tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39185472011-07-09T17:43:04.552-07:00The life and day-to-day travails of a software developer in india.aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comBlogger701100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1068237026310363522003-11-07T12:30:00.000-08:002005-07-08T07:08:24.713-07:00

Ok, folks, end of blogger for me! Not the end of blogging though. I've moved over my blog to http://sood.net.in/journal. All the old blogger posts have been migrated too. Also put up a wiki at sood.net.in. Go ahead, visit and update bookmarks :) See ya all there!

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1068099460741597062003-11-05T22:17:00.000-08:002003-11-05T22:17:58.780-08:00

Managed to reach EBG's end. Feels so good :-D

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hurray! Finally figured out how to upload stuff to my website's ftp server from behind the corporate firewall. All thanx to TransConnect. So i fix the links in the writings section, update the bookmarks and contacs, fix some speliling mistakes and all that. Not a good idea to post a link here, those in the know will know where to look :-) And I rented some hosting space from b-one. On

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My manager just stopped by for a talk sometime ago (after I had written the last blog entry). He was pretty concerned over /me raising issues of comp off in front of other people, which [he said] could give rise to such demands in the whole team. He mentioned the amount of time I put in office and work (or used to, till last month: Once you get a reputation of staying a lot at work you don't

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Management wants us (me and two other workers) to work over this weekend to finish a project. When I raised the issue of Comp Off (compensatory off) during some time when the work load is light I got an evasive answer which turned out to be a 'No'. I've been pretty angry at this. With me putting in extra effort at what I see as a management problem (get this product out of the door by this

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hiya! I'm almost towards the end of EGB (Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid). I've immensely enjoyed reading the book, even though I did gloss over the parts where it required me to do some math. I guess I'd be coming back to it sometime again and finishing all the exercises and puzzles. Which is what I did with The Emperor's New Mind. Tried reading it twice in college, but got

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These days I'm reading Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, an amazing book about almost everything. It is certainly turning my head into mush, forcing me to think about a lot of things which I had stopped thinking about a long time ago. Since childhood. The review mentions "some compared reading it to giving birth" . This is true. The other book I'm messing around with is

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The infuriating thing about an individual way of life:: People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.                    --Nietzsche I've noticed this fact all my life. The moment you do something very individualistic, people get very

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Surpirisngly life just got cooler. As in I stopped working in this emergency mode I always used to. All my life I've had this two modes of working: Chill Out Mode:: Do nothing, chill out, doze off, read interesting stuff and what not Emergency Mode:: Shit! The project's due, and we're out of time; hack! hack! hack! Which, superflous to say, is an extremely stupid way to manage one's

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http://photos.yahoo.com/vaishalee_a has rest of my pics under "my experiences..." folder...

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Got this image, check it out (from http://www.grassouille.org/emacs/index.en.html) Exactly my feeling too! :-D

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It is 4 am here in office and the Dell Inspiron 8500 is fully functional with Debian/unstable at last. The only thing not working was the ACPI support; the laptop always ran on full speed and full power, hence getting very hot. Detailing the stuff I had to do here so I (and possibly others) might benefit in the future again: Get the kernel-source-2.4.20 ACPI patched kernel from http:/

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The pics have arrived! The pics have arrived! You can see them at Yahoo photos in the folder `Durgam Lake'.

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I missed writing about my trip to bangalore. I went there some 2 weeks ago, and had a blast. After a long long time I took a day [friday] off, and caught a bus on thursday evening. Presto! On Friday morning I reach bangalore. Roshan ("Papa Rosh" aka OCR), being the kind soul he is, came to pick me up from the Bus stand which is almost like 15-20 kms from where they live. Having arrived at

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My friend V has gone off to bangalore for 4 months. And I'm already missing her. It is fun talking to her, and having verbal fights with her (she does have a sharp tongue ;-) ). Though she cribs like hell about everything when she is in the mood (I'm guilty of that too, but she is incredible: I never knew someone could crib so much!) She's left today morning. On sunday she wanted to take

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Finally I got debian up and running. I've been working on GNU/Linux for so long that I've forgotten how to deal with Windows. The most basic, sureshot, nuke-'em kind of solution: Reinstall! I reinstall XP. Put in the gateway address, the IP address, subnet mask, DNS IPs and viola! It Just Works (TM). So I hastily get Mozilla-Firebird for Windows (can't get no satisfaction from IE6), and

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062341496825530622003-08-31T07:51:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:29:21.713-07:00

The damn thing installed after an hour and now it refuses to recogonize my DVD/CD-ROM drive. So I'm back to installing XP Home. For all practical purposes it turns my Rs 1 lakh laptop into a piece of junk. Lord knows what I'll do if this doesnt' work...

