@ankur_sethi CPU, GPU, AirPort card?
@ankur_sethi I kept them there and forgot all about them.
My Bose speakers are working again! They’d been lying in the store room for 4 years unused.
@ankur_sethi I have no idea.
The web team at NDTV don’t know what a MacBook Air looks like. Hideous website for gadget awards. http://tr.im/k5nL
@ajuonline Better still, say you’re driving. That way it’s impossible for them to try and convince you to talk.
Ubuntu reduced the RAM requirement from 384MB to 256MB with 9.04.
@ManishSinha It actually looks good this time.
@shivaas Please check your email.
@rungta Seems like a lot of work. What don’t you like about phpMyAdmin?
@shivaas Sure thing.
@shivaas Nice. Just about the time I’d be free.
@kanduri He prolly has. But the people at IBN still have great respect for him.
@shivaas There was a place in Green Park. Will find out if you like.
@kanduri The guy actually sells Ankit Fadia certificates on his website. THE GURU also has a funny domain name: hackingmobilephones.com
Ten 5-minute power outages in two hours. This is irritating. Have to restart the router each time.
@ankur_sethi How? How?
@ManishSinha Okay. Because I know a lot of people who hate success.
@ankur_sethi Ok, you win. Now stop!
@ManishSinha You may be right and he may be an idiot but I hope your assumptions are not based on a casual blog post.
@kanduri Does that really matter? I hardly think about those fun days with those awesome 2D games now.
@ankur_sethi And do what @xAbhishek says too?
@kanduri If Rockstar continues to develop games that interest you. Somehow I don’t see that happening.
@kanduri I think differently. Don’t like people to blog about blogging. Or tweet about tweeting. #sucks
@kanduri I bet that you wont even care to remember. No one would. I loved Road Rash. Loved it like you love GTA IV. Now?
@ankur_sethi I’m talking about MY original awesome tweet.
@ankur_sethi Hmm. Your Twitter client doesn’t show in_reply_to conversations. Tweetdeck, is it?
@shivaas WTF? You in Delhi?
@kanduri Bah. Rockstar Games may be dead by the time you start thinking of donating a few paisas from your pocket.
@ankur_sethi LMAO. You should RT that so that all the people we follow notice it too.
@ankur_sethi And will you be using all that “awesomeness”?
@kanduri Didn’t I already tell you why pirating software is a bad idea?
I don’t understand why people don’t stop tweeting about having tweeted a lot already. Ugh.
@ankur_sethi I’m not sure. I think Puma was a similar release which was a free upgrade for users of 10.0. I doubt Snow Leopard will be free.
@ankur_sethi Makes sense if it’s organised well. Not like last time where everybody formed little groups of their own.
@kanduri That’s awesome. I don’t think NVidia cards have those open source drivers. Sucks.
@kanduri Without restricted drivers? Try moving around wobbling windows quickly on your computer while disabling them.
The first thing I notice when I switch to Windows to play a few casual games is that the fonts look so crappy. Now GDI++ loads at startup.
@ankur_sethi apply for the scholarship.
@ankur_sethi point? We didn’t do anything last time apart from emptying our pockets.
@ankur_sethi 7000 something I guess.
@ankur_sethi $129.
The moment you delete NetNewsWire you realize your days are much longer.
@apoorvkhatreja You should go, come back and tell me whether I should change my mind.
@apoorvkhatreja Never have, never will.
@apoorvkhatreja It’s a quick succession of blind dates with people trying to get you to follow them.
@ankur_sethi MacPorts, yes. I disabled Web Sharing. Chose to do everything from scratch.
@aditya That’s the aim. It shows less; is good at it.
Finally got mod_python25 to work. Had to force upgrade to revision 3 of the port.
@ankur_sethi Django requires mod_python. Some weird architecture error when I use MacPorts.
Has anyone got mod_python running with Apache on OS X?
@ankurb They’ll get used to it. Fluxbox isn’t bad.
@ankurb Download debian. Use fluxbox. Works well on the PIs that we use.
@humorme Wont be able to call. Will talk on Wednesday.
@apoorvkhatreja LMAO. With so many birthdays to remember, using a common Google calendar for SMS reminders is so convenient.
