It was a week ago that my Internet Cable sent out sparks that resembled the exhaust nozzle of a jet fighter, resulting in some serious damage to the motherboard and SMPS. Suddenly with the computer not working, my life came to chaos. It was then that I realized how much I relied on my computer, and how much, people, in general, rely on their computers. It's very true that most of my time awake is spent either in college or on the computer. But this addictiveness is nothing new obviously. Personally, I can't live one moment without trying out some new software, or designing something, or simply creating some music. For all this, I heavily rely on my computer. Yet I find so many people around me, who have no clue about simple stuff like MS Word!
Is this what is education? Within the same class, there are 20 Year olds who can go to the extent of professional designing, multimedia, and gaming, and there are 20 Year Olds who can't use Powerpoint. How is it that there's so much gap in between. It's similar to the gap between the rich and the poor in India. This Cyber Gap (as i call it) has a different reason though. Its not that computers are not available. People simply don't have the interest. Things have become bloody cheap and almost anyone can own a computer. Yet most of the computers lie in the dust, starting up occasionally to watch movies, play games, etc. Ask a software geek what he does on a computer, and watching movies will be one of the last things on his very long list. Gaming has turned professional, so I don't have the right to call gaming a waste of time. But watching movies? What's professional in that? Making movies, that's good again. Anyway, all this is a personal observation. And putting it all out here won't make an inch of a difference.
At least I am relieved my system is back into working condition, and I can get back to my side dreams other than Aeronautical Engineering in MRCET. Ofcourse those dreams can be shattered by Project Works, Record Works and worst of all, exams, courtesy, MRCET again!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Boeing/Airbus, Going/Airborne, etc, etc...
Sometimes I hate my life, Sometimes I love my life,
Sometimes I hate the people around me, Sometimes I love people around me,
Sometimes I hate my city, Sometimes I love my city,
Sometimes I love airplanes, sometimes I love airplanes more!!
Today was all the second parts of my 'poem'. I was simply too proud of myself, and my 'college' (gosh! yesterday I was hating it!!) and my subject, and my city too..
It all happened because of my hopefully life-long tie-up with the 'Airplane'.
There was a man who told me, "You are an Aeronautical Engineering Student and you must have that passion in you. You must feel something in you when you see an airplane", and he is now working in a bank.
Today, I realised how passionate I really was. Not everyday does one find goosebumps and hair standing on the back of his neck. It happens to me when I watch a really good movie, or when I read a really good novel or when I listen to a great piece of music, or, or, or, when I watch an Airbus A380 fly over my head and land in front of me, shamelessly displaying it's sheer size and power. I was busy snapping away my tiny camera phone (I am still cursing myself and that 7.1MP camera in the cupboard) and got over-nostalgic when I heard the roaring engines of the largest commercial aircraft. It's so damn easy to identify with those curving wings, and 4 engines and huge landing gears... When it swooped down on the runway, I thought it was swooping down on me, first the teasing fly-by and then the landing.. the half hour of action really left me loving myself ...
It was the India Civil Aviation Exhibition for 2008 and it was great to put it in simple words. My parents were wasting time thinking 500 bucks is way too costly. Who the hell gets to see an A380 land in front of them for 500?? Who does!!
Ofcourse the exhibition had lots of planes and helicopters on display, and more importantly lots and lots of Airline/Aircraft/Aviation/whatever company stalls setup. I saw names that I never heard and half of them were Indian! We could identify the International ones and couldn't figure out the Indian ones! Height of patriotism.
Well the pictures sadly didn't come out great and that's the reason I can't put them out here. But this topic might find itself in so many blog posts that it might be almost unecessary to put in any details about it.
As of now, I feel so nostalgic that I wanna stop for now and take some rest after that beating from the hot sun and ... ... haha..
I am going back, March 2010 unless I am elsewhere...
Sometimes I hate the people around me, Sometimes I love people around me,
Sometimes I hate my city, Sometimes I love my city,
Sometimes I love airplanes, sometimes I love airplanes more!!
Today was all the second parts of my 'poem'. I was simply too proud of myself, and my 'college' (gosh! yesterday I was hating it!!) and my subject, and my city too..
It all happened because of my hopefully life-long tie-up with the 'Airplane'.
There was a man who told me, "You are an Aeronautical Engineering Student and you must have that passion in you. You must feel something in you when you see an airplane", and he is now working in a bank.
Today, I realised how passionate I really was. Not everyday does one find goosebumps and hair standing on the back of his neck. It happens to me when I watch a really good movie, or when I read a really good novel or when I listen to a great piece of music, or, or, or, when I watch an Airbus A380 fly over my head and land in front of me, shamelessly displaying it's sheer size and power. I was busy snapping away my tiny camera phone (I am still cursing myself and that 7.1MP camera in the cupboard) and got over-nostalgic when I heard the roaring engines of the largest commercial aircraft. It's so damn easy to identify with those curving wings, and 4 engines and huge landing gears... When it swooped down on the runway, I thought it was swooping down on me, first the teasing fly-by and then the landing.. the half hour of action really left me loving myself ...
It was the India Civil Aviation Exhibition for 2008 and it was great to put it in simple words. My parents were wasting time thinking 500 bucks is way too costly. Who the hell gets to see an A380 land in front of them for 500?? Who does!!
Ofcourse the exhibition had lots of planes and helicopters on display, and more importantly lots and lots of Airline/Aircraft/Aviation/whatever company stalls setup. I saw names that I never heard and half of them were Indian! We could identify the International ones and couldn't figure out the Indian ones! Height of patriotism.
Well the pictures sadly didn't come out great and that's the reason I can't put them out here. But this topic might find itself in so many blog posts that it might be almost unecessary to put in any details about it.