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062340055308252802003-08-31T07:27:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:29:41.966-07:00

Yay! I finally became a FSF Associate member. Member #1541. Forked $120 for it though, which means quite a significant sum in Indian Rupees. But WTF, I owe FSF the ca$h, much much more than that infact. So I can get mail as: aaditya at member dot fsf dot org, which is awesome :-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1062339761119833982003-08-31T07:22:00.000-07:002003-09-01T22:30:10.000-07:00

I've been trying to get the Dell laptop to network under windows XP. So far it has proved to be a losing battle. The version of XP I got is XP Home. Which does not support Windows domain controllers. Or more than 5 computers on the same network. And when I try to set up good ol' TCP/IP networking (an IP, subnet, Gateway address) it doesn't work. Arghhhhh... Finally I'm trying to get

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Finally the long held dream of a notebook pc got fulfilled. And my dream was to say no to Microsoft EULA and to have only Free Software on this machine. Which is a shattered dream... I got this Dell Inspiron 8500. The machine is bigger and heavier than normal laptops. But a great 15.4 inch screen :-) It got delivered to a friend's place in Bangalore, the taxes being lower there. So I head

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1059692107629079342003-07-31T15:55:00.000-07:002003-07-31T15:58:56.680-07:00

I've been getting worked up about a policy my office has: I sit on the 4th floor. Whenever there is a mail/courier for me which requires my signature (which is, almost all mail, since my cell service provider is paranoid that I might not get my bill (heaven forbid!), so they *have* to courier it ofcourse. Ditto for every other service I subscribe for) I get a call from the 3rd floor

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1059605112248934242003-07-30T15:45:00.000-07:002003-07-30T15:45:52.070-07:00

After reading my Saturday post, my dad called me up. PRetty concerned about my state of mind, and the lack of a laptop in my life ;) So he persuaded me to get a laptop. He's paying. I ordered this Dell Inspiron 8500. More than 1 lakh. Which just goes to show that writing down your feelings does help ;)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1058629052840197692003-07-19T08:37:00.000-07:002003-07-19T08:38:32.886-07:00

Slept over in the office. Too drowsy I guess. And couldn't get mucho done either. Hmmm. That calls for some quick hacking ;-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1058564153668539082003-07-18T14:35:00.000-07:002003-07-23T23:44:21.726-07:00

Is it possible for one to grow totally detached from the work they do? I seem to have. It just doesn't matter anymore what I do. Almost like an automaton. There seem to be just two goals now: get a laptop and get out of here. The latter is being held over due to the former. I've more or less forgotten about anything else. I just keep working dumbly for the laptop and watch my bank balance

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1058556749546617912003-07-18T12:32:00.000-07:002003-07-18T14:36:37.460-07:00

Drunk! Had dinner with a friend and then we went out for some beers. And headed back to office. Irresponsible I know... So I'm technically a bit on the woozy side. Plus V has gone out of town to her folks for a few days; I feel lonely. Not mucho else...

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1057722087400763782003-07-08T20:41:00.000-07:002003-07-18T14:36:11.600-07:00

I had to configure a freshly installed Win2k machine for a friend. So I go over and install Mozilla 1.4 and Emacs for Windows. All nicely done and configured, with all the cool extensions from mozdev also put in. Then on a whim I just installed the firebird nightly for windows. And promptly fell out of my chair. The damn thing looks good, renders really well and is fast! Not to

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1057146982340013762003-07-02T04:56:00.000-07:002003-07-09T00:08:41.953-07:00

Mozilla 1.4 was released recently. Finally stable :) I had been running 1.4b for a while now. Got the source and built it. about:buildconfig shows: --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-optimize --disable-mailnews --enable-xft --prefix=/usr/local --enable-freetype --enable-crypto --disable-composer --disable-debug --enable-strip So I got gtk2+xft. Which rocks :-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1057133201275428002003-07-02T01:06:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:48:29.416-07:00

