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November 17, 2006 .
Well, the host change worked more or less fine, excep that there are some problems with the htaccess file. I need to let wordpress mod it to allow permalinks, but the file is not visible, let alone writeable. Also there seems to be some 502s whenever I try to access my admin area or xmlrpc.php. In a nutshell, there’s a bit of work remaining to be done. In another nutshell, I’ll do it when my exams are over.
In other news, I had a test today and I got unusually lucky and got an easy experiment. Even more disturbing was that the Op-amps, which usually don’t work very well, worked fine. There were some small glitches with some other equippment though, but I came up with a clever hack and changed a few values of resistances and things went fine.
Exams approach. The horsemen are drawing nearer, and I need to go study now.
PS. Yes, it is now my new convention to include an image with any post I write.
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November 16, 2006 .
Huge changes on the online front today. Changed my host from frihost to 110mb, one of the best and fastest hosts out there. I’m pretty glad I got this host as not too many people manage to get it in time. Anyways, I had to tunnel through the firewall and get an ftp access and get all my hacked files along with the plugins/etc and reupload it into the new server and after that, back up the sql database and gzip it, following which I had done with a little difficulty. After that I did the most important thing, go to the domain registar and change the nameservers from the frih ones to the 110mb ones. The changes are supposed to take place in 48 hours but for me they took only 1 hour. Just long enough for me to get some important files before the data reference is lost.
So ultimately at the end of the nearly six hour wait, I have the same blog with kickass php rendering time, which I don’t notice, courtesy of kgp’s snail proxies, which’ve also blocked ftp for good measure.
The best part is that I got quite a bit of studying done in the process. I got to write 3 records and since I’m submitting a little late, I managed to do them extremely neat, which is very rare in my case. Also managed to study for a lab test tomorrow.
Go Me!
[TAGS]this_site, domain, tech, hosting[/TAGS]
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November 14, 2006 .
Warning: Not for those with a faint stomach
Due to a viva for 4 experiments which took the better part of two and a half hours in the afternoon, I happened to miss lunch. No problem, there are plenty of eating places. One phone call later, a friend and I were on our way to chillies: one of three of our usual eating joints. While giving my order, I noticed the specials reading: Veg chopsi. Allright, thought I’d try it, sounds wierd, but exotic, plus it was rather inexpensive. So I had the usual apetizer and the main course came and it looked EVIL.
(pic was taken when I was halfway done with it)
Being the sport that I was, I ate it. It was ridiculously bland, and I needed a little spice, but it was distubingly slimy and had almost-raw vegetables in it. Ten points for the face I made when I was eating it:
The picture came out real bad because the camera was shaky, but the thing was disturbing and eventually I finished most of it before washing the taste away with apple juice. Apparently, the dish is pretty healthy. That’s why it tasted that weird and wel…bad.
I learnt something from this, order whatever you know unless you can make good faces or you have a camera nearby. Just make sure the person taking the picture doesen’t shake it. Next time, I’m just ordering the omlette and the regular noodles.
[TAGS]food, me, chillies, chopsi, disturbing, photos[/TAGS]
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November 10, 2006 .
A quick check on right now It’s Five in the morning. I’ve spent the last 11 hours right in this chair. In 11 measly hours, I learnt a new programming lib, and wrote 700 lines of code and learnt up 100 pages worth of theory for what it’s worth for a viva.
Allright, I know I’m gloating uncontrollably but I’m sickeningly delirious and haven’t written anything for a while. This is quite a rather commendable feat for me and it reminds me that I still can write some code. This is the largest piece of code that I’ve written in 2 years, and I’ve still gotten a little rusty.
The metal and a generous helping of coffee at 2 kept me going, and I realized one thing today – Night outs suck. I really don’t want to study from now on if I’m sleepy unless I absolutely have to. As far as studying or heck, working is concerned, most people set time as the benchmark and so did I. But this’ll mean I have to wake up in the mornings, and we know that it’ll never happen. So the night should do.
Tech speak for tonight:
GLUT: the opengl utility toolkit is god-amazing. Opengl to code by itself is a pain in the ass, but this makes it so easy.
OUTLOOK: I finally tunneled through my proxy successfully and am downloading all my mail locally. About 3000 e-mails downloaded in one night, which is pretty decent for a port 995 connection tunneled through the firewall.
OUTLOOK+GOOGLE DESKTOP: Amazing. I reinstalled google desktop as some
gadget was giving me a lot of problems as whenever I install a cpu monitor, the mouse used to stagger on cpu peak which was extreeemely annoying to me. But I got some really nice calendar gadgets along with a big analog clock that I’ve always been wanting. This is what I always wanted, an analog clock and a calendar. Outlook is almost as good as korganizer in terms of features. I still prefer korganizer though.
UPTIME: More on uptime.
ORKUT: Though I still loathe orkut with white hot loathing, I’ve been checking it once a day, which is very weird.
Allright I really gota sleep. I have to give my viva tommorow morning.
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November 9, 2006 .
(Sorry digg users, this is not blog spam) but
direct link: http://www.google.com/talk/whatsnew.html was already taken for something else
But for the rest of you google talk came out with lots of new features I discovered by accident, including offline messages and ability to chat with orkut friends. I hate orkut and will write more about it later. I have a lot of work now.
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