The woman(Ina Fried) in the Beyond Binary header image looks scary. http://news.cnet.com/bey…
@ankurb Oh. Then all the news channels got it wrong a month back.
@ankurb Thums UP sales are higher than Coke and Pepsi.
@ankur_sethi Wow. Looks like you have many things on mind.
@aditya It certainly is.
@itsanimesh Axxo switched to Netflix. Thinks you should stop bootlegging content under copyrights too.
@kbhargava The one thing he couldn’t do was dance. http://realdanlyons.com/…
Why is Yahoo! shutting down all of it’s services, reducing features in ones that continue to exist?
@neosurgehosting Do you support Django?
@blah_bleh Most shared hosts oversell. I can never be comfortable using Indian hosts. Because many of them overdo the overselling.
One more month before I decide which web host I should switch to. Rails Playground and Valcato Hosting seem like good options.
Used shared hosting for so long, that I get a shock each time I want to switch to something better(with Django and RoR support).
@shivaas What’s exactly is the point of this meet? I’ve heard so much about the meeting. Nothing much about what happens there.
@ankur_sethi What if you’re the only one giving him/her such low scores?
@ankur_sethi Form submitted online? It isn’t that difficult to try and make out what your handwriting looks like.
@ajuonline You do get a lot for 500 bucks. MTNL charges 10p for every 10 kilobytes.
@ankur_sethi I hope they don’t use that against you.
@ankur_sethi A free alternative to MarsEdit.
As I expected, the paper gave me a good kick.
@ManishSinha Odd. Never faced issues. Use Ubuntu occasionally anyway. Mostly in college.
Great progress. 1 hour. 6 chapters.
@ManishSinha The idea that we need something better than Nautilus. Nautilus is awesome.
@ManishSinha Where did that come from?
@ManishSinha LOL. Looks like the Windows error message that says that the Crash Reporter Crashed!
@ajuonline Really? In what way?
9.04’s Boot Splash is gorgeous.
@ankur_sethi Oh and I meant I have 5 hours left.
@ankur_sethi Subject 403. http://is.gd/u5rD
Okie. 5 hours. 8 chapters. I love Programming Paradigms.
Love the look of this mockup. Chances of software being like this are pretty remote. http://is.gd/u2UN
@trancelestial I’ve personally never enjoyed Iron Maiden’s music. Since I can’t associate with them, I can’t comment about their album art.
Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’ has album art that’s as interesting as the music in the album.
The App Store countdown is slowing down. Have people run out of free apps to download?
ILUGD has a cheerful mailing list.
@kanduri Not just that. This is where all the so called Apple tax is used. http://is.gd/t4AF
Suddenly excited about all the web development that needs to be done this summer. Trying my best to study.
Students at IIPM must be filthy rich if they’re allowing Arindam Chaudhuri to stick pictures of himself everyday in TOI.
@ManishSinha While it’s downloading content from the internet it doesn’t show progress indicators. That makes it look sluggish.
@ManishSinha I’m reminded of the sluggish LimeWire interface when I use Miro. It looks good but that’s about it.
@ManishSinha Plays all formats here.
@kbhargava VLC IMO is the best player on any platform. Need some time to play around with Miro before I get used to it.
@ankur_sethi Forgot to mention this when I was talking to about freebies. You can get a free student license for the Fetch FTP client.
Miro looks like an excellent alternative to QuickTime. How come I’ve never heard of this? http://www.getmiro.com
@apoorvkhatreja Delhi Metro, Bluelines and DTCs.
@apoorvkhatreja I’ve seen quite a few people carrying EEE PCs these days. Buses, trains. But 20 grand for a $200 machine? Not worth it.
@ankur_sethi *Sigh of relief*. Got so many things to learn. Need to prioritize. Need to study now.
@ankur_sethi Man, that’s awesome. This took you…?
@ankur_sethi Oh I meant making cash and learning stuff at the same time with Cocoa. Unless you already know Cocoa.
@apoorvkhatreja That makes it +3 for both.
@ankur_sethi What happened to your one post a day on my blog idea?