Or how about this Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop? Good config and great prices. Coming to almost Rs 50k. Hmmmm, I think I'll go for dell :-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1057092376620938772003-07-01T13:46:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:48:53.826-07:00

Ouch! The IBM US ThinkPad model I had my eye on has TCPA chip built in...(see IBM security). Man, this sucks big time! Apparently Linux kernel will still work well, but TCPA sounds like a bad idea in conjugation with Palladium (for future windows versions). And future GNU/Linux versions might not be very runnable as this combo can effectively cirumvent the GPL . Read the TCPA/Palladium FAQ.

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-1057082274946807262003-07-01T10:57:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:49:35.583-07:00

Managed to meet the deadline just by a fraction. Then a strange thing happened. I got glowing praise from the senior member for the code. Wow! It felt good, to be appreciated in one thing I (presumably) do well. There is another deadline floating around the place, that of Unit Testing. Until the US dude gets back to me with the UT document he is supposed to write can't do much about it.

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-959392352003-06-23T01:27:00.000-07:002003-06-23T01:27:49.000-07:00

Damn busy today. Been upto nothing for last 2-3 working days and project's due in 2 days. This has become more or less my life story... Now I get to push hard and get it done. 2 days. Hmmm. Do-able /me thinks. Let's see. Cheers!

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-955825612003-06-12T01:24:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:50:32.856-07:00

[It is with mixed feelings of elation and despair that I write this journal entry] Rains! Rains! Rains finally came to hyderabad. After 3 months of temperatures ranging 45C+, pre-monsoon showers finally hit hyderabad. What a relief! Wanted to soak in the rain and lustfully sing loud songs. But there was work to be done, so had to come back and get to it :-( Ah, the price one pays for

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-951045452003-05-30T18:50:00.000-07:002003-06-12T06:49:48.000-07:00

Been here all day and all night. Mainly hacking my sawfish config. And some browsing. Discovered some cool stuff for sawfish: Service Menu - NeXTish service stuff. Truly good. Should've gotten into the whole sawfish scene earlier on. Anyway, hacking sawfish means that now I get to stay back and write the code I should've written last evening. Sigh. Better get to it...

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-950686272003-05-29T22:56:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:51:04.270-07:00

I was excited about the project I've got. Sounded like some real work after all this time. Well, it is just some brain dead changes to some part of an API. /me feeling crushed and down again. Sigh, maybe I should give up all hope of getting good work. I'm watching myself getting sucked into the ERP domain. Somehow or the other. Wanted to quit a long time ago, then thought 1 year. And then

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-949282232003-05-26T22:59:00.000-07:002003-05-26T23:01:53.000-07:00

Woke up at 5 *AM* today. Wonder why :-/. Just woke up and couldn't get back to sleep. So took some photographs of the darkness outside. Then read practice of programming for a while and then design document for an enhancement project I have. Watched the movie 'Shrek' for about an hour. At 8 am it felt like half the day was already over. I could get a *lot* done if I could daily get up

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-947874542003-05-23T07:45:00.000-07:002003-05-26T22:42:37.000-07:00

In other news I got a hike from my company. Nearly 12% or 40k bucks. Pretty neat sum, considering I'll get the back dated difference from January onwards. That'd be nearly 10k. Sheeesh! Now it'll be more difficult for me to quit and join a startup, as I planned to do. Now where will I find a startup company ready to pay me three and half lakhs? :-/

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-947865962003-05-23T07:26:00.000-07:002003-05-23T07:28:51.000-07:00

The infy deal is not going to work i think. This is what I got from the manager there: I would be thrilled to have you in my team. I will answer your one-liners (in the end of your mails) once you are in my team. Till then, let "good manners" prevail. I will let you keep your OS as linux only if you prove me that you know what the OS is doing at any given point in time. *shudder* is

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-943164852003-05-14T00:57:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:53:57.200-07:00

