And with Oden on our side, we are victorious
Preview of the next oneclick version. This is only part of the entire suite but I finally got fixed the most important new feature. Have a look at screenshot. This is just in development and in no way representative of the final product.
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There were a few new members in my dormitory wing, a few little kittens. A couple of them were scavenging around for food so I gave them what I had and after that the little things started coming to my room whenever they damn well pleased. One of them even came inside my room and I had to shoo it out. Though it’s not the right thing to do, last thing I want is a stray animal in my room(with the exception of me and my friends of course).
It’s monsoon in kharagpur and it’s raining almost always. The entire wing was wet and I was greeted at 1 am in the night by the two kittens trying to get into my room. Sorry again guys, and I had to shut them out. But the heart wrenching mewing wouldn’t let me do any work. Moreover I was going back home for a few weeks in a few hours, so I just led them to a dry spot near the water coolers and put out a few newspapers so they could have a dry spot. They seemed pretty pleased and went to sleep, leaving me to pack in peace.
Right now only one thing is going through my mind, what’ll happen to them tomorrow when I’m not around. I really gotta do something to take my mind of things.
But this post is in memory of my two almost-pet kittens: pepper and whiskers.
Sigh, by some strange coincidence, my ram, hard drive, and my subwoofer conked out in the same evening.
I noticed my computer wasn’t working fine because of a lot of BSODs and computer freezes and errors, and I guessed it was the RAM. Today it breathed it’s last, and died on me in the middle of reading a very funny story. The computer refused to boot up and made beeping sounds. I removed one stick of 512 MB RAM(266MHz DDR), and the beeping continued. I removed the other stick and put the first one back in and the computer came back to life.
having 512 MB ram sucks 
. Afterward,I talked to a friend who is a hardware expert, and he told me he was surprised that the cheaper, over-the-counter RAM lasted as long as two and a half years.
The very same day, something went wrong with windows. I decided to give linux one more fair trial. I decided to stick to that until I got more RAM in December, and popped the debian autoinstall CD in. I let it start and go get some coffee, and when I’m back, I find that it’s stuck inbetween. After a reboot, even the windows bootloader doesn’t work fine. Turns out my partition table is ruined. My OSes were on a 40gb hard drive that was 4 years old (that’s around 30 in hard drive years, but that’s pretty okay), I have to send it back to the manufacturer to get it repaired, as it’s hopefully still under warranty.
Then I decided that I’m not gonna spend today trying to fix a broken computer. I just turned it off went outside and watched four kittens try to catch bugs in the lawn nearby.
Best decision I’ve ever made.
If anybody knows how to repair a broken partition table without having to cold format the drive, do let me know.
I did something real cool today, I sent two emails. While this might seem quite ordinary and boring, let me mention I sent it to myself, still not *that* interesting, but the catch is that I sent it using a service called FutureMe. What happens is you type up a letter and you set a date, and it sends you that letter on that date. I’m gonna turn 20 in a few hours, and it’s a little cool and still a little freaky(more on this later), so I thought I’d write to myself and send it exactly one year from now, and about my goals and plans for the next year and hopefully that I’ll have accomplished them by the time I get it before my 21st birthday.
The most interesting part is the second and longer letter I wrote to myself, and set it to be delivered on July 2nd 2017, the night before my 30th(gosh). It was interesting baring out my heart, about my dreams and thoughts and desires right now, about my plans for the future, and about how my life is right now. I might be where I want to be or somewhere completely different, and knowing me, I’d never remember that I’d sent this, and it’s gonna be really nice when I get that email 10 years from now.
I believe in perpetual change and improvement. Change is entropy which drives the universe forward. Without change, you wouldn’t notice time, and I always feel embarrassed and almost ashamed when I think of the things I’ve done or said or thought maybe a year ago or maybe a few seconds ago.
I also made a little time capsule that I’m gonna send, including a snapshot of my music tastes, a couple of photographs, screenshots of my desktop, and some other monuments. I personally love looking back and looking for plesant memories, or try to find where things went wrong or what could’ve been improved. I often reread my old emails, chats to see how my style of writing and speaking has changed from lame and pseudointellectual to concise and relatively to-the-point writing.
Heck, the very reason I maintain a blog is not for shameless publicity, but to see for myself thorough the archives after a few years about what was going on with my mind at that point of time, and chronicle my emotional and mental maturity through the ages.
I'm a senior undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur majoring in Physics. I'm a self taught programmer.
I love open source, dogs, late-night conversations over coffee, and writing long letters and emails to people I don't know.
You should write to me at anirudh (at) anirudhsanjeev.org!
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