Monthly Archives: May 2005

ADBMS exams tomorrow

That’s Advanced DataBase Management Systems. I have taken the pains to study from no less than four books, that’s how fragmented the syllabus is. Sometimes I wish had taken one of those cheap local rip-offs … Anyway, the prep’s good. I hope to do well. Update: Didn’t go as well as expected …
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12 hours unto the exams …

Barely twelve hours remaining. Have finished most of what I had to, and as always, left something for the last day. As we in engineering get ready to face the exams, here is a dialogue from “The Return of The King” : Thousands of orcs stream out of the (enemy) gates. Aragorn’s soldiers look frightened. [...]
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A quest for the perfect Window Manager

Recently, I have been trying to choose a window manager (WM) that will suit my needs. The search has been long, and it’s far from over. I hope u don’t mind reading through my experience as I went on this quest. When I first started looking, I was using WindowMaker as my WM. Initially, my [...]
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LOGO interpreter for M$ fans

I had posted about LOGO yesterday. Just so that everyone on the bad side can share the goodness, here’s a link for a LOGO interpreter that runs on Windoze. Haven’t tested it, check for your self that it works.
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Template to be changed soon …

I am thinking of changing the template (look and feel) of this site, please post your opinions as comments to this post …
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Sibling expectations

Children can be so strange … There was this time when I used to try to force my sister to read the Harry Potter books. I myself hadn’t read them, but I had heard a lot about them, so I thought it might do my sis a great deal of good (improve her English, for [...]
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Esselworld trip

Our class (at least some of it) went to Esselworld the day before. With exams about two weeks away, we all wanted to have a bit of fun before getting down to some serious studies. Most of us have finished a major part of the syllabus, due to the vivas that just got over. The [...]
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XP vs. Linux

Here’s a mail from Dhruv I received a few days back. Hello fellow blasphemers....... I truly deserve to burn in hell for everything I've done today....Let me explain.... o I've used Windows XP whole of today. o I've [tried] to study Ooad because of constant taunting andtorturing by Sandesh. So, what o you have to [...]
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