@apoorvkhatreja Did you do this? http://tinyurl.com/d7nhhg
@apoorvkhatreja A $99 agreement needs to be signed before you can even test your apps on your own iPhone/iPod touch. That’s a bigger #fail.
@ankur_sethi I do plan to sit and watch all the OCW Algorithms lectures. I feel guilty for not giving CLRS enough time.
@ankur_sethi Not yet.
@ankurb Self-improvement(programming).
Got to pick up so many books after my exams. Exams always get me interested in things that don’t call for attention at that time.
@ankurb It’s time for you to move on too and talk about more relevant stuff. :)
@ankurb Because Linux is not Unix. Commands change. But the programming does not.
@kbhargava Where do you get those?
@ankur_sethi In comparison, @ankurb’s ads pollute my timeline more frequently :)
@sidjha Not really. Been stuck to WebKit almost the whole time after I switched.
@ankur_sethi I can live with the ads.
@sidjha Er..That should have been ‘browser’ instead of ‘browse’.
@sidjha I used to love Firefox for all the extensions. But they were difficult to monitor. At one point you know you’re browse looks clumsy.
@sidjha Life easier? Twitter itself is so distracting that it makes life difficult. But yes I prefer using desktop apps. Mail, RSS, Twitter.
@itsanimesh Forget it.
Tweetie for Mac OS X is a gorgeous application. Adds the few things that I missed in Twitterrific.
@ajuonline Congratulations.
@aditya Agree. Wonder whether Steve’s retirement will mark a new chapter for Apple in India.
@aditya I’m not talking about those people at all. But come to think of it, these ads might be good even for them.
@aditya Not everybody does. People pay a lot of money to buy slim Sony computers. They never associate Apple with computers.
@itsanimesh You understood what I meant.
@aditya Umm.. India? Or do you think only a certain
reserved group of people should use them?
@aditya Come again?
@itsanimesh At least don’t blatantly copy stuff. When it was I Tweet, Therefore I Am. I didn’t mind.
@aditya Or let them appear in other countries where people don’t know Macs exist.
@devakishor No one in their right mind would want to be involved in Indian politics.
@devakishor It probably will be if someone asks them. But not until then. That’s how vote bank politics works.
@ankurb I never said it’s correct. GNU/Linux and Unix are very different. But what we study is Unix. But we use Linux for Shell programming.
“There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you’re busy interrupting.” - Twain
@apoorvkhatreja RMS got pissed when a guy called the OS he uses ‘Linux’ instead of ‘GNU/Linux’. Hearing ‘Unix/Linux’ will kill him.
@ankurb We learn Unix from it’s roots as it is important from a historical point of view. For CS students at least. Labs have Linux.
@rungta xkill lets you select the window you want to kill. Very convenient on Linux. I’m not using xkill. I just said I wish I could.
@rungta I was talking about xkill. Not kill pid and killall <name>.
@rungta lol. I did just that. Unfortunately xkill doesn’t work with anything other than X11. No other tricks?
@sudhang Duh. That was a JOKE. Man, go through the whole thing carefully.
@ankurb Not tedious. It’s not about people not wanting to express their opinions. Some posts just don’t need them.
@ankurb Oh. I always thought Google Reader was useful on-the-go. I prefer using a desktop app. NetNewsWire is awesome.
@rungta How do I Force Quit an app that doesn’t have a dock icon?
@ankurb Nah. There are some posts where I don’t think anyone else’s opinion matters. Like this one where I’m just point out something.
@ankurb The category is shown on RSS2 readers. Which ancient reader do you use?
@rungta Man. I didn’t get to unpack my MacBook Pro. I still feel bad about it. Unboxing iPods isn’t fun anymore.
@sidjha Ah. Ok.
@ankurb Uh? You didn’t see the category I posted it in. Did you go through the whole post. I’m confused. Are we on the same track?
Brings back memories. http://tinyurl.com/bz8y75 Evolution of OS GUI. (via @blah_bleh)
@mr_nolte You don’t have to be in the microcomputer revolution to do well. I learnt everything in the process of starting Prince of Persia.
Tomorrow I get to study Programming Paradigms for the first time this semester after my paper. Sounds like fun.