Had a telephonic interview with the Infy people on Friday. Went pretty well (and I realized I'm still more or less good at C :-)) They asked me about my simulator. Explained in detail. Then some C. Heh heh. Good I had started hacking the sim again, got the mental edge. Coincidentally my friend was in the next cubicle there while the interview was on. Tells me they were impressed :-D

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-938032132003-05-05T08:05:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:53:15.630-07:00

It seems to me this blog has been getting melancholious off late. Hmmm, gotta fix that :-) Things have started looking better. Even at work, which came as a surpise to me! And I finally had enough gumption to start coding my long held 8085 simulator. The poor thing always struck some disaster or other after every coding run, so I'll be sure to keep some backups this time [Once I had a backend,

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Talking to some folks at Infosys about joining up their embedded group. Supposed to work in C/Unix so /me is optimisitc. Talked via a friend who joined there recently (names omitted to protect the innocent). Sent my resume. Let's see if they come back for an interview... Hmmm. Mebbe I should put my resume online at my site too. This resume I had to do in MicroSoft Word, a fine peice of

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Today I got this mail from my manager after a particularly bad session (the underlining is mine): This is just to recollect our first performance review meeting during the last week of March 2003. At such a meeting we reviewed your progress and had mutually agreed to the fact that you had a lot of quick catchups to be done to be in tune with our expectation from an average performer working

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Got up groggy. Dunno why. So came in at around 12. And then was thinking and working hard on a customer bug I have. Working really hard. When my manager called me up for some discussion. Things rapidly went downhill from this point onward. We had a "discussion" (read: i'm about to get it good and proper) about the my bug closures for this week. Which, infact, are zero. As I was tackling a

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-923660692003-04-10T08:49:00.000-07:002003-07-08T23:51:58.120-07:00

hey all! Slept late and came in at almost 11:30 am, making up for the last two days. Felt good. And fresh. Last night, after leaving I went over to V's house for a chat. ended up borrowing her laptop :-). A Dell with Debian Woody on it (I'm (irr)responsible for that). So there I was, 2'o clock in the night, writing small perl scripts and having fun. Then some playing with Emacs. Felt

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-922979362003-04-09T09:11:00.000-07:002003-04-09T09:11:30.466-07:00

The notion of me coming in early and leaving early is a myth. It is never going to happen. No matter at what time I show up in the office I shall not leave before 9 pm (minimum, 10pm+ is more likely). So if you hear me talking about leaving early, come over and hit me. Or abuse me. Abuse me, I deserve it. I'm so lame to believe these kind of notions. Case in point: I came in today at 9am,

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-920825412003-04-06T01:40:00.000-08:002003-04-06T06:31:06.000-07:00

Sorry for posting after a long time but things got a bit tight 'round here. You see I got a new manager (did I talk about that before?). And the things with the new guy are not all hunky-dory. Interesting fellow. One who wants to see a bug closure count of 5 every week (ie one per day). I tried to (gently) point out that this is insane. 'Nonsense', he retorted. Apparently we all are very '

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-909197752003-03-18T05:00:00.000-08:002003-03-31T04:17:35.000-08:00

It was a great weekend! Insanely great! Silvermane (aka Noufal) was down here and we had fun :-). He was supposed to arrive sometime early saturday and give me a call. I kept getting up every 10 minutes from 6'o clock onward worrying if my mobile's switched off and why doesn't he call? All this after I had slept at 3'o clock grokking some perl. Anyway he called up finally, and I started to head

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-907187112003-03-14T09:20:00.000-08:002003-03-14T10:49:50.670-08:00

I'm feeling really down. I have these stupid bugs where all I have to do is to go and change some stupid field in a stupid file and recompile and test it. I feel like fscking crying :`( Mebbe I should have joined that startup doing website work. Heck, it couldn't have been worse than this. No, really. But then again, one must (is constrained to?) live with the choices one made (or did not make).

