I have been to college(well mostly), read the books, learnt my lessons, spoken my thoughts, gotten through exams,
experienced quite a lot of things, made new friends but ended up just where I started with the question:

What’s next?

I can while away my time writing a little code, watching movies, fooling around and roaming these streets-
which is just what we do these days.

None of these constitute a “productive” lifestyle.
This desire of mine to break out of self created paradigms is somehow becoming insatiable.

I NEED my FIX of challenges, failures and excitement to keep me going.

This luxury of idleness and peace just doesn’t work for me.
Add a hint of uncertainty and dejection to it and you end up with a concoction of insanity.

Stuck in a quaint little paradise I am in search of a vision.

What would you do with all the time in the world?

First impression: Kde 4 is clean, will be better soon I guess.

Visible improvements: Performance and quick response.

Problems: SATA DVD drive still doesn’t work, will be trying out new kernel tonight.

Took off from cbe a few days ago, first stop was Jab’s place in Chennai, finished our business real quick and headed to Riche’s place in Pondicherry.

Nice place they have here, the traffic is a bit difficult for me.

Had a wonderful stroll in the serenity beach. They have so many of these statues here?!
These buildings are wonderful and the enclaves are planned beautifully,

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Supposed to have been on my way to home to catch the flower show, the usual holiday crowd delayed my prospect. Will be leaving this interesting place tomorrow.

Au revoir Pondy!

Paid my dues with compiler design yesterday.

Waiting to see if I could clear it this time.

I’ll go home in a few days.
Guys, see you there.

Waiting for Fedora sulphur to come out. No LAN connection here to upgrade directly.
Downloaded most of the source dvd though.

Have got a couple of rough exams coming up

They have started tea and we have started with Stronghold crusader.
Long nights of cramming have started. Hoping to get enough gyan to clear these papers.

Project viva was pretty neat.

Will be going home in the first week of may.

A lot of my emotions are brought to life only when I hear people telling me about it.

The other day Sam said that I was one of the person who was enjoying doing my project.

Course I am enjoying it. How else would I mindlessly sit at the terminal writing cgi code in python.

Apart from rrdtool another recent this that brought some eye candy to my project was this.

I gathered sys stats from the system and built urls that linked to google to produce these fine charts.

wanna see how I did it?

Look at this

Leave comments if you have any ideas for improvement. Or better still join our project.

Was looking for a minimalistic manager.

Found a cool one in window maker.

Been using blackbox for a while earlier for same needs.

pretty neat with aterm transparent uh?.

As a friend of mine so aptly put it; we have become the creatures of the night (like batman/spiderman ;-)).

Working all night and spending the day without a worry about rain or shine (this is my case.)

Only time has to answer if this is going to get me in trouble with the system on which we spend our pop’s bucks just to see a piece of B S paper that the world tends to call THE real education.

f#$K

Where in the world does this make me educated, I see people all around me far more truly educated than us, who know the know-how of life that we can only imagine to possess or buy for $$.

What is life without this true education the inborn creativity and human values that this system so magnificently nips at the bud.

By rote learning will get you into universities. Why? So that an entire economy or even civilization fall prey to morons with only crappy degrees and no sense about life and nature?

Solutions exist; but will take generations of failures to realize this. I bet the future kids will be laughing their brains out reading our history (so well documented in media and the net.)

Euthenics may be the answer for the elites but who cares about the grassroots in this county. Call it any name you want for your publicity stunts but the macro picture is that the system is FUBAR that the effort input on these young students is actually counter productive.

I am talking about kids in the range of 12 who are force fed junk and they call this education. True learning comes not out of the need for shelter and meals but of a yearning to be a better person and be responsible to the entire human community.

I pity the instructors who are in a moral dilemma over forcing burden-laden students(or more aptly refugees, as is the case) to memorize battles of the past or letting them get a real education.

If you were like me a suited up stud of private schools left behind by the Raj: you will most probably fail to grasp what I am talking about.

Lucky me I have gathered enough to realize this now from stories about school life in the rurals from my mom.

The more I think of it, the more I feel guilty of the privilege to vent my anger here when there are scores out there who have no inkling of what I am doing now.

As the time of this post might suggest I am writing this in the dead of the night.

There is a little bit of catching up to do with the project report.

Why didn’t we put the analysis and design part onto paper rather than having it in our minds?

Gonna have to create an appropriate design that would suit the product for the reports.

Used rrdtool to generate cool graphs, did charts using google charts api.

Will upload recent snaps soon.

btw project hosted on code.google no more waiting and approval.

Been a busy these days.
Back from an industrial visit(experiences still a draft will publish soon)

In real life we are working with ntop now and wow what a wonderful piece of work.

Had a tough time compiling them from source and thus took the beaten path rpm can be found at

http://www.securemind.org/v4/?p=142

Now we can take our project to the next level.

Thnx guys