bash user given windows

“What happens when a bash user is given windows.

He writes batch scripts”

Quote that sonna

Windows really sucks seriously!

I have never tried more than a few installs of windows as compared to the many linux installs I have done.

Recently had to fix up a friends system which runs vista home some edition.
What would have been a jiffy with linux ruined half my night. And that too without the help of  my incompetence.

I can now attest firsthand to the title of the post.

A new OSM contributor

The days of idle-roaming in Ooty are finally turning to be productive. 

 All it tooks was a GPS device and a friend to show you how. 

lawgonji magnanimously lent me a GARMIN GPS 72 and his know-how.

If you’d like to paint your idleness with fun colors

head over here:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners’_Guide

It’s pure fun, take my word for it.

Happenings

Nothing interesting.

Started developing calluses on my fingers, broke a guitar string by trying to act too smart when tuning one.

Reverted back to blackbox instead of Gnome after an unsuccessful upgrade to F10.

Now I know what people mean by ‘rpm hell’.

Had a row with pops and punched a mirror in fury(regretting it later, of course).

On a lighter note:

Chetan and I have decided to go fishing these days. Ripped a couple of bamboo shoots from the bushes near Dodabetta.

Bought a few fish hooks, line and float from Quetta stores, damn those guys remembered to buy some for us as promised.
Not quite sure about the shoot length or its parameters, anyways.

Will be going to fisheries to find out about the regulations.

Hope to catch a big one.

Getting my hands dirty

Updates:

Still teaching linux here.

Trying to lay out a garden on my roof.

Screwing up the kernel to get my drive working.

Still dialing up this connection with conexant hsfmodem (bad bad choice of lenovo) found
drivers for linux at linuxant but only with limited capability (Have never tried to reverse engr software for linux before now, I know it’s against the license)

Results of reversing: no visible improvement. 

Time to get another paycheck.

Tschuss

Writing again in Python

I’m simply infatuated with this language.

Doing a little GUI code in python nothing serious just to kill time.

Could collaborate on small projects with interested people.

Must warn you have a bad internet connection.

Google Charts Api- Cool

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.

Another all nighter

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.

We are back in business

Who would have thought we could get back-on track so fast.

Just this week I had a re-look at my design and wow; one critical
flaw at the start and you keep building on it until you realize you gotta go back and fix it.

Just Blocked

No progress this week.
It’s a couple of weeks until deadline.
Have lost my bragging rights about the project.