[Blog Post] You guys have to vote for BJP. They have the best IT Vision. Simply mind blowing. http://tr.im/jb41
I’ll be able to test iTunes DJ fully when I have more iPhone and iPod Touch devices at home next month.
@ankur_sethi Most parents didn’t like it too. It made it to City page of Times of India because of that.
@ankur_sethi I remember I spent my evenings watching Swat Cats, Top Cat and Ri¢hie Ri¢h. There was this Dragon Ball Z craze too, much later.
@ankur_sethi Whoops. My bad.
@ankur_sethi Don’t remember those. Were these on Nickelodeon or something?
@ankur_sethi You’ve archived those? I remember CN used to turn into TNT at 5 everyday those days. Didn’t have many adverts then too.
@yuvipanda They expect you to use film. I think 60 was the maximum you could squeeze into a roll.
@apoorvkhatreja About Twitter?
@ankur_sethi I have that too. Cheers!
@ankur_sethi Got that a minute back. Dolphin?
Finished my Operating Systems syllabus. But I still think I don’t know shit.
@apoorvkhatreja After Algorithms, my favorite subject.
@sidjha You’re using a static page as the homepage on your blog and all your posts are accessible only through the sidebar. Why is that?
@apoorvkhatreja Oh yeah. I should have said DU colleges which offer B.Sc. and B.A. courses.
The only DU college having WiFi having WiFi is SRCC. http://is.gd/tawf
Now I like TwitterFon even more than Twitterrific. I just wish they got rid of the blue and green and used less jarring colours.
@ankurb They stopped as soon as you did that.
@itsanimesh If I am not mistaken, the iPhone doesn’t have it. People need to add it manually even though they use it in the ads.
@ankurb Yep. Not that great. Opens a Safari window for every service.
The Yahoo! Music iPhone app is awesome. The only way of accessing Internet Radios on iPhone OS in India.
@apoorvkhatreja Heh. This Silvershitz book I have compares Mac OS with MS-DOS. They acknowledge the existence of OS X just once in the book.
If I’m expected to use textbook keywords in my operating systems paper on Monday, I’m screwed.
@nujra Is that really you? How was that one year of spiritual nirvana?
@apoorvkhatreja Nope. Still on 8.10.
@apoorvkhatreja Looks like India has taken that spot now.
Sheesh. At 5% brightness, the Ubuntu wallpaper makes the screen on my MacBook Pro look dirty. I actually tried to clean the dirt off.
@apoorvkhatreja It’s proficient, yes. But it fakes reports. Which is sad.
Akismet fakes reports(100-150 blocked daily). When I disabled the plugin for a week, I saw no more than 30 comments on my moderation queue.
@apoorvkhatreja Monolingual is an app that does that.
@apoorvkhatreja Ah. Because the default installation does have all the unnecessary fonts. I used Monolingual to get rid of most of them.
@apoorvkhatreja Didja use Monolingual to get rid of language resources?
Parallels Desktop now supports Snow Leopard. Experimental Virtualization for an unreleased OS? http://is.gd/sODv
XSlimmer actually slows down application startup. Don’t know why.
Tempted to use StreamRipperX. Will resist.
MTNL’s GSM network isn’t working in Green Park right now. And my landline is dead too.
@aditya That’s true. Maybe you could integrate twitter conversations into posts. @dsandler uses twitter for his blog commers this way.
@aditya The conversation itself maybe of no value. But I don’t mind going through my archives. That’s the whole point of a web log.
@ankurb sucks. I don’t mind waiting if I’m early. But I hate it when people aren’t punctual.
@aditya searching through old conversations on twitter will be quite tedious task, don’t you think?
Blocked 9 followers who behaved like bots.
@aditya I do too. But I let let filters do all the work.
@aditya I want to use it like a regular computer. Multitasking, working on the Terminal, freeing camera memory, and other stuff on the go.
@aditya I don’t see my comment now. Moderation on?
@aditya MBP back? Super Drive replacement?
@aditya Depends on the kind of work you do. Smartphones can’t do what netbooks can. Netbooks can’t do what notebooks can.
@aditya Aren’t smartphones limited by the OS they run? You can make a netbook do a lot more. Its painful to use QWERTY keyboards on phones