfil that dream. Why do we love this

Whoever said victory last long

2005-02-10T08:30:00.000-08:00

All the feeling great vanishes with just one defeat, one slap of misfortune. What am I speaking about? My results. Yes they are out, and they are well below expectations. If you remember my previous blogs, my papers had gone great. There was every reason for me to expect good marks. But alas, it was not meant to be so. I got real dismal marks. Just 54%. I just can't guess what were the examiners

Winning feels great

2005-02-05T09:56:00.000-08:00

Winning feels great, and if it is against many odds, it feels greater. Remember, I told you I would compete? There was a logo designing competition in my college. The only image editing software that we were provided was photoshop. I have never really use photoshop, so my chances of winning were really small. Infact I was standing at the door thinking, "Its just going to be a waste of time,

The Story of Evolution

2005-02-03T20:33:00.000-08:00

If you ever get the chance do watch "The Story of Evolution" on the Discovery channel. No this is not a documentary on how we evolved from apes. It tries to explore the reasons behind winning and losing, happiness and sorrow, thrill and depression. At one point it said, we keep competing all our lives. I said to myself, "what nonsense, I have stopped competing long ago". But the very next

More Web-Designing

2005-02-02T11:53:00.000-08:00

I am the event head for the web-designing event, of the CSI(Computer Society of India) National Convention 2005. This is to be held on the 23rd of Feb, thats the end of this month. Topics will be put up on 15th. The most amazing thing about this is that, I have yet to attend even a single meeting. Sounds like an amazing feat? The entire credit to this goes to the members of the CSI chapter of my

Web -Designing

2005-01-30T08:57:00.000-08:00

Some things just happen to fall upon you. I am not a really great web-designer, but I happen to know some server side scripting (ASP, PHP, ...) that is why I maintain a few web-sites for my college. The CSI site need a new look, should complete that soon. My personal web-site http://pascalnet.tk has not been updated for weeks now. Even the last update I made, I did not mention on the main page.

India Shining

2005-01-27T09:12:00.000-08:00

Was thinking about the Indian economy. Yes I do think of many things these days. For those of you who hate economics, just leave this entry aside. According to Bill Gates, in his book "The Road Ahead" , any industry goes through a positive spiral and a negetive spiral. This is what I understood about these spirals, People like a product, they buy it, manufacturer gets profit, invests in

Got my quiz back.

2005-01-18T09:50:00.000-08:00

I had made a quiz for St. Francis Institute of Management in 2004. This was for the first time that I was using FlashMx 2004. Although it is not someting really great; I liked it. Unfortunately, once I had to format my hard-disk, due to some damn virus, and lost the only copy I had. Thankfully this year when that college students contacted me, they had a copy of what I had created. I am sorry

MultiPlayer LAN gaming rocks

2005-01-16T19:30:00.000-08:00

I have always loved gaming, but there is something different about playing on a LAN. Human players definitely put forth a better challenge than bots. Try playing just about any game on a LAN it feels much better. Now that I have two PCs I have set up a LAN between them. The main purpose it so that I can store all my data on just one large hard-disk. This tackles all the storage problems that I

Believe it or not

2005-01-14T11:00:00.000-08:00

All this time all I have been doing is deleting e-mail that has accumalated over the last two months. I could not even send a single Christmas or New Year greeting because of my PC. And forget programming a thing. I will be taking of the menu that linked to my other sites because it puts that irritating add at the side. Some have even reported that it open pascalnet.tk when my blog is opened. I

my PC is back...and I got a new one too

2005-01-11T10:13:00.000-08:00

Sorry!!! could not blog all these vacations cause my PC had to go off for repairs. Now my PC is back...and I got a new PC too. Wish all the luck to my PCs. Hope that I do not have a problem to keep blogging. There is a lot to tell about my vacations, but today I have to chack all the accumalated mails. Will write in detail soon.

So far so good!!

2004-11-22T21:15:00.000-08:00

Exams in progress. Well the papers so far have gone better than expected. Three down, two to go. Well have some break now that is why I am writing. I am hoping and praying that these papers go well, and that I get good marks when the results are out.

Happy Diwali

2004-11-11T20:38:00.000-08:00

Happy Diwali (or Deepavali as some may call it)!! Diwali is the festival of lights celebrated throughout India. It is celebrated differently in different part of India. It is a religious festival of the Hindus. So I would not be an expert to tell you about it. To know more about Diwali, click here.

Got the Menu Working

2004-11-08T18:56:00.000-08:00

Hmm...It is done. I added the menu that will be common for my web-sites. Although I did end up spoiling PascalNet a bit, will repair it later. Did get some studies done today. Atlast! ( I had made a typo while writing this. Realised it instantly. A bad internet connection delayed the correction for nearly 32 hours. Damn this connection, I need better service. )

When will I study!!

2004-11-07T05:23:00.000-08:00

I have not touched my books for a very long time now. Spent most of today, uploading that new template( hardware failure at my ISP made speeds very slow ). There are only nine days for my exams now. Most of the portion still seems alien to me. But no study going to take place today. I am off to attend a wedding ceremony. For those who do not know, a Indian wedding is alway a grand celebration and

My own template.

2004-11-07T04:46:00.000-08:00

Hey, I just created my own template for this blog. Hope you people like it. I plan to link this site to my other site soon. Actaully that was Sandy's idea. I just liked it, so decided to give it a try. The "Look" of this site already matches PascalNet. Do leave your comments about how you like this look.

PascalNet Reloaded

2004-11-04T16:39:00.000-08:00

My site http://www.pascalnet.tk is now available in its 4th incarnation. Do take a look at it. It has been one of my main distractions these days. I have been using Linux for quite some time now, and I really like it. Yes it did take some time to get arround. But thankfully I had some friends to help me. I still have to learn many things. It will be a long time before I need to use Windows again.

Exams just arround the conner.

2004-10-26T10:27:00.000-07:00

Happens every time. Just when I start to get real good and creative ideas there will be some exam arround the conner. Just for the record, I completed my java project. It was a two player, network chess game. Thankfully we had a team to do the job. My team mates were Abhijeet Maharana and Vaibhav Phadtare. Too sad we could not give it any AI (Thanks to the amount of time we spent deciding what

Java project

2004-06-27T09:30:00.000-07:00

College will be starting soon. I need a project in Java. Do you have any suggestions? Please send them to me.

Pascalnet

2004-05-23T01:05:00.000-07:00

PascalNet(http://www.pascalnet.tk).This is my personal site. Do take a look