As of now, I feel so nostalgic that I wanna stop for now and take some rest after that beating from the hot sun and ... ... haha..
I am going back, March 2010 unless I am elsewhere...
Thursday, October 09, 2008
After the Break..
It's back to that usual crappy life that I live. All the pleasure that I had with the junk food, and unlimited music sessions, is going to convert into pain with the writing of record work, exams, etc. Maybe the Princi was right after all. Pleasure leads to pain. As of now, I am pretty tired to continue further, so i'll take a break. Oh what am I saying? Another Break?! In that case, The F grade is waiting for me eagerly...
P.S: The jam sessions in Bangalore were lots of fun. Will miss them.
P.S: The jam sessions in Bangalore were lots of fun. Will miss them.
Saturday, October 04, 2008
A Break !! (for what?)
In a few hours, I'll be off to Bangalore on a bus along with Srikar. You could call that a nice break. But a break from what? It was last Friday that I went to college and never went until yesterday which was another Friday. And I wont be going again till next Friday! So it's all been a break. In fact, this whole semester has been a huge vacation for me. Skipping college just for the sake of skipping college. Looking for a million ways to waste time and yet postponing the most important things required for a career. If there's something that's bad, its me and my work. Despite that, I am still gearing up for another short fun trip. At this moment, there are so many things yet to be done and neither me nor the staff in the college are interested in completing them. It's true we can't beat time (Speed of light??) but at least we mustn't let ourselves lag behind so much. The result of this crazy chase will come in 2 months with those weird '0' like symbols on the sheet accompanied by something that strangely resembles 'F'.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Chrome? What's so shiny?
I was avoiding Google's Chrome for a long long time, but this Chrome topic reached such a level that I thought, "Ok, let's check this s**t out afterall". And I downloaded it. After some minor troubles with the download, I got it started. The look was good. Simple and plain and everything about the layout reminded me of Google. The New Tab option is kinda weird. Instead of a blank tab, we get a whole bunch of thumbnails and links and history and everything. It's good for a few and bad for a few (like me). Moreover, every tab can become a new application with a 'smart' drag and drop. Now I don't know how that's going to affect the memory.
There's nothing special about the "Google Search Bar + URL Bar". It's total crap if you ask me. Unless you type the ".com" part, you can't directly open the website you want. You'll simply end up in Google's Search Engine in which you'll have to click on your website (it's a process i hate). Firefox's URL bar is ten times more efficient than that. Type 'orkut' and it goes directly to the website, type 'google map maker' and it goes exactly to "www.google.com/mapmaker". Also, if it doesn't find the exact website, you still end up in the google's search engine. So basically, Firefox has been doing what Chrome is now boasting about and it's doing it way better that Chrome.
The History/Saved passwords/Private Data part is a bit annoying. This is entirely a personal opinion. I like all the stuff like passwords/cookies/cache to be cleared once the browser window is closed. But apparently Google Chrome doesn't do that. You'll have to manually clear the data/cache/cookies or whatever you want. Firefox for me comfortably clears all this and keeps my system fresh after every close. This is particularly useful if you have all members of the family logging into their own accounts in their own websites. And this opens in another annoying tab for Chrome!
The 'Options' tab 'looks' promising with stuff like 'Minor Tweaks', 'Under the Hood', etc, but there are hardly any tweaks available. I didn't like this 'Option' at all. Cool names aren't enough. Google seems to be obsessed with cars, like 'Chrome' and 'Under da Hood'.
The Task Manager is actually cool. It's letting me know what tab is using how much of memory and this is pretty useful for me personally. The fact that a corrupted page can be gotten rid off easily without closing the entire browser is another cool thing I found.
There are many more slight ups and downs here and there. But this is only a Beta Version. And things can always improve over time. As of now, my favourite browser is Firefox (i love it!!) and it has been so from the past 2-3 years. It might continue to be so unless Chrome comes out with a 'Killer Shine' and some serious 'Power Under the Hood'. Goodbye Chrome, I am uninstalling you.
There's nothing special about the "Google Search Bar + URL Bar". It's total crap if you ask me. Unless you type the ".com" part, you can't directly open the website you want. You'll simply end up in Google's Search Engine in which you'll have to click on your website (it's a process i hate). Firefox's URL bar is ten times more efficient than that. Type 'orkut' and it goes directly to the website, type 'google map maker' and it goes exactly to "www.google.com/mapmaker". Also, if it doesn't find the exact website, you still end up in the google's search engine. So basically, Firefox has been doing what Chrome is now boasting about and it's doing it way better that Chrome.
The History/Saved passwords/Private Data part is a bit annoying. This is entirely a personal opinion. I like all the stuff like passwords/cookies/cache to be cleared once the browser window is closed. But apparently Google Chrome doesn't do that. You'll have to manually clear the data/cache/cookies or whatever you want. Firefox for me comfortably clears all this and keeps my system fresh after every close. This is particularly useful if you have all members of the family logging into their own accounts in their own websites. And this opens in another annoying tab for Chrome!
The 'Options' tab 'looks' promising with stuff like 'Minor Tweaks', 'Under the Hood', etc, but there are hardly any tweaks available. I didn't like this 'Option' at all. Cool names aren't enough. Google seems to be obsessed with cars, like 'Chrome' and 'Under da Hood'.
The Task Manager is actually cool. It's letting me know what tab is using how much of memory and this is pretty useful for me personally. The fact that a corrupted page can be gotten rid off easily without closing the entire browser is another cool thing I found.
There are many more slight ups and downs here and there. But this is only a Beta Version. And things can always improve over time. As of now, my favourite browser is Firefox (i love it!!) and it has been so from the past 2-3 years. It might continue to be so unless Chrome comes out with a 'Killer Shine' and some serious 'Power Under the Hood'. Goodbye Chrome, I am uninstalling you.
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