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-906017112003-03-12T11:10:00.000-08:002003-03-12T11:13:08.000-08:00

Today was a tough day. Manager's asked me to try to mung 3-4 bugs by this weekend, and that is way more than my current rate (more like 2 or 3 bugs going in parallel taking 4-5 days). Panic time!So today, I killed my gaim (a yahoo messenger replacement for gnu/linux), didn't check email for a long while and didn't talk much to people either. Made decent progress, methinks the targets look

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-905327322003-03-11T09:53:00.000-08:002003-03-12T00:24:11.000-08:00

It is interesting how much time I can spend in pursuing personal activities while still getting the work done. Very amusing. I spend quite a significant amount of time playing with gnu emacs, and making myself more productive in it. I guess it does help the company in the long run, but I sometimes feel guilty about it. OTOH one has to just watch someone editing in Vi to realize how much of a

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-900539242003-03-03T07:47:00.000-08:002003-03-03T07:47:36.200-08:00

A recent incident: I was in the training room, and a couple of guys were following the cricket world cup match going on. I, as usual, wasn't paying much attention. The guy sitting next to me (a pretty cool guy) asked if I was interested in the score. Trying to blend in with the guys, I said yes, I was. And then asked what the score was. He told me. I said ok, and got back to my work. He then

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-898600022003-02-27T13:18:00.002-08:002003-02-27T13:20:58.000-08:00

Again staying back late today. Not actually doing much in terms of official work, but hacking the configuration to get sound working again. Which, didn't actually work till now.And got mozilla 1.2.1 with xft support, so ditched the older 1.0.0 xft version. Spent some time in getting all the plugins to work (from mozdev.org). Looks good :-)Gotta leave now, and sleep for a while.

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-896489752003-02-24T08:09:00.001-08:002003-02-24T11:50:41.000-08:00

ack! the data I created on the all night coding marathon had some glaring typos. Like names of non-existent tables! Embarassing :-(My copies of `Hackers' and 'Snow Crash' arrived today. I had ordered them via fabmart.com in Jan and they finally show up. Man, that made me happy, I'd been wanting to read up Hackers [/. review] for a long time since college; and Snow Crash [/. review] is a very

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-894490152003-02-20T11:25:00.000-08:002003-02-24T08:23:10.420-08:00

Hah! Script done! And I managed to catch one error in my code before it shipped out :-|. Would have been embarassing if it got out. Maybe the US guy *is* pretty smart. So now off to verify the changes in my code and then create the patch. I Hope I can leave by 1 am and then sleep till 12 tomorrow! yay!On a side note gnome 2.2 packages for Debian woody were released today. Mebbe I'll try them out

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-894472732003-02-20T10:53:00.000-08:002003-02-20T10:53:14.170-08:00

Great. The US guy does come up with some interesting issues. And I get to solve them. To write scripts to look at them. Can't really blame him, he is trying to deliver a finished product. But from my pov, it is as ugly as it gets :-( 11:24PM and still here working on that script. He did say maybe I could tomorrow morning and work on it, but I don't want to come to office tomorrow!

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-894372492003-02-20T07:46:00.000-08:002003-02-20T07:52:53.430-08:00

I feel jubilant today. The chaos that the last two weeks were finally seem to be (hopefully) over. I get to create a patch of all the fixes I have been making and unleash them on unsuspecting people! MUHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously, I was so stressed out I couldn't even think straight, I wonder how was I carrying on talking to people, eating, riding my bike, living :-/ I asked my manager for tomorrow

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-893054722003-02-18T06:13:00.000-08:002003-02-18T06:13:24.233-08:00

There is a blog by a friend of mine, silvermane. Thought Provoking. silvermane is a pretty idealistic person and tends to think about things from a whole lot of perspectives. So I usually listen to what he has to say carefully. [I have to be careful about what I say about him here, he reads this blog ;-)]

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-893036352003-02-18T05:34:00.000-08:002003-02-20T11:41:01.866-08:00

enetation seems too slow, so I switched to backblog, which does seem noticably faster...After all this effort if you folks (if there are any...) don't post some comments, grrrr....>:-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-893022802003-02-18T04:58:00.000-08:002003-02-18T04:58:38.680-08:00

Finally added comments via enetation. So go ahead, let me know what you think! W00t!

