Status: Away !
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: June 30, 2009
My regular online activity had reduced much these days for various reasons. A asked me about reduced blogging sometime back. May be I should tell him that my latest tweet was two weeks ago 
After being a user of Windows XP at work for 2 years, finally converted to Mac sometime in the first week of June. I have never been a OS fanatic and always liked Ubuntu (thanks to A&S) even while continuing to use Windows. Change kicked in at last and I am pretty happy with it ! However I could not shift to Jaunty at home since I am having problems with the audio and I am too lazy to sit and try to fix it. Using Windows 7 RC instead and must admit that I am quite impressed.
Cricket is getting boring nowadays with the IPL followed by the T20 WC and hopefully I will get to see some Test Cricket soon. Had a chance to meet S recently, but could not talk much. At HM!, work pressure is considerably increased nowadays – getting to do some design and such stuff !! Hopefully will start to post more soon..
Super Saturday !
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: June 14, 2009
Spent the Saturday fantastically, thanks to Ananth ! Watched Star Trek @ Sathyam along with a dozen Techies from HM! – that’s movie #3 that I have watched in a theater! And then played bowling in Blur and was not too bad for a first-timer – with a score of 84, came 5th in a gang of 11 !! It’s too good a game so much so that I regret not playing when the guys went for it in Bangalore.
To conclude with the quote of the day, coming from a 4 year old: “You’ve gone weaker, and taller.”
2 years and 3 days…
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: June 3, 2009
First time in 3 years that I did not write a post on June 1st Two years (and three days) had gone by since I started my career in HeyMath! Looking back, I should say that the decision to join a small company really paid off. What future holds for me, I am not sure.. But at present, I am loving the responsibilities that the work comes with and doing good !
Move your mouse, seriously ?!!
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: May 26, 2009
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Came across this page in Hacker News. The interesting bit is the Workaround Method 2 that asks the user to move their mouse continuously for the query to succeed
The best part is that, when I shared this article with my team, I came to know that one of my former colleagues used to use the same technique while working on SQL Server Reporting and people used to think that he was being stupid !!
Learnings
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: May 20, 2009
Got a laptop and not blogging at all ? What the hell am I doing ?! Actually I wanted to write about all those small things that I learned in the last week or so, but could not manage to get past my laziness
Learned how to use temp tables in SQL Server, how to use RSA and ssh into Linux machines, how to use rsync, how to use SMTP in Python and how to migrate an existing svn repository to git !
Other news – At HM!, we have a Carrom League in place now which is conducting a tournament for the next 20-30 days (phew ! IPL’s bad effect) and I am teamed up with K !!
Yay! I got a laptop !!
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: May 7, 2009
After a long wait and search, I have got myself a laptop and this is the first post from my Dell Studio 15. Got the laptop on Monday (04 May) itself, but since I could not manage to get Internet connection at home, it took 3 days to b(lo|ra)g about it
A bit about the config:
- Intel Core 2 Duo P8600
- 4 GB DDR2 SDRAM
- 15.6″ 720p WLED
- 256 MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
- Slot Load DVD RW
I am planning to install Jaunty and switch to Ubuntu (at least now, at least at home !!)
To my dead desktop PC: Thanks for hanging on for five long years. RIP !
Ranting..
Posted by: Vijay Dev on: May 2, 2009
Recent outage of my home computer made me watch TV a LOT ! And here I go ranting about what I saw and what I felt …
Recently a girl in a Delhi school died of Asthma attack at school and there was furore in the English media about it. I saw one discussion on “How safe are our schools ?” in some channel and was amused by the discussions. For instance, one person shouted about the lack of ambulances in the school. I wonder what schools they are talking about – those where there are no teachers, or those where there is no shelter, or those where there is no drinking water for students ?? No. They were talking about schools which charge them in lakhs and yet not provide “simple” facilities like ambulances.. Are the schools without water, shelter not our schools ? What is needed to make someone notice that there are such schools in this country in abundance ?
Next is the SL issue. First, I do not understand what is the issue all about. Tamils in Lanka getting killed is not new, at least to people here in Tamil Nadu. They have known it for two decades now. So what’s the sudden fuss about ? Oh, it’s election time. Now I got it. Without going into the merits, I think that it’s not our business to poke our nose into what ever is happening there. Raising the voice for a humanitarian cause is vastly different from raising it as a sentimental issue just because they are “us” Tamils ! That’s so stupid !!
There are more like BCCI granting amnesty to ICL players (bull !), the IPL (crap !) and so on, but I am bored and switch to Disney, which is the only thing worth watching anymore
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