Job Vs Studies - Case I

Reading "The Amulet Of Samarkand" and enjoying the extremely rib-tickling confrontation between Bartimayeaus and the minor imp of Lovelace a thought struck me. Unlike being helpless ( like the I time felt like bloggin on the train) or resourcless ( everytime or the other when I want to, net is always with someone else...) or don't-feel-like-blogging mood, I am extremely fresh and excited having the thoughts pour out. Let's see how I will be able to let my readers construe.(A GRE word...well of late I observed Adarsh consciously or unconsiously trying to butt in some gre words...hmm..that's good, how else would I improve my sophistication anyway, but to me it just seems ..damn..can't recollect that word :D )

It's been more than a year and a half out of the "studies" but for the first time ever I felt the necessity of comparing with college days and the job at hand.

The Task at Hand:

I have a task at hand now that needs to completed by this coming friday. I have no clue as of now of how I am going to accomplish and if it will be a happy-ending-go-home-party ending like the "The Case of Missing e-ISBN" (will blog that shortly...and which perhaps has changed many things from then..) happend the last time with me. Ideally this weekend I should have gone there and given it a try. But I just didn't feel like going. I feel tempted to let it go down the wire where I can revel in the glory of pain,tension,helplessness and important of all "underperformance". Man, I tell you the engineering habits are hard to take them off. Had it been in .Net may be I would have perused through numerous sites and posted on several forums and work my ass off to get the results and try to do more than asked. Ouch...painful memories, that's what happens when you don't know the difference between ASP and ASP.net.

The thing is for me to ask for help would require me to explain the whole project which I can't and I very much doubt I would find the person with a time to spare and skill in hand (ASP in this case :) ) to help me. Well coming back to the topic of the blog, the present scenario is quite similar to the days before the External exams. I should have been really tensed, reducing my t.v. hours, download hours, talking on the phone (well that is minor of course...) but I am none of that now..

The main difference as I see is the approach now. In THIS case at least I don't have to read, or memorize or practise or tick the units on the Syllabus book or phone George, Vijay or Venkat to get some concepts right. Right now though I am happily lazing off my time reading the novel, taking a break, blogging about my nebulous(hurrah!!!...another one...not bad...) thoughts while simultaneously checking on Azerues on the torrent status of the PoTC - 3. Phew!!! Nothing beats that out. What I am getting at is I have nothing to prepare or read or memorize and stuff. Sligly adjusting the words of Gandalf the Grey..All I need to do decide is what to do with the time that is given to me...Tomorrow I will go there ( a little early though..at least I am not that bad and stupid to gleefully accept the incompetency) open the editor, think of few appoaches and try them out. Ok..ok..I understand your arguments of protest and self-defence: No way dude, there are so many thing I would do at home to be prepared in that sort of siutation than your stupid blogging , reading. But as I said, THIS case, Had it been .Net :D I would have deleted this blog.No wait on second thought I wouldn't mind having one though :D...Apart from this the other minor difference would be I would be reading for marks (...and I mean literally for marks , nothing else...) in the former case and here it is for the Client handshake.

Truly I am beginning to see what an amazing field this IT is. Man, Software Develpment truly rocks!!!!

(Well I guess this would be a ideal reason of defense to Vishali who so sweetly and politely asked me to bring some articles for Christmas..and I feel really bad now to let her down...but can't help it anyway...)

Configuring Laptop

(Tickets are booked. Date is confirmed. Understood so far??? Read these first...)

(a.k.a) Quinn's Quest For Laptop - III

This actually can be read a stand alone but would be better if you want to get into the groove of things if you read the series.Looks like 7th is when I would have the chance to put my hands on my most awaited priceless possession ( beating HP7) and my delay would only jeopardize the series. Actually this idea of writing what I am going to do once I have system is because of a blog on "What will I do after I format my desktop? " by some guy. It was an fascinating read and quite a fun too because I can actually feel myself telling : " Man...That's exactly what I do...".Well this ain't a desktop I know but still I guess one can relate to it. Okay..here goes my: Operation Laptop...

Operation Laptop


Phase I : Security

1. Run MCPR.exe - a uninstaller tool by McAfee to clean uninstall the mcafee product. (As I am getting one with a trial period of 30 days and no way in hell am I going to renew it...).
2. Install AVG Anti-virus latest version.
3. Use Norton Partition Magic 8.05 to partition my disk. (Desktopers can skip this step).
4. Install Commodo Firewall Pro - the best one there is in my honest opinion.
5. Spybot Search & Destroy - a must have to remove the spyware...

Phase II : Tools & Utitlities

1. Microsoft Office 2003
2. TuneUp Utilities 2007
3. Nero 7.1 Professional
4. WinRar 3.71 Final
5. Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.0
6. Mozilla Firefox 2.0
7. Opera 9.1
8. Picasa Web
9. Typing Master...Always wanted this to learn numbers...let's see if I can...
10. TweakUIPowerToy for Windows XP Only...
11. LimeWirePro 4.31
12. Azureus - Far far better compared to BitTorrent, UTorrent, eDonkey

Phase III: Audio & Video

1. Real Player 10.0 - darn thing needed for once in a blue moon rm files...nevertheless have to have it.
2. VLC MediaPlayer
3. DivX 7.0 Bundle

Phase IV : .Net

1. Visual Studio 2005 Professional
2. SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition- Evaluation for developers
3. SilverLight Extension

Of the list I have missed out WindowBlinds , a stardock product which will be phased out shortly depending upon the impact on the laptop. Chitti, were he to see this list, would almost cut half the softwares and he feels they are just waste of OS space and RAM space but I guess I have to convince him to see the beauty of these apps. After all this what would be left is the actual files I need to keep.

The following movies have to be on my HDD:

• My Neighbour Totoro
• Grave of the Fireflies
• Princess Mononoke
• Spirited Away
• Laputa - Castle in the Sky (basically all Miyazaki's collection)
• Akira
• Requiem For a Dream
• Fight Club
• Dil Chahta Hai
• Sarfarosh
• Athadu

And some more along with all the photos and all the books and all the video tutorials...ooph..one heck of a job left to be done....And what I am eagerly awaiting is to see the performance of my laptop after doing all this....

Well that ends it....

(Stay tuned to see the actual THING ...)