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-892889812003-02-17T22:04:00.000-08:002003-02-18T04:29:56.000-08:00

finally fixed gnus last night to read and send mail correctly. I've been dreading going through the extremely long gnus manual (300+ pages!) for sometime now, but until I do that I can't get it to work the way I want (and am reduced to ask rudimentary stuff on #emacs channel on IRC). Time is a luxury I do not have.... Training is still on BTW, this is during a short break. I'm feeling a bit

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-892537952003-02-17T11:02:00.000-08:002003-02-17T11:02:49.893-08:00

BTW my webpage is at aadityasood.net. Not updated in ages, but that is going to change soon. Give it a visit sometime :-)

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-892509122003-02-17T10:13:00.000-08:002003-02-18T04:34:40.000-08:00

I just thought about:All the opinions expressed here in this blog are entirely my own and in no way express any of my employer. There. Everything I say here is mine, MINE, MUHAHAHA...

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-892493462003-02-17T09:42:00.000-08:002003-02-17T10:22:53.000-08:00

Hiya folks! I want to write about some important things I've been thinking about... Currently I'm single and looking for someone, but the someone has to be someone special. Someone I could talk to without getting myself (or them) bored stiff. The kinds of things that matter to me, philosophy, computers, GNU (GPL and all the software Freedom releated issues), ethics,... not many people want to

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-892368672003-02-17T05:06:00.000-08:002003-02-17T10:21:50.000-08:00

Finally the training gets over! Back to my beloved workstation with my GNOME2 desktop :-) such relief! [BTW MozBlog is working again for making new posts, but not for editing older ones, so this is via MozBlog]

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-892331342003-02-17T02:58:00.000-08:002003-02-17T10:20:32.000-08:00

I'm in training room and grappling with Java, EJB and business logic in the new framework. The new framework is based on Java and Beans. Atleast java is a proper language with good tools support, unlike PL/SQL (which is a kludge of control structures on top of SQL). The Jdeveloper IDE is pretty smooth, even if a bit buggy and unstable. Way better than developer IMHO. I'm in the training room,

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-891928892003-02-16T09:44:00.000-08:002003-02-17T10:19:11.000-08:00

I'm still here, browsing and reading some docs online. Mainly waiting for my friend vaishalee to finish her work, so we can leave together. Sigh. And tomorrow the training starts - 4 days of 9 to 5 agony and boredom. Sigh. Will keep posting from training room on what transpires... BTW, what I'm interested in knowing is that could I get an Emacs mode to publish my blog through my network proxy? I

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-891866282003-02-16T06:45:00.000-08:002003-02-17T10:22:12.000-08:00

wayVk [featured on Slashdot, every geek's dream site] sounds like a good idea to me, especially since I'm so used to gestures in mozilla (via the Radical Context plugin) that I try to use them in nautilus! But I doubt if it'll work well with Ion, the full screen window manager I use.

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-891823672003-02-16T03:23:00.000-08:002003-02-16T03:36:05.000-08:00

This week has been pure hell. working late and hard (the `late' part hurts more). A new release is supposed to go out soon and deadlines are fast approaching. One day stayed back til 5 am (think it was Friday). Today is a sunday and I'm still at it (though at a leisurely pace). The biggest issue is that the evelopment environment/tools are far inferior to what I'm used (C under GNU/Linux

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-884784662003-02-03T08:41:00.000-08:002003-02-03T08:41:41.350-08:00

I finally didn't go over to azri. The final deciding factor was that the work was Tcl/Websites. If I want to make a jump, I think I'll do it for C/Unix or something like that. Agonized a lot over the decision. My manager helped me to see all the pros and cons (he lost a chance to get rid of me ;-) ). Anyway, let's see what pops up next.

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-881982552003-01-28T20:48:00.000-08:002003-01-28T20:50:18.000-08:00

hey! I'm talking to this startup company doing work in web-based data backends in hyderabad, india. The company is azri.biz. For one thing they are committed to Open Source and the GPL. That is a big win in my book. I have been thinking about this for the last few days, and considering all the issues, I've finally make my decision. I think I am going to go over and work there for some time,

aaditya soodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14545868880801355392noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3918547.post-840529062002-11-05T02:37:00.000-08:002002-11-05T02:58:35.000-08:00

Hi, These are the voyages of ShadowFax, an indian software developer in (surprise!) india. His continuing mission: To write new software, to write it under GPL and to boldly go where almost all hackers have gone before. ShadowFax recently got out of college, and is working for a MNC (Multi National Corporation) in india. Having just got out of college, shadowfax is pretty much an idealist;

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